The Midwest SWIP Fall 2008 Conference will be held September 19-21 at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
For further information on the conference, including travel grant information, please go to the Midwest SWIP website: http://blogs.uww.edu/midwestswip/ <http://blogs.uww.edu/midwestswip/>
Program:
Friday, September 19
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Gather and Welcome, University Center, 259a
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Screening and Discussion of classic feminist film Born In Flames (a film by Lizzie Borden)
Saturday, September 20
8:30 am - 9:30 am Breakfast and Women of Color Caucus
9:30 am - 10:20 am "What Virtue Epistemology Can Bring to Feminist Epistemology" Sarah Wright, University of Georgia
10:30 am - 11:20 am "Harm as Stupid Knowledge in the Feminist Sex Wars" Kristina Grob, Loyola University of Chicago
11:30 am - 12:20 pm "Troublemaking as a Feminist Virtue" Sara L. Puotinen, University of Minnesota
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch and Business Meeting
(Boxed lunch available for $7.00 Reserve by September 15)
2:00 pm - 2:50 pm "What's Wrong with Substantive Autonomy?" Elizabeth Sperry, William Jewell College
3:00 pm - 3:50 pm "Meaning Making, Agency, and Intersubjectivity" Gaile Pohlhaus Jr., Miami University
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm "Thinking Gender as Tropes" Vera Tripodi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Columbia University of NYC
7:30 pm Party (location TBA)
Sunday, September 21
9:30 am - 10:30 am Breakfast and Lesbian Caucus
10:30 am - 11:20 am "Women of Color Teaching Race in a Predominantly White Institution" Kyoko Kishimoto and Darlene St. Clair, St. Cloud State University
11:30 am - 12:20 pm "Re-reading Rousseau through the Colonial-Modern Gender System" Natalie Alexander, Truman State University
All presentations will take place in the University Center, rooms 259a and 260
Please register in advance so we have enough coffee, tea and bagels!
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