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]

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"

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)

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]

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 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]

FILM SCREENINGS

Screening of Jezebel by Numa Perrier [Indiana University Bloomington]

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)