2019-2020

Speakers
  • Prof. Connie Snyder-Mick (Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns) “Teaching for Inclusion” [University of Notre Dame]
  • Luvell Anderson, (Syracuse) "Laughing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Comedic Imagination" [CUNY Graduate Center and CUNY GC Dept. of Philosophy]
  • Vanessa Wills (George Washington University) “Lessons from black woman marxists on race, gender, and class” [MAP Berlin]
  • Jose Medina (Northwestern University) "Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence" [UCSC]
  • Rima Basu (Claremont McKenna College) "Indecent Philosophy: Mapping The Moral Terrain of Philosophical Inquiry" [NYU]
  • Paul-Mikhail Podosky (University of Melbourne) “The Ethics of Sexual Attraction” [Melbourne]
  • Knox Peden (University of Melbourne) “Postmodernism, Knowledge and Power” [Melbourne]
  • Marilyn Stendera (University of Melbourne) “Taking on Traditions: Analytic and Continental” [Melbourne]
  • Graham Priest (CUNY) “'Buddhist Ethics and Marxism” [Melbourne]
  • Myisha Cherry (University California Riverside) "Anger Management: An Alternative View" [Brown]
  • Nancy Bauer (Tufts University) "#MeToo: Epistemic Injustice and the Sexual Harassment Tipping Point" [Brown]
  • Rima Basu (Claremont McKenna College), "Indecent Philosophy: Mapping The Moral Terrain of Philosophical Inquiry" [NYU]
  • Jose Medina (Northwestern University), “Imagining Otherwise Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence” [UCSC]
  • Augustine Obi (Australian Catholic University), “Heidegger’s Mitsein in Conversation with the Sub-Saharan African Concept of Ubuntu” [Monash]
  • Nirmalangshu Mukherjii (University of Delhi), “ On Marx” [Monash]
  • Avery Archer (George Washington Univ.), “Inquiry as Epistemic Improvement” [Ohio State]
  • Robin Dembroff (Yale), "Patriarchy: Putting 'Real Men' on Top" [McGill]
  • Thomas Barrett (UCSB), “Geometry and Dispensability” [UCSB]
  • The Future of Our Dinner Plates: Food and Ethics, w/ a variety of speakers [CSULB] 
  • Conferences and Paper Workshops
  • Writing Sample Workshop [University of Oklahoma]

Discussions, Conferences, and Panels
  • Panel on “Why I chose to stay in Philosophy?” for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students. [Stirling-St Andrews]
  • Kim Kopec, Emilia Wilson, Sophia Rommel, and Dr Derek Ball.
  • Open round table discussion on Workplace Discrimination and the Public Responsibility of Academics [UC - Santa Barbara]
  • Rick Lamb, Arnel Blake Batoon, Varun (UC Santa Barbara)
  • Pre-Speaker Discussion for undergraduate and graduate students on Elizabeth Brake's (Arizona State University) public lecture, "Minimizing Marriage: The State's Role in Caring Relationships." 
  • Pre-Speaker Discussion on LGBTQ+ rights for undergraduate and graduate students before Professor John Corvino's (Wayne State University) public lecture, "Conversation Stoppers in the Culture Wars."
  • "Graduate School Admissions Info Night" Panel with faculty and graduate students [UBC]
  • End-of-semester event undergraduate senior theses presentations [Columbia]
  • MAP Meet-and-Greet on Zoom, during online prospective visit. 
  • Masterclass paper 'Real Talk on the Metaphysics of Gender' [University of Melbourne]
  • MAP Graduate Conference [Brown University]
    • Keynote Speakers: Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University) "“Dignity and Disposability” and Lionel McPherson (Tufts University) “Laissez-faire ‘Mixed’ Race” 
  • Discussion on "Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Diversity and Philosophy" [Western University]
    • Meena Krishnamurthy (Queens University), Carolyn McLeod (Western University) and Helen Fielding (Western University)
  • Workshop and Panel on “WTF Do I Do Now? A Realistic Grad School Timeline" [CUNY]
  • Serene Khader, Hagop Sarkissian, and Zoey Lavallee (CUNY)
  • Discussion on "Work Place Discrimination and the Public Responsibilities of Academics" [UCSB]

Informal Get-Togethers
  • Conversation on LGBTQ+ rights [University of Iowa]
  • Conversation on marriage [University of Iowa]
  • Finals week de-stress and study holiday party [University of Notre Dame]
  • Potluck for students and faculty [Ohio State University]
  • End-of-month coffee breaks [Western University]
  • Picnic [Western University]
  • Destress fest [Indiana University, Bloomington]
  • MAP drinks [Syracuse University]
  • Book swap [Berlin]
  • Pizza and networking [Berlin]
  • Giving Day fundraising planning [UCSC]
  • Annual membership meeting [UCSC]
  • Undergraduate-graduate mixer, including a trivia tournament with a book prize for the winning team [Boston University]
  • Welcome Back event [NYU]
  • Winter MAP drinks [NYU]
  • “Bring a Plato” picnic [University of Melbourne]
  • Zoom meet-and-greet
  • Picnic [Monash]
  • Beginning of year meet-and-greet [McGill]
  • MAP potluck
  • Monthly MAP Coffee Breaks
  • Philoso-Tea for faculty and graduate and undergraduate students to discuss experiences in academia [UBC]
  • Pizza party with philosophy games 
  • MAP lunch for graduate students and faculty [Stirling-St Andrews]
  • Scholarship application workshop for undergraduates [CSULB]
  • Climate check-ins [USSC]
  • Prospective student drinks [NYU]

Workshops/Training
  • Workshop on inclusive pedagogy for incoming graduate students [Western University]
  • Writing sample workshop [University of Oklahoma]
  • Bystander training [NYU]
  • Writing workshop [NYU]
  • Workshop on diversifying the canon [Temple University]
  • Workshop on starting an Ethics Bowl team [UCSB]
  • Reading and writing philosophy workshop [Columbia]
  • Workshop on philosophy outreach programs for graduate and undergraduate students interested in organizing these programs [UCSB]
  • Sherri Conklin (UCSB), Itzel Garcia (UC Irvine), Saraliza Anzaldua (UCLA)
  • Inclusive teaching workshop (diversifying syllabi, best strategies for making the classroom more inclusive to multilingual students, recognizing/interrupting microaggressions, making trans* and gender expansive classrooms, teaching sensitive topics and teaching through “hot” moments, navigating gender dynamics) 
  • Writing workshop for undergraduates [NYU]
  • AAPT Teaching workshop for graduate students in the NYC area [NYU]
  • Virtual inclusive teaching workshop, with each session led by a pair of graduate students who researched topics including disrupting microaggressions, best practices in grading, etc. 

Reading Groups 
  • Reading group on Kate Manne's "Down Girl" [Ohio State University]
  • Reading group on Dembroff's paper "Beyond Binary: Genderqueer as a critical gender kind" and W.E.B. Dubois' "Why I Won't Vote" [Indiana University Bloomington]
  • Reading group on Politics of Recognition [Vanderbilt University]
  • Reading group on Kate Manne's "Down Girl" [University of Miami]
  • Reading group on Myisha Cherry's "Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice" [University of Oklahoma]
  • Reading group on Luvell Anderson's "Racist Humor" [Brown University]
  • Reading group on “Knowledge and Reason in Pre-Columbian Cultures,” “Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation,” and “The University and the Undercommons” [Duquesne University]
  • Pedagogy Reading Group [University of California, Santa Barbara]
  • Classical Chinese Philosophy (Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy by van Norden and Ivanhoe, and Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy by Ivanhoe) [Monash]
  • Decolonizing Universalism by Serene Khader [Ohio State]
  • Unmuted by Myisha Cherry [Oklahoma]
  • Mozi and non-western philosophy [Columbia]
  • Moving Up Without Losing Your Way by Jennifer Morton
  • MAP reading group focused on works by different minority philosophers 
  • Philosophy of race reading group
  • The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria
  • Feminist reading group, focusing on Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology by Alison Jaggar and Ann Ferguson’s entry on Socialism in the Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy [Stirling-St Andrews]
  • Inclusive pedagogy reading group [UCSB]
  • Undergraduate philosophy reading group [UCSB]
  • Philosophy and the Public Sphere reading group, focusing on Desiree Valentine’s “Women in Philosophy: Cramblett, Race, Disability, and Liberatory Politics”; Jennifer Morton’s “Is Meritocracy Hurting Higher Education?”; and Emily Herring’s “Henri Bergson: The Philosophy Damned for his Female Fans”

Film Screenings
  • MAP on Screen series (three viewings of the US H.O.R committee hearings on reparations) [UCSB]
  • Other Items
  • Teach-in on "Hope in Hopeless Times" as part of Graduate Workers of Columbia strike. [Columbia]
  • Hosted 'Who Cares?' board game play-testing event: played a philosophical board game that illustrates a theory of care ethics due to  Professor Asha Bhandary. [University of Iowa]
  • DIY Bystander Training Pt II and III (space for NYU graduate students in philosophy to discuss climate issues in department and how to be an active bystander) [NYU]
  • Screening of Jezebel by Numa Perrier [Indiana University Bloomington]

Other
  • ​MAP-affiliated work being done on the climate in the department for trans* and non-binary students [CUNY]
  • Planning a film screening and discussion of a paper on gaslighting for the spring semester [University of Oklahoma]
  • Discussions at the department level and with the Diversity Officer on tracking/compensating grad student service better following the release of the MAP report [Ohio State]
  • Philosophy Board Game Session (“Who Cares?” based on Professor Asha Bhandary’s "Arrow of Care Map") [University of Iowa]
MAP is generously supported by the Marc Sanders Foundation and the Philosophy of Science Association.
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