We have some big news for you. Have you heard already? The DRL is 10 years old! And in exactly one month we are hosting a two-and-a-half day conference in Manchester to celebrate. The conference is free to attend both in person and online, and you can register on our website.
Here is all you need to know to join us in person or online, promote your own diversity-related project with us, or to watch our content online.
About the conference
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.
If you wish to help us advertise the conference, please download our poster and hang it in your department!
Call for Friends and Family
We would love to take the opportunity and amplify the excellent work done by other diversity projects in philosophy and elsewhere. If you are part of such a project, you can:
- Send us your posters and/or leaflets. We will be happy to display them and even print them for you.
- Send us a short description of your project we could print in our conference booklet.
- Join us in person to present your project at a poster session.
Programme:
- Alex Stehn (Texas Rio Grande Valley): “Pluralizing Philosophical Languages and Cultures”
- Anna Kleiber (Cardiff): “Silence under Oppression”
- Ayşe Seda Umul (Bilkent University): “Structural Gaslighting and Epistemic Oppression: The Marginalisation of Queer Identities in Patriarchal Societies”
- Cassandra Teodosio (Women Doing Philosophy, UP Diliman): “The Experience of Women Doing Philosophy in the Philippines: Voices and Writings from the Peripheries”
- Clotilde Torregrossa, Quentin Pharr, Simon Fokt (St Andrews/Berlin): “Categorising Philosophy in a new key”
- Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Manchester): TBA
- Ian Kidd (Nottingham): TBA
- Josh Platzky Miller (Witwatersrand): “Legitimacy Debates, the myth of ‘Western Philosophy’, and the Contribution of Ben Kies”
- Lene Vos (Utrecht): “Gabrielle Suchon and Mary Astell on the authority, education and liberty of women”
- Marc Virgile Gwodog (Douala): “Zara Yaqob and Walda Heywat on Gender Equality: Does Sexual Pleasure Matter to Equality?”
- Paul Giladi (SOAS): “Being Epistemically Disobedient: Reflecting on Co-Creating the SOAS Decolonising Philosophy Toolkit and Handbook”
- Philippe Major (Lancaster): “Structural Eurocentrism in Philosophy: An Argument for Sociometaphilosophy”
- Suki Finn (Royal Holloway): “Gender and Reproduction in Philosophy”
Location and participation
2 July – 4 July 2025, University of Manchester.
University Place; Rooms 5.206 & 5.207; 176 Oxford Street, M13 9PL
The rooms are fully accessible. For more see access guide for room 5.206 & 5.207
The DRL Anniversary Conference is free to attend both in person and online. Register using the form provided.
For any questions, write to contact@diversityreadinglist.org
DRL adheres to the BPA/SWIP Good Practice Guide for Conferences.