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Faculty Friday Events for Sept. 23

September 19, 2022
Submitted By: T. Stores
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Faculty Friday on Sept. 23 will feature open office and community hours for faculty with two administrators in the morning, private dining for faculty at University Commons for lunch, and a talk and reception celebrating a new book by Nat DuFord, Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences.

From 9:30 a.m.-noon, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs T. Stores will hold open office hours in CC331. Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation Julie Sochacki will hold community hours in the lower level of Mortensen Library. Drop in for a chat or with your questions!

From noon-2 p.m., the Private Dining Room in University Commons has been reserved for faculty use. Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch at the Commons, and join your faculty friends and colleagues.

From 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. in the Shaw Center in Hillyer Hall, all are invited to a talk and reception honoring a new book, Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory, by Nathan DuFord, who is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the College of Arts & Sciences. Democracy has become disentangled from our ordinary lives. Mere cooperation or ethical consumption now often stands in for a robust concept of solidarity that structures the entirety of sociality and forms the basis of democratic culture. How did democracy become something that is done only at ballot boxes and what role can solidarity play in reviving it? In Solidarity in Conflict, Dr. DuFord presents a theory of solidarity fit for developing democratic life and a complementary theory of democracy that emerges from a society typified by solidarity. Join us for a talk with Dr. DuFord about these ideas, and for the reception to follow.

Contact Ann Brown (annbrown@hartford.edu) for more information about these and other Faculty Friday events.