ASSOCIATION FOR
FEMINISTETHICSANDSOCIALTHEORY
September 2007 Conference
Clearwater Beach, Florida
The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory is a professional organization dedicated to promoting feminist ethical perspectives on philosophy, moral and political life, and public policy.
Through meetings, publications, and projects, we hope to increase the visibility and influence of feminist ethics, as well as feminist social and political theory, and to provide support to emerging scholars from diverse and underrepresented populations.
Our aim is to further the development and refinement of new understandings of ethical and political concepts and topics, especially as these arise out of feminist concerns.
Thursday, September 27
5:00-7:00Registration (Lobby 2)
7:00-9:00Panel Discussionin Memory of Iris Marion Young(Island Ball Room)
Topic: Remembering the Life and Work of Iris Marion Young
Chair:Hilde Lindemann (MichiganStateUniversity)
Panelists: Alison Jaggar (University of Boulder),“Ideal versus Critical Theory: Comparing the Methods of John Rawls and Iris Marion Young”
Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University), “Disability as a Paradigm of Difference: The Contribution of Iris Young”
Bonnie Mann (University of Oregon), “Iris Marion Young: Between Phenomenology and Structural Injustice”
Allison Weir (Wilfrid Laurier University), “Home and Identity: In Memory of Iris Young”
Friday, September 28
8:00-2:00 Registration and Book Display(Lobby 2)
8:00-10:30Coffee(Lobby 2)
9:00-11:55Concurrent Sessions:
Session A: Arrogance, Respect,and Love (Beach Room)
Chair:Alison Bailey (IllinoisStateUniversity)
9:00-9:40Robin Dillon (LehighUniversity), “Arrogance, Respect and Self-Respect”
9:40-10:20Amy Mullin (University of Toronto), “Love Between Parents and Children”
Session B:Non-IdealTheory(Gulf Room)
Chair:Lisa Schwartzman (MichiganState University)
9:00-9:40Lisa Tessman (BinghamtonUniversity),“Feminist Eudaimonism: Eudaimonism as Non-Ideal Theory”
9:40-10:20Ada Jaarsma (SonomaStateUniversity),“The Ideology of the Normal: Desire, Ethics, and Non-Ideal Theory”
10:20-10:35Break(Lobby 2)
Session C: Moral and Political Complexities of Compassion(Beach Room)
Chair:Brook Sadler (University of SouthFlorida)
10:35-11:15Elise Springer (WesleyanUniversity),“An Ecological Model of Responsibility: Relaying Moral Address Through Social Space”
11:15-11:55Erinn Gilson (University of Memphis),“Toward a Relational Understanding of Recognition in a Feminist Context”
Session D: Understanding Responsibility and Recognition (Gulf Room)
Chair:Lijun Yuan (TexasStateUniversity at San Marcos)
10:35-11:15Chris Frakes (University of Colorado), “When Strangers Call: A Considerationof Care, Justice and Compassion”
11:15-11:55Julie Anne White (OhioUniversity), “The Politics of Compassion”
12:05-1:35Lunch and Difficult Conversation(Beach Room)
Please purchase your lunchahead of time to bring to this meeting.
Topic: A Difficult Conversation about Feminist Sexualities and Identities: ‘Issues’among Lesbian/Heterosexual/Bi/Trans/Intersex People
Moderator: Ann Garry (CaliforniaStateUniversity)
Participants: Bat-Ami Bar On (Binghamton University), Loren Cannon (Humboldt State University), Marilyn Frye (MichiganStateUniversity),Ruth Groenhout (CalvinCollege), and Alexis Shotwell(Laurentian University)
1:45-3:00Keynote Address (Beach/Gulf Room)
Title: “Feminist Philosophers: In Our Own Words”
Chair: Hilde Lindemann (MichiganStateUniversity)
Speaker: Joan C. Callahan,Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Kentucky
3:00-3:30Break (Lobby 2)
3:30-4:50Concurrent Sessions:
Session E:Thinking about Immigration(Beach Room)
Chair:Margaret McLaren (RollinsCollege)
3:30-4:10Joan Tronto (HunterCollege and CityUniversity of New York),“Responsibility and Care: A Framework for Thinking about Immigration?”
4:10-4:50Peter Higgins (University of Colorado), “A (Partial) Method for Constructing Just Immigration Policies”
Session F:On Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir(Gulf Room)
Chair:Alison Bailey (Illinois State University)
3:30-4:10Sonia Kruks (OberlinCollege),“Toward an Impure Ethics: Between Idealism and Realism with Simone de Beauvoir”
4:10-4:50Andrea Veltman (JamesMadisonUniversity), “Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt on Reproductive Labor”
5:00-8:00Dinner (on one’s own)
8:15-9:00Business Meeting, open to all (Beach/Gulf Room)
9:00-11:00Reception (Palm Room)
Saturday, September 29
8:00-10:30Coffee(Lobby 2)
9:00-11:00Concurrent Sessions:
Session G: Testimony and Narrative(Beach Room)
Chair:Louise Collins (IndianaUniversitySouth Bend)
9:00-9:40Heidi Grasswick (MiddleburyCollege), “Knowing Moral Agents: Epistemic Dependence and the Moral Realm”
9:40-10:20Diana Meyers (University of Connecticut), “Fractured Self-Narratives and Human Rights Norms”
10:20-11:00Anna Gotlib (SUNY Binghamton),“Taking Serious Illness Seriously: Suffering as a Public Act”
Session H: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict(Gulf Room)
Chair:Ann Cahill(ElonUniversity)
9:00-9:40Margaret Urban Walker (Arizona State University), “Should We Think in Terms of a ‘Continuum of Violence’ in Addressing Harms to Women in Armed Conflict?”
9:40-10:20Sarah Clark Miller (University of Memphis),“The Moral Significance of Genocidal Rape”
10:20-11:00Neda Hadjikhani (BinghamtonUniversity), “Courting Wartime Rape: Larry May and the International Criminal Court”
11:00-11:15Break(Lobby 2)
11:15-12:35Concurrent Sessions:
Session I: On Kant, Rawls, and Personal Relationships(Beach Room)
Chair:Cynthia Stark (University of Utah)
11:15-11:55Marilea Bramer (University of Minnesota), “The Importance of Personal Relationships in Kantian Moral Theory: A Reply to Virginia Held”
11:55-12:35Erika Blacksher (ColumbiaUniversity),“Rawls’s Last Word on the Family: A Feminist After All?”
Session J: New Legal Challenges(Gulf Room)
Chair:Julie McDonald (St. Joseph’s University)
11:15-11:55Nkiruka Ahiauzu (University of Wales), “Some Jobs for Feminist Legal Thought in African Societies”
11:55-12:35Margaret Denike (CarletonUniversity),“Engendering [In]Security and Terror: On the ‘Protection Racket’ of Security States”
12:45-1:45Lunch and Workshop(Beach Room)
Please purchase your lunch ahead of time to bring to this meeting.
Topic: Sharing Strategies for Succeeding as a Feminist Philosopher
Moderator: Asha Bhandary (University of Connecticut)
Participants: Chaone Mallory (Villanova University), Sophia Isako Wong (Long IslandUniversity), Gaile Pohlhaus(Miami University), Lisa Cassidy (Ramapo College), Hilde Lindemann(MichiganState University)
2:00-3:15Keynote Address (Beach/Gulf Room)
Title:“Women’s Human Rights asEquality through Difference”
Chair:Lorraine Code (Mount Saint Vincent and York Universities)
Speaker: Carol Gould, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science and Director of the Center forGlobal Ethics and Politics, Temple University
3:15-3:45Break (Lobby 2)
3:45-5:45Concurrent Sessions:
Session K:Terrorism, Space, and Citizenship(Beach Room)
Chair:Virginia Held (CityUniversity of New York)
3:45-4:25Marilyn Friedman (WashingtonUniversity), “Female Terrorists: What Difference Does Gender Make?”
4:25-5:05Tabor Fisher (Le Moyne College), “Repositioning the Theorist in the Lower Ninth Ward”
5:05-5:45Monique Lanoix (MountSt. VincentUniversity),“Aging Citizenship”
Session L:Repairing Moral Relationships (Gulf Room)
Chair:Jennifer Parks (LoyolaUniversity)
3:45-4:25Brian Thomas (University of British Columbia),“Can’t WeAll Just Get Along? Empathy and the Construction of Whiteness”
4:25-5:05Alice MacLachlan (YorkUniversity), “Third Party Forgiveness and Political Solidarity”
5:05-5:45Barrett Emerick (University of Colorado),“Reparations through Respect”
6:00-7:20Concurrent Sessions:
Session M:Feminists Doing Stem Cell Ethics(Beach Room)
Chair:Tricia Shivas (MichiganStateUniversity)
6:00-6:40Susan Dodds (University of Wollongong), “Stem Cell Wars and the Commodification of Research: Forgetting Women in Debates about the Source of hESC Lines and in the Distribution of Research Benefits”
6:40-7:20FrançoiseBaylis(DalhousieUniversity) andCarolyn McLeod (University of WesternOntario), “The Stem Cell Debate Continues: The Buying and Selling of Eggs for Research”
Session N:Feminist Politics(Gulf Room)
Chair:Tamra Frei (MichiganStateUniversity)
6:00-6:40Rita Manning (San JoseStateUniversity),“Challenges for a Global Politics of Care”
6:40-7:20Sally Scholz (VillanovaUniversity), “Feminist Political Solidarity”
Sunday, September 30
8:00-10:30Coffee (Lobby 2)
9:00-10:20Concurrent Sessions:
Session O:Abuses of Power(Beach Room)
Chair:Lisa Cassidy (RamapoCollege)
9:00-9:40Peggy DesAutels (University of Dayton), “Resisting Organizational Power”
9:40-10:20Margaret Crouch (Eastern MichiganUniversity), “Conceptions of Sexual Harassment: Protection of Sexual Virtue, Protection of Rights”
Session P:The Sex/Gender System(Gulf Room)
Chair:Justin Ball (University of NorthFlorida)
9:00-9:40Christine Overall (Queen’s University),“Sex/Gender Transitions and Identity”
9:40-10:20Nancy Holland (HamlineUniversity),“‘Give Me Your Number and I’ll Call, and I’ll Follow That Thing in the Mall’: A Feminist Revisits Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization”
10:20-10:30Break(Lobby 2)
10:30-12:30Concurrent Sessions:
Session Q:Cognitive and Other Disabilities(Beach Room)
Chair:Marin Gillis (University of NevadaSchool of Medicine)
10:30-11:10Licia Carlson (HarvardUniversity),“Cognitive Dissonances”
11:10-11:50Sophia Isako Wong (Long IslandUniversity),“The Moral Personhood of Individuals Labeled ‘Mentally Retarded’: A Rawlsian Response to Nussbaum”
11:50-12:30Anna Stubblefield (RutgersUniversity), “Dignity and Disability: The Case of Ashley X”
Session R:FEMMSS at FEAST(Gulf Room)
Chair:Andrea Pitts (University of SouthFlorida)
10:30-11:10Elizabeth Potter (MillsCollege),“Feminist Moral and Epistemic Values in Scientific Deliberations”
11:10-11:50Nancy McHugh (WittenbergUniversity), “Situating Communities, Situating Toxins: Living with Agent Orange in Viet Nam”
FEAST Steering Committee:
Hilde Lindemann, Chair
Chris Frakes, Treasurer
Lynne Arnault, Chair, Conference Program
Lorraine Code, Chair, International Committee
Eva Feder Kittay, Chair, Diversity Committee
Ann Cahill, Chair, Nominating Committee
Joan Callahan, Listserv Manager and Archivist
Peggy DesAutels, Publications Representative
Rebecca Whisnant, Publications Representative
Diana Tietjens Meyers, At Large
Peg O’Connor, At Large
Lisa Tessman, At Large
Marin Gillis, Chair, Web Committee
Saba Fatima, Graduate Student
Selin Gürsözlü, Graduate Student
FEAST Program Committee:
Lynne Arnault, Chair
Alison Bailey
Bat-Ami Bar On
Louise Collins
Catherine Gardiner
Julie McDonald
Desiree Melton
Amy Mullin
Local Arrangements Committee
Rebecca Kukla, Chair
Assistant: Irene Arino