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Join 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professor Naomi Zack at Lehman College of The City University of New York (CUNY) to hear this prolific author and scholar deliver a series of lectures on the philosophy of intersectionality.

12 p.m.: Opening Reception

12:30–1:45 p.m.: What Is Intersectionality?

2–3:15 p.m.: Problems with Intersectionality and Solutions

3:30–5 p.m.: Intersectionality, Ethics and Higher Education

5-6 p.m.: Closing Reception

Location: Faculty Dining Room, Music Building, Lehman College

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and light fare will be served at each reception and book giveaways by Lehman College faculty authors will occur throughout the event.

Naomi Zack received her PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University. She joined the Philosophy Department at Lehman College, CUNY, in Fall 2019. Zack’s newest book is Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics, (October 2018).

Zack has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses at the University at Albany, SUNY and the University of Oregon, including ethics, existentialism, newly designed courses on disaster and homelessness, as well as seminars on race, early modern philosophers, the history of political and moral philosophy, and twentieth century analytic philosophy.