Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Two Models of Race and Racism

Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Brad Elliot Stone.

Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library.

BRAD ELLIOTT STONE (link) is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Prior to his term as Associate Dean, he served as Director of the Philosophy M.A. Program, Chair of African American Studies, and Director of the University Honors Program.

Dr. Stone’s research focuses on 20th century continental philosophy (especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault) and American neopragmatism (the work of Richard Rorty and Cornel West). He is the co-editor of two anthologies on Richard Rorty (Rorty and the Religious and Rorty and the Prophetic) and co-author of two books on prophetic pragmatism (Introducing Prophetic Pragmatism and Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World). In addition, he has authored over twenty-five articles and book chapters.

Dr. Stone earned his B.A. in Philosophy and Modern Language Studies from Georgetown College (Ky.) in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Memphis in 2003. He was a William J. Fulbright Scholar at the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain in the 1998-1999 academic year.

Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Cecelia Smith (CSUSB, BA/MA Graduate), Matt Patino (CSUSB MA Candidate). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).