{"id":466,"date":"2015-02-04T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.eckerd.edu\/?p=423"},"modified":"2022-11-03T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:06:21","slug":"piper-kerman-martha-nussbaum-to-speak-as-part-of-presidential-events-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/piper-kerman-martha-nussbaum-to-speak-as-part-of-presidential-events-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Piper Kerman, Martha Nussbaum to speak as part of Presidential Events Series"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]\n

Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black<\/em>, and Martha Nussbaum, one of the world\u2019s leading political philosophers, will speak at Eckerd College as part of this spring\u2019s Presidential Events Series<\/a>. All events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Kerman, whose best-selling memoir was turned into the award-winning Neftlix series of the same name, will discuss her work as a prison reform activist during her talk on Thursday, March 5 at 7 p.m. at McArthur Gymnaisum (Note: originally planned for Fox Hall, the venue change due to popular demand.). \u00a0Kerman serves on the board of the Women\u2019s Prison Association and has testified before the U.S. Senate on solitary confinement of women prisoners.<\/p>\n

Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at The University of Chicago Law School, has been called \u201cone of the most remarkable and luminous minds of our time.\u201d She will discuss \u201cAnger and Revolutionary Justice\u201d on Monday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Fox Hall. \u00a0Nussbaum argues in support of the revolutionary movements of Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela that were based on a commitment to justice through peace not anger.<\/p>\n

The Presidential Events Series is designed to enhance the intellectual, religious and cultural life of the College community by bringing well-known scholars, artists, scientists and distinguished individuals to the campus. This year\u2019s series, titled \u201cBetween Worlds: Immigration, Identity and Globalization,\u201d is intended to focus attention on the evolving immigrant experience in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Events planned around that theme include \u201cHaitian Immigration to the U.S.\u201d<\/strong>on Monday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m. in the Triton Room, featuring a talk by Lesley Curtis, Ph.D. the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature at Wellesley College; \u201cThe Crossroads: Immigration and Human Trafficking<\/strong>,\u201d on Monday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. at Fox Hall, featuring a panel discussion exploring the ways in which human trafficking is and is not an immigration issue; and Who Is Dayani Cristal<\/em>?<\/strong>, on Thursday, April 9 at 7 p.m. at Miller Auditorium, a documentary film highlighting the dangers immigrants from Latin America face on their journey to the United States.<\/p>\n

Other events in this spring\u2019s series include:<\/p>\n