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Sally Haslanger wins the 2024 Quinn Prize from the APA. "The Quinn Prize is the APA’s highest honor acknowledging work in support of our mission." For more details, see:

2024 APA Prizes: Fall Edition - American Philosophical Association Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at MIT. She also teaches in MIT D-Lab, a program using co-design to create inclusive, accessible, and sustainable solutions to global poverty challenges.

https://news.mit.edu/2024/how-examining-conflict-can-be-intellectually-serious-incredibly-fun-1101

How examining conflict can be “intellectually serious” and “incredibly fun” Through the Civil Discourse Project at MIT, scholarly debate serves as a model for productive discussions among MIT Concourse students.

We love you Kate Manne!!! Such brilliant and important work. ❤️🌟💪🏼

Fighting fatphobia In her first two books, philosopher Kate Manne, PhD ’11, tackled misogyny and male privilege. For her third, she took on what had long been a bane of her existence.

Congratulations, Tamar, for your work at OCW!

Meet 8 MIT women faculty who teach MITx courses and lead cutting-edge research Celebrating Women’s History Month with MIT women’s contributions to science, society, and online learning

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MIT D-Lab is participating in MIT’s annual 24-Hour Challenge TODAY. Hope you will support this awesome program for which Prof Haslanger serves as co-instructor of D-Lab: Gender and Development! It will enable the class, among other things, to return to Kenya next year to continue our work with the Society Empowerment Project.
125 donations of any size “unlocks” $11,500 in challenge pledges
Here’s the link to donate.

MIT 24-Hour Challenge The world is counting on . During the MIT 24-Hour Challenge, is counting on all of us. Join us on 3/14 (Pi day!) and make your gift by 11:59 PM ET!

Leading intellectuals in support of the KMA Centre for Civic Engagement
The conference "What Good Is Philosophy? – The Role of the Academy in a Time of Crisis" was a great event that brought together intellectuals from across the globe who united to support Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: "The Center for Civic Engagement at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, for which the conference was raising funds, aims to help internally displaced Ukrainian academics continue their research and teaching while also serving as a hub for international collaboration to keep academia in Ukraine functioning". You can read the entire article here: http://bit.ly/42NoUHE.
Even if you were unable to attend the conference, you can still watch it and support the KMA Civic Engagement Centre (find all the links attached in the comment section of this post).
We are grateful to all the speakers, organizers, and supporters for this fascinating event, and we look forward to even more to come at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy!

We are honored to announce that Professors Kieran Setiya and Sally Haslanger will be speaking at a major online benefit event for the Ukrainian academy, entitled: ‘What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine’. Here is the conference link:

https://civic.ukma.edu.ua/benefit/

Keynotes will be delivered by world-renowned author, Margaret Atwood, one of the most celebrated scholars of Ukrainian history, Timothy Snyder, and two of Ukraine’s preeminent public intellectuals, Mychailo Wynnyckyj and Volodymyr Yermolenko.

Lectures will also be given by some of the most influential philosophers writing today, including Peter Adamson, Elizabeth Anderson, Seyla Benhabib, Agnes Callard, Quassim Cassam, Tim Crane, Simon Critchley, David Enoch, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sally Haslanger, Angie Hobbs, Barry Lam, Melissa Lane, Dominic Lopes, Kate Manne, Jeff McMahan, Jennifer Nagel, Philip Pettit, Kieran Setiya, Jason Stanley, Timothy Williamson, and Jonathan Wolff.

The closing remarks will be delivered by Ukraine's Ambassador to Canada, Yulia Kovaliv.

The conference will be produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, and it will be broadcast around the world on the Munk School's YouTube channel on 17-19 March 2023. The schedule of events can be found here, and abstracts for all the talks are listed here. The conference can also be streamed at:

https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/kma-conference

‘What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine’ aims to raise the funds required to establish a Centre for Civic Engagement at Kyiv Mohyla Academy. This Centre will provide support for academic and civic institutions in Ukraine to counteract the destabilizing impact that Russia’s invasion has had on Ukrainian higher education and civilian life. By assisting Ukrainian students and scholars today, this Centre will also help pave the way for a vibrant and engaged post-war Ukraine.

This benefit conference is designed to provide individual academics, members of the public, colleges and universities, professional associations, charitable foundations, and private companies with a way to support students, scholars, and civic institutions in Ukraine. The conference is being broadcast for free, but clearly the organizers encourage everyone who attends to donate, and they recommend the following ‘conference fee’ for members of the academic community:

$25 – Undergraduate Students
$50 – Graduate Students
$75 – Post-doc Researchers
$100 – Junior Faculty
$200 – Senior Faculty

All donations can be made here: https://civic.ukma.edu.ua/donate/.
Donors will be immediately issued a receipt for tax or expense purposes. And the conference organizers are certainly grateful for any and every contribution.

What Good is Philosophy? A Benefit Conference for Ukraine Join us online on March 17-19, 2023 for a benefit conference in support of the creation of a Centre for Civic Engagement at Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. For three days, some of the world's leading thinkers will deliver talks that reflect on the role of the academy in a time of crisis. Speakers in...

Leaders in industry, academia, and the public sector all acknowledge the vital role that ethics must play in the creation of new technology. Experiential Ethics is an innovative, discussion-based course designed to help you develop competency in ethics, explore your own values, and interrogate the ethical and social dimensions of your summer experiences.

All continuing MIT undergrads are welcome and encouraged to apply, regardless of year, major, prior ethics experience, or summer plans. For more information, visit elo.mit.edu/experiential-ethics.

Marion Boulicault - current PhD student in our department - has an op ed in the Guardian! Yay Marion!

Falling s***m counts aren't as alarming as they sound | Marion Boulicault and Meredith Reiches Apocalyptic predictions about male infertility seem to be everywhere, but the science doesn’t support them, says Marion Boulicault and Meredith Reiches

Leaders in industry, academia, and the public sector all acknowledge the vital role that ethics must play in the creation of new technology. Experiential Ethics is an innovative, discussion-based 3-unit course designed to help you develop competency in ethics, explore your own values, and interrogate the ethical and social dimensions of your summer experiences.

All continuing MIT undergrads are welcome and encouraged to apply, regardless of year, major, prior ethics experience, or summer plans. For more information, visit experientialethics.mit.edu