Women in Political Studies (WIPS)
Women in Philosophy (W.I.P.)
Graduate Faculty
New School for Social Research
present the
3rd Interdisciplinary Conference
Celebrating
International Women’s Day
March 8, 2003
9:30-10:00 MORNING COFFEE (SERVED in front of Wolff Conference Room)
10:00-12:00
I. Violence against Women and Violent Women
Laura Balbuena Gonzalez (New School for Social Research): When Terror Has a Female Face: Women and the Shining Path
Erin Michelson (New School for Social Research): Ending Violence Against Women: A Feminist Perspective
Sara E. Murphy (New York University): The Body of Lucretia: Rape, Representation and Political Authority
Commentator: Ann Snitow, Department of Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research
II. Feminist Moral Philosophy
Peter Higgins (University of Colorado/Boulder): Sexual Disorientation: Moral Implications of Gender Norms
Theresa Weynand Tobin (University of Colorado/Boulder): Assessing Moral Theories: Lessons from Feminist Philosophy of Science
Diane Williamson (Vanderbilt University): Discourse Ethics as Care Ethics: Exploring Interdependence in Communicative Action
Commentator: Alice Crary, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
III. Black and White Women
Sara Daynes (New School for Social Research): Women, Men and God. Or How to Conceptualize the Intersections between Race, Gender and Sex
Diane Treon (CUNY Graduate Center): Visualizing the ‘White Female’: Complicating ‘White Privelege’, Interrupting the ‘White Feminine’
Vera Zoricic (York University): To Produce the Nation
Commentator: Anette Baldauf, Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research
12:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK: (NOT SERVED)
1:00-3:00:
IV. Identity and the Law
Shannon Hoff (SUNY Stony Brook): Power, Authority, and Law: The Politicization of the Abstract Individual
Leroux, Abbey (Suffolk University): Against Monogamy and Nonmonogamy: Overall’s Structural Critique
Jacqueline Mosselson (Montclair State University): Where am I? Questioning the Position of the Subject in Women’s Psychology
Commentator: Alyson Cole, Department of Political Science, Queens College, City University of New York
V. Women and International Concerns
Victoria Gaidenko (Khmelnitskiy University/Ukraine): The Formation of Gender Differences among Youth During the Post-Communist Transitions in Ukraine
Hayat-Un Nessa (Syracuse University): Development and the Universal Subject: Resistance to ‘Gender’ in Bangladesh
Yayo Okano (Ritsumeikan University/Japan): Twisted Nationalism in Japan: What the Issue of ‘Comfort Women’ Revealed
Commentator: David Plotke, Chair of the Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research
VI. Kristeva, Time and Memory
Maria Cimitile (Grand Valley State University): Power, Politics and Feminist Psychoanalysis: The Foundation of Contemporary Political Choices
Amy Eloise Story (University of Oregon): Structures of Love: Kristeva on Narcissism and the Virgin Mary
Lisa Yount (University of Oregon): Feminism and the Politics of Memorial
Commentator: Claudia Baracchi, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
3:00-3:30 COFFEE BREAK (SERVED)
3:30-5:30
VII. Aesthetic Experience and Female Representation
Megan Laverty (Montclair State University): The Moral Significance of Natural Beauty: Echoes of Kant’s ‘Critique of Judgement’ in the Philosophy of Simone Weil
Joy Marie Scott (New School for Social Research): Fancy Her Femme: Flirting with An Inclusive Sexual Aesthetic
Jennifer Zwirn (New School for Social Research): Beauty at any Cost: Examining the Image of Femininity in Literature
Commentator: Aloisia Moser, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
VIII. Citizenship, Justice and The Family
Isabelle V. Barker (Rutgers University): Citizenship in an Era of Labor Migration and Inequality: The Status of Non-Citizen Workers in the U.S. Healthcare Industry
Andrew F. Smith (SUNY Stony Brook): Closer But Still No Cigar: On the Inadequacy of Rawls’s Reply to Okin’s ‘”Political Liberalism”, Justice, and Gender’
Gwynn Matilda Thomas (University of Wisconsin/Madison): The Ties that Bind: The Familial Roots of Political Legitimacy
Commentator: Casiano Hacker Cordón, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut
IX. Fear of Death, Fetishism and Feminist Interpretations of Freud
Suzanne Kelly (Florida Atlantic University): Relationship After Death: Embracing Teresa Brennan's Philosophy of Energetics
Donovan T. Miyasaki (University of Toronto): The Evasion of Gender in Freudian Fetishism
Adam Rosen (New School for Social Research): The Uses and Abuses of Psychoanalysis for Feminisms
Commentator: TBA
6:00-7:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Drucilla Cornell:
Professor of Law, Women's Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University
Political Infamy and The Sacrilege of Feminism
Commentator: Claudia Leeb, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research, Department for the Philosophy of Science and Science Research, University of Vienna
7:00-9:00 RECEPTION
Special Event for Enjoyment: Femm Nameless, all female Afro Beat band
A reception with food and drink will follow the keynote address
in the Cafeteria on the first floor.
Graduate Faculty of the
New School for Social Research
65 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Organization Committee
Lisa N. Gurley, Ph.D. Student in Political Theory/Department of Political Science
Claudia Leeb, Dr. Phil in Philosophy of Science/Psychology, University of Vienna, Ph.D. Candidate In Political Theory/Department of Political Science
Aloisia Moser, Ph.D. Student/Department of Philosophy, Dissertation Fellow/Austrian Academy of Science
Cynthia Tobar, Department of Political Science
We would like to thank the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, in particular the Department of Political Science and the Department of Philosophy and the Dean’s office for the Dean’s Grant, that made this conference possible.