2024 Meeting of the MPA: Conference Schedule and Registration Information

[Steven C Skultety]

 

 

Conference Schedule

 

All sessions are hosted on the Mississippi University for Women campus, 1100 College Street,

Columbus, MS 39701. Here’s a campus map: https://www.muw.edu/campusmap/

 

 

Friday, March 1st (Cochran Hall, MUW Campus)

 

9:00am—9:15am Coffee/Pastries and Welcome Remarks

 

9:15am—10:05am Panel: Nietzschean Philosophies of the Future

 

“The Struggle for Integrity: Nietzsche on the Philosophy of the Future,” Bridget Berdit,

Georgia State University

 

“Are Nietzsche’s ‘Philosophers of the Future’ Eudaimonists?” Ian Dunkle, University of

Southern Mississippi

 

10:10am—10:40am

 

“Futures as Collective Organization,” Ryan Adams, University of Memphis

 

10:45am—11:35am Panel: Democratic Dissent and Totalitarian Policies

 

“Reviving Paul Churchland’s ‘glorious’ human future guided by science—and reconsidering it

in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic,” John Bickle, Mississippi State University

 

“The Fragility-Necessity Paradox of Democratic Systems,” Cameron Farvin, University of

Southern Mississippi

 

11:35am—1:00pm LUNCH

 

1:05pm—1:35pm

 

“Cat’s Search for Meaning,” Julia Kraus, University of Mississippi

 

1:40pm—2:30pm Panel: Justifications for Our Existence…Or Not

 

“Human Existence and the Universe’s Justification,” Austin McGrath, Mississippi State

University

 

“Against the Value of the Future as a Counter to the Rationality of Suicide,” Christian

Sandoval, Georgia State University

 

2:35pm— 3:25pm Panel: Facing the Future: Epistemic and Historical Responsibility

 

“Resisting the Funnel of Misbelief,” Layla Williams, University of Oklahoma

 

“Facing the Future as Part of Historical Responsibility,” Steven Smith, Millsaps College

 

3:45pm—5:00pm Keynote Address: Travis Holloway, Pratt Institute

 

5:00pm—7:00pm Wine Reception in Summer Hall Galleries, MUW Campus

 

Featuring Philosopher/Artist Robert Leib Gallery Talk @ 5:45pm

 

7:30pm Dinner at J. Broussard’s, 210 5th St. S., Columbus, MS 39701

 

 

Saturday, March 2nd (Cochran Hall, MUW Campus)

 

9:00am – 9:15am Coffee/Pastries

 

9:15am—9:50am

 

“From Emerson to Arendt: Towards a Feminist Account of Self-Reliance,” Sasha Simon,

University of Western Ontario

 

9:55am—10:30am

 

“’White Fraternities’: Smothering Near and Far,” William Moix, University of Arkansas

 

10:35am—11:10am

 

“Call Me Bettcher’s Bulldog: How Sincere Self-Identity Can Ground Trans Rights,” Payden

Alder, Georgia State University

 

11:15am— 11:50am

 

“What is Especially Concerning about AI: Evolving Biases and Alleviation of Concern,”

Yunqing Han, Claremont McKenna College

 

11:50am—1:15pm LUNCH

 

1:20pm—1:55pm Graduate Student Prize Winner

 

“Fluid Futurities: Nietzschean Forgetting in Genealogy of Morality and Marquis Bey's Black

Feminist Abolition,” Sarah Lee, University of Memphis

 

2:00pm—2:40pm Undergraduate Panel: Oppression and Otherness

 

“Commonplace Sexism in Society,” Emily Perkins, Mississippi University for Women

 

“The Other—Woman,” Haylei Wilson, Mississippi University for Women

 

2:45pm— 3:20pm

 

“Fanon and Colorblindness: A Guiding of the Future,” Kristin Brown Golden, Millsaps

College

 

3:25pm— 4:00pm

 

“Queer Futures and the effects of structural-heteropatriarchy, religion, and coloniality in

Zimbabwe,” Kudzai Munyavi, Mississippi University for Women

 

4:30pm Pizza & Beer @ Munson & Brothers, 301 2nd Ave. N., Columbus, MS 39701

 

Registration

 

All conference participants (outside of the W community) must pay a $30 registration fee to attend

the conference. But the wine and cheese reception in the art gallery is included with this fee!

 

Please pay the $30 registration fee using the Cash App QR code below. Or send the payment

directly to Cash App user $MissPhilAssoc.

 

We are also having a conference dinner at J. Broussard’s restaurant (see details below) on Friday

March 1st. There is a $20 fee for a three-course dinner (drink included). You can pay the $20 fee

via cash app, or you can bring $20 cash to dinner. If you are not paying via cash app, please send an

email to jmdrou...@muw.edu to confirm your attendance at dinner.

 

As you’ll see under the “Conference Dinner Info,” given that it’s a local family-owned business, we

need an exact head count prior to the event.

 

Please confirm attendance to dinner by Feb. 10th