2015-2016

SPEAKERS

Cailin O'Connor (University of California, Irvine) "Dynamics and Diversity in Epistemic Communities" [Carnegie Mellon]
Alison Wylie (University of Washington, Seattle) 2015 New Enlightenment Lecture [University of Edinburgh]
Jules Holroyd (Sheffield) Keynote at 2015 MAP@Leeds Conference [University of Leeds]
Ian Kidd (Durham University) Keynote at 2015 MAP@Leeds Conference [University of Leeds]
Jennifer Saul (Sheffield) and Katharine Jenkins (Cambridge) Keynote at 2015 MAP@Leeds Conference [University of Leeds]
Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia) Life of a Paper: the history and motivations behind his paper “Race, Multiculturalism, and Democracy” [Columbia]
Meena Krishnamurthy (Michigan) on international coercion [Princeton]
Kate Manne (Cornell) on misogyny [Princeton]
Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh) on her experiences as a minority in philosophy [University of Pittsburgh]
Monica Mookherjee (University of Keele) 1st Annual MAP Lecture “Addressing religious inequalities through theories of recognition” [Sheffield]
Maegan Fairchild (USC); SoCal Intercollegiate Speaker Exchange [UCSB]
Olufemi Taiwo (UCLA); SoCal Intercollegiate Speaker Exchange [UCSB]
Sherri Lynn Conklin (UCSB); SoCal Intercollegiate Speaker Exchange [UCSB]
Rebekah Johnston (Wilfrid Laurier University); colloquium talk on feminist/queer theory with respect to relational autonomy and oppressive social contexts [UPenn]
Rachel McKinney (Harvard) on discursive antagonism [Harvard]
Kate Manne (Cornell) on misogyny [Harvard]

PANELS AND ROUNDTABLES

“What is #BlackLivesMatter?" A university-wide discussion panel [SUNY Buffalo]
Round table with Alison Wylie (University of Washington, Seattle), students and members of staff on some of the problems that underrepresented groups in the academia have to face as well as which concrete solutions we should seek [University of Edinburgh]
"Gender, Teaching, and Philosophy" panel discussion session at graduate teaching seminar [Duquesne]
Panel discussion of issues and reflections concerning minorities in philosophy with three faculty: Roberta Millstein, Tina Rulli, and Zoe Drayson [University of California, Davis]
Dinner and discussion with Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Tech) as part of the “Conversations with…” series [University of Pittsburgh]
Discussion of Robin Zheng’s (University of Utah) paper on racialized sexual preferences with Carnegie Mellon University [University of Pittsburgh]
Roundtable on “What do you do with a Philosophy Degree?” [University of Albany]

INFORMAL GET-TOGETHERS

Undergraduate meet and greet with faculty and graduate students [University of Washington, Seattle]
Women in Philosophy sessions: informal chat sessions with external speakers about their experiences as women in philosophy [University of Bristol]
End of semester afternoon tea for staff, graduate students and undergraduates [University of Sydney]
New student meet and greet [King’s College London]
Undergraduate philosophy club question and answer session with Sally Haslanger (MIT) [Notre Dame]
Monthly discussion group with topics ranging from: Statue-Felling and the Blame Game; Is there such a thing as Non-Western Philosophy?; Should Feminists in Rich Countries Shift their focus to International Development?; Are Conservatives a Minority? [Notre Dame]
Undergraduate-graduate student lunch [Columbia]
"Value of Philosophy" pizza social at which M.A.P. members led a "poster session" where they talked about various career paths after philosophy [University at Albany, SUNY]
Undergraduate-graduate tea [UPenn]
Weekly "brown bag lunches" where short articles are discussed [Duquesne]
‘Meet and greet’ [Western University]
Spring picnic for faculty, current graduate students, newly admitted graduate students, and the families of all those involved [Florida State]
End of year social for postgraduates and undergraduates [University of St. Andrews]
Outreach event for community college philosophy majors [UCHRI Working Group]
Pizza social to discuss “The Quiet Racism of Instagram” [University of Albany]
Informal event on racialized sexual preferences [University of Albany]
Beginning of year picnic for incoming graduate students of Harvard and MIT [Harvard]

WORKSHOPS/TRAINING

Pedagogy workshop [Binghamton University]
Teaching statement workshop [Binghamton University]
Inclusive Syllabi Construction [SUNY Buffalo]
AAPT Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop [Western]
Department teaching workshop on facilitating discussions (particularly discussion/recitation sections) and implicit bias and techniques that help to counteract the impact of implicit bias in discussions [Columbia]
Department teaching workshop on teaching students how to write philosophy papers and providing feedback on written assignments with a focus on how feedback can marginalize non-native English speakers & first generation students, and on techniques for counteracting this [Columbia]
Workshop to assist undergraduates with applying to graduate school [Columbia]
Workshop for TAs on the challenges of being a person in a position of authority [Dalhousie University]
SoCal Regional MAP Pedagogy and Inclusion Workshop [UCLA]
Workshop on comparative logic with Kisor Chakrabharti (Davis and Elkins College) [UPenn]
Interdepartmental seminar on comparative philosophy with the Philosophy Department and Department of South Asia Studies [UPenn]
Compass undergraduate philosophy conference (event link here) [Princeton]
One-day teaching workshop called “Diversifying the Canon” with Christia Mercer, Luvell Anderson, Verena Erlenbusch, and Kate Manne [Princeton]
Diversity Teaching workshop for graduate students on teaching philosophies of race and other important diversity-related topics [Georgetown]
"Diversifying Syllabi" workshop (website here) where we read philosophical articles published by diverse authors and discuss ways to incorporate these readings into our syllabi [Georgetown]
Pedagogical workshops at UCLA and UCSD [UCHRI Working Group]
SoCal MAP Regional Workshop [UCHRI Working Group]
Workshop on teaching students with mental health issues [University of Washington, Seattle]
Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group’s Spring Workshop on objectification of women [University of Edinburgh]
Glasgow Minorities and Philosophy Workshop 2016 featuring Tom Dougherty (Cambridge) and Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Nottingham), talking about the underrepresentation of women in philosophy [Glasgow]

READING GROUPS

SUNY Buffalo: Ecofeminism reading group
Western University: Race and Gender reading group led by Carolyn McLeod (Western)
Western University: "Indigeneity, Colonialism, and Sovereignty" a reading group on indigeneity and rejecting colonial politics
Western University: race and gender with guest speaker Charlotte Witt (New Hampshire)
Boston University: Simone de Beauvoir readings group
University of Washington, Seattle: feminist philosophy reading group
University of Bristol: women in philosophy reading group
Florida State University: nontraditional philosophy reading group
King’s College London: reading group
University of Leeds: Charles Mill's "The Racial Contract"
University of Leeds: philosophy of disability; Jeff McMahan’s “Causing Disabled People to Exist and Causing People to be Disabled” and Elizabeth Barnes’s “Disability, Minority, and Difference”
University of Leeds: feminist philosophy; Rae Langton’s “Sexual Solipsism” with Q&A
University of Leeds: discussion with Paul Taylor on chapters from his book “Black is Beautiful”
Cornell University: reading group on selections from Wretched of the Earth and American Indian Anthology of Philosophy
UPenn: classical Chinese philosophy reading group; reading group on race and philosophy
University of St. Andrews: feminist philosophy reading group
UC Santa Barbara: philosophy & inclusive pedagogy reading group; philosophy and mental health reading group
University of Sheffield: reading group on philosophy of race; feminist reading group
University of South Florida: multiple reading groups: Lewis Gordon, Females in Early Modern Philosophy, Mariana Ortega, Dilthey and Gadamer, Dreyfus and Heidegger, and Linda Alcoff
Yale: two reading sessions: work of Tommie Shelby and Sally Haslanger
Duquesne University: Weekly reading group including: Lee Edelman, “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive”; Sally Haslanger, 'Ontology and Social Construction'; Heidi Nast, 'Mapping the “Unconscious”: Racism and the Oedipal Family'; Denis Kandiyoti, 'Identity and its Discontents: Women and the Nation'; Audre Lorde, 'Age, Race, Class and Sex'; Edward Said, 'Permission to Narrate'; Masao Miyoshi, 'A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation State'

OTHER ITEMS

Held a screening and discussion of “Crash” [SUNY Buffalo]
Held a screening and discussion of “A Day without a Mexican” [SUNY Buffalo]
Organized a graduate-faculty mentoring program [Western]
Organized a undergraduate-graduate mentoring program [Western]
Hosted a documentary screening night of “Frauen Fragmente” (link to event here) [University of Bristol]
Hosted the MAP @ Bristol conference [University of Bristol]
Created and supported the Postgraduate Writing Centre for Non-native English Speakers [University of Sydney]
Departmental talk with Q&A on gender gap, the importance of inclusion, curriculum reform, linguistic injustice, and mentoring [University of Sydney]
Met with the organiser of the Visiting Speaker Seminar in the Philosophy Department to encourage them to have more minorities in the official visiting speaker seminar. [University of Edinburgh]
Held regular tea and coffee discussion events with visiting female philosophers ("Piggyback Sessions") [University of Edinburgh]
Organized a second Women and Minorities in Philosophy Conference [University of Edinburgh]
Developed the Diversity Reading List, collecting high quality texts in philosophy from authors in under-represented groups [University of Edinburgh]
Hosted the 1st Annual MAP@Leeds Conference [University of Leeds]
Funded Leeds undergraduate and postgraduate students to help with the costs of attending MAP related conferences and workshops at other institutions in the UK [University of Leeds]
Compiled statistical research on the diversity of all graduate philosophy programs in the state of Florida [University of South Florida]
Members presented at USF's Diversity Summit [University of South Florida]
Organized a Teaching Outreach group aimed at finding more teaching opportunities for our graduate students in the university and local community [USC]
Participated in SoCal MAP Intercollegiate Speaker Exchange Pilot Program [USC; UCSB]
Participated in UCHRI Multi-Campus Graduate Working Group in Philosophy and Inclusive Pedagogy [UCSB; UCI]
Organized a syllabus diversification campaign to persuade the department to make specific changes to its introductory classes and undergraduate requirements [UCLA]
Hosted MAP Conference: Non-Western Philosophy (link to event here) [UPenn]
Continued to support a mentorship program [University of St. Andrews]
Completed a project with the department to increase gender representation in first and second year reading lists [University of St. Andrews]
Held a screening of “Selma” followed by a discussion [UC Davis]
Hosted the Great Plains Undergraduate Philosophy Conference [Kansas]
Held a screening and discussion of "Concerning Violence," a documentary based on Fanon's essay from "Wretched of the Earth [Georgetown]
Hosted monthly General Meetings, coordinated with our Women in Philosophy group, for students concerned with matters of inclusion and diversity in the discipline [Columbia]
Assisted in organizing the first Latinx Philosophers’ Conference [Columbia]
Trips to NYC-area philosophy events, including the Diversifying the Canon workshop at Princeton [Columbia]
Held a screening of “Color of Fear” [Duquesne University]
Organized a day-long conference on campus featuring speakers from Colorado, Colorado State, and SFSU/Sacramento State [Stanford University]
Encouraged conference organizers to make events more accessible by funding childcare, including accessibility information, making provisions for less mobile people and advertising to undergraduates [Oxford]
Worked with graduate teachers to assemble a pool of readings from under-represented groups in philosophy [Oxford]
Made provisions for students to attend lectures and courses in other departments which include philosophy from other traditions as part of their curriculum [Oxford]