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Conference Announcement Theme: Philosophy and History of Race Type: Online Workshop Institution: International Philosophy of Biology Circle Location: Online Date: 9.–10.8.2021 __________________________________________________ The International Philosophy of Biology Circle is an independent academic network bringing together researchers from different fields, including biologists, historians, and philosophers from different countries and at different levels of career development who are interested in presenting their current research on conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues in the biological sciences. During the year the Circle meets every two weeks to discuss a new paper. This event is its first workshops open to the general public. We seek to problematize recent and ongoing attempts to redefine the categories of "race", "racism" and related terms and to discuss their philosophical origins, relevance, and implications. The workshop takes place on August 9-10, 2021, online. Program 9 August 2021 15:00 (GMT) Welcome 15:15 Gaëlle Pontarotti, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne “Race and biology at the time of epigenetics: Naturalism, environmentalism, constructivism” 16:00 Gokhan Akbay, Cyprus International University, Nefize Ezgi Altınışık, Hacettepe University, and Mehmet Somel, Middle East Technical University “Biological justification of stratification: race and other dimensions of rank order” 16:45 Break 17:00 Phillip Sloan, University of Notre-Dame “Biologizing race: Scenes from the eighteenth century” 17:45 Chris Stephens, University of British Columbia “Population genetics and race” 18:30 David Depew, University of Iowa “Genetics, race, and Darwinism: A critique of David Reich’s Who We Are and Where We Come From” 19:15 General Discussion 20:00 End of the day 10 August 2021 15:00 (GMT) Welcome 15:15 Victoria Shmidt, University of Graz, and Christopher Donohue, National Institutes of Health “Invincible racism? Misuse of genetically informed arguments and brevity of its critique in Eastern Europe (and beyond)” 16:00 Valentina Lukin, Georgetown University “Nationalism, physical anthropology, demography and religion in Alojz J. Chura’s Slovensko bez dorastu: Constructing ‘Czechoslovaks’ in Central Europe between the Wars” 16:45 Break 17:00 Sahotra Sarkar, University of Texas “The racial economy of environmentalism” 17:45 Carlos López Beltrán, National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Vivette García-Deister, National Autonomous University of Mexico “Mestizophilia and race science in 20th century Mexico” 18:30 Francisco Vergara-Silva, National Autonomous University of Mexico “The ‘race’ category, ‘multispecies studies’, and (the history and philosophy of) organicism: possibilities and problems” 19:15 General Discussion 20:00 End of the Workshop For registration, please use following link: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlfu2pqD0pE9dqWsp-DEW8-KemfFKrdvAz The schedule, biographical sketches and abstracts are available on the following link: https://www.academia.edu/49591709/International_Philosophy_of_Biology_Circle_Philosophy_and_History_of_Race_Workshop __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
