Kent State Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapter
Meeting Schedule for 2021-22
All meetings will take place on Fridays at 10:30am on Teams. Anyone who is interested in attending, please email Samantha Scott at sscott92@kent.edu for meeting links.
The titles of all readings below are linked to PDFs of the the texts.
October 29 - Intro Day
Required: Spivak, “Can The Subaltern Speak”
November 19 - Feminism
Required: Young, “Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality”
Optional: Manne, “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny,” Chapter 2
December 10 - Feminism (continued)
Required: Haslanger, “Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not By Reason (Alone)”
Optional: Penaluna, “Wanted: Female Philosophers in the Classroom and in the Canon”; Antony, “Different Voices or Perfect Storm: Why Are There So Few Women In Philosophy?”
January 21 - Confucianism and Youth
Required: Moore, “Like The Air We Breathe: Confucianism and Chinese Youth”
Optional: Richey, “Chatroom Confucianism”
February 11 - Disability
Required: Kittay, “The Ethics of Care, Dependence, and Disability”
March 4 - Black Feminism
Required: hooks, “Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory,” Chapter 1
Optional: Kelly and Roedder, “Racial Cognition and the Ethics of Implicit Bias”
March 25 - Africana Philosophy
TBD
April 15 - Philosophy of Language and Hermeneutics
Required: Alcoff, “The Problem of Speaking For Others”