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Welcome to Embodiment And Race Conference II
Clemson University, November 4 - 5, 2021
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The conference on Embodiment and Race II is a three-day interdisciplinary conference that will explore the issues of race and embodiment from the perspectives of critical-race theory and phenomenology. The aim of the conference is to open a space for academics and the local community where we can extend and deepen our understanding of recent debates on race, racialization, and being an embodied agent of a minority group.
This conference will bring together academics who work on race and embodiment to share their studies and discuss different approaches to these issues. We will explore the issues of philosophy of racism and racial embodiment focusing on questions: What role does embodiment play in the experience of racism and/or racial harm? How do various social policies benefit or burden people classified as being a given race? Does racism harm the racist as well as the victim? We plan to publish a selection of the conference papers in the conference proceedings.
Possible topics may include:
Phenomenological perspectives on embodiment
Embodiment and Racism
Race, racism, racialization
Colonialism and Race
Embodiment and Identity
Embodied experience and the political
We welcome all abstracts on these topics (email to: ekuzian@clemson.edu) by August 31. 2021 We particularly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, submissions from underrepresented areas of philosophy, and submissions from members of underrepresented groups.
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Embodiment and Race Conference II
Clemson University
November 4-5, 2021
THURSDAY, November 4th
All conference sessions will take place over Zoom: https://clemson.zoom.us/j/4773688726?pwd=aS85TEpqVGE4OHRLeWhlT3ZIRUhMdz09
Meeting ID: 477 368 8726
Passcode: 12345
9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks: Edyta Kuzian, Conference Director
Session 1: Racializing Perception Moderator:
9:15-9:50 Roxanne Burton, Department of History and Philosophy, The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus, Barbados (roxanneeburton@gmail.com)
“Does my Body Matter? Reflections on Personal Identity in Online Conversations”
9:50-10:25 L. Kaifa Roland, Clemson University, PanAfrican Studies/Anthropology (lroland@clemson.edu) “Race Is, Race Ain’t: On Bodies and Belonging”
10:25-11:00 Coffee break
Session 2: Critical Phenomenology Moderator:
11:00-11:35 Lisa M. Madura, Vanderbilt University (Lisa.m.madura@vanderbilt.edu)
“Can Phenomenology Be Critical?”
11:45-12:10 Miriam Ambrosino, SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Philosophy, (Ma3218@nyu.edu)
“Embodied Anti-Racist Reflection: Employing Affective Critique and Literary Criticism in Phenomenological Practice”
12:10-12:45 Sam Grant, Rainbow Research and Embody Deep Democracy (sgrant@rainbowresearch.org)
“The Social Somatization of Racism and Disembodiment”
12:45 – 3:00 Lunch Break
Session 3: KEYNOTE: Emily Lee, (elee@fullerton.edu)
“The Phenomenological Structure of Experience: Regarding the Ambiguity of Intersectionality”
3:00-4:30
Introduction: Edyta Kuzian, Clemson University
FRIDAY, November 5th
9:00-9:05 Opening Remarks: Edyta Kuzian, Conference Director
Session 4: Embodied Experience and the Political. Institutional Racism
Moderator:
9:05-9:40 Niclas Rautenberg, University of Essex, (n.j.rautenberg@essex.ac.uk)
“Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me: A Phenomenology of Racialised Conflict”
9:40-10:15
Nabil Bou-Jaoude, Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies
Bergische University of Wuppertal, Germany, (nabil3up@hotmail.com)
“From the Essentialist Judgment of Identity to the Restoration of Otherness Through Sartrean Existentialism and Levinasian Phenomenology in Relation to Postcolonial Theory”
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
Session 5: On the Limits and Transcendence of Racial Assumptions: Envisioning New Worlds Through Phenomenologies of Hope, Love, Critique, and Sensuality
Moderator:
10:30-11:05 Mat Messerschmidt, University of Chicago, “Nietzsche and Heidegger: The Sensual, the Rational, and Racial Exclusion”
11:05-11:40 Paul Cato, University of Chicago, (paul.cato1991@gmail.com)
“‘Thou knows not his wrassling’: James Baldwin, Charles Mills, and Nonwhite Internalization of White Supremacy”
11:40-12:15 Kévin Irakoze, University of Chicago, “A Hope Not Hopeless but Unhopeful”
12:15-12:50 Kirsten Collins, University of Chicago, “Embodying Critique: Judaism and Race in Foucault, Levinas and Moten”
12:50 Lunch Break
Session 6: KEYNOTE: Paul C. Taylor, Vanderbilt University (paul.c.taylor@vanderbilt.edu)
“Hamilton’s Hemings: Bodying, Representation, and Transformation”
4:30- 6:00 Introduction: Edyta Kuzian
Funding for the Embodiment and Race Conference, Clemson University, November 4-5, 2021 has been graciously provided by the
1) Department of Philosophy & Religion (Kelly Smith, Ph.D.)
2) Humanities Hub (Lee Morrissey, Ph.D.)
3) Creative Inquiry
Keynote Speakers:
Emily Lee
Abstract: “The Phenomenological Structure of Experience: Regarding the Ambiguity of Intersectionality”
This paper analyzes the epistemic value of experience by centering on the experiences of women of color in philosophy of race. The identity group remains one of the most elusive and difficult to understand both because it is too specific and too broad. There is an ethical and political urgency to center the experiences of women of color because the absence of such focus results in unpredictable and inadvertent manipulations and strategies that enforces one identifying feature to oppress the other identifying feature. Women of color rely upon references to experience particularly because of the complexity of the experience of their identities. Heeding the need to avoid foundational references to experience, I illuminate Patricia Hill Collins and Anna Carastathis concept of the possibility of “heterogeneous commonality,” which acknowledges internal heterogeneity and external commonality among women of color.
To better understand the possibility of heterogenous commonality, this paper presents the phenomenological understanding of the structure of experience as constituted by three distances: 1. between the subject and the world in time; 2. between undergoing and reflecting upon the experience; and 3. between the experience and the language with which to understand and to convey the experience. This understanding of the ontological structure of experience helpfully illuminates how women of color, through their complex experiences, are well situated to recognize their heterogenous commonality.
BIO: Professor of philosophy, California State University, Fullerton. Areas of specialization include Phenomenology, especially the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Feminist Philosophy, and Philosophy of Race. Professor Lee edited Race as Phenomena: Between Phenomenology and Philosophy of Race, (2019) and Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, (2014).
Paul C. Taylor
Abstract: Hamilton’s Hemings: Bodying, Representation, and Transformation
What do black and brown bodies mean on stage and screen? What does it mean when cross-racial casting choices use these bodies to portray white characters? Is it possible to deploy these bodies in ways that go beyond inclusion to take up the harder work of ethical transformation? “Hamilton’s Hemings” will consider Sally Hemings’ appearance Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton as a way of introducing and taking up questions like these. The aim will be not just to answer the questions but also to explore the prospects for extending Sarah Lewis’s model of groundwork aesthetics beyond the visual arts.
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