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<p class="MsoNormal">The PGSA (Philosophy Graduate Student Association) 23<sup>rd</sup> annual conference will take place this Friday and Saturday, March 18 & 19, 2016.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The keynote address will take place on Sat., Mar. 19, 2016 at 3:30 pm in HH 373.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.philosophy.msu.edu/people/faculty/kristiedotson/">Kristie Dotson</a>,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">A Road to Oblivion: Epistemological Problems and the Importance of #BlackLivesMatter</span></strong><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In her, December 3rd, 2015, Salon piece, "White American's Scary<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Delusion: Why Its Sense of Black Humanity is So Skewed," Brittney Cooper labels the stupefaction many people have in the face of today's Black rage an "epistemology problem." It is a problem, she explains, of people utilizing inadequate
frameworks for understanding "reasonable" responses to relentless state sanctioned violence against Black people. In this paper, I lend support to Cooper's claim by outlining the accumulation of epistemic power that appears to result in a kind of oblivion
concerning realities for Black people and police conduct. Ultimately, I claim that some accumulations of epistemic power can lead to resilient oblivion, i.e. impaired schedules of salience.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">More details can be found at <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/events/philosophy-graduate-student-conference-2016">
https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/events/philosophy-graduate-student-conference-2016</a> which includes a schedule of speakers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Vicki Brett</b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Hobo Std",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Undergraduate Coordinator<br>
Philosophy Department – HH 365<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Tel: 519-888-4567 x32449<br>
<a href="mailto:vbrett@uwaterloo.ca">vbrett@uwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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