SWIPshop

Fall 2011 Schedule:

*September 21, 2011, 6:30pm.  (This is a Wednesday!)  Gina Campelia (CUNY Graduate Center), “Empathy as Knowledge: Realizing the Epistemic Content in Empathy”

*October 27, 2011, 6:30pm.  Kelsey Borrowman (Stony Brook), "Plasticization as Necrophilia: Death, Decomposition, and the Inorganic in Foucault"

*November.  No SWIPshop meeting.  Please attend our Conference in Honor of Gertrude Ezorsky (November 18, 2011, 12:00-5:00pm) at the CUNY Graduate Center.

*December, 2011, 6:30pm.  Amanda Montgomery (NYU), "A Defense of Consequentialism and the Impartiality Principle"

*January 26, 2012, 6:30pm.  Courtney Zehnder (Teachers College, Columbia), "I Have a Boyfriend, But ... Giving a Personal Account of Sexuality in the Classroom"

*February 9, 2012, 6:30pm.  Liz Camp (University of Pennsylvania), "Slurs, Semantics, and Stereotypes"

SWIPshop is a workshop where philosophers present papers on any topic in the philosophy of gender, sex, and sexuality, feminist philosophy, feminist theory, feminism, and related topics.  SWIPshop follows the successful models of WOGAP (Workshop on Gender and Philosophy) at MIT, and BayFAP (Bay Area Feminism and Philosophy Workshop).

SWIPshop is a place for philosophers of all genders, all philosophical traditions, and all professional levels (graduate students, junior faculty, senior faculty) to meet as equals and discuss their work in a supportive environment. 

We start at 6:30 pm with dinner (provided by volunteers) and then discuss a paper (which has been distributed in advance) with the author.  After the workshop, we adjourn to a nearby bar for drinks.  Please feel free to meet us at 8:45 pm at the bar, if you can't make it to the workshop. 

TO JOIN THE EMAIL LIST AND TO RSVP, SEND AN EMAIL TO ANNE BARNHILL (anne.barnhill@gmail.com).  MAKE SURE TO RSVP IF YOU WANT DINNER!  YOUR NAME WILL BE PUT ON A LIST WITH THE SECURITY GUARD AT:

NYU Philosophy Department                                                                                                                5 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003

Meetings held at the NYU Philosophy Department, 5 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, 6:30pm.  See below for details (dinner, discussion, etc.) 

2010-2011 Schedule

September 30, 2010.  Rachel McKinney (CUNY Graduate Center).  "Just Making Conversation: Speech Acts and Agenda-Setting."  Meeting on the 6th floor.

November 18, 2010.  Mark Alfano.  "Virtue Presupposes Care.”   Meeting on the 6th floor.

December 16, 2010.  Sophia Wong (Long Island University). "My Brother’s Keeper:
Siblings as Caregivers to People with Disabilities."  Meeting on the 6th floor.

January 20, 2011.  Asha Bhandary.  "Freedom to Care: A Procedural Solution to the
Maldistribution of Dependency Work."  Second floor seminar room.

February 24, 2011.  Jordan Pascoe.  "Promiscuity, Personhood, and Protection: Some Thoughts on Kant and Infanticide."  Sixth Floor.

April 14, 2011.  Nathifa Greene.  "A Shattered Self: Hypervigilance and the Disruption of Habit in Post-Traumatic Experience."  Sixth Floor.

May 12, 2011.  Sibyl Schwarzenbach.  "Solidarity versus Civic Friendship: a Feminist Analysis".  Sixth Floor.

Summer 2011 SCHEDULE:

Friday, June 17, 2011
Julia Nevarez, Kean University, "The Global Library"
Evelyn Burg, LaGuardia College and Queens College CUNY, "How was Analytic Philosophy Useful and/or Problematic for Feminist Thought?"

Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Rachel Fedock, CUNY Graduate Center, "The Caring Person: Care as a Virtue and the Relational Self"
Sophia Wong, Long Island University-Brooklyn, "When Does Caring for Family Members Become a Form of Child Labor?"

Thursday, August 18, 2011
Michel DeMatteis, CUNY Graduate Center, "Empathy and Knowledge"
Sonja Mönkedieck, "The Power of (De-)Construction"

2009-2010 Schedule

November 19, 2009.  6:30pm

• Ishani Maitra (Rutgers University), "Subordinating Speech"

December 17, 2009.  6:30pm

• Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton University), "The Original Sin of Cognition: Fear, Prejudice, and Generalization"

January 28, 2010

• Ornaith O'Dowd (CUNY), "Care and Abstract Principles"

February 22, 2010.  6:30pm     NOTE:  This is a Monday!

• Nancy Fraser (New School), "Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Toward a Neo-Polanyian Conception of Capitalist Crisis"

March 18, 2010.  6:30pm

• Kathleen Wallace, (Hofstra University), "The Relational Self"

May 27, 2010.  6:30pm

• Shaireen Rasheed (Long Island University), “Sexualized Spaces in Public Spaces: Islam, Women and an Ethics of the Erotic.”