A conference on understanding and resisting oppression inside and outside the academy.
Presented by the The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapters of The Graduate Center CUNY, New York University, Princeton, Columbia, Rutgers, and the New School.
Supported by the New School Student Senate, the New York Institute of Philosophy, and the philosophy departments at Columbia, the CUNY Graduate Center, Rutgers, and Princeton.
For more information, please see our flyer and our Philevents page.
Panel 1 – MAP Organizing: 1.00-2.00pm (6th Floor)
Elise Woodard, Carolina Flores, Keyvan Shafiei
Panel 2 – Graduate Employee Unions and Social Justice: 2.10-3.10pm (6th Floor)
Danny Echikson, Nadia Mehdi, Chris Nickell
Panel 3 – Teaching Outside the Academy & Inclusive Pedagogy: 3.20-4.20pm (6th Floor)
Sukaina Hirji, Allysa Lake, Victoria Emery
Panel 4 – Faculty Panel on Activism and Public Philosophy: 4.30-6.30pm (202)
Linda Martín Alcoff, Lori Gruen, Briana Toole, Kate Ritchie
Reception: 6.30-7.30pm (6th Floor)
Breakfast: 9:30-10:00am (Lobby)
Session 1: 10.00-11.30am (101)
Rebecca Harrison, “Experiencing Resistance: Disruptive Protest as a Site of Moral Learning”
Claryn Spies, “Ideas Spring from Deeds: Rethinking Black Bloc Aesthetically”
Session 2: 11.45am-1.15pm (101)
Noel Dominguez, “Are We Blameworthy for Implicit Biases? We Might As Well Be”
Javiera Perez-Gomez, “Microaggressions: Failings and Prospects”
Session 3: 2.30-4.00pm (101)
Emmalon Davis, “What We Owe to Ourselves: Resisting a Self-Directed Duty to Resist Oppression”
Matt Andler, “What Is Sexual Identity?”
Keynote: 4.30-6.30pm (101)
José Medina (Walter Dill Scott Professor, Northwestern University), "Resisting Racist Propaganda: Distorted Visual Communication and Epistemic Activism"
Reception: 6.30-7.30pm (6th Floor)
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