Venue: Residencia d’Investigadors (C/ Hospital 64, 08001 Barcelona)
Provisional Program:
Wednesday 22 June:
9:30-11:00. Luvell Anderson (Memphis): “James Baldwin on the Legitimacy of Black Language”
11:00-11:30. Coffee break.
11:30-13:00. David Ludwig (Amsterdam): “Biological Races and Taxonomic Injustice”
13:00-15:00. Lunch break.
15:00-16:30. Pasi Valtonen (King’s College London): “Slurring Epithets and Generic Descriptivism: The Meaning of Ethnically Abusive Terms”
16:30-16:45. Break.
16:45-18:15. Patrick O’Donnell (Johns Hopkins University): “Race and Genericity in Conversational Contexts”
Thursday, 23 June 2016:
9:30-11:00. A.W. Eaton (Illinois-Chicago): “Pornography, Pictures, and Persuasion”
11:00-11:30. Coffee Break.
11:30-13:00. Zoey Lavallee (CUNY Graduate Center/ Brooklyn College): “What’s Wrong with the (White) Female Nude?”
13:00-15:00. Lunch Break.
15:00-16:30. Cassie Herbert (Georgetown): “Talking about Slurs”
16:30-16:45. Break.
16:45-18:15. Quayshawn Spencer (Pennsylvania): “An Implication of Using Continental Populations in Preferential Affirmative Action”