ROGAP - (Reading on Gender and Philosophy)
Previously known as the WOGAP Reading Group
The WOGAP Reading Group - now ROGAP - started in May 2020 when COVID had us all locked down so human contact and discussion was limited. Our schedule now varies by semester and over the summer. Those on the email list will get the readings, Dropbox folder link, etc.
In order to maintain a close community and fruitful discussion, we need to limit participation. If you have a special reason to participate, you can email [email protected]. Please describe your background in feminism, philosophy, and related topics and your special interest in the group. We normally only include philosophy faculty, graduate students, and interdisciplinary or unaffiliated scholars with some background in feminist thought.
In order to maintain a close community and fruitful discussion, we need to limit participation. If you have a special reason to participate, you can email [email protected]. Please describe your background in feminism, philosophy, and related topics and your special interest in the group. We normally only include philosophy faculty, graduate students, and interdisciplinary or unaffiliated scholars with some background in feminist thought.
CURRENT SCHEDULE
Fall 2024
We will meet once a month between WOGAP meetings, Mondays, 2:30-4.
Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97133322365
September 23: Candice Delmas, "Non-Ideal Theory and Resistance." (Candice will join us!)
October 21: Reading TBD
November 25: Reading TBD
December 30: Reading TBD
Fall 2024
We will meet once a month between WOGAP meetings, Mondays, 2:30-4.
Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97133322365
September 23: Candice Delmas, "Non-Ideal Theory and Resistance." (Candice will join us!)
October 21: Reading TBD
November 25: Reading TBD
December 30: Reading TBD
ARCHIVED SCHEDULES BELOW
NOTE: Readings we have discussed beyond those listed below can be found --> HERE <--
NOTE: Readings we have discussed beyond those listed below can be found --> HERE <--
2022-23
August 23 – TUESDAY – Canceled - enjoy the end of summer!
Starting Thursdays every other week, 6-7:30pm Eastern Time
September 8 – WOGAP – ROGAP will meet with WOGAP (WOGAP and ROGAP will now meet 6-7:30pm ET to have consistency.) Presenter is Sahar Heydari Fard. Paper will be circulated a week in advance to both WOGAP and ROGAP.
September 22
Reading: Blas Radi, 2020. "Reproductive Injustice, Trans Rights and Eugenics." Blas will be joining us!! Canceled - we will have Blas visit later in the term.
October 6: Canceled
October 20
Reading: Katie Zhou, “Gender Talk and Its Discontents”
November 3
Reading: Tasneem Alsayyed, “Why We Can't Stop Talking About the Veil Chapter 1: Hijab as Social Practice”.
November 17
Reading: Cinzia Arruzza, (2016) "Functionalist, Determinist, Reductionist."
Consider also (or maybe instead of): Aruzza's most complete statement of her unitary theory can be found in two articles published in Viewpoint magazine: Remarks on Gender and Logic or History? The Political Stakes of Marxist-Feminist Theory. See Pat Hope's email for details.
December 1
Reading: Sara Bernstein, "The Metaphysics of Intersectionality." Sara will join us!
December 15
Reading: Blas Radi - TBD. Blas will join us!
December 29
Reading: Anna Moltchanova, reading TBD.
January 12: Meet with WOGAP
Canceled
January 26
February 9: Meet with WOGAP
Reading: Jenna Donohue (Harvard) - TBD
February 23
Reading: Eliza Wells (MIT), "Role Responsibility for Structural Injustice."
March 9: Meet with WOGAP
Reading: Jen McWeeny (WPI) - TBD
March 23
Reading: Magnus Ferguson (BC), "Non-Discursive Hermeneutical Injustice and Gendered Embodiment."
April 6 - no meeting
April 13: Meet with WOGAP
Reading: Nancy Bauer (Tufts) - TBD
April 27: TBD
May 11: Meet with WOGAP
Reading: Erica Preston-Roedder (Occidental) - TBD
May 25: TBD
June 8: Meet with WOGAP
June 22: TBD
July 6: no meeting
July 13: Meet with WOGAP
July 27: TBD
August 10: Meet with WOGAP
August 23 – TUESDAY – Canceled - enjoy the end of summer!
Starting Thursdays every other week, 6-7:30pm Eastern Time
September 8 – WOGAP – ROGAP will meet with WOGAP (WOGAP and ROGAP will now meet 6-7:30pm ET to have consistency.) Presenter is Sahar Heydari Fard. Paper will be circulated a week in advance to both WOGAP and ROGAP.
September 22
Reading: Blas Radi, 2020. "Reproductive Injustice, Trans Rights and Eugenics." Blas will be joining us!! Canceled - we will have Blas visit later in the term.
October 6: Canceled
October 20
Reading: Katie Zhou, “Gender Talk and Its Discontents”
November 3
Reading: Tasneem Alsayyed, “Why We Can't Stop Talking About the Veil Chapter 1: Hijab as Social Practice”.
November 17
Reading: Cinzia Arruzza, (2016) "Functionalist, Determinist, Reductionist."
Consider also (or maybe instead of): Aruzza's most complete statement of her unitary theory can be found in two articles published in Viewpoint magazine: Remarks on Gender and Logic or History? The Political Stakes of Marxist-Feminist Theory. See Pat Hope's email for details.
December 1
Reading: Sara Bernstein, "The Metaphysics of Intersectionality." Sara will join us!
December 15
Reading: Blas Radi - TBD. Blas will join us!
December 29
Reading: Anna Moltchanova, reading TBD.
January 12: Meet with WOGAP
Canceled
January 26
February 9: Meet with WOGAP
Reading: Jenna Donohue (Harvard) - TBD
February 23
Reading: Eliza Wells (MIT), "Role Responsibility for Structural Injustice."
March 9: Meet with WOGAP
Reading: Jen McWeeny (WPI) - TBD
March 23
Reading: Magnus Ferguson (BC), "Non-Discursive Hermeneutical Injustice and Gendered Embodiment."
April 6 - no meeting
April 13: Meet with WOGAP
Reading: Nancy Bauer (Tufts) - TBD
April 27: TBD
May 11: Meet with WOGAP
Reading: Erica Preston-Roedder (Occidental) - TBD
May 25: TBD
June 8: Meet with WOGAP
June 22: TBD
July 6: no meeting
July 13: Meet with WOGAP
July 27: TBD
August 10: Meet with WOGAP
Schedule: Summer 2020 - every week, Tuesdays 4-5:30
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Summer 2020
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Readings
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Tuesday, April 28
Tuesday, May 5 Tuesday, May 12 Tuesday, May 19 Tuesday, May 26 Tuesday, June 2 Tuesday, June 9 Tuesday, June 16 Tuesday, June 23 Tuesday, June 30 Tuesday, July 7 Tuesday, July 14 Tuesday, July 21 Tuesday, July 28 Tuesday, August 4 Tuesday, August 11 Tuesday, August 18 Tuesday, August 25 Fall 2020 September 3 September 17 October 1 October 15 October 29 November 12 November 19 December 3 December 17 - *3:30* Note time! ^^ December 31 |
Kukla talk online and discussion after
Combahee River Collective Statement and introduction to Keeyanga-Yamahtta Taylor's How We Get Free. Toril Moi, "Thinking Through Examples. What Ordinary Language Philosophy can do for Feminist Theory" (2015) Serene Khader, Decolonizing Feminism, Ch. 1 (Intro and Ch. 2 recommended) Serene Khader, Decolonizing Feminism, Ch. 5 (4 recommended) Talia Mae Bettcher, "What Is Trans Philosophy?", 2019, Hypatia 34.4 - https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12492 Nkiru Nzegwu, "Feminism and Africa: Impact and Limits of the Metaphysics of Gender" (2005) Briana Toole, "From Standpoint Epistemology to Epistemic Oppression" (2019) Louise Antony, "Feminism without Metaphysics or A Deflationary Account of Women" (2020) https://rdcu.be/b45Zb Lise Vogel, Marxism and the Oppression of Women (chapter 10, ch 11 optional) Alicia Bierria, "Racial Conflation: Rethinking Agency, Black Action, and Criminal Intent" Olúfémi O. Táíwò, "Stocisim (as Emotional Compression) is Emotional Labor" (2020) Maria Lugones, "On Complex Communication" Sally Haslanger, "Political Epistemology and Social Critique" Susanna Siegel, "Fueling the Spitegeist" Johanna Luttrell, "Women’s Work and Assets: Considering Property Ownership from a Transnational Feminist Perspective" no meeting Ray Drainville and Jenny Saul, "Visual and Linguistic Dogwhistles." Thursdays 4:30-6pm EST (every other week) Elijah Adiv Edelman, (2020). "Beyond Resilience: Trans Coalitional Activism as Radical Self-Care." Jennifer Morton and Sarah Paul, (2018). "Grit." C. Riley Snorton, (2017). Black on both sides. A racial history of trans identity, Ch. 1 'Anatomically Speaking', pp. 17-53) see also: shorter or longer reviews for overview of the book as a whole. Kristie Dotson and Ayanna De’Vante Spencer, (2018). Another Letter Long Delayed: On Unsound Epistemological Practices and Reductive Inclusion. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26927950 Derek Anderson, (2020). "Linguistic Hijacking." NO ROGAP MEETING - note schedule shift going forward (But monthly WOGAP will meet Nov 12 and Dec 10!) Lynne Tirrell, (2018). "Toxic Speech: Inoculations and Antidotes." Anna Motchanova, "Institutional Status Roles and Implicit Bias." (work in progress) Hilke Hänel, "Hermeneutical Injustice, (Self-)Recognition, and Academia." Charades! SPRING 2022 (every other Tuesday 4:30-6pm EST) 8 March Reading: Amy Reed-Sandoval, Socially Undocumented (2020) Chapter 2, “Social Identity” – this seems to be an interesting take on social identity that highlights embodiment. It discusses Alcoff and Bourdieu. OPTIONAL: Introduction – it provides a brief overview of relational egalitarianism (think Young, Anderson) and responses to objections. Those who are especially enthusiastic could also read Ch. 1, but it is briefly summarized at the beginning of Ch. 2. 22 March Reading: Amy Reed-Sandoval, Socially Undocumented (2020) Chapter 4, "Pregnant and Socially Undocumented" OPTIONAL: Chapter 3, "Socially Undocumented Embodiment" 5 April Reading: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, 1992. "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor." Signs 18(1): 1-43. 19 April Reading: Robin Zheng, 2021. "Moral Criticism and Structural Injustice." Mind 130: 503-535. 3 May Reading: Serena Parekh, 2020. "Reframing the Refugee Crisis: From Rescue to Interconnection." Ethics and Global Politics. Serena will join us! 17 May Reading: Alito's draft taking down Roe v. Wade. 31 May Reading: Catharine MacKinnon, 1983. “The Male Ideology of Privacy: A Feminist Perspective on the Right to Abortion.” (also in Towards a Feminist Theory of the State with a different title: “Abortion: On Public and Private” – but this one has better pictures. LOL. h/t Pat Hope.) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1985. "Some Thoughts On Autonomy and Equality in Relation to Roe V. Wade." 14 June Reading: Tommy Curry. 2021. "Black Maleness as a Deleterious Category." 28 June Reading: Myisha Cherry, The Case for Rage, (a) Passage from introduction on Lordean rage, p. 23-30. (b) Chapter 2, all (c) Chapter 3, optional Myisha will join us if she can! (She may have jury duty!!) 12 July Reading: 26 July Reading: Aja Watkins and Marina DiMarco, "Sex Eliminativism" (to be circulated by at least 22 July). 9 August Reading: Serena Parekh, 2020. "Reframing the Refugee Crisis: From Rescue to Interconnection." Ethics and Global Politics. Serena will join us! (rescheduled from 3 May) |
