FEMMSS Conference
schedule
Friday, November 5
Check in, Friday sessions and evening reception are in
the dining hall of Hagget
Hall
Please use the North entrance to enter the
building.
8:15-8:30 Welcome
8:30-10:30 Keynotes I
Diane
Benjamin,
Edgewood College, Mathematics and Computer Science
Women
in
science and engineering: An experimental approach in an
undergraduate course
Anne
Waters, State University
of New York, Binghamton,
Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture
TBA
Barbara Whitten, Colorado
College,
Physics and Women's Studies
What does it mean to practice feminist science? A personal
memoir
Chair: Ann Baker, University of Washington, Philosophy
10:30-10:45
Refreshments
10:45-12:45 Keynotes II
Lorraine Code, York
University, Philosophy
Fact, fiction, and
the politics of knowledge
Angela Ginorio,
University of Washington, Women's Studies
When N = 1-2:
Justice, privacy and women of color in science
Phyllis Rooney,
Oakland University, Philosophy
Situating the
question: What is knowledge?
Chair: Chris Pearson, University of Washington, Philosophy
12:45-1:45 Lunch (boxed lunches ordered during
registration)
1:45-3:45 Keynotes III
Karen Barad, Mount
Holyoke College, Women's Studies and Philosophy
Diffractions,
mutations, and re (con) figurations: Responsibility in technoscientific
practice or
making a difference in the world
Sandra Harding, UCLA, Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies; Co-Editor of Signs:
Journal of
Women in Culture and Society
Women, science, and modernity
Elizabeth Potter,
Mills College,
Women's Studies and
Linda Martěn
Alcoff, Syracuse University, Philosophy
New currents in feminist epistemology
Chair: David Alexandar, University of Washington, Philosophy
3:45-4:00 Refreshments
4:00-6:40
Keynotes IV
Deboleena Roy, San
Diego State University,
Women's Studies
Should feminists
clone? And if so, how?
Nancy Tuana, Penn
State University, Rock Ethics Institute and Philosophy
From epistemologies
of ignorance to epistemologies of resistance
Alison Wylie, Barnard
College, Women's Studies; Columbia University, Philosophy
The feminism
question in the social sciences: Epistemic virtues and the method debate
Lynn Hankinson Nelson,
University of Washington, Philosophy and Jack Nelson,
University of Washington, Tacoma, IAS
It takes a village:
Creating knowers
Chair: Ben Almassi, University of Washington, Philosophy
7:30-
Reception
Saturday, November 6
Sessions Saturday and Sunday are in Savery
Hall
9:30-11:00
Concurrent sessions A-E
Session A: Field knowledge: Exploring the varying possibilities of
ethnographic inquiry SAV 241
Lynn Comella, University
of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Going “native” in a
sex toy store: Sexual autobiography and the production of
ethnographic knowledge
Alpha Selene DeLap, University
of Washington, The
Information
School
Returning
home to work:
Negotiating multiple roles within feminist ethnographic research
Alex Fleck, University
of Pennsylvania,
Participant
observers:
Witnessing drug use and addiction
Session B: Using feminist epistemologies SAV 243
Evelyn Brister,
Rochester
Institute of Technology, Philosophy
Hacking the
system: Using
feminist epistemology to analyze the absence of women in computer
fields
Patricia Garcia Guevara, University
of Guadalajara, Mexico
Studies on women &
engineering in Mexico
Wendy
Lynne Lee, Bloomsburg University,
Philosophy
Scientific
inquiry, aesthetic experience of natural objects and
human-centeredness: A little girl and her
turtle
Session C: Feminist research SAV 245
Brianna
Blaser, University of Washington, Women's Studies
Making
science connections: An exploration of profiles on an online dating
site for scientists
Greg Hill, University of
Portland,
Mathematics and
Norah Martin, University of
Portland,
Philosophy
Gender, math, and metaphor:
Emmy
Noether’s contribution to modern mathematics
Session D: Feminist theory and moral reasoning/practice SAV 311
Christopher Calvert-Minor,
Syracuse
University, Philosophy
Grounding empathetic
understanding in
practice
Jeff Gauthier, University of
Portland,
Philosophy
Feminism and the problem of
particularity in moral epistemology
Gaile Pohlhaus, Miami University,
Philosophy
Caring to understand
Session E: Feminist methods Room SAV 343
Sharyn Clough, Oregon State
University,
Philosophy
The
empirical as matters of fact, value, and a
whole lot more
Marilyn MacDonald, San Francisco
University, Women's Studies
Contesting salvation: Factors
affecting the incorporation of feminist science studies (FSS) in the
everyday activities of faculty
in Women's Studies and
Environmental
Studies in Canada
Masum Khona Momaya, Harvard
University,
Graduate School of Education
Our bodies, our selves:
Theoretical
and methodological explorations in embodiment and selving
11:00-11:15
Refreshments
11:15-12:15
Concurrent sessions F-I
Session F: Feminism, logic, and rationality SAV 341
Crista Lebens, University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater, Philosophy
You probably think this
theory’s about
you: Turning away from the rationality of the mainstream
Marianne LeNabat, University
of Alberta, Philosophy
Turning the tables: Holding
non-classical logics accountable to feminist aims
Session G: Feminist methods SAV 317
Gina Desiderio,
Virginia Tech,
Protecting the breast and
producing
femininity: The breast cancer movement’s production
of fear
through a rhetoric of risk
Letitia Meynell, Dalhousie
University, Philosophy
Negotiating the ‘F-word’ in
the
malestream philosophy classroom: The feminist professor’s triple bind
Martha Satz, Southern Methodist
University, English
Feminist gene therapy: The
problem of
genetic reductionism in the adoption open records
debate,
genetic counseling, and pernicious maternal narratives
Session H: Feminist research SAV 313
Ann Cahill, Elon University
The objectification of men
Heloisa Lara Campos da Costa,
Federal
University of Amazonas (UFAM, Brazil)
Research at UFAM and the
Brasilian
context
Maithree Wickramashinge,
University of
Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, English, Senior Lecturer
Ph.D. candidate, University of
London,
Institute of Education
Academic or funded? – The
dynamics of
the research context
Session I: Issues in feminist empiricism/in feminist approaches to
embodiment SAV 316
Leeat Granek, York University,
Psychology
Imagining osmosis: Fluid
female
embodiment and the potential for empathy
Heidi Grasswick, Middlebury
College,
Philosophy
Feminist epistemologies and
the
question of communities
Edrie Sobstyl, Starfleet Academy
Politics, epistemology, and
the fate
of feminist empiricism
12:15-1:30 Lunch (on our own; list of restaurants and maps
provided)
1:30-3:30
Keynotes V SAV 239
Anthony Chemero, Franklin and Marshall
College, Scientific and
Philosophical Studies of Mind
Embodied cognitive science and
feminist critiques of liberal social theory
Ann Jaap Jacobson, University
of Houston, Philosophy, and
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science
Reporting from the middle: A
feminist
perspective on cognitive neuroscience
Naomi Scheman, University
of Minnesota, Philosophy
Post-Modern liberatory
politics and
the problem of expertise: An epistemology for
institutional
transformation
3:30-3:45 Refreshments
3:45—5:15 Concurrent sessions J-M
Session J: Feminist epistemology, political theory, and
law SAV 245
Katherine Duthie, University of Alberta,
Strange
bedfellows – Aligning feminist
epistemology and a libertarian account of
knowledge
Karyn Freedman, University
of Guelph, Philosophy
The
epistemological significance of sexual violence against women
Lucinda Vandervort, University
of Saskatchewan, College
of Law
Feminism, knowledge, and law:
A
disputed zone
Session K: Applying feminist
theories/practices SAV 311
Barry DeCoster, Michigan
State University, Philosophy
Why am I sick? Towards a
feminist
theory of medical explanation
Carla Fehr and Carolyn Komar,
Iowa State
University
Ovarian authority: Credibility
of
women studying female reproduction
Rebecca Hanrahan, Whitman
College,
Philosophy
Imagination
and modal epistemology
Session L: Issues in feminist
empiricism SAV 317
Sharon Crasnow, Riverside
Community
College, Philosophy
Underdetermination and
feminist values
(or how I learned to love the gap and stop worrying)
David
Mitsuo Nixon
Feminist
empiricism and Wilfrid Sellars
Kristen Intemann, Coastal
Carolina University,
Philosophy
Making room for values in science: A feminist critique of social and
contextual empiricism
Session M: Feminist ontologies SAV 241
Jennifer
Benson, Michigan State
University, The Honors
College
Inventing the activity of
freedom
Mary Jeanne Larrabee, De Paul
University,
Philosophy
Metaphysics in the plural:
Feminist
ontologies after postmodernism
Ma. Theresa T. Payongayong,
University of
the Phillipines
Feminism as a critical theory:
An
analysis of its ontology, epistemology, and methodology
5:15-5:30
Break
5:30-7 Roundtable:
Gail Mason’s Spectacle of Violence: Homophobia, Gender and
Knowledge SAV 239
Speakers:
Nancy Hartsock, University of
Washington,
Political Science
Karen Houle, University of
Alberta,
Philosophy
Respondent: Gail Mason,
University of
Sydney, Faculty of Law
Sunday, November 7
9:00-10:30
Concurrent
roundtables/panels:
Roundtable I: Integrating feminism in the
academy SAV 216
Nancy D. Campbell, Rensselaer
Polytechnic
Institute, Science and Technology Studies
Living between a rock and a
hard
place: Feeding feminism in science and technology studies
(STS)
Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona
State University,
Women's Studies and Judith
Cook, University of Illinois Chicago
Feminist methodology and the
training
of graduate students and young policy scholars
Sally Kitch, Ohio State
University,
Women's Studies
Feminist methodological,
epistemological and political border crossing
Roundtable II: Sharyn Clough’s Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist
Approach
to Feminist Science
Studies SAV 239
Speakers:
Catherine Hundleby, University of
Windsor,
Philosophy
Moira Howes, Trent
University,
Philosophy
Nancy McHugh, Wittenberg
University, Philosophy
Elizabeth Potter, Mills College,
Women's
Studies
Respondent: Sharyn Clough, Oregon
State
University, Philosophy
10:30-10:45 Refreshments
10:45-12:15 Concurrent Sessions N-S
Session N: Feminist methods SAV 245
Alka Arora, University of
Washington,
Women's Studies
Critical hermeneutics as
feminist
method on religion and spirituality
Kimberly Lamm, University of
Washington,
English
The
science of “seeing into”: Gertrude Stein
and the gender of motion
Iddo Landau, Haifa University,
Israel
Values, interests and
androcentricity
Session O: Applying feminist epistemologies SAV 211
Nitasha Kaul, University of
the West
of England, Economics
Economics and feminist
epistemology:
Moving toward a ‘politics of identity’
Michelle McGowen, University of
Washington, Women's Studies
Karen Rosenberg, University of
Washington, Women's Studies
Beyond androcentric
assumptions:
Toward a transnational feminist
epistemology
of reproductive science and the law
Session P: Bringing feminist values to bear
SAV 241
Ben Almassi, University of
Washington,
Philosophy
On Liberty as feminist
methodology
Linda Carozza, York University,
Philosophy
A
feminist critique of Manifest Rationality
So Yeon K. Park, Virginia Tech,
Science
and Technology Studies
For paradigm shift in the
ethics of
human embryonic stem cell research:
ethical evaluation
of the
South Korean scientists’
therapeutic cloning experiment from the embryo
donors'
perspectives
Session Q: Feminist projects SAV 311
Maria Chavez, Seattle
University
A method for teaching courses
in
inequality
Colbey Emmerson, University
of Washington, English
Glamour and the “fashionable mind”
Theresa Weynand Tobin, University
of
Colorado, Philosophy
Naturalizing moral knowledge:
Lessons from
feminist philosophy of science
Session R: Feminist methods SAV 315
Sonya
Charles, Michigan State, Philosophy
The
problem of self-expression: Reflections on ontology and method
Beth E.
Jackson, York University, Sociology
‘Sex is a 1-2 variable...’:
Creating
responsible health knowledge
J.
Kasi Jackson, University of Houston, Women's Studies Program
Savvy
consumers and autonomic entities: Two scientific accounts for female
ornamental
traits in animal behavior research
Session S: Expanding economic costing in health care: Values,
gender, and
diversity SAV 341
Speakers:
Olena Hankivsky, Simon Fraser
University,
Political Science
Jane Friesen, Simon Fraser
University,
Economics
For the research group:
Olena Hankivsky, Simon Fraser
University,
Political Science
Jane Friesen, Simon Fraser
University,
Economics
Colleen Varcoe, University of
Victoria,
Nursing
Fiona MacPhail, University of
Northern
British Columbia, Economics
Lorraine Greaves, British Columbia
Center
of Excellence for Women's Health
Charmaine Spencer, Simon Fraser
University, Gerontology Research Centre.
12:15- Panel discussion: What does
‘feminist’ in
FEMMSS mean? SAV 249
Participants:
Christine di Stefano, University of Washington, Political Science
Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University, Women's Studies
Ann Garry, California
State
University, Philosophy
Phyllis Rooney, Oakland University,
Philosophy
Closing Remarks
Cate
Hundleby, University of Windsor, Philosophy
The
future of FEMMSS