There's a new blog coming out of Philosophy at the U of Alberta, What Sorts of People. It's associated with a large-scale research project with more of less the same name that pulls together about 60 researchers--a number of them philosophers of science, bioethicists, folks working on disability, the history of eugenics, enhancement technologies--mostly from Canada and the US, but also with a wider reach. Check it out!
Here is the announcement and call for papers for the 5th annual California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race. Note that the deadline for submissions is April 30, 2008.
The 5th Annual California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race
University of California, Berkeley
October 3-4, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Maria Lugones, Binghamton University
The California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race announces a call for papers for its fifth annual roundtable, to be held October 3-4, 2008 at UC Berkeley. This roundtable brings together philosophers of race, and those working in related fields in a small and congenial setting to share their work and to help further this sub-discipline. Papers are invited on any philosophical issue regarding race, ethnicity, or racism, and including those that take up race in the context of another topic, such as feminism, political philosophy, ethics, justice, culture, identity, biology, phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis, metaphysics, or epistemology.
Submissions are especially encouraged from junior scholars and philosophers of color. We seek to foster a productive and intellectually stimulating environment for those working in philosophy and race. The Roundtable also aspires to bring together junior and senior scholars to develop and enhance constructive mentoring relationships.
Registration is free but please register by email by April 30, 2008. Papers should be no more than 30 minutes in length. Please submit full paper or detailed abstract (2-3 pages), as MS word .doc or .pdf document to fsheth@berkeley.edu by April 30, 2008.
CFP for posting: Download CRPRcfp08.pdf
I've organized a small conference of new work in analytic race theory at the University of San Francisco. The conference will be held on April 25 - 26, 2008. It is free and open to the public. More information can be found at: http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/rrsundstrom/NPRT.html
The presenters, and the titles of their presentations, are:
Luc Faucher (Université du Québec à Montréal), "Race, moral ills and emotions: for a finer texturing of emotions underlying racial ills"
Eduard Machery (University of Pittsburgh), "The Folk Concept of Race"
Ron Mallon (University of Utah), "Beyond Non-Essentialism and Toward a New Standard Anti-Racialist Argument"
Quayshawn Spencer (Stanford University), "Is Cladistic Race a Genuine Kind?"
Paul Taylor (Temple University), “The Racial Stance: Pragmatism and Post-Analytic Race Theory”
Mark Risjord (Emory University), "Race and Social Role"
Julie Shulman (Alliant International University) and Joshua Glasgow (Victoria University of Wellington), "Is Race-Thinking Biological, Social, or Something Else, and Does It Matter for Racism? An Exploratory Study”
Michael Root (University of Minnesota), "The Use of Racial Categories in the Social and Biomedical Sciences"
Yolonda Wilson (Duke University), "BiDil and the Ethics of Racialized Medicine"
Keynote: Sally Haslanger (MIT), "Race, Gender and Ideology Critique"
The Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology has launched a website:
http://whp.uoregon.edu/sifp
Check it out!
--SH
I just got an email announcing a mini-conference in conjunction with the Pacific APA:
Making Philosophy of Science More Socially Relevant, March 19-20, 2008, Pasadena Hilton. Organizing Committee: Nancy Cartwright, Sophia Efstathiou, Helen Longino, Katie Plaisance
There are sessions on race and on feminist philosophy of science:
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/proceedings/v81n3/Public/miniconferenceprog.asp
I wish I could be there! I hope someone will blog about it afterwards.
--SH
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