University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty, staff, and students are invited to hear a philosophy expert speak at Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society’s annual member induction and awards ceremony Friday, April 21.

The event will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Donaghey Student Center Room 205 D.

Dr. Colleen Murphy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is set to give a talk, “Justice in Transitional Circumstances,” comparing and contrasting affairs of post-conflict or post-repressive societies with those of stable democracies.

Her research addresses the standards of justice used to evaluate responses of unlawful offenses in varying circumstances. These include pervasive structural inequality, normalized collective and political wrongdoing, serious existential uncertainty, and fundamental uncertainty about authority.

Murphy, a professor in the College of Law and the departments of philosophy and political science, is the author of two publications, including “The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice,” an associate editor of the “Journal of Moral Philosophy,” and an affiliate faculty member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

For more information about the induction and awards ceremony, contact Michael Norton, UA Little Rock assistant professor and interim chair of the Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, at 501.569.3312 or mbnorton@ualr.edu.