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

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SWIP Ireland Annual Conference 2014 Programme

21-22 November, 2014
Newman House, Dublin, Ireland

Friday 21 November, 2014
Morning Sessions
9.00 - 9.30	Registration and Welcome
9.30 - 10.30	Plenary Address I Lillian Alweiss (Trinity College Dublin) 'Why the Self is not Embodied'
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee Break
11.00 - 13.00	Parallel 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 - 13.00	Parallel 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'
16.30-17.00	Coffee 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

The Huffington Post Canada: Woman Who Stopped To Help Describes Efforts to Save Soldier

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Thank you to the passers-by who tried so valiantly to save Cpl. Nathan Cirillo's life. This country is full of amazing Canadians. 

Who are you thankful for?

Woman Who Stopped To Help Describes Efforts To Save Soldier

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OTTAWA - Lawyer Barbara Winters was headed to a meeting Wednesday near her office at the Canada Revenue Agency when she passed the National War Memorial, stopping to snap a few pictures of the two honour guards standing soberly at attention.Moments l...

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The Huffington Post Canada: One Cartoon Captures A Nation's Pain

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We think this illustration will be iconic.

One Cartoon Captures A Nation's Pain

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Canada is in mourning for Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, killed Wednesday while standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa. The leaders of Canada's political parties did their best to address the nation's pain with words Wednesday night, bu...

The Huffington Post Canada: Bill Maher Somehow Manages to Joke About Ottawa Shooting

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This happened two days after the shooting.

Bill Maher Somehow Manages To Joke About Ottawa Shooting

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Two days after a horrific shooting on Parliament Hill shocked the nation and made international headlines, comedian Bill Maher somehow found a way to use that event for some punchlines.

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via RCMP on Facebook: RCMP requests public assistance-Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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Via @rcmpgrcpolice: #RCMP requests public assistance #OttawaShootinghttp://t.co/UjdPFgAsew http://t.co/MfeaJWmoQT ^JT

RCMP requests public assistance - Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is requesting public assistance with respect to their investigation surrounding the events leading up to...