It seems like politics pervades all aspects of our lives, from the media we consume to our relationships with family, friends, colleagues, and romantic partners. Is this a good thing? To what extent should politics influence our personal lives? Are some aspects of politics inescapable, regardless of the context? Attend this forum to hear different perspectives on these questions!
This student-moderated discussion is part of CEHV's "Civil Discourse Forums" series. Forum topics are selected by our undergraduate Civil Discourse Fellows trained in the 4Cs of civil discourse (Be Curious, Be Charitable, Be Conscientious, Be Constructive).
CEHV's Civil Discourse for Citizenship initiative is pursued with generous support from the Derrow Family Foundation and in partnership with Ohio State's Civil Discourse Project.
Speakers
Dr. Robert Talisse
Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. A native of New Jersey, Talisse earned his PhD in Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate School in 2001. His research focuses on democracy. Specifically, Talisse writes about how a democratic political order can assist and complicate our efforts to acquire knowledge, share ideas, understand what is of value, and address our disagreements. He engages questions about public discourse, popular political ignorance, partisan polarization, and the ethics of citizenship. Talisse has lectured throughout the world. He is the author of over one hundred scholarly articles and fifteen books.
Dr. Shannon Winnubst
Shannon Winnubst is a Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Winnubst is trained in European philosophy and specializes in queer studies and theories of racialization. Winnubst's research considers: white suicide as an ethical, symbolic, and sociological phenomenon, including the scholarship on “deaths of despair” and the opioid epidemic; the concept of “race” as obfuscating the systemic anti-Blackness that animates modernity; and “nonpersonhood” as a capacious category for radical ethics in the twenty-first century. Winnbust is the author of numerous books and articles. Winnubst's most recent book, Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics (Columbia University Press: 2015), uses the trope of a brief history of “coolness” to examine how neoliberalism is altering how we feel, not only how we think.
Moderators
Nora Igelnik
Nora is a third-year journalism and public management, leadership, and policy student with a minor in media production and analysis. She is a Stamps Eminence Scholar, Campus Editor for The Lantern, and a member of Pen Pals OSU.
Lillian Wang
Lillian is a second-year student majoring in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) in the Honors Program of the College of Arts and Sciences. She is involved in Mock Trial, the Arts and Sciences Student Council, and the American Enterprise Institute at OSU. She is the current student representative of the Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, as well as part of the Undergraduate Student Government.
