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Conference Announcement Theme: Epistemic Injustice in the Aftermath of Collective Wrongdoing Type: International Workshop Institution: Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern Location: Bern (Switzerland) Date: 6.–7.12.2019 __________________________________________________ The workshop seeks to open space for discussion on the topic of epistemic injustice broadly conceived, including testimonial injustice, hermeneutical injustice and ignorance, either applied to a case study of collective wrongdoing such as crimes against humanity, or more general theoretical and conceptual issues related to epistemic injustice. Programme Friday, December 6, 2019 Identifying Epistemic Injustice 10:00 – 11:00 Echo chambers, Ignorance and Domination Breno R. G. Santos, University of Mato Grosso 11:00 – 12:00 Thinking Epistemic Injustice from the Global South: Genocide-denial, Silencing and Collective Ignorance in Turkey Imge Oranli, Arizona State University 12:10 – 13:10 Genocide Denial as Testimonial Oppression Melanie Altanian, University of Bern 14:30 – 15:30 False Confessions, the Criminal Justice System, and Testimonial Injustice Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University 15:45 – 16:45 Capital Vices, Institutional Failures, and Epistemic Neglect in a County Jail José Medina, Northwestern University Saturday, December 7, 2019 Remedying Epistemic Injustice 10:00 – 11:00 The Significance of Intellectual Self-Trust – Individual and Collective – in Tackling Epistemic Injustice (Nadja El Kassar, ETH Zurich) 11:00 – 12:00 Horizontal Attention and Epistemic Repair (Gaile Pohlhaus, Miami University) 12:10 – 13:10 “The Girl Who Cried Wolf”: #MeToo, Testimonial Injustice, and Feminist Solidarity Hilkje Hänel, Free University Berlin 14:30 – 15:30 Epistemic Injustice and Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American Human Rights System Dina Townsend, University of Tilburg, and Leo Townsend, University of Vienna 15:45 – 16:45 Rectifying Hermeneutical Injustice in the “Comfort Women” Issue through Interactional and Structural Acknowledgment Seunghyun Song, University of Graz Registration The workshop is open to a limited number of further participants. The registration deadline is November 10th (extended). If you would like to participate, please send an email to [email protected] indicating your motivation for participating in this workshop, or the relevance of the workshop for your research (2-3 sentences). Please note that as a workshop participant, you are required to read and prepare the papers, which will be distributed with the detailed schedule after the registration deadline. Website of the workshop: https://www.philosophie.unibe.ch/news/epistemic_injustice/index_eng.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
