Women’s Bodies: un importante convegno della Society for Women in Philosophy (Irlanda) il 21-22 Novembre

E’ il più interessante convegno del 2014 sul tema del Corpo (femminile) di genere. Oltre 40 relazioni lo affrontano da una prospettiva filosofica e sociopolitica. Tra gli argomenti delle sessioni di lavoro: la costruzione sociale delle donne, pornografia e violenza sessuale, maternità e maternità surrogata, il bel-corpo, l’approccio storico al corpo di genere, il corpo lesbico, ecc. 21-22 novembre a Dublino. Registrazione obbligatoria. Partecipazione internazionale ‘alta’ e molte relazioni con titoli significativi. Poche le presenze italiane: Nicla Vassallo (Genova), Carlotta Cossutta (Verona), Valeria Venditti (Roma), Cristina Amoretti (Genova).

Impressionante l’assenza della psicoanalisi: solo perché è una Società di Filosofia?

Se possible, da non perdere. Rimane la malinconia per la mancanza di un equivalente italiano sia della Society che di un evento di questo tipo e portata. (enrico pozzi)

Link: http://www.swip-ireland.com/index.php/events/swip-ireland-annual-conference-2014

SWIP Ireland Annual Conference 2014 Programme

21-22 November, 2014
Newman House, Dublin, Ireland


Friday 21 November, 2014
Morning Sessions
9.00 – 9.30	Registration and Welcome
9.30 – 10.30	Plenary Address I Lillian Alweiss (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Why the Self is not Embodied’
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee Break

11.00 – 13.00	Parallel Session 1: New Developments in Feminist Philosophy
11.00- 11.30	Clara Cecilia Fischer (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) ‘Turning to Affect: Shame and Embodiment in Feminist Philosophy’
11.30-12.00	Emily Jones (SOAS, London UK) ‘Towards a feminine morphology of/in international law’
12.00- 12.30	Matthew Cull (University of St Andrews, UK) ‘Anti-Essentialism and the Intelligibility Problem’
12.30-13.00	Janelle Pötzsch (Ruhr –Universitat Bochum, Germany) ‘Liberating for whom? Biotechnologies and women’s status’

11.00 – 13.00	Parallel Session 2: The Body Politics
11.00- 11.30	Caroline Glorie (University of Liège, Belgium) ‘A body’s narrative: appropriation of abortion, between decision and legal abnormality’
11.30- 12.00	Amy L. McKiernan (Vanderbilt University, USA) ‘Hate Silence and Abortion: Do Women Deserve Better?’
12.00- 12.30	Roja Fazaeli (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Women’s bodies in Islam: narratives of life and death’
12.30- 13.00	Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University, USA) ‘Militant Feminism’

13.00 – 14.00	Lunch Break

Afternoon Sessions

14.00-16.30	Parallel Session 3: Pregnancy/Surrogacy 2
14.00- 14.30	Valeria Venditti (La Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy) ‘The narrative erasure of maternal bodies’
14.30- 15.00	Sara Cohen Shabot (University of Haifa, Israel) ‘Laboring with Beauvoir: In Search of the Embodied Subject (lost) in Childbirth’
15.00- 15.30	Hannah Carnegy (University College London, UK) ‘The Body as a Commodity – What is Special About Surrogacy or Prostitution?’
15.30- 16.00	Mary Shanahan (St. Angela’s College, Sligo, Ireland) ‘In Absentia: Levinas and Pregnancy’
16.00-16.30	Ursula Del Aguila (Paris 8, Saint Denis, France) ‘From the Homunculus to the Artificial Womb: Erasing the Maternal Body’

14.00-16.30	Parallel Session 4: Pornography and Power
14.00-14.30	Daisy Dixon (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK) ‘Through Thick and Thin: Silencing and the Illocutionary Act of Refusal’
14.30-15.00	Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky, USA) ”Heidegger, Pornography, and Technology: Rethinking Freedom in the Age of the Internet‘
15.00-15.30	Lillian O’Brien (University College Cork, Ireland) ‘Pornography and Propaganda’
15.30-16.00	Nicolle Hall (University of Edinburgh, UK) ‘Sexiness, Film and Porn’
16.00-16.30	Carlotta Cossutta (University of Verona, Italy) ‘Motherhood and Biopolitics. Knots of power between science and naturalization’

16.30-17.00	Coffee Break

17.00-18.00	Plenary Address II Rae Langton (University of Cambridge, UK) ‘Speech and the accommodation of women’s bodies’
18.00-19.00	Reception
19.00	Dinner

Saturday 22 November, 2014
Morning Sessions
9.30-13.00	Parallel Session 5: The Social Construction of the Female
9.30- 10.00	Kate Phelan (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia) ‘What is a Woman?’
10.00- 10.30	Sophia Pavlos (Michigan State University, USA) ‘Strategic Knowledge: Property Models of the Body’
10.30- 11.00	Mindi Torrey (Michigan State University, USA) ‘Creative Knowing: Fleshing Epistemic Subjects’

11.00-11.30	Coffee Break
11.30- 12.00	Roma Hernández (Rice University, USA) ‘Gendered Bodies and Inferences to Neuro-Essentialism’
12.00- 12.30	Abigail Klassen (York University, Canada) ‘The Social Construction of ‘Woman’: Emancipation or Snafu?’
12.30-13.00	Mona Gerardin-Laverge (Sorbonne, France) ‘Performativity of language, gendered bodies and feminist empowerment’

9.30-13.00	Parallel Session 6: Themes from History of Ideas and Literature
9.30- 10.00	Susan Gottlöber (NUI Maynooth, Ireland) ‘Same Same but Different? Perspectives on Gender Differences in Renaissance Thought’
10.00- 10.30	Katherine O’Donnell (University College Dublin, Ireland) ‘For she was both a man and a woman: Constructions of the Lesbian Body in Dublin 1732-1736’
10.30- 11.00	Clemence Saintemarie (University College Dublin, Ireland) ‘Resisting Dis-Embodiment: Ambiguous Bodily Imaginaries and Female Desire in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale’
11.00- 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30-12.00	Alice Podkolinski (University College London, UK) ‘Becomings and Goings: Mapping the Transgression of Public and Maternal Spaces in Doris Lessing’s Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five’
12.00- 12.30	Jessie Patella (Duquesne University, USA) ‘The Mystical Writings of Hadewijch as Ecriture Feminine’

13.00- 14.30	Lunch Break
13.10- 14.30	AGM Of SWIP Ireland (sandwiches and coffee will be provided)

Afternoon Sessions

14.30-16.30	Parallel Session 7: Pregnancy and Surrogacy 2
14.00- 14.30	Luna Dolezal (TCD, Ireland/Durham, UK) ‘Embodied Hospitality in the Case of Commercial Surrogacy: Welcoming the Other’
14.30- 15.00	Hannah Carnegy (University College London, UK) ‘The Body as a Commodity – What is Special About Surrogacy or Prostitution?’
15.00- 15.30	Emily Lauren Putnam (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA) ‘Reflective Trans-subjectivity: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy’
15.30- 16.00	Maeve Kelly (University College Dublin, Ireland) ‘Mother and Infant as a Combined and Complementary Physical and Mental Identity’
16.00-16.30	Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville, USA) Saray Ayala (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid/MIT) Andrea Smith (McMaster University) Via Skype ‘The Placental Microbiome and the Risk of (more) Policing of Women’s Bodies’

14.30-16.30	Parallel Session 8: Rape and Violence
14.30- 15.00	Alasia Nuti (Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK) ‘Sharing responsibility for Intimate Partner Violence Prevention: The Social Connection Model and the Bystander Approach’
15.00- 15.30	Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA) ‘Victims of Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Asylum’
15.30- 16.00	Bonnie Mann (University of Oregon, USA) ‘Gendered Play and Gendered Torture: The Paradoxes of Gender in U.S. Nationalism After 9/11/2001’
16.00-16.30	Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (University of Genoa, Italy) ‘Intersexuality as a threat against sex dualism’

14.30-16.30	Parallel Session 9: Beauty
14.30-15.00	Carla Milani Damião (UvA – The Netherlands/UFG – Brazil) ‘How can women be sublime? Feminist Aesthetics concerning matters of taste’
15.00-15.30	Barbara J. Lowe (St. John Fisher College, USA) ‘Slathered, Zapped, Nipped, and Tucked: Bioethics and the Medical Practice of Advertising and Offering Cosmetic Treatments in a Dermatological Practice’
15.30-16.00	Alison Ainley (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) ‘Simone de Beauvoir on old Old Age’
16.00-16.30	Jen Rinaldi (Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) Andrea Lamarre (University of Guelph, Canada) Carla Rice (University of Guelph, Canada) ‘Recovering Bodies: The Production of the Recoverable Subject in Eating Disorder Treatment Regimes’

16.30-17.00	Coffee Break

17.00-18.00	Plenary Address III Gail Weiss (George Washington University, USA) ‘A Genealogy of Women’s (Un)Ethical Bodies’
18.00-19.30	Dublin Pubs
19.30	Dinner