Victims, Victims Everywhere - Kirby Center
Hillsdale College invites you to a lecture hosted by the Kirby Center Victims, Victims Everywhere: Trigger Warnings, Liberty, and the Academy Christina Hoff Sommers Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. 227 Massachusetts Avenue, NE | Washington, D.C. 20002 • sp on s or e d by lunch will be provided • The AWC Family Foundation The AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series addresses political, historical, and economic topics from a constitutional perspective. College is intended to be a place of open and honest discourse in pursuit of truth. But all too often today, it is a place where politically correct groups bully those with opposing views into silence. In addition to undermining free speech and academic freedom, recent talk of “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” encourages a crippling mentality of victimhood. Where did this hypersensitivity come from, and what might we do to turn things around? About the Speaker Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She earned her B.A. at New York University and her Ph.D. in philosophy at Brandeis University. From 1980 to 1999, she was a philosophy professor at Clark University. She is the author of several books, including Who Stole Feminism?, The War Against Boys, and Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today. REGISTER ___________ online at thekirbycenter.org Hillsdale College The Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship 227 Massachusetts Avenue, NE | Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 600-7300 | [email protected] | thekirbycenter.org
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