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Society for Women in Philosophy, Ireland
In association with In Parenthesis, Durham University and University of Liverpool
Would like to announce the
6th Annual Conference and General Meeting of SWIP-Ireland
17-19 May, 2018
University College Dublin, Ireland
Conference Theme
Women in Philosophy: Past, Present and Future
True it is, Spinning with the Fingers is more proper to our Sexe, then studying or writing Poetry, which is the Spinning with the braine: but I having no skill in the Art of the first (and if I had, I had no hopes of gaining so much as to make me a Garment to keep me from the cold) made me delight in the latter – Margaret Cavendish
Though academic philosophy is still a male-dominated discipline, and the canon of philosophy is largely male, the future of philosophy promises to be less so. After years of scholarly neglect, the contribution of a large number of women philosophers across the ages is now being recognised – from medieval mystics to Enlightenment philosophers of science to founding mothers of analytic philosophy and phenomenology. At the same time, broad consensus is afoot that certain disciplinary norms, once-entrenched, no longer serve our discipline and have contributed to the attrition of female talent from philosophy.
This SWIP-Ireland conference, in collaboration with In Parenthesis, invites papers on the broad topic of Women in Philosophy: Past, Present and Future. The occasion of the workshop is the centenary of a paper published in Mind by the Irish philosopher and prominent librarian, Agnes Cuming. The conference welcomes contributions relevant to the general theme of the role of women in philosophy. Papers from all approaches and traditions in philosophy including submissions on neglected historical figures, reports of archival visits, as well as reflection on methodological practice and on visions for philosophy in the future are encouraged. Papers from graduate students and philosophers working outside academia are also welcome. Presentations and panels related to any aspect of the work of the keynote speakers are also welcome.
Keynote speakers:
- Eileen Brennan (Dublin City University)
- Nancy Cartwright (Durham University)
- Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool)
- Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University)
- Sally Haslanger (MIT)
- Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir (University of Iceland)
- An additional panel will be convened by the In Parenthesis project.
In Parenthesis studies the collective corpus of Irish-born philosophers Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Anscombe, together with Phillipa Foot and Mary Midgley, with whom they studied in Oxford during WWII. For more information see womeninparenthesis.co.uk
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SWIP Ireland Summer Conference On
“The Home”
26th – 27th May 2017
University College Cork, Ireland
Call For Registration
Registration is free but essential. Please register online before the Friday 19th May at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swip-ireland-summer-conference-on-the-home-tickets-34109902637
Why do they stay? Why do people want to stay in homes when they have the option of leaving, and it seems like there are very good reasons to leave? Why do people choose to stay in a home that is severely distressed? Why do they stay in homes that are threatened by natural disaster or war? Why do they stay in homes in neighbourhoods that are so bad that they fear for their life? Why do immigrants long for their home long after they have left it behind?
The current migrant crisis, as well as the shortage of affordable housing in Ireland and other countries, illuminates the central significance of the home. Although technological developments mean that the role of the home is ever changing and, arguably, becoming more of a public space, the relative privacy of the home means that it remains a place of sanctuary for some and a place of violence, abuse, or oppression for others. This SWIP Ireland conference aims to provide a supportive and engaging environment for researchers working on the topic of “The Home”, broadly construed.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
- Karen Houle (University of Guelph)
- Kathleen Lennon (University of Hull)
- Cara Nine (University College Cork)
Conference Organisers:
- Raymond Davidson (University College Cork)
- Mary Edwards (University College Cork)
- Cara Nine (University College Cork)
Programme
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Friday 26th May |
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| 12:00 – 12:45, The CACSSS Seminar Room | Registration |
| 12:45 – 13:00, The CACSSS Seminar Room | Welcome |
| 13:00 – 14:00, The CACSSS Seminar Room |
Keynote Address |
| 14:00 – 15:30, ORB_123 | Displacement & Homelessness I Danielle Petherbridge (University College Dublin), “Displacement, Hospitality and Home” Anya Daly (University College Dublin), “Homelessness and the Limits of Hospitality” Melissa Chaplin (University of Durham), “Creative Community: How Refugee Authors Experience Writing and Being Researched in the UK” |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 – 17:30, ORB_123 | Politics and the Home Clara Cecilia Fischer (University College Dublin), “Shame, Stigma, and the Grievability of Irish Lives” Yianna Liatsos (University of Limerick), “The White Family Archive and Intergenerational Memory in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat” Henrietta Zeffert (The London School of Economics and Political Science), “‘Heygate Was Home’: Home and the Right to Housing in the City” |
| 18:00 | Conference Dinner at Jacobs on The Mall |
Saturday 27th May
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| 10:00 – 11:00, The CACSSS Seminar Room | Keynote Address Kathleen Lennon (University of Hull), “Home Places” |
| 11:00 – 12:30, ORB_132: | Philosophical & Phenomenological Explorations of the Home Morgan Flanagan-Folcarelli (Mount Holyoke College), “More Than Where the Heart Is: A Philosophical Consideration of the Home” Luna Dolezal (University of Exeter), “A Feminist Phenomenology of Home” Mary King (University of Guelph), “The Experience of the Home: Repetition and Attention” |
| 12:30 – 13:30, ORB_156: | SWIP-I Members’ Meeting and Break for Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00, ORB_132: | Stability and the Home Ashika L. Singh (KU Leuven), “To be at Home is to Leave Home: Unpicking the ‘Public’ from the ‘Private’ through the Calais Jungle” McKay Holland (Georgetown University), “Stability and Creativity: Tensions in the Value of Home” Rosemary Marron (University College Dublin), “Homelessness and the Education of the Child” |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:30, ORB_132 | Displacement & Homelessness II Bart Van Leeuwen (Radboud University Nijmegen), “Should the Homeless be Forcibly Helped?” Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University), “Homelessness, Statelessness, Rightlessness: Population Management and Biopolitics in the Age of Trump” |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Short Break |
| 16:45 – 17:45, The CACSSS Seminar Room | Keynote Address Karen Houle (University of Guelph), Guelph), “Dis-lodged? A Foucauldian Analysis of The Radical Feminine Economy in Marilynne Robinson`s novel, Housekeeping” |
| 17:45 – 19:00, The CACSSS Seminar Room | Wine Reception |
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SWIP Ireland: Ann Cahill Workshop, 7th February, NUI Merrion Square, Dublin
The Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland invites you to a workshop with Prof. Ann Cahill (Professor of Philosophy, Elon University). Prof. Cahill's work is situated at the intersection of feminist philosophy and philosophy of the body, where she develops new analyses of common concepts, such as sexual violence or objectification. For full details of the talk she will be giving, please see the below abstract and register here.
“Unjust Sex vs. Rape”
This talk will address a persistent philosophical conundrum, what I call the problem of the “heteronormative sexual continuum”: how sexual assault and hegemonic heterosex are conceptually and politically related. I will respond to the work of Nicola Gavey, who has argued for the existence of a “gray area” of sexual interactions that are ethically questionable without rising to the category of sexual assault, but whose analysis did not explicitly articulate what these two categories share or what distinguishes them from each other. I will argue that the two categories share a disregard for women’s sexual subjectivity (focusing particularly on the factor of sexual desire) and are distinguished by the different role that women’s sexual agency plays in each.
All welcome!
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Why do they stay? Why do people want to stay in homes when they have the option of leaving, and it seems like there are very good reasons to leave? Why do people choose to stay in a home that is severely distressed?
Why do they stay in homes that are threatened by natural disaster or war? Why do they stay in homes in neighbourhoods that are so bad that they fear for their life? Why do immigrants long for their home long after they have left it behind?
The current migrant crisis, as well as the shortage of affordable housing in Ireland and other countries, illuminates the central significance of the home. Although technological developments mean that the role of the home is ever changing and, arguably, becoming more of a public space, the relative privacy of the home means that it remains a place of sanctuary for some and a place of violence, abuse, or oppression for others. This SWIP Ireland conference aims to provide a supportive and engaging environment for researchers working on the topic of "The Home", broadly construed. Proposals for papers from persons of all genders are welcome and the participation of persons from minority groups, immigrants, refugees, and displaced persons is actively encouraged.
Deadline: 7 March 2017
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Society for Women in Philosophy – Ireland
5th Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting
Feminist Ethics in Theory and Practice: Challenging practices in contested domains
December 2-4, 2016 | NUI Galway, IT Building
Friday December 2
1:00-2:00: Registration and Coffee
2:00-2:15: Welcome
2:15-3:15 Keynote Address
Alice Crary (The New School)
The Animal Question in Ethics: A Discussion in the Light of Feminist and other 'Alternative' Epistemologies.
3:15-4:45: Panel session 1
1A: Care Ethics
Helen Mussell: Exploring the ethics of social responsibility: revealing caring relations
Ornaith O’Dowd: Care in Kantian Ethics
1B: Empathy and relationality: Attunement, intimacy and interpretation
Whitney Ronshagen: Empathy, limits and dependency
Sarah Fayad: Personal narrative and empathetic intersubjectivity
Jim Bodington: Empathy and relationality in understanding and treating clinical depression
4:45-5:00: Coffee
5:00-6:00: Panel session 2
2A Gender, boundaries and agency
Mary McGill: Reflections on Selfie Research
Sarah Lucas: Dissolving Boundaries: Loneliness and Ontological agency
2B Phenomenological perspectives on feminist ethics
Anya Daly: Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity
Anna Bortolan: The ethical relevance of self esteem: a phenomenological view
6:00 Reception (Orbsen Building Foyer)
Saturday, December 3
9:30-10:30: Panel session
3A: Ethics in Healthcare
Aiste Bartkiene: The Ethos and Pathos of Care: What Kind of Needs are Justified in the Nursing Field?
Ylva Gustafsson: Critical perspectives on empathy in medicine: the rise of cognitive science and the loss of narrative medicine
3B: Language and Narrative
Irene Delodovice: The flesh of words. The ethical dimension of language in Irigaray and Merleau-Ponty
Aine Mahon: Derrida and The School: Language Loss and Language Learning in the Republic of Ireland
Keynote lecture: 10:30-11:30:
Jackie Leach Scully: The 'feminist' in feminist bioethics
11:30-12:00: Coffee
12:00-13:00 Panel session
4A: Epistemic Injustice
Charlotte Blease: Epistemic injustice in healthcare encounters: evidence from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Katie Rooney: Hermeneutical lacunas? Characterising the problem of inequalities in collective resources of social interpretation
4B Relationality
Audra Goodnight: Second person relations
Anh Quan Nguyen: Relational impartiality: a revision of moral impartiality from a feminist point of view
4C Narrative and identity
Sarah Lucas: Dissolving Boundaries: Loneliness and ontological agency
Eleonora Mingarelli: Shall I iron his shirts? An analysis into narratives, identities, and communication
13:00 -14:00: Lunch break
14:00-15:00: Panel session 5
5A: Women and ethics in the Irish context
EL Putnam: “Neglect of Their Duties:” Feminist Maternal Ethics and the Irish Intimate Public Sphere
Dianna Taylor: Irish Republican Women’s Ethical and Political Resistance: A Feminist-Foucauldian Perspective
5B Moral Concepts
Patrizia Setola: Pure-breds and mongrels: a feminist issue
Miranda Boldrini: Conceptual dryness and moral experience: Iris Murdoch as Cultural Critic
5C: Families and Children
Danielle Dalit Levitan: Is there a moral right to childrearing?
Jena Jolissaint: In the Best Interest of the Family: Towards a Relational Model of Divorce Litigation
15:00-15:15: Coffee
15:15-16:45: Panel session 6
6A: Care ethics in practice
Treasa Campbell: Ethic of Care in the regulation, education and practice of social care workers
Rosemary Marron: Care and relational ethics in education
Kaylee McNeill: The Anti-Vaccination movement and ethics of care in parenthood
6B Virtues, habits and metaphysics
Elisa Magri: Habit, Style, and Social Norms
Caroline Christoff: Beyond Emotions: Rethinking the Relationship Between Care and Virtue
Suki Finn: The metaphysics of pregnancy: tenancy or parthood?
16.45- 18.00: SWIP- Ireland Annual General Meeting
18:30: Conference Dinner Meyrick Hotel, Bar 15
Sunday, December 4
9:30-11:00: Panel session 7
7A Older persons and the end of life
Donna Maguire: Ethical implications of care robots
Marie Carew: Promoting flourishing for older adults through an ethics of care
Annie McKeown O’Donovan: Ethics, Acts and Omissions in the ruling of Fleming v Ireland and the Oireachtas, 2013
7B Narrative ethics
Melissa Burchard: It takes a story (to make sense of a principle)
Su-ming Khoo: Narrating ethical inter/transdisciplinarity – reflections on researching and teaching human rights and development in a posthuman, postdevelopment world
Yianna Liatsos: Feminist Genealogies and the Promise of Agency in Single Mothers by Choice Autobiographies
11:00-11:15 : Coffee
11:15-12:15 Panel session 8
8A Infractions and atrocities
Helen Coverdale: Care and Punishment: recognizing the ethics of care and caring practice in criminal punishment
Jill Hernandez: Harms (...and Goods): The legacy of the Atrocity Paradigm
8B Sexuality and vulnerability
Courtney Miller: Victims/survivors of sexual assault: Recognising dependence and vulnerability
Nanette Ryan: Self-Respecting Sex
12:15-13:15 : Keynote Address
Mary Donnelly: Lost in Translation?: Moral and Legal Responses to Impaired Capacity
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