Identities and Epistemic Injustice Conference

Research on epistemic injustice investigates the epistemic harms that people belonging to marginalized groups suffer because of prejudices connected to their social identity. The concept of identity is central in it. Yet, its presuppositions and implications have not received full consideration. We would like to promote a deeper investigation on this issue through a dialogue with other disciplines and perspectives of research such as feminism, critical race theory, gender and queer studies, and literary theory, in the conviction that such a dialogue would benefit multiple fields of research. One aspect that the conference will address in particular is that mixed, non-binary, and complex identities show how sometimes it is not the membership within a social group, but the non-belonging, or the refusal to belong, that generates prejudice, violence, and oppression, coming from multiple directions. Examples include children with parents of different races, second generation immigrants, intersex and transgender individuals, and individuals with bisexual and pansexual orientation. The principal goal of the conference is to make this problematization matter in research on epistemic injustice.

Confirmed Speakers

• María del Rosario Acosta López, UC Riverside, Dep. of Hispanic Studies
• Linda Alcoff, CUNY / The Graduate Center, Dep. of Philosophy
• Ásta, San Francisco Cal State, Dep. of Philosophy
• Anna Boncompagni, UC Irvine, Dep. of Philosophy
• Annalisa Coliva, UC Irvine, Dep. of Philosophy
• Sandra Harvey, UC Irvine, Dep. of African American Studies
• Nigel Hatton, UC Merced, Dep. of English and Philosophy
• Terence Keel, UCLA, Dep. of African American Studies
• David Marriott, Penn State, Dep. of Philosophy
• Danièle Moyal-Sharrock and Constantine Sandis, Hertfordshire, UK, Dep. of Philosophy
• Kate Ritchie, UC Irvine, Dep. Of Philosophy
• Erica Preston-Roedder, Occidental College, LA
• Naomi Scheman, U of Minnesota, Dep. of Philosophy and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies

This event is sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), UCI Humanities Center, Department of Philosophy, Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society, and School of Humanities Critical Theory Center 

Link to website: Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society Event Page

Link to registration page: http://bit.ly/EPISTEME21