I am absolutely thrilled to announce that we are having an in-person conference at the University of the Philippines-Los Baños from May 27 to 30 2023! The conference is a celebration of our beloved Women Doing Philosophy community and a mentoring workshop for Filipina philosophers. Check out our amazing lineup of keynote speakers and the titles of the 12 papers featured in the resilience sessions!
We will soon be issuing a call for commentators, open to members of WDP and undergraduate Filipina philosophy majors. Fifteen commentators will have the opportunity to respond to papers in the conference. Each commentator will also receive PhP 1500 grant for participating in the conference. The general guideline for mentorship is as follows: senior speakers are paired up with junior commentators (to help build junior philosophers’ confidence in tackling more advanced philosophical work) and junior speakers are paired up with senior commentators (to train junior speakers to engage criticism with confidence and maturity).
This conference is free to WDP and undergraduate Filipina philosophers! The workshop is funded by a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion grant awarded to Tracy Llanera (me!) by the UConn College of Arts and Sciences (CLAS) and it is generously supported by the University of the Philippines Los-Baños Philosophy Division. This grant covers the registration, venue, food, and refreshments for all workshop participants and attendees during the four-day event.
Publication opportunity: the essays presented in the workshop will be published on the Beyond the Ghetto Substack newsletter on a rolling basis in 2023-2024.
I thank Jacklyn Cleofas, Noelle Leslie Dela Cruz, Marga Taganas, and Cassandra Teodosio for organizing this incredible and first of its kind event with me. What an honor to work with you. See you in the Philippines!
Pubs by Cassandra Teodosio. Art by Salima Saway, a Talaandig soil painter and Filipina artist based in Bukidon, Southern Philippines, commissioned by the UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (thanks Darlene Demandante for making this happen)!
About the Resilience Workshop
This workshop serves as a key project of Women Doing Philosophy (WDP), a global feminist organization of Filipina philosophers created in June 2020. The mission of WDP is to create and claim spaces that promote the scholarly, professional, and personal flourishing of Filipino women philosophers. The organization hopes to help diversify and transform the philosophical landscape—a landscape where women of color from the Global South today remain excluded and underprivileged—through the scholarly and activist contributions of its members.
The theme of the workshop is inspired by the book project Resilience: The Brown Babe's Burden, ed. Tracy Llanera (in progress). This edited collection features original academic essays by Filipina philosophers.