Dear all,

I've heard stories about this hot tub, and I'm glad folks are writing them
down. These are such important stories and crucial reminders of how
important in-person conferences (and hot tubs!) are.

Georgia on my mind this morning... Hope you're all doing well.

Best,
Kim

Kim Q. Hall
Professor of Philosophy
Appalachian State University
Department of Philosophy and Religion
114 Greer Hall
Boone, NC  28608
office: (828) 262-6817
fax: (828) 262-6619


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> Good morning, Feasties –
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> I would like to add a bit of diachronic detail to the founding of FEAST.
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> You might be wondering how it happened that some of you were meeting in
> the hot tub one night, and I can fill in that part of the FEAST story.  One
> afternoon of that Florida pre-Feast conference, some of us were taking a
> break in the hotel garden sipping wine/cocktails. I definitely remember
> hanging out that afternoon with Hilde Lindemann and Joan Callahan. I’m
> pretty sure Peggy DesAutels and Margaret Walker were there too. Not sure if
> there were others playing hooky from sessions with us. We were talking
> about what a wonderful conference we were having, how good it was to be
> together.  At some point someone said we should keep doing “this,” and we
> were serious.  It was decided that a meeting should be held later that
> night to get what became FEAST going.
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> I don’t remember how the hot tub meeting was announced, but I know I
> missed it. As some of you have mentioned, lunch conversations and beach
> walks ensued, and the upshot was a plan to hold an organizational meeting
> that year at the Eastern APA in Boston.
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> I was at that Boston meeting. It was quite a large circle of feminist
> moral philosophers, and I can’t possibly recall everyone who was there. My
> memory seems to have a penchant for highlighting people who are no longer
> here to speak for themselves.  So I am sure that Ami Bar On and Rosie Tong
> were there. We discussed the organizational structure of FEAST – for
> example, we decided on a steering committee with a chair, and we might have
> set up a couple of sub-committees, such as a program committee for the
> first FEAST conference. I vaguely recall that we called it a steering
> collective, not committee, at that time. Does anyone remember that
> terminological detail? Or is my memory playing a trick on me?
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>
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> The rest, as you know, is herstory.  Every iteration of the steering
> committee and every FEAST chair have added new strengths and initiatives to
> FEAST – publications, diversity, PIKSI, development, etc, etc. Thanks to
> all of them. For me, FEAST has been the center of my philosophical life,
> and I am deeply grateful to have had a philosophical home.
>
> Diana
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> University of Connecticut, Storrs
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