SIPP@Brown Conference 2024

All events take place at 85 Waterman St, Room 015
All are welcome to attend!

Saturday, June 29th

10:30 — 11:00am
Morning Tea

11:00 — 12:30pm
What Kind of Thing is a Potato? Agriculture and the Aims of Science
Julia Bursten (University of Kentucky)

12:30 — 2:00pm
Lunch

2:00 — 3:30pm
Why Afrosurrealism and Black Speculative Fiction are critical for Black Philosophy
James Haile III (University of Rhode Island)

3:30 — 4:00pm
Tea Break

4:00 — 5:30pm
The Slow Clap Phenomenon
Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)

6:30pm
Conference Dinner

SIPP@Brown Conference 2023

All events take place at 85 Waterman St, Room 015
All are welcome to attend!

Saturday, July 15th

10:30 – 11:00am
Morning Tea

11:00 – 12:30pm
Art and Responsibility
Robbie Kubala (University of Texas at Austin)

12:30 – 2:00pm
Lunch

2:00 – 3:30pm
The psychology of ignorance
Elís Miller-Larsen (Brown University)

3:30 – 4:00pm
Tea Break

4:00 – 5:30pm
Photographic Wrongs
Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr College)

6:30pm
Conference Dinner

Sunday, July 16th

9:30 – 11:00am
Technology and the quantified self: an argument for self-opacity
Julia Netter (Brown University)

11:00 – 11:30am
Morning Tea

11:30 – 1:00pm
To the End of the Earth: Fieldwork on a changing planet
Carlos Santana (University of Utah)

Previous SIPP@Brown Conference speakers have included James Haile (URI), Adam Hosein (Northeastern), Alisa Bokulich (Boston University), Shen-yi Liao (University of Puget Sound), Jennifer Morton (CCNY), Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury), Lionel McPherson (Tufts University), A.W. Eaton (University of Illinois, Chicago), Meghan Sullivan (University of Notre Dame), Hallie Liberto (University of Connecticut), Tommie Shelby (Harvard University), and Eileen O'Neill (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). 

SIPP@Brown receives generous support for the SIPP@Brown Conference from the American Society for Aesthetics and from the Philosophy of Science Association.