Class IV Speaker, Robert Gooding-Williams - 2018 Induction Ceremony

Описание: Robert Gooding-Williams gives the remarks for Class IV: Humanities and Arts at the 2018 Induction Ceremony, following an introduction from Pauline Yu. (Remarks begin 2:18)

The ceremony, which served as the 2071st Stated Meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, was held on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at Memorial Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Other Class speakers for the 2018 Induction Ceremony included: Linda Elkins-Tanton, Huda Y. Zoghbi, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, and David Miliband.

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Robert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/ Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. His areas of research and teaching interest include social and political philosophy, the history of African-American political thought, nineteenth-century European philosophy, existentialism, and aesthetics.

Gooding-Williams is the author of “Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism” (2001), “Look, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics” (2005), and “In The Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America” (2009). In 2010, “In the Shadow of Du Bois” won a prize for the best book on race, ethnicity, and political thought awarded by the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association; and an honorable mention citation by the David Easton Award, awarded by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association. Gooding-Williams is also the editor of “Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising” (1993), co-editor of the Bedford Books edition of “The Souls of Black Folk” (1997), and author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on W.E.B. Du Bois. He has been the recipient of many academic fellowships, including two NEH College Teachers Fellowships and a Laurance A. Rockefeller Fellowship awarded by Princeton’s University Center for Human Values.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

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Pauline Yu was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and serves as a member of the Academy’s Board of Directors.