2014-2015

SPEAKERS

Maren Behrensen (Linköping University) “Sick, Tired, and Still Fighting: The Invisible Margins of Academic Philosophy” [Boston University]
Carolyn Dicey-Jennings (UC Merced) “An Empirical Look at Gender and Research Specialization” [Boston University]
Myisha Cherry (UIC) "Black Rage and the Anger Police." [Harvard]
Ken Winkler (Yale) "The Epistemology of the Loving Intellect: An Introduction to Murdoch" [Yale]
Megan Laverty (Columbia) "A Continuous Fabric of Being': Iris Murdoch, Concepts and Morality" [Yale]
Justin Broackes (Brown) “Commentary on Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good” [Yale]
Julianne Chung (Yale) "Working with Asian Texts" [Yale]
Jonathan Holloway (Yale) "Curating Absence: Museums and Public History in the Black Atlantic" [Yale]
Kristie Dotson (Michigan State) "Rejecting Fundamentality: Prolegomena to Black Feminist Philosophy" [Yale]
Christia Mercer (Columbia) "Seventeenth-Century Universal Sympathy: Stoicism, Platonism, Leibniz, and Conway" [Yale]
Otavio Bueno (University of Miami) "Jose Saramago and the Nature of Fiction" [UMASS Dartmouth]
Derrick Darby (University of Michigan) "What's Wrong With Racial & Other Social Injustices?" [University of Michigan]
Anja Jauerning (NYU); discussion of the experiences of underrepresented groups in philosophy [Pittsburgh]
Olufemi Taiwo (Cornell, Africana Studies); discussion of work in progress on Communalism in Africana Philosophy [Cornell]
Sabina Fatima (SIU Edwardsville); "Indignation Without Reflection : A Conversation with Saba Fatima" [CUNY Brooklyn College]
Nancy Bauer (Tufts); what counts as progress in philosophy and what that has to do with ameliorating gender and race imbalances in the discipline [CUNY GC]
Rae Langton (Cambridge), 2014 New Enlightenment Lecture; "Authority and Hate Speech" [University of Edinburgh]
Hanti Lin (UC Davis); discussion of his experiences coming into Anglo-American philosophy from a non Anglo-American background [University of Bristol]
Richard Pettigrew and Havi Carel (Bristol): "Implicit bias and representation of women and minorities in academia" [University of Bristol]
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton), "You have to be a genius to succeed!": Why some academic disciplines have large gender gaps” [Princeton]
John Corvino (Wayne State University), “"What Marriage Can Be” [Princeton]
Teresa Burke (Gallaudet University) “Developing feminist deaf bioethics” [Princeton]
Lucien Monson (University of South Florida), USF's 2015 Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: Delimiting Limits; "The Limits of Tolerance: Zizek, Bullying, and Abject Queerness" [University of South Florida]

PANELS AND ROUNDTABLES

Minorities and Philosophy: A Panel Discussion (here) [King’s College London (co-hosted with KCL Philosophy Society)]
Applying to Grad School Panel - Q&A session w/ undergrads interested in applying to Philosophy PhD programs [UCSB]
Panel discussion with faculty on professional development [Harvard]
Gregory Pappas (Texas A&M), Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan) and Derrick Darby (University of Michigan) on "What's Wrong With Racial & Other Social Injustices?" [University of Michigan]
Symposium on Implicit Bias with keynote address by Michael Brownstein (CUNY) [SUNY Albany]
Discussion of university resources for filing sexual harassment/assault claims with Liz Karns (Cornell, ILR Department) [Cornell]
Discussion on The Racial Contract with Charles W Mills [University of Leeds]
Discussion on accommodating diversity in the department with Vanessa Wills (Princeton) and Vanessa Morton (Princeton) [Princeton]
Round table discussions (fall and spring) of the process of applying to graduate school, with a focus on the issues facing minority applicants [CUNY GC]
Roundtable discussion on "Philosophy and Diversity" with New Enlightenment Lecturer Rae Langton (Cambridge), Emily Brady (Edinburgh), Elinor Mason (Edinburgh), Pablo Schyfter (Edinburgh), Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh) and Jie Gao (Edinburgh) [University of Edinburgh]
Round table discussion on 'Being a Woman Scholar' [Duquesne]
Job market panel and lunch with Chike Jeffers, Katy Fulfer, Meena Krishnamurthy, Gurpreet Rattan (Western) [Western University]

INFORMAL GET-TOGETHERS

Faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate student lunch [Pittsburgh]
Female graduate student brunch with alum, Holly Andersen (Simon Fraser University) [Pittsburgh]
Undergraduate "meet and greets" [King’s College London]
Undergraduate tea [UPenn]
Introductory event with postgraduates and staff [University of Sydney]
Women in Philosophy event for undergraduates [University of Sydney]
Ice Cream Social [UCLA]
“Meet and greet” for graduate students, undergraduate students and faculty [Western University]
Graduate student year end social [Western University]
Mentoring open house (with undergrads and graduates) [UCLA]
MAP mentor/mentee meetup [UCLA]

WORKSHOPS/TRAINING

Colloquium on Diversity & Demographic Patterns in Philosophy [Boston University]
Workshop on undergraduate motivation taught by philosophy PhD student Patrick Ryan (UCR) [UCSB]
Two-day bilingual workshop of philosophy in Spanish [Harvard]
Workshops on implicit bias with Ian Kidd and Helen Morley [University of Leeds]
Workshop on gender with Heather Logue and Nicole Hall [University of Leeds]
Special Workshop: Logical Pluralism led by Otavio Bueno (University of Miami) [UMASS Dartmouth]
Pedagogy workshop by Monique Whitaker (CUNY) on teaching strategies for retaining minority students in philosophy [CUNY GC]
Pedagogy workshop on diversifying the syllabus and strategies for creating an inclusive classroom [CUNY GC]
Workshop on underrepresentation and ignorance featuring Janet Kourany (Notre Dame), Elinor Mason (Philosophy, Edinburgh), Pablo Schyfter (STIS, Edinburgh) and Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff University) (here) [University of Edinburgh]

READING GROUPS

Georgetown: Robin DiAngelo, "White Fragility."
UPenn: topics ranging from disability, women in the history of philosophy, intersectionality, and "global" philosophy
UCSB: SoCal MAP Graduate Working Group in Philosophy & Inclusive Pedagogy
FSU: reading group based on works of invited colloquium speakers
University of Sheffield: undergraduate and postgraduate student reading group on Critical Philosophy of Race
CUNY Brooklyn College: Ta-Neishi Coates, “A Case for Reparations”
Princeton: reading group for undergraduate female students, culminating in year-end dinner with invited faculty.
Bristol: bi-weekly women in philosophy reading group
Western University: Weekly reading group on race and ethnicity centered around the book: “Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity” edited by J. J. E. Gracia

OTHER ITEMS

Hosted London MAP Chapters discussion evening [King’s College London]
Hosted conference on Identity and Underrepresentation [King’s College London]
Held a screening and discussion of “Fruitvale Station” (here) [Georgetown]
Held a screening and discussion of "The House I Live In" [Georgetown]
Ordered several anthologies of MAP related philosophical essays that are kept in a common lounge for students to easily check out [Cornell]
Held a conference on non-western philosophy [UPenn]
Implemented anonymous grading [UCSB]
Held a screening of “Iris” [Yale]
Held 10th Annual Society for Women's Advancement in Philosophy Graduate Student Conference with keynote address from Charles W. Mills (Northwestern) [FSU]
Held meetings with the philosophy department's Equality and Diversity Committee; established annual lecture [University of Sheffield]
Established conference and workshop travel fund for undergraduate and postgraduate students [University of Leeds]
Began a mentorship scheme pairing undergrads with PhDs, targeted at underrepresented groups [St. Andrews]
Launched a Postgraduate Writing Center for non-native English speakers [University of Sydney]
Formed Undergraduate Mentorship Program (with kick-off event for graduate mentor and undergraduate mentee participants) [UCLA]
Met with Ian Kidd (Durham) and members of Gender Committee to discuss implementing BPA Good Practice Scheme [University of Edinburgh]
Held regular tea and coffee discussion events with visiting female philosophers ("Piggyback Sessions") [University of Edinburgh]
Supported Edinburgh Undergraduate Women in Philosophy Conference [University of Edinburgh]
Hosted a brown bag lunch [Duquesne]
Hosted a conference: The 2015 Duquesne Women in Philosophy (DWiP) Conference on ‘Violence and Embodiment' (Keynote: Dr. Ann Murphy, University of New Mexico) [Duquesne]
SoCal MAP Graduate Working Group in Philosophy & Inclusive Pedagogy [UCSB, USC, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Irvine]
Created channels for discussion with faculty on improving and maintaining positive departmental climate [Kansas]
Hosted 3 meetings on exam and essay advice [Manchester]