Penn State Social Thought Program will host its annual conference on March 27-28 at the Penn State University Park Campus.
Dr. Julian Go, professor of sociology at Boston University will give two lectures, “Militarizing the Police: Empire, Race and Counter-Insurgency” at 1:30 in Oswald Tower, room 406, and a keynote address, “Social Theory, Race, and the Imperial Episteme” at 4:00 p.m. in Foster Auditorium in Patee and Paterno Library.
Julian Go is the author of Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present and American Empire and The Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism, and editor of Political Power and Social Theory.
Penn State faculty and students will present papers related to the conference theme on March 28, beginning at 9:00 a.m. in Oswald 406.