Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University, will give the talk “The Timeliness of the Spirit of Utopia” which addresses Socialism and race studies.

Dr. Drucilla Cornell is a professor at Rutgers University in Political Science and a Professor Extraordinaire and the University of Pretoria in South Africa. From 2003 to the present Professor Cornell has run a project called the uBuntu Project in South Africa which combines research into indigenous ideals and values, and advocacy for their importance in all aspects of the new dispensation, including law. From 2007 to 2010 she held the National Research Foundation Chair in indigenous values, the customary law, and the dignity jurisprudence for the Constitutional Court. She has written numerous books, her most recent being Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, Dignity and Constitutional Transformation.

Department of Comparative Literature Eugenio Donato Chair, Professor Rodolphe Gasché; Julian Park Chair, Professor Ewa Ziarek; David E. Johnson; Samuel P. Capen Chair of Humanities, Jorge Gracia