The conference will be held in on campus at Western University in London, Ontario. For accessibility and AV information about each room, as well as access to an accessibility map to get to the room, please click on the room number).
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27
Noon CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND CHECK-IN BEGINS (Location: Atrium, Physics and Astronomy Building)
1:00-2:15 (PAPERS)
Philosophical Issues and Dementia Care (Location: Physics and Astronomy Building 34)
Monique Lanoix (St. Paul), Dementia care and negative stereotypes: Implications for regulations and policies
Andria Bianchi (Waterloo), Sex, Dementia, and Consent: Implementing a Framework of Precedent Autonomy
Feminism, Philosophy, and Psychiatry (Location: Physics and Astronomy Building 106)
Raffi Aintablian (Ryerson), A Critique of Complicated Grief Disorder: Insights from Feminist Corporeal Politics
Phoebe Friesen (CUNY), Standpoint Theory and Psychiatry
2:15-2:45 BREAK
2:45-4:00 (PANEL)
Public Policy (Location: Physics and Astronomy Building 106)
Contributing to Public Policy: The How, Why, and When (Carolyn McLeod, Western; Shannon Dea, Waterloo; Erica Lawson, Western)
5:15-6:45 BUFFET DINNER (Location: Somerville House, Michael’s Garden)
6:45-8:00 Official welcome; presentation of Jean Harvey Essay Award; Keynote Address (Location: 3M Centre 3250)
Keynote: Dr. Francoise Baylis (Dalhousie), Activism and the Hallowed Halls of Academia
8:00 RECEPTION (Location: Somerville House, Green Leaf Cafe)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28
8:15 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION (Location: Spencer Engineering Building, outside room 2200)
9:00-10:15 (PAPERS)
Feminist Philosophy of Disability (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2202)
Abby Wilkerson (George Washington), Toward a Crip Queer Perspective on Soil and Social Flesh
Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar), Bioethics as a Technology of Government
Feminist Philosophy Responds to the Refugee Crisis (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2200)
Katy Fulfer (Waterloo) and Rita Gardiner (Western), The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Hannah Arendt, Rootlessness, and Natality
Ezgi Sertler (Michigan State), An Incapacity to Respond: Epistemic Dimensions of the Refugee “Crisis”
10:15-10:45 BREAK
10:45-NOON (PAPERS)
Race, Identity, and Gender (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2202)
Desiree Melton (Notre Dame of Maryland), Black Girl Burden
Roksana Alavi (Oklahoma), Stereotyping, Racial Identity, and “Inauthentic Selves”
Philosophical and Political Communities and Representation (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2200)
Katherine Paxman and Kristen Blair (Brigham Young), Hume, Women, and the Pursuit of Philosophical Community
Wendy Salkin (Harvard), Democracy Within, Justice Without: The Duties of Informal Political Representatives
NOON-1:30 CSWIP AGM AND LUNCH (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2200)
1:30-3:30 (PAPERS)
Feminism, philosophy, and identity (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2202)
Rebecca Traynor (CUNY), Assumptions about genius and the underrepresentation of women
Madeline Ley (Ryerson), Home is where the self is
Megan Dean (Georgetown), Who you are and how you eat: Identity and the ethics of eating interventions
Feminist Reproductive Ethics (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2200)
Suki Finn (Southampton), The Metaphysics of Pregnancy and Public Policy
Emma Ryman (Western), Physicians’ Fiduciary Duties and Surrogacy
Diane LaLonde (Western), Women and Sterilization
3:30-4:00 BREAK
4:00-5:30 (PANELS)
Feminist Philosophy of Sport (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2202)
Sport, Philosophy, and Feminism: Persistent Problem and Emerging Issues (Pam Sailors, Missouri State; Angela Schneider, Western; Sarah Teetzel, Manitoba; Charlene Weaving, St. Francis Xavier)
Book Panel (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2200)
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability by Shelley Tremain (Catherine Clune Taylor, Jane Dryden, Melinda Hall, Shelley Tremain)
6:00-9:00 BANQUET (Location: Spencer Hall Dining Room)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29
9:15-11:00 (PAPERS)
Identity and Embodiment (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2202)
Stephanie Kapusta (Dalhousie), Relational Gender Essences: “Swamp-women” and Trans Inclusion
Catherine Clune Taylor (Princeton), Feminist Approaches to Intersex
Feminism, Justice, and Democracy (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2200)
Christine Koggel (Carleton), The Telling and Retelling of Injustices: Silencing, Marginalizing, Not Hearing
Susan Dieleman (Saskatchewan), Data Truth and Democracy
Vanessa Leham-Streisel (York), Can Policing Be Feminist?
11:00-11:30 BREAK
11:30-1:00 (PANELS)
Book Panel (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2202)
Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell (Suze Berkhout, Toronto; Alexis Shotwell, Carleton; Michael Doan, Eastern Michigan; Ami Harbin, Oakland; Kelly Fritsch, Toronto)
Climate Issues in Philosophy (Location: Spencer Engineering Building 2200)
Wenches in Trenches: What we learned in forming a “climate” committee (Guelph: Monique Deveaux, Karyn Freedman, Patricia Sheridan, Andrew Bailey, Orsolya Csaszar, Marie-Pier Lamay)
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