BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260703T063530EDT-7858WmZvAU@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260703T103530Z DESCRIPTION:The Critical Race Theory class led by Professor Adelle Blackett presents an Author-meets-Readers session with Professor Osagie Obasogie\, author of Blinded by Sight.\n\nIn Blinded by Sight - Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind\, Obasogie argues that rather than being visually ob vious\, both blind and sighted people are socialized to see race in partic ular ways\, even to a point where blind people 'see' race. So what does th is mean for how we live and the laws that govern our society? Obasogie del ves into these questions and uncovers how color blindness in law\, public policy\, and culture will not lead us to any imagined racial utopia.\n\nAb out the speaker\n\nOsagie K. Obasogie is Professor of Law at the Universit y of California Hastings College of the Law with a joint appointment at UC SF Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He is also a Senior Fello w at the Center for Genetics and Society. Named one of 12 Emerging Scholar s in Academia under 40 by Diverse Issues in Higher Education\, his researc h and writing spans Constitutional law\, bioethics\, sociology of law\, an d reproductive and genetic technologies. He has written for Slate\, the Lo s Angeles Times\, the Boston Globe\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and New Scientist.\n\nCoffee and snacks will be served.\n\nProfessor Obasogie’s v isit is co-sponsored by the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory \, the Law Teaching Network\, the Institute in Comparative Law and the Ins titute for Health and Social Policy. All welcome to attend.\n DTSTART:20160317T183000Z DTEND:20160317T213000Z LOCATION:Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel SUMMARY:Author meets readers session with Professor Osagie Obasogie URL:/law/channels/event/author-meets-readers-session-p rofessor-osagie-obasogie-259571 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR