Doing Philosophy Better: Workshop on the SW*IP CH Good Practice Guide

Zoom link: 

https://unilu.zoom.us/j/67395388556?pwd=VmJQRFRqWkIyZ0RjcUF5WTViamZ0UT09

Meeting ID: 673 9538 8556

Passcode: 435757

The field of academic philosophy has a serious problem with the underrepresentation of women as well as persons, who do not identify with the gender assigned to them at birth. This is due to structural forms of gendered marginalization and exclusion that create unsafe and harmful environments. The first step to combatting this is to make these structural forms of underrepresentation, marginalization, and exclusion as well as their effects visible.

In the first part of this workshop participants will be given a brief introduction to the SW*IP CH Good Practice Guide, which explores how mechanisms such as implicit bias, stereotype threat, as well as sexual and moral harassment manifest within philosophical settings: working, teaching, and learning, and how transforming certain conditions and practices could help combat them. In the second part of the workshop, participants will be invited to ask…