Working Programme: CSWIP, Oct 23-25, 2015
Campion College at the University of Regina, Canada
Note: Most paper sessions are 90 minutes. Individual paper presenters have 25 minutes to
present a paper, with a 15 minute question-and-answer period following the paper; at the end of
each two-paper session, there will be 10 minutes for open discussion.
Paper titles for panels will be included on a later version of the schedule.
Thank you to Kathryn Norlock for her outstanding programming work!
Friday Oct 23
9-10 am, Registration and Continental breakfast
10:00 - 11:30
Session I. Concurrent Individual Papers
I. A. Chair: tbd
Christina Bovinette (University of Montana):
“’Wave Function’ and the Second Wave: Towards a Feminist Theory of Physics or a
New Understanding of Physics in Feminism?”
Carla Lam (University of Otago):
“Theorizing Beyond the Third Wave: Past the Impasse - The (New) Material
Feminisms”
I. B. Chair: tbd
Alice MacLachlan (York University):
“Civility and Disrepair”
Kristin Rodier (University of Alberta):
“An Ontology of Relational Habits”
11:30-12:45
Lunch
12:45-2:15
Session II. Concurrent Individual Papers
II. A. Chair: tbd
Megan Dean (Georgetown University):
“Fat Shame is not Moral Shame”
Kate Norlock (Trent University):
“Imaginal Relationships with the Dead: an ontological challenge to relationships”
II. B. Chair: tbd
Karen Robertson (Trent):
“On the Political Importance of Community: A Relational Ontology of Institutions”
Miranda Pilipchuk (Villanova):
“He Eats Me, He Eats Me Not: Violence against Women and Animals, and the
Construction of the Subject”
2:15-2:45
Break
2:45-5 pm
Session III. Concurrent Sessions
III. A. Individual Papers
Chair: tbd
Carla Fehr (Waterloo):
“Making Sense of Loving Epistemic Diversity”
Naomi Scheman (Minnesota):
“Thinking Differently about the Ontology of Particulars”
Meghan Masto (Lafayette College):
“Women, ‘Woman,’ Politics, and Philosophy”
III. B Panel Session
Furry Ontologies
Organizer:
Chloë Taylor (Alberta)
Speakers:
Kelly Struthers Montford (Alberta)
Ada Jaarsma (Mount Royal)
Suze Berkhout (Toronto)
Chloë Taylor (Alberta)
5-6:15 pm
Dinner
6:30-7:45pm
Keynote Address:
"Localizing Group Categories in Population Genomics"
Lisa Gannett, St. Mary’s University
8-10 pm
Reception
Official Welcoming Remarks
Presentation of the Graduate Student Award
Saturday Oct 24
9-9:30am
Registration and Continental breakfast
9:30-11:15
Session IV. Concurrent Sessions
IV. A. Individual Papers
Chair: tbd
Helen Meskhidze (Elon University):
“Queering Nature: How might we see queerness in the physical realm?”
Emilie Dionne (University of California-Santa Cruz):
“Dwelling In Corporeal Ambiguity And Vulnerable Ecologies”
Lorraine Code (York University):
“Onto-epistemology and ethico-onto-epistemology”
IV. B. Panel Session
Women’s Bodies and Athletic Performance, #LikeAGirl!
Organizer:
Samantha Brennan (Western)
Speakers:
Audrey Yap (UVic)
Sylvia Burrow (UCB)
Moira Howes (Trent)
Samantha Brennan (Western)
11:30am-1:15pm
Lunch and CSWIP Annual General Meeting (all welcome)
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1:15-1:30
Break
1:30-3:00
Session V. Concurrent Individual Papers
V. A. Chair: tbd
Meredith Schwartz (Ryerson):
“Touching Metaphors of Moral Relations”
Jennifer Epp (Western):
“Unwanted Touch, Inclusive Touch: identity construction via intentional bodily contact”
V. B. Chair: tbd
Vanessa Lehan-Streisel (York University):
“Whose Logical Objects? A methodology for a more Inclusive Philosophy of Logic”
Sandra Devries (Waterloo):
“Canadian Ontologies of Race: Pedagogy and Practice”
3-3:30 pm
Break
3:30-5 pm
Session VI. Concurrent Individual Papers
VI. A. Chair: tbd
Joshua St. Pierre (University of Alberta):
“Stuttering and the disruption of fluent ontologies.”
Shelley Tremain (Independent scholar):
“Articulating an Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability”
VI. B. Chair: tbd
Judith Andre (Michigan State University):
“Materialism as a Feminist Virtue”
Monique Lanoix (Saint Paul University):
“Work and Vulnerability”
5-6:45
Dinner
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7pm
Optional Event (or free time!)
Sunday Oct 25
9-9:30 Continental breakfast
9:30-11:45am
Session VII. Panel Session
Panel: The Challenge of Epistemic Responsibility
Organizers:
Susan Dieleman (Dalhousie) & Anna Mudde (University of Regina)
Chair:
Anna Mudde (University of Regina)
Speakers:
Christine Koggel (Carleton)
Susan Dieleman (Dalhousie)
Cathy Maloney (York/UofT)
Alexis Shotwell (Carleton)
Respondent: Lorraine Code (York)
11:45-12
Closing remarks and announcements