“FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY, UNDISCIPLINED”
Society for Women in Philosophy
Eastern Division (ESWIP)
2008 Annual Spring Meeting and Conference
April 11-12, 2008
John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio
This event is made possible by the following sponsors: The Don Shula Program in Philosophy at John Carroll University and the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy (ESWIP).
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 2008
6:00pm: Van pick-up at the Clarion Hotel Beachwood for transport to John Carroll
University
6:30-8:30pm: OPENING RECEPTION
John Carroll University, Rodman Hall Alumni Lounge
WELCOMING REMARKS: Jen McWeeny, John Carroll University
ESWIP Executive Secretary
Lisa Cassidy, Ramapo College of New Jersey
ESWIP Treasurer
8:30pm: Van pick-up at John Carroll University (Rodman Hall Circle) for
transport to the Clarion Hotel Beachwood
SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2008
8:00am: Van pick-up at the Clarion Hotel Beachwood for transport to John Carroll
University
8:15-9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
Administration Building, B272 (Second Floor)
9:00-10:45am: SESSION I (Concurrent Panels)
Refreshments served in each Panel room and in B272
PANEL I: “Critical Responses to Militarism”
Administration Building 258
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
Tom Digby (Springfield College)
“Militarism, Heterosexuality, and the Burden of Gender”
Shari Stone-Mediatore (Ohio Wesleyan University)
“Military Families Speak Out and the Seeds of a Less Violent Epistemic
Authority”
Jeanne Colleran (John Carroll University)
“Rescuing Iraqi Women”
PANEL II: “Resisting Exclusionary Practices in (Feminist) Theory”
Administration Building 226
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
Maeve M. O’Donovan, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
“Exclusionary Practices in Accounts of the Mind-Body Problem”
Andrea J. Pitts (University of South Florida) and Elena Ruiz-Aho (University of South
Florida)
“Dialoguing with Our Methodologies: Academic Philosophy and Strategic
Practices of Resistance”
Nicole Garner, Cleveland State University
“Dissociating Epistemic Ignorance and Epistemic Segregation: The Social
Construction of Ignorance and (Mis)Behavior in Traditional Hegemonic
Practices”
PANEL III: “Bodies Un/disciplined”
Administration Building 225
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
Julia Levin (The Pennsylvania State University)
“Bodies, Pleasures, Habits, and Discipline: Karate and Merleau
-Pontian/Foucaultian Resistance”
Chris Gallagher (University of Toledo)
“What’s Love Got to Do with It? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Love and
Domestic Violence”
Talia Welsh (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
“Radical Embodiment: Fat Female Bodies and Health Normalization”
10:45-11:00am: BREAK
Refreshments served in B272
11:00am-12:15pm: SESSION II (Concurrent Panels)
Refreshments served in each Panel room and in B272
PANEL IV: “Race and/or Feminist Ethical Theory”
Administration Building 258
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
Jean Keller (College of St. Benedict)
“Rethinking Ruddick and the Ethnocentrism Critique of Maternal Thinking”
Brook J. Sadler (University of South Florida)
“The Ethics of Transracial and Transsexual Body Modification”
PANEL V: “The Metaphysics of Sex Categorization”
Administration Building 226
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
Mary Lyn Stoll (University of Southern Indiana)
“Defining Dirty: The Case for a Pragmatist Feminist Conceptual Analysis of Sex”
Joanna S. Figart
“Throwing the Butch Out With the Bathwater: A Defense for Recovering
Categories Through the Use of Memoirs”
12:30-2:00pm: LUNCH
O’Malley Center Atrium (Ground Floor of Administration Building)
Official Announcement of the SWIP Distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2008
2:00-3:30pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Administration Building 258
“Sex(ism), Identity, and Intimacy in a Pornographic Culture”
Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Wheelock College
3:30-3:45pm: BREAK
Refreshments served in B272
3:45-5:30: SESSION III (Concurrent Panels)
Refreshments served in each Panel room and in B272
PANEL VI: “Conservative Politics and Radical Activism”
Administration Building 258
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
Rebecca Whisnant (University of Dayton)
“No Safe Place: The Pornography of Conservatism and the Conservatism of
Pornography”
Ariel L. Herrlich (George Washington University)
“In Need of the Material: The Current Absence of Contraception and Abortion”
PANEL VII: “Reading Resistance on Stage, Film, and in Narrative”
Administration Building 226
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
Andrea Powell (Ball State University)
“The Angel and the Madwoman in Polly Teale’s Jane Eyre”
Kelly H. Ball (The Ohio State University)
“Dramatic Reductions: Reading Trauma, Melodrama, and the Archive through
The Magdalene Sisters”
CL Nash (Edinburgh University, Great Britain)
“Nineteenth Century Theory of Subjective Alterity: An Historic Woman’s
Undisciplined Sexual Autonomy”
PANEL VII: “Oppression, Intimacy, and Care”
Administration Building 225
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
Jeanine Weekes Schroer (Arkansas State University)
“The Problem with Blame”
Marlisa Moschella (Binghamton University)
“Effective Speculation: Alternative Family Structures and the Identity Formation
of Children”
Jessica Trease (University of Michigan) and Lisa Fedina (University of Toledo)
“Free Will and Consent of Minors in Prostitution”
6:00pm: Van pick-up at John Carroll University (Administration Building Circle)
for transport to local restaurant
6:30pm-8:30pm: CELEBRATORY DINNER at a local restaurant
(participants pay on their own: estimated cost $25-$30)
9:00pm: Van pick-up at local restaurant for transport to Clarion Hotel Beachwood
Special thanks to the 2008 ESWIP Program Committee for putting together the “Feminist Philosophy, Undisciplined” Program: Lisa Cassidy (Ramapo College of New Jersey), Sonya Charles (Cleveland State University), Colleen Flewelling (Saint Vincent College), Jen McWeeny (John Carroll University), Lisa Rivera (University of Massachusetts, Boston), and Rosemarie Tong (University of North Carolina, Charlotte).
ESWIP is grateful for the time and effort of Domina Maria Sharpe, the staff professional of the John Carroll Philosophy and Political Science Departments, and Abbey Fox, philosophy major and work-study assistant to the Philosophy Department, who helped to make this conference possible.