2013-2014

SPEAKERS

• Rachel McKinney (CUNY): “Extracted Speech and Subordination” [UCR]
• Sally Haslanger (MIT): implicit bias, stereotype threat, and micro-aggression in philosophy settings [Harvard]
• Nancy Bauer (Tufts) on climate in academic philosophy [Harvard]
• Sheila Heen (HLS): how to receive and make use of feedback from advisors [Harvard]
• Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie): "The Ethics and Politics of Cultural Preservation" [Toronto—St. George]
• Mariska Leunissen (UNC): "Aristotle’s Account of the Natural and Moral Imperfections of Women" [Princeton]
• Quayshawn Spencer (USF): "A Radical Solution to the Race Problem" [UPenn]
• Lawrence Blum (University of Massachusetts at Boston): "Races and Racialized Groups: Perspectives from the U.S., South Africa and Brazil" [Yale]
• Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan): "Slavery, Emancipation, and the Relation of Freedom to Equality" [Yale]
• Manyul Im (Fairfield University): "Spontaneity, Virtue, and Deliberation — What to think..." [Yale]
• Teresa Burke (Gallaudet University): "The Ethics of Signed Language Interpreting" [Yale]
• Howard McGary (Rutgers University): "Equality of Opportunity, Families, and Secondary Education" [Yale]
• Zee Perry (New York University): "Mereology, Measurement, and Quantities" [Yale]
• Tim McKay (UM Physics): Women in Philosophy and STEM: Data and Models Inform Our Response [University of Michigan]
• Kristie Dotson (Michigan State): What Are We Doing Here Anywhere? Considering Professional Philosophical Praxis [University of Michigan]
• Ann Garry (California State University): "Intersectionality's Relation to Philosophy" [USC]
• Esa Diaz-Leon (Manitoba): "Issues in Conceptual Ethics: The case of 'woman'" [USC]

PANELS

• Gurpreet Rattan (Philosophy), Marleen Rozemond (Philosophy), and Shelina Kassam (Sociology) on Quebec’s Proposed Charter of Values [Toronto—Mississauga]
• Jenny Saul (Sheffield), Gupreet Rattan (Toronto), Celia Byrne (Toronto) on issues of implicit bias in philosophy [Toronto—St. George]
• Panel discussion on standpoint theory, history of women in philosophy, value of role models for graduate students, whether students from minority backgrounds ought to be encouraged to enter academic philosophy [UPenn]
• Diversity panel discussion (facilitated) at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Society [FSU]
• Interdisciplinary Panel Series on Classroom Discussion: Session 1: Diversity and communication in the classroom; Session 2: Controversy in the classroom (here) [USC]

INFORMAL GET-TOGETHERS

• Graduate student and faculty coffee hour [Binghamton]
• Informal women's nights [Binghamton]
• Undergraduate, graduate, and faculty meet-up to discuss climate [Harvard]
• Weekly lunches [Stanford]
• Undergraduate tea [UPenn]

WORKSHOPS/TRAINING

• Workshop with university's counseling center for Active Bystander Training [Binghamton]
• Workshop on applying to graduate schools for undergraduates from underrepresented groups [Binghamton]
• Informational workshop for philosophy graduate students on sexual harassment with university's Title IX office (UCR)
• Department appoints senior graduate student as TA Mentor to provide training and feedback to TAs, including training on teaching to a diverse student body [UCR]
• Workshop on teaching methods and orientation modifications [Stanford]
• Workshop on data of composition of philosophy department and university; strategies for promoting inclusiveness and diversity in classroom [FSU]
• Co-sponsored event with Graduate Students in Science and Engineering (GWISE) on stereotype threat [Boston University]
• TAs discuss pedagogical tools for teaching in diverse classrooms [UCR, CUNY]

READING GROUPS

• Cornell: topics such as being a minority, social construction and personal identity, race as a biological category, implicit bias; papers authored by people who identify as minorities
• FSU: feminist philosophy, critical race theory
• Pittsburgh: Louise Antony, "Different Voices or Perfect Storm: Why are there so few women in philosophy?” 
• Princeton: NYT series on women in philosophy; "On Black Underrepresentation and Progress in the Profession"
• Stanford: informal reading group for undergraduate and graduate women 
• USC: connections between underrepresentation and philosophical methodology and pedagogy with (i) intuitions and underrepresentation and (ii) Katirna Hutchison's "Sages and Cranks: The Difficulty of Identifying First-Rate Philosophers"

OTHER ITEMS

• Introductory moral philosophy class integrates topics around oppression and privilege [UCR]
• Ninth Annual Philosophy Conference of the Society for Women’s Advancement in Philosophy [FSU, with SWAP]
• Creation of the Horacio Arlo-Costa Memorial Fellowship to promising graduate students from underrepresented groups [CMU]
• Creation of MAP component to Summer School in Formal Epistemology [CMU]
• Two faculty members appointed climate liaison officers [CMU] 
• Initiate anonymous grading among graduate teaching assistants [Princeton, CMU]
• Local mentorship program for undergraduates applying to philosophy graduate schools [Columbia]
• MAP Organizers present at PISKI and UCSD summer school