Zoom Workshop: Affective and Mnemonic Injustice (January 30th and 31st, 2024)
In recent years, there’s been a growing interest in identifying the different ways in
which a person or a group of persons can be a victim of injustice, as well as the
psychological/subjective effects that the various types of injustice can have on people’s
status as epistemic, affective and mnemonic agents, among others. Following this trend,
the purpose of this workshop will be to investigate two distinctive types of injustice as
well as their possible conceptual and empirical links: affective and mnemonic injustice.
The first seeks to capture kinds of injustices committed against individuals specifically
in their capacities as affective agents, for example, by systematically provoking
distressing experiences such as fear, sadness or despair, by manipulating others’ emotions
in a way that might prove detrimental to their well-being, or by denying others
opportunities to express and regulate their emotional responses. The latter seeks to
capture how stereotypes can shape what we remember, so that accounts of fairness and
social justice have to be taken into consideration in debates about different kinds of
mnemonic capacities. These two kinds of injustices have obvious interconnections, as can
be seen, for example, in the way that provoking a traumatic experience upon another person
is a kind of injustice that has both an affective and a mnemonic component. We hope that
the talks in this workshop, and the discussion that will follow them, will bring out these
(and other) philosophical interconnections. As a result, we hope to show that the
philosophy of memory and the philosophy of emotion are deeply political subject matters,
something that is often overlooked within these disciplines. Far from being a marginal
topic, the politics of memory and affectivity is at the heart of questions as to how
memory and affective systems function, their purpose, and their role within our social
spheres more broadly. We would thus like to invite everyone to join us in discussing and
making these topics more visible in the philosophical community.
Programme:
January 30th 2024
2:30 PM (CET): Marina Trakas (Conicet): "Mnemonic Humility: An Antidote to Mnemonic
Injustice?"
3:3O PM (CET): Francisco Gallegos (Wake Forest): "Authenticity, Zozobra and Affective
Injustice"
January 31st 2024
2:30 PM (CET): Joel Krueger (Exeter): "An Ecological Approach to Affective
Injustice"
3:30 PM (CET): Katherine Puddifoot (Durham): "Mnemonic Injustice and the Social
Stance on Memory"
Registration (mandatory): <http://goog_82397027>
https://forms.gle/k6EoLEjii7hd9RmN7
Abstracts:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eP9bQfSmj9BWnml58N7Zv-n0TM9yN72p/view?usp=…
PhilEvents:
https://philevents.org/event/show/117621
Organisers: Nathália de Ávila (Universität Wien - IVC Fellow)
Felipe Carvalho (UFLA)
Em Walsh (Johns Hopkins)
Questions: Please, write to
nferrei1@smail.uni-koeln.de<mailto:nferrei1@smail.uni-koeln.de>