PIKSI summer institute
Dec 05, 2017 → Feb 01, 2018
PIKSI summer institutes are designed to encourage undergraduates from groups traditionally underrepresented in philosophy to consider future study of philosophy.
Undergraduates and recent graduates are urged to apply; groups traditionally underrepresented in (anglophone) philosophy include women, LGBTQ and
gender non-conforming people, people from economically disadvantaged communities, people with disabilities, and people of color or people racialized as nonwhite,
including Chicano/a/xs and Latino/a/xs, Indigenous people, Pacific Islanders, people of African descent, and people of Asian descent.
Transportation and lodging are provided. Stipends are awarded to all.
PIKSI ROCK
Rock Ethics Institute/Penn State
Date: June 27-July 6, 2018
Director: Kris Sealey Fairfield University
Theme: Philosophy and Public Life
Speakers: Alfred Frankowski, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Nathifa Greene Gettysburg College, Shay Welch Spelman College,
Kyle Powys Whyte, Michigan State University
PIKSI BOSTON MIT/UMB
Date: June 19-26, 2018
Directors: Lisa Rivera, University of Massachusetts Boston, Keota Fields University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Speakers: Saray Ayala, Sacramento State University, Otávio Bueno University of Miami, Myisha Cherry University of California, Riverside,
Nathifa Greene Gettysburg College, Kevin Richardson North Carolina State University
For more information piksi.org
Contactinfo@piksi.org
APPLICATION DEADLINES Undergraduates -- JANUARY 31, 2018 Graduate Assistants (PIKSI-Rock only) -- JANUARY 31, 2018
SPONSORS: THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION, AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION – PENN STATE’S ROCK ETHICS INSTITUTE,
COLLEGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS, AND DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY - MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
- STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY - UNIVERSITY OF OREGON - UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - IRIS MARION YOUNG DIVERSITY SCHOLARS FUND -
ANN ARBOR PHILOSOPHERS’ PIKSI FUNDING INITIATIVE - ASSOCIATION OF FEMINIST ETHICS AND SOCIAL THEORY -
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS-HARVARD UNIVERSITY-TUFTS UNIVERSITY