Discrimination and Disadvantage

A New Year of Struggle and Resistance

 

As you know by now, the Discrimination and Disadvantage blog is your best source of righteous indignation about the asymmetrical relations of power that currently condition and reproduce the discipline and profession of philosophy and the neoliberal apparatus of academia more generally.

In 2018, we will continue to shine a spotlight on the stratification of philosophy, on the precarity of the ableist, racialized, and sexist university, and on the neoliberal mechanisms that currently govern society at large, as well as persistently validate the heterogenenous lives, philosophical work, and institutional and professional struggles of marginalized and excluded philosophers and academics in general.

Here’s some of what you can expect from Discrimination and Disadvantage in the coming months: a guest post about feminism across borders; a guest post about disability and prestige bias in philosophy; more posts by me, Utz Mcknight, Ray Aldred, Melinda Hall, and other regular contributors; and more monthly installments of Dialogues on Disability, the popular, provocative, and transformative series of interviews that I’m conducting with disabled philosophers, including the third anniversary installment in April when I will be joined by special guests to survey the insights and issues introduced in installments from the third year of the series.

You won’t want to miss out on any of it; so, come here often.

 

posted by Shelley

Diversity, Inclusion, and the ASA at 75 (UPDATED)

 

UPDATE: Charles Peterson has now contributed to this discussion at Aesthetics for Birds. Here is an excerpt from Peterson's post:

 

This then is the tipping point, at 75 years the ASA and its membership can engage in an intense self reflection and consciously decide what will the organization be going forward, who will be welcomed and embraced in that future and how room can be made for those fellow travelers. The organization can take seriously the work necessary amongst the membership to craft a real and true community, wherein all feel and are truly welcomed. Or not. Conversely the ASA can look askance at those practices, which offend and insult women and persons of color. The ASA can remain silent on various forms of diversity, as Anne Eaton has noted, disability and class.  It can continue to work at the organizational level and not consider the community itself. These are not small questions, and there are no simple solutions but if the ASA is to take the first steps of the next 75 years as an inclusive and supportive body, its growth and expansion depend on its real ability to create and embody the community it hopes to be.

 

The entire Aesthetics for Birds post by Peterson is here.

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The 75th annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics took place a couple of weeks ago in New Orleans. Reports about the conference have varied. In two companion posts at the Aesthetics for Birds blog, A.W. Eaton and Paul C. Taylor respectively offer critical reports that zero in on the racism and sexism, both explicit and implicit, that conditioned the meeting and indeed that condition the history and present of the ASA more generally.

Here is an excerpt from Eaton's report about the conference:

 

It is not enough to simply have members of underrepresented groups at our meetings and to feature papers, panels, and plenaries on topics pertaining to members of underrepresented groups. The people who come to our meetings to share their work with us need to see that their ideas – rather than their mere presence or appealing appearance – are valued; they need to be able to share these ideas in an environment that is free from condescension, patronization, and mansplaining and whitesplaining; they need not to be sexually harassed. I am not saying that members of underrepresented groups need to be coddled, or that they cannot engage in rigorous argumentation. On the contrary! I am saying that diversity and inclusion make certain demands on the privileged, and that one of the most important such demands is that we work to ensure that members of underrepresented groups be made to feelrespected and esteemed.

Now, you might think that this is all obvious, a matter or common courtesy even. But the fact is that the ASA is failing to create environments that are hospitable to people of color and to women (recognizing that these groups overlap). Here are some examples from the recent meeting in New Orleans:

• One alleged case of sexual harassment by a senior man toward a junior woman. I say “alleged” because the case has not been (nor will it be) officially adjudicated, although it has been reported to ASA governance. I know the details of this case and find it 100% credible. In fact, I have myself in the past had trouble with the senior male philosopher in question.
• During Q&A after Fahamu Pecou’s Danto lecture, the artist was repeatedly called upon to help explain the seemingly inscrutable practices of Black urban youth rather than asked questions about his extremely interesting work. (There were exceptions, as Paul Taylor powerfully describes in his piece here.) One scholar of color I know expressed feeling “totally othered” by this experience. (And this scholar is not Paul Taylor, which is to say that this makes at least two scholars of color who felt negatively impacted by the way Pecou was treated. I expect that there are more.)
• During an all-female panel (where 2 of the 3 presenters as well as the chair were women of color), a white philosopher in the audience member got up while the final presenter (a woman of color) was still speaking and went to the front of the room to tell the chair (a woman of color) that she needed to stop the speaker so as to make time for Q&A. While I find it plausible that the man would have acted that way had the participants all been white men, what he clearly failed to consider before acting is the importance of context. In the context of a panel of women, the majority of whom are women of color, this was glaringly condescending and disrespectful to both the chair, who did not need to be told how to do her job, and to the speaker, who was in the middle of presenter her ideas. The question that the man then asked in the Q&A is related by Paul in his piece.

In addition to these specific cases, I’d like to note that at every single ASA panel that has included people of color in the past few years, I’ve witnessed whitesplaining, exoticizing, and other sorts of racist condescension. I also regularly witness women getting mansplained at our meetings and am sometimes a target of this myself.

 

Here is an excerpt from Taylor's post about the meeting:  

 

CSWIP 2017: Feminism, Philosophy, and Engaging the Public (Western, October 27-29, 2017; final program)

 

The conference will be held on the campus of Western University in London, Ontario. For accessibility and AV information about each room, as well as access to an accessibility map to get to the room, please click on the room number.

Collegium of Black Women Philosophers: 10 Year Anniversary Conference, Penn State, Nov. 2-4, 2017

 

 

The Collegium of Black Women Philosophers

10 Year Anniversary Conference,

November 2-4, 2017,

Penn State University (University Park Campus),

Nittany Lion Inn

 

Keynote addresses: Elizabeth Alexander and Angela Davis

 

Thursday, November 2, 2017

CBWP Opening Private Events:

Breakfast (7:30am - 8:30am, Closed to the Public)

8:45 am – 11:45 am (Closed to the Public)
Forum: State of Black Women Philosophers: Challenges and Strategies

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm (Closed to the Public)
Luncheon + Kathleen Collins Losing Ground Film

CBWP Opening Public Events:
Symposium on Kathleen Collins: Film maker (Losing Ground) & Author (What Ever Happened to Interracial Love?)

2:15 pm – 4:00pm (Open to the Public)
Kathleen Collins Symposium Featured Speakers (TBA)
 
4:15 pm – 6:15 pm (Open to the Public)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ELIZABETH ALEXANDER


Friday, November 3, 2017

Breakfast (7:30am - 8:30am, Closed to the Public)

8:45am (Open to the Public)
Welcome Remarks by Kathryn T. Gines, Penn State University

9:00 am – 10:20 am (Open to the Public)

1. Lindsey Stewart, University of Memphis, "'Tell 'Em Boy Bye': Zora Neale Hurston's Hidden Critique of Liberalism"
2. Qrescent Mali Mason, Berea College, “From Negative to Positive: Black Feminist Philosophy and Intersectionality”

 
10:30 am – 11:50 am (Open to the Public)

1. Nathifa Greene, Gettysburg College, “Habit and Liberation in Black Feminist Pragmatism”
2. Gabriella Beckles-Raymond, Canterbury Christ Church University, “The Myth of Mixed Race in Britain”

 
12:00 pm – 1:20pm (Open to the Public)

1. Kris Sealey, Fairfield University, "This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: Identity, Difference and the Nation"
2. Gertrude James Gonzalez de Allen, Spelman College, “Afra: On Migration, Storytelling and Folklore in Afro-Latin Women’s Subjectivity”

 
Lunch Break (1:30 pm – 2:30 pm, Closed to the Public)
 
2:40 pm – 4:00 pm (Open to the Public)

1. Macalester Bell, Bryn Mawr College, “Photographs as Tools of Moral Suasion”
2. Lina Buffington, Independent Scholar, “The Care Revolution”

 
4:10 pm – 5:25 pm (Open to the Public)

1. Alexandra Kollontai Lambert, Birkbeck University of London, “Motivating criticism of motivations: How to level the playing field in philosophy”
2. Leah Kaplan, Stony Brook University, “Living Towards the Future: Black Radical Imagining”
3. Michelle N. Wilson, Clark Atlanta University, “Theoretical Agency and Legitimacy Of African Philosophy: Social Contract Theory”

Dinner Break (5:30pm – 6:30pm, Closed to the Public)    
 
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Open to the Public)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ANGELA DAVIS
 

Saturday, November 4, 2017 
Private Round Table Sessions (Not Open to the Public) 

Breakfast (7:30am - 8:30am, Closed to the Public)

9:00 am – 10:25 am (Closed to the Public)
CBWP Workshop Facilitator Round Table 1

10:30 am – 11:55 am (Closed to the Public)
CBWP Workshop Facilitator Round Table 2

Lunch Break (12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Closed to the Public)

1:30 pm – 3:15 pm (Closed to the Public)
CBWP Keynote Round Table Panel 1

3:30 pm – 5:15 pm (Closed to the Public)
CBWP Keynote Round Table Panel 2

Dinner (6:30 pm – 9:30 pm, Closed to the Public)

 

CONTACT: Kathryn T. Gines, Ph.D, Founding Director of CBWP (email: ktg3@psu.edu, web site: www.ktgphd.com)

 

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CFP: philoSOPHIA 2018, Mar. 22-24, 2018 (Richmond; deadline: Nov. 15, 2017)

 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Biopower, Biologics, Biospheres

philoSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism 

12th Annual Meeting

 

Thursday, March 22nd to Saturday, March 24th, 2018

University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

 

Keynote: Dr. Joy James

Presidential Professor of the Humanities at Williams College

 

Abstract, Panel, and Workshop Proposals due: Nov. 15th, 2017

 

The 12th annual meeting of philoSOPHIA will run from Thursday evening, March 22nd through Saturday evening, March 24th, 2018, on UR’s downtown campus in Richmond, VA. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Joy James, Presidential Professor of the Humanities at Williams College. Dr. James’ books include Transcending the Talented Tenth, Warfare in the American Heartland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy, The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings, Imprisoned Intellectuals: America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion, and Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader.

Papers concerning aspects of feminist philosophy, feminist theory, critical philosophy of race, philosophy of disability, queer theory, environmental philosophy, and continental philosophy are all welcome.

 

Guidelines for Submission:

Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted in an email attachment suitable for anonymous review. You may submit one of the following:

1. An individual abstract (500-700 words).
2. A panel proposal (500 words) with individual abstracts (500-700 words each).
3. A closed-session workshop abstract (500-700 words). Please see below for an extended description.

In a separate document (attached to the same email), please include your name and contact information along with your proposal title. Please list audio/visual requests, but bear in mind that these will be approved on a case-by-case basis, giving priority to accessibility for all conference participants.

More information will be available soon on conference accessibility, building from the 2017 philoSOPHIA accessibility guidelines and the invaluable resources of the Society for Disability Studies, SDS. The program committee encourages and prioritizes conference submissions engaging the works of people of color, gender non-conforming persons, and/or disabled persons.

Please submit proposals by email to Ladelle McWhorter at lmcwhort@richmond.edu by 11:59pm on Wednesday, November 15^th, 2017. For all inquiries related to the 2018 conference, please use the same address.

 

Closed Session Workshops Information

At last year’s philoSOPHIA conference, we held a closed session in which a small number of junior and senior scholars met to workshop the junior scholars’ papers. This year, we are opening up the workshop format as an alternative to paper presentations for any small group of scholars who want to work together on a particular conference-related theme. Last year’s format—senior scholars critiquing junior scholars’ work—is one option, but proposals may also include peers working on sets of related papers or guided discussions of topics related to this year’s theme.

Hotel and registration info, plus more on accessibility to and at the conference coming soon!

 

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CSWIP 2017: Feminism, Philosophy, and Engaging the Public (Western, October 27-29, 2017; provisional program)

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27

NOON: Conference Registration and Check-in begins

 

1:00-2:15 (PAPERS)

Room A: Philosophical Issues and Dementia Care

Monique Lanoix (St. Paul), Dementia Care and Negative Stereotypes: Implications for Regulations and Policies

Andria Bianchi (Waterloo), Sex, Dementia, and Consent: Implementing a Framework of Precedent Autonomy

 

Room B: Feminism, Philosophy, and Psychiatry

Raffi Aintablian (Ryerson), A Critique of Complicated Grief Disorder: Insights from Feminist Corporeal Politics

Phoebe Friesen (CUNY), Standpoint Theory and Psychiatry

 

2:15-2:45   BREAK

 

2:45-4:15 (PANELS)

Room A: Public Policy

Contributing to Public Policy: The How, Why, and When (Carolyn McLeod, Western; Alice MacLachlan, York; Shannon Dea, Waterloo; Erica Lawson, Western)

 

Room B: Affect Theory

Engaging Affects (Randi Nixon, Alberta; Chloe Taylor, Alberta; Kelly Struthers, Alberta)

 

5:15-6:45   BUFFET DINNER (MICHAEL’S GARDEN)

 

6:45-8:00 OFFICIAL WELCOME; PRESENTATION OF JEAN HARVEY ESSAY AWARD

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. Francoise Baylis (Dalhousie), Activism and the Hallowed Halls of Academia

 

8:00   RECEPTION

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28

8:15: CONFERENCE REGISTRATION, LIGHT MORNING REFRESHMENTS

 

9:00-10:15 (PAPERS)

Room A: Feminist Philosophy of Disability

Abby Wilkerson (George Washington), Toward a Crip Queer Perspective on Soil and Social Flesh

Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar), Bioethics as a Technology of Government

 

Room B: Feminist Philosophy Responds to the Refugee Crisis

Katy Fulfer (Waterloo) and Rita Gardiner (Western), The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Hannah Arendt, Rootlessness, and Natality

Ezgi Sertler (Michigan State), An Incapacity to Respond: Epistemic Dimensions of the Refugee “Crisis”

 

10:15-10:45    BREAK

 

10:45-NOON  (PAPERS)

Room A: Race, Identity, and Gender

Desiree Melton (Notre Dame of Maryland), Black Girl Burden

Roksana Alavi (Oklahoma), Stereotyping, Racial Identity, and “Inauthentic Selves”

 

Room B: Philosophical and Political Communities and Representation

Katherine Paxman and Kristen Blair (Brigham Young), Hume, Women, and the Pursuit of Philosophical Community

Wendy Salkin (Harvard), Democracy Within, Justice Without: The Duties of Informal Political Representatives

 

NOON-1:30    CSWIP AGM AND LUNCH

 

1:30-3:30 (PAPERS)

Room A: Feminism, Philosophy, and Identity

Rebecca Traynor (CUNY), Assumptions about Genius and the Underrepresentation of Women

Stephanie Kapusta (Dalhousie), Relational Gender Essences: “Swamp-women” and Trans Inclusion

Megan Dean (Georgetown), Who You Are and How You Eat: Identity and the Ethics of Eating Interventions

 

Room B: Feminist Reproductive Ethics

Suki Finn (Southampton), The Metaphysics of Pregnancy and Public Policy

Emma Ryman (Western), Physicians’ Fiduciary Duties and Surrogacy

Diane LaLonde (Western), Women and Sterilization

 

3:30-4:00    BREAK

 

4:00-5:30 (PANELS)

Room A: Feminist Philosophy of Sport

Sport, Philosophy, and Feminism: Persistent Problems and Emerging Issues (Pam Sailors, Missouri State; Angela Schneider, Western; Sarah Teetzel, Manitoba; Charlene Weaving, St. Francis Xavier)

 

Room B: Book Panel

Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability by Shelley Tremain (Catherine Clune-Taylor, Jane Dryden, Melinda Hall, Shelley Tremain)

 

6:00-9:00    BANQUET (SPENCER HALL)

 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29

9:15-11:00 (PAPERS)

Room A: Identity and Embodiment

Madeline Ley (Ryerson), Home is Where the Self Is

Catherine Clune-Taylor (Princeton), Feminist Approaches to Intersex

 

Room B: Feminism, Justice, and Democracy

Christine Koggel (Carleton), The Telling and Retelling of Injustices: Silencing, Marginalizing, Not Hearing

Susan Dieleman (Saskatchewan), Data Truth and Democracy

Vanessa Leham-Streisel (York), Can Policing Be Feminist?

 

11:00-11:30 BREAK

 

11:30-1:00 (PANELS)

Room A: Book Panel

Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell (Suze Berkhout, UBC; Alexis Shotwell, Carleton; Alice MacLachlan, York; Michael Doan, Eastern Michigan; Ami Harbin, Oakland; Kelly Fritsch, Toronto)

 

Room B: Climate Issues in Philosophy 

Wenches in Trenches: What We Learned in Forming a “Climate” Committee (Guelph: Monique Deveaux, Karyn Freedman, Maya Goldenberg, Karen Houle, Patricia Sheridan, Andrew Bailey, Orsolya Csaszar, Marie-Pier Lamay) 

 

PLEASE NOTE: Information about accessibility to and at the conference, registration, travel, and accommodations will be available soon at the conference website here.

 

 

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Minorities in Philosophy (MAP) UK Seeks New Co-Director

 

The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) UK Team are seeking to recruit a new co-director into our team.

The role involves:

• Co-managing the UK chapter programme: promoting the establishment of new chapters; approving applications; providing support and advice to existing chapters.
• Co-managing the UK mentorship programme: promoting mentorship programme, applications from new mentors; and linking mentees with appropriate mentors.
• Co-managing online web-presence (website, social media) and external inquiries.
• Regular reporting of chapter activities (two formal reports, and regular informal email contact with MAP HQ).
• Developing ongoing MAP UK projects, such as a joint project with the BPPA to develop some inclusive event guidelines.
• Developing any of your own project ideas for the UK region.
• Regularly liaising with fellow co-directors about all of the above

 

Please note that in order to be eligible to apply, you must be a student based in the UK.

You can access the application forms here: 

http://mapuk.weebly.com/join-our-team.html

You can also find more information about MAP on our website: http://mapuk.weebly.com/about.html

We especially welcome applications from members of marginalised groups, and will do our very best to accommodate adjustments to the application process for those with additional needs.

The deadline for receipt of applications is 31^st July 2017. If you are interested in applying for the position but are unable to meet this deadline for personal or other reasons, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

If you have any questions about the position or the application process, please get in touch with us at mapforthegap.uk@gmail.com.

 

Saloni, Natalie & Emily (The MAP UK Team)

 

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CFP: Special issue of Dialogue: PHILOSOPHY AND ITS BORDERS , Fall 2017 (deadline: May 30, 2017)

 

Submissions are invited for a special issue of Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review to be published in the second half of 2017. The topic of the issue is Philosophy and its Borders.

Philosophers have developed multiple connections with scholars in other disciplines, both in efforts to understand how different methods and models are employed in the search for knowledge, and to make available for philosophical reflection tools and insights discovered in other disciplines. Philosophy itself contains a number of different traditions, whose conflicts and tensions can be a rich source of creative possibility but can also be sites of exclusion or oppression. Recent challenges to the discipline have encouraged philosophers to recognize that Western philosophy itself – including analytic, continental, or pragmatist traditions – is just one among many possible approaches. Professional philosophers are increasingly asked to include non-Western philosophical sources in our curricula, for example, by bringing Eastern, Muslim, Indigenous, and Africana traditions into conversation with the Western canon. Feminists have long valued inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary work; they often draw on knowledge from different sources and standpoints in an effort to better understand and critique dominant modes of thought. In light of all this, it seems timely to address how best to work across borders in philosophy. Among the questions that might be explored are these:

- How do particular traditions and approaches exert power over others?

- What model or picture of the discipline ought we to present to our students as they are first learning “philosophy”? 

- Pedagogy and the role of teaching philosophical traditions: what is appropriate when training students new to the discipline? 

- What does it mean to draw disciplines and traditions together? 

- How have feminist philosophy, critical race theory, disability theory, and other critical approaches reshaped understandings of the discipline and its subdisciplines, such as bioethics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and political philosophy?

- What successes have there been? What are the areas of conflict or tension? 

- What does it mean to think of philosophy as having “core” areas? How do these relate to its borders?

- Non-Western and Indigenous philosophies have different understandings about what counts as philosophy. What challenges are posed by integrating them into disciplinary curricula? 

- What does it mean to take the insights and norms of philosophical argumentation and bring them to bear in analyzing work in other disciplines?

- How can different philosophical methodologies be brought together? Do we take our methods with us when we cross borders? Do we weave different methods together? 

- What becomes possible, ethically, politically, and scientifically, when we cross borders, especially given that disciplines understand the nature of “borders” in different ways?

Professor Jane Dryden at Mount Allison University will serve as the Guest Editor for this special issue. The issue will include articles originally presented at the 2016 CSWIP conference.

Contributors are invited to submit their papers directly to the ScholarOne manuscript management system that Dialogue uses: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dia. In the “Type” portion of the submission process, please use “Special Issue: CSWIP” Please indicate that you want your paper considered for the Philosophy and its Borders special issue in your comments to the Editor.

Submissions are open until 30 May 2017. Papers may be in English or French.

 

Dialogue. Revue canadienne de philosophie reçoit les soumissions pour un numéro spécial à paraître au cours de la deuxième moitié de 2017, sous le thème : «La Philosophie et ses frontières».

Les philosophes ont développé de multiples connexions avec d’autres disciplines, autant dans un effort pour comprendre les différentes méthodes et modèles employés dans la recherche du savoir que pour s’inspirer des outils et des idées découverts par celles-ci. La philosophie elle-même porte un certain nombre de traditions; les conflits et tensions qui existent entre elles peuvent être une riche source de possibilités créatrices, mais peuvent aussi donner lieu à l’exclusion ou à l’oppression. Des débats récents ont encouragé les philosophes à reconnaître que la philosophie occidentale elle-même, incluant les traditions analytique, continentale et pragmatique, devait accueillir à ses côtés les traditions orientales, autochtones et africaines. La philosophie féministe a, de son côté, souvent valorisé l’interdisciplinarité, rassemblant les connaissances de sources et de points de vue divers dans un effort pour mieux comprendre et critiquer les modèles de pensée dominants. Il paraît approprié, dans ces circonstances, de s’intéresser aux approches permettant de franchir ces frontières en philosophie. Voici des exemples de questions qui pourraient être explorées :

- Comment certaines traditions ou approches philosophiques exercent-elles un pouvoir sur d’autres? 

- Quel modèle ou quelle image de la discipline devons-nous présenter à nos étudiant-e-s lors de leur premier contact avec «la philosophie»?

- La pédagogie et le rôle de l’enseignement des traditions philosophiques : qu’est-ce qui est approprié lorsque nous introduisons des étudiant-e-s à la discipline?

- Que signifie «rapprocher des traditions et des disciplines»?

- Comment la philosophie féministe, la critical race theory, la disability theory et d’autres approches ont-elles transformé la compréhension de la discipline et de ses sous-disciplines comme la bioéthique, l’épistémologie, l’éthique, la métaphysique et la philosophie politique? 

- Quels ont été les succès et où se situent les conflits et les tensions?

- Que signifie la tendance à présenter et penser la philosophie comme ayant des domaines «centraux»? Quel est alors le lien de ces «centres» avec les frontières de la discipline?

- Les philosophies non-occidentales et autochtones changent les attentes quant à ce qui doit être considéré comme de la philosophie. Quels défis sont posés par l’intégration de ces approches dans le curriculum philosophique? 

- Comment peut-on transférer les idées et les normes de l’argumentation philosophique au cœur d’une analyse du travail d’autres disciplines? 

- Comment les différentes méthodes philosophiques peuvent-elles être rassemblées? Nos méthodes nous suivent-elles lorsque nous traversons une frontière? Est-il possible de tisser entre elles différentes méthodes? 

- Que rend possible cette traversée des frontières — éthiquement, politiquement et scientifiquement —, dans un contexte où les disciplines ont une compréhension différente de la nature de ces «frontières»?

Jane Dryden, Professeur à Mount Allison University, agira comme rédactrice invitée pour ce numéro spécial.

Le dossier inclura des articles présentés à l’origine dans le cadre de la conférence 2016 de la CSWIP (Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy). 
Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre leur article en ligne à l’adresse suivante: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dia. Au moment de choisir le type de manuscrit soumis, veuillez sélectionner «Special Issue: CSWIP». Ajoutez un commentaire à la rédaction précisant que vous soumettez votre article pour le numéro spécial sur «La Philosophie et ses frontières».

La date limite de soumission est le 30 mai 2017. Les articles peuvent être rédigés en français ou en anglais.

 

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philoSOPHIA 2017: A Report

 

Last weekend, I participated in the 2017 philoSOPHIA conference at Florida Atlantic University. The conference was co-organized by Lauren Guilmette and Rob Leib who did an outstanding job. I can say with no hesitation that it was the best conference that I have attended, not least because I got to visit with old friends and meet new ones. Many of the feminist philosophers who have helped shape both my own thinking and the body of feminist work on Foucault were there: Ladelle McWhorter, Jana Sawicki, Dianna Taylor, Devonya Havis, Falguni Sheth, and Lynne Huffer, among them. 

The program overflowed with exciting and provocative panels and plenaries and featured an excellent keynote address by Sara Ahmed on Friday evening. I am delighted that Sara has agreed to write guest posts for the blog in the near future.

Some of the other highlights of the conference for me were fascinating presentations by Jane Caputi and Kyoo Lee in a plenary to commemorate Teresa Brennan, a powerful talk by Ashley Williams on performative trans activism, the plenary on social justice with Ladelle and Devonya in which I spoke, and the panel that I organized on Melinda Hall's wonderful new book, The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics. In addition to Melinda and me, the panel included Ladelle, Catherine Clune-Taylor, and Jane Dryden. Ladelle, Devonya, Kyoo, and Ashley will be blogging here in the coming months. 

As I noted here in the weeks before the conference, I was a member of the conference accessibility committee that developed a set of accessibility guidelines for the conference. Our committee devoted a significant amount of time to the guidelines. Nevertheless, a number of issues arose over the course of the weekend that need to be addressed, including the development of a mechanism through which to more effectively communicate the guidelines themselves to moderators and other participants. Next year's philoSOPHIA conference will take place at University of Richmond and will be organized by Ladelle. I am confident that Ladelle will pay close attention to the accessibility of the upcoming conference.

 

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Program for philoSOPHIA 2017: Affect and Social Justice, Florida Atlantic University (Mar. 30-Apr. 2)

 

Welcome and Registration opens at 4:30pm in Boca Marriott Lobby/Bar

Welcome Dinner at the Boca Marriott, 6pm, with Plenary Panel to follow

6:30pm: Plenary Panel in honor of Teresa Brennan

            Moderated by Lauren Guilmette (Florida Atlantic University)

• Welcome from Michael Horswell (Associate Dean of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, Florida Atlantic University)
• Introductory Remarks by Lalita Janke (Board President, US National Committee on UN Women), “Equal Pay: Stepping It Up for Gender Equality”
• Introductory Remarks by Mary Murphy (Pembroke Center Archivist, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University)
• Jane Caputi (Florida Atlantic University), “Imitation of Death: The Ecological Theory of Teresa Brennan”
• Kyoo Lee (City University of New York), “uVibe: with Brennan, Q, Simondon…”

8-11pm Reception and Cash Bar at the Boca Marriott

 

Friday, March 31^st

Culture and Society Building (CU), 3^rd floor, at Florida Atlantic University (FAU)

Registration, Coffee, and Light Breakfast, 8:15-9am

Session One: 9 – 10:30am

AH 205) Trauma and Mourning

Moderated by Erica Nelson (Florida Atlantic University)

• Andrea Long Chu (New York University), “Study in Blue: Trauma, Affect, Event in Claudia Rankine and Emma Sulkowicz”
• Ege Selin Islekel (Loyola Marymount University), “Haunting Dead: Necropolitical Practices of Mourning”

CU 321) Politics and Grief

Moderated by Quin Rich (Emory University)

• William Paris (Pennsylvania State University), “Black Grief and the Politics of Time”
• Jennifer Scuro (College of New Rochelle), “The Politics of Grief”

CU 321 A) Rethinking Solidarity

Moderated by Rachel Copley (Florida Atlantic University)

• Barbara Fultner (Denison University) “Affect and Solidarity”
• Gary Lee Pelletier (York University), “On Solidarity Wishes”

CU 301) Affective Economies and Response Ethics

Moderated by Adriel Trott (Wabash College)

• Shiloh Whitney (Fordham University), “Two feminist theories of affective economies: Ahmed and Brennan on circulation and transmission”
• Ellie Anderson (Muhlenberg College), “The imaginary space between us: Response Ethics and Affect Theory”

Session Two: 10:45am – 12:15pm

AH 205) Bodily Habits and Meanings

Moderated by Ashley Williams (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)     

• Céline Leboeuf (Florida International University), “Reforming Racializing Bodily Habits: The Practice of Mindfulness”
• Jacob Rump (Boston University), “Motivations beyond words: Affect Scripts and Embodied Meaning”

CU 321) Disrupting and Challenging Norms

Moderated by Chris Ma (Villanova University)

• Celiese Lypka (University of Calgary), “Anxiety, Aliens, Alliances: Disrupting the Feminine through Divergence”
• María de la C. Salvador López (DePaul University), “Failing to Resign: Generative Failure and the Challenging of Norms”

CU 321 A) The Politics and Ethics of Ableism: From Thought-Experiments to Murder

Moderated by Christine Wieseler (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern School of Medicine)

• Joel Michael Reynolds (Emory University), “The Silence of the Abled: Kristeva, Levinas, and the Sagamihara 19”
• Ally Peabody (University of California, Los Angeles), “Would de-ableizing thought experiments destabilize philosophy?”

CU 301) U.S. Political Affect, Sports, and Race

            Moderated by Kira Apple (Florida Atlantic University)

• Jana McAuliffe (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), “A taste for the political: aesthetics, race, and U.S. partisan politics”
• Erin Tarver (Emory University), “Bigger Than Football: Nostalgia, White Trauma, and Sports Fan Affect”

Lunch Session 12:15 – 1:30pm

CU 301) Pedagogy for Critical Consciousness in the Age of Trump – Lunch Discussion

• Moderated by Karen Leader (FAU), Devonya Havis (Canisius College), Jennifer Scuro (College of New Rochelle)

Lunch on your own at FAU (on-campus options): 12:15 – 1:30pm

Session Three: 1:30 – 3:15pm

AH 205) Vulnerability, Ethics, Politics

     Moderated by Lynne Huffer (Emory University)

• Jana Sawicki (Williams College), “Queer Ethical Gestures:  Vulnerability, Erotics, and the Impersonal”
• Falguni Sheth (Emory University) “Race, Vulnerability, and Violence”
• Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University), “Methodological Vulnerability”

AL 338) Environmental Justice Panel organized by FAU Philosophy Club (2-5pm)

     Moderated by Benjamin Magee (Florida Atlantic University)

• Irene Klaver (University of North Texas), “Metis & Mood: Women Water Crosscurrents”
• Oli Stephano (Fordham University), “Affect, Ethics, and Ecology”
• Shaheen Moosa (North Central College), “Indifference and Climate Change”
• Jane Caputi, Screening of Feed the Green (2015)

Session Four: 3:30 – 5:15pm 

AH 205) Latina Feminist Approaches to Affect, Selfhood, and Coloniality

   Moderated by Andrea Pitts (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

• Emma Velez (Pennsylvania State University) "En Estos Tiempos de La Llorona, An Ethics of Our Time"
• Denise Meda (Mount Saint Mary's University) "La Mexicana and Lived Experience: Revisiting La Malinche and Mexicana Selfhood"
• Lori Gallegos de Castillo (Texas State University) "Affective Tools for Epistemic Aims: Loving Perception and Solidarity in Latina Feminist Philosophy"

CU 321) Affective Resistance in the Wake of Precarious Life

   Moderated by Jonathan Jackson (Recent FAU Graduate / AIDS Healthcare Foundation)

• Alice Everly (McGill University), “Lies, Love, and Statistics: Building Coalition in Dark Times”
• Omari Weekes (Willamette University), “Sick and Tired and The Being of Sick and Tired”
• Quin Rich (Emory University), “Make the Present Strange Again: Cultivating a Political Ethics of Anxiety”

CU 321 A) Refiguring Sexual Violence: On Grief, Shame, and Willing Otherwise

Moderated by Noëlle McAfee (Emory University)

• Leila Whitley (University of Konstanz), “Narratives of Harm: Sexual Harassment in the University”
• Debra Bergoffen (American University), “The Genocidal Politics of Rape-Shame”
• Kit Connor (Miami University of Ohio), “Willing Grief Otherwise”

AH 209) Workshop: On the Idea of Vulnerability: Queer Theory, Ethics and Politics

Moderated by Jana Sawicki (Williams), Falguni Sheth (Emory) and Dianna Taylor (JCU)

• Randi Nixon (University of Alberta) “Pride and the Affective Politics of Laughter”
• Erinn Gilson (University of North Florida), “The Problems and Potentials of Vulnerability”
• Tiffany Tsantsoulas (Pennsylvania State University), “Narrating Different Genres of the Vulnerable Human” 
• Stephanie Koziej (Emory University), “In Search of Adult Erotic Tenderness”

5:30pm, FAU University Theater — Keynote Lecture

Sara Ahmed: “Snap! From Feminist Moments to Feminist Movements”

Reception to follow, 7-9pm in the Performing Arts Building outside the Schmidt Gallery, with gallery tours generously hosted by FAU University Galleries

 

Saturday, April 1

Culture and Society Building (CU), 3^rd floor, at Florida Atlantic University (FAU)

Coffee and Light Breakfast, 8:30 – 9:15am

Session Five: 9:15 – 10:45am

AH 205) Anger, Resentment, and Justice

    Moderated by Kira Apple (Florida Atlantic University)

• Heidi Samuelson (Sweet Briar College), “Resentment, Populism, and Economic Injustice”
• Tamsin Kimoto (University of Memphis and Emory University), “Fielding Anger: From Universal Political Emotion to Contextual Political Affect”

CU 321) Contagion and Abjection **PowerPoint Projection

Moderated by Stephanie Flint (Florida Atlantic University)

• Abby Kluchin (Ursinus College), “Fragile Readers: Textual Contagion in Kristeva and Duras”
• Sofia Varino (Stony Brook University), “Disassembling the Subject: Monstrous Leaks & Environmental Abjection in Todd Haynes’s Film Safe”

CU 321 A) The Politics of Mourning

            Moderated by Lilyana Levy (Emory University)

• Noëlle McAfee (Emory University), “Fear of Breakdown and the Work of Mourning”
• David Pena-Guzman (Johns Hopkins University), “Primate Affects: Can Non-Human Animals Mourn?”

CU 301) Aesthetic Resistance in the Prison Industrial Complex

Moderated by Elisabeth Pacquette (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

• Stephanie Holt (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), “The Aesthetic Dimension of the Prison Industrial Complex: Rendering the Invisible Visible Through Art”
• Wendy Hinshaw (Florida Atlantic University), “Why I Write Across Bars”

Session Six: 11am – 12:30pm

AH 205) Identity and Desire

    Moderated by Emily Parker (Towson University)

• Desiree Valentine (Marquette University), “Identities as Possibilities: On the Conceptual Structure of ‘Identity’ as Liberatory”
• Sarah Lachance Adams (University of Wisconsin, Superior), “Outline for a Political Phenomenology of Desire”

CU 321) Postcolonial Theories of Trauma, Death, Utopia   **Skype (A/V Projection)

    Moderated by Kailin Regutti (Florida Atlantic University)

• Namita Goswami (Indiana State University), “Ek Baat, Saari Baat: Flesh, Death, and Utopia” ** Skype Session
• Sujaya Dhanvantari (Concordia University), “Colonial Trauma and Psychic Disaffection Today”

CU 321 A) Bodies in Movement: Protest, Performance, and Historical Memory

Moderated by Clarence Brooks (Florida Atlantic University)

• Ashley S. Williams (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), “Black Bodies that Matter”
• Ximena Keogh Serrano (University of Colorado at Boulder), “Beating Archives, How Latin@ Artists Build Spaces to Recordar”

CU 301) Cultures of Surveillance: From the Closet to the State  **PowerPoint Projection

     Moderated by Sterling Da Silva (Florida Atlantic University)

• Luke Wilson (Florida Atlantic University), “Liberty Post-Liberty University: The Ethics of Coming Out after Gay Reparative Therapy”
• Shelley Park (University of Central Florida), “Helicopter Moms and Smart Homes: Fear of the (M)other in the Surveillance State”

Catered Lunch – free for all registered participants

12:30 – 2: Business Meeting, open to all (CU 301)

Session Seven: 2 – 5pm (as needed):

AH 205) Frantz Fanon: Human, Body, Colony

            Moderated by Johan Vasquez (Florida Atlantic University)

• Axelle Karera (Wesleyan University), “The Unthinkability of Black Affect: A Lesson from Fanon”
• Romy Opperman (Pennsylvania State University), "Property and Properties of Humanity in Frantz Fanon and Saidiya Hartman" 
• Kimberly Ann Harris (Pennsylvania State University), “Fanon’s Theory of Self-Constitution as Failed Hegelian Recognition”
• Emily Parker (Towson University), “Latour's Crisis, Fanon's Justice”

CU 321) Affect and Political Action

     Moderated by Stephanie Alvarez (Florida Atlantic University)

• Cynthia Willett (Emory University), “The Belly Laugh: A Catharsis of Slut Shame and Other Negative Emotions”
• Marta Jimenez (Emory University), “Aristotle on Anger and Indignation as the Motives for Revolution”
• Katherine Howard (Emory University), “Shame, Responsibility, and ‘Being Moved’ to Act: Affect and Response in Butler”
• Taina Figueroa (Emory University), “‘Oigan mi gente’: Community Pride and Political Action”

PA 101) Resistant Affects: On Building Active Intolerance against the Intolerable

Moderated by Kyoo Lee (City University of New York)

• Natalie Cisneros (Seattle University)
• Stephen Dillon (Hampshire College)
• Andrew Dilts (Loyola Marymount University)
• Andrea Pitts (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
• Falguni Sheth (Emory University)
• Perry Zurn (University of Pennsylvania)

CU 301) Book Panel: Melinda Hall, The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics

Moderated by Jennifer Scuro (College of New Rochelle)

• Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar / Coordinator, Discrimination and Disadvantage)
• Jane Dryden (Mount Allison University)
• Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond)
• Catherine Clune-Taylor (Princeton University)
• Response – Melinda Hall (Stetson University)

5:15pm, PA 101 – Social Justice Plenary Panel

Moderated by Lauren Guilmette (Florida Atlantic University)

• Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar/Coordinator, Discrimination and Disadvantage blog), “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability”
• Devonya Havis (Canisius College), “The ‘Dangerous Individual’, ‘Race’, and the Possibility of Social Justice”
• Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond), “After Genealogy: Propriety, Community, Materiality”

Reception to follow, 7:15-9pm in the Performing Arts Building outside the Schmidt Gallery, with tours generously hosted by FAU University Galleries

For more details about the conference, go here.

Organized by Lauren Guilmette and Robert Leib, Florida Atlantic University

(Please forward any conference inquiries to Lauren at: lguilmette@fau.edu)

 

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