Events

PAST MAP EVENTS AND PROJECTS

Organized by type of event, with hosting university in brackets. Lists for previous academic years may be found here:

Events, projects, and activities are organized by individual chapters in their own capacities, and their contents do not necessarily reflect the views of MAP. Chapters work with a high degree of autonomy and minimal intervention from the central organization. Event organizers, however, are encouraged to take steps necessary to ensure events are safe and inclusive spaces for attendees.

2019-2020

SPEAKERS

Prof. Connie Snyder-Mick (Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns) “Teaching for Inclusion” [University of Notre Dame]
Luvell Anderson, (Syracuse) "Laughing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Comedic Imagination" [CUNY Graduate Center and CUNY GC Dept. of Philosophy]
Vanessa Wills (George Washington University) “Lessons from black woman marxists on race, gender, and class” [MAP Berlin]
Jose Medina (Northwestern University) "Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence" [UCSC]
Rima Basu (Claremont McKenna College) "Indecent Philosophy: Mapping The Moral Terrain of Philosophical Inquiry" [NYU]
Paul-Mikhail Podosky (University of Melbourne) “The Ethics of Sexual Attraction” [Melbourne]
Knox Peden (University of Melbourne) “Postmodernism, Knowledge and Power” [Melbourne]
Marilyn Stendera (University of Melbourne) “Taking on Traditions: Analytic and Continental” [Melbourne]
Graham Priest (CUNY) “'Buddhist Ethics and Marxism” [Melbourne]
Myisha Cherry (University California Riverside) "Anger Management: An Alternative View" [Brown]
Nancy Bauer (Tufts University) "#MeToo: Epistemic Injustice and the Sexual Harassment Tipping Point" [Brown]
Rima Basu (Claremont McKenna College), "Indecent Philosophy: Mapping The Moral Terrain of Philosophical Inquiry" [NYU]
Jose Medina (Northwestern University), “Imagining Otherwise Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence” [UCSC]
Augustine Obi (Australian Catholic University), “Heidegger’s Mitsein in Conversation with the Sub-Saharan African Concept of Ubuntu” [Monash]
Nirmalangshu Mukherjii (University of Delhi), “ On Marx” [Monash]
Avery Archer (George Washington Univ.), “Inquiry as Epistemic Improvement” [Ohio State]
Robin Dembroff (Yale), "Patriarchy: Putting 'Real Men' on Top" [McGill]
Thomas Barrett (UCSB), “Geometry and Dispensability” [UCSB]
The Future of Our Dinner Plates: Food and Ethics, w/ a variety of speakers [CSULB]

CONFERENCES & PAPER WORKSHOPS

Masterclass paper 'Real Talk on the Metaphysics of Gender' [University of Melbourne]
- Speaker: Robin Dembroff (Yale University)
MAP Graduate Conference [Brown University]
- Keynote Speakers: Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University) "Dignity and Disposability" and Lionel McPherson (Tufts University) "Laissez-faire ‘Mixed’ Race"
Writing Sample Workshop [University of Oklahoma]
- Departmental Faculty

DISCUSSIONS AND PANELS

Discussion on "Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Diversity and Philosophy" [Western University]
- Meena Krishnamurthy (Queens University), Carolyn McLeod (Western University) and Helen Fielding (Western University)
Workshop and Panel on “WTF Do I Do Now? A Realistic Grad School Timeline" [CUNY]
- Serene Khader, Hagop Sarkissian, and Zoey Lavallee (CUNY)
Discussion on "Work Place Discrimination and the Public Responsibilities of Academics" [UCSB]
- Moderator: Varun Iyer (UCSB)
Panel on “Why I chose to stay in Philosophy?” for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students. [Stirling-St Andrews]
- Kim Kopec, Emilia Wilson, Sophia Rommel, and Dr Derek Ball.
Open round table discussion on Workplace Discrimination and the Public Responsibility of Academics [UC - Santa Barbara]
- Rick Lamb, Arnel Blake Batoon, Varun (UC Santa Barbara)
Pre-Speaker Discussion for undergraduate and graduate students on Elizabeth Brake's (Arizona State University) public lecture, "Minimizing Marriage: The State's Role in Caring Relationships."
Pre-Speaker Discussion on LGBTQ+ rights for undergraduate and graduate students before Professor John Corvino's (Wayne State University) public lecture, "Conversation Stoppers in the Culture Wars."
"Graduate School Admissions Info Night" Panel with faculty and graduate students [UBC]
End-of-semester event undergraduate senior theses presentations [Columbia]
MAP Meet-and-Greet on Zoom, during online prospective visit.

INFORMAL GET-TOGETHERS

Conversation on LGBTQ+ rights [University of Iowa]
Conversation on marriage [University of Iowa]
Finals week de-stress and study holiday party [University of Notre Dame]
Potluck for students and faculty [Ohio State University]
End-of-month coffee breaks [Western University]
Picnic [Western University]
Destress fest [Indiana University, Bloomington]
MAP drinks [Syracuse University]
Book swap [Berlin]
Pizza and networking [Berlin]
Giving Day fundraising planning [UCSC]
Annual membership meeting [UCSC]
Undergraduate-graduate mixer, including a trivia tournament with a book prize for the winning team [Boston University]
Welcome Back event [NYU]
Winter MAP drinks [NYU]
“Bring a Plato” picnic [University of Melbourne]
Zoom meet-and-greet
Picnic [Monash]
Beginning of year meet-and-greet [McGill]
MAP potluck
Monthly MAP Coffee Breaks
Philoso-Tea for faculty and graduate and undergraduate students to discuss experiences in academia [UBC]
Pizza party with philosophy games
MAP lunch for graduate students and faculty [Stirling-St Andrews]
Scholarship application workshop for undergraduates [CSULB]
Climate check-ins [USSC]
Prospective student drinks [NYU]

WORKSHOPS/TRAINING

Workshop on inclusive pedagogy for incoming graduate students [Western University]
Writing sample workshop [University of Oklahoma]
Bystander training [NYU]
Writing workshop [NYU]
Workshop on diversifying the canon [Temple University]
Workshop on starting an Ethics Bowl team [UCSB]
Reading and writing philosophy workshop [Columbia]
Workshop on philosophy outreach programs for graduate and undergraduate students interested in organizing these programs [UCSB]
Sherri Conklin (UCSB), Itzel Garcia (UC Irvine), Saraliza Anzaldua (UCLA)
Inclusive teaching workshop (diversifying syllabi, best strategies for making the classroom more inclusive to multilingual students, recognizing/interrupting microaggressions, making trans* and gender expansive classrooms, teaching sensitive topics and teaching through “hot” moments, navigating gender dynamics)
Writing workshop for undergraduates [NYU]
AAPT Teaching workshop for graduate students in the NYC area [NYU]
Virtual inclusive teaching workshop, with each session led by a pair of graduate students who researched topics including disrupting microaggressions, best practices in grading, etc.

READING GROUPS

Reading group on Kate Manne's "Down Girl" [Ohio State University]
Reading group on Dembroff's paper "Beyond Binary: Genderqueer as a critical gender kind" and W.E.B. Dubois' "Why I Won't Vote" [Indiana University Bloomington]
Reading group on Politics of Recognition [Vanderbilt University]
Reading group on Kate Manne's "Down Girl" [University of Miami]
Reading group on Myisha Cherry's "Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice" [University of Oklahoma]
Reading group on Luvell Anderson's "Racist Humor" [Brown University]
Reading group on “Knowledge and Reason in Pre-Columbian Cultures,” “Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation,” and “The University and the Undercommons” [Duquesne University]
Pedagogy Reading Group [University of California, Santa Barbara]
Classical Chinese Philosophy (Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy by van Norden and Ivanhoe, and Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy by Ivanhoe) [Monash]
Decolonizing Universalism by Serene Khader [Ohio State]
Unmuted by Myisha Cherry [Oklahoma]
Mozi and non-western philosophy [Columbia]
Moving Up Without Losing Your Way by Jennifer Morton
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria
Feminist reading group, focusing on love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology by Alison Jaggar and Ann Ferguson’s entry on Socialism in the Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy [Stirling-St Andrews]
Inclusive pedagogy reading group [UCSB]
Undergraduate philosophy reading group [UCSB]
Philosophy and the Public Sphere reading group, focusing on Desiree Valentine’s “Women in Philosophy: Cramblett, Race, Disability, and Liberatory Politics”; Jennifer Morton’s “Is Meritocracy Hurting Higher Education?”; and Emily Herring’s “Henri Bergson: The Philosophy Damned for his Female Fans”

FILM SCREENINGS

Screening of Jezebel by Numa Perrier [Indiana University Bloomington]
MAP on Screen series (three viewings of the US H.O.R committee hearings on reparations) [UCSB]

OTHER ITEMS

MAP-affiliated work being done on the climate in the department for trans* and non-binary students (CUNY)
Planning a film screening and discussion of a paper on gaslighting for the spring semester (University of Oklahoma)
Discussions at the department level and with the Diversity Officer on tracking/compensating grad student service better following the release of the MAP report (Ohio State)
Philosophy Board Game Session ( “Who Cares?” based on Professor Asha Bhandary’s "Arrow of Care Map") (University of Iowa)
Teach-in on "Hope in Hopeless Times" as part of Graduate Workers of Columbia strike. [Columbia]
Hosted 'Who Cares?' board game play-testing event: played a philosophical board game that illustrates a theory of care ethics due to Professor Asha Bhandary. [University of Iowa]
DIY Bystander Training Pt II and III (space for NYU graduate students in philosophy to discuss climate issues in department and how to be an active bystander) [NYU]