27 October 2014

Society for Women in Philosophy: Ireland Annual Conference 2014 Programme (21-22 Nov 2014)

Source: http://www.swip-ireland.com/index.php/events/swip-ireland-annual-conference-2014


SWIP Ireland Annual Conference 2014 Programme
21-22 November, 2014
Newman House, Dublin, Ireland
 
Friday 21 November, 2014
Morning Sessions
9.00 - 9.30Registration and Welcome
9.30 - 10.30
Plenary Address I
Lillian Alweiss (Trinity College Dublin)
'Why the Self is not Embodied'
10.30 - 11.00Coffee Break

11.00 - 13.00Parallel Session 1: New Developments in Feminist Philosophy
11.00- 11.30 
Clara Cecilia Fischer (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) 
'Turning to Affect: Shame and Embodiment in Feminist Philosophy'
11.30-12.00
Harriet Long (Independent Scholar- London UK)
'Recovering & Re-membering the Body'
12.00- 12.30
Matthew Cull (University of St Andrews, UK)
'Anti-Essentialism and the Intelligibility Problem'

11.00 - 13.00Parallel Session 2: The Body Politics
11.00- 11.30
Caroline Glorie (University of Liège, Belgium)
'A body’s narrative: appropriation of abortion, between decision and legal abnormality'
11.30- 12.00
Amy L. McKiernan (Vanderbilt University, USA)
'Hate Silence and Abortion: Do Women Deserve Better?'
12.00- 12.30
Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University, USA)
'Militant Feminism'
12.30- 13.00
Emily Jones (SOAS, London, UK)
'Towards a feminine morphology of/in international law'

13.00 - 14.00
Lunch Break
 

 
Afternoon Sessions
 

 
14.00-16.30
Parallel Session 3: Pregnancy/Surrogacy 2
14.00- 14.30
 Valeria Venditti (La Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
'The narrative erasure of maternal bodies'
 14.30- 15.00
Sara Cohen Shabot (University of Haifa, Israel)
'Laboring with Beauvoir: In Search of the Embodied Subject (lost) in Childbirth'
 15.00- 15.30
Luna Dolezal (TCD, Ireland/Durham, UK)
'Embodied Hospitality in the Case of Commercial Surrogacy: Welcoming the Other'
 15.30- 16.00
Mary Shanahan (St. Angela’s College, Sligo, Ireland)
'In Absentia: Levinas and Pregnancy'
 16.00-16.30
Ursula Del Aguila (Paris 8, Saint Denis, France)
'From the Homunculus to the Artificial Womb: Erasing the Maternal Body'

14.00-16.30
Parallel Session 4: Pornography and Power
14.00-14.30
Daisy Dixon (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK)
'Through Thick and Thin: Silencing and the Illocutionary Act of Refusal'
14.30-15.00
Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky, USA)
'Pornography, Modern Freedom, and Technology: AHeideggerian-Feminist Approach'
15.00-15.30
Lillian O’Brien (University College Cork, Ireland)
'Pornography and Propaganda'
 15.30-16.00
Nicolle Hall (University of Edinburgh, UK)
'Sexiness, Film and Porn'
16.00-16.30
Carlotta Cossutta (University of Verona, Italy)
'Motherhood and Biopolitics. Knots of power between science and naturalization'
 

 
16.30-17.00Coffee Break

17.00-18.00
Plenary Address II
Rae Langton (University of Cambridge, UK)
'Speech and the accommodation of women’s bodies'
18.00-19.00
Reception
19.00
Dinner
 
Saturday 22 November, 2014
Morning Sessions
9.30-13.00
Parallel Session 5: The Social Construction of the Female Chair
9.30- 10.00
Kate Phelan (MIT, USA)
'What is a Woman?'
10.00- 10.30
Sophia Pavlos (Michigan State University, USA)
'Strategic Knowledge: Property Models of the Body'
10.30- 11.00
Mindi Torrey (Michigan State University, USA)
'Creative Knowing: Fleshing Epistemic Subjects'

11.00-11.30 
Coffee Break
11.30- 12.00
Roma Hernández (Rice University, USA)
'Gendered Bodies and Inferences to Neuro-Essentialism'
12.00- 12.30
Abigail Klassen (York University, Canada)
'The Social Construction of 'Woman’: Emancipation or Snafu?'
12.30-13.00
Mona Gerardin-Laverge (Sorbonne, France)
'Performativity of language, gendered bodies and feminist empowerment'

9.30-13.00
Parallel Session 6: Themes from History of Ideas and Literature
9.30- 10.00
Susan Gottlöber (NUI Maynooth, Ireland)
'Same Same but Different? Perspectives on Gender Differences in Renaissance Thought'
10.00- 10.30
Katherine O’Donnell (University College Dublin, Ireland)
'For she was both a man and a woman: Constructions of the Lesbian Body in Dublin 1732-1736'
10.30- 11.00 
Clemence Saintemarie (University College Dublin, Ireland)
'Resisting Dis-Embodiment: Ambiguous Bodily Imaginaries and Female Desire in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale'
11.00- 11.30
Coffee Break
11.30-12.00
Alice Podkolinski (University College London, UK)
'Becomings and Goings: Mapping the Transgression of Public and Maternal Spaces in Doris Lessing’s Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five'
12.00- 12.30
Jessie Patella (Duquesne University, USA)
'The Mystical Writings of Hadewijch as Ecriture Feminine'
 

 
13.00- 14.30
Lunch Break
13.10- 14.30
AGM Of SWIP Ireland (sandwiches and coffee will be provided)

14.30-16.30
Parallel Session 7: Pregnancy and Surrogacy 2
14.00- 14.30
Janelle Pötzsch (Ruhr –Universitat Bochum, Germany)
'Liberating for whom? Biotechnologies and women’s status'
14.30- 15.00
Hannah Carnegy (University College London, UK)
'The Body as a Commodity – What is Special About Surrogacy or Prostitution?'
15.00- 15.30
Emily Lauren Putnam (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA)
'Reflective Trans-subjectivity: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy'
15.30- 16.00 
Maeve Kelly (University College Dublin, Ireland)
'Mother and Infant as a Combined and Complementary Physical and Mental Identity'
16.00-16.30
Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville, USA)
Saray Ayala (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid/MIT)
Andrea Smith (McMaster University)
'The Placental Microbiome and the Risk of (more) Policing of Women’s Bodies'
Via Skype
 

 
14.30-16.30
Parallel Session 8: Rape and Violence
14.30- 15.00
Alasia Nuti (Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK)
'Sharing responsibility for Intimate Partner Violence Prevention: The Social Connection Model and the Bystander Approach'
15.00- 15.30 
Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA)
'Victims of Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Asylum' 
15.30- 16.00 
Bonnie Mann (University of Oregon, USA)
'Gendered Play and Gendered Torture: The Paradoxes of Gender in U.S. Nationalism After 9/11/2001' 
16.00-16.30
Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (University of Genoa, Italy)
'Intersexuality as a threat against sex dualism'

14.30-16.30 
Parallel Session 9: Beauty
14.30-15.00 
Carla Milani Damião (UvA – The Netherlands/UFG – Brazil)
'How can women be sublime? Feminist Aesthetics concerning matters of taste'
15.00-15.30
Barbara J. Lowe (St. John Fisher College, USA)
'Slathered, Zapped, Nipped, and Tucked: Bioethics and the Medical Practice of Advertising and Offering Cosmetic Treatments in a Dermatological Practice'
15.30-16.00 
Alison Ainley (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
'Simone de Beauvoir on old Old Age (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)'
16.00-16.30 
Jen Rinaldi (Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Andrea Lamarre (University of Guelph, Canada)
Carla Rice (University of Guelph, Canada)
'Recovering Bodies: The Production of the Recoverable Subject in Eating Disorder Treatment Regimes'


 
16.30-17.00
Coffee Break


 
17.00-18.00
Plenary Address III
Gail Weiss (George Washington University, USA)
'A Genealogy of Women’s (Un)Ethical Bodies'
18.00-19.30
Dublin Pubs
19.30
Dinner

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