Reframing the Debates about Trigger Warning

This Thursdays at Four event features a panel on trauma, trigger warnings, and academic freedom with Provost Karen Hanson.

Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Karen Hanson began her post at the University on February 1, 2012. Provost Hanson’s arrival at the University of Minnesota was a homecoming for her. She received her bachelor of arts, summa cum laude, in philosophy and mathematics here in 1970. She went on to earn both her master’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy from Harvard University in 1980.

Provost Hanson’s research interests are in the philosophy of mind, ethics and aesthetics, and American philosophy. She has published many articles and essays in these areas and is the author of the book The Self Imagined: Philosophical Reflections on the Social Character of Psyche and a co-editor of the book Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory.