Check out Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera’s recent interview with the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP), “I Am An American Philosopher.” *Excerpt* The pragmatist tradition has no problem about being level-headed and getting muddy. There’s no bizarre or elitist hang-up in using (and re-forging) concepts from philosophy or other disciplines to make sense […]
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Tracy Llanera: “The Misogyny Paradox and the Alt-Right” Accepted by Hypatia
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera’s article, “The Misogyny Paradox and the Alt-right,” has been accepted for publication in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. ***ABSTRACT*** This essay offers a philosophical analysis of the misogyny experienced by women in the alternative right (alt-right) movement. I argue that this misogyny takes on a paradoxical form: the better alt-right […]
Tracy Llanera and Nicholas Smith: Egotism in Higher Education
Check out Tracy Llanera and Nicholas Smith’s recent essay, “Egotism in Higher Education,” in the Cardiff University blog, Open for Debate. This essay is based on the chapter “A Culture of Egotism: Rorty and Higher Education,” The Promise of the University: Reclaiming Humanity, Humility, and Hope, ed. Áine Mahon, forthcoming with Springer. ***Excerpt*** Universities, ideally speaking, can […]
Tracy Llanera: Women, the Alt-right and the Liberal Centre
Why do women join white nationalist and other far-right movements? Misogyny is rampant on the alt-right, along with the notion that women’s primary role is to be wives and child-bearers. But the liberal centre can be an ambivalent place for women too. Feminism was founded on the ideal of equality, and on the belief that […]
Tracy Llanera: Resentment, Guilt, and Shame Under Patriarchy Panel
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera will be participating in a public panel on resentment, guilt, and shame under patriarchy live on Zoom on August 9, 2021. The event will begin with three short talks: Dr Louise Richardson-Self (UTAS) — “Affirmative Action, Gender, and Merit” Dr Tracy Llanera (UNDA/UConn) — “Misogyny, Feminism, and the Alt-Right“ Dr Filipa Melo Lopes (Edinburgh) […]
Tracy Llanera: Guest on “The Minefield”
Listen to Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera’s recent guest appearance on The Minefield with Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens on ABC Radio National. In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life. This episode addresses such questions as whether a […]
Tracy Llanera: Alt-Right, Misogyny, and Feminism
Listen to Tracy Llanera’s recent interview on Radical Philosophy (3CR Community Radio–Melbourne, Australia). Dr. Tracy Llanera discusses how the alt-right is different from other racist groups, what is meant by the term “White Power Barbie” and the exit cases of women from other extremist groups.
Tracy Llanera: Interview on Ideas (CBC Radio Canada)
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera and her co-author James Tartaglia (Keele University) were recently interviewed on the radio show Ideas (CBC Radio Canada). It will also air on Australia’s Radio National: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/good-news-for-nihilists-life-is-meaningless-after-all-say-philosophers-1.6036427. The focus was their book A Defence of Nihilism (Routledge, 2021).
Tracy Llanera: “Combatting Toxic Cultures in Academia”
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera gave the opening remarks and a lecture titled “Subordination, Submission, and Suppression” on the theme “Combatting Toxic Cultures in Academia,” hosted by Women Doing Philosophy and Beyond the Ghetto, on May 21, 2021. The recorded public lecture can be found here.
Tracy Llanera: The Women Doing Philosophy Group in the Philippines
At the height of the pandemic crisis in 2020, Filipino women philosophers everywhere gathered virtually to form the group Women Doing Philosophy. Read two feature essays about the organization in the APA-Black Issues in Philosophy Blog: “To Slay a Specter: on the Founding of the Women Doing Philosophy Group in the Phillippines” by Cass Teodosio, […]