Introduction: What Is To Be Done? Neoliberalism and the Role of the Humanist in Higher Education

Good evening, Association for Humanist Sociology (AHS) members and others who have joined us for the AHS Annual Meeting 2017. The AHS encourages its members to make a reflective statement before they present their work. This is mine. I was raped and tortured as a child, so I learned at a very early age about power relations. I did not know how to protect myself. Still I began to stand up for others at 11 years old because I knew what it felt like to stand alone and I knew what it felt like to feel powerless.