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<td>LJST Lecture Series Sept. 20 "Post Truth as a Precursor
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<td>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:11:27 +0000</td>
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<td>Megan Estes <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mlestes@amherst.edu"><mlestes@amherst.edu></a></td>
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style="font-size:18.0pt">2018-2019 LJST Lecture Series –
LAW and ILLIBERALISM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">THURSDAY – September 20,
2018 - <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Lee McIntyre, Research
Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of
Science, Boston University<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<a name="OLE_LINK1" moz-do-not-send="true"></a><a
name="OLE_LINK2" moz-do-not-send="true"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt">“Post-Truth As A Precursor to
Authoritarianism<i>.</i>”</span></b></a><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thursday, Sept. 20 at 4:30pm in Clark
House Room 100 at Amherst College,
<b>Lee McIntyre,</b> 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
<b>“Post-Truth as a Precursor to Authoritarianism<i>.</i>”</b>
This is the first presentation in a series of seminars that
will take place this year on the theme
<span style="color:#1F497D">“</span>Law and Illiberalism.” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Formerly Executive Director of the
Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard
University, McIntyre is the author of
<i>Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior </i>(MIT
Press, 2006) and <i>
Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age</i>
(Routledge 2015). His latest book
<i>Post-Truth</i> (MIT Press, 2018) explores the problem of
“fake news” and “alternative facts” as they relate to the
defense of truth.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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 <a
href="mailto:mlestes@amherst.edu" moz-do-not-send="true">
mlestes@amherst.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><u><span
style="font-size:16.0pt">ABOUT The Lecture Series – LAW
AND ILLIBERALISM<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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. <b>Law and Illiberalism</b> is
designed to explore how legal institutions and legal
officials can and should respond to those challenges.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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’s</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt"> role 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? <span style="color:black">What pressures do
such technologies place on liberal legal regimes? </span>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? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Please save these
dates for Fall 2018 & Spring 2019<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Oct.
25 – Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University – “The New
Conspiracism and Immunity to the Law”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Dec.
6 – Erica Benner, Yale University – “Illiberalism, Laws, and
Human Nature: Lessons from Plato”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Feb.
21, 2019 – Jeremy Kessler, Columbia University – “The
Illiberalism of Administrative Law”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">March
18, 2019 – Sharon Krause, Brown University – “The
Anti-liberalism of Neoliberalism”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">April
29, 2019 – Elizabeth Anker, Cornell University –
“Weaponizing Pluralism and the Dilemmas of Illiberal Speech”</span><span
style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville
Old Face",serif">Academic Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville
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