Sphères d’injustice with Bruno Perreau

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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How can the fight against discrimination serve everyone? In his latest book, Professor Perreau argues that minority issues concern us all and that solidarity, rather than competition, our political and social life.

In Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority Presence, Perreau

introduces the concept of intrasectionality, a new legal approach that shows how protections for one group can extend to others. Drawing on concrete cases, he demonstrates how minority experiences can foster responsibility, and lead to better environmental protection, and more democratic institutions.

Perreau situates his argument in today’s changing context, where traditional understandings of minority and majority are being redefined. He invites us to reflect on an ethic of interdependence, showing how the experiences of different groups can resonate with one another and inspire new forms of responsibility, solidarity, and community.

Our author talk will begin with a reception at 6:30 PM, followed by the discussion starting around 7:00–7:15 PM. The evening will conclude with a Q&A session and a book signing.
The event will be held in French.

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Members

FREE

Non-Members

$10

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).

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