Saturday, March 22, 2014
Arts Humanities & Social Sciences Research Building (Library Extension), Room GO11, NUI Galway
10:30-10:45 | Coffee |
10:45-11:30 | Aleksandra Derra, TCD: Women as a Concealed Factor. The Benefits of a Feminist Philosophical Approach to the Epistemological Entanglement of the Medical Phenomenon of Anorexia |
11:30-12:15 | Aine Mahon, UCD: “The Difficulty of Reality” in Cora Diamond and David Foster Wallace |
12:15-12:30 | Coffee Break |
12:30-13:15 | Mary Edwards, UCC: Sartre and de Beauvoir on Freedom: in Sickness and in Chains |
13:15-2:15 | Lunch |
2:15-3:00 | Noirin Mac Namara, QUB: Toward a sensate and responsive democracy – Judith Butler and Responsiveness |
3:00-3:45 | Ciara Griffin, NUIG: From Bengal to the Balkans: Rethinking Subjectivity through The Cut of the Real |
3:45-4:00 | Coffee Break |
4:00-4:45 | Jo Kavanagh, NCAD: Examining Self/Other Interactions Through the Paradigm of Smell |
4:45-6:15 | Promoting women in Philosophy Luna Dolezal, TCD: SWIP Update Heike Felzmann, NUIG: The BPA Good Practice Scheme Su-Ming Khoo, NUIG: Engaging Ethics in higher education Mette Lebech, NUIM: Teaching Women Philosophers |
7pm |
Conference Dinner |
All welcome; you don’t have to be a woman and/or a philosopher to attend. There is no registration fee. Please contact Heike Felzmann at
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