The Gendered Conference Campaign "aims to raise awareness of the prevalence of all-male conferences (and volumes, and summer schools), of the harm that they do." In keeping with that aim, I call your attention to a (so-far) gendered speaker series that raises awareness for this issue in a different way. The University of California at Merced (disclaimer: my place of work) started a Philosophy Speaker Series this year that has so far organized talks for three speakers, all of whom are women (see the calendar and archive here). This was not intentional, but the fact that it is striking to have this sort of line-up reveals that we have some way to go to reach gender parity. Has anyone else come across conferences, speaker series, or summer schools with all-woman line-ups?
4 responses to “Another Gendered Speaker Series”
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Our graduate conference a couple of years ago had three female keynotes. But it wasn’t an all-female lineup (for the students).
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The newly created Res Philosophica Speaker Series, here at Saint Louis University, has two speakers in each of the first two years, all of whom are women. (We’re thrilled to have Marina Oshana and Alisa Bokulich speaking this year.)
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Not quite at the same scale, but I co-organized a session at Fordham’s Ancient & Medieval Philosophy conference last October where the two organizers were both women as were all four speakers (albeit there was overlap between the two groups, as both organizers were also speakers).
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These are all great examples, thank you! I wasn’t sure if I had heard of another instance, so I am glad to know that there are others…
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