Jennifer Saul, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, will give two talks as part of the Cedric Evans Memorial Lecture and Speaker Series, hosted by the Department of Philosophy. Both events are free and open to the public.
The annual Evans Lecture will be on Thursday, January 22 at 4:15 p.m. in the Chimney Rock Room in the Nebraska Union. In "Strategic Language: Is There Still a Place for this in Politics?", Saul will explore Tali Mendelberg's "Norm of Racial Equality" and whether the techniques described, such as dogwhistling, are still important.
The Speaker's Series lecture is on Friday, January 23 at 3:30 p.m. in Louise Pound Hall Room 124. In "Dogwhistles, Figleaves, and Social Movements," Saul explores why a social movement would use strategic devices like dogwhistles and figleaves.
This is a “read ahead” lecture. A copy of the talk can be requested from Amy Peterson at apeterson71@unl.edu prior to the lecture.
Saul's work focuses on racist and sexist language, implicit bias, pragmatics, deception, and efforts to diversify academia. She is currently researching the pragmatics of racist, sexist, and deceptive speech-especially in political contexts-and collaborates with the UK Statistics Authority on the misleading use of statisticsuwaterloo.ca. Saul is also widely recognized for her influential publications on implicit bias, philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy.
