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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Penn State PIKSI Summer Institute


We invite you to attend the public lectures being presented by four scholars during this year's PIKSI!

Each June the Rock Ethics Institute hosts the Philosophy in an Inclusive Key (PIKSI) Summer Institute. The annual two-week program helps under-represented students see that they have a place in philosophy.  



 

Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy

Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

"Extractivist epistemologies"

Friday, June 4, 2:00–3:30 p.m. EDT 

 

Eyo Ewara, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Loyola University, Chicago

"Strangers to the World: Queer Theory, Black Thought, and the Right to Opacity" 

Saturday, June 5, 2:00–3:30 p.m. EDT 

 

Andrea Pitts, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

UNC Charlotte

"Active Subjectivity and Abolitionist Imaginings: Examining U.S. Chicana/x & Latina/x Feminist Critiques of Carcerality" 

Monday, June 7, 2:00–3:30 p.m. EDT

 

Jill Stauffer, Associate Professor and Director of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights

Haverford College

"Beginning an ending: Lapse, skepticism, and the possible end times of settler colonialism."

Tuesday, June 8, 2:00–3:30 p.m. EDT