28th Annual Otis Lecture: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Schedule

Mon Nov 17 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Olin Arts Center | Lewiston, ME

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The Philip J. Otis Committee invites you to attend the Twenty-Eighth Annual Otis Lecture presented by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
About this Event

"What is the Problem of Freedom?" Presented by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University
A book signing will follow the lecture.


Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations, a contributor to Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book, and a past recipient of a Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar fellowship. Táíwò’s public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Hammer & Hope (where he is a member of the Editorial Team). His writings have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean, among other languages.

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Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell Street, Lewiston, United States

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