Meeting Schedule for 2022-23

All meetings will take place Tuesdays, 6:00-7:15pm on Teams. To join a meeting, click on our recurring meeting link at the appropriate time. For further information, please email Kim Beasley at kbeasle6@kent.edu.

The titles of all readings below are linked to PDFs of the the texts.

Optional background reading: Fanon, Wretched of the Earth, Chapter 1: "Concerning Violence" and Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre

FALL 2022

October 4 - Decolonizing Epistemology

Reading: Mignolo, "Decolonizing Western Epistemologies"

October 25 - Intersex Activism

Reading: Chase, "Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism"

November 15 - Mexican Philosophy

Reading: Revueltas, "Possibilities and Limitations of the Mexican"

December 6 - Post-9/11 Racialization

Reading: Sheth, "The Racialization of Muslims in the Post-9/11 United States"

SPRING 2023

January 31 - Anarchist Epistemology

Reading: Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, Ch. 18

February 21 - Feminine Culture

Reading: Castellanos, "On Feminine Culture"

March 14 - Kinship and Creation Myths

Reading: Everett, "The Pirahã: People Who Define Happiness without God"

April 4 - Black Women and American Culture

Reading: Sharpley-Whiting, "Jefferson's Paradox, or a Very Brief History of Black Women's Sexuality, Hip-Hop, and American Culture"

April 25 - Ecological World Views

Reading: Dudgeon, "Circles within Circles: Towards an Ecological World View"