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Conference Announcement Theme: Philosophy of 'Race' and Racism Type: International Conference Institution: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 27.–29.6.2016 __________________________________________________ W. E. B. Du Bois famously wrote that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line". All of us now are well into the twenty-first century, and for contemporary Europeans, Du Bois’ remarks may appear distant a second time over: off his spelling of ‘color’ we can read his Americanness. And yet the problem Du Bois’ addresses here is (despite his spellings) our problem too, on either side of the Atlantic, and beyond. Although his remarks on the “color-line” are most commonly associated with ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ and its concern with black life in the United States, he in fact first offered them to a London audience at the first Pan-African Conference, in a speech entitled “To the nations of the World”. As he puts it here, “the problem of the color-line” is the question as to how far differences of race ... will hereafter be made the basis of denying to over half the world the right of sharing to their utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization”. Hence, Du Bois took this problem to be not only of local, but, first and foremost, of global relevance and thus to affect most of those who are non-white. In different locations, however, the manifestations of this problem – that is, the contours of racial categories, the social meaning associated with those categories, and the pressing issues of racial injustice – may nevertheless be markedly different. In light of this, there is something of a lacuna in the emerging literature on the historically neglected philosophy of ‘race’ which has seen a flowering of interest in the last twenty years: much of it assumes, either tacitly or explicitly, an US-American audience, and addresses the phenomena of race and racism primarily salient to a distinctively US-American context. In order to help close this lacuna, this conference aims to widen the conversation beyond the context of the US. We thus seek both to increase our understanding of race and racism in different global contexts, and to asses what the contextual variability of race and racism tells us about these phenomena. Programme Monday 27th June 1.30-2.00 Registration and tea/coffee 2.00-3.30 Race and Place 1: Latin America Sergio Gallegos (Denver): The Enlightenment project and the Racial Contract in Simon Bolivar’s Political Thought Adriana Clavel-Vázquez (University of Sheffield) and César Palacios-González (Kings College London): Vasconcelos and The Erasure of Race in Mexico 3.30-4.00 Tea/coffee 4.00-5.30 Keynote Talk Dr. Michael McEachrane (UCL) (TBC) 5.30-6.30 Drinks reception Dinner: 7pm, location TBC Tuesday 28th June 9.00-9.30 Tea/coffee 9.30-11.00 The Politics of Race and Racism Natasha Basu (Amsterdam): Can Black Lives Matter to Rawls’ Theory of Justice? Racial Liberalism and the Practice of Civil Disobedience Wendy Salkin (Harvard): Informal Political Representatives and The Possibility of Democratic Legitimacy 11.00-11.30 Tea/coffee 11.30-1.00 Race and Place 2: Europe Anya Topolski (Leuven): Conceptualising Europe’s Race-Religion Constellation Pablo Domenech (Murcia): The Walled Colour Line: Systematic Discrimination at the borders of South Europe 1.00-2.30 Lunch 2.30-4.00 Race, Racism and Pedagogy Katherine Terrell (independent): White Supremacy and Audism in US Education: a Critical Comparison of Black English and Black American Sign Language (ASL) Amina Saleh (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich): Philosophy, Orientalism, and Academic Discourse: the case of Reading ‘Islamic Philosophy’ Today 4.00-4.30 Tea/coffee 4.30-6.00 Keynote Talk Dr. Meena Dhanda (Wolverhampton) (TBC) Dinner: 7.30 pm, location TBC Wednesday 29th June 9.00-9.30 Tea/coffee 9.30-11.00 Race and Place 3: Asia Flair Donglai Shi (Oxford): Racist Against One’s Own Race? Wang Lixiong’s China Tidal Wave (Huang Huo 黃禍) and the Post-structural Philosophy of Twentieth Century Yellow Perilism Senjuti Chakraborti (Birkbeck): Race in the third world: Observations on the ‘Caste as Race’ Debate in India 11.00-11.30 Tea/coffee 11.30-1.00 Racialization and Reason David Miguel Gray (Colgate): Racial Objects: A Fanonian Account of Race Arthur Augusto Catraio (Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne): From the Critique of Pure Reason to the Critique of Black Reason 1.00-2.30 Lunch 2.30-4.00 Keynote Talk Vanessa Wills (George Washington University) (TBC) Registration You are welcome to attend the workshop, regardless of whether you give a talk. Participation is free. However, registration is required via the conference website, no later than the 20th of June, so that we can plan accordingly and keep you updated. Access information and information about childcare bursaries is also available on the website: http://philosophyofraceandracism.weebly.com Organisers Rachel Elizabeth Fraser, University of Oxford Daniel James, University of Konstanz Katharine Jenkins, University of Sheffield/University of Cambridge Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, UCLA Rey Conquer, University of Oxford Contact: Organising Committee Email: [email protected] Web: http://philosophyofraceandracism.weebly.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
