2023 SUMMER PROGRAM

JUNE 4-10, 2023

Overview

The Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) hosted its 2nd annual Summer Program June 4-10, 2023. Participants took part in a week-long collaborative workshop, in which they learned about figures in an expanded canon of early modern philosophy (such as Anton Wilhelm Amo, Margaret Cavendish, and Anne Conway) and cutting-edge research on them; discussed inclusive, student-centered, and equitable pedagogy (with 2 sessions dedicated to teaching a predominantly white subject in predominantly white institutions); and collaboratively crafted their own early modern course syllabus. After the workshop, participants and guides will meet regularly and continue to communicate as their courses (and future versions of it) are implemented. Participants also received an award from CCEC attesting to their experience with canon expansion and inclusive teaching.

The workshop guides were the co- founders of the Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) as well as outside experts.

Co-Founders:
Jessica Gordon-Roth, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UMN
Dwight K. Lewis, Jr., Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMN
Bennett McNulty, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMN 

Guest Early Modern experts:
Julie Walsh, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wellesley College
Alice Sowaal, Associate Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State
Nancy Kendrick, Professor of Philosophy, Wheaton College (Massachusetts)

Guest Pedagogy experts:
Tamara Fakhoury, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMN
Eddie O’Byrn, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ian Stoner, Instructor of Philosophy, Saint Paul College
Jason Swartwood, Instructor of Philosophy, Saint Paul College
Angela Carter, Access & Inclusion Pedagogy Specialist, UMN

Alumni Experts (2022 CCEC Summer Program Participants):
Marie Jayaskera, Lecturer of Philosophy, Cal State Long Beach
Evan Thomas, Visiting Assistant Professor, Otterbein University

Summer Program RA:
Kylie Shahar, Philosophy Ph.D. candidate, UMN

Summer Program Undergraduate Assistants:
Luke Krier, UMN
Garrett Gannon, UMN

Summer Program Participants:
Tyra Lennie, McMaster University
Allauren Forbes, McMaster University
Shoshana Brassfield, Frostburg State University
Lewis Wang, Boston University
Maria Giulia Sestito, University of Padua
Dafna Mark ben Shabat, UC San Diego
Sarah Lucas, Ferris State University
Michaela Tiller, Bucknell University
Nick Louzon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Andre LeBrun, UC Irvine
Manon Andre De St. Amant, UMN
Patricia Easton, Claremont Graduate University
Anna Söderquist, St. Olaf College
Martje Oostra, UMN
Hope Sample, Carleton College

The Summer Program took place on the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, as well as surrounding areas of Minneapolis June 4-10, 2023.

Sponsored by University of Minnesota Department of Philosophy (Setterberg and Chair funds), an Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) & Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) Pilot Grant, and an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop (ICW) Grant, with additional funding pending.