Schedule

Inaugural Workshop on Race, Politics, and Ethics (RPE)

May 23-25, 2025

Arizona State University

Friday, May 23, 2025

6:00pm Dinner with speakers and commentators (invite only).

Saturday, May 24, 2025

9-10:30am  Tina Rulli (UC Davis), “Taking Back Transracial”

with comments from Emily Tilton (USC)

Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281

10:45-12pm  Lisa Madura (UCLA), “The Diversity Industry and the Anti-DEI Crusade”

with comments from Jonghyeon Kim (ASU)

Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281

12-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-3pm José Mendoza (University of Washington), "How To Think About Racism and Xenophobia"

with comments from Yosef Washington (CMC)

Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281

3:15-4:45pm Wendy Salkin (Stanford), “Descriptive and Nondescriptive Informal Political  

   Representation"

with comments from Valerie Soon (UCSD)

Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281

Sunday, May 25, 2025

9-10:30am Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown), “Racial Imagination, Epistemic Dependence, and    

Epistemic Oppression”

with comments from Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (UC Davis)

Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281

10:45-12pm Lidal Dror (Princeton), "“What’s Wrong with ‘Conceptual Amelioration’?”

with comments from Scout Etterson (ASU)

Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281