Dear colleagues,

Hope the semester is treating you well. We wanted to send a schedule for the upcoming CRPR (in the body of this email). Also, If you are joining us (and I hope you will!), please register for the conference so that we have a sense of how many folks will be attending. The link for registration can be found at www.caroundtable.org.

Falguni A. Sheth,
Associate Professor, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
-Mellon Fellow
-Director of Undergraduate Studies
-Co-Director, Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program
-Co-Organizer, CRPR: www.caroundtable.org

Emory University
550 Asbury Circle
Atlanta GA 30322

California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race
All sessions will be held at Emory Conference Center Hotel

Friday, September 16, 2016
Abbreviated Program

Moderator: Mickaella Perina, University of Massachusetts, Boston
10:00 am Lisa McLeod, Guilford College, “Battling My White Self: Yancy and the System of White Supremacy”
11:00 am David S. Owen, University of Louisville “The Worldmaking Function of Whiteness”

Moderator: Lynne Huffer, Emory University
11:30 am Marzia Milazzo, Vanderbilt University/Rhodes University, “Turning Hearts: Colorblind Habits of Philosophy”
12:30 am Michael Eng, “Narcissism, Affect, and Institutional Racism”

Moderator: Taina Figueroa, Emory University
2:00 pm Desirée Valentine, Pennsylvania State University,“Mixed Race and Liberatory Futurity: Orientations Without Objectives”
3:00 pm Derefe Kimarley Chevannes, University of Connecticut,
“Decolonizing Black Subjectivity: Movements from Problematicity Toward Horizons”

4:30-6 pm Moderator: Falguni Sheth, Emory University
Keynote: Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania “What Caste Can Teach Us about Racial Ideologies”

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Moderator: Taryn Jordan, Emory University
10:00 am Surya Parekh, Binghamton University, “Teaching “Racist” Texts”
11:00 am Shannon Winnubst, Ohio State University, “Decolonizing The Human: The Ontology of Race and Mind-Blowing Racism”

Moderator: George Yancy, Emory University
1:30 pm Albert Mosley, Smith College, “Narratives On The Ethics of Living Jim Crow”
2:30 pm: Mukasa Mubirumusoke, Emory University

Moderator: Sybol Anderson, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
4:00 pm Lori Gallegos de Castillo, Assistant Professor, Texas State University “Social Inequality and the Inhibition of Perspective-Taking”
5:00: Paul Taylor, Pennsylvania State University, “What is Philosophical Race Theory?”

For more details and to register, please go to www.caroundtable.org
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