Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science Nancy Fraser will deliver the Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School on Monday, October 5, and Tuesday, October 6. The Monday lecture is “Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Toward a Neo-Polanyian Conception of Capitalist Crisis,” and the Tuesday lecture is “Predatory Protections, Tragic Tradeoffs, and Dangerous Liaisons: Dilemmas of Justice in the Context of Capitalist Crisis.” The Storrs Lectures, established in 1889, constitute one of Yale Law School’s oldest and most prestigious lecture programs. They are given annually by a prominent scholar who discusses fundamental problems of law and jurisprudence.

On October 27, 28, and 29, Fraser will deliver the Messenger Lecture at Cornell University on the same themes. The Messenger Lectures are arranged as a series of talks given by a leading scholar each semester. The mission of the lectures is “to provide a course of lectures on the evolution of civilization, for the special purpose of raising the moral standards of our political, business, and social life.”

Professor Fraser completed two books in 2008. The first, Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World, explores the challenges of theorizing about justice beyond specific, bordered locations. Through a revision and expansion on her previous work on redistribution and recognition she seeks border-crossing political spaces, publicity, and emancipatory projects that accommodate transnational solidarity. Her second book, Adding Insult to Injury: Debating Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation, is a series of essays beginning with Professor Fraser’s own influential essay “From Redistribution to Recognition?” Following the initial essay are responses from an impressive list of critical theorists. The book captures important conversations in the controversial effort to combine the social politics of equality with the cultural politics of difference.

Professor Fraser is the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at The New School for Social Research. She is also Blaise Pascal International Research Chair at École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Before joining The New School in l995, she taught at Northwestern University for 13 years. A former co-editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, she has published extensively on political philosophy, social theory, Continental philosophy, and feminist theory.