Multiple Jeopardy: the Evolution of A Native Women's Movement

Cette présentation traitera des dimensions politiques de la situation des femmes autochtones. Les femmes autochtones se perçoivent comme des victimes, non pas d'une double discrimination, mais bien d'une discrimination aux multiples facettes, et leur prise de conscience du caractère unique de cette oppression a été un facteur important de l'évolution d'un nouvement des femmes autochtone distinct du mouvement féministe nord-américain et du mouvement autochtone. Nous traitons des caractéristiques de I 'histoire du mouvement des femmes autochtones ainsi que du rôle changeant de ces dernières dans I 'action politique orientée vers le changement social, dans la dernière decennie. II est aussi question de la nature des relations de ce mouvement avec les autres grouves autochtones, avec le gouvernement fédéral et avec les organisations de femmes non autochtones

The Ballpark Podcast: Extra Innings: Russian Hackers, Trolls and #DemocracyRIP: an event with Professor Kathleen Jamieson

On the 27th of February 2020, the LSE US Centre hosted Professor Kathleen Jamieson for the event Russian Hackers, Trolls and #DemocracyRIP. In this lecture, Professor Jamieson brought together what is known about the impact of the Russian interventions in the 2016 US presidential election, outlined the contours of the #DemocracyRIP Russian plans to undercut the presidency of Hillary Clinton, and asked what’s next and what can we do about it

Remembering Edwin Black

Our doctoral advisers teach us what it means to be scholars, teachers, and colleagues. Edwin Black\u27s expectations of a critic were implied in the first graduate courses he offered at the University of Wisconsin: critics wrote illuminating criticism because their sensibilities not their methods permitted them to mine nonobvious insight from stubborn texts. At the same time, Black did not believe that most should aspire to be rhetorical critics. He said as much in his dissertation-turned-book: Except in the hands of a very, very few men, the critical methodology that minimizes the personal responses, peculiar tastes, and singularities of the critic will be superior to the one that does not. In this regard, neo-Aristotelian criticism has undeniable value. Since he provisionally and later patently rejected the notion that there was a method to rhetorical criticism, I focused on trying to figure out how to get into the category of very, very few men without a gender change and on determining how, absent the comfort of a method, one could acquire the sensibilities of a critic

Discourse and the Democratic Ideal

The most characteristic function of a man of practical wisdom is to deliberate well wrote the author of the rhetoric text that anchors Western discussion of public discourse. In the society envisioned by Aristotle, the end of rhetoric was judgment (krinate)

un-Spun: Finding Facts in a World of {disinformation}

Total lecture time: 1:22:26 Introduction: H. Carton Rogers, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries (00:24-05:58; Lecture: Kathleen Hall Jamieson (06:04-54:02); Questions and answers (54:03-1:22:25). To download a podcast of the lecture, choose one of the additional files below. To view the event announcement, select the Download button at upper right

Justifying the War in Iraq: What the Bush Administration\u27s Uses of Evidence Reveal

This essay argues that, if carefully read, the public statements of the Bush administration in the run-up to the March 2003 U.S.-led military intervention in Iraq reveal that the available evidence did not warrant the administration’s confident claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction(WMD). To support this argument, the essay explores the administration’s verbal leakage and Freudian slips, shifts in the burden of proof, strategies that minimized evidentiary accountability, assertions of the presence of convincing evidence that could not be publicly revealed, and tacit concessions that the case for WMD was a patchwork