Channel: The New School

Category: Education

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Description: In the first episode of our new season of The New Conversation, President McBride talks to philosopher Judith Butler about New York, Dave Chappelle, and political activism. Judith Butler is an academic and philosopher who is widely known for groundbreaking theories on gender, ethics, and political philosophy. They are the author of Gender Trouble, Bodies That Matter, Excitable Speech, and Undoing Gender, among other publications. Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley and Presidential Visiting Scholar of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. In this series, Dr. Dwight A. McBride, President of The New School, converses with scholars, artists, activists, and a wide range of notable individuals to share their work, their experiences, and their views on a whole host of issues. Subscribe for more from this series, and follow The New School here: Instagram: instagram.com/thenewschool Twitter: twitter.com/home?lang=en Medium: medium.com/@TheNewSchool Facebook: facebook.com/thenewschool