The Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP) is a philosophical organization, launched through Vanderbilt University, whose purpose is to encourage and foster a networking and mentoring relationship between the underrepresented Black women in philosophy including graduate students and assistant, associate, and full professors in the Academy.

The conference is free and open to the public.

4-5:30 p.m. Keynote Address by Anita L. Allen. The topic will be “The White-Only Shade Tree: Moral Reflections of Integration Now and Then.”

Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. She is also a Senior Fellow of the university’s Bioethics Department in the School of Medicine, and a Fellow of the famed Hastings Institute of bioethics.

Esteemed Honoree: Joyce Mitchell Cook 

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Cook will be in attendance at this inaugural conference and there will be a special award reception in her honor on Friday October 19, 2007!  During this reception we will present Dr. Cook with an award for being the first African American woman to earn the Ph.D. in Philosophy (Yale University, 1965) in the United States and for her outstanding contributions to the profession.

Location:  Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center (Google map of this location)

Visit Conference Web site for complete details: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cbwp/inaugural_conference_2007