Humanities

Jelani Cobb’s riveting, hopeful keynotes are up-to-the-moment meditations and breakdowns of the complex dynamics of race and racism in America. Whether speaking on Black Lives Matter and activism, the battle zones of Ferguson or Baltimore, the legacy of a black presidency, or the implications of the Trump era — or, more generally, on the history of civil rights, violence, and inequality in employment, housing, or incarceration in the US — Cobb speaks with the surety and articulate passion of only our best journalists.

The Center for Ethics and Values holds regular public forums focusing on significant ethics issues faced by researchers across the university, by students, and more broadly by society. This event, Neuroscience, Freewill, and Moral Responsibility, moderated by Steve Yalowitz, associate professor of philosophy at UMBC, features panelists Adina Roskies, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, with an appointment in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, UC Santa Barbara, and Aaron Schurger, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and the Brain Institute, Chapman University.