CSWIP 2017: Feminism, Philosophy, and Engaging the Public (Western, October 27-29, 2017; provisional program)

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27

NOON: Conference Registration and Check-in begins

 

1:00-2:15 (PAPERS)

Room A: Philosophical Issues and Dementia Care

Monique Lanoix (St. Paul), Dementia Care and Negative Stereotypes: Implications for Regulations and Policies

Andria Bianchi (Waterloo), Sex, Dementia, and Consent: Implementing a Framework of Precedent Autonomy

 

Room B: Feminism, Philosophy, and Psychiatry

Raffi Aintablian (Ryerson), A Critique of Complicated Grief Disorder: Insights from Feminist Corporeal Politics

Phoebe Friesen (CUNY), Standpoint Theory and Psychiatry

 

2:15-2:45   BREAK

 

2:45-4:15 (PANELS)

Room A: Public Policy

Contributing to Public Policy: The How, Why, and When (Carolyn McLeod, Western; Alice MacLachlan, York; Shannon Dea, Waterloo; Erica Lawson, Western)

 

Room B: Affect Theory

Engaging Affects (Randi Nixon, Alberta; Chloe Taylor, Alberta; Kelly Struthers, Alberta)

 

5:15-6:45   BUFFET DINNER (MICHAEL’S GARDEN)

 

6:45-8:00 OFFICIAL WELCOME; PRESENTATION OF JEAN HARVEY ESSAY AWARD

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. Francoise Baylis (Dalhousie), Activism and the Hallowed Halls of Academia

 

8:00   RECEPTION

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28

8:15: CONFERENCE REGISTRATION, LIGHT MORNING REFRESHMENTS

 

9:00-10:15 (PAPERS)

Room A: Feminist Philosophy of Disability

Abby Wilkerson (George Washington), Toward a Crip Queer Perspective on Soil and Social Flesh

Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar), Bioethics as a Technology of Government

 

Room B: Feminist Philosophy Responds to the Refugee Crisis

Katy Fulfer (Waterloo) and Rita Gardiner (Western), The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Hannah Arendt, Rootlessness, and Natality

Ezgi Sertler (Michigan State), An Incapacity to Respond: Epistemic Dimensions of the Refugee “Crisis”

 

10:15-10:45    BREAK

 

10:45-NOON  (PAPERS)

Room A: Race, Identity, and Gender

Desiree Melton (Notre Dame of Maryland), Black Girl Burden

Roksana Alavi (Oklahoma), Stereotyping, Racial Identity, and “Inauthentic Selves”

 

Room B: Philosophical and Political Communities and Representation

Katherine Paxman and Kristen Blair (Brigham Young), Hume, Women, and the Pursuit of Philosophical Community

Wendy Salkin (Harvard), Democracy Within, Justice Without: The Duties of Informal Political Representatives

 

NOON-1:30    CSWIP AGM AND LUNCH

 

1:30-3:30 (PAPERS)

Room A: Feminism, Philosophy, and Identity

Rebecca Traynor (CUNY), Assumptions about Genius and the Underrepresentation of Women

Stephanie Kapusta (Dalhousie), Relational Gender Essences: “Swamp-women” and Trans Inclusion

Megan Dean (Georgetown), Who You Are and How You Eat: Identity and the Ethics of Eating Interventions

 

Room B: Feminist Reproductive Ethics

Suki Finn (Southampton), The Metaphysics of Pregnancy and Public Policy

Emma Ryman (Western), Physicians’ Fiduciary Duties and Surrogacy

Diane LaLonde (Western), Women and Sterilization

 

3:30-4:00    BREAK

 

4:00-5:30 (PANELS)

Room A: Feminist Philosophy of Sport

Sport, Philosophy, and Feminism: Persistent Problems and Emerging Issues (Pam Sailors, Missouri State; Angela Schneider, Western; Sarah Teetzel, Manitoba; Charlene Weaving, St. Francis Xavier)

 

Room B: Book Panel

Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability by Shelley Tremain (Catherine Clune-Taylor, Jane Dryden, Melinda Hall, Shelley Tremain)

 

6:00-9:00    BANQUET (SPENCER HALL)

 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29

9:15-11:00 (PAPERS)

Room A: Identity and Embodiment

Madeline Ley (Ryerson), Home is Where the Self Is

Catherine Clune-Taylor (Princeton), Feminist Approaches to Intersex

 

Room B: Feminism, Justice, and Democracy

Christine Koggel (Carleton), The Telling and Retelling of Injustices: Silencing, Marginalizing, Not Hearing

Susan Dieleman (Saskatchewan), Data Truth and Democracy

Vanessa Leham-Streisel (York), Can Policing Be Feminist?

 

11:00-11:30 BREAK

 

11:30-1:00 (PANELS)

Room A: Book Panel

Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell (Suze Berkhout, UBC; Alexis Shotwell, Carleton; Alice MacLachlan, York; Michael Doan, Eastern Michigan; Ami Harbin, Oakland; Kelly Fritsch, Toronto)

 

Room B: Climate Issues in Philosophy 

Wenches in Trenches: What We Learned in Forming a “Climate” Committee (Guelph: Monique Deveaux, Karyn Freedman, Maya Goldenberg, Karen Houle, Patricia Sheridan, Andrew Bailey, Orsolya Csaszar, Marie-Pier Lamay) 

 

PLEASE NOTE: Information about accessibility to and at the conference, registration, travel, and accommodations will be available soon at the conference website here.

 

 

posted by Shelley

Comments

[lisa]

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