[Iris] WORKSHOP INVITATION Pragmatic-Academic Event (VDP and UPsalon): "Combatting Gendered Exclusions - Good Practices for Philosophers"

Dear all, UPsalon and the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy cordially invite you to a jointly organized pragmatic-academic event: "Combatting Gendered Marginalization and Exclusion - Good Practices for Philosophers". The workshop will be facilitated by Stephanie Deig (University of Lucerne). When: May 23rd, 4-6pm Where: VinziRast-Lokal mittendrin This workshop is open to persons of all genders working and studying at all levels of the department. We especially invite people with extensive teaching experience to share their perspectives and experiences on gendered exclusions and bystanding in academic settings. Please sign up to the workshop via the following link: https://forms.gle/6Dw4oDWibNCWCRTX7 Note that we only have 20 open spots; we will allocate them via a “first come, first serve” system. Brief workshop description: “The field of academic philosophy has a serious problem with the under-representation of women as well as persons who do not identify with the gender assigned to them at birth. This is due to structural forms of gendered marginalization and exclusion that create unsafe and harmful environments. In the first part of this workshop, participants will be introduced to how specific mechanisms, such as implicit bias, stereotype threat, as well as sexual and moral harassment manifest within philosophical settings: working, teaching, and learning, and how transforming certain conditions and practices could help combat them. In the second half of the workshop, participants will be given a theoretical introduction to bystander interventions and be encouraged (but not required) and given space to share their own experiences relevant to these questions to create awareness and discuss potential strategies that could be enacted locally. We will conclude by using these experiences as a basis for discussion about how bystanders can safely and productively intervene in instances of gendered wrongdoings. Even though the workshop focuses on gender-based exclusions, the convener seeks to create a space for discussing marginalization from an intersectional perspective." If you have a topic that you’d particularly like to discuss or are interested in contributing to the workshop, please contact Stephanie Deig at: stephanie.deig(a)unilu.ch Stephanie Deig, MA, is a PhD Candidate at the University of Lucerne. She is a co-founder of two organizations that have worked to combat gendered inequalities in the academic field of philosophy in Switzerland and is active as a board member with The Society for Women* in Philosophy Switzerland." Here you can find the link to the Good Practice Guide that Stephanie bases the presentation on (it is in DE and EN). https://www.swipswitzerland.org/good-practice-guide+ And here the event description on our website: https://upsalon.univie.ac.at/events/ Kind regards, Sonja (on behalf of UPsalon) -- Sonja Riegler, BA BA MA She/They Prae Doc Philosophy University of Vienna