Jennifer Finney Boylan | "Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning"
The UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute present the 2025 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture: "Amelia Earhart, Save from Drowning" by Jennifer Finney Boylan. Register Here: https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baskin-ethics-lecture-with-jenny-boylan/
In this collage of story and song, Boylan speculates on the life of Amelia Earhart after the crash. Using that event as a springboard, she considers how our social and political structures constrain human liberty, and the price that women and queer people must pay for freedom. New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake has drawn illustrations to complement the story.
Boylan is the author of 19 books including the bestsellers She’s Not There and Mad Honey (with Jodi Picoult). Professor, trans advocate, reality TV star, and former New York Times opinion columnist, Boylan is currently President of PEN America. From 2014-2018, she was National Co-chair of GLAAD.
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for discussing and exploring ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics makes the Ethics Lecture possible, which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics-related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum.
This event is part of The Humanities Institute’s 25th anniversary celebration.
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