Society for Analytical Feminism
The Society for Analytical Feminism provides a forum where issues concerning analytical feminism may be openly discussed and examined. Its purpose is to promote the study of issues in Feminism by methods broadly construed as analytic, to examine the use of analytic methods as applied to Feminist issues and to provide a means by which those interested in Analytical Feminism may meet and exchange ideas.
SAF will be meeting at Vanderbilt University on Thurs-Sat, October 4-6, 2012.
Thursday, October 4th
5 - 7 pm: Welcome Reception and Registration (Buttrick Hall Atrium - 1st floor) (Complimentary wine and light refreshments provided)
7-8:30 pm: First Plenary Session
Room: Buttrick Hall 101
Conference Welcome and Introduction: Marilyn Friedman(Vanderbilt University)
Plenary Speaker: Sharon Crasnow (Norco College): “Feminist Epistemology: Standpoint and Solidarity”
Friday, October 5th
8-10 am: Complimentary Continental Breakfast for registered conference attendees; Registration (Buttrick Atrium & Terrace)
9 am: First Session
A. 9-11 am: Panel: Interdependently Situated Subjects
Room: Buttrick 202
Chair: Margaret Crouch (Eastern Michigan University)
Speakers: Erinn C. Gilson (University of North Florida), “Entrepreneurial Subjectivity”
Nancy McHugh (Wittenberg University), “Seeking A Pragmatic Alternative to Evidence-Based Medicine”
Gaile Pohlhaus (Miami University of Ohio), “The Politics of Intelligibility”
B. Feminist Empiricism
Room: TBA
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Norco College)
9-10 a.m.: Audre Brokes (Saint Joseph's University), “Feminism and Empiricism: An Uneasy Alliance”
10-11 a.m.: Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology), “Feminist Empiricism, Feminist Standpoint Theory, and Applied Science”
C. Epistemic Authority and Phenomenology
Room: TBA
Chair: TBA
9-10 a.m.: Lauren Freeman (Concordia University), “Challenging a ‘Panoptics of the Womb’: Phenomenological Responses to the Problems of Diminished Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Injustice in Pregnancy”
10-11 a.m.: Hande Kesgin (Villanova University), “A Phenomenological Reflection on Anorexia Nervosa”
11 am - noon: Second Plenary Session
Room: TBA
Introduction: Robin Dillon (Lehigh University)
Plenary Speaker: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky), “The Right to Bodily Autonomy and the Abortion Controversy”
12 -- 1:30 pm: Complimentary Lunch for all registered conference attendees, Buttrick Atrium & Terrace
1:30-2:30 pm: Second Session
A. Room: TBA Chair: TBA
Speaker: Melissa Kozma (University of Wisconsin - Barron County) and Jeanine Weekes Schroer (University of Minnesota-Duluth), “Dangerous Discourse: Stereotype Threat and the Phenomenology of Social Oppression”
B. Room: TBA
Chair: Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University)
Speaker: Gina Schouten (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Citizenship, Reciprocity, and the Gendered Division of Labor”
C. Room: TBA
Chair: Alice MacLachlan (York University)
Speaker: Elizabeth Victor (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville), “Agency, Identity, and Narrative: Making Sense of the Self in Same-Sex Divorce”
2:30-3:30 pm: Third Plenary Session
Room: Buttrick 101
Introduction: José Medina (Vanderbilt University)
Plenary Speaker: Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College), "What's in a Name? Feminist Epistemology as Social Epistemology"
3:30-4 pm: Coffee and snacks; Registration (Buttrick Atrium)
4-5 pm: Third Session
A. Room: TBA
Chair: TBA
Speaker: Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir (San Francisco State University), “Identity as Social Location”
B. Room: TBA Chair:
Speaker: Jack Samuel (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “The Pragmatic Topography of Sexist Slurs”
C. Room: TBA
Chair: Audre Brokes (Saint Joseph's University)
Speaker: Ami Harbin (Oakland University), “Feminist Moral Psychology Beyond Moral Resolve”
5-6 pm: Fourth Plenary Session
Room: Buttrick 101
Introduction: Lucius Outlaw, Jr. (Vanderbilt University)
Plenary Speaker: Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University): “Hollywood’s Fertile Imagination: Race, Sex, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
7-9 p.m.: Complimentary Dinner for registered conference attendees - Buttrick Atrium
Saturday, October 6th
8-10 a.m.: Complimentary Continental Breakfast for registered conference attendees, Registration (Buttrick Atrium & Terrace)
9-10 a.m.: Fourth Session
A. Room: TBA
Chair: Jack Samuel (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Speaker: Matt Drabek (University of Iowa), “When are Ameliorative Accounts of Gender Concepts Effective?”
B. Room: TBA
Chair: TBA
Speaker: Elizabeth A. Sperry (William Jewell College), “Adaptive Preferences, Socialization, and Constitutive Agency”
C. Room: TBA Chair: TBA
Speaker: Roksana Alavi (University of Oklahoma), “What’s Choice Got To Do With It?”
10-11 a.m.: Fifth Plenary Session
Room: TBA
Introduction: Juli Eflin (Ball State University)
Plenary Speaker: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon), “Pluralism in Academic Politics: Cronyism and Collateral Sexism and Racism”
11am-noon: Fifth Session
A. Room: TBA
Chair: Kathryn J. Norlock (Trent University)
Speaker: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny”
B. Room:
Chair: Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Speaker: Katherine Logan (University of Oregon), “The Mother-Infant Bond: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, and Biopower”
C. Room: TBA
Chair: Helga Varden (University of Illinois)
Speaker: Sarah Clark Miller (Penn State University), “Neuroethics, Ethical Insensitivity, and Moral Education: A Feminist Analysis”
2 -- 1:30 pm: Complimentary Lunch for registered conference attendees, Buttrick Atrium
1:30 pm: Sixth Plenary Session
Room: TBA
Introduction: Larry May (Vanderbilt University)
Plenary Speaker: Samantha Brennan (Western University), “Is Marriage Bad for Children?: Rethinking Parenthood and Romantic Love”
2:30-3:30 p.m.: Sixth Session
A. Room: TBA
Chair: Elizabeth Victor (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
Speaker: Eva M. Dadlez and William Andrews (University of Central Oklahoma), “Fetal Sentience and Legislation”
B. Room: TBA
Chair: Ami Harbin (Oakland University)
Speaker: Alice MacLachlan (York University), “Gender, Theory, and Public Apology”
Katherine Logan (University of Oregon)
C. Room: TBA
Chair: Katherine Logan (University of Oregon)
Speaker: Helga Varden (University of Illinois), “Kant and Women”
3:30-4 p.m.: Coffee; Registration (Buttrick Atrium)
4-5 p.m.: Seventh Plenary Session
Room: TBA
Introduction: Lisa Guenther (Vanderbilt University)
Plenary Speaker: Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbilt University), “Global Injustice: 'Global Justice' in a Feminist Key”
5-6 p.m.: Seventh Session
A. Room: TBA
Chair: TBA
Speaker: John D. Cheek (University of Oklahoma), “Perspectival Warrant and the Silencing Effect of Mannerly Norms”
B. Room: TBA
Chair: Gaile Pohlhaus (Miami University of Ohio)
Speaker: Ann Garry (California State University, Los Angeles), “Should We Categorize Feminist Philosophers by Philosophical Method?”
C. Room: TBA
Chair: Shay Welch (Spelman College)
Speaker: Karen Frost-Arnold (Hobart & William Smith Colleges), “Imposters, Evil Deceivers, and Trustworthiness as an Epistemic Virtue”
6 p.m.: Dinner on your own; local restaurants
The following registration and lodging information is also available online; please see the Society for Analytical Feminism website.
Conference Registration fees: Registration may be done in advance, using the Paypal button at the website, or in person at the conference.
*If you choose to join SAF at the same time, then you are welcome to pay the member rates for the conference. To join SAF, please see our website for Membership Information.