No Pain Like My Own Ann Plato Lecture

No Pain Like My Own

Rousseau’s Confessions as Political Theory

Tuesday, April 14

4:15 p.m.

Alumni Lounge (Mather Hall)

Sonali Chakravarti

Ann Plato Fellow in Political Science and Human Rights

A graduate of Swarthmore College, Sonali Chakravarti received her Ph.D. from Yale in 2008. Her dissertation was entitled, “Anger, Resentment, Despair: On the Political Philosophy of Truth Commissions” and her research interests include transitional justice, critical theory, and the role of emotions in politics.

The Ann Plato Post-Doctoral One-Year Diversity Fellowship: The Ann Plato Fellow joins the faculty in one of 30 academic departments or interdisciplinary programs, interacting regularly with colleagues and students on campus, while working on their own research. Post-doctoral fellows teach two courses during the year. The fellowship is named for Ann Plato, a 19th-century author and teacher of African American and Native American descent, who lived and wrote in Hartford. She was the second woman of color in the United States to publish a book, and the first to publish a book of essays and poems (1841).

All are cordially invited to attend the lecture and reception immediately following.