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Professor, author and podcaster Myisha Cherry, Ph.D., will discuss why some conversations are hard to have and what you can do about it, part of UAB’s Jemison Visiting Professorship on March 31. If conversations are a way for our social, linguistic species to express and explain, correct and collaborate, make sense of things and make things happen, then why are they — particularly the personal and political ones — so difficult to have?
The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host Myisha Cherry, Ph.D., for a lecture on the subject through the Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities Endowment.
The free virtual event will take place from 4-5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 31. It is presented by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Philosophy. To attend the event, register online.
Cherry, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, suggests that our answers to difficult questions about conversations may have less to do with the topic and more to do with us.
She will offer strategies on how to be the kind of person that people would want to have a conversation with.
Her work focuses on the intersection of moral and political philosophy with a special interest in moral and political emotions. Cherry is an author of books, such as “The Moral Psychology of Anger” and “Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice.”
She is also the host of the “UnMute Podcast,” where she discusses philosophy via an accessible medium while also giving up-and-coming philosophers a platform to discuss their ideas.
The UAB Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities Endowment is a lecture series that invites professors, scholars and writers to speak to faculty, staff, students, alumni and the general public.