The Diversity Reading List Anniversary Conference

The year 2025 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Diversity Reading List’s existence, and we are happy to invite you to celebrate with us the various efforts and projects dedicated to making philosophy a discipline of equal opportunity.

Since 2015, the DRL has aimed to make philosophy more inclusive, diverse, and to promote equality of opportunity in our discipline. Racial and gender disparities in philosophy are significant, and if you are not a white cisgender man, you are still likely to belong to a group which is significantly underrepresented in contemporary Anglophone philosophy. But the landscape has been changing over the last decade, and we are proud to have been a part of that change. In that time, the DRL aimed to address inequalities in representation by helping to overcome their cause: the stereotype of a philosopher as a white male. We continue to do so by making it easier for lecturers to find high-quality texts written by authors from under-represented groups, by helping students set up reading groups on a diverse range of topics, and by popularising and conducting our own original research into the state of the discipline.

At this two-and-a-half-day conference, we would like to celebrate the progress of the last decade and discuss what remains to be done; to bring together academics working on themes relevant to the DRL’s mission, and to make work by authors from under-represented groups more visible in university education and research.

• Alex Stehn (Texas Rio Grande Valley): “Pluralizing Philosophical Languages and Cultures”
• Anna Kleiber (Cardiff): TBA
• Ayşe Seda Umul (Bilkent University): “Structural Gaslighting and Epistemic Oppression: The Marginalisation of Queer Identities in Patriarchal Societies”
• Cassandra Teodosio (Women Doing Philosophy, UP Diliman): “The Experience of Women Doing Philosophy in the Philippines: Voices and Writings from the Peripheries”
• Clotilde Torregrossa, Quentin Pharr, Simon Fokt (St Andrews/Berlin): “Categorising Philosophy in a new key”
• Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Manchester): TBA
• Ian Kidd (Nottingham): TBA
• Josh Platzky Miller (Witwatersrand): “Legitimacy Debates, the myth of ‘Western Philosophy’, and the Contribution of Ben Kies”
• Lene Vos (Utrecht): “Gabrielle Suchon and Mary Astell on the authority, education and liberty of women”
• Marc Virgile Gwodog (Douala): “Zara Yaqob and Walda Heywat on Gender Equality: Does Sexual Pleasure Matter to Equality?”
• Paul Giladi (SOAS): “Being Epistemically Disobedient: Reflecting on Co-Creating the SOAS Decolonising Philosophy Toolkit and Handbook”
• Philippe Major (Lancaster): “Structural Eurocentrism in Philosophy: An Argument for Sociometaphilosophy”
• Suki Finn (Royal Holloway): “Gender and Reproduction in Philosophy”

University Place; Rooms 5.206 & 5.207; 176 Oxford Street, M13 9PL
The rooms are fully accessible, for more see access guide for room 5.206 & 5.207

DRL 10-Years Conference is free to attend both in person and online. Register using the form provided.

For any questions, write to [email protected]

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