2021--2022
Friday, October 22nd, 3-5PM EST
Perry Zurn (American University)
Problematization: A Critical Framework for Trans Inclusion
via ZOOM (email organizers for link)
Abstract:
As part of the critical theory project, the philosophical method of problematization analyzes not only how it is that certain phenomena become problems, but what sort of problems they become and what set of solutions are offered in response. In this talk, I apply the method of problematization to the practice of trans inclusion in universities today. I do this in two ways. First, I analyze how it is that universities take trans life to be a problem such that certain trans-inclusive policies (and not others) are offered as a solution. Second, I analyze how trans people choose to become a problem for universities such that (trans-inclusive) policies are an insufficient response. Critically evaluating the parameters of competing problematizations, I close with some brief methodological reflections and practical recommendations.
Thursday, March 24th, 9-11 AM
University of Michigan Graduate Student Flash Talks
via ZOOM (email organizers for link)
Josh Peterson, "Historical Erasure and Environmental Racism: Challenges to a Market-Based Solution to Housing Displacement"
Yixuan Wu, "Does Gender Change across Contexts?"
Friday, April 22nd, 3-5 PM
Pre-Read Discussion with Dee Payton (Howard University)
Falling Through the Gaps
Commentators: Sukaina Hirji (UPenn) and Sara Bernstein (Notre Dame)
via ZOOM (email organizers for link)