“FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY, UNDISCIPLINED”
Society for Women in Philosophy
Eastern Division (ESWIP)
2008 Annual Spring Meeting and Conference
April 11-12, 2008
This event is made
possible by the following sponsors: The Don Shula Program in Philosophy at John
Carroll University, the John Carroll University Program in Applied Ethics, the
John Carroll University Philosophy Department, and the Eastern Division of the Society
for Women in Philosophy (ESWIP).
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL
11, 2008
6:00pm: Van pick-up
at the Clarion Hotel Beachwood for transport to
University
6:30-8:30pm: OPENING
RECEPTION and REGISTRATION
WELCOMING REMARKS: “Feminist Philosophy, Undisciplined”
Jen McWeeny (
ESWIP Executive Secretary
8:30pm: Van pick-up
at
transport to the Clarion Hotel
Beachwood
SATURDAY, APRIL 12,
2008
8:00am: Van pick-up
at the Clarion Hotel Beachwood for transport to John Carroll
University
8:15-9:00am:
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:45am: SESSION
I (Concurrent Panels)
Refreshments served
in each Panel room and in B272
PANEL I: “Critical
Responses to Militarism”
Chair: Dianna Taylor (
Speakers:
Tom Digby (
“Militarism, Heterosexuality, and the Burden of Gender”
Jeanne Colleran (
“Rescuing Iraqi Women”
PANEL II: “Resisting
Exclusionary Practices in (Feminist) Theory”
Chair: Katherine Sedon (
Speakers:
Maeve M. O’Donovan,
“Exclusionary Practices in Accounts of the Mind-Body Problem”
Andrea J. Pitts (
“Dialoguing with Our Methodologies: Academic Philosophy and Strategic
Practices of Resistance”
Nicole Garner,
“Dissociating Epistemic Ignorance and Epistemic Segregation: The Social
Construction of Ignorance and (Mis)Behavior in Traditional Hegemonic
Practices”
PANEL III: “Bodies
Un/disciplined”
Chair: Amy Story (
Speakers:
Julia Levin (The
“Bodies, Pleasures, Habits, and Discipline: Karate and Merleau
-Pontian/Foucaultian Resistance”
Chris Gallagher (
“What’s Love Got to Do with It? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Love and
Domestic Violence”
Talia Welsh (
“Radical Embodiment: Fat Female Bodies and Health Normalization”
10:45-11:00am: BREAK
Refreshments served
in B272
11:00am-12:15pm: SESSION II (Concurrent Panels)
Refreshments served
in each Panel room and in B272
PANEL IV: “Race
and/or Feminist Ethical Theory”
Chair: Brenda Wirkus (
Speakers:
Jean Keller (
“Rethinking Ruddick and the Ethnocentrism Critique of Maternal Thinking”
Brook J. Sadler (
“The Ethics of Transracial and Transsexual Body Modification”
PANEL V: “The
Metaphysics of Sex Categorization”
Chair: Mariana Ortega (
Speakers:
Mary Lyn Stoll (
“Defining Dirty: The Case for a Pragmatist Feminist Conceptual Analysis of Sex”
Joanna S. Figart
“Throwing the Butch Out With the Bathwater: A Defense for Recovering
Categories Through the Use of Memoirs”
12:30-2:00pm: LUNCH
O’Malley Center Atrium (Ground Floor of
Official Announcement of the SWIP Distinguished Woman
Philosopher of 2008
2:00-3:30pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
“Sex(ism), Identity, and Intimacy in a Pornographic
Culture”
Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at
Wheelock College
3:30-3:45pm: BREAK
Refreshments served
in B272
3:45-5:30: SESSION III (Concurrent Panels)
Refreshments served
in each Panel room and in B272
PANEL VI: “Conservative
Politics and Radical Activism”
Chair: Abbey Fox (
Speakers:
Rebecca Whisnant (
“
Pornography”
Shari Stone-Mediatore (
“Military Families Speak Out and the Seeds of a Less Violent Epistemic
Authority”
PANEL VII: “Reading
Resistance on Stage, Film, and in Narrative”
Chair: Katherine Gatto (
Speakers:
Andrea Powell Wolfe (
“The Angel and the Madwoman in Polly Teale’s Jane Eyre”
Kelly H. Ball (The
“Dramatic Reductions: Reading Trauma, Melodrama, and the Archive through
The Magdalene Sisters”
CL Nash (
“Nineteenth Century Theory of Subjective
Alterity: An Historic Woman’s
Undisciplined Sexual Autonomy”
PANEL VII: “Oppression,
Intimacy, and Care”
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
“The Problem with Blame”
Marlisa Moschella (
“Effective Speculation: Alternative Family Structures and the Identity Formation
of Children”
Jessica Trease (
“Free Will and Consent of Minors in Prostitution”
6:00pm: Van pick-up
at
for transport to local
restaurant
6:30pm-8:30pm: CELEBRATORY
DINNER at MeKong River Restaurant
CONCLUDING REMARKS: Lisa
Cassidy,
ESWIP Treasurer
9:00pm: Van pick-up
at local restaurant for transport to Clarion Hotel Beachwood
Special thanks to the
2008 ESWIP Program Committee for putting together the “Feminist Philosophy,
Undisciplined” Program: Lisa Cassidy (Ramapo College of New Jersey), Sonya
Charles (Cleveland State University), Colleen Flewelling (Saint Vincent
College), Jen McWeeny (John Carroll University), Lisa Rivera (University of
Massachusetts, Boston), and Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina,
Charlotte).
ESWIP is grateful for
the time and effort of Domina Maria Sharpe, Abbey Fox, and Katie Sedon, whose
volunteer work helped to make this conference possible.