UALR’s Department of Philosophy and Liberal Studies continues its lecture series titled Truth, Marginalization, and the Other on Friday, March 2, with Dr. Phil Jenkins’s talk on Anxiety and Knowledge: The Role of Emotion in Standpoint Epistemology.

The lectures are offered from noon to 1 p.m. on the first Friday in February, March, and April at the Donaghey Student Center. The lectures are free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.

“These talks are important to the community because they will shed light on why the voices of marginalized groups, such as women and immigrants, are crucial to understanding our society,” said Dr. Jan Thomas, who chairs the department. “We will explore what we can learn from hate crimes and how using race, gender, and sexual orientation to identify groups is conceptually bankrupt.”

The series concludes in April with Dr. Tina Fernandes Botts, visiting instructor of philosophy at Hendrix College with her lecture, Separate But Equal Revisited: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage.

For information on this lecture series, contact the UALR Department of Philosophy and Liberal Studies at (501) 569-3312 or e-mail Jenkins at pwjenkins@ualr.edu.