Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology Feminist Phenomenology Conference

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union

1222 East 13th Avenue

University of Oregon

Inaugural conference bringing together the following scholars. (Please note slight changes from the poster!)

9:30 am

Introduction to the Conference (Bonnie Mann and Beata Stawarska)

10:00-11:15

“Feminist Phenomenological Voices”

Dr. Linda Fisher, Central European University, Hungary

Comments: Dr. Gail Weiss, George Washington University, USA

11:30-12:45

“Personality, Anonymity and Sexual Difference:

The Temporal Formation of the Transcendental Ego”

Sara Heinamaa, Helsinki University, Finland

Comments: Helen Fielding, University of Western Ontario, Canada

12:45-2:15

Lunch

2:15-3:30

“Are Butler’s Theory of Performativity and Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Expressivity Really Contradictory?”

Silvia Stoller, University of Vienna, Austria

Comments: Eva Simms, Duquesne University, USA

3:45-5:00

“Feminism, Phenomenology and the Problem of Empathic Understanding”

Sue Cataldi, Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville, USA

Comments: Mariana Ortega, John Carroll University, USA