Past Events
2019
APA, Eastern Division, January 7-10, 2019, New York NY
First session, G6C (Tuesday, Early Afternoon, 11am–1pm)
Topic: The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism: Reflection, Dialogue, and Future Goals
Chair: Heather Stewart (University of Western Ontario)
Speakers:
Pieranna Garavaso (University of Minnesota Morris), “Rethinking the Role of Analytic Philosophy in Feminism”
Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), “Reflections on Analytic Feminism”
Ann Garry (San Diego State University), “Feminist Philosophical Tools, Limitations, and Opportunities”
Second session, G11C (Wednesday, Late Morning, 11:15am–1:15pm)
Topic: Fraught Contexts and Moral Failures
Chair: TBA
Speakers:
Hailey Huget (Georgetown University), “Care Workers on Strike”
Rebecca E. Harrison (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor), “Against Epistemic Neutrality: On the Presumption of Innocence in Sexual Violence Cases”
Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville) and Heather Stewart (University of Western Ontario), “Epistemic Microaggressions”
APA, Central Division, February 20 – 23, 2019, Denver CO
First session, G31 (Thursday, Morning, 9:30am - 12:30pm)
Speakers:
- Sukaina Hirji (Virginia Tech), “Coercion, Double Binds, and the Full Expression of Agency”
- Bianca Waked (McMaster University), “Distinctions Worth Drawing: Ordinary Language Philosophy and Its Influence on Feminist Philosophy of Language”
- Joel Sati (Yale University), “Against Universalism”
- Marion Boulicault (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Gender and the Measurement of Fertility: A Case Study in Critical Metrology”
Second session, G8f (Saturday, Afternoon, 12:40pm–3:40pm)
Speakers:
- Amandine Catala (University of Quebec at Montreal), "Epistemic injustice and cognitive disability"
- Stephen Masson (American University), "A Cartography of Social Reality(ies)"
- Matthew Andler (University of Virginia), "Sexual Orientation Categories"
APA, Pacific Division, April 17-20, 2019, Vancouver BC
First session, G2F (Wednesday, Evening, 6pm–8pm)
Topic: Recognizing and Repairing Epistemic Injustice
Chair: Amelia Wirts (Boston College)
Speakers:
- Jordan Pascoe (Manhattan College), “Beyond Consent: On the Duty to Set Sexual Ends”
- Nanette Ryan (Georgetown University), “Nonverbal Communicative Injustice”
- Briana Toole (Baruch College), “Rethinking Traditional Epistemology”
Second session, G5E (Thursday, Evening, 6pm–8pm)
Topic: Considering Harm: From Micro to Atrocity
Chair: Samantha Brennan (University of Guelph)
Speakers:
- Jill Graper Hernandez (University of Texas at San Antonio), “Forgiveness as Social Death: A Paradox of Moral Repair after Atrocity”
- Emma McClure (University of Toronto), “From Hate Speech to Microaggressions: A Spectrum of Dominating Speech Acts”
- Amelia Wirts (Boston College), “Himpathy and Intersectionality: Toward a Feminist Prison Abolitionism”
2018
APA, Eastern Division, January 3-6, 2018, Savannah, Georgia
First session, G6A (Thursday Early Afternoon, Noon–2:00 p.m.)
Chair: Ann Cahill (Elon University)
Speakers:
Brian Montgomery (University of Texas at El Paso), “You Don’t Really Mean That: Anti-Pornography Strategies and Epistemic Injustices”
Samia Hesni (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Leave-Taking and Illocutionary Frustration”
Sara Kolmes (Georgetown University), “Smothering and Epistemological Excess”
Second session, G11D (Friday Late Morning, 11:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m.)
Chair: Kathryn J. Norlock (Trent University)
Speakers:
Jordan A. Shaw (Washington University in St. Louis), “Contra ‘Wrongful Procreation’ in Dark Ghettos”
Valerie Williams (Boston University), “Mary Wollstonecraft: An Overlooked Insight into Women’s Oppression”
Charlotte Figueroa (University of Oxford), “On the Distinction between Objectifying Attitudes and Objectifying Actions”
APA, Central Division, February 21 – 24, 2018, Chicago, Illinois
First session, G4A. (Thursday Morning, 9:00 A.M.–Noon)
Topic: Vocabulary of Social Structures
Chair: Kathryn J. Norlock (Trent University)
Speakers:
Esa Díaz-León (University of Barcelona), “A Feminist Meta-Metaphysics: Social Structures and Metaphysical Deflationism”
Cassie Herbert (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), “Derogatives: Slut, Basic, and Becky”
Marie-Pier Lemay (University of Guelph), “Meta-Ignorance and Second Wave Québécois Feminism"
Second session, G7G. Thursday Evening, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Topic: Liberatory Struggle
Chair: Saba Fatima (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
Speakers:
Jennifer Szende (University of Guelph), “Relational Value, Territorial Rights, and Climate Justice”
Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology), “Analytical Feminist Philosophy and Strategies for Impact”
Ann J. Cahill (Elon University), “Toward a Theory of (Inter)Vocal Liberation”
APA, Pacific Division, March 28-31, 2018, San Diego, California
Society for Analytical Feminism, Session 1
Topic: Oppression, Equality, and Social Standing
Chair: Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University)
Speakers:
Filipa Melo Lopes (University of Michigan), “Gender and Liminality”
Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco (University of Connecticut), “Understanding Self-Injury through (Body) Shaming”
Cynthia Stark (University of Utah), “Why Luck Egalitarians Cannot Condemn Oppression”
Society for Analytical Feminism, Session 2
Topic: Philosophy of Language and Social Epistemology
Chair: Esa Díaz-León (Universitat de Barcelona)
Speakers:
Emily Dupree (University of Chicago), “Burden of Proof”
Nanette Ryan (Georgetown University), “Nonverbal Communicative Injustice”
Saray Ayala-Lopez (California State University,Sacramento), “Outing Foreigners”
2016 - 2017
APA Central Division, March 2017 - Kansas City
Session I: Social Norms and Structural Injustice
Chair: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)
Speaker: Ann J. Cahill (Elon University), “Title IX: An Argument against Broad Mandatory Reporting Policies”
Speaker: Jessica Payson (Bentley University), “The ‘Meta’ Level of Integrity: Integrity in the Context of Structural Injustice”
Speaker: Audrey Yap (University of Victoria), “Argumentation, Adversariality and Social Norms”
Session II. Reconsidering ‘Fragility’: What Can Nonsense Do for You?
Speaker: Melissa M. Kozma (University of Wisconsin Colleges)
Speaker: Megan Mitchell (Stonehill College)
Speaker: Jeanine Weekes Schroer (University of Minnesota, Duluth)
APA Pacific Division, April 2017 - Seattle
Session I: Sex, Sexuality, and Romantic Relationships
Chair: Robin May Schott (Danish Institute for International Studies)
Speaker: Esa Diaz-Leon (Universitat de Barcelona), “Amatonormativity and Hermeneutical Injustice”
Speaker: Nanette Ryan (Georgetown University), “Self-respecting Sex”
Speaker: Matthew Salett Andler (University of Virginia), “The Social Structure of Sexuality”
Session II: Critical Race Feminism, Injustice, and Identity
Chair: Esa Diaz-Leon (Universitat de Barcelona)
Speaker: Tasha G. Davis (Governors State University), “My Sister’s Keeper: The Need for Persistence and Retention Mentoring Programs for Underrepresented Undergraduate Black Women”
Speaker: Roksana Alavi (University of Oklahoma), “Race Versus Ethnicity, and Its Implications for Group Racial Identity”
Speaker: Nora Berenstain (University of Tennessee), “Whitewashing Hermeneutical Injustice”
Society for Analytical Feminism 4th Conference
September 2016 - University of Massachusetts Lowell
Analytical Feminism: Past, Present, & Future
Friday, September 16th
2:30PM to 4:30PM: Session 1
1.1. Analytic Feminism: Changing Core Debates [Concord 1]
1. “Feminist Metaphysics: Can this Marriage be Saved?” Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska- Lincoln)
2. “Rationality as an Epistemic Virtue,” Deborah K. Heikes (University of Alabama)
3. “Feminist Analyses of Scientific Objectivity: An Overview,” Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology)
4. “Feminist Approaches to Autonomy,” Andrea Westlund (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Chair: Pieranna Garavaso (University of Minnesota Morris)
SAF program September 2016The full conference program is also linked above
1.2. Intersectionality and Race [Concord 2]
1. “We Anti-Racists: Race Eliminativists, Race Conservationists, and Liberatory Solidarity as Relational,” Christian Matheis (Virginia Tech)
2. “Identity, Stereotyping, Living and Teaching in my Brown Skin,” Roksana Alavi (University of Oklahoma)
3. “Moving Past Intersectionality: Multidimensionality and Kaleidoscopic Selves,” Elizabeth Victor and Stephanie Rivera Berruz (William Paterson University)
Chair: Serena Parekh (Northeastern University)
1.3. Metaphysics and Foundations [Concord 3]
1. "Feminism Without Metaphysics," Louise Antony (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
2. “A Feminist Response to the Special Composition Question,” Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota)
3. “Abolitionism, Revisionism, and Gender Stereotyping,” Christiane Merritt (Washington University St. Louis)
Chair: Michaela McSweeney (Boston University)
1.4. Challenging Categories and Methods [Merrimack 1]
1. “Against Logical Tolerance: On the Limits of Conceptual Ethics and Conceptual Engineering,” Derek Anderson (Boston University)
2. “The Concept of Sexual Orientation,” Matthew Andler (University of Virginia)
3. “Sex Categorization In Medical Contexts,” Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville) and Saray Ayala (Cal State Sacramento)
4. “Examples We Won’t Regret,” Amy L. McKiernan and Elizabeth Lanphier (Vanderbilt University)
Chair: Julinna Oxley (Coastal Carolina University)
4:30PM to 5:00PM: Break
5:00PM to 5:30PM: Opening Remarks [Middlesex Room]
Ann Cudd, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
Jacqueline Moloney, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Introduction by Carol Hay (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
5:30PM to 7:00PM: Keynote: Nancy Bauer (Tufts University), “Ideology and Philosophy” [Middlesex Room]
Introduction by Susanne Sreedhar (Boston University)
Saturday, September 17th
8:30AM to 9:30 AM: Breakfast
9:30AM to 11:00AM: Session 2
2.1. Immigration Justice [Concord 1]
1. “Unauthorized Mothering: Legal Status, Legal Violence, and the Resilience of Undocumented Families,” Isabel Sousa Rodriguez (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
2. “A Feminist Approach to Immigrant Admissions,” Peter Higgins (Eastern Michigan University)
Chair: Jose Mendoza (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
2.2. Reproduction, Rights, and Reciprocity [Concord 2]
1. “Abortion in the State of Nature: Towards a Kantian Account of Bodily Autonomy,” Jordan Pascoe (Manhattan College)
2. “Compensation for Pregnancy Related Burdens as a Matter of Reciprocity,” Amy Mullin (University of Toronto)
3. “”It’s Only Natural”: A Comparative Analysis of Meat Eating and Breastfeeding,” Alison Suen (Iona College)
Chair: Heidi Furey (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
2.3. Resist! Resist! [Concord 3]
1. “Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Strong Substantive Autonomy and the Obligation to Resist,” Emily McGill-Rutherford (Keene State College)
2. “(When) Do Victims have Duties to Resist Oppression?” Rosa Terlazzo (Kansas State University)
3. “The Role of Restorative Laws in Eliminating Oppression and Legitimizing Political Structures,” Amelia M. Wirts (Boston College Law School)
Chair: Kurt Blankschaen (Boston University)
2.4. Bad language [Merrimack 1]
1. “Beyond Slurs: Communicating Evaluative Attitudes,” Rose Lenehan (MIT)
2. "Looking for the Neutrality of Terms in Sexist, Racist and Ableist Times: On Slurring Terms and Their Allegedly Neutral Counterparts," Deborah Mühlebach (University of Basel, Switzerland)
3. “Portraying Gendered Narratives through Merely Mentioning,” Lucia M. Munguia (Cornell University)
Chair: Robin Dillon (Lehigh University)
11:00AM to 11:30AM: Break
11:30AM to 1:00PM: Session 3
3.1. Early Modern Philosophy I: Women as “Subjects” [Concord 1]
1. “Emile du Châtelet on Women, Freedom, and Happiness,” Marcy P. Lascano (California State University, Long Beach)
2. “The Case of Mary Shepherd,” Antonia LoLordo (University of Virginia)
3. “Cavendish on Motion and Properties,” Alison Peterman (University of Rochester)
Chair: Sally Haslanger (MIT)
3.2. Autonomy, Community, and the State [Concord 2]
1. “Where Should We Ground the Feminist Potential of Political Liberalism?” Elizabeth Edenberg (Fordham University)
2. “An Aztec-Inspired Rethinking of Individuals, Communities and Relational Autonomy,” Molly Wilder (Georgetown University)
3. “The Autonomy Defense To The Regulation Of Private Discrimination,” Heather Whitney (University of Chicago)
Chair: Cindy Stark (University of Utah)
3.3. The Workings of Oppression [Concord 3]
1. “Interrogating ‘Sex Work’,” Lori Watson (University of San Diego)
2. “The Dark Side of the Internet: Online Harassment Against Women,” Sandra Raponi (Merrimack College)
3. “Shared Foundations of Oppression and Liberation: Disability as Inextricable to Feminist Moral Concern,” Eri Svenson (William Rainey Harper College)
Chair: Lynne Tirrell (University of Massachusetts Boston)
1:00PM to 2:00PM: LUNCH
2:00PM to 4:00PM: Session 4A
4.A The Future is Feminist: New Directions in Analytic Philosophy [Merrimack 1]
1. “(Feminist) Abortion Ethics and Fetal Moral Status,” Amanda Roth (State University of New York at Geneseo)
2. “Police Brutality, Affectability Imbalance, and Maladjusted Epistemic Salience,” Ayanna D. Spencer (Michigan State University)
3. “Feminism, Nationalism and Transnationalism,” Ranjoo S. Herr (Bentley University)
4. “What is Sex-stereotyping and What Could be Wrong with it?” Adam Hosein (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Chair: Ann Garry (California State University, Los Angeles)
2:30PM to 4:00PM: Session 4
4.1 Early Modern Philosophy II: Women as “Objects” [Concord 1]
1. “On Un-Gendering Evil: Theodicy and Women in the Early Modern Period,” Jill Hernandez (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
2. “Kant and Women,” Helga Varden (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
3. “Gabrielle Suchon: Enlightenment Thinker?” Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)
Chair: Valerie Williams (Boston University)
4.2 Responses to Sexual Violence [Concord 2]
1. "Defending the Feminist Position on Rape," Meagan Malone (Georgia State University)
2. "Rethinking Transnational Sexual Violence," Sarah Clark Miller (Pennsylvania State University)
3. “Believing Survivors and Belief in Survivors,” Cassie Herbert (Georgetown University)
Chair: Erin Seeba (Boston University)
4.3 Care for Others; Care for Self [Concord 3]
1. “Intersectionality, Female Undocumented Care Workers, and Stereotyping," Zahra Meghani (University of Rhode Island)
2. "Complicit Suffering and Self-Care," Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco (University of Connecticut)
3. “Abstract Care,” Asha Bhandary (University of Iowa)
Chair: Lindsey Stewart (Wellesley College)
4PM to 5:00PM: Reception
5:00PM to 6:30PM: Keynote: Tommie Shelby (Harvard University), “Injustice, Reproduction, and the Ghetto Poor” [Middlesex Room]
Introduction by Kate Norlock (Trent University)
7:00PM to 9:00PM: Banquet [Pawtucket Room]
Sunday, September 18th
8:00AM to 9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00AM to 11:00AM: Session 5
5.1. Issues in Feminist Epistemology [Concord 2]
1. “Venting As Epistemic Work,” Juli Thorson and Christine Baker (Ball State University)
2. “Making Sense of Loving Epistemic Diversity,” Carla Fehr (University of Waterloo)
3. “Experimental Philosophy and Feminist Epistemology: Conflicting or Complementary Methodologies?” Amanda Huminski (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
4. “I Can Hardly Credit It: Epistemic Injustice in the Practice of Medicine,” Alison Reiheld (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
Chair: Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown University)
5.2. Author Meets Critics: Shay Welch, Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices [Concord 3]
1. Tracy Isaacs (Western University)
2. Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
3. Tempest Henning (Vanderbilt University)
4. Shay Welch (Spelman College)
Chair: Samantha Brennan (Western University)
5.3. Living under Oppression [Merrimack 1]
1. “Love in the Time of Oppression,” Kiran Bhardwaj (University of North Carolina)
2. “The Game is Rigged: Responsibility and Agency under Oppression,” Nicole Dular (Syracuse University)
3. "Fantastic Virtue, Moral Modesty, and Systemic Problems," Ornaith O'Dowd (University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College)
4. "Gender, Identity, and TERF Propaganda," Rachel McKinnon (College of Charleston)
Chair: Suzy Killmister (University of Connecticut)
11:00AM-11:30AM: Break
11:30-1 Keynote: Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University), “On Developing a Deaf Feminism: Language, Modality, and Culture” [Middlesex Room]
Introduction by Sally Haslanger (MIT)
2016
APA Eastern Division, January 2016 - Washington D.C.
Session I: The Feminist Philosophy of Claudia Card
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Mavis Biss (Loyola University Maryland)
Speaker: Victoria Davion (University of Georgia)
Speaker: Kathryn J. Norlock (Trent University)
Session II: Feminist Political Liberalism
Chair: Amy Baehr (Hofstra University)
Speaker: Gina Schouten (Illinois State University), "Access to Equality"
Speakers: Christie Hartley (Georgia State University) & Lori Watson (University of San Diego), "Sex Equality and Public Reason"
Speaker: Elizabeth Edenberg (Vanderbilt University), "Feminism and Diversity in Political Liberalism"
APA Central Division, March 2016 - Chicago
Session I: Feminist Epistemologies
Chair: Kathryn J. Norlock (Trent University)
Speaker: Pieranna Garavaso (University of Minnesota Morris), "Some Theoretical Issues surrounding the “Why So Few Women?” Question"
Commentator: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Ayanna Spencer (Michigan State University), "Say Her Name: Epistemic Violence in the Fight Against Police Brutality"
Commentator: Myisha Cherry (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Speaker: Nora Berenstain (University of Tennessee Knoxville), "Epistemic Exploitation"
Commentator: Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University
Session II: Remembering Claudia Card
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Diana Meyers (University of Connecticut)
Speaker: Lynne Tirrell (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
APA Pacific Division, April 2016 - San Francisco
Session I: Feminism, Contextualism, and Virtue Epistemology
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Norco College)
Speaker: Kristina Rolin (University of Helsinki), "The politics of epistemic responsibility"
Speaker: Nancy Daukas (Guilford College), "Feminist contextualism and transformative criticism in epistemology"
Speaker: Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology), "Epistemic contextualism, skepticism, and knowledge as politics"
Session II: Author Meets Critics: Nancy Bauer's How To Do Things With Pornography
Chair: Ann Cahill (Elon University)
Author: Nancy Bauer (Tufts University)
Critic: Lori Watson (University of San Diego)
Critic: Lynne Tirrell (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Critic: Carol Hay (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
2014 - 2015
APA Eastern Division, December 2014 - Philadelphia
Memorial Session in Honor of Jean Harvey
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Carol Hay (University of Massachusetts Lowell) "Resisting Oppression with Jean Harvey"
Speaker: Kathryn Norlock (Trent University) "Jean Harvey & Companion Animals"
APA Central Division, February 2015 - St. Louis
Session I
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Asha Bhandary (University of Iowa) “Dependency Care and Multiculturalism”
Commentator: Serene Khader (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Speaker: Robin Dembroff (Princeton University) “What is Sexual Orientation?”
Commentator: Esa Diaz-Leon (University of Manitoba)
Speakers: Jeanine Weekes Schroer (University of Minnesota Duluth) & Melissa Kozma (University of Wisconsin, Barron County) "The Integrity Privilege: The Hows and Whys of Who Gets to be a Social Justice Hero"
Commentator: Clair Morrissey (Occidental College)
Session II: Epistemic Friction and Responsible Knowing: Reflections on José Medina's The Epistemology of Resistance
Chair: Robin Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speakers: Lorraine Code (York University), Saba Fatima (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), Michael Doan (Eastern Michigan University), Ami Harbin (Oakland University)
Respondents: José Medina (Vanderbilt University), Andrea Pitts (Vanderbilt University)
APA Pacific Division, April 2015 - Vancouver
Session I: Harm, Agency, and the Problems of the ‘Victim'
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut) "Varieties of Victims/Varieties of Agency"
Speaker: Robin May Schott (Danish Institute for International Studies) “Victims, Vulnerability, and Social Suffering”
Speaker: Daniel Silvermint (University of Connecticut) “Complicity and Well-being”
Session II: Meaning and Causality
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Sharon Crasnow (Norco College) "Feminist Research: Ontology, Methodology, and Causation"
Speaker: Georgia Warnke (University of California, Riverside) “Understanding and Feminist Research”
Commentators: Sharyn Clough (Oregon State University), Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida)
Hypatia conference: Exploring Collaborative Contestations/Diversifying Philosophy
May 2015, Villanova University
SAF Sponsored Session: Feminist Rereadings of the Canon
Chair: Carol Hay (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Speaker: Dilek Huseyinzadegan (Emory University) “What's Kant got to do with it? Constructive Complicity & Feminist Re-readings of the Canon”
Speaker: Alice MacLachlan (York University) “Partial Spectators: Adam Smith and the Politics of Empathy”
Speaker: Susanne Sreedhar (Boston University) “Contracting Gender: Women and Early Modern Political Thought”
Speaker: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire) “Why the History of Philosophy Matters to Feminist Theory”
2013 - 2014
APA Eastern Division, December 2013 - Baltimore
Feminist History and Philosophy of Science
Chair: Jennifer Ingle (Clemson University)
Speaker: Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida, Tampa) "Body Matters: Women, Material Culture, and the Philosophy of Science"
Speaker: Sharon Crasnow (Norco College) "Women and Science: What We Can Learn From Studying Cases"
Speaker: Janet Kourany (University of Notre Dame) "History and Philosophy of Science: The Traditional and the Feminist Style Marriage"
Speaker: Christia Mercer (Columbia University) “Creating Women Ex Nihilo or Why It’s So Hard to Do Feminist History of Philosophy: The Case of Anne Conway”
APA Central Division, February 2014 - Chicago
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Dan López de Sa (ICREA-Universitat de Barcelona) “Women Can Be People: A Response to Witt's Metaphysics of Gender”
Commentator: Julinna Oxley (Coastal Carolina University)
Speaker: Mari Mikkola (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) “Pornographic Artefacts: Maker’s-Intentions Models”
Commentator: Louise Antony (University of Massachusetts)
Speaker: Zac Cogley (Northern Michigan University) “Blaming the Victim”
Commentator: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
APA Pacific Division, April 2014 - San Diego
Author meets Critics: Carol Hay's Kantianism, Liberalism, & Feminism: Resisting Oppression (2013)
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Author: Carol Hay (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Critic: Helga Varden (University of Illinois)
Critic: Samantha Brennan (Western University)
Critic: Amy R. Baehr (Hofstra University)
Autonomy
Chair: Marilyn Friedman (Vanderbilt University)
Speaker: Marina Oshana (University of California, Davis) "Autonomy, Freedom, and Control"
Speaker: Emily McGill (Vanderbilt University) "Relational Autonomy and the Self"
Speaker: Serene Khader (SUNY at Stonybrook) "Rethinking Relational Autonomy"
2012 - 2013
APA Eastern Division, December 2012 - Atlanta
Philosophy and Human Trafficking
Chair: Shay Welch (Spelman College)
Speaker: Roksana Alavi(University of Oklahoma) “Society’s Response to Sex Trafficking”
Speaker: Melissa Seymour Fahmy(University of Georgia) “Human Trafficking and Public Shame”
Speaker: Hallie Liberto (University of Connecticut) “Oppression, Exploitation, and Sex Trafficking”
APA Central Division, February 2013 - New Orleans
Chair: Robin Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Susanne Sreedhar (Boston University) "Samuel von Pufendorf on Gender and the Family"
Commentator: Elizabeth Edenberg(Vanderbilt University)
Speaker: Kathryn Swanson(University of Minnesota) "Mitigating Epistemic Injustice by Practicing Partiality: Choosing to Trust in Courtroom Testimony"
Commentator: Nancy Daukas(Guilford College)
Speaker: Esa Diaz-Leon (University of Manitoba) “'Woman' as a Politically Significant Term: A Solution to the Puzzle"
Commentator: Marianne Janack (Hamilton College)
APA Pacific Division, March 2013 - San Francisco
The Metaphysics of Sex (Differences) and Sexual Orientation: In or Out of the Social Change Recipe?
Chair: Saray Ayala (Carlos III University Madrid, Spain)
Speaker: Nadya Vasilyeva(Brandeis University) “Explanations and Beliefs”
Speaker: Sally Haslanger(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Gender Justice: Social Not Metaphysical (or Physical)"
Speaker: Esa Diaz-Leon(University of Manitoba) "The Semantics and Metaphysics of Sexual Orientations, and Their Significance for LGBT Rights"
Speaker: Talia Bettcher(California State University, Los Angeles) "Transsexualism and the Concept of Brain Sex"
Society for Analytical Feminism, 3rd Conference
October 2012 - Vanderbilt University
Take it to the Bridge: Crossing between Analytic and Continental Feminist Philosophies
Conference Welcome and Introduction: Marilyn Friedman (Vanderbilt University)
Plenary Speaker: Sharon Crasnow (Norco College) “Feminist Epistemology: Standpoint and Solidarity”
Chair: Margaret Crouch (Eastern Michigan University)
Speaker: Erinn C. Gilson (University of North Florida) “Entrepreneurial Subjectivity”
Speaker: Nancy McHugh (Wittenberg University) “Seeking A Pragmatic Alternative to Evidence-Based Medicine”
Speaker: Gaile Pohlhaus (Miami University of Ohio) “The Politics of Intelligibility”
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Norco College)
Speaker: Audre Brokes (Saint Joseph's University) “Feminism and Empiricism: An Uneasy Alliance”
Speaker: Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology) “Feminist Empiricism, Feminist Standpoint Theory, and Applied Science”
Speaker: Lauren Freeman (Concordia University) “Challenging a Panoptics of the Womb’: Phenomenological Responses to the Problems of Diminished Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Injustice in Pregnancy”
Speaker: Hande Kesgin (Villanova University) “A Phenomenological Reflection on Anorexia Nervosa”
Introduction: Robin Dillon (Lehigh University)
Plenary Speaker: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky) “The Right to Bodily Autonomy and the Abortion Controversy”
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”
Chair: Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University)
Speaker: Gina Schouten (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Citizenship, Reciprocity, and the Gendered Division of Labor”
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”
Introduction: José Medina (Vanderbilt University)
Plenary Speaker: Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College) "What's in a Name? Feminist Epistemology as Social Epistemology"
Speaker: Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir (San Francisco State University) “Identity as Social Location”
Speaker: Jack Samuel (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) “The Pragmatic Topography of Sexist Slurs”
Chair: Audre Brokes (Saint Joseph's University)
Speaker: Ami Harbin (Oakland University) “Feminist Moral Psychology Beyond Moral Resolve”
Introduction: Lucius Outlaw, Jr. (Vanderbilt University)
Plenary Speaker: Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University) “Hollywood’s Fertile Imagination: Race, Sex, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
Chair: Jack Samuel (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Speaker: Matt Drabek (University of Iowa) “When are Ameliorative Accounts of Gender Concepts Effective?”
Chair: Andrea Pitts (Vanderbilt University)
Speaker: Elizabeth A. Sperry (William Jewell College) “Adaptive Preferences, Socialization, and Constitutive Agency”
Speaker: Roksana Alavi (University of Oklahoma), “What’s Choice Got To Do With It?”
Introduction: Juli Eflin (Ball State University)
Plenary Speaker: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon) “Pluralism in Academic Politics: Cronyism and Collateral Sexism and Racism”
Chair: Kathryn J. Norlock (Trent University)
Speaker: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny”
Chair: Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Speaker: Katherine Logan (University of Oregon) “The Mother-Infant Bond: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, and Biopower”
Chair: Helga Varden (University of Illinois)
Speaker: Sarah Clark Miller (Penn State University) “Neuroethics, Ethical Insensitivity, and Moral Education: A Feminist Analysis”
Introduction: Larry May (Vanderbilt University)
Plenary Speaker: Samantha Brennan (Western University) “Is Marriage Bad for Children?: Rethinking Parenthood and Romantic Love”
Chair: Elizabeth Victor (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
Speaker: Eva M. Dadlez and William Andrews (University of Central Oklahoma) “Fetal Sentience and Legislation”
Chair: Ami Harbin (Oakland University)
Speaker: Alice MacLachlan (York University) “Gender, Theory, and Public Apology”
Chair: Katherine Logan (University of Oregon)
Speaker: Helga Varden (University of Illinois) “Kant and Women”
Introduction: Lisa Guenther (Vanderbilt University)
Plenary Speaker: Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbilt University) “Global Injustice: 'Global Justice' in a Feminist Key”
Speaker: John D. Cheek (University of Oklahoma) “Perspectival Warrant and the Silencing Effect of Mannerly Norms”
Chair: Gaile Pohlhaus (Miami University of Ohio)
Speaker: Ann Garry (California State University, Los Angeles) “Should We Categorize Feminist Philosophers by Philosophical Method?”
Chair: Shay Welch (Spelman College)
Speaker: Karen Frost-Arnold (Hobart & William Smith Colleges) “Imposters, Evil Deceivers, and Trustworthiness as an Epistemic Virtue”
2011 - 2012
APA Eastern Division, December 2010 - Boston
Author meets Critics: Sibyl Schwarzenbach's On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State (2009)
Chair: James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
Author: Sibyl Schwarzenbach (Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Critic: Carol C. Gould (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Critic: Henry Richardson(Georgetown University)
Critic: Naomi Zack(University of Oregon)
APA Central Division, February 2012 - Chicago
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Ben Almassi (College of Lake County) “Feminist Reclamations of Masculinity”
Commentator: Kathryn J. Norlock (Trent University)
Speaker:Maureen Linker (University or Michigan-Dearborn) "Intellectual Empathy: A Proposal for Training Virtuous Hearers and Epistemically Vulnerable Knowers"
Commentator: Theresa W. Tobin (Marquette University)
Speaker:Peter Higgins (Eastern Michigan University) “The Intersectionality Thesis”
Commentator: Allison Bailey (Illinois State University)
APA Pacific Division, April 2012 - Seattle
Feminist Metaphysics
Chair: Charlotte Witt(University of New Hampshire)
Speaker: Mari Mikkola (Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Speaker: Asta Sveinsdottir (San Francisco State University)
Speaker: Brit Brogaard (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
2011: SAF's 20th Anniversary!
2010 - 2011
APA Eastern Division, December 2010 - Boston
Autobiographical and Biographical Narratives in Philosophical Debates
(organized by Pieranna Garavaso, University of Minnesota, Morris)
Chair: Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University)
Speaker: Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois, Chicago) "Psychological Continuity and the Lives We Lead: What Psychological Continuity Theorists Leave Out"
Speaker: Susan Brison(Dartmouth College) "The Need for First-Person Narratives in Theories of Personal Identity"
Commentator:Pieranna Garavaso(University of Minnesota, Morris)
Speaker: George Yancy(Duquesne University) "Narrative Descriptions From the Ground Up: Epistemological and Existential Importance"
Speaker: Linda Martin Alcoff(Hunter College/CUNY Graduate Center) "The Problem of Speaking for Oneself"
Commentator: Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Sweden)
APA Central Division, March 2011 - Minneapolis
Chair: Robin Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Elizabeth Vicktor(University of South Florida) "The Paradox of Banning Scientific Inquiry: Another Look at Kitcher's Science, Truth, and Democracy"
Commentator: Kristen Intemann(Montana State University)
Speaker: Esa Diaz-Leon (University of Manitoba) "What is Social Construction?"
Commentator: Cathleen Muller(Marist College)
Speaker: Pieranna Garavaso(University of Minnesota - Morris) "Psychological Continuity and Trauma"
Commentator:Hilde Lindemann(Michigan State University)
APA Pacific Division, April 2011 - San Diego
Women in Introductory Philosophy
Chair: Robin S. Dillon (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Kathryn Norlock(Trent University) "Intro Syllabi, Recognition, and Moral Perception"
Speaker: Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology) "Women in Intro to Philosophy: Good for Women, Good for Philosophy"
Speaker: Marilyn Friedman(Vanderbilt University and Charles Stuart University) "Women in Philosophy: Why Should Women Care?"
Author meets Critics: Anita Superson's The Moral Skeptic(2009)
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Norco College)
Author: Anita Superson(University of Kentucky)
Critic: James Sterba(University of Notre Dame)
Critic: Duncan MacIntosh(Dalhousie University)
Critic: Ann Cudd(University of Kansas)
2009 - 2010
APA Eastern Division - New York
Feminism and Contemporary Popular Culture
Chair: Sharon Crasnow
Speaker: Laurie Shrage, "XX Radio - Adding Feminist Voices to the FM Dial"
Speaker: Nancy Bauer, "Hang-ups about Hook-ups: Feminist Philosophy and the New Generation Gap"
Speaker: Naomi Zack, "White-Privilege Appropriations of Feminism: Carrie Bradshaw, Bella Swan, and Sarah Palin"
Speaker: Kelly Oliver, "Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Recent Hollywood Films"
APA Central Division - Chicago
Chair: Robin Dillon
Speaker: Barett Emerick, "Priveleging the Experience of Victims" (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Commentator: Deborah Heikes(University of Alabama, Huntsville)
Speaker: Sally Markowitz, "Thinking about Intersectionality" (Williamette University)
Commentator: Anna Carasthatis(California State University, Los Angeles)
Speaker: Lisa H. Schwartzman, "Rational Choice Theory and Feminist Critique" (Michigan State University)
Commentator:Ann Cudd(University of Kansas)
2008 - 2009
APA Eastern Division - Philadelphia
Mind, Brain, and Gender
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College-Norco)
Speaker: Anne Jacobson, "Cognitive Neuroscience and the Demise of the Man of Reason" (University of Houston)
Speaker: Heidi Maibom, "Empathy: In Another Voice?" (Carleton University)
Speaker: Jacqueline Taylor, "A Feminist View of Emotional Communication: With Lessons drawn from the British Moralists and Neuroscience" (University of San Francisco)
Speaker: Robyn Bluhm, "Gender differences and brain research" (Old Dominion University)
APA Central Division - Chicago
Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Maura Tumulty, "Illocution and Expectations of Being Heard" (Colgate University)
Commentator: Anne Barnhill(Harvard University)
Speaker: Esa Diaz-Leon, "Social Kinds and Conceptual Change: A Reply to Haslanger" (University of Manitoba)
Commentator: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)
Speaker: Julinna Oxley, "Care Ethics, Empathy, and Moral Theory: Do Women Do It Better?" (Coastal Carolina University)
Commentator: Asha Bhandary (University of Connecticut)
APA Pacific Division - Vancouver
Author Meets Critics: Cynthia Willett's Irony in the Age of Empire
Chair: Derrick Darby (University of Kansas)
Author: Cynthia Willett(Emory University)
Critic: Ann Cudd(University of Kansas)
Critic: Eric Smaw (Rollins College)
Critic: Anita Superson(University of Kentucky)
Society for Analytical Feminism, 2nd Conference
April 2008 - University of Kentucky
Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy
Chair: Betsy Hopkins (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan) "Standards of Rationality and Intrinsic Worth"
Chair: Libby Potter (Mills College)
Speaker: Phyllis Rooney(Oakland University) "Toward a Feminist Metaepistemology"
Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Ann Garry(California State, Los Angeles) "Implications of Intersectionality"
Chair: Christa Hodapp (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Carol Hay(Bryn Mawr College) "Rationality and Oppression"
Chair: Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College)
Speaker: Libby Potter(Mills College) "Hybrid Values"
Chair: Jen McWeeny (John Carroll University)
Speaker: Nancy McHugh(Wittenberg University) "More than Skin Deep: Situated Communities and the Case of Agent Orange in Viet Nam"
Chair: Carol Hay (Bryn Mawr College)
Speaker: Anne Barnhill(New York University) "Feminist Sexual Virtue and Feminist Sexual Vice"
Chair: Janine Jones (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Speaker: Jen McWeeny(John Carroll University) "The Epistemology of Margaret Cavendish: A Seventeenth Century Theory of Embodied Cognition"
Chair: Pieranna Garavaso (University of Minnesota, Morris)
Speaker: Sharon Crasnow(Riverside Community College, Norco) "Resources for Feminist Epistemology: Models, Representation, and Objectivity"
Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Louise Antony(University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "Democracy is Not an Epistemic Value"
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College, Norco)
Plenary Speaker: Alison Wylie(University of Washington) "What Knowers Know Well: Standpoint Theory and the Foundation of Gender Archaeology"
Chair: Helga Varden (University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana)
Speaker: Andrea Westlund (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Rethinking Relational Autonomy"
Chair: Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University)
Speaker: Kristina Rolin(Helsinki School of Economics) "Defending Critical Contextual Empiricism"
Chair: Lisa McLeod (Guilford College)
Speaker: Nancy Daukas (Guilford College) "Why Feminist Epistemology Needs More Virtue"
Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Julia Driver (Dartmouth College) "Feminism and Moral Realism"
Chair: Clare Batty (University of Kentucky)
Plenary Speaker: Sally Haslanger(MIT) "Social Categories, Social Structure, and Ideology Critique"
Chair: Anne Barnhill (NYU)
Speaker: Helga Varden (University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana) "The Injustice of Anti-Abortion and Anti-Homosexuality Laws"
Chair: Kristina Rolin (Helsinki School of Economics)
Speaker: Heidi Grasswick(Middlebury College) "Sharing Knowledge: Querying the Norms"
Chair: Alison Wolf (Simpson College)
Speaker: Pieranna Garavaso(University of Minnesota, Morris) "Personal Identity and Gender Identity"
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College, Norco)
Plenary Speaker: Miriam Solomon (Temple University) "Discerning Feminist Empiricism"
Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Robin Dillon(Lehigh University) "A Feminist View of Vice and Virtue"
Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College, Norco)
Plenary Speaker: Charlotte Witt(University of New Hampshire) "Humans, Persons and Social Individuals"
Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker:Ann Cudd(University of Kansas) "Resistance is Not Futile: Analytical Feminism’s Contributions to Political Philosophy"
Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Mariam Thalos(University of Utah) "The Self-construction of the Self"
Chair: Elisia Taylor (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Marilyn Friedman (Washington University) "Female Terrorists: Gender and Meaning"
Chair: Andrea Westlund (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Speaker: Sonya Charles(Cleveland State University) "Stoljar's Challenge: How Should Feminist Autonomy Theorists Respond to the Problem of Oppression?"