The 2024 John Stuart Mill Lecture - Wrongs not righted: Mill, Morant Bay and the Limits of Liberalism
In this lecture, Prof. Hall will reflect on the long, entangled and unequal relation between Britain and Jamaica: the wrongs of slavery and colonialism that are not only not requited but continue to damage the lives of Jamaican people. Her focus will then turn to the events of 1865-6, the rebellion at Morant Bay and Mill’s unsuccessful attempts to assert the need for impartial justice in the Empire. Neither liberalism nor neo-liberalism can meet the challenge of structural inequalities and systemic racisms.
Date: 16 May 2024, 17:30
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: Flora Anderson Hall
Speaker: Professor Catherine Hall (UCL)
Organising department: Somerville College
Organiser: Sarah Butler (Librarian and Head of Information Services)
Organiser contact email address: librarian@some.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
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Audience: Members of the University only
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