CONFERENCE PROGRAM

(Note: BCC Auditorium = Black Cultural Center Auditorium - Vanderbilt University)

Friday, October 19, 2007

8:45 am, Welcoming Remarks - BCC Auditorium

~ Dr. Kathryn T. Gines, Vanderbilt University
Founding Director, Collegium of Black Women Philosophers

9:00 am - 9:50 am Session I - BCC Auditorium

~ Dr. Jacqueline Scott, Loyola University - Chicago

"The Price of the Ticket: A Genealogy and Revaluation of Race"

(Response by Dr. Desiree Melton, College of Nortre Dame of Maryland)

10:00 am - 10:50 am Session II - BCC Auditorium

~ Dr. Sybol Cook Anderson, St. Mary's College of Maryland

"'Some Kinda Racist': Re-Actualizing Hegel for the Politics of Difference?"
(Response by Dr. Kris Johnson, Fairfield University)

11:00 am - 11:50 am, Session III - BCC Auditorium

~ Dr. Janine Jones, The University of North Carolina - Greensboro

"Yancy's Elevator Case: How did he know she moved back because he was black?"
(Response by Dr. Blanche Radford Curry, Fayetteville State University)

*Lunch Break*

2:00 pm - 2:50 pm, Session IV - BCC Auditorium

~ Dr. Donna-Dale Marcano, Trinity College

"Re-Reading Plato's Symposium Through the Lens of a Black Woman"
(Response by Qresent Mali Mason, Temple University)

3:00 pm - 3:50 pm, Session V - BCC Auditorium

~ Dr. Devonya Havis, Virginia Union University

"Parrhesia and Auditory Identity: From Sight to Sound"
(Response by Zakiyyah Jackson, UC - Berkeley)

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm, KEYNOTE ADDRESS - BCC Auditorium

~ Dr. Anita Allen, Henry L. Silverman Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

“The White-Only Shade Tree: Moral Reflections of Integration Now and Then”
 
6:00 pm, Recognition Ceremony - BCC Auditorium
Esteemed Honoree: Dr. Joyce Mitchell Cook (First African American woman to earn the Ph.D. in Philosophy)

Saturday, October 20, 2007

10:00 am - 10:50 am, Session VI - BCC Auditorium

~ Dr. Gertrude Gonzales de Allen, Spelman College

"Involution: Reflections on Encounter and the Development of Transnational Identities"
(Response by Denise James, Emory University)

11:00 am - 11:50 am, Session VII - BCC Auditorium

~ Dr. Lina Buffington, Philadelphia Futures - Director of College Retention

"Pragmatic Activism"

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ANITA L. ALLEN

Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. She is also a Senior Fellow of the university’s Bioethics Department in the School of Medicine, and a Fellow of the famed Hastings Institute of bioethics.

Allen is the author of  several books: The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21^st Century Moral Landscape (2004);  Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (2003); Privacy Law: Cases and Materials (with R. Turkington, West 2002 2d ed.); and Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society (1988). She is co‑editor with Milton Regan of the book, Debating Democracy's Discontent (1999). Books in progress include After Privacy (Oxford University Press), which is nearing completion.  

ESTEEMED HONOREE: JOYCE MITCHELL COOK

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Cook will be in attendance at this inaugural conference and there will be a special award reception in her honor on Friday October 19, 2007!  During this reception we will present Dr. Cook with an award for being the first African American woman to earn the Ph.D. in Philosophy (Yale University, 1965) in the United States and for her outstanding contributions to the profession.

In addition to the aforementioned distinctions, "Cook also broke the barrier against hiring female assistant instructors at Yale College to teach fields other than foreign languages.  Indeed, she was the first woman appointee to teach in the philosophy department at Yale College (September 1959 to June 1961) and the first African-American woman to teach in the philosophy department at Howard University (September 1970 to June 1976).  She has also taught philosophy at Connecticut College and Wellsley College.  Cook received her A.B., with distinction in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College (1955).  She also received her B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University (1957, 1961) with honors in a double major: philosophy and psychology.  She went on to receive her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University (1965).  Between 1959 and 1961, Cook was managing editor of The Review of Metaphysics (Yale University).  Her area of specialization is value theory." (This excerpt from George Yancy's African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations is reprinted here with his permission.)

CONFERENCE HOTEL INFORMATION:

The Holiday Inn Select-Vanderbilt

2613 West End Avenue

Nashville, TN 37203

(800) 633-4427 
 

TRANSPORTATION BETWEEN THE AIRPORT AND THE HOTEL: GRAYLINE (615) 275-1180

Grayline Shuttle Service is available for transportation from the airport to the hotel (and back to the airport).  The cost is $18.00 round trip (or $12.00 one way).   Both cash and credit cards are accepted at the airport.  NB: ONLY cash is accepted at the hotel.

From  the airport: Go to the Grayline counter to purchase your ticket and they will tell you where to meet the shuttle.  The shuttle runs from the airport to the conference hotel every 15 minutes.  No reservations required.

From the Hotel: Meet the shuttle right outside of the conference hotel.  The shuttle runs from the hotel to the airport every 30 minutes.  No reservations required during the day (though you may need to make a reservation if you are departing very early in the morning or very late at night).