UK Minorities and Philosophy Conference
‘Identity and Underrepresentation’
King’s College London, 4th-5th July 2015
‘Identity and Underrepresentation’
King’s College London, 4th-5th July 2015
This conference is organized by members of the KCL MAP chapter, and is the first of its kind in the UK.
This conference is supported by grants from the KCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities, The KCL Department of Philosophy, and the Analysis Trust.
Keynote Speakers:
Jules Holroyd: ‘The Explanatory Significance of Implicit Bias’ (Nottingham)
Amia Srinivasan: ‘Does Feminist Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?’ (Oxford)
Speakers:
James Andow: ‘Expressive Injustice’ (Reading)
Andreas Bunge: ‘Interactions between propositional and associative processes in prejudice and their implications for tackling implicitly biased behaviour’ (Nottingham)
Azita Chellappoo: ‘Establishing an epistemic basis for correcting implicit biases’ (LSE)
Karl Dando: ‘Quinoa qua Kwinoah: Philosophy and the Working Class’ (Independent Scholar)
Jae Hetterley: ‘Trans Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty and the Struggle for Identity’ (KCL)
Yi Li: ‘Eugenic Thought Experiments: how philosophical thought experiments exclude marginalised perspectives’ (LSE)
Alex McKenzie: ‘Taxonomy and the Body' (KCL)
Programme
A full programme is available here.
Registration and attendance
The conference is free to attend, but participants must register here.
Location and accessibility
The conference venue and rooms are wheelchair/mobility device accessible and are not situated on a road with a steep gradient. Access to the conference room includes use of a lift. The lift is 9m from the main venue entrance and the clear door width is 90cm, with lift dimensions of 135cm x 205cm. There is a hearing assistance system (portable loop).
The conference will take place in room S-1.27 of the Strand Campus (King’s College London, WC2R 2LS). Rooms S-1.01, S-1.22, S-1.29 will be used for refreshments - these rooms are reserved for delegates to use during the duration of the conference.
Maps of the venue are available here and here.
DisabledGo information on the Strand building is available here.
Please be in touch if any required accessibility information is missing and this will be rectified as soon as possible.
Bursaries
We have been granted a number of postgraduate accommodation bursaries from the Analysis Trust for postgraduate students who do not live in London and who need to book accommodation (reimbursing up to 50% of the accommodation cost for the night). If you (or someone you know) qualifies, please apply as soon as you can, by sending an email to [email protected] with “Analysis bursary application” in the title, and then including your name, institution and degree status (e.g., whether you’re a current/recent MA or PhD student) in the email body.
Contact
For any queries regarding the conference please feel free to email us: [email protected].