3rd Annual Meeting, May 27-29, 2009, New York, New York, USA
<Directions: John Jay and Fordham are just one block apart.>
John Jay: 899 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY, 10019 (59th st & 10th Ave)
Fordham Lincoln: 113 W 60th St, New York, NY 10023 (60th st & Amsterdam Ave)
@ Open to the Public
@ Program draft: as of 01:00am, 05/26/2009
@ Hard copies of the final version will be available at the conference site.
@ Request a correction/change/update by email; minimal and simple, please.
@ Breakout sessions are organzed by five thematic streams: see below for details and note your presentation time, e.g., Kelly Jones, 1-1:50pm, May 27th.
@ Each presenter has a total of 50 minutes: a 25-30 minute presentation, followed by a 20-25 minute discussion with the rest of the stream members.
@ If you are a presenter, "floating" around the streams is strongly discouraged. The conference is practically composed of five separate workshops.
@ This page functions as a temporary informational site until May 29, 2009; after that, all the information will be archived at philoSOPHIA.
@ philoSOPHIA is committed to a green conference wherein we minimize environmental impact and try when possible to use local resources.
May 27th (John Jay-Main Building: 59th st & 10th Ave)
8:30-11:00 Continental Breakfast Available
09:00-09:20 Welcoming Remarks by Provost Jane Bowers; John Pittman, Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy (Rm 630)
09:20-11:00 Key Event I: Publication Roundtable (Rm 630)
Moderators: Elaine Miller & Emily Zakin, Co-Editors of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental FeminismSpeakers: Tina Chanter (Editor, SUNY Series in Gender Theory); Wendy Lochner (Senior Executive Editor, Columbia University Press); Amy Scholder (Editorial Director, The Feminist Press); Helen Tartar (Editorial Director, Fordham University Press)11:00-01:00 Lunch Break (Individual Arrangement)
01:00-01:50 Breakout Session 01 (Rm 200; 201; 202; 203; 204)
02:00-02:50 Breakout Session 02 (Rm 200; 201; 202; 203; 204)
03:00-03:50 Breakout Session 03 (Rm 200; 201; 202; 203; 204)
04:00-04:50 Breakout Session 04 (Rm 200; 201; 202; 203; 204)
05:00-05:50 Breakout Session 05 (Rm 200; 201; 202; 203; 204)
06:00-07:15 philoSOPHICAL Cocktail at Hudson Bar (Sponsored by Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University)
May 28th (Fordham-Lowenstein Building: 60th st & Columbus Ave)
10:00-10:50 Breakout Session 06 (Rm 506; 904; 908; 910; 914)
11:00-11:50 Breakout Session 07 (Rm 506; 904; 908; 910; 914)
12:00-02:00 Lunch Break (Individual Arrangement)
02:00-02:50 Breakout Session 08 (Rm 506; 904; 908; 910; 914)
03:00-03:50 Breakout Session 09 (Rm 506; 904; 908; 910; 914)
04:00-04:50 Breakout Session 10 (Rm 506; 904; 908; 910; 914)
05:00-06:30 Reception (Hosted by Department of Philosophy, Fordham University)
May 29th (Fordham-McMahon Hall Lounge: 155 W 60th St, b/w 10th Ave/Amsterdam Ave)
09:00-11:00 Continental Breakfast Available
09:00-11:00 Key Event II: Pedagogy Roundtable
Moderators: Kyoo Lee & Ann Murphy (Co-hosts)Speakers: Amie MacDonald (Philosophy/Justice Studies, John Jay College); Donna Marcano (Philosophy, Trinity College); Darrell Moore (Philosophy, DePaul University); Allison Pease (English/Gender Studies, John Jay College); Falguni Sheth (Philosophy, Hampshire College)12:30-02:30 Advisory Board Lunch at Rosa Mexicano
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BREAKOUT SESSION DETAILS
STREAM ONE: INTERSECTIONS WITH/IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LUCE IRIGARAY (Moderators: Maria Cimitile & Gail Schwab)
May 27: Irigaray I (John Jay, Rm 200)
•Session 01: Kelly Jones: “Reversibility and Sexual Difference: Toward an Ethics of Ambiguous Intimacy”
Session 01: Kelly Jones: “Reversibility and Sexual Difference: Toward an Ethics of Ambiguous Intimacy”•Session 02: Laura Roberts: “Intersections of Difference in Luce Irigaray’s Later Work”
Session 02: Laura Roberts: “Intersections of Difference in Luce Irigaray’s Later Work”•Session 03: Jennifer Purvis: “Queer Horizons for Sexual Difference in the Work of Luce Irigaray”
Session 03: Jennifer Purvis: “Queer Horizons for Sexual Difference in the Work of Luce Irigaray”•Session 04: Elena Tzelepis: “Abstracting ‘woman’”
Session 04: Elena Tzelepis: “Abstracting ‘woman’”•Session 05: Karen Robertson: “Mimicry and Identity in Irigaray and Fanon”
Session 05: Karen Robertson: “Mimicry and Identity in Irigaray and Fanon”May 28 : Irigaray II (Fordham Lowenstein, Rm 506)
•Session 06: Sabrina Hom: “Between Races and Generations: Thinking the Intersections of Race, Sexuality and Gender, through Moraga and Irigaray”
Session 06: Sabrina Hom: “Between Races and Generations: Thinking the Intersections of Race, Sexuality and Gender, through Moraga and Irigaray”•Session 07: Andrew Robinson: “Irigaray’s Education in Difference: An Apprenticeship in Openness Towards the Other”
Session 07: Andrew Robinson: “Irigaray’s Education in Difference: An Apprenticeship in Openness Towards the Other”•Session 08: Athena Colman: “Ethics, Essence, and Embodiment: Re-covering the Essence in the Thought of Luce Irigaray”
Session 08: Athena Colman: “Ethics, Essence, and Embodiment: Re-covering the Essence in the Thought of Luce Irigaray”•Session 09: Anne Van Leeuwen: “Heidegger’s Humanism: Thinking through the Intersection of Gender and Race in the context of Heideggerean Phenomenology”
Session 09: Anne Van Leeuwen: “Heidegger’s Humanism: Thinking through the Intersection of Gender and Race in the context of Heideggerean Phenomenology”•Session 10: Emma Jones: “Living within Language as a Call to Respond: A Reading of Heidegger’s Language With a View Toward the (Sexually Different) Future”
Session 10: Emma Jones: “Living within Language as a Call to Respond: A Reading of Heidegger’s Language With a View Toward the (Sexually Different) Future”STREAM TWO: THINKING INTERSECTIONALITY (Moderators: Emily Lee & Donna Marcano)
May 27: Race, Class, Gender I (John Jay, Rm 201)
•Session 01: Emily Lee: “A Problem of Conceptually Paralleling Race and Class: Class Mobility and Racial Responsibility”
Session 01: Emily Lee: “A Problem of Conceptually Paralleling Race and Class: Class Mobility and Racial Responsibility”•Session 02: Tanya Rodriguez: “Difference and Indifference: Laughter, Gender, Race, and Class”
Session 02: Tanya Rodriguez: “Difference and Indifference: Laughter, Gender, Race, and Class”•Session 03: Hernando Estéves: “Formation of Women’s Political Identity during the Independence Movements in Latin America”
Session 03: Hernando Estéves: “Formation of Women’s Political Identity during the Independence Movements in Latin America” •Session 04: Sarah Donovan: “Race, Class, Gender and the Birth of a Notorious Criminal”
Session 04: Sarah Donovan: “Race, Class, Gender and the Birth of a Notorious Criminal”•Session 05: Sarah Sorial: “Feminism, Law and the Public Sphere”
Session 05: Sarah Sorial: “Feminism, Law and the Public Sphere”May 28: Race, Class, Gender II (Fordham Lowenstein, Rm 904)
•Session 06: Sara McNamara: “Retroactivity & Raced, Classed, and Gendered Subjectivities”
Session 06: Sara McNamara: “Retroactivity & Raced, Classed, and Gendered Subjectivities”•Session 07: Samantha Godwin: “Capitalism and Patriarchy: Aligning and Conflicting Interests”
Session 07: Samantha Godwin: “Capitalism and Patriarchy: Aligning and Conflicting Interests”•Session 08: Natalie Cisneros: “My Own Language for My Own Things: Borderland Identity and A Politics of the Performative”
Session 08: Natalie Cisneros: “My Own Language for My Own Things: Borderland Identity and A Politics of the Performative”•Session 09: Máriam Martinez: “Is Multiculturalism Enough for Migrants?: Approaching Gender, Race, and Class Intersections from Social Justice”
Session 09: Máriam Martinez: “Is Multiculturalism Enough for Migrants?: Approaching Gender, Race, and Class Intersections from Social Justice”•Session 10: Rachael Sotos: “Wisdom of my Mothers: Barack Obama, Feminist Exemplar”
Session 10: Rachael Sotos: “Wisdom of my Mothers: Barack Obama, Feminist Exemplar”STREAM THREE: INTERSECTING WITH THE TRADITION/INTERSECTIONS IN AESTHETICS (Moderators: Kyoo Lee & Mary Ann McClure)
May 27: Hegel/Remarking (John Jay, Rm 202)
•Session 01: Emily Zakin: “Sublimation and Impersonal Narcissism: Copjec’s Critique of Idealized Dissatisfaction”
Session 01: Emily Zakin: “Sublimation and Impersonal Narcissism: Copjec’s Critique of Idealized Dissatisfaction”•Session 02: Tina Chanter: “Antigone and the Naturalization of Slavery: Race, Class, and Gender in Hegel’s Reading of Tragedy”
Session 02: Tina Chanter: “Antigone and the Naturalization of Slavery: Race, Class, and Gender in Hegel’s Reading of Tragedy”•Session 03: Laura Werner: “Sex and the City-State: Political Participation as Virility and the ‘Right to Desire’ in 18th Century German Philosophy”
Session 03: Laura Werner: “Sex and the City-State: Political Participation as Virility and the ‘Right to Desire’ in 18th Century German Philosophy”•Session 04: Devonya Havis: “Arts of Resistance and the Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges”
Session 04: Devonya Havis: “Arts of Resistance and the Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges”•Session 05: Cigdem Yazici: “The Excessive Silence of the Feminine in Blanchot’s Reading of Marguerite Duras’s Malady of Death”
Session 05: Cigdem Yazici: “The Excessive Silence of the Feminine in Blanchot’s Reading of Marguerite Duras’s Malady of Death”May 28: Aesthetics (Fordham Lowenstein, Rm 908)
•Session 06: Elaine Miller: “An Aesthetics of Foreignness: Kristeva between Diderot and Kafka”
Session 06: Elaine Miller: “An Aesthetics of Foreignness: Kristeva between Diderot and Kafka”•Session 07: Anna Willieme: “In Conversation with Merleau-Ponty: Enhancing Embodiment with Art beyond Sight”
Session 07: Anna Willieme: “In Conversation with Merleau-Ponty: Enhancing Embodiment with Art beyond Sight”•Session 08: Dehlia Hannah: “Shadows, Wallpaper, and Background Assumptions: Genetics and the Aesthetics of Race in Contemporary Art”
Session 08: Dehlia Hannah: “Shadows, Wallpaper, and Background Assumptions: Genetics and the Aesthetics of Race in Contemporary Art”•Session 09: Ewa Ziarek: “Dangerous Conditions of Black Aesthetics in Nella Larsen’s Passing”
Session 09: Ewa Ziarek: “Dangerous Conditions of Black Aesthetics in Nella Larsen’s Passing”•Session 10: Ellen Armour: “Photographs and Philosophy: Reading (Through and About) Images”
Session 10: Ellen Armour: “Photographs and Philosophy: Reading (Through and About) Images”STREAM FOUR: NARRATING THE INTERSECTIONS OF VIOLENCE AND VULNERABILITY (Moderators: Ann Murphy & Jill Stauffer)
May 27: Thinking Vulnerability (John Jay, Rm 203)
•Session 01: Erinn Gilson: “Vulnerability and Intersectionality”
Session 01: Erinn Gilson: “Vulnerability and Intersectionality”•Session 02: Ann Murphy: “Ontological Crime: The New Ontology of Vulnerability”
Session 02: Ann Murphy: “Ontological Crime: The New Ontology of Vulnerability”•Session 03: Ashley Manta: “Acquaintance Rape and Its Traumatic Effects on the Self”
Session 03: Ashley Manta: “Acquaintance Rape and Its Traumatic Effects on the Self”•Session 04: John Pittman: “Myself and My Father: Questions on Butler’s ‘Giving An Account’”
Session 04: John Pittman: “Myself and My Father: Questions on Butler’s ‘Giving An Account’”•Session 05: Kirsten Jacobson: “Embodied Domestics, Embodied Politics: Women, Home, and Agorophobia”
Session 05: Kirsten Jacobson: “Embodied Domestics, Embodied Politics: Women, Home, and Agorophobia”May 28: Judith Butler, Performance, and Narrative (Fordham Lowenstein, Rm 910)
•Session 06: Lisa Guenther: “Cross-Examining Shame”
Session 06: Lisa Guenther: “Cross-Examining Shame”•Session 07: Berenice Fisher: “Two Faces of Shame: How it Inhibits and Promotes Democratic Discussion”
Session 07: Berenice Fisher: “Two Faces of Shame: How it Inhibits and Promotes Democratic Discussion”•Session 08: Noelle McAfee: “Politics in the Performative: A New Direction in Feminist Political Philosophy”
Session 08: Noelle McAfee: “Politics in the Performative: A New Direction in Feminist Political Philosophy”•Session 09: Katharine Loevy: “Transgender Day of Remembrance and Creon’s Political Savvy: Why Judith Butler is Right About the Political Significance of Mourning”
Session 09: Katharine Loevy: “Transgender Day of Remembrance and Creon’s Political Savvy: Why Judith Butler is Right About the Political Significance of Mourning”•Session 10: Robin James: “A Different ‘World?’: Ranciere, Feminism, and Feminist ‘Disagreement’”
Session 10: Robin James: “A Different ‘World?’: Ranciere, Feminism, and Feminist ‘Disagreement’”STREAM FIVE: INTERSECTIONS IN LIFE/INTERSECTIONS IN TIME (Moderators: Claire Colebrook & Sam Haddad)
May 27: Time (John Jay, Rm 204)
•Session 01: Emanuela Bianchi: “Toward a Bastard Politics: Material Becoming, Queer Time, and Kinship”
Session 01: Emanuela Bianchi: “Toward a Bastard Politics: Material Becoming, Queer Time, and Kinship”•Session 02: Lara Trout: “Phenomenological Blind Spots and Aggressive Ignorance: the Perpetuation of Arrogant Perception in Childhood”
Session 02: Lara Trout: “Phenomenological Blind Spots and Aggressive Ignorance: the Perpetuation of Arrogant Perception in Childhood”•Session 03: Jennifer Scuro: “Sexist Time Structures”
Session 03: Jennifer Scuro: “Sexist Time Structures”•Session 04: Sara Beardsworth: “Impersonal Memory and Impersonal Relationship: An Ethical Reflection”
Session 04: Sara Beardsworth: “Impersonal Memory and Impersonal Relationship: An Ethical Reflection”•Session 05: Shannon Hoff: “The Colonization of Significance and the Future of Identity: Fanon, Derrida, and Democracy-to-Come”
Session 05: Shannon Hoff: “The Colonization of Significance and the Future of Identity: Fanon, Derrida, and Democracy-to-Come”May 28: Biopolitics/Biopower (Fordham Lowenstein, Rm 914)
•Session 06: Sarah Hansen: “Power: Between Foucault and Kristeva”
Session 06: Sarah Hansen: “Power: Between Foucault and Kristeva”•Session 07: Anne O’Byrne: “Will the clone be natal?”
Session 07: Anne O’Byrne: “Will the clone be natal?”•Session 08: Penelope Deutscher: “Double Pivot: Life and Reproductive Life”
Session 08: Penelope Deutscher: “Double Pivot: Life and Reproductive Life” •Session 09: Lynne Huffer: “From Madness to Ethics: Foucault’s Archival Body”
Session 09: Lynne Huffer: “From Madness to Ethics: Foucault’s Archival Body”•Session 10: Sara Brill: “Prosthetic Ecology: Elizabeth Grosz on Life and the Tendency towards Prosthesis”
Session 10: Sara Brill: “Prosthetic Ecology: Elizabeth Grosz on Life and the Tendency towards Prosthesis”________________________________________________________________________________________________
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