Join us for a conversation about ethical loneliness and the limits of repair featuring author Jill Stauffer in conversation with scholars Aaron Levy and Sarah Ropp.
Jill Stauffer’s Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard (2015), explores the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being acknowledged. The result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political institutions, she discusses the implications of failing to listen well to survivors, denying them redress by negating their testimony, and thwarting their claims for justice.
As we approach the publication’s tenth anniversary amidst widespread violence and injustice in the world, this conversation seeks to revisit some of the key questions Stauffer raises in Ethical Loneliness. How might those of us who care to listen learn to hear better? How does the will to believe in the world’s benevolence lead us to fail to hear the stories survivors tell of misfortune and injustice? Why do so many of us want to hear the narrative of resilience rather than the story of destruction? What can be repaired, what should be repaired, and, perhaps, what should be left broken?
Registration is not required. Lunch will be provided. For more information about this event, visit the Public Trust here.
Co-presented by the SNF Paideia Program, the Public Trust, the Health Ecologies Lab, and Medical Humanities Council, Perelman School of Medicine, in conjunction with the SNF Paideia designated courses Listening in Troubled Times, taught by Dr. Levy, and Testimony: Life-writing as Dialogue, taught by Dr. Ropp.
