Cambridge Minorities and Philosophy
Cambridge MAP is a chapter of the international organisation Minorities and Philosophy (MAP). MAP is a collection of students in philosophy departments that aims to examine and address issues of minority participation in academic philosophy. Though primarily led by graduate students, MAP also relies on faculty support and encourages undergraduate participation.
Through MAP's network, students can exchange ideas on topics related to minorities and philosophy, meet and support peers, and learn from other philosophy departments. MAP chapters can choose to provide their respective departments with regular feedback on the department climate.
Though the format of MAP varies from school to school, each chapter aims broadly at addressing (a) minority issues in the profession, (b) theoretical issues regarding philosophy of gender, race, sexual orientation, class, disability, native language, etc, and (c) philosophy done from minority perspectives. Meeting formats include: external or internal speakers, reading groups, film screenings, mentorship events for undergraduates or postgraduates, panel discussions, practical workshops (e.g., on communication techniques, navigating stereotype threat or implicit bias). Once a year, representatives from each participating school meet to discuss their chapter's progress.
You can join the Cambridge Minorities and Philosophy group on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and send us an email or visit https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/phil-wip to subscribe to our mailing list.
This term (Michaelmas 2020-2021), the Cambridge MAP Chapter is looking to form a new committee to plan events for the rest of the year. Please get in touch with the current convenor (contact details below) if you are interested in joining the MAP committee.
Contacts: Rory Kent (rdk32@cam.ac.uk).
Current Events
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TBA |
Talk by Elizabeth Barnes (Title TBA) |
Online (contact Rory Kent rdk32@cam.ac.uk for the link) |
Past Events
2020 – 2021 Michaelmas Term
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Thursday 26th November |
Mentoring and Welcome Event |
Online |
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2019 – 2020 Lent Term
| Thursday 16th January 15.30 -17.00 |
Conversations with Miranda Fricker |
Location: Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy |
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Monday 24th February |
Teach-Out: Conversations with Quill R. Kukla |
Location: Audit Room, King’s College |
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2018 – 2019 Lent Term
| Monday 18th February 16.30 -18.00 |
"Mental Health in Academia” with Dr Shayane Siriwardena |
Location: Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy |
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Wednesday 13th March |
“Philosophy for Liberation”, Cambridge MAP Annual Conference 2019 |
Location: Mill Lane Lecture Rooms |
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2018 – 2019 Michaelmas Term
| Monday 8th October 12.30 -13.30 p.m. |
Welcome event |
Location: Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy |
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Monday 5th November |
Talk by Paulina Sliwa |
Location: Postgraduate Common Room, Faculty of Philosophy |
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2016 – 2017 Easter Term
| Friday 12th May 3.30 - 4.30 p.m. |
Open Meeting: Should WiP Change to MAP (Minorities and Philosophy)? |
Postgraduate Common Room, Faculty of Philosophy |
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Date TBC |
Dr. Jenny Bryan (Manchester) |
Room G.21, Faculty of Classics |
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| Thursday 8th June |
Cambridge Women in Philosophy Conference “Producing, Reproducing and Dismantling the Gendered Academy” |
Location: Room G.21, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University |
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| Friday 30th June from 4 p.m. |
In Celebration of Mary Hesse (for registration and details, please email Tamara Hug at th1001) |
Lubbock Lecture Room, Peterhouse |
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2016 – 2017 Lent Term
| 6th February 12.00 -13.00 p.m. |
"Gender and Modernity" Prof. Anne Phillips (LSE) |
Location: Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy |
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| 20th February 12.00 - 13.00 p.m. |
"The Linguistic Interpretation of Aristotle's Categories" Dr. Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge) |
Location: Room G.21, Faculty of Classics |
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| 6th March 12.00 - 13.00 p.m. |
"What to Do About Things You Can't Do Anything About?" Dr. Sandy Grant (Cambridge) |
Location: Board Room, History and Philosophy of Science Dept. | |
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13th March
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"Well-being and Expertise" Dr. Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge) |
Location: Board Room, History and Philosophy of Science Dept. | |
2016 – 2017 Michaelmas Term
| 10th October 12.00 -13.00 p.m. |
“Women in Philosophy: An Introduction” Clare Chambers and Rae Langton |
Location: Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy |
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| 14th November 12.00 - 13.00 p.m. |
Marta Halina |
Location: Room G.21, Faculty of Classics |
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| 28th November 17.00 - 18.00 p.m. |
Postgraduate Application Workshop
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Location: The Granta |
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2015 – 2016 Easter Term
| 9th May 5.00 - 6.00 p.m. |
Workshop on work in progress. Please contact us on ew419@cam.ac.uk if you would like to present your work. |
Location: Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site. (1st floor. Step-free elevator access through Entrance 3, some heavy doors). |
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| 23rd May 12.00 - 1 p.m. |
Robin Zheng (Cambridge) 'Why Yellow Fever isn't Flattering: A Case against Racial Fetishes' |
Location: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) |
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| 9th June 9.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. |
One-day conference on 'Women in the History of Philosophy'. We are very pleased to announce our first one-day conference, organised jointly with the Immoral Sciences Club. The conference is free to attend, but for planning purposes, please register here if you plan to attend: http://goo.gl/forms/ijjTAUBxfE More information about the conference, including the speakers and talks, can be found here. |
Location: Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College |
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2015 – 2016 Lent Term
| 25th January 5.00 - 6.00 p.m. |
Prof M M McCabe (KCL, UCL, Cambridge) 'Wise old men and wise old women? Tone and bias in philosophical conversation' Tea and cake from 4.30 p.m. |
Location: Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College |
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| 2nd February |
SocraTea! More details to follow |
Location: TBC |
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| 15th February 1.00 - 2.00 p.m. |
Dr Sophia Connell (Cambridge) Book presentation: Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the Generation of Animals |
Location: G21, Faculty of Classics |
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| 29th February 12.00 - 1.00 p.m. |
Dr Sarah Fine (KCL) 'Political Philosophy and Autobiography' |
Location: Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics
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| 1st March 6.00 - 7.30 p.m. |
Zara Bain (Bristol/Cardiff) Workshop on disability and academic philosophy |
Location: Newnham College MCR |
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| 24th March 5.00 - 6.00 p.m. |
Dr Jacqueline Broad (Monash University) 'Cartesian Feminism in the Seventeenth Century: Francois Poulain de la Barre and Mary Astell' |
Location: Barabara White Room, Newnham College | |
2015 – 2016 Michaelmas Term
| 19th October 12.00 - 2.00 p.m. |
Welcome social and introduction to being a woman in philosophy with Prof. Rae Langton (Cambridge).
Rae’s talk and discussion will be followed by a *FREE LUNCH* to welcome new and returning students to WiP. All welcome! |
Location: Board Room, Philosophy Faculty | |
| 9th November 12.00 - 1.00 p.m. |
Dr. Emily Ryall (Gloucestershire): Feminist Philosophy of Sport
Dr. Ryall is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Sport, and Chair of the Faculty Research Ethics Panel (FREP) at the School of Sport and Exercise at the University of Gloucestershire. She has published widely on the Philosophy of sports and is frequently asked to comment on contemporary issues in the media. As usual the talk will be followed by further discussion over lunch. |
Location: Board Room, Philosophy Faculty | |
| 23rd November 5.00 - 6.00 p.m. |
Prof. Catherine Rowett (UEA) 'What has Analytic Philosophy ever done for you? An answer on behalf of the Presocratics.' Prof. Rowett is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She has published extensively on all areas of Ancient Philosophy and its relevance for modern and contemporary discussions, with a special emphasis on Wittgenstein and modern epistemology after Russell. She will discuss whether it has served ancient philosophy well to be in the grip of analytic approaches to philosophy in what promises to be a thought-provoking end to the term. As usual the talk will be followed by further discussion over dinner. |
Location: Seminar Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science |
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2014 – 2015 Easter Term
| 11th May 4.00 p.m. |
Location: Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College |
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| 2nd June 11.00 a.m. |
Location: Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College |
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| TBA | Location: TBA A social gathering will be organised later in the term |
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2014 – 2015 Lent Term
| 17th February 11.00 a.m. |
Location: Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College |
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| 2nd March 11.00 a.m. |
Location: TBA |
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| 11th March 4.30 p.m. |
Location: Newnham MCR A social gathering will take place |
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2013 – 2014 Michaelmas Term
| 18th October 12.30 p.m. |
Location: Newnham MCR Lunch with Judith J Thomson (MIT) |
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| 15th November 11.00 a.m. |
Location: Faculty Board Room, Philosophy Faculty Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge) “Are bodies property?” |
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| 26th November 11.00 a.m. |
Location: Barbara White Room, Newnham College Rae Langton (University of Cambridge) “Gender and Generic Speech acts” |
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2013 – 2014 Lent Term
| 30th January 11.00 a.m. |
Location: Barbara White Room, Newnham College Miranda Fricker (University of Sheffield) 'Fault and No-Fault Responsibility for Implicit Prejudice: Towards Epistemic Agent Regret' |
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| 18th February 1.00 p.m. |
Location: Barbara White Room, Newnham College Jules Holroyd (University of Nottingham) 'The Heterogeneity of Implicit Bias' |
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2013 – 2014 Easter Term
| 29th April 1.00 p.m. |
Location: Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College Jennifer Saul (University of Sheffield) "Stop Talking (So Much) About 'Sexual Harassment'" |
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| 29th May 11.00 a.m. |
Location: Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Seminar Room 2 Elizabeth Fricker (University of Oxford) "Satnavs - Good or Bad?" |
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| 5th June 11.00 a.m. |
Location: TBA Pamela Sue Anderson (University of Oxford) 'Epistemic injustice’ in feminist Philosophy of Religion |
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2012 – 2013 Easter Term
| Friday 24th May 11 am - 12 noon (with lunch with the speaker afterwards) |
Location: Seminar Room 1, HPS HALLIE LIBERTO: "The Exploitation Solution to the Non-Identity Problem" |
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| Thursday 30th May 11am - 12 noon (with lunch with the speaker afterwards) |
Location: Seminar Room 1, HPS ATHENE DONALD: "The Climate for Women in Philosophy: A Discussion with Professor Dame Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics and University of Cambridge Gender Equality Champion" |
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2012 – 2013 Lent Term
| Tues 22nd Jan 11 am | An informal social to welcome new and old WIP attendees. Tea and cake at Clowns Cafe (on King Street) - look for us upstairs. | |
| Mon 11th Feb 11 am | Paulina Sliwa (Philosophy fac, Cambridge). Title: 'Normative Conflicts'. To be held at Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College. | |
| Fri 22nd Feb 11 am | Susan Wolf (Chapel Hill, North Carolina). Title: ‘Love and the Revolution of the World’. To be held at Seminar Room 2, HPS. |
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| Thur 7th Mar 11 am | Elselijn Kingma (HPS fac, Cambridge). Title: ‘Pregnancy and the Metaphysics of Identity’. To be held at the Barbara White Room, Newnham College.2012 – 2013 MichaelmasTerm |
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| Oct 15 | Informal tea and cake | |
| Oct 29 | ‘On Studying Philosophy at Graduate Level’ | |
| Nov 5 | Prof. Susan James (Birkbeck) "Mary Wollstonecraft and Women's Rights". | |
| Nov 28 | Prof. Catherine Wilson (York) "Human Evolution and the Theory of Women?". | |
2011 – 2012 Easter Term
| May 22 | Sheri Ross “What is Feminist Aesthetics? a brief introduction” | |
| May 14 | Netta Chachamu “Gendered assumptions and messy science in the 'Empathising- Systemizing' theory of sex differences” | |
| May 8 | Rae Langton “Beyond Belief: Pragmatics in Hate Speech and Pornography” | |
2011 – 2012 Lent Term
| Mar 12 | Jenny Saul “Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat and Women in Philosophy” : Seminar on Best Teaching Practices | |
| Jan 27: | ‘David Archard “Sex, Consent, Power & Gender” | |
2011 – 2012 Michaelmas Term
| Dec 5 | Professor Anna Alexandrova “Girly philosophy” and Sophia Connell “Not exactly a career plan: the truth about work/life balance” | |
| Oct 17 | Meet and greet, followed by a trip to a conference dealing with the under-representation of women in the sciences, “The trouble with women” | |
2010 – 2011 Lent Term
| Mar 7 | Professor Jane Heal “What are psychological concepts for?” | |
| Feb 21 | Postgraduate workshop - “On PhDs and Things: Being a Postgraduate Female in philosophy” Lorna Finlayson, “The Political is Political” Joanna Burch-Brown “On Structure and Composition in Philosophical Writing: Stealing Tricks from Playwrights” Christine Tiefensee “Moving On from Metaethics” |
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| Feb 7 | Feb 7: Dr. Clare Chambers “Writing about Women in Philosophy” | |
