CHR co-sponsors welcome reception for philoSOPHIA 2022 annual conference

by Catherine Olien

CHR co-sponsors welcome reception for philoSOPHIA 2022 annual conference

CHR hosts first reception in Horizon Hall

CHR was delighted to co-sponsor a welcome reception for philoSOPHIA 2022 in Horizon Hall last Thursday, June 2.

George Mason University hosted "Entangled Ecologies: The Climate of Justice," philoSOPHIA's 15th annual conference, with hybrid events and panels running from Thursday, June 2, and through Saturday, June 4.

The event was co-organized by two CHR Steering Committee members, Rachel Jones (Associate Professor, Philosophy) and Rachel Lewis (Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies).

The welcome reception followed a keynote by Andrea Pitts (Associate Professor of Philosophy, UNC Charlotte) entitled “The Apparatus of Addiction: Substance Use at the Crossroads of Colonial Ableism and Migration.”

More about philoSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism.

The event featured live music by Favorite Child, a folk group based in Leesberg, VA.

band rachels