Fritz Marti Lecture 2026: Dr. Jennifer Lackey
Start Date/Time:
April 17, 2026 at
4:00 PM
End Date/Time:
April 17, 2026 at
6:30 PM
Location: MUC Maple-Dogwood Room
Dr. Jennifer Lackey of Northwestern University
MUC Maple/Dogwood Room
Friday, April 17, 2026 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, with Reception at 3 PM
The Right to Be Known
This talk provides the first discussion in the literature of the epistemic significance of the phenomenon of “being known” and the relationship it has to reparations that are distinctively epistemic. Drawing on a framework provided by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, it is argued that victims of gross violations and injustices not only have the right to know what happened, as the UN maintains, but they also have a right that is altogether absent from these discussions—the right to be known. The case is then made for expanding the standard conception of reparations to include those that are distinctively epistemic.
