2020 Paul Robert and Jean Shuman Hanna Lectures in Philosophy

The 2020 Paul Robert and Jean Shuman Hanna Lectures in Philosophy will be scheduled soon. Please check back for details.

2019 GUEST LECTURER

Charles W. Mills
Distinguished professor of philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center

Saving Libralism from Itself: Racial Justice and Black Radical Kantianism Lectures

Charles W. Mills is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto and works in the general area of social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race.

He is the author of more than a hundred journal articles, book chapters, comments and replies, and six books: The Racial Contract (1997); Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998); From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003); Contract and Domination (co-authored with Carole Pateman) (2007); Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality (2010); and Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism (2017). Together with Robert Gooding-Williams he coedited a special issue of the Du Bois Review, “Race in a ‘Postracial’ Epoch” (Spring 2014); and together with Wulf D. Hund and Silvia Sebastiani, he coedited Simianization: Apes, Gender, Class, and Race (2015).

Mills was the 2017-18 president of the American Philosophical Association Central Division, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

About the Hanna Lectures in Philosophy

The Paul Robert and Jean Shuman Hanna Lectureship in philosophy was created in 1982 to bring a distinguished teacher and scholar in philosophy, of national or international reputation, to Hamline University. The donors desired that the Hanna Lectures serve as a memorial to their experience with Professor Gregory Dexter Walcott, their philosophy teacher during their days at Hamline University.

Past Hanna Lectures (1982–Present)

2019	Charles W. Mills, City University of New York
2018	Peter Adamson, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2017	Nancy Tuana, Pennsylvania State University
2016	Linda Martin Alcoff, Hunter College
2015	Elisabeth Lloyd, Indiana University
2014	Leonard Lawlor, Pennsylvania State University
2013	Bas Van Fraassen, Princeton University
2012	Duane L. Cady, Hamline University
2011	Robert L. Holmes, University of Rochester
2010	Nancy Tuana, Pennsylvania State University
2009	Larry May, Vanderbilt University
2008	Lorraine Code, York University
2007	Arthur Fine, University of Washington
2006	Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University
2005	Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.), Vanderbilt University
2004	Richard Bernstein, New School University
2003	bell hooks
2002–2003	Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado at Boulder
2001–2002	Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1999–2000	Kwasi Wiredu, University of South Florida
1998–1999	Marilyn Frye, Michigan State University
1997–1998	Hilary Putnam, Harvard University
1996–1997	Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1995–1996	Kwame Anthony Appiah, Harvard University
1994–1995	Margaret Wilson, Princeton University
1993–1994	Cornel West, Princeton University
1991	Arthur Danto, Columbia University
1990	Martha Nussbaum, Brown University
1989	Roderick M. Chisholm, Brown University
1988	Hubert L. Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley
1987	Alan Donagan, California Institute of Technology 1987
1986	Hamline University
1985	Richard Wasserstrom, University of California, Santa Cruz
1984	Huston Smith, Syracuse University
1983	Hippocrates Apostle, Grinnell College
1982	Milton C. Nahm, Bryn Mawr College