Emory College and the James Weldon Johnson Institute presents First Fridays at 4: Emory Faculty on Race

Title: “The Violence of Natural Law: Race, Indigeneity, and Citizenship”

March 4th, 2022 from 4pm-5:30pm. Zoom link here.

Speaker: Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery, Cahoon Family Professor of American History

Talk Moderator: Dr. Falguni Sheth, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Event description: Dr. Lowery, a historian of identity and sovereignty in American Indian nations, will talk with Dr. Sheth, a political philosopher of race and gender, about the invention of natural law in the 17th and 18th centuries and how its ramifications are felt today.