Queen’s University at Kingston, Philosophy Department and Online
Keynote Speakers: Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University), Katherine McKittrick (Queen’s University), and Muindi Fanuel Muindi (Independent Scholar)
In recent years, philosophy of race has moved from the margins of academia to becoming a recognized, rich field of its own. Similarly, Queen’s University as a hub of critical philosophy, has undergone immense growth.
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Philosophy of race as a broad field examines issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and processes of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world and throughout history. Contemporary philosophers of race face the logics and orders of racial capitalism, coloniality, and anti-Blackness. Following Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s repeated assertion that scholarship and activism cannot be cleaved apart, they study and struggle against these structures and horizons of social life by opposing racism and oppression in all forms. We are interested in papers that are oriented toward freedom in this way, especially those that take analytic, continental, and interdisciplinary approaches drawing from Black Studies, Trans/Queer/Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, etc.