The first of Princeton’s 2018 Compass workshop took place at Princeton University from February 9th through the 11th. The workshop featured a discussion session on the first night on presenting and facilitating seminars and five discussion sessions over the course of the two remaining days, led by undergraduate students, on papers in a variety of sub-disciplines within philosophy. In addition to discussion sessions, the workshop featured two advice sessions with female faculty mentors on the following topics: “Applying to Graduate School” and “How to Get the Most Out of Your Academic Experience”.
Readings
Ishani Maitra: “Silencing Speech”
Rachana Kamtekar: “Social Justice and Happiness in the Republic”
J. L. A Garcia: “The Heart of Racism”
Ruth Chang: “Hard Choices”
Ryan Preston-Roedder: “Faith in Humanity”
Faculty Mentors
Emmalon Davis | www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/emmalon-davis/
Sukaina Hirji | www.sukaina-hirji.com/
Elliot Paul | philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/elliot-paul
Grace Helton | www.gracehelton.net/
Rachana Kamtekar | philosophy.cornell.edu/rachana-kamtekar
Jessica Moss | as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/jessica-moss.html
Undergraduate Participants
Firdaus Gupte (NYU)
Héctor Hernández (Yale University)
Kylie Long (Cornell University)
Lauren Harcarik (U Mass Boston)
Lorenzo Benitez (Cornell University)
Malley Chertkov (Wellesley College)
Natalie Cernius (Harvard University)
Tez Clark (Harvard)
Xinhue Yong (NYU)
Yanqui Deng (NYU)
Graduate Student Mentors
Aarthy Vaidyanathan (Princeton)
Adele Watkins (Princeton)
Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (Princeton)
Camilo Martinez (Princeton)
Cesar Cabezas Gamarra (Columbia)
Claudia Yau (Princeton)
Dee Payton (Rutgers)
Gabriel Shapiro (Princeton)
Helen Zhao (Columbia)
Joy Shim (Princeton)
Michael Holmes (Princeton)
Yarran Hominh (Columbia)