Leading scholar on gender and sexuality to give prestigious lecture series at the University of Glasgow

‌ The University of Glasgow will this week host one of the foremost lecture series dealing with religion, science and philosophy. The Gifford Lectures, established 130 years ago, are delivered annually at the four ancient Scottish Universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and St Andrews. This year's sold out Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow will be by Professor Judith Butler, a leading scholar on gender and sexuality at the University of California Berkeley. The linked lecture series by Professor Butler entitled "What does inequality have to do with non-violence?" will take place from October 1 to October 3 at the Bute Hall. Professor Butler will also be leading a seminar with postgraduate researchers in the University. Professor Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at Berkeley. Her Gifford lectures will suggest that a philosophy of non-violence has to take into account forms of inequality that value certain lives more highly than others.