Marco Cinnirella/ Katharine Jenkins/ Joe Mulhall/ Amir Saeed

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6.30 – 8pm | Wednesday 3 May 2017
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE

Speakers
Marco Cinnirella, Senior Lecturer of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London
Katharine Jenkins, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham
Joe Mulhall, Senior Researcher, Hope Not Hate
Amir Saeed, Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media, University of Huddersfield

Chair
Peter Dennis, Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Fellow, Forum for European Philosophy

With recent political events and a spike in the reporting of hate crime, the concept of prejudice has become prominent once more. But are we more or less prejudiced than at other points in our history? And is prejudice always wrong, or even avoidable? If it is avoidable, how can this be achieved? We put these questions to a philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, and activist.