Friday 21 November, 2014

Plenary Address I 
Chair: Maria Baghramian (University College Dublin)
Lillian Alweiss (Trinity College Dublin) 
'Why the Self is not Embodied'

Clara Cecilia Fischer (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
'Turning to Affect: Shame and Embodiment in Feminist Philosophy'

Emily Jones (SOAS, London UK)
'Towards a feminine morphology of/in international law'

Matthew Cull (University of St Andrews, UK)
'Anti-Essentialism and the Intelligibility Problem'

Janelle Pötzsch (Ruhr –Universitat Bochum, Germany)
'Liberating for whom? Biotechnologies and women’s status'

Caroline Glorie (University of Liège, Belgium)
'A body’s narrative: appropriation of abortion, between decision and legal abnormality'

Amy L. McKiernan (Vanderbilt University, USA)
'Hate Silence and Abortion: Do Women Deserve Better?'

Roja Fazaeli (Trinity College Dublin)
'Women's bodies in Islam: narratives of life and death'

Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University, USA)
'Militant Feminism'

Lunch Break

Parallel Session 3: Pornography and Power

Daisy Dixon (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK)
'Through Thick and Thin: Silencing and the Illocutionary Act of Refusal'

Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky, USA)
'Heidegger, Pornography, and Technology: Rethinking Freedom in the Age of the Internet'

Lillian O’Brien (University College Cork, Ireland)
'Pornography and Propaganda'

Nicolle Hall (University of Edinburgh, UK)
'Sexiness, Film and Porn'

Parallel Session 4: Pregnancy/Surrogacy 2

Sara Cohen Shabot (University of Haifa, Israel)
'Laboring with Beauvoir: In Search of the Embodied Subject (lost) in Childbirth'

Hannah Carnegy (University College London, UK)
'The Body as a Commodity – What is Special About Surrogacy or Prostitution?'

Carlotta Cossutta (University of Verona, Italy)
'Motherhood and Biopolitics. Knots of power between science and naturalization'

Ursula Del Aguila (Paris 8, Saint Denis, France)
'From the Homunculus to the Artificial Womb: Erasing the
Maternal Body'

Plenary Address II Chair: Aisling Crean (St Andrews)
Rae Langton (University of Cambridge, UK)
'Speech and the accommodation of women’s bodies'

Wine Reception

Dinner: O’Callaghan Stephens Green

Morning Sessions

Parallel Session 5: The Social Construction of the Female 

Kate Phelan (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
'What is a Woman?'

Sophia Pavlos (Michigan State University, USA)
'Strategic Knowledge: Property Models of the Body'

Mindi Torrey (Michigan State University, USA)
'Creative Knowing: Fleshing Epistemic Subjects'

Coffee Break

Roma Hernández (Rice University, USA)
'Gendered Bodies and Inferences to Neuro-Essentialism'

Abigail Klassen (York University, Canada)
'The Social Construction of 'Woman’: Emancipation or Snafu?'

Mona Gerardin-Laverge (Sorbonne, France)
'Performativity of language, gendered bodies and feminist empowerment'

Parallel Session 6: Themes from History of Ideas and Literature

Susan Gottlöber (NUI Maynooth, Ireland)
'Same Same but Different? Perspectives on Gender Differences in Renaissance Thought'

Katherine O’Donnell (University College Dublin, Ireland)
'For she was both a man and a woman: Constructions of the Lesbian Body in Dublin 1732-1736'

Clemence Saintemarie (University College Dublin, Ireland)
'Resisting Dis-Embodiment: Ambiguous Bodily Imaginaries and Female Desire in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale'

Coffee Break

Alice Podkolinski (University College London, UK)
'Becomings and Goings: Mapping the Transgression of Public and Maternal Spaces in Doris Lessing’s Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five'

Jessie Patella (Duquesne University, USA)
'The Mystical Writings of Hadewijch as Ecriture Feminine'

Lunch Break

AGM Of SWIP Ireland (Ivey Room)
Sandwiches and coffee will be provided for the participants of the AGM.
Those not attending the AGM will have lunch break until 2.30.

Parallel Session 7: Pregnancy and Surrogacy 2
Chair: Meline Papazian (UCD)

Luna Dolezal (TCD, Ireland/Durham, UK)
'Embodied Hospitality in the Case of Commercial Surrogacy: Welcoming the Other'

Emily Lauren Putnam (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA)
'Reflective Trans-subjectivity: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy'

Maeve Kelly (University College Dublin, Ireland)
'Mother and Infant as a Combined and Complementary Physical and Mental Identity'

Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville, USA)
Saray Ayala (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid/MIT)
Andrea Smith (McMaster University)
Via Skype
'The Placental Microbiome and the Risk of (more) Policing of Women’s Bodies'

Parallel Session 8: Rape and Violence
Chair: Clara Fischer (LSE)

Alasia Nuti (Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK)
'Sharing responsibility for Intimate Partner Violence Prevention: The Social Connection Model and the Bystander Approach'

Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA)
'Victims of Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Asylum' 

Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (University of Genoa, Italy)
'Intersexuality as a threat against sex dualism'

Bonnie Mann (University of Oregon, USA)
'Gendered Play and Gendered Torture: The Paradoxes of Gender in U.S. Nationalism After 9/11/2001'

Parallel Session 9: Beauty

Carla Milani Damião (UvA – The Netherlands/UFG – CAPES - Brazil)
'How can women be sublime? Feminist Aesthetics concerning matters of taste'

Barbara J. Lowe (St. John Fisher College, USA)
'Slathered, Zapped, Nipped, and Tucked: Bioethics and the Medical Practice of Advertising and Offering Cosmetic Treatments in a Dermatological Practice'

Alison Ainley (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
'Simone de Beauvoir on Old Age'

Jen Rinaldi (Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Andrea Lamarre (University of Guelph, Canada)
Carla Rice (University of Guelph, Canada)
'Recovering Bodies: The Production of the Recoverable Subject in Eating Disorder Treatment Regimes'

Coffee Break

Plenary Address III 
Chair: Luna Dolezal (Trinity College Dublin/ Durham)
Gail Weiss (George Washington University, USA)
'A Genealogy of Women’s (Un)Ethical Bodies'

Dublin Pubs

Dinner: Carluccio’s Restaurant, 52 Dawson Street, Dublin 2