Robert Leib, 2022
philoSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism
philoSOPHIA’s 15th Annual Conference
"Entangled Ecologies: The Climate of Justice," being hosted by George Mason University, June 2-4, 2022.
The 15th annual meeting of philoSOPHIA will run from the afternoon of Thursday June 2nd to the evening of Saturday June 4th 2022, at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Virtual Keynote Speakers: Tiffany King (University of Virginia); Catriona Sandilands (York University)
In Person Keynote Speakers: Naisargi Dave (University of Toronto); Andrea Pitts (UNC Charlotte)
The philoSOPHIA 2022 Conference Program is now available below.
Registration for the philoSOPHIA 2022 conference is now available.
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Conference registration will remain open until June 2nd.
This event is funded by George Mason University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy, Women and Gender Studies Program, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, and Center for Humanities Research, with generous co-sponsorship from the following Mason departments and programs: Cultural Studies, English, Global Affairs, History, Integrative Studies, Modern and Classical Languages, and Sociology and Anthropology.
“Entangled Ecologies: the Climate of Justice”
We invite proposals for transdisciplinary philosophical work that explores the complex linkages connecting climate change and environmental devastation to the entangled legacies of transatlantic slavery and settler colonialism, the histories and presents of anti-Black racism and violence against Indigenous peoples, and the interwoven patterns of exclusion and inequality structured around gender, sexuality, race, class, embodiment, and trans-species relations. The conference will foreground work that confronts these linkages so as to excavate possibilities for accountability, reparation and response-ability, strange intimacies, transformative justice, and liberation. We hope this event will be an opportunity to think diversely and together about how these entangled histories and their afterlives have manifested in ecologies of resistance and radical care.
In keeping with the aims and commitments of philoSOPHIA, we invite submissions that extend the rich traditions of transformative feminist interventions and sociopolitical engagements, and that connect and create divergent feminist approaches, cultures, genres, and histories. We seek to cultivate discursive alliances with such areas as critical race, queer, crip, trans*, Indigenous, decolonial, environmental, and critical plant and animal studies. We welcome proposals that reflect on the conference theme in transnational contexts, drawing on non-Western philosophical traditions, or in the context of the Covid-19 global pandemic. All submissions will be considered though work related to the conference theme will be prioritized.
Location: at present, we plan to hold this conference in person on the George Mason University Fairfax campus. The conference will feature both virtual and in-person keynote speakers, and selected parallel sessions may also be hosted in a virtual format to accommodate those unable to attend in person. Reasonably priced student accommodation on campus will be available for in-person participants.
philoSOPHIA 2022 Conference Program
Times: all times are US Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Modality: this is a hybrid conference. Some sessions will run in a fully virtual modality via zoom; in other sessions all of the speakers will be presenting in-person. All of the keynote presentations will be accessible via zoom. There will be some fully virtual panel sessions throughout the conference, and many of the in-person panels will also be accessible via zoom, although the capacity to participate virtually in Q&A and discussion at in person panels may be limited.
Links for the virtual sessions will be shared with registered participants by email a week before the conference.
Fully virtual sessions are marked (V) in the conference program.
Thursday June 2
9.00am – 4pm: Pre-Conference Image-Text and Experimental Writing Workshop (closed session: participants selected via Workshop CFP)
Co-Organizers: Lauren Guilmette, Elon University (USA) and Lynne Huffer, Emory University (USA)
3pm- 5pm: Registration, Merten Hall, Room 1202
4.15pm – 5pm : Welcoming Remarks
5pm – 6.15pm: Opening Keynote: Andrea Pitts, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UNC Charlotte:
“The Apparatus of Addiction: Substance Use at the Crossroads of Colonial Ableism and Migration”
Moderator: Elaine Miller, Miami University of Ohio
6.30pm – 7.30pm : Welcome Reception (co-sponsored by George Mason University’s Center for Humanities Research)
Friday June 3
9.15am - 10.45am : Panels: F1
F1a (V): Philosophy of the Limit: Risk, Disaster, and Infrastructure (V)
Melinda C. Hall, Stetson University (USA): “Is Risk Political ‘All the Way Down’?”
Shelley Lynn Tremain, BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: “Disaster Ableism, Assisted Suicide, and Bioethics”
Isaac Jiang, McMaster University (CAN): “Intraspecting the Everyday: Infrastructural Entanglements and Ableist Durabilities”
Moderator: Ada Jaarsma, Mount Royal University (CAN)
F1b: Counternarratives of the Anthropocene: Indigenous Ontologies and Climate Change
Travis Holloway, SUNY Farmingdale/Pratt Institute (USA), “The Human and the Inhuman: Sylvia Wynter and Kathryn Yusoff's Counterhistory for Human Beings in the Anthropocene"
Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University (CAN), "Indigenous Responses to Climate Horror Scenarios and Reciprocity among Generations"
Jordan Daniels, Pomona College (USA), "Indigenous Place-Thought and Mind-Body Dualism: On Nature"
Moderator: Rob Leib, Elon University (USA)
F1c: Trans Philosophy, Trans Poetics, and the Edge-Work of Resistance
Ellie Gibson, George Mason University (USA): “Transgender Exclusionary Radical Feminism (TERF), the Skepticism Movement, and the Resurgence of Gender Essentialism in UK Feminist Politics”
Billie Waller, Elon University (USA): “Decentering Dysphoria: Towards Refuting Pathological Trans Identity”
Perry Zurn, American University (USA): "Edge-Work: Trans Poetics and Trans Ecologies at the Edge of the University"
Moderator: Shiloh Whitney, Fordham University (USA)
10.45am – 11.15am: Coffee Break
11.15am – 12.30pm (V): Virtual Keynote: Tiffany King, Associate Professor, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality, University of Virginia
“Black and Indigenous Feminist Ecologies of a “Future-Now”
Moderator: Wendi Manuel-Scott, George Mason University (USA)
12.30pm – 1.45pm: Lunch
1.45pm – 3.15pm: Panels: F2
F2a (V): Un/Thinking the End
Dylan Hall, University of Alberta (CAN), Jessie Beier, Concordia University (CAN), and Chloë Taylor, University of Alberta (CAN): “Epocholyptic Scenes: Fragments of an Abécédaire”
Kathryn Gillespie, University of Kentucky (USA):“Doula for a Dying Planet: A Radical Feminist Politics of Care and Response-ability”
Kelly Struthers Montford, X University (CAN): “The Prison in an Age of Mass Extinction”
Moderator: Rachel Lewis, George Mason University (USA)
F2b: Critical Transformations: Kinship, Property, and Primitive Accumulation
Sarah C. DiMaggio, Vanderbilt University (USA): "Kinship and Ethical Orientation: Transforming Environmental Ethical Thought” (V)
Julianne Mann, Penn State University (USA): "The Grammar of Kin and Property in Hortense Spillers’ “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe””
Anne van Leeuwen, James Madison University (USA): "Against Primitive Accumulation: The Alternative of Subsistence" (V)
Moderator: Elisabeth Paquette, UNC Charlotte (USA)
F2c: Affects, Atmospheres, Entanglements: Racial and Environmental (In)Justice
Shiloh Whitney, Fordham University (USA) "Affective Injustice as Uptake Injustice: From Anger Gaslighting to Environmental Despair"
Sarah Lee, Depaul University "Getting our Hands Dirty: Environmental Racism, Emotional Atmospheres, and the Muddy Ground of Coloniality"
Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Minneapolis College & Penn State University (USA) "Chaos and Creolization: The Entangled Ecophilosophy of Édouard Glissant"
Moderator: Lauren Guilmette, Elon University (USA)
3.15 – 4pm: Coffee Break
4pm – 4.50pm: Panels: F3
F3a (V): "We Are Each Other’s Medicine": Health Equity Collaborative with "Radical Welcome" (V)
Carol Moeller and Members of the Health Equity Activation and Research Team (HEART), funded by the Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI), Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Moderator: Lisa Eckenwiler, George Mason University (USA)
F3b: Sharing Work: Image-Text and Experimental Writing Workshop
Participants in the Image-Text and Experimental Writing Workshop share their work.
Co-Moderators: Lauren Guilmette, Elon University (USA) and Lynne Huffer, Emory University (USA)
5pm – 6.15pm (V): Virtual Keynote: Catriona Sandilands, Professor of Environmental Studies, York University
“Daphne, Reprise: Toward an Arboreal Feminism”
Moderator: Chloe Taylor University of Alberta (CAN)
7pm: Optional Conference Dinner: Hamrock’s Restaurant, Fairfax Old Town
Saturday June 4
9am – 10.30am: Panels: S1
S1a (V): Dismantling the Climate Epistemological Contract: Queer Ecologies and Anti-Colonial Alliances (V)
Ela Przybylo, Illinois State University (USA): “Matka, Woda, Las / Mother, Water, Forest: Queer Polish Ecologies”
Edward Guetti, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisa (BRA): “The Climate Epistemological Contract and Amerindian Perspectives”
Sonakshi Srivastava, Indraprastha University (IND): "Sub/Versions: Speculating Justice in the Dis/Abling Anthropocene"
Moderator: Emily Parker, Towson University (USA)
S1b: Racial Capitalism, Colonial Legacies, and Ecological Debt
Maya Cayarga, Emory University (USA): "Haiti and the Anthropocene: The Racial History of Ecological Debt"
Lilyana Levy, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA (USA): "Towards a Genealogy of Flames: Exploring Human and Non-Human Agency and Responsibility in the Context of Californian Forest Fires" (V)
Amanda Stone, Simmons University (USA): "Beef and Barbarism: The White Capitalist Project of America's Meat Industry"
Moderator: Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Minneapolis College & Penn State University (USA)
S1c: Normalcy, Curiosity, and Care
Jane Dryden, Mount Allison University (CAN): "The Gut Microbiome, Autism, and the Imperative of Normalcy" (V)
Care Rumer, University of Waterloo (CAN): “Burden – Reimagining Justice and Care” (PPT presentation)
Claire A. Lockard, Loyola University, Chicago (USA): "Charitably Curious and Curiously Charitable: Bringing the Politics of Curiosity into Conversation with the Politics of Charitability”
Moderator: Tamsin Kimoto, Goucher College (USA)
10.30am – 11.00am: Coffee Break
11.00am – 12.30pm: Panels: S2
S2a: (V) {NB this panel runs from 11am – 1pm}: Liminality and Entanglements: Intersectional Geographies of Racism (V)
Tristana Martin Rubio, Duquesne University (USA): "Ageism and Racism in the “Adultification’ of Children of Color"
Hedwig Fraunhofer Georgia College (USA) & Laurenz Volkmann, Friedrich-Schiller-University
(GER), "The Art of Staging: Human and More-than-Human Entanglements" (PPT Presentation)
Pat Hope, Stanford University (USA): "The Geography of Racism"
Wanjiku Wainaina, Queen’s University (CAN) "Anywhere But Here: Challenges & Responses to Asylum-Based Queer Migration"
Moderator: Rachel Lewis, George Mason University (USA)
S2b: Reproductive Justice, Reparative Justice
Jill Drouillard, Mississippi University for Women (USA): "(Re)producing 'Woman' and Race in France's Sustainable Community"
Desiree Valentine, Marquette University (USA): "Reproductive Reparations: Reproductive Justice as Reparative Justice"
Kris McLain, Pennsylvania State University (USA): "Reconceptualizing Procreation: Generation as a Model for Reproductive Justice"
Moderator: Akila-Ka Ma'at, George Mason University (USA)
S2c: Philosophy, Not-Philosophy, and Perspectivism: Multinature, Many Worlds
Ali Beheler, Hastings College (USA): “Not-philosophy, Nietzsche, Nelson”
Ada Jaarsma, Mount Royal University (CAN) & Namrata Mitra Iona College (USA), "Multiculture or Multinature?" (PPT presentation)
MD Murtagh, Independent Scholar (USA): "A Different Feminist Physics: Entangling Sexual Difference and Many-Worlds as an Alternative to Barad’s Agential Realism" (V)
Moderator: Lauren Guilmette, Elon University (USA)
12.30 – 2pm: Lunch and philoSOPHIA Business Meeting (Horizon Hall, 6th Floor Conference Room)
2pm – 3.30pm: Panels: S3
S3a (V): Book panel: Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body (OUP, 2021) (V)
Moderator: MD Murtagh, Independent Scholar (USA)
Author: Emily Parker, Towson University (USA)
Commentator: Romi Oppermann, The New School for Social Research (USA)
Commentator: William Paris, University of Toronto (CAN)
Moderator: MD Murtagh, Independent Scholar (USA)
S3b: Diasporas, Displacements, World-Building
Waleska Solorzano, George Mason University (USA): "Queering the Venezuelan Diaspora" (PPT presentation)
Giada Mangiameli, Stony Brook University (USA): "The Unintelligibility of Voices in Temporary Landscapes"
Emily Lange, Miami University (USA): "Making Better Worlds: Worldbuilding as Feminist Theory and Praxis"
Moderator: Andrea Pitts, UNC Charlotte (USA)
S3c: Conjuring Resistance: Indigenous Cosmovision and Racial Justice
Roxana Akhbari, York University (CAN): "Sto:lo Cosmovision in Lee Maracle's Celia's Song and the Need for an Ontological Turn in Pragmatist Thought"
Amanda Bennett, Duke University (USA): “‘I am Mojo, Voodoo, and Gold Earrings:’ Reimagining Toni Morrison as Conjure Woman"
Jack Leff, Virginia Tech (USA): “Tear gas, security technologies, racism”
Moderator: Rob Leib, Elon University (USA)
3.45pm – 5pm: Closing Keynote: Naisargi Dave, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto:
“The Time of the Chicken: On Appetite at the End of the World.”
Moderator: Rachel Lewis, George Mason University (USA)
5pm- 5:15pm Closing Remarks and philoSOPHIA 2023
