
19th Annual CUNY Graduate Conference: Hate Speech & the Normativity of Communication, April 15-16
HATE SPEECH AND THE NORMATIVITY OF COMMUNICATION
The 19th Annual CUNY Graduate Conference, April 15-16, 2016
Friday, April 15th
The Graduate Center (365 5th Ave), rm. 5409
11:30 – 11:45am. Welcome, Coffee and Snacks
11:45 – 12:45pm. JJ Lang (Stanford University) “Semantic Ambiguity, Presuppositions, and the Offensiveness of Out-Group Uses of Appropriated Slurs”
12:45 – 3:15pm. Lunch Break
We invite you to attend the Cognitive Science Speaker Series talk (1:00 – 3:00pm, rm. 7102):
Hedda Hassel Mørch (Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, NYU) “The Evolutionary Argument that Phenomenal Properties Are Intrinsically Powerful”
3:15 – 4:15pm. Ian York (San Francisco State University) “A Limit to Camp’s Semantic Account of Slurs”
4:15 – 4:30pm. Coffee and Snacks
4:30 – 6:00pm. KEYNOTE. Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers) “Conventions, Complicity, and Conflict”
6:00 – 7:00pm. Meet & Greet (rm. 7113: Philosophy Lounge)
Saturday, April 16th
The Graduate Center (365 5th Ave), rm. 5409
10:00 – 10:30am. Coffee and Snacks
10:30 – 11:30am. Kayleigh Doherty (Arizona State University) “Making It So: Social Identity and Hate Speech”
11:30 – 1:30pm. Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:30pm. Cassie Herbert (Georgetown University) “Talking about Slurs”
2:30 – 2:45pm. Coffee & Snacks
2:45 – 3:45pm. Adam Simon (Stanford University) “Pragmatizing Pejoratives”
3:45 – 4:00pm. Coffee & Snacks
4:00 – 5:30pm. KEYNOTE. Rachel McKinney (MIT)
5:30 – 6:30pm. Meet & Greet (rm. 7113: Philosophy Lounge)