The year 2025 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Diversity Reading List’s existence, and we are pleased to invite you to join us in celebrating the various efforts and projects dedicated to making philosophy a discipline of equal opportunity.
Since 2015, the DRL has aimed to make philosophy more inclusive, diverse, and to promote equality of opportunity in our discipline. Racial and gender disparities in philosophy are significant, and if you are not a white cisgendered man, you are still likely to belong to a group which is significantly under-represented in contemporary Anglophone philosophy. But the landscape has been changing over the last decade and we are proud to have been a part of that change. It that time, the DRL aimed to address inequalities in representation by helping to overcome their cause: the stereotype of a philosopher as a white male. We continue to do so by making it easier for lecturers to find high quality texts written by authors from under-represented groups, by helping students set up reading groups on a diverse range of topics, and by popularising and conducting own original research into the state of the discipline.
At this two-and-a-half-day conference, we would like to celebrate the progress of the last decade and discuss what remains to be done; to bring together academics working on themes relevant to the DRL’s mission, and to make work by authors from under-represented groups more visible in university education and research. Register here.
Speakers: Alex Stehn, Anna Kleiber, Ayşe Seda Umul, Cassandra Teodosio, Frederique Janssen-Lauret, Ian Kidd, Josh Platzky Miller, Lene Vos, Marc Virgile Gwodog, Paul Giladi, Philippe Major, Suki Finn, Clotilde Torregrossa, Quentin Pharr, Simon Fokt
Conference is kindly supported by the Society of Applied Philosophy, MIND, Uehiro Oxford Institute, and the University of St Andrews and the University of Manchester.