Dear FEAST Members,

Please distribute this announcement widely.  We are very excited to have such a great group of scholars gathering at the University of Oregon.  I have a lovely electronic poster I can send to anyone who requests it (I know the FEAST list doesn't do attachments, so direct your request to me:  [log in to unmask]).

Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology 
Inaugural Feminist Phenomenology Conference

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union 
1222 East 13th Avenue
University of Oregon

Inaugural conference bringing together the following scholars.  (Please note slight changes from the poster!)

9:30 am		         Introduction to the Conference (Bonnie Mann and Beata Stawarska)

10:00-11:15		“Title TBA”
                         Dr. Linda Fisher, Central European University, Hungary
			Comments:  Dr. Gail Weiss, George Washington University, USA

11:30-12:45	“Personality, Anonymity and Sexual Difference:  The Temporal Formation of the Transcendental Ego”
                        Sara Heinamaa, Helsinki University, Finland
			Comments:  Helen Fielding, University of Western Ontario, Canada

12:45-2:15		Lunch

2:15-3:30	“Are Butler’s Theory of Performativity and Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Expressivity Really Contradictory?”  
                      Silvia Stoller, University of Vienna, Austria
			Comments:  Eva Simms, Duquesne University, USA

3:45-5:00	“Feminism, Phenomenology and the Problem of Empathic Understanding”  
                       Sue Cataldi, Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville, USA
			Comments:  Mariana Ortega, John Carroll Unive