Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) will be hiring one organizer to help direct 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 132 chapters 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: conferencing regularly with other Organizers, making decisions on the growth of MAP regions and projects, coordinating with outside organizations (like the APA or funders), responding to chapter funding requests, updating the website and social media pages, collating lists of chapter activities, collecting resources, touching base with chapter organizers, and more. 

Criteria for applying:

• Must be a current graduate student
• Will be able to be an active organizer for a 2-year term 
• Must be entering 3rd year or below of a PhD program
• Must be based in North America 
• Must have been involved with MAP chapter and/or MAP-related outreach 
• Additional organizing experience (e.g. with non-profit organizations, departmental service responsibilities, etc.) is a plus ​
  • please highlight in CV or statement of interest and indicate your role, and
  • provide contact information of a reference with whom you've organized
    
    

To apply:
Submit a Statement of Interest, CV, and contact information (name and email) of a reference as a single PDF by August 8, 2019 to mapforthegap@gmail.com with the subject line ‘MAP Application.’ 

• Your statement of interest should be no longer 2 pages double-spaced. It should explain why you are interested in the the role of MAP International Organizer and why you would be a good fit for it. You should also detail past MAP or related experiences. 

We will notify all applicants by August 20, 2019. Start date is approximately September 1, 2019. If you have any questions, please contact us at mapforthegap@gmail.com. 

For more details, please visit https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/events/workshops/container/ws_inclusivity_phil_class/index.html

MAP will be hosting an APA Group Session on "Creating Inclusive Spaces" at the Pacific APA in Vancouver on April 19, 7-10PM. Details/schedule below! 

7-7:10 PM: Opening Remarks

7:10-7:45PM: Nora Berenstain (University of Tennessee-Knoxville),
"Calls for Civility as Silencing and Suppression"

7:45PM-8:20PM: Katie Creel (University of Pittsburgh HPS), 
"Demystifying Publishing Together"

8:20-8:25PM: Break

8:25-9PM: Savannah Pearlman (Indiana University),
"Creating Inclusive Spaces: Flipping the Logic Classroom"

9-9:35PM: Sam Sumpter (University of Washington),
"Best Practices for Sexual Harassment Prevention Training: Centering the Role of Organizing & Collective Action"

9:35-10PM: General Q&A/Discussion

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy is organising the sixth edition of the Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, taking place from 28th July to 3rd August 2019, and invites applications until 31st March 2019.

PROGRAM
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This year, we will have the following lecture streams:

1. "Formal epistemology", led by Anna-Maria Asunta Eder (University of Cologne)

2. "Barriers to Entailment", led by Gillian Russell (UNC Chapel Hill)

3. "Philosophy of Algorithms and Simulations", led by Lena Zuchowski (University of Bristol)

For more information about the program, please consult the summer school website at

 http://www.mathsummer.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html

If you have any further questions about the summer school, please contact the organising committee at

 mathsummer2019@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

APPLICATION
===============

The summer school is open to women with a keen interest in mathematical philosophy. Applicants should be students of philosophy (or philosophically minded logicians or scientists) at an advanced undergraduate level, in a master program, or at an early PhD level. To apply for participation, please see the instructions at

  http://www.mathsummer.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/call-for-application

You will need to provide a copy of your CV and a statement of purpose as part of the application. There will be an opportunity for some of the students at the summer school to present their own research; if you would be interested in doing so, please also provide an abstract (up to 500 words) together with your application.

The deadline for applications is 31st March 2019. Decisions will be made by 15th April 2019.

The participation fee is 200Euros. (Note that the participation fee does not cover accommodation expenses.) The language of all events will be English.

MAP invites you to join our group session "Creating Inclusive Spaces" at the Pacific APA 2019 in Vancouver, BC on April 19, 2019 from 7-10PM.

Speakers & Talk Titles: 

• Nora Berenstain, "Calls for Civility as Silencing and Suppression"
• Katie Creel, "Demystifying Publishing Together"
• Savannah Pearlman, "Creating Inclusive Spaces: Flipping the Logic Classroom"
• Sam Sumpter, "Best Practices for Sexual Harassment Prevention Training: Centering the Role of Organizing & Collective Action"

More details coming soon! 

MAP invites you to join our group session "Skill Building and Improving the Profession" at the Eastern APA 2019 in New York City on Jan 9, 7-10 PM at Sheraton Hotel G14F.

The provisory schedule is:
Lisa Miracchi (U Penn) "Wellness Advising in Difficult Spaces": 7:10—7:45
Darby Vickers (UC Irvine) "Writing for Philosophy Graduate Students": 7:45-8:20
Break: 8:20-8:25
Savannah Kincaid & Isaac Wilhelm (Rutgers) "Climate Surveying": 8:25—9:00
Mariana Beatriz Noe, Olivia Branscum, Qian Cao, & Yarran Hominh (Columbia) "Mutual Skill-Building through Undergraduate Writing Workshops": 9:00-9:35
Q&A for all: 9:35-10
Drinks after!

Please circulate widely!

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​What role can philosophy play in understanding and challenging injustice? What are the ways in which injustice forms in communities and social institutions? What sort of engagement is there between philosophy and major social institutions and social movements? What is the meaning of injustice in our current cultural, economic, social, and political climate? What are the practices used by activists, educators, and professionals in developing a community? The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) chapter at Temple University is hosting a graduate student conference on March 23, 2019 that will address theoretical and practical questions like these.

The conference will provide the opportunity for students to engage in philosophical research from all areas of philosophy, as well as its applications beyond the classroom. We welcome paper submissions of no more than 3,000 words, prepared for blind review, and suitable for a 20 minute presentation to a general philosophical audience. Authors must be current graduate students in philosophy. We especially welcome submissions from members of underrepresented populations within philosophy.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Robin Zheng, Yale-NUS College​
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2019
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• Please submit papers (in either Microsoft Word or PDF format) to mapattemple@gmail.com with "MAP Conference" in the subject line. Papers should be no more than 3,000 words, prepared for blind review, and suitable for a 20 minute presentation to a general philosophical audience
• In your email, please include the following details: (a) author’s name; (b) paper title; (c) institutional affiliation; (d) contact information; and (e) abstract of no more than 250 words.
• Authors must be current graduate students in philosophy. We especially welcome submissions from members of underrepresented populations within philosophy.
• Accepted speakers will be notified by February 15, 2019.

This conference is sponsored by the Temple University Department of Philosophy.

Questions can be directed to Meryl Lumba (meryl.lumba@temple.edu) or to Daniel Remer (daniel.remer@temple.com).

From now on (December 2018) we will post all job listings in their own dedicated page here. This should make finding information easier for job seekers.

We welcome submissions from graduate students for the Minorities and Philosophy Workshop to be held on April 27th, 2019 at Brown University. The keynote speakers are: Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University) and Lionel K. McPherson (Tufts University).

Submissions should take the form of an anonymized 4000-word papers accompanied by a 300-word abstract. Papers should be suitable for a 20-25 minute presentation. All submissions should be sent to brownmapchapter@gmail.com by February 3rd, 2019. We aim to send out notification of acceptance by the end of February. We strongly encourage submissions from individual who identify as members of underrepresented groups in philosophy.

Submissions should meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Engage in an area of philosophy that is traditionally underrepresented including, but not limited to: Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Gender, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Disability, LGBTQ Philosophy, Indigenous Philosophy, Latinx Philosophy, Asian Philosophy, African/Africana, African-American, and Caribbean Philosophy, and Women in the History of Philosophy.
• Be in the area of social philosophy broadly construed (including intersections with ethics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics). We especially encourage topics related to the goals of MAP, which are to: “examine and address issues of minority participation in academic philosophy.” Example topics include: implicit and explicit bias, stereotype threat, marginalization, solidarity, and activism.
• Engage with philosophers or methodologies that are underrepresented in English-speaking philosophy departments.

Housing with graduate students will be provided for speakers (if requested).

Philevents page: https://philevents.org/event/show/68122