Thursday, October 16, 2025 From 6:30 PM To 8:30 PM Add to Calendar 2025-10-16 18:30:00 2025-10-16 20:30:00 Sphères d’injustice with Bruno Perreau Join Bruno Perreau for a conversation on how minority experiences foster responsibility and revitalize democracy. The French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York
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Bruno Perreau is the Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Faculty Affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
He is the founding chair of MIT’s Center of Excellence in French Studies and the author of thirteen books on French and U.S. institutions, bioethics, family policies, queer cultures, minority politics, and contemporary theories of justice, including The Politics of Adoption (MIT Press, 2014), Queer Theory: The French Response (Stanford University Press, 2016), Les Défis de la République (with Joan W. Scott, Presses de Sciences Po, 2017), and Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority Presence (MIT Press, 2025), published in French as Sphères d’injustice. Pour un universalisme minoritaire (La Découverte, 2023).Sponsors
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