Identities and Epistemic Injustice - International Conference

University of California, Irvine, March 12-13, 2021

Research on epistemic injustice investigates the epistemic harms that people belonging to marginalized groups suffer because of prejudices connected to their social identity. The concept of identity is central in it. Yet, its presuppositions and implications have not received full consideration. This conference promotes a deeper investigation on this issue through a dialogue between philosophy and other contiguous disciplines and perspectives. One aspect that the conference will address in particular is mixed, non-binary, and complex identities. We are interested in investigating how sometimes it is not the membership within a social group, but the non-belonging, or the refusal to belong, that generates prejudice, violence, and oppression. Examples include children with parents of different races, second generation immigrants, non-binary and transgender individuals, and individuals with bisexual and pansexual orientation. The principal goal of the conference is to make this problematization matter in current research.

Speakers:

Linda Alcoff, CUNY / The Graduate Center, Dep. of Philosophy
María del Rosario Acosta López, UC Riverside, Dep. of Hispanic Studies
Ásta, San Francisco Cal State, Dep. of Philosophy [zoom]
Anna Boncompagni, UC Irvine, Dep. of Philosophy
Annalisa Coliva, UC Irvine, Dep. of Philosophy
Robin Dembroff, Yale, Dep. of Philosophy
Sandra Harvey, UC Irvine, Dep. of African American Studies
Nigel Hatton, UC Merced, Dep. of English and Philosophy
Terence Keel, UCLA, Dep. of African American Studies
David Marriott, Penn State, Dep. of Philosophy
Daniele Moyal-Sharrock and Constantine Sandis, Hertfordshire, UK, Dep. 
of Philosophy [zoom]
Erica Preston-Roedder, Occidental College, LA
Naomi Scheman, U of Minnesota, Dep. of Philosophy and Gender, Women, & 
Sexuality Studies