ONLINE: Making Sense of the Chauvin Verdict
press release: The jury has found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the murder of George Floyd. In collaboration with University Communications and the Office of the Dean in the College of Letters & Science, the Center for the Humanities offers a space for you to process the events that have brought us here, the verdict, as well as indignation over this search for justice.
Please join us for a collective and supportive Humanities NOW discussion around what has been, and continues to be, a momentous and painful event. We believe that humanities and legal scholars are in a unique position to respond, to offer insight, and to provide perspective on this verdict. We’ll discuss the impossibility of justice, how this event fits a pattern of bias and historic injustice, and why the pursuit of justice in an unjust society leaves so many of us in our community feeling frustrated, empty, and outraged.
Registration (required): https://uwmadison.zoom.us/
This event is free and open to all.
There will be ample time for audience Q&A with our esteemed panelists, including:
- LaVar J. Charleston, Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, UW-Madison
- Keith A. Findley, Professor of Law, UW-Madison
- Ralph Grunewald, Assistant Professor, English and the Legal Studies Program, UW-Madison
- Sue Robinson, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, UW-Madison
- Michael Franklin Thompson, Sociologist and Former Director of Research and Justice Statistics for the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Moderated by Russ Castronovo, Director of the Center for the Humanities and Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies
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