If any of you are interested in philosophy of race, the California Roundtable for Philosophy of Race is holding its 10th anniversary meeting at DePaul this year. The program is below and at www.caroundtable.webs.com.
California Roundtable on Philosophy & Race
October 10th-12th, 2013
Chicago, Illinois
Thursday October 10th
2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: Coffee/Welcome
Session I: 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Moderator: Lisa McLeod, Guilford College
3:00 p.m.: Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia
“Atmospheric Pressures: On Race and Affect”
4:00 p.m.: Stephanie Rivera-Berruz, University of Buffalo
“The Gaze Returned: Boomerang Perception Thrown Through Racial Realism”
5:00-5:30 p.m.: Break
5:30-6:00 p.m.: Introductory Remarks
Reception
Friday October 11th
9:00-9:30 a.m.: Coffee/Light Breakfast
Session II: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Moderator: Ernesto Rosen Velasquez, University of Dayton
9:30 am: Sybol Cook Anderson, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
“The Imperative of Post-Racialism: Ending the Racial Paradigm”
10:30 am: Alia Al-Saji, McGill University
“A Phenomenology of Hesitation: Interrupting Racializing Habits of Perception”
11:30 a.m.: Sophie Guérard de Latour, EHSS, Paris
“Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism, Allies or Enemies? Assessing the ‘Strategy of Des-ethnicization’ in Critical Republicanism”
Lunch: 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.
Session III: 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Moderator: Janine Jones, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
2:00 p.m.: Shannon Sullivan, Pennsylvania State University
“The Hearts and Guts of White People: Ignorance and the Physiology of White Racism”
3:00 p.m.: Andrew Pierce, Sacred Heart University
“The Myth of the White Minority”
Break: 4:00-4:30 p.m.
Keynote: 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Lucius Outlaw, Vanderbilt University
Moderator: Darrell Moore, DePaul University
Keynote Reception: 6:00-7:30 pm
Saturday, October 12th:
9:30-10:30 a.m.: Coffee/Light Breakfast
Session IV: 10:00 a.m.-12 p.m.
Moderator: Lawrence Blum, University of Massachusetts, Boston
10:00 a.m.: Grant Silva, Marquette University
“The Colonial and Racial Dimensions of Immigration: Why No One Has a Problem With Legal Immigration”
11:00 a.m.: Eddy Souffrant, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
“The Challenge of Universal Freedom: Douglass in Haiti”
Lunch: Noon-1:30 p.m.
Session V: 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Moderator: Michael Monahan, Marquette University
1:30 p.m. Megan Mitchell, UNC Chapel Hill
”‘Everything’s a Little Bit Racist:’ An Account of Implicit Racial Bias as Institutional Racism”
2:30 p.m.: Joseph Smith, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, “The Niggarization of Black Bodies”
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45 p.m.: Kristin McCartney, Oakton Community College, “This Bridge…: On Reading Lesbian Contexts as Philosophers of Race”
Break: 4:45-5:00 p.m.
Session VI: 5:00-6:30 p.m., Roundtable on the Roundtable
Closing Reception: 6:30-7:30 p.m.
The Organizers of the CRPR
Darrell Moore, Depaul University
Mickaella Perina, UMass Boston
Falguni A. Sheth, Hampshire College
