Temple’s MAP chapter organized a workshop on “Diversifying the Canon” for the graduate students and faculty in the philosophy department.

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2019

Conference Dates: April 3, 2020 – April 4, 2020

Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

249 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States

The University of Pennsylvania chapter of MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) is pleased to announce our fifth annual philosophy conference: MAP-Penn: Philosophy of Race. In keeping with the aims of both MAP International and MAP-Penn, previous iterations of this conference have focused on Non-western philosophies, Global Feminisms, and Inclusive Pedagogies and Methodologies.

For this year’s conference, we are soliciting anonymized abstracts of 500-750 words on any aspect of Philosophy of Race. This includes, but is not limited to, notions of race and ethnicity in philosophy of science, in the history of philosophy, in one’s personal experiences as a philosopher, in canon (re)formation, and in teaching practices.

We will also have commentators-at-large from departments working in fields related to philosophy of race.

Please send abstracts to aforbes@sas.upenn.edu with subject line ‘MAP Conference.’

Main speakers:

Philosophy & HBCUs V – Religion|City
2020 Conference Call for Papers

5 Years After the Death of Freddie Gray & the Baltimore Uprisings:
What Happened, is Happening, & Where Do We Go From Here?

Baltimore, Maryland, March 27-28, 2020
Sponsored by Morgan State University
Venue TBD, Travel and accommodation funds available upon request

Please upload your proposal here (up to 1,200 words) by November 15, 2019
Notices of acceptance by the end of December

The Center for the Study of Religion and the City and the Committee for Philosophy, Religion, and Public Life at Morgan State University are now accepting proposals for public dialogue that bring together scholars, activists, artists, policy makers, and other community partners to discuss, on the fifth anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprisings, what happened, is happening, and where can we go from here?

We are especially interested in, but not limited to, engagements with:
– Policing and mass incarceration
– Political and economic justice
– Access to education and health resources (water justice, health care access, etc.)
– Artistic responses to the death of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprising
– Consent decrees, reparations, and reconciliation
– The relation between global uprisings since 2015
– Immigration, surveillance, and detention centers

In addition to papers and panels in which scholars present relevant research and/or respond to the work of a community partner, we are interested in proposals for creative formats, including:
– Facilitated dialogues/small group discussions
– Visual and performance art (e.g. exhibition, posters, poetry, etc.)
– Multimedia presentations
– Workshop (e.g. for activists on using social media; pooling resources & lessons; etc.)
– Tours
– Any other creative format

The CSRC will help promote broad participation in the conference through travel support for graduate students and junior faculty to attend the annual CSRC conference. Up to ten travel grants of $500-750 each will be awarded by the CSRC’s travel grant jury.

October 10-12, 2019

The Inn at Villanova University, Pennsylvania
Directors:  Mark Doorley, Alan Preti, Brett Wilmot

Conference Theme: Race & Justice in America

• Keynote speakers: Anita Allen, University of Pennsylvania
• Lawrence Krasner, District Attorney, Philadelphia, PA
• Terry Nance, Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Villanova University
• George Yancy, Emory University

More details can be found here.

Keynote speaker Dr. Robin Zheng, PhD (Yale-NUS) presenting on “Challenging Injustice Through a Solidarity of Struggle: Toward a Theory of Radical Social Change”

Conference attendees, Dr. Lee-Ann Chae, JD, PhD, of the Philosophy Department at Temple University, and Temple University graduate students Ricardo Abend Van Dalen, JD and Arthur Krieger

Conference presenter Anna Klein (University of Sheffield, UK) presenting on “Why We Should Consider the Role of Resentment for Contemporary Perceptions of Injustice: On the Utilization of Emotions as Epistemic and Political Practice”

Conference attendees during a Q&A

For eleven years running, the Libraries and the Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Faculty of Color have co-hosted this engaging series of panels on timely topics, featuring faculty from across the university.

Join us for our first Chat in the Stacks of the spring semester during which we’ll discuss diversity and inclusion from the perspective of postdocs and graduate students of color. Panelists include Enya-kalia Jordan, Minjung Noh, and Dr. Shaeeda Mensah, among others.

Registration requested.

Programs offered by Temple University Libraries are accessible to people with disabilities. Please contact Richie Holland, Director of Library Administration, at richieh@temple.edu or 215-204-3455 for more information, to request an accommodation, or with questions/concerns.

Date And Time

Location

Mark for your calendars and join us on Thursday, April 4 from 3:30 to 5pm for a talk by Uma Narayan, Professor of Philosophy and the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at Vassar College, on, “Microcredit and Third World Women: Panacea for Poverty or Delusional Development?” in Anderson Hall 821 (The Women’s Studies Lounge). A reception from 5-6pm will follow in the same room.

The talk is part of the Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium (GPWC) annual speaker-in-residence program, and is hosted by Temple’s Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program, with generous co-sponsorship from the Departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology, and the Center for the Study of Humanities (CHAT) and the Global Studies Program.

Are you interested in using your communication skills to serve the common good?  Attend this panel and networking session to learn from professionals in non-profit management, public relations, and communications.  Light refreshments will be served.  Event is cosponsored by the Temple Career Center and Klein College of Media and Communication.

Join Temple MAP for our fall semester movie night on Wednesday, October 24th, from 5-8PM in the CHAT lounge of Gladfelter Hall!

Light dinner/snacks and drinks will be provided.

Please RSVP by emailing us at mapattemple@gmail.com

(N.B.: This discussion group is open only to faculty members and post-doctoral students.)