ASSOCIATION FOR
FEMINIST ETHICS AND SOCIAL THEORY
2005 Conference
Clearwater Beach, Florida
Thursday, October 20:
5:00-7:00Registration (Lobby 2)
7:00-9:00Roundtable Discussion (Bay Room)
Title: U.S. Policy, at Home and Abroad
Chair: Peg O’Connor
Participants: Joan Callahan (University of Kentucky); Abby Wilkerson (George Washington University); Neta Crawford (Brown University); and Joan Tronto (Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York).
Friday, October 21:
All dayRegistration (Lobby 2)
8:00-10:00Coffee (Lobby 2)
9:00-11:00Concurrent Sessions:
Session A: On Economic Inequality (Palm Room)
Chair: Margaret Urban Walker
9:00-9:40Christine Koggel (Bryn Mawr College), “Globalization and Inequalities in Wealth: Local and Global Perspectives”
9:40-10:20Sabrina Hom (Stony Brook University), “Organizing Feminized Labor: The Politics and Morality of Paid Housework in Haraway’s Homework Economy”
10:20-11:00Peter Higgins, Audra King, and April Shaw (University of Colorado, Boulder), “What is Poverty?”
Session B: On Care (Bay Room)
Chair: Tove Pettersen
9:00-9:40Allison Weir (Wilfrid Laurier University), “The Global Caregiver: Imagining Women’s Liberation in the New Millenium”
9:40-10:20Sarah Clark Miller (University of Memphis), “The Revolutionary Potential of Global Care”
10:20-11:00Maurice Hamington (University of Southern Indiana), “Socializing Care at Hull-House”
11:10-12:30Concurrent Sessions:
Session C: On Narrative (Palm Room)
Chair:Anna Gotlib
11:10-11:50Veronica Vasterling (Radboud University), “The Uses of Narrative in Practical Philosophy: Hannah Arendt and Martha Nussbaum”
11:50-12:30Jackie Gately (Arizona State University West), “Recognizing Group Oppression through Its Invisibility”
Session D: Responding to the Right Wing (Bay Room)
Chair:Heidi Grasswick
11:10-11:50Lynne S. Arnault (Le Moyne College), “Praying for a Godly Fumigation: Disgust and the New Christian Right”
11:50-12:30Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo & Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo (Washington State University), “‘The War on Terror’ and Domestic ‘Terrorism’: Same-Sex Marriage and U.S. State Discourse in the 2004 Election Year”
12:30-2:00Lunch
Lunchtime Meeting to Discuss Philosophy in an Inclusive Key ( )
Philosophy in an Inclusive Key, organized by the FEAST Diversity Collective, will be a summer institute for undergraduates from under-represented groups from across the country with an interest in further work in philosophy. The Diversity Collective would like to gather ideas and suggestions from FEAST members regarding this program. Please join us for this lunchtime meeting.
2:00-4:00Concurrent Sessions:
Session E: Disability and the Ethics of Choosing Non-Standard Families (Palm Room)
Chair: Julie McDonald
2:00-2:40Sophia Wong (Long Island University Brooklyn Campus), “Gender, Mental Retardation, and Autonomy in the Family”
2:40-3:20Anita Ho (College of St. Catherine), “Reproductive Autonomy and Women with Cognitive Disabilities”
3:20-4:00Sara Goering (University of Washington), “How Open is Open Enough? Choosing for Disability and Respecting Children’s Rights to Future Opportunities”
Session F: On Kristeva, Arendt and de Beauvoir (Bay Room)
Chair: Shay Welch
2:00-2:40Karin Fry (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), “Beyond Interpretation: Kristeva on the Life and Work of Hannah Arendt”
2:40-3:20Serena Parekh (Boston College), “Gender, Oppression and Human Rights”
3:20-4:00Andrea Veltman (York University), “Transcendence and Immanence in the Ethics of Simone de Beauvoir”
4:10-5:30Concurrent Sessions:
Session G: Reflecting on Feminism(s) (Palm Room)
Chair: Ann Garry
4:10-4:50Hilde Lindemann (Michigan State University), “Feminism in an Age of Bioethics”
4:50-5:30Karen Wendling (University of Guelph), “Mapping Feminisms”
Session H: Transnational Feminism (Bay Room)
Chair: Sonya Charles
4:10-4:50Ofelia Schutte (University of South Florida), “Feminist Ethics and Transnational Injustice: Two Methodological Suggestions”
4:50-5:30Hye-ryoung Kang (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Rethinking ‘The Circumstances of Global Justice’ from a Transnational Feminist Perspective”
5:30-5:45Break (refreshments provided)
5:45-7:00Keynote Address (Palm Room)
Title: “Truth in a Time of Terror”
Chair: Ann Ferguson
Speaker: Bat-Ami Bar On (Binghamton University)
7:00-9:00Dinner
9:00-10:00Business Meeting, open to all (Palm Room)
10:00-11:00Reception, refreshments provided (Bay Room)
Saturday, October 22:
All dayRegistration (Lobby 2)
8:00-10:00Coffee (Lobby 2)
9:00-10:15Keynote Address (Bay Room)
Title: “Radical Multiculturalisms and Women of Color Feminisms”
Chair: Barbara Andrew
Speaker: María Lugones (Binghamton University)
10:30-12:30Concurrent Sessions:
Session I: Normalizing Woman:
Feminist Applications of Foucault’s Analytics of Power (Palm Room)
Chair: Sonia Kruks
10:30-11:10Cressida J. Heyes (University of Alberta), “The Televisual Makeover: A Foucauldian Reading of Cosmetic Surgery”
11:10-11:50Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University), “Monstrous Women”
11:50-12:30Ellen K. Feder (American University), “The Dangerous Individual(’s) Mother: Biopower and the Production of Race”
Session J: Reproductive Ethics and Politics (Bay Room)
Chair: Alison Reiheld
10:30-11:10Laura Purdy (Wells College), “Like a Motherless Child: Fetal Eggs and Families”
11:10-11:50Carolyn McLeod (University of Western Ontario), “Demanding Referrals in the Wake of Conscientious Objection to Abortion”
11:50-12:30Susan Berkhout (University of British Columbia), “Buns in the Oven: Objectification, Surrogacy and Women’s Autonomy”
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:50Concurrent Sessions:
Session K: Critical Understandings of Dependency and Disability (Palm Room)
Chair: Eva Kittay
1:30-2:10Zahra Meghani (Michigan State University), “Developing a Cosmopolitan Dependency Critique of Liberalism”
2:10-2:50Serene Joy Khader (State University of New York at Stony Brook), “Cognitive Disability, Capabilities, and Justice”
Session L: Epistemological Pitfalls (Bay Room)
Chair: Theresa Weynand Tobin
1:30-2:10Andrea Notroff (independent scholar), “Is there a Feminist Philosophy of Language as an Epistemological Base for Social Theory?”
2:10-2:50Alison Bailey (Illinois State University), “Purity and Ignorance in Mills’s The Racial Contract”
3:00-4:15 Keynote Address (Bay Room)
Title: “The Poorest of the Poor: Justice and the Feminization of Global Poverty”
Chair: Lorraine Code
Speaker: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado, Boulder)
4:15-4:30: Break (refreshments provided)
4:30-6:30Concurrent Sessions:
Session M: The Ethics and Politics of Mothering (Palm Room)
Chair: Carmela Epright
4:30-5:10Bonnie Mann (University of Oregon), “Heterosexism and Lesbian Mothering”
5:10-5:50Jessica Prata Miller (University of Maine), “Dis/Trust Among Imprisoned Mothers, their Children, and the State”
5:50-6:30Amy Mullin (University of Toronto), “Trust, Social Norms and Motherhood”
Session N: On Responsibility and Agency (Bay Room)
Chairs: Amanda Moon and L. Ryan Musgrave
4:30-5:10Abigail Gosselin (University of Colorado at Boulder), “Problems with Agent-Centered Accounts of Responsibility”
5:10-5:50Nancy Holmstrom and Anna Stubblefield (Rutgers University-Newark), “Gender Oppression and Women’s Rational Agency”
5:50-6:30Melissa Burchard (University of North Carolina, Asheville), “Slippery Agency: Sex, Fluidity, and Paradigms of Control”
6:30-8:30Dinner
8:30-11:00 Reception (Poolside grass, or in Bay Room in case of rain)
Sunday, October 23:
8:00-10:00Coffee (Lobby 2)
9:00-11:40Concurrent Sessions:
Session O: In Memory of Susan Moller Okin (Palm Room)
Chair: Louise Collins
9:00-9:40Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University), “Multiculturalism and Oppression”
9:40-10:20K. V. Q. Vintges (University of Amsterdam), “Feminism, Islam and Modernity”
10:20-11:00Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University), “Plato on Sexual Difference and Sexual Reproduction”
11:00-11:40 Lisa Schwartzman (Michigan State University), “Okin, Rawls, and Feminist Methodology”
Session P: Virtue(s) and Vice(s) (Bay Room)
Chair: Jocelyn Boryczka
9:00-9:40Maureen Sander-Staudt (Arizona State University), “The Unhappy Marriage of Care Ethics and Virtue Ethics”
9:40-10:20Julie White (Ohio University), “The Politics of Compassion”
10:20-11:00Alice MacLachlan (Boston University), “Forgiveness, Feminism, and the Diversity of Women’s Experience”
11:00-11:40Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University), “Arrogance, Respect, and Self-Respect: A Feminist View”