WOGAP consists in a group of scholars, mainly in the Boston area, interested in philosophical work on gender, feminist philosophy, and related issues, especially concerning race, class, disability, colonialism, and other oppressive structures. Those expressing interest in the Workshop will be put on an email list to receive announcements of meetings and occasional news and information for feminist philosophers in New England and beyond.
Since 2000, we have met at MIT on the evenings of the second Thursday of each month. The standard format is to have a speaker circulate their work in progress on some topic in the broad area of gender and philosophy. Participants are expected to read the paper in advance of the workshop to allow maximum time for discussion. Normally 15-20 people attend; this includes a core group who come to nearly all meetings. For the foreseeable future, most WOGAP sessions will be held in a hybrid format with some in person and others using Zoom; occasionally we meet entirely virtually.
During the pandemic we launched a couple of other groups, ROGAP (Reading on Gender and Philosophy) that provided opportunity to discuss published work, and WOKAP (Workshop on Kitting and Purling, or Workshop on Kitting and Philosophy) where we encouraged WOGAP members to learn to knit and offered regular times to knit together. Neither of these workshops are currently active.
If you are interested in joining the monthly Workshop, please email: [email protected]. Be sure that your name and the email address you want us to use are clear (either from the message or its header). Please include a sentence or two indicating your background in philosophy and/or feminist theory. We do not normally include undergraduate students. We will circulate the paper for the monthly Workshop electronically about a week prior to the meeting during which it will be discussed.
For details and current schedule, follow links above.
Thanks to the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT for ongoing support.
Since 2000, we have met at MIT on the evenings of the second Thursday of each month. The standard format is to have a speaker circulate their work in progress on some topic in the broad area of gender and philosophy. Participants are expected to read the paper in advance of the workshop to allow maximum time for discussion. Normally 15-20 people attend; this includes a core group who come to nearly all meetings. For the foreseeable future, most WOGAP sessions will be held in a hybrid format with some in person and others using Zoom; occasionally we meet entirely virtually.
During the pandemic we launched a couple of other groups, ROGAP (Reading on Gender and Philosophy) that provided opportunity to discuss published work, and WOKAP (Workshop on Kitting and Purling, or Workshop on Kitting and Philosophy) where we encouraged WOGAP members to learn to knit and offered regular times to knit together. Neither of these workshops are currently active.
If you are interested in joining the monthly Workshop, please email: [email protected]. Be sure that your name and the email address you want us to use are clear (either from the message or its header). Please include a sentence or two indicating your background in philosophy and/or feminist theory. We do not normally include undergraduate students. We will circulate the paper for the monthly Workshop electronically about a week prior to the meeting during which it will be discussed.
For details and current schedule, follow links above.
Thanks to the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT for ongoing support.
