{"id":648,"date":"2019-03-06T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/?p=648"},"modified":"2019-03-06T09:09:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:09:30","slug":"inspirational-speaker-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2019\/03\/06\/inspirational-speaker-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Speaker event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2019\/03\/Prof.-Meena-Dhanda-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-650\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2019\/03\/Prof.-Meena-Dhanda-1-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2019\/03\/Prof.-Meena-Dhanda-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2019\/03\/Prof.-Meena-Dhanda-1-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2019\/03\/Prof.-Meena-Dhanda-1-1024x519.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2019\/03\/Prof.-Meena-Dhanda-1.jpg 1834w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The next Inspirational Speaker event, hosted by SECL, takes place on <strong>Wednesday 6<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> March 4pm \u2013 5.30pm, Darwin LT1.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlv.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-staff\/meena-dhanda\/\">Prof. Meena Dhanda<\/a><\/u><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">, Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics at the University of Wolverhampton. In her talk, Prof. Dhanda shares the problems encountered in morally and politically confronting caste consciousness. Fear of \u2018emergent vulnerabilities\u2019 closes discussion, but attention to internal critiques of inherited ways of life opens the path for truly decolonised ways of thinking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Please do come along to this and especially encourage students to do so (the series is intended to inspire a student audience). Many do not expect that we would need to confront issues of caste in the UK, but Meena\u2019s research on this topic is very enlightening. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">This event is free and open to staff and students. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Inspirational Speaker event, hosted by SECL, takes place on Wednesday 6th March 4pm \u2013 5.30pm, Darwin LT1. Prof. Meena Dhanda, Professor of Philosophy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2019\/03\/06\/inspirational-speaker-event\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}