As part of UNCA’s month-long celebration of Black History Month, a panel of distinguished philosophers and polticial scientists will address human rights issues in the African American civil rights movement at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, in UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall. The talk is free and open to the public.

Lucius Outlaw Jr., Vanderbilt University African American Studies Program director, will discuss "The African American Quest for Civil Rights: A Question of Humanity." Lewis Gordon, Brown University Afro-American Studies Program director, will discuss "Rights from an African American Teleological Suspension of Philosophy." Cynthia Willett, Emory University associate philosophy professor, will discuss "The Right to a Family: Black Women and Civil Rights." Dwight Mullen, UNCA Political Science Department chair, will discuss "Education and the Transition from Civil Rights to Human Rights." Brian Butler, UNCA assistant philosophy professor, will discuss "All Rights are Affirmative: Rights Talk Without Baseline Assumptions."

For more information, contact UNCA Assistant Philosophy Professor Duane Davis at 828/251-6367.

Click here for a complete listing of UNCA’s Black History Month events.