Women, Truth, Action
An International Conference in Philosophy
10–12 October, 2013, House of Sciences and Letters (Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki)
Keynote Speakers include: Lilli Alanen (Sweden/Finland), Lisa Folkmarson Käll (Sweden), Lena Halldenius (Sweden), Sally Haslanger
(USA), Alice Pugliese (Italy), Lanei Rodemayer (USA) and Charlotte Witt (USA)
The conference is free and open for all. Welcome!
For further information:
virpi.lehtinen@helsinki.fi (academic issues)
and sanna.tirkkonen@helsinki.fi (practicalities)
Conference website: http://nfyx.wordpress.com/in-english/call-for-papers-women-truth-action/
If you wish to include the conference in your studies and get study credits, please contact Erika Ruonakoski: erika.ruonakoski@helsinki.fi
PROGRAM
Thursday 10 October: Meaning and Objectivity
Venue: The House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo), hall 104.
Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki
9:30–9:45 Opening: Sara Heinämaa (SHC) and Virpi Lehtinen (NFY)
09:45–11:15 Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire): Essentialism and Intersectionality (presented by Sally Haslanger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:15–11:30 Break
11:30–12:05 Marion Godman (University of Helsinki): In What Sense, if any, is Gender Not a Natural Kind?
12:05–12:40 Maj Paanala (University of Jyväskylä): Ontological Realism and Transgender Phenomena
12:40–13:40 Lunch
13:40–14:15 Eyja Brynjarsdottir (University of Iceland): Misogyny’s Object
14:15–14:50 Nora Hämäläinen (University of Helsinki): The Blind Spot of an Ethics of Vision? – Sabina Lovibond, Iris Murdoch and Feminism
14:50–15:25 Susanne Uusitalo (University of Turku): Agency, please! Conceptual Considerations on the Agency of Addicts
15:25–15:55 Coffee
15:55–17:10 Lilli Alanen (University of Uppsala, emer.): Philosophy with a Human Face − a tribute to Annette Baier
Friday 11 October: Subject, Body, World
Venue: The House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo), hall 104.
09:00–10:30 Lanei Rodemeyer (Duquesne University): Gendered Truth: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Sensory Foundations of Truth and the Implications of Gender.
10:30–10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Alice Pugliese (University of Palermo): Who did this: Otherness in Action
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13.00–13.35 Sara Cohen Shabot (Haifa University): Towards a Phenomenology of Childbirth and Mothering: the Grotesque on Fleshing Out the Mothering Subject.
13:35–14:10 Saara Hacklin (University of Helsinki): Alternative Bodies and Memories: The Implications of Merleau-Pontian Understanding of the Body in Contemporary Performance
14:10–14:30 Coffee
14:30–15:05 Marije Altorf (St. Mary’s University College): Thinking as an Act of Resistance: Arendt and the Practice of Socratic Dialogue
15:05–15:40 Ulrika Björk (University of Uppsala): Political and Subjective Freedom: Reading Hannah Arendt with Julia Kristeva
15:40–16:15 Sara Heinämaa (Univeristy of Helsinki): Phenomenology of Sexual Difference
16:15–16:30 Break
16:30–17:45 Lisa Folkmarson Käll (Linköping University): Intercorporeity and Ambiguities of Being in Common
Saturday 12 October: Action and Change
Venue: The House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo), hall 505.
09:30–11:00 Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Social Structures and Social Change: What Can Moral Theory Contribute?
11:00–11:15 Break
11:15–11:50 Nancy Kendrick (Wheaton College, Massachusetts): Activity and Passivity in Mary Astell’s Theory of Friendship
11:50–12:25 Carolyn McLeod (University of Western Ontario): Non-Pragmatic Compromise: The Domain of Professional Life
12:25–13:30 Lunch
13:30–14:05 Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen (University of Jyväskylä): Conjuncture, Momentum, Judgment: Re-reading Arendt on the Temporal Context of Action
14:05–14:40 Sanna Tirkkonen (University of Helsinki): Rethinking Political Subjectivity – the Challenge of Populisms
14:40–15:00 Coffee
15:00–16:15 Lena Halldenius (Lund University): Experiencing Unfreedom. What Feminism Does to Republicanism
Organizers: Sara Heinämaa’s Project Ethics of Renewal (HCAS, UH, AF) and The Association for Women and Feminist Philosophers in Finland (NFY)
Sponsors: Finnish Cultural Foundation; Subjectivity, Historicity and Communality (SHC); Philosophical Society of Finland (SFY) and Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics Research Unit (PMP)
Organizing Committee: Virpi Lehtinen, Sara Heinämaa, Martina Reuter, Erika Ruonakoski and Sanna Tirkkonen (University of Helsinki)