Our Spring 2020 Colloquium Series came to a close yesterday, April 15, 2020, with Graduate Student Jan Rippentrop Schnell presenting, via the department's first online Zoom presentation.  The event was well-received and Jan did a great job presenting in this new format.  We had hoped to attach a recording of the event here but the recording did not turn out as we had hoped.  We apologize to those of you who were looking forward to this.  

The information from Jan's talk follows:

How Women Do Well by Their Anger:  Religious Women Negotiating Virtuous Anger through Community Organizing
Speaker:  Jan Rippentrop Schnell, PhD student, UI Dept of Religious Studies

Description:  Participants in this colloquy are invited to appreciate the way in which particular community organizers facilitate access to some measure of liberation from a socially- and religiously-constructed and restrictive understanding of anger—an understanding that has stealthily formed countless women and men to be nice folks, who learned not to feel or express anger over the causes of human and planetary suffering, but rather to remain inattentive to and silent about the structural violence of economic disparity, racism, sexism, and, regretfully, so many other injustices. I contend that These community organizers Enact a social choreography by which they equip themselves and others to practice a specific form of anger bent on transformation. This project in virtue ethics explores the organizers' experience through the lenses of philosophy of emotion and performance theory.