Social Philosophy Workshop: Identity, Alienation, Emancipation

Date: 

Thu - Sat, Apr 27 to Apr 29, 2:00pm - 2:15pm

Location: 

Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA 02138

Social Philosophy Workshop: Identity, Alienation, Emancipation 

Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics

124 Mt. Auburn St Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA 02138

Please see attached PDF for the full schedule

Thursday, April 27th

2-5pm

 

Elise Woodard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),

Unsafe Consent

Commentator: Eric Bayruns García (Harvard University & McMaster University)

 

 

Friday, April 28th

9am-5pm

 

Annette Martín (University of Illinois, Chicago),

Which Comes First: Oppression or Identity? Rethinking the Group-Based Nature of Oppression

Commentator: Yarran Hominh (Bard College)

 

Mie Inouye (Bard College),

The American Organizing Tradition and the Problem of Democratic Transitions

Commentator: Megan Hyska (Northwestern University)

 

Darien Pollock (Boston University),

'The Streets ' is not a Metaphor : Contestation and the Margins of Discourse

Commentator: César Cabezas (Temple University)

 

Keidrick Roy (Harvard University),

Why am I Black?: Frederick Douglass, Charles Mills, and the Case for Identity- Aware Liberalism

Commentator: Philip Yaure (Virginia Tech)

 

 

Saturday, April 29th

9am-2:15pm

 

Emma Rodman (UMass, Lowell),

The Politics of Alienation

Commentator: Daniel Brinkerhoff Young (New York University)

 

Shivani Radhakrishnan (Williams College),

Critical Theory’s Colonialism Problem

Commentator: Laura Martin (Northwestern University)

 

The Social Philosophy Workshop brings together early career scholars who work on contemporary social and political issues from across the humanities and social sciences. Its participants are committed to the importance of putting analytic philosophy in conversation with other methods and disciplines, including critical theory, historical analysis, literary analysis, and quantitative methods in the social sciences.

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