2. PHILOSOPHY/POLITICAL THEORY PRESENTATIONS
Paper on David Wong’s Natural Moralities, author-meets-critics session, Pacific Division of APA, Pasadena, CA, March ‘08
“Race and Class: A Normative Framework,” sponsored by Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University, November, 2007
“Race and Class: A Normative Framework,” California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, California State University at Northridge, October ‘07
“’What are you, anyway’: Race, Ethnicity, and Panethnicity as Social Identities,” Oberlin College Philosophy Department, Sept. ‘07
“False Symmetries in Far From Heaven,” for Working Group on Philosophy, Film, and Love, La Cadiere D’Azur, June ‘07
“Race, National Ideals, and Civic Virtue,” at “Social Diversity and Civic Virtue” conference, Florida State University, March ‘07
“Racial Inequality in the Context of Ethnicity and Class,” invited colloquium on “Gender and Race”, APA, Eastern Division, December ‘06
“Race and Class: A Normative Framework,” presentation in panel on “Katrina: Lessons on Race, Class, and Ethics in America,” at Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Jacksonville, FL, March ‘06
“Best Traditions Patriotism: A Comment on Ben-Porath, Miller, and Wingo,” Association for Philosophy of Education session at APA, Dec. 2005
“Why is Racial Inequality Wrong?” Presentation to Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 2005
“Race, Ethnicity, and Pan-Ethnicity,” University of San Francisco Philosophy Department Colloquium, April 2005
“Reply to Critics,” “Author Meets Critics” session on “I’m Not a Racist, But…”, sponsored by Pacific Division of APA, San Francisco, March 2005 [critics: Tommie Shelby, Harvard; Eamonn Callan, Stanford; Ronald Sundstrom, Univ. of San Francisco]
“Racial Discrimination and Racial Inequality,” University of Chicago Law School Colloquium on Law and Philosophy, February, 2005
“Race, Virtue, and Moral Education,” presentation to Philosophy of Education society of Great Britain, Oxford, UK, April 2004
“Race, Virtue, and Moral Education,” presentation to Philosophy of Education Society (of North America), Toronto, April 2004
“Virtue and Race,” presentation to Philosophy Department, Duke University, December, 2003
“Racial Discrimination and Color Blindness,” Centenary College of Louisiana, sponsored by Philosophy Department, November 2003
“Can African-Americans Be Racist?” College of Charleston (SC) Philosophy Dept (co-sponsored by African-American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology), October, 2003
“Visual Metaphors in Iris Murdoch’s Moral Philosophy,” WOGAP (Feminist Philosophers’ Network in Boston area), October ’03
Senior Commentator on presentation “Kurt Cobain v. Master P: A Critical Taxonomy of Multicultural Education,” by Meira Levinson, at Young Scholar Conference, Program on Ethics and Public Life, Cornell University, March 2003
“Visual Metaphors in Iris Murdoch’s Moral Philosophy,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, Brandeis University, March 2003
“What Do Theories of ‘Racism’ Tell Us?”, Philosophy and Racism conference, Baruch College, NYC, March 2003
“Virtue and Race,” lecture to Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, February, 2003
“ ‘I’m Not a Racist, But…’,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Louisville, October, 2002
“ ‘I’m Not a Racist, But…’,”Philosophy Department Colloquium, Bryn Mawr College, October, 2002
“ ‘I’m Not a Racist, But…’,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, Guilford College (North Carolina), October, 2002
“Reply to Silliman and Byrne,” in Author Meets Critics session, at North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP), University of Oregon, July 2002
“Racism: What it is, What it isn’t, Why it matters,” presentation to Institution on Race and Social Division (Boston University), September, 2001.
Panel discussion on Iris Murdoch, conference on “Iris Murdoch, Philosopher,” (with Martha Nussbaum, Maria Antonaccio, Stanley Rosen), Brown University, April, 2001
“Racism: What it is and what it isn’t,” St. John’s Seminary, Chestnut Hill, Mass, October, 2000
"Racism and the Discourse of 'Culture'," Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, November, 1999
"Universal Values and Particular Identities," General (non-concurrent) session at Philosophy of Education Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 1999
"Moral Asymmetries in Racism," Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, March 1999
"The Promise of Racial Integration in a Multicultural Age," Committee on Philosophy, Politics, and Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, March 1999
"Is Racial Integration Worth Defending?", lead paper to American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy (at American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC), December 1998
"Relativism, Morality, and Culture: Comments on Michele Moody-Adams's Fieldwork in Familiar Places," American Philosophical Association (Central Division) "Author Meets Critics" session, May 1998
"Can Black People Be Racist?", University of Maryland at Baltimore County: Department of Philosophy, Graduate Program in Applied and Professional Ethics, April 1998
"Recognition, Value, and Equality: A Critique of Charles Taylor's and Nancy Fraser's Accounts of Multiculturalism," Yale University Political Theory Workshop, November 1997
"-----------------------------" New School for Social Research Political Theory Colloquium, October, 1997
"Defending Particularity," 2nd Annual Utah Philosophy Colloquium: Ethics and Impartiality, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Utah, May 1996
"Is White Racism Worse Than Black Racism?" Department of Philosophy and Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Faculty Development, University of Utah, May 1996
"Race, Community, and 'Racial Integration'" Department of Philosophy, University of Richmond, April 1996
"------------------------," Department of Philosophy, and Ethnic Studies Program, University of Colorado at Boulder, May 1996
"Latinos, Racism, and the Black/White Framework," presentation to American Philosophical Association Committee on Hispanics, New York, December, 1995
"Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes: A New Approach to an Old Problem," Annual Lecture on Ethics, Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics, Baltimore, October 1995
"Can Blacks Be Racist?", Bryn Mawr College Philosophy Department Colloquium, September, 1995
"Race, Ethnicity, Community, Communitarianism," Washington University Philosophy Department Colloquium," September 1995
Invited presentation on K. Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture ("Author Meets Critics" session) , American Philosophical Association, April 1995
"Racial Identity as a Moral Identity," Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy (annual conference): "Moral Psychology and Moral Identity", April 1995
"Racial Identity as a Moral Identity," Suffolk University Philosophy Department, February 1995
"Deflating Particularity," Conference on "Virtue Ethics", University of Santa Clara, March 1994
"Racism: Moral Asymmetries," Philosophy Department, College of William and Mary, March 1994
"Can Blacks Be Racist?", lecture sponsored by Philosophy Department, African-American Studies, Women's Studies; Northwestern University, October 1993
"Individual and Institutional Racism," sponsored by Smith College Philosophy Department, Feb. 1993
"Racism and Multicultural Education," Oberlin College, sponsored by Department of Philosophy, Women's Studies Program, and Department of Black Studies, April 1991
"Philosophy and the Values of a Multicultural Community," American Philosophical Association (Central Division), sponsored by Central Conference on Teaching Philosophy, April 1991
"Communitarianism and Virtue, " First Annual Riverside Philosophy Colloquium, Univ. of Calif. at Riverside, May 1991
"Particularity and Moral Perception," Conference on Impartiality (sponsored by Ethics), June 1990
"Gilligan and Kohlberg: The Stakes for Moral Philosophy," 20th Annual Chapel Hill Colloquium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 1986
1984-1991: Philosophy Department Colloquia presentations: Sonoma State Univ. (Calif.); Dartmouth; Arizona State Univ.; Univ. of Maryland; College of William and Mary; Wesleyan; Wellesley; Brandeis; University of Kent (England); Univ. of Oregon; Univ. of California at Irvine; Stanford; California State University at Los Angeles
