Conference on Social Categories and Oppression

Website:

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Description:

Social categories like “Indigenous”, “white”, “female”, and “Christian” play a prominent role in shaping our lives and determine, to at least some extent, whether one is likely to be oppressed. This conference is focused on the ontology of social categories and their interaction with dynamics of oppression.  

Papers will address questions such as:  How should we conceive of oppression in general, or of particular forms of oppression?  How should we conceive of social categorisation, or of particular social categories? How are our theories of social categories and of oppression(s) interrelated?

Papers will draw on work from psychology, legal theory, social and political philosophy, philosophy of language, social metaphysics, and social epistemology.

Confirmed Speakers (see website for abstracts):

Aidan Ryall (ANU)

Anne Macduff (ANU)

Catriona Mackenzie (Macquarie University)

Fiona Jenkins (ANU)

Laura Schroeter (University of Melbourne)

Louise Richardson-Self (UTAS)

Lutfiye Ali (Victoria University)

Nicholas Drake (ANU)

Nick Willis (ANU)

Shalom Chalson (ANU)

Suzy Killmister (Monash)

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