A new “web-based symposium on gender, race and philosophy”:http://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/sgrp/ has just been launched. Here is their description of the site.
bq. These symposia provide opportunities for philosophers and other scholars to discuss current work on race and gender. We aim to make feminist philosophy and philosophy of race more visible to academic philosophers and others; to provide a forum for feminists and race theorists to respond rapidly to recent philosophical contributions to their fields; and to provide a forum for sustained and productive conversations between philosophers, feminists and race theorists.
More details on the project are available “here”:http://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/sgrp/courseMaterial/topics/topic1/help/text2/text.
The site has started with symposia on two papers.
* “Blackness and Blood: Interpreting African American Identity”:http://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/sgrp/materials/projects.html by Lionel McPherson and Tommie Shelby
* “Identity Trouble: Disidentification and the Problem of Difference”:http://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/sgrp/materials/resources.html by José Medina.
The symposia consist of commentaries by invited commentators with replies by the authors. There are discussion forums for those wanting to get involved. You’ll need to register to be part of these (I often wish I had registration here to cut out the spam) but the registration process seems as painless as possible.
So go check out “the site”:http://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/sgrp/. This should be a really valuable resource for people working in and around race and gender issues. I imagine the conversations on the discussion boards, and on blogs linking to “SGRP”:http://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/sgrp/, will be lively and illuminating.