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Thursday, April 12

"The Logic of Racial Practice: Embodiment, Habitus, and Implicit Bias" Symposium
"The Habit Stance: Cultivating Ethical Implicit Attitudes."
Time:
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Presenter:
DR. MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN
Location:
232 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
Director's Office along with This symposium has been generously sponsored by the following grants: The Year of Healthy U, Dietrich Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, University Research Council, Office of Diversity & Inclusion Mini-Grant Program, the Humanities Center Collaborative Research Grant, the Hewlett International Grant Program, and the Pitt Interdisciplinary Humanities Grant. The symposium has also been generously co-sponsored by the following departments and centers: Department of Religious Studies, World History Center, Africana Studies Department, Office of Health Sciences Diversity, Department of Anthropology, Department of Philosophy, Center for Philosophy of Science, Duquesne University Philosophy Department and and the Simon Silverman Center (Duquesne University)
Contact:
Dr. Brock Bahler
Contact Email:
bab145@pitt.edu

This three-day symposium offers a synthetic analysis of race and racism around the themes of embodied practices and habits. The symposium will involve both working papers and three public plenary talks. While implicit bias is regularly defined as an unconscious or involuntary behavior, some researchers are utilizing the language of "habit" in order to explain the development and practice of automatic racist stereotyping and discriminatory actions. This turn to the importance of habit and embodiment has recently garnered broad support from both qualitative and quantitative methods of research. For more information about the symposium, contact Dr. Brock Bahler (bab145@pitt.edu).