Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) will be hiring two organizers to help run MAP International. MAP is a collection of students in philosophy departments that aims to examine and address issues of minority participation in academic philosophy. It is currently comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide and continues to grow and expand.

The role of International Organizers is largely to facilitate the success of MAP chapters and oversee the development of the larger organization. Thus, responsibilities include: meeting regularly with the other International Organizers (roughly twice a month), making decisions regarding the growth of MAP regions and projects, coordinating with outside organizations (like the APA and funders), responding to chapter funding requests, updating the website and social media pages, advertising events, collating lists of chapter activities, touching base with chapter organizers, and more. 

Additionally, MAP International Organizers work on projects meant to set the agenda for important interventions on behalf of marginalized groups in philosophy (such as our project on service work in 2019-2020). In this capacity, Organizers have substantial freedom to propose and take up specific cause areas and are expected to be proactive. Some of the responsibilities associated with this dimension of the role include: collecting resources, running surveys, collecting input from MAP members, writing reports and blog posts, producing and distributing infographics and other social media materials, and hosting APA Group sessions (and sessions at other conferences). Organizers receive a modest honorarium for their work.

We especially encourage Black, Indigenous, and people of color to apply to these positions.

Criteria for applying:

• Must be a current graduate student
• Will be able to be an active organizer for two years 
• If you are entering your fourth year, you may still apply, but your statement should address your plans for the next two years, as MAP organizers must be current graduate students
  • Though the default term is a two-year term, organizers are appointed for a year at a time with the option to renew after review by the Board of Trustees and the (co-)Director(s).
• Must have previous organizing experience relevant to MAP, including but not limited to MAP chapter involvement Additional organizing experience (e.g. in non-profit and non-academic organizations, departmental service, union organizing, etc.) is a plus.

To apply, complete and submit this Google Form by July 31, 2020.

We will notify all applicants by August 10, 2020. Start date is approximately September 1, 2020. If you have any questions, please contact us at mapforthegap@gmail.com. 

The PPE Society, Marc Sanders Foundation, and Hi-Phi Nation are hosting a Zoom panel discussion on Protesting Police and Policing Protests. The panelists are Ekow N. Yankah, Michele Moody-Adams, Brandon del Pozo, and Jason Brennan. 

June 17, 6:00-7:00pm EDT 

Register at https://ppesociety.org/protesting-police-and-policing-protests

Environmental Philosophy Teaching Resources Project:
Call for Syllabi, Assignments, Class Activities, and other Pedagogical Resources


As part of the ISEE Mentoring Initiative, ISEE would like to renew and expand its online teaching resources.  We seek syllabi, assignments, community-based learning projects, and class activities related to environmental philosophy, environmental ethics, environmental justice, and cognate fields.  Our goal is to provide resources for stand-alone environmentally-focused classes, as well as for environmentally-related units in broader courses (e.g., a section on climate refugees in a political science class, a case study on the Standing Rock Sioux resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline in an Indigenous studies course, a discussion of environmental risk assessment in an epistemology class, etc.).


ISEE is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we specifically seek teaching resources that support and foreground engaged and inclusive pedagogies.


Some specific kinds of resources we seek include (but are not limited to):

• Introductory level (survey) syllabi for courses focused on environmental ethics, environmental justice, and environmental philosophy
• Special topics syllabi for a variety of courses, such as climate ethics, food ethics, animal ethics/animal studies, intergenerational ethics, environmental political philosophy, philosophy of ecology, etc.
• Graduate course syllabi related to environmental ethics, environmental justice, and environmental philosophy
• Environmentally-related units/elements for non-environmentally focused classes
• Writing assignments
• In-class exercises
• Community-based learning projects and other interactive projects
• Team-taught syllabi or collaborative teaching resources
• Writing workshop materials
  
  

Contributions will be used to develop a curated collection of materials that will be freely available on the ISEE website. An ISEE-convened committee will review and organize the materials before posting. 


Please submit teaching materials by April 30, 2020 via the following Google forms link: https://forms.gle/oSBuueUweBL5c6tGA
The submission form includes a request for a few keywords and a short description of each contribution (e.g., “This is a topically-organized syllabus for an introductory course in environmental ethics with a climate ethics/climate justice theme”; “This assignment asks students to link their lived experience to readings on attachments to place.”).  Please fill out a separate form for each submission.
 
Note: if you would like to submit materials and lack a Google account or don’t wish to create one, please send your materials, along with keywords, description, and your name, email, and affiliation, to mhourdequin@coloradocollege.edu, with ISEE Teaching Resources as the subject line.


Questions about the project can be directed to Simona Capisani, ISEE Mentoring Director (scapisan@uci.edu) or Marion Hourdequin, ISEE Vice-President (mhourdequin@coloradocollege.edu).

MAP presents
SETTING BOUNDARIES: PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL

Speaker
Sarah Gorman (Vanderbilt)

Panelists
Lisa Miracchi (Pennsylvania)
Mary Kate McGowan (Wellesley)
Elise Woodard (Michigan)
Robin Zheng (Yale-NUS)

Moderators
Carolina Flores (Rutgers)
Angela Sun (Michigan)

APA 2020 Central Division Meeting
Thursday, February 27, 9am-12pm

The 23rd Annual CUNY Graduate Student Philosophy Conference invites graduate students to submit their work engaging with philosophical topics and traditions that consider or bridge the analytic/continental divide. The analytic/continental division typically assumes contrasting notions of what philosophy ‘is’ and what it ought to be. The divide also describes the varying methodologies employed when we practice philosophy. Whether it refers to meta-philosophical commitments or strategies used, the divide can do exactly that – divide. When concerned with the nature of philosophy and how one ought to conceive of the practice the stakes can be high; when we ask, “What counts as philosophy?” we implicitly ask, “What doesn’t ‘count’ as philosophy?” This conference aims to explore issues that need to be explored by the philosophical community at large, especially when the legitimacy of certain practices are under scrutiny. The conference also aims to create a space where we can learn to ask better questions concerning the nature of our academic practices, the traditions we draw from, the methodologies we employ, and the topics we consider.
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We are particularly interested in papers from all areas of philosophy that:

• explore the meta-philosophical or sociological questions concerning the analytical/continental divide without exclusionary border-policing. Is such a divide legitimate? What has motivated this divide? What are the advantages and disadvantages of maintaining the divide? How can we bridge or dismantle the divide? Etc.
• broadly engage with the question of "what can philosophy be?" How can philosophy establish fewer borders and more bridges?
• engage with philosophers (i.e. Rorty, Badiou, Williams, etc.), philosophical topics (i.e. race, gender, coloniality, etc.), and/or traditions (i.e. critical race theory, feminist philosophy, queer theory, postcolonial/decolonial theory, etc.) that have always or currently do bridge the analytic/continental divide, again without exclusionary border-policing.
• ​explore the analytic/continental divide in an interdisciplinary manner drawing from sociology, critical psychology, gender studies, race studies, literature, history, the arts, etc.

The conference is committed to providing a platform for marginalized persons and topics in the discipline. In answering some of the questions presented we highly encourage papers regarding, among other topics: critical race theory, feminist philosophy, queer theory, trans philosophy, and disabilities studies. Speakers from marginalized groups in the discipline are strongly encouraged to submit. Any abstracts that aim to discredit already marginalized philosophers or philosophies are strongly discouraged.

We are pleased to invite abstracts sufficiently in the spirit of the project theme of no more than 350 words, excluding references.
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Abstracts should:

• Outline the paper’s principal argument(s).
• Give a good sense of the paper’s philosophical contribution(s).
• Be anonymized.​​

​The deadline for abstracts is January 25th, 2020. Anonymized abstracts should be e-mailed to 23rdcunygradconference@gmail.com. Please include with your submission a cover page that includes your name, affiliated institution, contact information, and title of paper.

Speakers who are accepted on the basis of their abstracts will have the option to submit their papers by an early deadline if they wish to have a commentator.

For more details, see the conference website.

MAP Presents
Distribution and Recognition of Service Work

Ariana Falbo (Brown University)
Sukaina Hirji (University of Pennsylvania)
C. Thi Nguyen (Utah Valley University)
Angela Sun (University of Michigan)

Moderated by Carolina Flores and Elise Woodard

APA Eastern Division Meeting
Thursday, January 10, 2020, 2:30pm-5:30pm

Facebook event page

MAP International will be discussing distribution and recognition of service work at the 2020 Eastern APA meeting! This follows on from the report we released earlier this academic year, covered in the Daily Nous. The session is on Thursday, January 10, 2:30pm-5:30pm.

We will present the results of that report and our policy recommendations, followed by discussion with four panelists -- Arianna Falbo (Brown), Sukaina Hirji (Penn), C. Thi Nguyen (Utah Valley), and Angela Sun (Michigan) -- and finally opportunity to develop concrete ideas for implementing good policies in your department. 

Come along for a philosophically engaging and practically valuable session! You can RSVP through our Facebook event!

T​exas Tech is hosting its 14th annual graduate conference. In honor of the inaugural year of the MAP chapter at Tech, we have decided that the conference will feature papers in the philosophy of race. Our project seeks to foster diversity in the profession by organizing a graduate conference on the philosophy of race at Texas Tech University. We are interested in promoting scholarly issues related but not limited to historical, normative, metaphysical, epistemic, and linguistic questions surrounding race in America. With the diversity reflected in the population of west Texas but not in the political landscape, we hope that this conference also raises the consciousness of the general public with regard to the significance of race for contemporary social issues. The event is a multi-day conference with a panel of eight graduate speakers and commentators, and a pubic talk & keynote address by Charles Mills (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, CUNY-The Graduate Center).

Keynote Speaker: Charles W. Mills (CUNY-The Graduate Center)

Summary: We are interested in promoting scholarship related but not limited to historical, normative, metaphysical, epistemic, and linguistic questions surrounding race in America. Submissions from current graduate students in any area related to the philosophy of race are welcome (Including papers about, e.g. ethnicity, immigration, etc.).

Submission Guidelines: Papers should be between 3,000-3,800 words in length. A 200-word abstract should precede the paper. All papers should be prepared for blind review. Include with each submission a separate document containing the presenter's name, institution, email, and paper title. Submissions may be in .PDF, .docx, or .doc format.

Submission Email: Submissions should be sent to jordan.botello@ttu.edu with subject heading "TTU Conference Submission."

Deadline: Papers must be submitted no later than February 21, 2020.

Notification of Acceptance: No later than March 13, 2020.

Accomodations and Travel: Invited participants will receive financial assistance to offset the cost of travel. Additionally, graduate students will host conference participants and several meals will be provided during the conference

More details can be found on the PhilEvents page: https://philevents.org/event/show/79266

MAP will host a Group Session at the Central APA with the theme "Setting Boundaries: Personal and Professional." Boundaries are rules we set for how others interact with us, and for how much of our time and energy different people and spheres of our lives take up. As such, they deserve explicit reflection so that they reflect our values and allow us to thrive. Unfortunately, they are liable to be hard to set and maintain in environments with the intense work culture of academic philosophy.

We are seeking paper abstracts and proposals for mini-workshops or advice sessions related to this theme. Proposals should include a workshop component, or be geared at generating discussion and reflection that leads to concrete steps that participants can take up. Each session should be around 45 minutes, all inclusive.
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Possible topics include:

• What are concrete steps that academic philosophers can take to maintain healthy boundaries between personal and professional life? What are challenges to successfully setting and enforcing boundaries, and what steps can we take to address them? 
• What do healthy boundaries look like in mentoring, teaching, and advising relationships? More broadly, how should faculty relate to students? How should graduate students relate to fellow graduate students?
• How can we become better equipped to recognize that our boundaries have been crossed? What is the best way to communicate that our boundaries have been crossed?
• What does a departmental culture that encourages healthy boundaries between personal and professional life look like? What are departmental best practices to support healthy boundaries between personal and professional lives, and between departmental members?
• What systemic factors contribute to members of marginalized groups in academic philosophy struggling to keep up healthy boundaries? How can we address such factors?
• In what ways does a poor culture around boundary-setting contribute to harassment, bullying, and a toxic departmental climate? What needs to change?
  
  

We particularly encourage submissions by members of under-represented groups in philosophy. We welcome submissions by people at all stages of their careers.

Abstracts and proposals should be between 500 and 1,000 words and should be sent as a PDF to mapforthegap@gmail.com with the subject line "Central APA Submission" by Jan 8, 2020. You will hear back from us by January 20. You can contact us at mapforthegap@gmail.com with any questions.

Further information: MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) is a collection of students in philosophy departments that aims to examine and address issues of minority participation in academic philosophy. Though primarily led by graduate students, MAP also relies on faculty support and encourages undergraduate participation. Currently, MAP has 140 chapters throughout the world, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the US, and the UK. The Central APA will be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL. Our session is scheduled for Thursday, Feb 27, 9am-12 pm.