Five-Day GIAN Certificate
Course
on
CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY
OF RACE
[GIAN Certificate
Course]
13 – 17 November 2017
IIT Delhi
OVERVIEW
The modern world was formed to a significant extent
by slave trade and colonialism which were accompanied by the ideologies of race
and racist practices, and resulted in genocides, and enforced migration and
segregation of people. These atrocities and racism in many forms continue in
the contemporary world, and in many parts racial tensions are on the rise.
Critical philosophy of race, a new sub-discipline within philosophy, has
developed in an effort to try to understand the persistence of racism and to investigate
the relative success of the different strategies deployed to combat it. Drawing
on the resources of a variety of disciplines from history and sociology to
legal theory and psychotherapy, critical philosophy of race shows that racism
is often defined too narrowly.
First, the focus tends to fall on biological racism
at the cost of its cultural and religious forms. Secondly, the focus also tends
to remain on racist acts and slurs to the neglect of the institutional,
environmental, and systemic forms that serve to produce those acts and slurs
and give them their meanings. These tendencies are often promoted by the limitations
of the forms of reasoning used to identify racism, which is why philosophy
comes to play a central role in the fight against racism in spite of – and to a
certain extent because of - the prominent role of certain canonical Western
philosophers, such as Locke, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche, in promoting racism.
Critical philosophy of race goes beyond critical race theory, which takes its
starting-point in legal frameworks and so tends to be nation-based. It also
takes a longer historical view because new racisms are layered over and
interlaced with old racisms. One goal of this course is to give participants a
familiarity with the present state of discussion of these issues within
critical philosophy of race. But critical philosophy of race in its current form
can rightly be criticized for taking a perspective that is too heavily Western
in orientation and the course also aims to play a role in correcting that
narrowness. It will dwell on the relation between race, gender, caste,
colonialism and migration. This is an intensive course for which prescribed
texts have to be read before commencement. It will discuss political concepts
such as intersectionality and biopower, and also study literary articulations
of different forms of racism. Participants will be invited to bring their own
perspectives to bear so that they can come to understand how they might
themselves be able to contribute to ongoing research in this thriving area.
MODULES
The
course will be conducted over 1 week with 2 hr. lectures and 2 hr. tutorials
daily.
Number
of participants for the course will be limited to fifty.
Fee
(to be paid at CEP IITD after shortlisting):
Students/Research
Scholars: Rs. 2000/-
Faculty/Academic
Organisations: Rs. 3000/-
Industry/Research
Organisations: Rs. 15,000/-
Participants
from abroad: US $ 500/-
Faculty
PROF
ROBERT BERNASCONI
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and
African American Studies, Penn State University, USA. His areas of expertise
include Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy (Kant, Hegel,
Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas), Critical Philosophy of Race, Social and Political
Philosophy, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Ethics, and Aesthetics.
DR.
DIVYA DWIVEDI
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities &
Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Her research interests
include Metaphysics, Philosophy of Literature, Narratology and Political
philosophy.
TO
APPLY
For
participants both within and outside IIT Delhi, a one-time fee of Rs.500/-
will be charged for registration at the GIAN portal for all future
courses in subsequent years.
▪
LOGIN and APPLY at http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in/GREGN
▪
SUBMIT 500-800 words of statement of purpose before 5 October, 2017.
Selected
candidates would be informed on October 8, 2017 and
required
to pay the fee by 14 October 2017
COURSE
CO-ORDINATOR
Dr.
Divya Dwivedi
Phone:
011-26591374
E-mail:
gian.cpr.iitd@gmail.com
http://hss.iitd.ac.in/faculty/divya-dwivedi
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