“The Meanings of Consent”—Literary Scholar Wendy Lee on What’s Behind “Yes Means Yes,” Sept. 19

New York University's Wendy Anne Lee, an associate professor in the Department of English, will deliver "The Meanings of Consent"-a Fall 2024 College of Arts and Science Bentson Dean's Lecture-on Thursday, September 19 at 5:30 p.m. (Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts & Science, 31 Washington Place [at Washington Square East]).

Lee, author of Failures of Feeling: Insensibility and the Novel, will discuss where our concept of consent comes from and how we should use it today-in sex, politics, and everyday life.

The lecture is free and open to the public. An RSVP is required at the event page. For more information, email [email protected] or call 212.998.8100.

A co-founder of NYU's Consent Lab, which takes an interdisciplinary approach in helping students better understand and manage conflict, Lee is the recipient of the McCosh Prize for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University, the Sarai Ribicoff Prize for the Encouragement of Teaching at Yale University, and the Golden Dozen Teaching Award at NYU. Her current project, "Jane Austen and the End of Life," centers on reading, writing, and dying.

For over a decade the NYU College of Arts and Science Bentson Dean's Lectures, funded by the Bentson Family Foundation, have showcased current and visiting faculty and other guests. Past Bentson Lectures have featured NYU Stern's Conor Grennan on "Generative AI: Practical Strategies to Increase Productivity"; NYU Psychology Professor Emily Balcetis, who delivered "Overcoming Our Bias Blindspot NYU Stern Professor Dolly Chugh, who spoke about the research surrounding her book, A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change; University of Minnesota Professor Michael Osterholm on "COVID 2023: Do We Know Where We're Going?"; NYU Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, the New York Times "Ethicist" columnist, on "The Ethics of Work"; NYU Anthropology Professor Rayna Rapp on "The Implications of the Growing Role of Genetic Testing"; Karen Adolph, professor of psychology and neuroscience at NYU, on early childhood development in her lecture "Learning to Move and Moving to Learn"; and Brooke Kroeger, an NYU journalism professor emeritus, on "What We Can Learn about Allyship Today from 'Suffragents'."

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