[Hamp-law] Fwd: LJST Lecture Series Sept. 20 "Post Truth as a Precursor to Authoritarianism"

[Flavio Risech]

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Subject: 	LJST Lecture Series Sept. 20 "Post Truth as a Precursor to 
Authoritarianism"
Date: 	Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:11:27 +0000
From: 	Megan Estes <mlestes at amherst.edu>



*2018-2019 LJST Lecture Series – LAW and ILLIBERALISM*

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*_THURSDAY – September 20, 2018 - _*

*_Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History 
of Science, Boston University_*

*“Post-Truth As A Precursor to Authoritarianism/./”***

On Thursday, Sept. 20 at 4:30pm in Clark House Room 100 at Amherst 
College, *Lee McIntyre,* Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy 
and History of Science at Boston University and a Lecturer in Ethics at 
Harvard Extension School, will present a paper entitled *“Post-Truth as 
a Precursor to Authoritarianism/./”* This is the first presentation in a 
series of seminars that will take place this year on the theme “Law and 
Illiberalism.”

Formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social 
Science at Harvard University, McIntyre is the author of /Dark Ages: The 
Case for a Science of Human Behavior /(MIT Press, 2006) and /Respecting 
Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age/ (Routledge 2015). His 
latest book /Post-Truth/ (MIT Press, 2018) explores the problem of “fake 
news” and “alternative facts” as they relate to the defense of truth.

To receive a copy of the paper which will explore the conceptual and 
historical roots of how the recent attack on truth in the USA may be 
exploited for political purposes and how those of us who are concerned 
about the values of liberalism can learn to fight back, please email the 
LJST Dept. Coordinator at mlestes at amherst.edu <mailto:mlestes at amherst.edu>.

https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/ljst/events

*_ABOUT The Lecture Series – LAW AND ILLIBERALISM_*

With increasing pressure on liberal constitutional values in the United 
States and abroad, legal institutions face complex challenges. Such 
taken-for-granted phenomena as judicial independence, freedom of the 
press, and a commitment to truth are now under attack. *Law and 
Illiberalism* is designed to explore how legal institutions and legal 
officials can and should respond to those challenges.

What techniques and resources does law offer in the face of growing 
illiberalism? How can law check executive power when the executive 
insists that there is no difference between law and politics? What is 
law’srole in policing, protecting, framing truth in a world of radical 
lying and dissembling?  What happens to free speech notions that the 
answer to bad and even false speech is more speech in a world of 
Facebook and Twitter? What pressures do such technologies place on 
liberal legal regimes? Does law have a role to play in protecting 
scientific truth?  What lessons can be learned from examining other 
places or times when liberal values were under attack?

*_Please save these dates for Fall 2018 & Spring 2019_*

Oct. 25 – Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University – “The New Conspiracism 
and Immunity to the Law”

Dec. 6 – Erica Benner, Yale University – “Illiberalism, Laws, and Human 
Nature:  Lessons from Plato”

Feb. 21, 2019 – Jeremy Kessler, Columbia University – “The Illiberalism 
of Administrative Law”

March 18, 2019 – Sharon Krause, Brown University – “The Anti-liberalism 
of Neoliberalism”

April 29, 2019 – Elizabeth Anker, Cornell University – “Weaponizing 
Pluralism and the Dilemmas of Illiberal Speech”

Megan Estes

Academic Coordinator

Amherst College

Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought

PO Box 5000

Amherst, MA   01002

413-542-2380

mlestes at amherst.edu <mailto:mlestes at amherst.edu>

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