"Pandemics End but Struggles are Perpetual"
Center for Philosophy of Freedom podcast with James Harrigan, University of Arizona
Great questions from James Harrigan really pushed me to commit to whether I'm saying that evils cannot be eliminated and there's no solution to moral problems. I hedge! I justify!
Center for Philosophy of Freedom podcast with James Harrigan, University of Arizona
Great questions from James Harrigan really pushed me to commit to whether I'm saying that evils cannot be eliminated and there's no solution to moral problems. I hedge! I justify!
Complaining with Wes Buckwalter for the Journal Entries podcast
My chat with Wes is edited so that you only hear my side and not his, so you mustn't mind me when I start a sentence with yelling, "Oh, yeah!" Could complaining be a virtue? Wes almost gets me to say yes! |
UnMute Podcast with Myisha Cherry, Episode 42: Complaining and Shaming
Myisha Cherry asks me questions about the goods of complaining, the bads of shaming, and any productivity hacks I have (I don't, but I shout out a lot of love to fellow strugglers at the end). |
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How Complaining Can Bring Us Closer Together,
CBC Radio One Sunday Edition with Michael Enright I felt like I persuaded Michael Enright that complaining can be prosocial, but had to concede it's not always great after he reminisced about an excessive complainer he once knew ("He was a menace!"). |
Online Shaming with Avery Kolers for Ethics Forward!
Avery Kolers and I discuss what makes online shaming new or different, immoral or at least harmful, and avoidable or, heaven help us, inevitable? I work to establish that it's a problem of relationality, but alas, we don't always notice that we're in webs of relationships. |
Miscarriage, Pregnancy Loss, and Fetal Death
My interviews on 3CR, Melbourne Community Radio were hosted by Beth Matthews of Radical Philosophy. For a listen or a read, free audio files of Part One and Part Two are at their site, and I host transcripts of Part One here and of Part Two here for those who need text!
If you want to read the special issue of Journal of Social Philosophy that motivated the interview, it is entirely free online thanks to the proceeds of the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics at Trent University.
My interviews on 3CR, Melbourne Community Radio were hosted by Beth Matthews of Radical Philosophy. For a listen or a read, free audio files of Part One and Part Two are at their site, and I host transcripts of Part One here and of Part Two here for those who need text!
If you want to read the special issue of Journal of Social Philosophy that motivated the interview, it is entirely free online thanks to the proceeds of the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics at Trent University.
Invited presentations:
2021
Commentator, Invited Symposium: The Ethics of Anger
Chair: Joan McGregor (Arizona State University)
Speakers: Myisha Cherry (University of California, Riverside)
“Rage Renegades: A Message to Allies”
R. Jay Wallace (University of California, Berkeley)
“Resentment and Power: On the Social Dynamics of Blame”
2020
Panelist, “APA Committee Session: Women and Online Philosophy,” arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, with Julinna Oxley (Chair), Regina Rini, Adriel M. Trott, Helen De Cruz, and Saba Fatima, for The American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 117th Annual Meeting, Chicago, February.
2019
Colloquium, “Do I really Consent to Twitter’s Terms of Service,” Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, October 28, 2019.
Keynote, "Online Shaming and the Hijacking of our Minds." Consent and Truth-Telling Conference, sponsored by Centre de Recherche en Éthique, McGill University, Montreal, May 10, 2019.
Editors’ panel, APA Committee Session: On Publishing Ethics in Philosophy, Arranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research, The American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 93rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April 19.
42nd Fritz Marti lecture, “Blaming, Online Shaming, and Grandstanding,” Philosophy Department at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, April 12.
2018
Author-meets-critics panelist, responding to Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, at the Canadian Philosophical Association meeting (CPA), June 5.
“Online Shaming and Imaginal Relationships,” joint address to St. Paul’s University and co-sponsored by the Ethics & Public Affairs programs at Carleton University, March 20.
Author-meets-critics panelist, responding to Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity, at the Central Chapter meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), February 21-24.
Philosophy Department Colloquium presenter, University of Guelph, February 16.
2017
Moral Emotions workshop, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad del Rosario. Justin D’Arms (OSU), Kathryn Norlock (Trent U), and David Shoemaker (Tulane). Bogota, Colombia, October 19-21.
“If it's Excusable, then Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Rational Self-Forgiveness When No One Blames Us,” as Philosophy Department Colloquium presenter, University of Connecticut (Storrs), September 8.
“If it's Excusable, then Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Rational Self-Forgiveness When No One Blames Us,” Workshop on Blame and Forgiveness, University of Oslo, Aug. 23-24.
“Online Shaming, Part Two” for the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association at the Congress of the Humanities, Joint session (CPA-NASSP), Gender and the Politics of Cyberspace, May 31.
“Perpetual Struggle: Pessimism, Evils, and Hopeless Situations,” for The Nature and Norms of Hope, a conference of the project on Hope & Optimism: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations, Cornell University, April 27-29.
“Forgiveness as a Speech Act,” presented to Florida State University's Conference to Honor David McNaughton, Sponsored by the Werkmeister Bequest, March 24-25.
2016
"Pessimism, Evils, and Hopeless Situations," colloquium presentation to Queen's University Philosophy Department, October 27.
“Forgiveness and Evil,” presented at the conference, Understanding Evil. University of Amsterdam, jointly sponsored with University of Manchester, May.
The Walter Murray Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan. Presentation titles: “Real (and) Imaginal Relationships with the Dead” (public lecture), “Nonideal Ethical Theory” and “Forgiving the Dead” (seminars), March.
“The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress,” presented as part of a memorial session of The Society for Analytical Feminism in honor of Claudia Card, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), January 6.
2015
“Don’t wait for progress,” a presentation to Rice University’s Why So Few workshop series, October 16.
“We Know What Works,” presented at the First Annual Event of the Equity and Climate Committee, McGill University, Montreal, QC, March 27.
2014
Plenary Panel, invited participant, American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), August 1, on the theme, “Women Undergraduates, Justice, and the Future of Philosophy,” with Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University), Jeanine Weekes-Schroer (University of Minnesota-Duluth), and Jean Keller (College of St. Benedicts), at the 20th Biennial International Workshop hosted by the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University.
Three presentations at the Conference of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) at the Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University: “Pessimism and Evils,” May 25, “Beyond Accommodation,” May 26, and “Expose yourself: Blogging in the profession,” May 28.
“Giving Up and Knowing Better: Forgiveness After Genocide/ Moins d’espoir, plus de sagesse: Pardon après le genocide,” Colloque 2014 : Génocides : régimes du pardon/Genocides: regimes of forgiveness, May 12.
Keynote address, “Choosing Activism and/or Philosophy,” for the Philosophy Dans La Rue!: Activism and Philosophy in the 21st Century conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, May 10-11.
“Civility, Civil Discourse, and Epistemic Injustice, or, Well-Educated White Ladies Talk About Manners,” co-presented with Alice MacLachlan, invited presentation, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Maryland, April 4.
“The Status of Women in Philosophy,” invited presentation, Queen's University Workshop on Equity in Philosophy, Kingston, ON, March 14.
"My First-World Problems: The Ethics of Women's Advancement in Philosophy." Keynote Speech, The 9th Annual Society for Women’s Advancement in Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 21.
2013
Panelist, “Men Behaving Splendidly: Why and How to Organize a Gender-Balanced Conference,” with Jason Stanley and John Protevi, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, Baltimore, MD, Dec. 29.
Panelist, workshop mentor, 2nd Biennial Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy, at University of Massachusetts – Amherst, co-directed by Dr. Louise Antony (UMass) and Dr. Ann Cudd (University of Kentucky), June 2-4.
2012
Keynote speaker, “We Know What Works: How to Improve Philosophy for Everyone,” at The Status of Minorities in Philosophy: Graduate Conference and Workshop at Concordia and McGill Universities, Montreal, April 21-22.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “How Kind and Caring Ethicists Talked Me Right Into Pessimism.” The Socratic Society, April 6.
Lafayette College Environment Ethics Conference, “‘That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best’: Non-ideal Pessimism as a Response to Environmental Evils,” March 24.
University of Western Ontario, “Philosophy Curriculum, Moral Perception and Gender Perception.” Philosophy Colloquium, co-sponsored with Women's Studies and Feminist Research, March 2.
2011
Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, “Sara Ruddick and Evils,” Special Session in Memory of Sara Ruddick, October 16.
2010
Elon University, Annual Reynolds Lecture: “Forgiveness as Moral Housekeeping,” April.
“Fragmented Selves and Self-Forgiveness,” Feminist Philosophy Workshop, Goucher College, sponsored by the Women in Philosophy (WIP) club in the Department of Philosophy, March 5-6.
2006 Ball State University: “Taking My Name: Separatism and Feminist Epistemology,” March 16, “Forgiveness for Philosophers,” March 17.
2005 St. Mary’s Ryken High School, Leonardtown, Maryland: “Forgiving for Teachers and Counselors,” October 20.
2004 “Hitler was a Vegetarian, or, Moral Qualms about Deep Ecology,” at Carleton College, January.
“Forgiveness in Relationship: The explanatory power of feminist models,” at University of San Diego, February.
1997 Panel discussion member of UW Zoology Dept. Faculty/Staff Colloquia, Spring. Topic: “What moral treatment do animals deserve?”
2021
Commentator, Invited Symposium: The Ethics of Anger
Chair: Joan McGregor (Arizona State University)
Speakers: Myisha Cherry (University of California, Riverside)
“Rage Renegades: A Message to Allies”
R. Jay Wallace (University of California, Berkeley)
“Resentment and Power: On the Social Dynamics of Blame”
2020
Panelist, “APA Committee Session: Women and Online Philosophy,” arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, with Julinna Oxley (Chair), Regina Rini, Adriel M. Trott, Helen De Cruz, and Saba Fatima, for The American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 117th Annual Meeting, Chicago, February.
2019
Colloquium, “Do I really Consent to Twitter’s Terms of Service,” Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, October 28, 2019.
Keynote, "Online Shaming and the Hijacking of our Minds." Consent and Truth-Telling Conference, sponsored by Centre de Recherche en Éthique, McGill University, Montreal, May 10, 2019.
Editors’ panel, APA Committee Session: On Publishing Ethics in Philosophy, Arranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research, The American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 93rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April 19.
42nd Fritz Marti lecture, “Blaming, Online Shaming, and Grandstanding,” Philosophy Department at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, April 12.
2018
Author-meets-critics panelist, responding to Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, at the Canadian Philosophical Association meeting (CPA), June 5.
“Online Shaming and Imaginal Relationships,” joint address to St. Paul’s University and co-sponsored by the Ethics & Public Affairs programs at Carleton University, March 20.
Author-meets-critics panelist, responding to Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity, at the Central Chapter meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), February 21-24.
Philosophy Department Colloquium presenter, University of Guelph, February 16.
2017
Moral Emotions workshop, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad del Rosario. Justin D’Arms (OSU), Kathryn Norlock (Trent U), and David Shoemaker (Tulane). Bogota, Colombia, October 19-21.
“If it's Excusable, then Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Rational Self-Forgiveness When No One Blames Us,” as Philosophy Department Colloquium presenter, University of Connecticut (Storrs), September 8.
“If it's Excusable, then Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Rational Self-Forgiveness When No One Blames Us,” Workshop on Blame and Forgiveness, University of Oslo, Aug. 23-24.
“Online Shaming, Part Two” for the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association at the Congress of the Humanities, Joint session (CPA-NASSP), Gender and the Politics of Cyberspace, May 31.
“Perpetual Struggle: Pessimism, Evils, and Hopeless Situations,” for The Nature and Norms of Hope, a conference of the project on Hope & Optimism: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations, Cornell University, April 27-29.
“Forgiveness as a Speech Act,” presented to Florida State University's Conference to Honor David McNaughton, Sponsored by the Werkmeister Bequest, March 24-25.
2016
"Pessimism, Evils, and Hopeless Situations," colloquium presentation to Queen's University Philosophy Department, October 27.
“Forgiveness and Evil,” presented at the conference, Understanding Evil. University of Amsterdam, jointly sponsored with University of Manchester, May.
The Walter Murray Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan. Presentation titles: “Real (and) Imaginal Relationships with the Dead” (public lecture), “Nonideal Ethical Theory” and “Forgiving the Dead” (seminars), March.
“The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress,” presented as part of a memorial session of The Society for Analytical Feminism in honor of Claudia Card, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), January 6.
2015
“Don’t wait for progress,” a presentation to Rice University’s Why So Few workshop series, October 16.
“We Know What Works,” presented at the First Annual Event of the Equity and Climate Committee, McGill University, Montreal, QC, March 27.
2014
Plenary Panel, invited participant, American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), August 1, on the theme, “Women Undergraduates, Justice, and the Future of Philosophy,” with Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University), Jeanine Weekes-Schroer (University of Minnesota-Duluth), and Jean Keller (College of St. Benedicts), at the 20th Biennial International Workshop hosted by the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University.
Three presentations at the Conference of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) at the Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University: “Pessimism and Evils,” May 25, “Beyond Accommodation,” May 26, and “Expose yourself: Blogging in the profession,” May 28.
“Giving Up and Knowing Better: Forgiveness After Genocide/ Moins d’espoir, plus de sagesse: Pardon après le genocide,” Colloque 2014 : Génocides : régimes du pardon/Genocides: regimes of forgiveness, May 12.
Keynote address, “Choosing Activism and/or Philosophy,” for the Philosophy Dans La Rue!: Activism and Philosophy in the 21st Century conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, May 10-11.
“Civility, Civil Discourse, and Epistemic Injustice, or, Well-Educated White Ladies Talk About Manners,” co-presented with Alice MacLachlan, invited presentation, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Maryland, April 4.
“The Status of Women in Philosophy,” invited presentation, Queen's University Workshop on Equity in Philosophy, Kingston, ON, March 14.
"My First-World Problems: The Ethics of Women's Advancement in Philosophy." Keynote Speech, The 9th Annual Society for Women’s Advancement in Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 21.
2013
Panelist, “Men Behaving Splendidly: Why and How to Organize a Gender-Balanced Conference,” with Jason Stanley and John Protevi, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, Baltimore, MD, Dec. 29.
Panelist, workshop mentor, 2nd Biennial Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy, at University of Massachusetts – Amherst, co-directed by Dr. Louise Antony (UMass) and Dr. Ann Cudd (University of Kentucky), June 2-4.
2012
Keynote speaker, “We Know What Works: How to Improve Philosophy for Everyone,” at The Status of Minorities in Philosophy: Graduate Conference and Workshop at Concordia and McGill Universities, Montreal, April 21-22.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “How Kind and Caring Ethicists Talked Me Right Into Pessimism.” The Socratic Society, April 6.
Lafayette College Environment Ethics Conference, “‘That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best’: Non-ideal Pessimism as a Response to Environmental Evils,” March 24.
University of Western Ontario, “Philosophy Curriculum, Moral Perception and Gender Perception.” Philosophy Colloquium, co-sponsored with Women's Studies and Feminist Research, March 2.
2011
Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, “Sara Ruddick and Evils,” Special Session in Memory of Sara Ruddick, October 16.
2010
Elon University, Annual Reynolds Lecture: “Forgiveness as Moral Housekeeping,” April.
“Fragmented Selves and Self-Forgiveness,” Feminist Philosophy Workshop, Goucher College, sponsored by the Women in Philosophy (WIP) club in the Department of Philosophy, March 5-6.
2006 Ball State University: “Taking My Name: Separatism and Feminist Epistemology,” March 16, “Forgiveness for Philosophers,” March 17.
2005 St. Mary’s Ryken High School, Leonardtown, Maryland: “Forgiving for Teachers and Counselors,” October 20.
2004 “Hitler was a Vegetarian, or, Moral Qualms about Deep Ecology,” at Carleton College, January.
“Forgiveness in Relationship: The explanatory power of feminist models,” at University of San Diego, February.
1997 Panel discussion member of UW Zoology Dept. Faculty/Staff Colloquia, Spring. Topic: “What moral treatment do animals deserve?”
Conference Presentations, refereed:
- “Do I really Consent to Twitter’s Terms of Service?” Presented at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 2020.
- “'What do Women Want' in a Feminist Ethics Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy?” Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Cape Breton University, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, September 28-30, 2018.
- "Feminists: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?" Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, November 4-6, 2016.
- “Claudia Card’s contributions to emerging Non-Ideal (Ethical) Theory,” poster presentation at the Ninth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August 11-14, 2016.
- "Rethinking the Social Psychology of Public Power in Cyberspace's Imaginal Communities, or, Online Shaming," to be presented at the 33rd International Social Philosophy Conference at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from July 21-23, 2016.
- “Imaginal Relationships with the Dead,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Campion College at the University of Regina, October 23-25, 2015. Conference theme: Challenging Ontologies: Making Sense in Ethics, Science, Politics, and Art.
- “Stranger in a Strange FOODLAND: Developing a Philosophy of Food course as a Newcomer,” presented as part of the Roundtable on Canadian Environmental Philosophy, at the Conference of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) at the Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, June 1-3, 2015.
- “Must I Never Complain?” presented at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Philadelphia, December 2014.
- “On Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: Improving Feminist Philosophies of Motherhood,” presented at the Conference of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh), Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 24-27, 2014.
- "Receptivity as a Virtue of Argumentation," presented at the Virtues of Argumentation conference (Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)) May 22- 25, 2013, at the University of Windsor.
- “Childlessness, Miscarriage, and Intersubjective bodily identity,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Oct 26-28, 2012. Conference theme: Theorizing the Body, Embodiment and Body-Practices.
- “Philosophy Curriculum, Moral Perception and Gender Perception,” presented at the Pacific APA group session of the Society for Analytic Feminism, San Diego, Cal., April 20, 2011.
- “When We Long to Emigrate: Forgivingness, pessimism, and citizenship,” presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries (Inter-Disciplinary.net), Mansfield College at Oxford, United Kingdom, July 15 - July 17, 2010.
- “The Moral Imperative for Social Science Research to Amend the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy,” presented at the International Association of Women in Philosophy Conference (IAPh 2010) on Feminism, Science and Values, June 25-28, 2010 at The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
- “Recognition, Self-Inflicted Evils and Self-Forgiveness,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), University Of Guelph, October 2-4, 2009; conference theme: “Responsiveness, Responsibility and Repair.”
- “Feminism in the Classroom,” workshop panelist, and “Strategies for Success,” mentoring panelist, at the September 2009 conference of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST).
- “Why bother?: Environmental pessimism, forgiveness, and electoral participation,” presented at the Pacific APA, Society for Women In Philosophy panel, Vancouver, Canada (April 2009).
- “Teaching ‘Against Marriage,’” presented at the 10th Annual Ethics Across the Curriculum conference, sponsored by Towson University, Baltimore, MD (November 14-16, 2008).
- “Why Our Students Stay: Strategies for retention and teaching of women of color in STEM disciplines,” presented at the National Association for Research and Science Teaching (April 2008).
- “Why Self-forgiveness Needs Third-Party Forgiveness,” presented at the 1st Global Conference:
- Forgiveness – Probing the Boundaries, Salzburg, Austria (March 2008).
- “A Moral Imperative: Professionalizing Women,” presented at the UK Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Conference, University of Nottingham, University Park campus, Nottingham, England (November 22–23, 2007).
- “Race and the Academy: What we can and should do,” presented at The National Women’s Studies Association 28th Annual Conference, St. Charles, Illinois, June 28-30, 2007.
- "Why (Some) Women of Color are (Still) in Science,” presented at Gender Balance/ Gender Bias: The 6th International Gender and Education Association Conference, Trinity College Dublin (March 28-30, 2007).
- “Women’s Altruism and Academic Professions,” presented at Educating Women/Women’s Education In the Post-Secondary Context, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (February 8 – 10, 2007); acceptance included consideration for publication in Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal.
- “The Impossibility of Responding Ethically to Environmental Atrocity,” presented at the group session of the International Society for Environmental Ethics at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 2006.
- “The politics of pedagogy: Global warming, public policy, and the ethics of identifying controversy,” presented at the 32nd Annual Richard R. Baker Colloquium in Philosophy, on Environmental Philosophy and the Duties of Citizenship, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, October 13, 2006.
- “Meaningful Narrative and Genuine Forgiveness,” presented at the special session of The Society for Analytical Feminism at the Central APA, April 2004.
- “Humility and Moral Luck,” presented at the Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Feb. 2000.
- “Forgiving the wrongdoer for harms to others: A defense of third-party forgiveness,” at the Central Division Meeting of the Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP), Fall 1998, Loyola University in Chicago.