APOLOGY: Its Role in Social & Political Life

This WEBINAR launches the Social Research Issue,

APOLOGY / Vol. 87, No. 4 (Spring 2021)

Given the many current, public demands for apology and accountability, the subject is clearly important. The webinar will focus on the role of apology in our social and political life, and the conditions under which apologies matter and do not matter. The speakers will address the topic through a variety of lenses exploring

restorative justice, the role of reparations for slavery, apology for abusing women, political apologies and the global politics of restitution, among others.

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SPEAKERS

Roy L. Brooks, Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law

Thomas Brudholm, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen

Alice MacLachlan, Associate Professor of Philosophy, York University (Toronto, Canada) and co-editor, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly

Margaret Urban Walker, Donald J. Schuenke Chair Emerita in Philosophy, Marquette University

​Moderator

Claire Potter, Professor of History, The New School for Social Research, & Co-Executive Editor, Public Seminar

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