Last updated: December 2006
Linda Martín Alcoff
Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women’s Studies
Director of the Women’s Studies Program
Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
Department of Philosophy Women’s Studies Program
541 Hall of Languages 208 Bowne Hall
Syracuse University Syracuse University
Syracuse NY 13244 Syracuse NY 13244
Phone 315-443-2519 315-443-3707
Fax 315-443-5675 Fax 315-443-9221
Email: lsalcoff@syr.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in philosophy, Brown University 1987.
M.A. in philosophy, Georgia State University 1983.
B.A. in philosophy with honors, Georgia State University 1980.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
Brown Graduate Fellowship 1983-1984
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 1990-1991
Feminist Epistemologies was a Critic's Choice Book by the American Educational Studies Assoc., 1993
Outstanding Woman Educator Award, Eta Pi Epsilon (Senior Women’s Honor Society) 1993-1994
Society for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University 1994-1995
Meredith Professorship for Excellence in Teaching, Syracuse University, since 1995
Distinguished Woman in Philosophy, 2005, Society for Women in Philosophy
Named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics for 2006, Hispanic Business Magazine
TEACHING POSITIONS:
Syracuse University, Professor of Philosophy, 1999-present
SUNY Stony Brook, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, 2002-2003
Brown University, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Spring 2001
Florida Atlantic University, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Fall 2000
Aarhus University, Denmark, Visiting Professor, November 1999
Syracuse University, Associate Professor of Philosophy, 1995-1999
Cornell University, Visiting Professor, Society for the Humanities, 1994-1995
Syracuse University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1988-1994
Kalamazoo College, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 1987-1988
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND COMPETENCE:
Continental philosophy, including 19th and 20th century
Foucault
Epistemology, coherentism and feminist epistemology
Feminist theory
Critical race theory
Post-colonialism
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
PIKSI Advisory Board (Philosophy in an Inclusive Key)
Nominating Committee, American Philosophical Association, 2002-2005
Executive Committee, APA Eastern Division, 1999-2002
Chair, Committee on Hispanics/Latinos, APA, 1998-2001
Co-Director, Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy 1997-1999
Chair, Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, SPEP, 1999- 2001
Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, Eastern APA, 1998-2001
Committee on the Status of Women, APA 1995-1997
Book Review Committee, SPEP, 1995-1996
Committee on the Status of Women, SPEP, 1992-1995
PUBLICATIONS:
Authored Books:
1. Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Epistemology Cornell University Press, 1996.
2. Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self Oxford University Press, 2006.
Edited Books:
1. Feminist Epistemologies co-edited with Elizabeth Potter, Routledge 1993.
2. Epistemology: The Big Questions Blackwell 1998.
3. Thinking From the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation, co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
4. Identities: A Reader co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta, Blackwell 2003.
5. Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy Rowman and Littlefield 2003.
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6. Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, co-edited with Eva Feder Kittay, Blackwell, 2006.
7. Identity Politics Reconsidered co-edited with Satya Mohanty, Paula Moya, and Michael Hames-Garcia, Palgrave/MacMillan, 2006
Special issues of journals:
1. Philosophy Today Spring 98, co-edited with Merold Westphal and Debra Bergoffen, Proceedings of SPEP 1997.
2. Philosophy Today Spring 99, co-edited with Merold Westphal, Proceedings of SPEP 1998.
3. Philosophy Today Spring 2000, co-edited with Walter Brogan, Proceedings of SPEP 1999.
Other editorial work:
Editor, Routledge Series: Introducing Feminist Philosophy
ARTICLES:
1. “Lordship, Bondage, and the Dialectics of Male/Female Relationships” co-authored with Linda A. Bell, Cogito II (Spring 1985): 79-93.
2. “Skepticisism, or Charles Sanders Peirce's Alternative to the Skeptical Dilemma” Auslegung, XIII (Winter 1986): 6-18.
3. “Justifying Feminist Social Science” Hypatia 2 (Fall 1987): 107-127. Reprinted in Feminism and Science edited by Nancy Tuana (Indiana University Press, 1989).
4. “Cultural Feminism v. Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory” SIGNS Spring 1988, 405-436; reprinted in Reconstructing the Academy: Women's Education and Women's Studies, edited by Elizabeth Minnich, Jean O'Barr and Rachel Rosenfeld, (University of Chicago Press, 1988); in Feminist Theory in Practice and Process edited by Micheline R. Malson et al (University of Chicago Press, 1989); in Feminism and Philosophy: Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application edited by Rosemarie Tong and Nancy Tuana, Westview Press, 1995; in Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory edited by Sherry Ortner, Geoff Eley and Nick Dirks, Princeton University Press, 1994; in Feminism edited by Susan Moller Okin and Jane Mansbridge, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.; in The Second Wave edited by Linda Nicholson, Routledge 1996; and in Beyond Portia: Women, Law and Literature in the U.S. eds. Jacqueline St. Joan and Annette Bennington McElhiney, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997: pp. 87-113. This essay has also been translated into Spanish for Feminaria, a journal published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Volume 2, No. 4 (Noviembre, 1989): 1-18, and into Italian and published in Memoria: revista di storia delle donne, N. 25 (1, 1989): 7-36; and into spanish a second time as “Feminismo cultural versus posestructuralismo: la crisis de identidad en la teoría feminista” translated by Marysa Navarro, for Nuevas Direciones edited by Marysa Navarro and Catharine Stimpson, Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2001. .
5. “Feminist Politics and Foucault: The Limits to a Collaboration” in Crises in Continental Philosophy edited by Arlene Dallery and Charles Scott (Albany: SUNY Press 1990).
6. “The Problem of Speaking For Others” in Cultural Critique (Winter 1991-92), pp. 5-32; revised and reprinted in Who Can Speak? Authority and Critical Identity edited by Judith Roof and Robyn Wiegman, University of Illinois Press, 1996; and in Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds edited by Susan Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner, (New York: New York University Press, 1994); and also in Racism and Sexism: Differences and Connections eds. David Blumenfeld and Linda Bell, Rowman and Littlefield, 1995; and also in Theorizing Feminisms edited by Elizabeth Hackett and Sally Haslanger, 2005.
7. “Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?” co-authored with Laura Gray, SIGNS Winter 93, Vol. 18, No. 2: 260-290. Translated into German and reprinted as “Der Diskurs von >Uberlebenden< sexueller Gewalt: Uberschreitung oder Vereinnahmung?” in Forum Kritische Psychologie 33 (1994): 100-135. Reprinted in Getting a Life, edited by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith, University of Minnesota Press, 1996: 198-225. A shortened version of this paper appeared under the title, “Survivors of Sexual Violence: Telling It So It Will Never Happen Again,” in Off Our Backs (April 1992), and in Phoebe Fall 1992, Vol. 4, No. 2: 30-37.
8. “Foucault as Epistemologist,” Philosophical Forum, Winter 93, Vol. XXV, No. 2, pp. 95-124.
9. “Is the Feminist Critique of Reason Rational?” Philosophical Topics 23 (2), Fall 1995: 1-26. Also in The Annual Proceedings of the Center for the Philosophic Exchange, 1995-1996 no.26: 58-79.
10. “Expert Discourses of Critique,” in Reinterpreting the Political edited by Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen Watson, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Volume 20, SUNY Press, 1998.
11. “Philosophy and Racial Identity” Radical Philosophy Jan/Feb 1996, 5-25. Also refereed in Philosophy Today, Spring 1997, Vol. 41, No.1/4, Pp. 67-76. Reprinted in Ethnic and Racial Studies Today edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos (London: Routledge, 1999).
12. “The Politics of Postmodern Feminism, Revisited” Cultural Critique No. 36, Spring 97, pp. 5-27.
13. “Immanent Truth” in Science in Context 10, (1997): pp. 97-112.
14. “What Should White People Do?” Hypatia Summer 98, Vol. 13, No. 3: pp. 6-26; reprinted in Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World, an anthology edited by Sandra Harding and Uma Narayan, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001) 262-282.
15. “Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment” Radical Philosophy 95, May/June 1998, 15-26; reprinted in Race edited by Robert Bernasconi (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001), 267-283.
16. “Philosophy Matters: A Review of Recent Work in Feminist Philosophy” SIGNS, Vol. 25, no. 3, Spring 2000: 841-882.
17. “Habits of Hostility: On Seeing Race” Philosophy Today Vol. 44, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Vol. 26, SPEP Supplement 2000, pp. 30-40.
18.“Reclaiming Truth” The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture Fall 2001, Vo. 3, No. 3, 26-41. Revised and reprinted in Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Disciplines edited by José Medina and David Wood, Blackwell 2005, 336-349.
19. “Objectivity and Its Politics” New Literary History Vol. 32, Autumn 2001, No. 4, 835-848.
20. “Does the public intellectual have intellectual integrity?” Metaphilosophy Vol. 33, October 2002, 521-534.
21. “Latinas/os, Asian-Americans and the Black/White Paradigm” Journal of Ethics Volume 7, Issue 1, 2003: 5-27.
22. “Schutte’s Nietzschean postcolonial politics” in Hypatia vol. 19, no. 3 (summer 2004) 144- 156.
23.“Latino vs. Hispanic: The Politics of Ethnic Names” and "A Response to Gracia" Philosophy and Social Criticism, June 2005, Vol. 31, no. 4, 395-408, 419-422.
24. “Against Post-Ethnic Futures” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2004, 99-117.
25. "Anzaldua: The Unassimilated Theorist" in Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, January 2006, Vol. 121, No. 1, pp. 255-259.
26. "Commentary on Elizabeth Anderson's 'Uses of Value Judgments in Science'" in the web-based Symposium on Gender, Race, and Philosophy, January 2006, http://mit.edu/sgrp>http://mit.edu/sgrp.
27. "Caliban's Phenomenological Ontology" C.L.R. James Journal, forthcoming.
INVITED CHAPTERS, ARTICLES:
1. “Feminist Critiques of Social Science” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Volume 1, December 1987: 14-16.
2. “How is Epistemology Political?” in Radical Philosophy: Tradition, Counter-Tradition, Politics edited by Roger Gottlieb, Temple University Press, 1993.
3. “Are Old Wives' Tales Justified?” co-authored with Vrinda Dalmiya, in Feminist Epistemologies, edited by Elizabeth Potter and myself, (New York: Routledge, 1993).
4. “On Mastering Master Discourses” a review essay in American Literary History Summer 1993, Vol. 5, No. 2, 335-346.
5. “Democracy and Rationality: A Dialogue with Hilary Putnam,” in Women, Culture, and Development edited by Martha Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover, Oxford University Press, 1995.
6. “Feminist Theory and Social Science: new knowledges, new epistemologies” in Body/Spaces: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality edited by Nancy Duncan, Routledge, 1996: 13-27.
7. “Mestizo Identity,” in American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity edited by Naomi Zack, Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. Reprinted in The Idea of Race eds. Robert Bernasconi and Tommy Lott, Hackett, 2000.
8. “Reflections on Formal Mentoring” Teaching Philosophy Vol. 18, No.4, December 1995, pp. 359-368.
9. “A Philosophical Dialogue with `Dialogue with the Other'” in Gender-Nature-Culture, Working Paper 12, 1994, (published in Denmark), pp. 5-22.
10. “Dangerous Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Pedophilia” Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault edited by Susan Hekman, Penn State Press, 1996: 99-136; reprinted in Philosophy and Sex 3rd edition, eds. R. Baker, K. Wininger, and F. Elliston (Prometheus).
11. “Phenomenology, Poststructuralism, and Feminist Theory on the Concept of Experience” in Feminist Phenomenology edited by Linda Fisher and Lester Embree, The Netherlands: Kluwer, 2000; also translated into German in Phanomenologie und Geschlechterdifferenz (Phenomenology and Sexual Difference) edited by Silvia Stoller and Helmuth Vetter, Austria, 1998.
12. “On the Elimination of Experience in Postmodern Feminism” Feminism, Epistemology, and Ethics: Proceedings of the Oslo Conference 1994 ed. by Inger Nygaard Preus et al, University of Oslo, 1996: 15-30.
13. “Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Theory on Experience” in Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of Flesh, edited by Fred Evans and Leonard Lawlor (Albany, SUNY Press, 2000), 251-272.
14. “Response to my Critics” an essay responding to five reviews of Real Knowing, for a special issue of Social Epistemology, 1998, vol. 12, No. 3: 289-305.
15. “Latina/o Identity Politics” in The Good Citizen, edited by Eduardo Mendieta, et al, Routledge, 1998.
16. “Becoming an Epistemologist” in Making Futures: Explorations in Time, Memory, and Becomings, ed. by Elizabeth Grosz, Cornell University Press, 1999.
17. “Is Latina/o Identity a Racial Identity?” Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S.: Ethnicity, Race and Rights edited by Jorge Gracia and Pablo DeGreiff, Routledge Press, 2000. Reprinted in Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century: The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity eds. Jorge Gracia and Elizabethg Millán-Zaibert Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004, 311-334.
18. “On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant?” EnGendering Rationalities ed. by Nancy Tuana and Sandra Morgen, SUNY Press, 2001; and in revised form in Women of Color and Philosophy: Reflections on the Discipline ed. by Naomi Zack, Blackwell, 2000.
19. “Who’s Afraid of Identity Politics?,” in Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism, edited by Paula Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia, Univ. of California Press, 2000.
20.“Gadamer’s Feminist Epistemology” in Feminist Interpretations of Gadamer ed. Lorraine Code, Pennsylvania State Press, 2002.
21. “The Case for Coherence” in The Nature of Truth ed. by Michael Lynch, MIT Press, 2001.
22. “Power/Knowledges in the Colonial Unconscious: A Dialogue Between Dussel and Foucault” in Thinking From the Underside of History eds. Alcoff and Mendieta, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
23. “Of Philosophy and Guerilla Wars” in The Philosophical “I” edited by George Yancy, Rowman and Littlefield 2002.
24. “Preface” for Globalization and Latin America edited by Mario Saenz, Rowman and Littlefield 2002.
25. “Can Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Speak to Philosophers?” Newsletter on the Status of Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies, Spring 2002, Vol. 1, no. 2, 41-43.
26. “Rethinking Maternal Thinking” Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall 2003, 85-89.
27. “Foucault’s Philosophy of Science: Structures of Truth/Structures of Power” Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophies of Science edited by Gary Gutting, Blackwell 2005, 211-223.
28. “The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender” Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics edited by Barbara Andrew, Jean Keller, Lisa Schwartzman, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
29. “Epistemologies of Ignorance: Three Types,” for an anthology edited by Nancy Tuana and Shannon Sullivan, entitled Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, SUNY Press, 2007.
30. “El movimiento norteamericano contra la violación: Paradigmas desafiantes del discurso, “ trans. by Anita Cañizares M., in Pensar (en) Género: Teoría práctica para nuevas cartografías del cuerpo edited by Carmen Millán de Benavides and Ángela María Estrada Mesa. Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Pp. 372-389.
31. "Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" in Race or Ethnicity: Black and Latino Identity, edited by Jorge J.E. Gracia, Cornell University Press, 2007.
32. "Rorty's Anti-Representationalism in the Context of Sexual Violence" forthcoming in Feminist Interpretations of Rorty, edited by Marianne Janack, Pennsylvania State Press.
33. "Decolonizing Philosophy" forthcoming in a book on Latin American and African American Philosophy, edited by George Yancy.
Dictionary and Encyclopedia articles:
1.Entries on “Foucault,” “Gadamer,” and “Continental Epistemology” for A Companion to Epistemology edited by Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992).
2.“Racism” entry for A Companion to Feminist Philosophy eds. Alison Jaggar and Iris Young, Basil Blackwell, 1997.
3. Entries on “Identity Politics” and “Ofelia Schutte” for Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories edited by Lorraine Code, 2001.
Interviews:
1. “Identity: Cultural Knowledge---self-knowledge,” in the journal disClosure: a Journal of Social Theory, No. 7, 1998.
2. "Philosophy in/and Latino and Afro-Caribbean Studies" A series of three interviews on the relationship between Latino studies, Black studies, and philosophy, with Paget Henry, Juan Flores, and Lewis Gordon, in Nepantla: Views from the South Vol. 4, Issue 1, and APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy.
3. Interviewed by Ivan Marquez for a Joint Issue of the Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy and the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, forthcoming.
4. "Feminism(s) and the Left: A Discussion with Linda Martín Alcoff" interviewed by Laura Gray-Rosendale, in Radical Relevance: Toward a Scholarship of the Whole Left edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale and Steven Rosendale (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), 238-256.
5. "Feminist Epistemologies/ Interview with Linda Alcoff by Alireza Shomali" in Madreseh (Cultural and Philosophical Quarterly) Tehran, 2006, Vol. 2, No. 4: pp. 58-63. (This interview appeared in Farsi)
Short Introductions:
1. “Introduction to symposium on Maria Pia Lara’s Moral Textures” Hypatia, 2000.
2. “Introduction for Symposium on Jorge Gracia’s Hispanic/Latino Identity” Philosophy and Social Criticism vol. 27, no. 2, March 2001, pp. 1-2.
3. “Introduction for Symposium on Jorge Valadez’s Deliberative Democracy, Political Legitimacy, and Self-Determination in Multicultural Societies” in Philosophy and Social Criticism.
Book Reviews:
1. Outlaw Aesthetics, by Fred Schroeder, review co-authored with Milton Snoeyenbos, in Journal of Popular Culture, (Spring 1982): 187.
2. Art, An Enemy of the People, by Roger Taylor, review co-authored with Milton Snoeyenbos, in Journal of Popular Culture, (Winter 1983): 157.
3. Feminism and Foucault, edited by Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby, in Ethics, October 90.
4. Feminist Thought and the Structure of Knowledge edited by Mary McCanney Gergen, in American Scientist, 78 (March-April 1990), 187.
5. Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason by Gary Gutting, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, December 91, Vol. 51, No.4.
6. Historicism and Knowledge by Robert D'Amico, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, March 92, 241-243.
7. Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought by Ofelia Schutte, in Hypatia vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 176-183.
8. Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism by Lewis Gordon, in Philosophy in Review, April 1997, Vol. XVII, No. 2: 95-100.
9. Color Conscious by Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, in Constellations, Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1997, 286-288.
10. Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis, by Jacqueline M. Martinez, in APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Spring 2001.
11. Just Cause: Freedom, Identity, and Rights by Drucilla Cornell, in Hypatia vol. 19, no. 3 (summer 2004), pp. 225-228.
12. Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts by Arnold Davidson, in Canadian Philosophical Review.
13. "Latino Oppression" a review of Race, Racism and Reparations by Angelo Corlett, in Journal of Social Philosophy December 2005.
Works in Progress:
1. "Toward a Political Epistemology: Horkheimer, Habermas, and Foucault"
2. "Latina Feminisms"
3. "Knowledge and Interiority: Abuse Memories and the Question of Truth"
4. "Mignolo's Epistemology Decolonized"
5. "Edward Said's Decolonized Humanism"
6. Race and Nationalism a co-edited anthology with Mariana Ortega, SUNY Press.
CONFERENCES CO-ORGANIZED:
1. “Out in the Academy” Syracuse University, a symposium with six speakers, 1993-4.
2. SPEP national yearly conferences, 1997, 1998, 1999.
3. “The Future of Minority Studies” a series of bi-coastal conferences held at Stanford, Cornell, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, and Binghamton University, 2001-2004, co-organized with Satya Mohanty, Paula Moya, Tobin Siebers, and Michael Hames-Garcia. See www.fmsproject.cornell.edu
4. "St. Paul among the Philosophers" April 14-16 2005, Syracuse University.
5. "Feminism and War" Syracuse University Women's Studies Program, October 2006. Eight plenary speakers, 32 panels, 450 participants.
6. "Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion" April 26-28 2007, Syracuse University.
INVITED LECTURES, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, etc.:
1980's
"Reasons to be Pro-Choice," September 1981, Georgia State University public debate sponsored by student organizations and the Philosophy Department.
"Skepticisism, or Charles Sanders Peirce's Alternative to the Skeptical Dilemma," April 19, 1985, the Sixth Annual Conference of the Graduate Student Association at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
"Feminism and Epistemology," October 1, 1985, Wesleyan University Women's Studies Program.
"Truth Relativism," January 27, 1986, Department of Philosophy, Kalamazoo College.
"Justifying Feminist Social Science," April 1986, Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Eastern Division meeting, Hamilton College.
"A Feminist Ethic for Women's Traditional Professions" April 30, 1986, Connecticut College Women's Studies Program.
"Feminism and Women's Work," November 1986, Connecticut College Women's Studies Program.
"Cultural Feminism v. Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory" December 1986, Eastern Division SWIP, Boston.
"On Bloom's Diagnosis of the Philosophy Curriculum: A `Lightweight' `Nihilist' Responds" December 8, 1987, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University.
"Eroticism and Pornography" January 13, 1988, the Women's Equity Coalition at Kalamazoo College.
"New Versions of the Coherence Theory: Gadamer and Foucault" January 29, 1988, Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University.
"On Bloom's Diagnosis of the Philosophy Curriculum: A `Lightweight' `Nihilist' Responds" March 4, 1988, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters annual meeting.
"Cultural Feminism v. Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory" March 1988, Midwest Division of SWIP meeting, Indiana University.
"How can we revive the women's movement?" March 5, 1988, the Women's Exchange, Western Michigan University.
"New Versions of the Coherence Theory: Gadamer and Foucault," April 1, 1988, Michigan State University Department of Philosophy.
"New Versions of the Coherence Theory: Gadamer and Foucault" April 12, 1988, the Heraclitean Society at Western Michigan University.
"The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Foucault" October 13-15, 1988, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Annual Meetings, Duquesne University.
"The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Foucault" November 1988, Post-Modernism Across the Ages Conference, Syracuse University.
"The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Foucault," December 1988, Radical Philosopher's Association meetings, Washington D.C.
"Coherence, Hermeneutics, and Truth" December 1988, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meetings, Washington D.C..
"Cultural Feminism v. Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory" February 1989, Concordia University, Montreal.
"Feminist Debates on Pornography" February 1989, Syracuse University Women's Studies Program.
"The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Foucault," April 1989, the Society for Women in Philosophy, Eastern Division, SUNY Stony Brook.
"Resistant Subjectivity" December 1989, Modern Languages Association, Washington D.C.
1990
"The Problem of Speaking for Others" March 1990, Eastern Division SWIP.
"The Problem of Speaking for Others," April 1990, SUNY Buffalo Women's Studies conference.
"The Problem of Speaking for Others," April 1990, Hamilton College Philosophy Department.
"The Problem of Speaking for Others," May 1990, conference on "Human Dignity and Social Progress" held in Havana, Cuba.
"Commentary on Nancy Fraser's book Unruly Practices," October 1990, SPEP meeting at Villanova University.
"The Problem of Speaking for Others," October 1990, University of North Dakota conference on "Women's Research and Revision of the Academy," keynote speaker.
"High Theory, Real Life, and the Politics of Problematics," October 1990, University of North Dakota Women's Studies Department.
"Response to Sandra Harding," December 1990, SWIP Eastern Division, Boston.
1991
"The Problem of Speaking for Others" March 1991, Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference at SUNY Binghamton.
"A Commentary on the Contingencies of Liberal Discourse," May 16-18, 1991, International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference, University of Montreal.
"Response to Hilary Putnam on Democracy and Rationality," August 14-16, 1991, World Institute of Development Economics Research conference on "Human Capabilities: Women, Men, and Equality," Helsinki, Finland.
"Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?" with Laura Gary, October 8, 1991, SU Women's Studies Fall reception.
"Response to Debra Bergoffen on Simone de Beauvoir", October 17-19, 1991, SPEP, Memphis State.
"Going Public" October 30, 1991, Soule Library Branch Luncheon Series.
"Speaking Out as Survivors of Sexual Violence," November 6, 1991, Colgate University Women's Studies Program.
"How is Epistemology Political?" November 6, 1991, Colgate University Philosophy Department.
"Speaking Out as Survivors of Sexual Violence" November 13, 1991, McGill University College of Law panel "The Right to Non-Violence."
"The Problem of Speaking for Others," November 21, 1991, Le Moyne College Philosophy
Department.
1992
"How is Epistemology Political?" January 30, 1992, Queens University, Kingston Ontario.
"Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?" with Laura Gray, March 3, 1992, LeMoyne College Women's History Month.
"Response to Joseph Levine on Objectivity in History," Spring 1992, History/Philosophy Colloquium, Syracuse University.
"Female Gender Identity" July 22, 1992, Kalamazoo College.
Panel discussion on "Fefu and Her Friends," July 23, 1992, Kalamazoo College.
"Columbus and Colonialism" given as a part of a public debate, October 7, 1992, sponsored by La Lucha, Syracuse University.
"Expert Discourses of Critique" October 8-10, 1992, SPEP annual meeting, Boston.
"Feminist Epistemologies" with Elizabeth Potter, December 1992, Eastern Division SWIP, Washington D.C.
1993
"Feminist Epistemologies" February 1993, SUNY Buffalo Philosophy and Cognitive Science colloquium.
"Response to Richard Miller," February 1993, Syracuse University/Cornell University Joint Colloquium.
"Dangerous Pleasures: Foucault and Pedophilia," March 1993, SWIP Eastern Division, University of South Florida.
"Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?" April 1993, Memphis State University, Philosophy and Women's Studies Deaprtments.
"On Ethnic Mixing," May 3-8, 1993, Conference on "Rethinking Subjectivity: Modernity and the Self," Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
"Dangerous Pleasures: Foucault and Pedophilia" May 1993, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.
"Theoretical Correctness" October 1993, SPEP, Loyola University, New Orleans.
"Raced Purely or Purely Erased: Problems in Mixed Race Identities" December 3, 1993, Denison University, Philosophy Department.
"Book Commentary on Ofelia Schutte's Cultural Identity in Latin America" Eastern Division Iberian Philosophy Society Meeting, December 28, 1993, Atlanta.
1994
"An Introduction to Debates in Feminist Theory" for the "Gender, Place and Space" Symposium, Geography Department, Syracuse University, January 21, 1994.
"Foucault and Pedophilia" February 1994, University of Texas at Austin, Women's Studies.
"Immanent Epistemology" February 1994, University of Texas at Austin, Philosophy Department.
"Mixed race subjectivity," SWIP conference, SUNY Binghamton, April 9, 1994.
"Dangerous Pleasures: A Post-Liberal Account of Pedophilia," York University on "Post-Liberal Discourse and the Ethics of (Ms)Representation" Toronto, April 22-23, 1994. (Keynote speaker)
"The Elimination of Experience and Identity in Postmodernism," May 1994, Central Division American Philosophical Association, Kansas.
"Feminism and Phenomenology," June 1994, University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy, conference on feminist philosophy, (keynote speaker).
"A Philosophical Dialogue with `Dialogue with the Other'" June 1994, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense Denmark.
"Phenomenology, Poststructuralism, and Feminist Theory on the Concept of Experience" November 17-18 1994, Conference on Feminist Phenomenology, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Florida Atlantic University.
1995
"The Crisis of Experience in Feminist Theory" Center for the Humanities, Memphis State University, Januray 27, 1995.
"The Elimination of Experience in Postmodern Feminism" February 3, 1995, Women's Studies, Cornell University.
"Putnam’s Realism" February 23, 1995, Department of Philosophy, Cornell University.
"Raced Purely or Purely Erased," LeMoyne College, Department of Philosophy, March 15, 1995.
"Raced Purely or Purely Erased: Concepts of Mixed race Identity" and "Race and Identity" Duquesne University, March 23-24, 1995.
"Is the Feminist Critique of Rationality Rational?" CUNY Graduate School, New York SWIP, April 6, 1995.
"Raced Purely or Purely Erased: Concepts of Mixed Race Identity" Fordham University, Department of Philosophy, April 7, 1995.
"The Elimination of Experience in Poststructuralist Feminist Theory," Sofphia meeting, May, 1995.
"Modernist Notions of the Self as Racialized Identities," Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, May 14-21, 1995.
"Racialized Identities" conference sponsored by Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, May 26-27, 1995.
"Politics and Truth: How can Feminists Have Both?" University of Oslo, Conference on "The Concept of Experience in Feminist Theory," June 1995, keynote.
"Everything You Wanted to Know About Feminism But Were Afraid To Ask" Unitarian Retreat, five lectures, July 8-15, 1995.
"Feminist Theory and the Problem of Experience," Hobart and William Smith, Philosophy Department, September 22, 1995.
"Philosophy and Racial Identity," SUNY Binghamton, Philosophy Department, September 27, 1995.
"Toward a Theory of Racialized Subjectivity", Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, October 1995.
"Latina Identity Politics," conference on Latina Feminisms, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, October 1995.
"Philosophy and Racial Identity," at the "Strangers and Others" conference, Middlesex University, London, November 22-23, 1995.
"Latina Identity Politics" for a panel on Multiculturalism and Hispanic Identity, Eastern APA, New York, 1995.
"Women with Tenure" for a panel on women and tenure, Eastern APA, New York, 1995.
1996
“Philosophy and Racial Identity,” for conference on “The Academy and Race: Toward a Political Philosophy of Action” Villanova University, March 8-10. 1996.
“Is the Feminist Critique of Reason Rational?” SUNY Brockport, March 1996.
"Commentary on Nancy Hartsock" Pacific APA, April 1996.
“Immanent Truth”, Conference on "Contemporary Models of Critique in Society, Science, and the Arts" Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, May 13-16, 1996.
“Is ‘Race’ the Way to Rights?” Conference on “Race, Rights and Respect” Rutgers June 1996.
“Immanent Truth” for an NEH Summer Seminar on feminist epistemologies, Eugene Oregon July 1996.
“Visible Identities,” Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Department, University of Minnesota, August 16, 1996.
“Dangerous Pleasures” for a conference on “Rethinking Sex, Gender, and Sexualities" University of Memphis, September 26-28, 1996.
“Putnam’s Realism” University of Mississippi September 1996.
“Comment on Elizabeth Kassab’s ‘Is Europe an Essence?’ SPEP, Washington D.C. October 1996.
“Commentary on Lewis Gordon’s Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism” Eastern APA 1996.
1997
“Whiteness” University of Kentucky March 1997.
“Feminist Epistemologies” College of Sweetbriar, April 1997.
“Becoming an Epistemologist” a conference on “Becomings,” University of Richmond, April 4-6. 1997.
“Latina Identity Politics” University of San Francisco, April 1997.
“Immanent Truth: An Update” for “Engendering Rationalities” conference at Eugene Oregon, April 18-20 1997.
“Whiteness” and “The Politics of Postmodern Feminism”, University of Hawaii, May 1997.
“Identity Politics Revisited” keynote talk, Austin and Hempel lecture series, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia September 26, 1997.
“Immanent Truth” panel presentation for CSWIP, Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia, Sept.27, 1997.
“Toward a Realistic Realism about Identity” at the Hispanics: Cultural Locations conference, San Francisco, October 1997.
“Is Identity a Problem?” Women’s Studies and the Center for Ethnicity and Race, Stanford, October 1997.
“Is Identity a Problem?” SUNY Binghamton, Women’s Studies Dept, November 1997.
“Is Identity a Problem?” UCLA, Philosophy and Women’s Studies, November 1997.
“Is Identity a Problem?” Duke University, November 1997.
Commentary on Amy Allen’s “The Anti-Subjectivity Hypothesis in Michel Foucault”, Eastern APA 1997.
1998
“Is Identity a Problem?” Vassar College, Philosophy Dept., February 1998
“Teaching Without a Beard: Gender Issues in the Classroom” a panel presentation at the Pacific APA, March 1998, sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women.
“Is Identity a Problem?” Prague Academy of Sciences, May 1998.
Rutgers conference for recruiting minorities, “Feminist philosophy and epistemology”.
“Is Identity a Problem?” LaTrobe University, Australia, July 1998, hour, invitation.
“Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment,” Monash University, Australia, Philosophy and Cultural Studies, July 1998, hour, invitation.
“Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment” Australian National University, Women’s Studies, July 1998, hour, inviation.
“Is Identity a Problem?” University of New South Wales, Philosophy Department, July 1998, hour, invitation.
“Is Identity a Problem?” Philosophy Department, Macquarrie University, July 1998, hour, invitation.
“Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment,” Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Sydney University, July 1998, hour, invitation.
“Feminist epistemology” World Congress of Philosophy, Boston 1998, thirty minutes, invitation.
“Where does whiteness fit on the multi-cultural map,” University of Alabama, Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Sept. 1998, hour, invitation.
“Is Latino/a Identity a Racial Identity?” SUNY Buffalo conference on Hispanic Identity and Ethnic Rights, October 1998.
“Racial embodiment” for a conference on “Race and Philosophy” sponsored by the Radical Philosophy group, Univ. of London, November 1998.
“Realism and Identity” American Studies Association, November 1998.
Commentary on Charles Mills’ Blackness Visible, Eastern APA, 1998.
1999
“What can white people do about racism?” SUNY Cortland, February 9, 1999.
A series of three lectures given at Oberlin College, February 1999.
“Are social identities relevant to knowledge?” SUNY Brockport, March 4, 1999.
“The U.S. Anti-Rape Movement” for a conference in Fes, Morocco, May 1999.
A series of three lectures at the University of Oslo, Philosophy Dept, and Centre for Research on Women, May, 1999.
“Race and Gender” Presentation at the University of Tromso, Norway, May 1999.
“Epistemologies of Philosophy of Liberation” presnted at the Interamerican Congreso of Philosophy, Puebla Mexico, August 1999.
“Is Social Identity Epistemically Salient?” York University, Philosophy Dept., September 1999.
“Is Identity a Problem?” Miami University, Harris Lecture, September 1999.
Six lectures at the Department of Philosophy, University of Aarhus, Denmark, on Feminist Epistemology and Immanent Realism, November 1999.
“Can a Theory of Power/Knowledge Retain Truth?” University of Copenhagen, November 1999.
Commentary on Uma Narayan’s “Feminist Politics and Cross-Cultural Analysis,” Eastern APA, 1999.
2000
“Is Identity a Problem?” Philosophy Department, New School, Jamuary 2000.
“Is Identity a Problem?” Philosophy Department, Penn State, February 2000.
“Foucault and Liberation Theology” Latin American Studies Association, Miami, March 2000.
Commentary on Georgia Warnke’s book, Legitimate Differences, Pacific APA, April 2000.
“Gender and Cultural Studies” Universidad de Javeriana, Bogota Colombia, August 2000.
“Who’s Afraid of Identity Politics?” Appalachian State, September
“Seeing Race” SPEP October 2000.
“Who’s Afraid of Identity Politics?” SUNY Stony Brook, November 2000.
“Who’s Afraid of Identity Politics?” Florida Atlantic University November 2000.
“Latino vs. Hispanic: Does it Make a Difference?” APA Eastern 2000.
“Asian Americans, Latinos, and the Black/White Binary” APA Eastern 2000.
2001
“Going beyond conversations/reclaiming truth” Virginia Commonwealth Symposium February 15, 2001.
“Who’s Afraid of Identity Politics?” Harvard, Humanities Center, February 22, 2001.
“Power/Knowledge and the Epistemic Criterion” St. Louis University conference on Philosophy of social science: keynote, April 2001.
“Is a public intellectual an ‘applied’ intellectual?” Central APA May 2001.
“Who’s Afraid of Identity Politics?” Rhode Island College April 2001.
“Horkheimer, Habermas and Foucault on Power/Knowledge” Brown University May 2001.
“Horkheimer, Habermas and Foucault on Power/Knowledge” Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, May 2001.
Scholar’s session on Ofelia Schutte, SPEP 2001.
“The need for universalism,” Cornell University conference “Reclaiming Identity Politics,” November, 2001.
Commentary on “Speaking with Myself as Other” by Robert Bernasconi, Eastern APA, December 2001.
2002
“Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Black White Paradigm” at the Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy, CUNY, Jan. 20, 2002.
“Social Identity as Historical Memory” Keynote talk: “Culture and Memory” conference at Univ. of South Carolina, Feb. 2002.
“Gadamer’s Feminist Epistemology” and “Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Black White Paradigm” at Georgia State University, 2002.
“Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Black White Paradigm” Northeast Florida Conference, March 2002.
“Gadamer’s Feminist Epistemology” Vanderbilt March 2002.
“Foucault’s Philosophy of Science” Notre Dame conference on continental philosophies of science, September 2002.
“The Metaphysics of Sexual Difference” SPEP, Loyola University, Chicago October 2002.
“Is identity politics divisive?” for the “Future of Minority Studies Conference” University of Michigan, October 2002.
“Nietzsche and Foucault on Knowledge” Eastern APA December 2002.
“Ruddick’s Maternal Ethics: A Reappraisal” SWIP panel, Eastern APA December 2002.
2003
“Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Black White Paradigm” Brown University conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and race, March 2003.
“Race and Sex: A contrasting metaphysics” Pacific APA March 2003.
"Decolonizing Epistemology" Invited Speaker for the NEH Summer Seminar at Penn State University, August 2003.
“The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender,” keynote talk, Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Association, University of South Florida, October 17-19, 2003.
“Against postethnic futures, “ keynote talk, Future of Minority Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 9-11, 2003 .
“Comments on the Fraser/Honneth Debate” Critical Theory Roundtable, SUNY Stony Brook, September 24-25, 2003.
“Appiah on Race and Identity” SPEP, Boston, Nov. 6-8, 2003.
2004
“Identity Politics Reconsidered” Stanford University Humanities Center and Race and Ethnic Studies Program, February 26, 2004
“Identity Politics and Class Struggle” Towson State University, Baltimore, March 11, 2004.
“Commentary on Jeffrey Rosen’s The Naked Crowd” Maxwell School conference, March 19, 2004.
“Epistemologies of Ignorance” keynote talk, Feminist Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology and Science Studies conference, Penn State, March 26-28, 2004.
“Gay marriage as a social movement” SU LGBT student program debate, March 31, 2004.
“The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender,” Trent University, Philosophy and Women’s Studies, April 2, 2004.
“Judith Butler Revisited” a week long seminar taught at Cornell University for the Society for the Humanities, April 5-9, 2004.
“Wilkerson’s sexual realism” Cornell University symposium on sexuality and post-positivist realism, English dept., April 5, 2004.
“Identity politics in the age of empire” for a conference on “Empire” Cornell University, Society for the Humanities, April 9, 2004.
“Latinos, identity, and history” for Central APA, Chicago, April 23-25, 2004.
“Identity Politics and Class Struggle” DePaul Philosophy Department conference, April 30-May 1, 2004.
“Knowledge and Interiority” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Syracuse, May 19-25, 2004.
“Realism and Identity” a talk for the School for Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Cornell University, June 26, 2004.
“The Ontology of Sex and Gender” Critical Realism conference, Cambridge University, August 17-19, 2004.
“Recognition versus Redistribution” American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sept. 2-4, 2004.
“Critical realism and objective realism” for a Critical Realism conference at Queen’s University, Canada, Sept. 24-25, 2004.
“Against Post-ethnic Futures” Marx Wartofsky Memorial Lecture, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 6, 2004.
“The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender,” MIT Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Boston, Oct. 19, 2004.
“LGBT and Women’s Studies: Common Grounds” for the LGBT Conference, Syracuse University, Sept. 23, 2004.
“Edward Said on Decolonizing Humanism,” SPEP, Memphis, 2004.
“Feminist epistemology versus social epistemology” FEMMSS conference, U. of Washington, Seattle, Nov. 5-7, 2004.
“The epistemology of tolerance” for a conference sponsored by the Philosophy Department at American University, Washington D.C., Nov. 12, 2004.
“Comments on Angelo Corlett’s Race, Racism and Reparations” APA Eastern Division meetings, Dec. 27-30, 2004.
2005
“Identity Politics: A Defense” UCLA Transnational Studies Program, January 11, 2005.
“Identity Politics: North and South” Duke University, February 19-20, 2005.
“Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms” at the Symposium on “Black Ethnicity, Latino Race?” SUNY Buffalo, April 1-2, 2005.
“The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender" Philosophy dept., Florida State University, April 9, 2005.
“Identity Politics: A Defense” U. of San Francisco, Philosophy Department, April 2005.
"An Epistemology for the Next Revolution" Opening panel for the “Toward a Post-continental Philosophy” conference at Berkeley, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, April 21-23, 2005.
"Mignolo's Epistemology of Coloniality" Keynote talk, Caribbean Philosophy Association Meetings, June, 2005.
"US Latino issues in/and philosophy" NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Latin American Philosophy, Buffalo, June 2005.
"Transnational feminist debates" chair and commentator, Future of Minority Studies conference, Cornell, July 30-Aug.1, 2005.
"Identity Politics: A Defense" Potter Memorial Lecture, Washington State University, Sept. 29, 2005.
"Comments on John McCumber" SPEP, Oct. 2005.
"Lessons for feminist theory from Ciudad Juarez" conference on Ciudad Juarez, Syracuse Univ. Nov. 2, 2005.
"Intolerance, Difference and Disagreement," Grinnell College Colloquium on Intolerance, Fall 2005.
"Reproduction and gender identity" Eastern APA, 2005.
Respondent on Panel for Distinguished Women in Philosophy, Eastern APA.
2006
"Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference, Keynote speaker, March 10-11, 2006, Boulder Colorado.
"Respondent to Book session on Visible Identities" Pacific APA, Portland, March, 2006.
"Latina Feminisms" Conference on Latina Feminist Philosophy, John Carroll University, April 6-8, 2006.
"Respondent to Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth" Central APA, April 2006.
"Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" Central APA, April 2006.
Book panel on Visible Identities:Race, Gender, and the Self, FMS Colloquium at Stanford, July 2006.
"Comments on the Duke Lacrosse team Scandal" for Constitution Day, sponsored by Political Science Dept., Syracuse University, Sept 19, 2006.
Book Session on Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self at the California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, University of San Francisco, San Franciso, CA; Sept. 22-24, 2006
Book Session on Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self at Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA; Oct. 12-14, 2006.
"Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" Glasscock Center for Humanities, Texas A&M University, Nov. 2, 2006.
"Rorty's Anti-Representationalism in the Context of Sexual Violence" Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University, Nov. 3, 2006.
"Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, November 30, 2006.
"Rationality and Group Identity" Eastern APA, Dec, 27-30, 2006, Washington DC.
"Commentary on Jorge Gracia's Surviving Race, Ethnicity and Nationality" Eastern APA, Dec. 27-30, 2006, Washington DC.
Author Meets Critic Session at the Eastern APA, sponsored by the Committee on Blacks in Philosophy, on Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self. December 29, 2006.
2007:
"Mignolo's Political Epistemology" Duke University Conference on "The Collapse of Traditional Knowledge: Economy, Technology, Geopolitics" January 26-28, 2007.
"Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" Altherr Symposium speaker, Haverford College, Feb. 3-4, 2007.
"Rorty's Anti-representationalism in the Context of Sexual Violence" Conference of FEMMSS (Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies), Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona, Feb. 8-10, 2007.
"Racial Profiling in Epistemology" Goutman Lecture, Philosophy Department, George Washington University, Feb. 23, 2007.
"Agency, rationality, and Group Identities" Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, St. Joseph's UniversityApril 7, 2007.
"Mignolo's Epistemology" Latin American Philosophy Symposium, University of Buffalo, April 19-20, 2007.
Late May and early June: I will be giving doing a msterclass at the University of Utrecht on feminist and critical race philosophy.
"Layered Identities" June 4-9, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Cyprus.
Co-teaching with Satya Mohanty a Summer Seminar for the Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute on "Intersectional Identities: Realist Explorations" Cornell University, July 2007.
Committees:
Syracuse University:
a. Department (Philosophy):
Metaphysics and Epistemology Comprehensives Committee 1988-present
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Philosophy Department 1992
Faculty Mentoring Committee, Philosophy Department 1991-1998, 03-04.
Executive Committee 1995-98
Search Committees, 1995-98, 03-04, 04-05.
b. Department (Women's Studies):
Women's Studies Program Advisory Board 1988-present
Co-Chair, Women's Studies Curriculum Committee 1989-1990
Newsletter Committee, Women's Studies Program 1992-1993
c. College:
Humanities Doctoral Program Advisory Board 1988-1990, 1993-95
Search Committee for the Safire Chair in Modern Letters 1989-1990
Ad Hoc Investigative Committee for the Psychology Department 1992-93
Dean's Committee on the Conditions of Women, College of Arts and Sciences 1992-1993
Latino/Latin American Studies Program Advisory Board 1993-present
Search Committee for a Director of Latino/Latin American Studies, 1997-1999
Post-doc in Humanities Search Committee. 2006
Curriculum Committee, 2005-
Humanities Council 2005-
Watson Committee, 2004-2005
Faculty Council, 2005-
d. University:
Chancellor's Task Force on Rape 1989
R.A.P.E. Center Advisory Board from 1990 to 1994, 1997-1998
Faculty Advisor, Students Concerned About Rape Education (SCARED) 1989-1994
Co-founder and advisor for Women For Women, a support group for survivors of sexual violence on campus 1989-91
Contact Person Project, R.A.P.E. Center 1992-present
Program on the Resolution of Conflict Program Committee 1993-4
Faculty Advisor, SEAC 1999-2002.
University Senate 2001-2002, 2003-present.
Senate Committee on Promotions and Tenure Appeals, University Senate, 2001- 2002
Co-Chair, Senate Committee on Diversity, 2003-2006
Chancellor's Task Force on Institutional Culture 2005-
e. Profession:
(Listed at the top of c.v.)
Editorial Boards:
Hypatia
Cultural Critique
Culture, Theory, and Critique
Constellations
Notre Dame Philosophical Review
Web Symposium on Gender, Race, and Philosophy
Journal of Social Philosophy
Manuscript Reviews for Journals also include:
SIGNS
Philosophy Today
Teaching Philosophy
Dialogue
Continental Philosophy Review
differences
Social Theory and Practice
European Journal of Philosophy
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Latino Studies
Social Epistemology
Book manuscripts reviewed for:
Routledge
Cornell University Press
Oxford University Press
SUNY Press
Temple University Press
Rowman and Littlefield
Westview
Polity Press
I review grant and fellowship applications for Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, Canadian Council of Humanities and Social Science, and others.
I have done external reviews of departments at UCLA (Women's Studies), and UC Riverside (Philosophy).