California Roundtable on Philosophy & Race

October 10th-12th, 2013

DePaul University Lincoln Park Campus (DLP)

Chicago, Illinois

Thursday October 10th

Cortelyou Commons (DLP)

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

Cortelyou Commons (DLP)

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.

McGowan South Room 108 (DLP)

Lucius Outlaw, Vanderbilt University

"If not Raciality...?: Bio-social Groupings, Philosophical Anthropology, Social Ontology"

Moderator: Darrell Moore, DePaul University

Keynote Reception: 6:00-7:30 pm

Saturday, October 12th:

Cortelyou Commons (DLP)

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.