Roundtable - Lived experiences: inclusivity in pedagogy and research in philosophy.
For its 54th conference, Fillosophie organizes a panel discussion on the following theme:
Lived experiences: inclusivity in pedagogy and research in philosophy.
This roundtable will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, March 23 at 1:00 pm (Eastern Time).
Three philosophers will share their experiences about research and teaching in philosophy.
We will host:
Lerato Posholi (University of Basel)
Andrea Pitts (University of North Carolina)
Karen François (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
They will talk about their philosophical interests and discuss with each other and with the audience about mental charge, inclusivity, and their experiences in academia related to these themes.
The conference is free and open to everyone !
Biography
Dr Lerato Posholi holds an MA in Philosophy and a PhD in Education from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her PhD research looked at the relationship between knowledge and power in the light of curriculum debates in South Africa. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow on the SNSF project “Reversing the gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies” with Prof Ralph Weber at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland. Her current research interests straddle topics in social epistemology, decolonial theory and conceptual engineering. She also teaches an MA course on “Eurocentrism, Global Debates and Methodology” at the University of Basel.
Additional open-access article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/05568641.2020.1779604
Biography
Andrea Pitts (they/them) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and they are affiliate faculty of the university’s Department of Africana Studies, Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies, Latin American Studies Program, School of Data Science, Social Aspects of Health Initiative, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
Their research interests include Latin American and U.S. Latinx philosophy, critical philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, disability studies, and critical prison studies, and they have taught graduate and undergraduate courses on topics such as Latina/x feminist philosophy, queer migration studies, prison abolitionism, critical transgender politics, and feminist epistemology.
Andrea is author of Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance (2021), and co-editor with Mark Westmoreland of Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (2019) and Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance with Mariana Ortega and José M. Medina (2020).
Their other publications appear in The Journal of Philosophy of Disability, Hypatia, IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Radical Philosophy Review, Disability and American Philosophies, Decolonizing American Philosophy, Inter-American Journal of Philosophy and Comparative Studies in Asian and Latin American Philosophies. Lastly, Andrea co-organizes, along with Perry Zurn, the Trans Philosophy Project, a professional and research initiative dedicated to supporting trans, nonbinary, and gender variant philosophers.
Additional open-access article: Andrea Pitts. 2019. “‘The Atlas of Our Skin and Bone and Blood’: Disability, Ablenationalism, and the War on Drugs.” Genealogy 3 (4): 1-16.
Biography
Karen François is a professor of philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and is affiliated with the Centre of Logic and Philosophy of Science (VUB), of which she is also the director. She is philosopher of science, studying the role of mathematics and of statistics in society, in epistemology and in education. Furthermore, she is studying the special role that mathematical practices play within discourses on sciences, technology and society.
Karen François is teaching philosophy of science (with an emphasis on bias in science e.g. gender, culture, ethics, integrity, …); ontology, history of mathematical practices, phenomenology, ethics and integrity. She is also director of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences (VUB) and is chair of the Flanders interuniversitary network on doctoral education FLAMES (Flanders Network for Methodology and Statistics).
She is a member of the research group Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) at the VUB, and of the international research groups Philosophy of Mathematics: Sociological Aspects and Mathematical Practice and the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (APMP).
Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Philosophy of Education, SERJ-Statistics Education Research Journal, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics and the European Journal of Higher Education.
Additional open-access article: François, K. (2019). Values and Beauty in Math Education. In J. Subramanian (ed.) Proceedings of the Tenth International Mathematics Education and Society Conference –MES10– Vol 2. (pp. 1-10). Hyderabad, India, Jan 28th – Feb 2nd, 2019. ISSN: 2077-9933. Online available https://www.mescommunity.info/proceedings/MES10.pdf