philoSOPHIA 13th Annual Conference
May 9-11, 2019
Hosted by Shannon Hoff
at
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
The 13th annual meeting of philoSOPHIA will run from the evening of Thursday, May 9, to the evening of Saturday, May 11, 2019, at Memorial University’s Signal Hill Campus in beautiful St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Keynote speakers are María Lugones (Binghamton), Uma Narayan (Vassar), Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt), and Lee Maracle (Toronto).
Conference registration coming in early April!
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philoSOPHIA 2019 Program
Thursday, May 9
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Registration (Atrium)
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Plenary Session: Lee Maracle (University of Toronto) (B2007)
“Decolonization, Continental Feminism, and Indigeneity”
8:30 PM – 10:00 PM Reception (B2007)
Friday, May 10
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Coffee and Registration (B2007)
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM Session I
Workshop A: Foucault and Wynter: A Philosophical Encounter With and Against the Human (B1001)
Workshop Coordinators: Lynne Huffer and Taryn Jordan
Participants: Haylee Harrell, Ege Selin Islekel, Rebecca Longtin, Elaine Miller, Mukasa Mubirumusoke, Elisabeth Paquette
Workshop B: Feminist Solidarities (B1002)
Florentien Verhage, “Surging from the Wreckage of Colonialism”
Whitney Ronshagen, “Eating Together as ‘World’-Travelling”
Maliheh Deyhim (Graduate Student Essay Prize Winner), “But a Piece of Clothing: On Removing the Hijab”
Tabor Fisher, “Space-Time and Social Location: Re-placing Intersectionality”
Panel 1: Feminism and Consent (B2007b)
Lucinda Vandervort, “Conceptions of Individual and Group Consent in the 21st Century”
Caleb Ward, “Locating Responsibility to a Partner within Structural Critiques of Sexual Consent”
Abby Kluchin, “Feeling Willing: Toward an Intersubjective Theory of Consent”
Panel 2: Trans Subjectivity (B1003)
Fanny Söderbäck, “Fantastic Antigones: Queer Deaths, Trans Lives, and the Right to Grieve”
Jill Drouillard, “The King Was Pregnant: Reproductive Ethics and Transgender Pregnancy”
Daze Jefferies, “Drowned Knowing: Fragments toward Island Trans Fishy Subjectivities”
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Plenary Session: Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University) (B2007)
“The Special Plight of Women Refugees”
1:15 PM – 3:30 PM Lunch (provided for presenters). Guided walk up Signal Hill.
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Session II
Workshop C: Affect and Interpersonal Relations (B1001)
Kym Maclaren, “Criminalization and the Self-Constituting Dynamics of Distrust”
Lisa Madura, “Anti-Social Habit and Critical Disruption”
Ali Beheler, “What is a Mother? The Interimplication of Agency and Maternity”
Workshop D: Nature and Health (B1002)
Alice Everly, “Constructing Anew: Looping Effects, Sociogeny, and Systems of Social Value”
Tristana Martin Rubio, “Age, Time, and the Politics of the ‘Biological Clock’”
Marjolein Oele, “The Dissolution of the Pregnant City: A Phenomenological Account of Early Pregnancy Loss”
Panel 3: Decolonization and Indigeneity (B2007b)
Carol-Lynne D‘Arcangelis, “Reading Resistance in the Works of Lugones and Betasamosake Simpson”
Sonja Boon and Kate Lahey, “The Impossibility of a Future in the Absence of a Past: Drifting in the In-Between”
Vicki Hallett, “Floating in Settler-Colonial Context: Meanings and Implications”
Panel 4: The Proper and the Improper: Affect, Health, and Speech (B1003)
Shiloh Whitney, “Decolonizing the Authenticity Critique of Affective Labor”
Jane Dryden, “Gut Microbiome and Care of the Self”
Patricia Dold, “Discourse on Female Body, Speech, and Identity in Hindu Narratives”
5:15 PM – 6:45 PM CANCELLED: Plenary Session: María Lugones (Binghamton University)
6:45 PM Dinner (on your own)
7:30 PM Lee Maracle reads from Hope Matters. Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Drive (note location change).
Refreshments and Cash Bar
Saturday, May 11
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Coffee and Registration (B2007)
9:00/9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Session III
Workshop A: Foucault and Wynter: A Philosophical Encounter With and Against the Human (9:00 start time) (B1001)
Workshop Coordinators: Lynne Huffer and Taryn Jordan
Participants: Haylee Harrell, Ege Selin Islekel, Rebecca Longtin, Elaine Miller, Mukasa Mubirumusoke, Elisabeth Paquette
Workshop B: Feminist Solidarities (9:30 start time) (B1002)
Lorna Quiroga, “Different Ways of Weaving Gender, for a Pluriverse Proposal”
Maura Roberts, “Relating in Place: Engaging with Strawberries and Indigenous Feminisms”
Emerson Bodde, “Is Spinoza a Decolonial Feminist?”
Panel 5: Race in Ecology, Sexuality, and Demographics (9:30 start time) (B2007b)
Romy Opperman, “Thinking the Afterlife of Slavery Ecologically: Saidiya Hartman’s Natural History”
Sabrina L. Hom, “Rape Fantasies: Interracial Sexuality and the Construction of ‘Pure’ White Desire”
Andrea J. Pitts, “A Death-Dealing Displacement of Difference: Crip Theory, Crimmigration, and Penal Abolitionism”
Panel 6: Ecological Ethics and the Unhuman Ground of Identity (9:30 start time) (B1003)
Suzanne McCullagh, “Becoming-Woman and/or the Disappearance of Woman in Ecological Ethics”
Casey Ford, “Bodies, Vile and Virile: Bare Life in Lispector, Cixous, and Agamben”
Daniel Griffin, “A New Flesh: David Cronenberg, Flesh-Images, and Queering the Male Body
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM Plenary Discussion: Feminism’s Future(s) (B2007)
Moderator: Shannon Hoff
12:45 PM – 2:30 PM Business Meeting (open to all)
Lunch (on your own)
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Session IV
Workshop C: Affect and Interpersonal Relations (B1001)
Anna E. Mudde, “Crafting Presence in the World”
Celia Edell, “Theorizing the Persistence of Oppression: Epistemology of Ignorance”
Kathy Kiloh, “On Eva Hesse’s Contingent: An Aesthetic Investigation of Julia Kristeva’s Herethics”
Elden Yungblut, “A Transfeminist Mobilization of Luce Irigaray’s Strategy of Mimesis”
Workshop D: Nature and Health (B1002)
Talia Welsh, “ A Feminist Critical Phenomenology of Health Promotion”
Emily R. Douglas, “Materializations of Illness and Somatic Capacitations”
Shannon Boss, “A Phenomenology of Orthorexia: Health and Gender in Experiences of Dys-appearance”
Victoria Smith, “Women Embedded in Nature: A Critique of Mellor’s Ecofeminism
Panel 7: Working toward Solidarity in the Colonial Context (B2007b)
Elisabeth Paquette, “Indigeneity and Solidarity in Decolonial Theory: On Wynter and Byrd”
Sarah M. Kizuk, “Settler Shame: A Critique of the Role of Shame in Settler Identity in Canada”
Roxana Akhbari: “Settler Colonial Lands in the Age of Apology”
Panel 8: Queer Normativity (B1003)
Steph Butera, “The Hope of Humanism: Queering Phenomenological Posthumanism”
Tyler Carson, “Engendering the Anti-Social Thesis: The Queerness of Pregnancy in Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts”
Shawn Huberdeau, “Feminism-On-Trial: Abjection as a Theory of Liberation”
4:45 PM – 6:15 PM Plenary Session: Uma Narayan (Vassar University) (B2007)
“How ‘Sisterhood’ Becomes ‘Doing Good’: Asymmetries of Positionality, Privilege and Political Concern between Western Subjects and their Nonwestern Others”
6:15 PM Reception (B2007)
7:00 PM Banquet (B2007)
Call for Papers:
philoSOPHIA: a society for continental feminism
at Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II
June 3-5, 2019
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
Description:
philoSOPHIA is honored to participate in the second Diverse Lineages of Existentialism conference, which will take place June 3-5, 2019 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The society will host two panels of three papers each. We are particularly interested in papers that, while engaging continental philosophical and feminist themes, highlight the society's commitment to diversity along the axes of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, class, and citizenship.
Guidelines for Submission:
Please send submissions in the form of complete papers formatted for blind review to philosophiafeministsociety@gmail.com
Deadline: October 15, 2018
Note that philoSOPHIA is also hosting its annual conference in May 2018; submission or presentation of a philoSOPHIA panel at DLE II does not exclude applicants from simultaneously submitting their paper to the philoSOPHIA annual conference.
Submissions will be reviewed by the Executive Committee.
Call for Original Artwork:
On-going
Description:
With several thousand unique views per year, philosophiafeministsociety.com has to potential to provide a good amount of exposure for feminist artists and their works. To that end, philoSOPHIA invites the submission of original artwork, imagery, and/or photography for use on its website, CFP announcements, promotional flyers, and conference materials (programs, posters, etc.). We particularly encourage the submission of works that visually speak to the overall themes and figures endemic to feminist thought and the mission of the society.
Guidelines for Submission:
Please only submit works that are your own or to which you hold the copyright. philoSOPHIA cannot afford to pay for the use of these works, but you will be credited and we will provide a link to your wider work.
Please prepare your work(s) as digital image(s) in .jpg, .png, or .gif format with a file size between 500KB and 10MB. Provide the artist's full name, a short bio, title(s) of the work(s), and a link to any external site where additional work resides.
philoSOPHIA will contact you regarding your submission before use. Our use does not imply any transfer of copyright. The work may have appeared elsewhere, as long as the previous publication does not prohibit its further use.
Please email all submissions as attachments to philosophiafeministsociety@gmail.com
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