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The Logic of Racial Practice Symposium
April 4, 2018 - April 6, 2018
Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 5:00 PM – Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 6:00 PM
University of Pittsburgh Cathedral of Learning
4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
This three-day symposium will bring scholars together for a synthetic analysis of race, religion, and cognition around the themes of embodied practices and habits. The symposium will involve both working papers (including plans to be published as an edited collection) and three public plenary talks. While the standard definition of implicit bias regularly describes it as an unconscious or involuntary behavior, some researchers are also taking up the language of “habit” or of an embodied practice to explain automatic racial stereotyping and discriminatory actions (Devine et al. 2012; Byrne & Tanesini 2015; Rees 2016). This turn to the importance of habit and embodiment has recently garnered broad support from both qualitative and quantitative methods of research.
Key Note Speakers confirmed for the symposium:
Dr. Michael Brownstein, John Jay University
Dr. Joy James, Williams College
Dr. George Yancy, Emory University
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