Grads Jordan Kokot and Rebeccah Leiby to Lead Teaching Hub Session at 2023 Eastern APA
The Department is pleased to share that two of our graduate students, Jordan Kokot and Rebeccah Leiby, have been selected to organize a Teaching Hub Session at the 2023 Eastern American Philosophical Association conference. Jordan and Rebeccah will lead “Teaching Narratives and Narrative Teaching” at the January meeting, and write this about their session:
“The theme of this session is the various roles narratives play in philosophy classrooms, particularly in terms of (1) the philosophical narratives deployed in syllabus creation and class presentation, and (2) in terms of how students form narratives about themselves as thinkers and learners in a broader world. This topic is inspired by recent talks by Omowumi Ogunyemi (Pan-Atlantic University), Stacy Doore (Colby College), Fernando Nascimento (Bowdoin), and William Cochran (Harvard) at the 2022 Ethical Issues in AI and Computing Conference hosted by Harvard and MIT.”
Click here to learn more about their Teaching Hub Session.
Jordan and Rebeccah are currently in the process of a Call for Submissions for their Session; if you’re interested in participating and responding to the prompts of “Teaching Narratives and Narrative Teaching,” please see the link above for Guideline Submissions and how to be considered. For questions about the Session, please email Jordan at jdkokot@bu.edu.
Jordan Kokot is a graduating PhD Candidate who specializes in the philosophy and ethics of technology, the philosophy of art, and the phenomenology of time. His current research is focused on the ethical, social, and phenomenological intersections of XR (extended reality) and AI technologies, and on the ethical dimensions of “synthetic phenomenologies.” His approach is postphenomenological in that he understands technology in terms of “mediation relations.” Technologies and their “users” co-substantiate our shared techno-social world.
Rebeccah Leiby’s primary research areas are ethics and social/political philosophy, with particular emphasis upon issues of transitional justice and the social and moral obligations that are generated in the aftermath of transgression. In addition to a Graduate Certificate in Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies (Boston University), Rebeccah holds an MA in Philosophy (Boston University), a BA in Philosophy (Lock Haven University), and a BA in Music (Lock Haven University). Rebeccah successfully defended her dissertation on July 1, 2022, and is graduating from the BU Ph.D. program in Summer 2022.
Congratulations, Rebeccah and Jordan!