The Evergreen Art Lecture Series presents a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art issues by artists, writers, activists and scholars. The ongoing aim is to bring an array of practices from a variety of fields, areas of inquiry and creative production that are active in the world beyond our campus. The series provides a lively forum for the exchange of ideas between the speakers, students, faculty, staff, and the public. Please join us for this great line-up and an opportunity to gather to engage with artists working in a variety of modes and genres in response to our rapidly unfolding contemporary moment. 

Find art lectures from previous academic quarters online at https://sites.evergreen.edu/artlectureseries/

When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 22

Where: Lecture will be in person in the Comm Building Recital Hall and livestreamed via Zoom webinar, Zoom Link: https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/86447124526 

Week 8, May 22 Stefan Bird-Pollan

Attend this week’s lecture in person in the Comm Building Recital Hall

Stefan Bird-Pollan is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He is interested in ethical theories; his first book, Hegel, Freud and Fanon; the Dialectic of Emancipation shows how Fanon’s view of the subject preserves insights of enlightenment while steering clear of racial prejudices which are endemic in European and American society. He is currently working on a book in which he develops an account of Kant’s ethical theory. His second project concerns works out the ideal metapsychological type of voters who are attracted to different kinds of authoritarian rule. In addition, Stefan is working on several articles on Hegel, both his aesthetics and the Phenomenology of Spirit. He has published articles in numerous journals, including Radical Philosophy, Critical Horizons, Philosophy and Social Criticism and Public Reason. Stefan earned his D.Phi from Oxford in 2003 and his PhD from Vanderbilt in 2008.