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Seminar with Scott Stroud on the topic of Social Justice in India: Bhimrao Ambedkar’s Brush with Dewey

 
Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 04:30pm
     

 

You are invited to participate in the CCA Pragmatism Working Group’s upcoming mini-seminar (3 meetings over six weeks) on the theme of “The World of Pragmatism.” All meetings are in the CCA Seminar Room, Rutgers Academic Building West, 6th Floor.

Scott Stroud (University of Texas at Austin) specializes in the intersection between communication and culture. Working at the juncture of rhetoric and philosophy, much of his research extends the thought of the American pragmatists into the realms of rhetorical experience and political activity. He is particularly interested in the connections between artful communication, individual flourishing, religion, and democracy. His book, John Dewey and the Artful Life (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011), engages these themes in detail. His most recent book, Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014), provides a first-of-its-kind reappraisal of Kant and his relation to the rhetorical tradition. Currently he is completing a book manuscript that tells the story of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s brush with Deweyan pragmatism at Columbia University during 1913-1916 and how it shaped his innovative pursuit of social justice in India. Stroud’s other work also engages topics in comparative/non-western rhetoric, religious rhetoric, narrative theory, and communication ethics. His research has been published in venues such as Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, the Journal of Communication and Religion, theWestern Journal of Communication, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, and the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 2014-2015, he was a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Dr. Stroud is the founding director of the Media Ethics Initiative.

Location CCA Seminar Room, Rutgers Academic Building West, 6th Floor
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