SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY

PACIFIC DIVISION FALL MEETING

October 16-17, 2004

 

Between Ethics and Politics

 

University of Oregon, Eugene

Local Host: Bonnie Mann

McKenzie Hall (Rooms 240a and 240b)

 

Day 1: Saturday

8 -9:00 a.m.     Registration, coffee, juice, and bakery goods

 

9-9:45 a.m.      (one session)

    Room b:       Dana Berthold (University of Oregon)

                        “Purity and Whiteness”

 

10-10:45 a.m. (concurrent sessions)
    Room a:       Andrea Nicki (University of Alaska, Anchorage)

“Rethinking ‘Multiple Personality Disorder’: Reclaiming Moral Agency”

Room b:       Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary)

                    “Feminism and Hegelian Ethics”

 

11-11:45 a.m. (concurrent sessions)
    Room a:       Christina Bellon (California State University, Sacramento)

“Caring about Rights: A Feminist Perspective on the Limits of Moral Relations”

    Room b:       Chaone Mallory (University of Oregon)

“Speci(es)al (as) Performance: Ecofeminism and the Regulatory Fictions of  Race, Gender, and Species”


12-1:00 p.m.    LUNCH

1:00-1:30 p.m. Short business meeting (all attendees are encouraged to attend) in Room 240a

 

1:30-2:15 p.m. (concurrent sessions)

     Room a:      Bonnie Mann (University of Oregon)

“Justifying America’s War: A Modern/Postmodern Aesthetics of Masculinity and Sovereignty”

     Room b:      Becky White and Susanna Boxall (California State University, Chico)

“Disability Rights: Illogical and Maleficent?”

Day 1: Saturday (continued)

2:30-3:15 p.m. (concurrent sessions)

Room a:       Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)

“The New American Racism after 9/11 and Gender”

Room b:       Monique Lanoix (Concordia University)

                        “No Room for Abuse”

 

3:30-4:30 p.m. (one session)

    Room a:       Keynote: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

“Torture in Ordinary Circumstances”

(sponsored by the University of Oregon, Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of Women in Society)

 

4:30-6 p.m.      (one session)

    Room a:       Panel of respondents to keynote lecture (sponsored by the University of Oregon, Feminist Philosophy Research Interest Group)

 

Day 2: Sunday
9-9:45 a.m. (concurrent sessions)
    Room a:       Celia Bardwell-Jones (University of Oregon)

“Travel Insights: A Pragmatist approach to the Politics of Feminist ‘World-Travel’”

    Room b:       Colette Jung (SUNY Binghamton)

“The Torture of Silence: Radical Ambiguity and the Transformation of Meanings of Violence as Lived”


10-10:45 a.m. (concurrent sessions)

    Room a:       Kate Parsons (Webster University, St. Louis)

“Subverting the Fellowship of the Ring”

    Room b:       Amy Coplan (California State University, Fullerton)

“Catching Characters’ Emotions”


11-11:45 a.m. (one session)
    Room a:       Lynne Arnault (LeMoyne College)

            “The Political Economy of Disgust”

    Room b:       Lisa Yount (University of Oregon)

                        “Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Remembrance”

 

● Registration is free and the sessions are open to the public.

●) If you’d like to attend dinner on Saturday night following a short reception, contact Lisa Yount (e-mail: yountlisa@yahoo.com), so she can get an estimated headcount for reception foods and dinner reservations (please RSVP by 10/08/04).

 

To join Pacific SWIP, direct your browser to http://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/SWIP/SwipMembershipHome.html

or contact Co-Executive Secretary, Sara Goering (sgoering@u.washington.edu).