The Department of Philosophy and Office of Disabilities Services will host its second 2008-’09 Nadine B. Andreas speaker, Anita Silvers, Thursday and Friday, April 23 and 24.
Silvers will present two public lectures, both free and open to the public and both in the Centennial Student Union Rooms 253-5. The first, “Discarding Disability Identity: Life for Wounded Warriors and Everyone Else in a New Era for Civil Rights,” will be presented April 23 at 7 p.m.
The second lecture will be April 24 at 9:30 a.m. This lecture will focus on “Twenty-Five years after Baby Doe: Ethical Decision-Making About Start of Life.”
Silvers is a professor and the Department of Philosophy Chair at San Francisco State University. She is one of the most prominent American bioethicists and is the most prominent American philosopher currently working on disability issues.
Silvers is also a disability rights activist and author or editor of 10 books and more than 60 articles. More information about Silvers is available at www.sfsu.edu/-phlsphr/?page=anita_silvers.
Those interested in more information may contact Dick Liebendorfer at 507-389-2317 or richard.liebendorfer@mnsu.edu.
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