The conference will be held in on campus at Western University in London, Ontario. Rooms to be confirmed. This schedule is subject to change and will be noted as “final” when it is final.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27
Noon Conference Registration and Check-in begins
1:00-2:15 (PAPERS)
Room A: Philosophical Issues and Dementia Care
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
Room B: Feminism, Philosophy, and Psychiatry
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
2:45-4:15 (PANELS)
Room A: Public Policy
Contributing to Public Policy: The How, Why, and When (Carolyn McLeod, Western; Alice MacLachlan, York; Shannon Dea, Waterloo; Erica Lawson, Western)
5:15-6:45 BUFFET DINNER (MICHAEL’S GARDEN)
6:45-8:00 Official welcome; presentation of Jean Harvey Essay Award; Keynote Address
Keynote: Dr. Francoise Baylis (Dalhousie), Activism and the Hallowed Halls of Academia
8:00 RECEPTION
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28
8:15 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION, LIGHT MORNING REFRESHMENTS
9:00-10:15 (PAPERS)
Room A: Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Abby Wilkerson (George Washington), Toward a Crip Queer Perspective on Soil and Social Flesh
Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar), Bioethics as a Technology of Government
Room B: Feminist Philosophy Responds to the Refugee Crisis
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)
Room A: Race, Identity, and Gender
Desiree Melton (Notre Dame of Maryland), Black Girl Burden
Roksana Alavi (Oklahoma), Stereotyping, Racial Identity, and “Inauthentic Selves”
Room B: Philosophical and Political Communities and Representation
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
1:30-3:30 (PAPERS)
Room A: Feminism, philosophy, and identity
Rebecca Traynor (CUNY), Assumptions about genius and the underrepresentation of women
Stephanie Kapusta (Dalhousie), Relational Gender Essences: “Swamp-women” and Trans Inclusion
Megan Dean (Georgetown), Who you are and how you eat: Identity and the ethics of eating interventions
Room B: Feminist Reproductive Ethics
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)
Room A: Feminist Philosophy of Sport
Sport, Philosophy, and Feminism: Persistent Problem and Emerging Issues (Pam Sailors, Missouri State; Angela Schneider, Western; Sarah Teetzel, Manitoba; Charlene Weaving, St. Francis Xavier)
Room B: Book Panel
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability by Shelley Tremain (Catherine Clune Taylor, Jane Dryden, Melinda Hall, Shelley Tremain)
6:00-9:00 BANQUET (SPENCER HALL)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29
9:15-11:00 (PAPERS)
Room A: Identity and Embodiment
Madeline Ley (Ryerson), Home is where the self is
Catherine Clune Taylor (Princeton), Feminist Approaches to Intersex
Room B: Feminism, Justice, and Democracy
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)
Room A: Book Panel
Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell (Suze Berkhout, UBC; Alexis Shotwell, Carleton; Alice MacLachlan, York; Michael Doan, Eastern Michigan; Ami Harbin, Oakland; Kelly Fritsch, Toronto)
Room B: Climate Issues in Philosophy
Wenches in Trenches: What we learned in forming a “climate” committee (Guelph: Monique Deveaux, Karyn Freedman, Maya Goldenberg, Karen Houle, Patricia Sheridan, Andrew Bailey, Orsolya Csaszar, Marie-Pier Lamay)
