Most undergraduate students in North America only read and discuss “Western,” Anglo-European philosophy in their philosophy courses. The problem is not that philosophy professors are generally unwilling to teach traditionally underrepresented areas such as African, Latin American, Indigenous, East Asian, South Asian, and Islamic philosophy. Rather, the problem is that most lack the familiarity needed to competently teach work in these areas. The Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy (NEWLAMP) project is a yearly week-long summer workshop aimed towards remedying this problem, by teaching philosophy teachers about a given underrepresented area, so that they can then teach it in their general undergraduate courses. Each year, NEWLAMP will focus on a different area.
For its inaugural edition in July 2022, the focus was on African and Africana social and political philosophy.
Here is the website for NEWLAMP 2022.
The three experts for NEWLAMP 2022:
Chike Jeffers
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University
Denise James
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at University of Dayton
Lucius Outlaw, Jr.
W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University