Philosophy & Activism.
2021 seminars
Format: Each presenter will provide either a paper for pre-reading or a recorded talk for pre-viewing (whichever the presenter prefers). These materials will be linked from the schedule below as they become available. Make sure that you check out these materials in advance of attending a given talk.
Each presenter's live session will last for one hour and will be devoted entirely to discussion/Q&A. When we have a double or triple header, we'll take a ten-minute break in between sessions. All of our live sessions will be via Zoom.
We'll have approximately one session per month throughout 2021.
The purpose of these seminars is to create and sustain an online community of philosophers of activism. Someday, in the post-covid future, we will have an in-person workshop. And at some point we will organize an edited volume.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact the organizer: David Killoren (david.j.killoren@gmail.com).
This seminar series grows out of an earlier workshop.
SCHEDULE
Tues. Jan. 12: 5-6pm GMT
Tues. Feb. 9: 5-6pm GMT
Alyse Spiehler (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Bob Fischer (Texas State), "Tensions Between Pronoun Norms: The Default Singular They and Animals"
Tues. March 9: 5-6pm GMT
Cain Shelley (LSE), "Appropriate Political Agency and the Value of Social Solidarity"
Click here to read the paper.
Tues. April 13: 5-6pm GMT
Tues. May 11: 5-7:10pm GMT
Double header:
5-6pm: Emilian Mihailov (University of Bucharest), “The Apple of Discord Between Peter Singer and Disability Activists” Click here to view the talk.
6:10-7:10pm: Joseph Stramondo (San Diego State), "How Disability Activism Advances Disability Bioethics." Click here to read the paper.
Tues. June 8: 5-7:10pm GMT
Double header:
Ege Yumusak (Harvard), "The organizer's anti-utopian imaginations" Click here to read the paper.
Sahar Heydari Fard (Cincinnati), "Complexity and Social Change" Click here to view the talk.
Tues. July 13: 5-6pm GMT
James Simpson (University of Florida), “Some Vices of Virtue Signaling” Click here to read the paper.
Tues. Aug 10: 5-6pm GMT
Tues. Sept. 14: 5-6pm GMT
Amy McKiernan (Dickinson College), “The Ethics of Care in Practice: Attending to Grief in Social Movements”
Tues. Oct. 12: 5-6pm GMT
Kathryn Pogin (Northwestern), "Epistemic Infringement: The Pro-Life Movement and Exploitation of the Religious Right." Click here to read the paper.
Tues. Nov. 9: 5-6pm GMT
Tues. Dec. 14: 5-7:10pm GMT
Double header:
Ramona Ilea (Pacific University), "How Philosophers Can Foster Student Activism." Click here to watch Ramona's video presentation.
