Philosopher Martha Nussbaum to speak on Internet harassment April 27

David Ruth
713-348-6327
david@rice.edu

HOUSTON – (April 23, 2012) – Philosopher and author Martha Nussbaum will visit Rice University and discuss “Internet Harassment and the Objectification of Women” at 4 p.m. April 27 in Fondren Library’s Kyle Morrow Room.

Who: Philosopher and author Martha Nussbaum.

What: Lecture on “Internet Harassment and the Objectification of Women.”

When: 4 p.m. Friday, April 27.

Where: Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. The founder and coordinator of the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism, Nussbaum received her bachelor’s degree from New York University and her master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard. She has taught at Harvard, Brown and Oxford universities and has also served as a research adviser to the World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki.

Nussbaum has received honorary degrees from 40 colleges and universities and has writtenmore than 15 books, including the recently released “The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age.”

The talk is sponsored by Rice’s Program in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities in the Center for the Study of Women Gender and Sexuality and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.

The event is free and open to the public.

Media who want to attend the event should RSVP to David Ruth, director of national media relations at Rice, at david@rice.edu or 713-348-6327.