21 JANUARY 2011
The Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group would like to invite
interested parties of all genders to a workshop organised to explore
some of the philosophical issues surrounding the under-representation
of women in professional philosophy. The date is Friday 21st January
2011, in the Conference Room, David Hume Tower, George Square,
Edinburgh.
We have the following provisional program:
12.30pm: Welcome coffee
1pm – 2pm: ‘Particularity, Epistemic Responsibility, and the
Ecological Imaginary’
Lorraine Code, University of York
2pm – 3pm:‘False Consciousness and the Modern Woman’
Elinor Mason, Edinburgh University
3pm – 3.30pm: Coffee break
3.30pm – 4.30pm: ‘Unconscious Influences and Women in Philosophy’
Jennifer Saul, Sheffield University
4.30pm – 5.30pm: ‘Should sexual harassment law be used to address the
operation of implicit bias in the workplace?’
Jules Holroyd, Cardiff University
5.30pm – 6.30pm: Coffee and further discussion
Deadline for registration for the workshop and for dinner is 10th January 2011.
Workshop website is here.
This conference announcement has circulated for a couple of months; so, I’m surprised that it hasn’t been pointed out (nor corrected) that Lorraine Code is at York University (Canada), not University of York (UK).