Gender, Race and Philosophy: The Blog

New Symposium: Kathryn Gines on Beauvoir

We are happy to announce a new Symposium on Kathryn Gines' article, "Comparative and Competing Frameworks of Oppression in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex," with commentaries by Nancy Bauer, Sabine Broeck, Penelope Deutscher, and Stephanie Rivera Berruz, and a reply by Kathryn Gines.  Find it here.  Enjoy!

Summer Immersion Program in Philosophy at Brown University 2016

The Brown Philosophy Department is now accepting applications for the Summer Immersion Program in Philosophy at Brown University.

SIPP@Brown is a two-week undergraduate program for members of groups that are underrepresented in philosophy departments, including women and students of color. The 2016 program will run from July 17 to July 30 and will feature seminars taught by Brown faculty and the SIPP@Brown research conference. Each student will receive free lodging on Brown's campus, a $500 stipend, and reimbursement of up to $500 of travel expenses.

To learn more about the program and the application procedure, visit www.sippatbrown.com. The application deadline is March 15. Questions about SIPP@Brown or about the application process should be sent to [email protected]

Rhodes Must Fall protest at Oxford

http://oxfordstudent.com/2015/10/24/students-wear-red-in-matriculation-protest/

Students wore red as they matriculated on Saturday in protest at what they say is the University’s continued celebration of colonialism and lack of diversity.

“The wearing of red by matriculating students draws attention to this bloodshed and related oppression, and highlights Oxford’s red-tape culture, which slows down change.  Rhodes Must Fall Oxford also hopes that the wearing of red underscores the need for passion and transformation to raise awareness of these issues in the coming year at Oxford.

“Rhodes Must Fall Oxford looks forward to a year of transformation at Oxford, and hopes that this matricul-action is a sign of things to come.”

Leadership Alliance

Those interested in philosophy's pipeline may want to look into the Leadership Alliance.  Philosophers are some of the participating institutions have mentored students over the summer.  If you are in a participating institution, perhaps consider becoming a mentor?  If you know an interested student, perhaps you could suggest they apply?

CFP: Shifting the Geography of Reason XIII: Theorizing from Small Places

From the Caribbean Philosophical Association

 

Shifting the Geography of Reason XIII: Theorizing from Small Places

June 16-18, 2016

Storrs, CT

 

Born on the ten-by-twelve-mile island of Antigua, writer Jamaica Kincaid inaugurated a remarkable literary life with reflections on what it meant to occupy A Small Placepresumed to be largely uninhabited by the tourists who came to enjoy its beautiful beaches. In Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone, Anglophone and Dutch Caribbean letters, “the archipelago,” a cluster of islands, has been mobilized as a distinctive trope characterizing a unique geopolitical, existential, authorial, and theoretical disposition. Across the Atlantic some centuries earlier, Genevan-born Jean-Jacques Rousseau, upon encountering Paris, reflected that academies were most developed in empires that trained people in rules of civility and predictability that squelched their potential to “follow their own lights.” He suggested that the most important and innovative ideas almost always emerged from people who came of age in more remote stomping grounds, where they could be led by their own curiosities and priorities, undisrupted in pursuing their projects by distractions of narcissism and a public of glaring, monitoring eyes. 

This year’s conference theme therefore continues the organization’s exploration of our larger motto of “shifting the geography of reason” through challenging the presumption that historic ideas and theory must emerge from large, metropolitan centers. We particularly invite reflection on the global range of small places from which many have undertaken theoretical endeavors and continue to produce vital ideas of worldly significance, the usefulness of Caribbean reflections on this situation, and more generally about how the scale and nature of the terrains where we work inflect the character of our thinking.

Please submit your application here by December 15th, 2015. To submit a paper abstract, click here. To submit a panel proposal, click here. To submit a roundtable proposal, click here. In turn, we will send out acceptance notices by January 30th, 2016. Questions? Write to Jane Gordon at [email protected]

View original CFP online here.

Race and Racism CFA/CFP

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PAPERS

Workshop: Race and Racism

November 13-15, 2015

Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

 

Recent philosophical contributions to critical race theory have been exciting, some of the better and more important philosophical work of the past twenty years. This workshop aims to further this dialogue, in a conversation between scholars from South Africa and scholars from elsewhere. Possible questions for discussion:

• What are races? Are they biological populations or lineages, social creations, or cultures?
• Non-racialist discourse is prominent among intellectuals in South Africa. Is non-racialism something worth aspiring to?
• What value would race-talk have in the unlikely event that racism was finally eradicated?
• What is racism?
• What is the lived reality of racism?
• What is the relationship between races and racism? Are races to be conceived of as dependent upon racism?
• What kinds of racism are there? Are there any forms of racial injustice not properly characterized as ‘racism’?
• How do we defeat racism in our midst?
• Is Black solidarity the most effective means of fighting racism? Why?
• What is the importance of Black consciousness – changes in the outlook of members of groups on the receiving end of racism – in fighting racism?
• What is the relationship between racial (or racialized) identities, race, and racism?
• What is the importance of so-called implicit bias to critical race theory?
• What differences, if any, are there between being having a racial identity in South Africa and having a racial identity in other countries?

Expected speakers: Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie), Samantha Vice (University of the Witwatersrand), George Hull (University of Cape Town)

Five-hundred word abstracts, or full papers, should be sent to Ward Jones ([email protected]), by 30 June, 2015.

There will be no parallel sessions, so competition will unfortunately be tight. Some papers from the workshop will be selected for publication in *Philosophical Papers*. Attendance at the workshop will be free. Lunches and coffees will be provided.

Yours, Ward Jones

TWO PIKSIs!

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/APA Sponsored

Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institutes (PIKSI)

2015 SUMMER  INSTITUTES FOR  UNDERGRADUATES

Application Deadline:  March 13, 2015 

Online application form here.

PIKSI summer institutes are designed to encourage undergraduates from underrepresented groups to consider future study of philosophy. Undergraduates and recent graduates from underrepresented groups such as women, African Americans, Chicano/as and Latino/as, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, LGBTs, economically disadvantaged communities, and people with disabilities are urged to apply. Transportation and lodging are provided. Stipends are awarded to all.

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PIKSI ROCK at the Rock Ethics Institute/Penn State University

Date: June 13-22, 2015

Director: Serene Khader, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Theme: Philosophy and Social Justice  

Speakers:

• Luvell Anderson, University of Memphis
• Talia Bettcher, California State University, Los Angeles
• Kristie Dotson, Michigan State University
• Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University

(All PIKSI-ROCK students will be designated Iris Marion Young Fellows)

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PIKSI BOSTON at MIT, in collaboration with U. Mass-Boston 

Date: August 2-8, 2015 

Director: Lisa Rivera, University of Massachusetts Boston 

Speakers:

• Keota Fields, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• Jorge Garcia, Boston College
• Justin Khoo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Mickaella Perina, University of Massachusetts Boston
• Susanna Siegel, Harvard University
• Subrena Smith, University of New Hampshire

 (All PIKSI-BOSTON students will be designated Alain Locke Fellows)

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For More Information See:

PIKSI ROCK: 
Web: rockethics.psu.edu/education/piksi   
Email: [email protected]

PIKSI BOSTON:  
Web: piksi-boston.mit.edu
Email: [email protected]

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Co-sponsors: 

Penn State's Rock Ethics Institute; College of the Liberal Arts; Department of Philosophy. 

MIT’S Department of Linguistics and Philosophy; Dean's Office, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. 

Michigan State University; Stony Brook University; University of Oregon; The Iris Marion Young Diversity Fund; Ann Arbor PIKSI Funding Initiative; The Association of Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST).

 

Brown University Summer Immersion Program

The Brown Philosophy Department is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Summer Immersion Program in Philosophy at Brown University. SIPP@Brown is a two-week residential program for members of traditionally underrepresented groups in philosophy, including women and students of color. This year's program will run from May 31, 2015 to June 13, 2015 and will feature seminars taught by Brown faculty and the SIPP@Brown research conference. Students will have travel and lodging expenses covered and will receive a $500 stipend. More information is available at www.sippatbrown.com. The application deadline is March 15.

PIKSI 2014 Call for Graduate Assistants

2014 Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI)

Graduate Assistants Call for Applications

Deadline: March 1, 2014

The seventh annual meeting of Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) will take place from June 14—June 21, on the campus of the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA. At least two graduate students will assist Ellen Feder, who will direct the Institute this year. In addition, one graduate assistant will come from the Penn State philosophy department. We expect that, as was the case in previous summers, the home institution of the other graduate assistants will fund their positions. (The philosophy departments of the University of Memphis, Binghamton University, Villanova University, Michigan State University, University of Colorado at Boulder, Stony Brook University, University of Washington, Dalhousie, American University, DePaul University, University of Oregon, and the University of Alberta, generously supported PIKSI graduate assistants in 2006–2013.)

We invite those of you teaching in graduate programs to nominate graduate student assistants for PIKSI. The applications will be screened according to the graduate student’s accomplishments as a researcher, a teacher, and mentor; the relevance of her or his research to the topics of the institute; and the home institution’s willingness to fund the student (approximately $2000, including travel, housing, and stipend).

Applications should include: · a cover letter from the graduate student which discusses why he or she would like to be a GA for PIKSI · the graduate student’s CV · a letter of support from a faculty member · documentation of institutional support, if available.

Please e-mail complete applications by March 1, 2014 to: Ellen Feder Department of Philosophy and Religion American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20016-8056 [email protected]

If you have any further questions please contact Eva Feder Kittay, PIKSI Board Chair, at [email protected], or Ellen Feder, Director of PIKSI Summer 2014, at [email protected]

Call for Nominations: Distinguished Woman Philosopher 2013

Call for Nominations: Distinguished Woman Philosopher 2013

Each year the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy comes together to honor a woman philosopher whose contributions to the support of women in philosophy and to philosophy itself are outstanding and merit special recognition. A panel and reception celebrating the honoree's accomplishments will be organized for the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 27-30, 2013.

Nominations should include a copy of the nominee's curriculum vitae and a minimum of two supporting letters, which summarize the nominee's contributions to philosophy and support of women in philosophy.

NOTE: Two-thirds of letter writers for any given nomination must be members of the society for women in philosophy, in good standing.

Please e-mail all nominations to Rochelle Green, ESWIP Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award Secretary ([email protected]) no later than April 1, 2013.