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Geoffrey Harpham a literary scholar and intellectual historian who has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Tulane University, and Duke University.
During the spring semester of 2024, he spoke at the John Hope Franklin Center’s ‘Wednesdays at the Center’ series with his lecture ‘Race: The Theory’. In this talk, he discussed the theory of race that we have inherited is an artifact of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe and America, when many leading philosophers, scientists, physicians, and generalists turned to the subject both as a fascinating object of research and as a potentially fertile source of information about a range of religious, philosophical, cultural, and moral issues that otherwise resisted a more direct approach, including the responsibilities of the more advanced and powerful cultures toward the peoples they were dominating, exploiting, or enslaving. The event was co-sponsored by Duke History.
Website: https://jhfc.duke.edu
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Geoffrey Harpham a literary scholar and intellectual historian who has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Tulane University, and Duke University.
During the spring semester of 2024, he spoke at the John Hope Franklin Center’s ‘Wednesdays at the Center’ series with his lecture ‘Race: The Theory’. In this talk, he discussed the theory of race that we have inherited is an artifact of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe and America, when many leading philosophers, scientists, physicians, and generalists turned to the subject both as a fascinating object of research and as a potentially fertile source of information about a range of religious, philosophical, cultural, and moral issues that otherwise resisted a more direct approach, including the responsibilities of the more advanced and powerful cultures toward the peoples they were dominating, exploiting, or enslaving. The event was co-sponsored by Duke History.
Website: https://jhfc.duke.edu
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/duke-university-john-hope-franklin-center
Instagram: instagram.com/jhfc_duke
Facebook: facebook.com/jhfcduke
X (Twitter): twitter.com/jhfcduke
