Society for Analytical Feminism Sessions Held at APA Meetings

1992 Central

Speaker: Ann Cudd (Occidental College), "Oppression by Choice"

Commentator: Tamara Horowitz (University of Pittsburgh)

Speaker: Justin Schwartz (Ohio State University), "Human Nature, Feminism, and Social Change"

Commentator: Anita M. Superson (Kansas State University)

1993 Pacific

Speaker: Anita Superson (Kansas State University), "Right-Wing Women: Causes, Choices, and Blaming the Victim"

Commentator: Harriet Baber (University of San Diego)

Speaker: Peggy Zeglin Brand, (University of Oregon), "Feminist Parodies: Are They Funny or What?"

Commentator: Devorah L. Knaff, (University of California, Berkeley)

1993 Central

Speaker: Paul Christopher (United States Military Academy), "Women in Combat Roles?"

Commentator: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)

Speaker: Lenore Kuo (University of Nebraska-Omaha), "Norplant and Coercion: Secondary Discrimination as a Standard for Feminist Ethics"

Commentator: Judith Little (University of Oklahoma)

1993 Eastern

Panel discussion on A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, ed. Louise Antony and Charlotte Witt

Speakers:

Louise Antony (North Carolina State University)

Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)

Martha Nussbaum (Brown University)

Chair: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)

1994 Central

Speaker: Mariam Thalos (State University of New York at Buffalo), "Alternative Epistemological Foundations"

Commentators:

Sally Haslanger (University of Michigan)

Helen Longino (University of Minnesota)

Chair: Virginia Klenk (West Virginia University)

1995 Central

Chair: Virginia Klenk

Speaker: Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida), "The Way You Wear Your Hat, the Way You Sip Your Tea: Multi-culturalism, Identity, and Performance"

Commentator: Karen Hanson (Indiana University)

Speaker: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas), "Between Supererogation and Duty: Strikes, Housework, and the Morality of Resistance"

Commentator: Julia Driver (Brooklyn College, CUNY)

1996 Central

Speaker: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College), "Antirealism: The Empiricist Stance and Feminism"

Commentator: Jennifer Faust (California State University, Los Angeles)

Speaker: Margaret Crouch (Eastern Michigan University) - on the history of sexual harassment legislation

Commentator: Debra DeBruin (University of Illinois at Chicago)

1997 Pacific

Panel discussion on Teaching Feminism

Chair: Jennifer Faust (California State University, Los Angeles)

Speakers: Sandra Bartky (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Alisa Carse (Georgetown University)

Debra DeBruin (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Marcia Homiak (Occidental College)

Keith Burgess-Jackson (University of Texas at Arlington)

1997 Central

Session 1:

Chair: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)

Speaker: Deborah Boyle (University of Pittsburgh), "Descartes and the Social Context of Knowing"

Commentator: Laurie Pieper (Kansas State University)

Session 2:

Chair: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)

Speaker: Marilyn Friedman (Washington University, St. Louis), "Autonomy, Social Disruption, and Women"

Commentator: Sarah Buss (Princeton University)

Speaker: Paula Droege (University of Connecticut), "Reclaiming the Subject, or a View from Here" Graduate Student Stipend Recipient

Commentator: Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University)

1998 Central

Session 1:

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)

Speaker: Maureen Linker (University of Michigan, Dearborn), "Could Non-Naturalism Provide a Better Way Out of the Paradox of Bias?"

Commentator: Louise Antony (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Speaker: Heidi E. Grasswick (Middlebury College), "Individuals-In-Communities: Incorporating Relations into the Epistemic Subject"

Commentator: Lynn Hankinson Nelson (University of Missouri, St.Louis)

Session 2:

Chair: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)

Speaker: Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut), "Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self? Opposites Attract"

Commentator: Julie E. Maybee (University of Kansas)

Speaker: Tanya R. Glaser (University of Colorado), "Rationality and Participation in Benhabib's Communicative Ethics"

Commentator: Audrey Brokes (St. Joseph's University)

1998 Eastern

Panel Session: The Backlash to Feminist Philosophy

Speakers:

Ann Cudd (University of Kansas), "Analyzing Backlash to Progressive Social Movements"

Julie Maybee (University of Kansas), "Politicizing the Personal and Other Tales from the Front Lines"

Anita Superson (University of Kentucky), "Academic Gang Rape: Philosophical Reflections on the Backlash against Women in Tenure Decisions"

1999 Pacific, co-sponsored with SWIP

Panel Session: Intrafeminist Criticism and the Rules of Engagement: Panel and Workshop

Chair: Ann Garry (California State University, Los Angeles)

Panelists:

Marilyn Frye (Michigan State University, East Lansing)

Ann Garry (California State University, Los Angeles)

Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota)

Naomi Zack (SUNY, Albany)

1999 Central

Speaker: Audre Brokes (St. Joseph's University), "Toward a MacKinnonesque Epistemology"

Commentator: Ann Garry (California State University, Los Angeles)

Speaker: Marilyn Friedman (Washington University, St. Louis), "Battered Women, Intervention, and Autonomy"

Commentator: Beth Oljar (University of Detroit)

2000 Central

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)

Speaker: Gina Rose (University of Kansas), "Marriage and Social Meanings"

Graduate Student Stipend Recipient

Commentator: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Speaker: Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College), "Responsibility: Re-orienting the Epistemic and Moral Domains"

Commentator: Lisa Bergin (Michigan State University, East Lansing)

2000 Eastern, co-sponsored with SWIP

Memorial session dedicated to Tamara Horowitz (University of Pittsburgh)

Chair: Janet Levin (USC)

Speakers:

Ann Cudd (University of Kansas), "Violence and Oppression"

Rebecca Kukla (Carleton University) and Laura Reutsche (University of Pittsburgh), "Contingent Natures and Virtuous Knowers: Could Epistemology be 'Gendered'?"

Roberta Haraldsson, "'This all but universal illusion...'-Few Remarks on Mill's Aims in Writing On Liberty"

Stephen Glaister (University of Washington), "Prospects and Decisions: How Empirical Can We Be About Rationality?"

Commentator: Mark Lance (Georgetown University)

2001 Central

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)

Speaker: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College), "Models and Reality: Towards an Answer to the Feminist Question in Science"

Commentator: Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College)

Speaker: Lisa Bergin (St. Cloud State University), "Toward a Feminist Account of Testimony"

Commentator: Mark O. Webb (Texas Tech University)

2002 Pacific, co-sponsored with SWIP

Panel Session: Feminism as a Meeting Place: Analytical and Continental Traditions

Speakers:

Cynthia Willett (Emory University), "Styles of Subjectivity: Anglo-American, Continental, and Pragmatist Feminism"

Georgia Warnke (University of California, Riverside), "Hermeneutics or Postmodernism? Feminism and Continental Philosophies"

Ann Cudd (University of Kansas), "Revising Philosophy through the Wide-angle Lens of Feminism"

Louise Antony (Ohio State University), "Fantasies for Empowerment and Entitlement: Analytic Philosophy and Feminism"

Commentator and Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)

2002 Central

Speaker: Tracy Isaacs (University of Western Ontario), "Feminism, Theory and Responsibility"

Commentator: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)

Chair: Lisa Bergin (St. Cloud State University)

Speaker: Nathan Nobis (University of Rochester)

Commentator: Samantha Brennan (University of Western Ontario)

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)

2002 Eastern

Panel Session: Feminism and Evil

Speakers:

Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Responding to Atrocities"

Laurence Thomas (Syracuse University), "Evil and Self-Hatred"

Anita Superson (University of Kentucky), "Privilege, Immorality, and Responsibility for Attending to the 'Facts about Humanity'"

Commentator and Chair:

Mariam Thalos (University of Utah)

2003 Pacific APA (March 24-29th 2004 in Pasadena, CA)

Panel Session: Feminist Critiques of Reason

Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College) Chair

Maureen Linker (University of Michigan-Dearborn): “Applying the Principle of Charity in a Social Context”

Helen Longino (University of Minnesota-Minneapolis): “Reason and Values in Feminist Science Studies”

Mariam Thalos (University of Utah): “What is a Feminist to Do with Rational Choice Theory?”

Peg O’Connor (Gustavus Adolphus College) “Putting the Practice into Practical Moral Reason”

Jennifer Faust (California State University-Los Angeles) Commentator

2004 Central Division APA (Chicago, Ill, April 23)

Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College) Chair

Kristen Intemann (University of Washington) “Feminist Politics and Theory Justification: Rethinking the Role of Underdetermination in Feminist Philosophy of Science” (Travel Stipend Award)

Commentator: Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Kathryn J. Norlock (St. Mary's College of Maryland): “Meaningful Narrative and Analytic Forgiveness”

Commentator: Robin Dillon (Lehigh University)

Christine Overall (Queen's University) “Transsexualism and ‘Transracialism’”

Commentator: Chris Cuomo (University of Cincinnati)

2004 Eastern Division Meeting (Boston, MA, Dec. 27, 2004)

Session: "Not Your Afther's Metaethics: Feminist Approaches"

Chair: Heidi Grasswick, Middlebury College

Speakers: Samantha Brennan (University of Western Ontario)

Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)

Candace Vogler (University of Chicago)

Teresa Weynand (University of Colorado, Boulder)

2005 Central Division Meeting (Cleveland, OH, April 28)

Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College-Norco)

Speaker: Elizabeth Neill (University of Western Ontario)

"Culture or Community: Responsibility for Truth"

Commentator: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)

Speaker: Zahra Maghani (Michigan State University)

"A Cosmopolitan Dependency Critique"

Commentator: Amy Mullin (University of Toronto)

2006 Pacific Division Meeting, (Portland, OR, March 24)

Session on Feminist Virtue Ethics.

Chair: Robin S. Dillon, Lehigh University

Speakers: Robin S. Dillon, Lehigh University

“On Feminist Virtue Ethics”

Nancy Nyquist Potter, University of Louisville

“Defiance and Other Virtues of the Ruled”

Marilyn Friedman, Washington University

“On Being Bad and Feeling Good”

Anne E. Barnhill, New York University

“Feminist Sexual Virtue and Feminist Sexual Vice”

Central Division (Chicago, IL, April 28, 2006)

Chair: Kristen Intemann, Montana State University-Bozeman,

Speaker: Devora Shapiro, University of Minnesota “Knowledge of ‘What it's like': Introducing non-propositional, x - experiential, knowledge”

Commentator: Deborah Heikes, University of Alabama-Huntsville

Speaker: Evelyn Brister, Rochester Institute of Technology “The Skeptical Ploy and a Feminist Response”

Commentator: Joanne Waugh, University of South Florida

Speaker: Sophie Fortin, Washington University in St. Louis , “Rawls, Family, Limits of Political Liberalism ”

Commentator: Elizabeth Brake, University of Calgary

And a second session on Autonomy (April 29, 2006)

Chair: Sharon Crasnow, Riverside Community College,

Speaker: Diana Tietjens Meyers, University of Connecticut, Storrs, “Two Models of Autonomy: Identity-Based Versus Action-Centered”