Well, I share your discomfort, Christina, but it seems to me an explanation
worth attending to. It might not be a justification, all things considered,
but in my view the fact that the organizer is well aware of the importance
of a gender balanced conference and that they will provide child-care is a
positive fact.

One thing that might be useful to point out to them (is that a man? I can't
tell from the name) is that an all-male line-up is going to have effects on
the audience's experience (so for instance on the female attendees), on the
kind of discussion that will take place, and so forth.

Sara


Sara Protasi
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2015-07-08 20:55 GMT+01:00 Bellon, Christina <[log in to unmask]>:

>  Explanation? As a stand-alone conference, the panel of four men speaking
> about the metaphysics of pregnancy is still troubling, even if at other
> conferences in the series there are women speakers on the panels.
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> Part of the challenge of gender-balancing conference panels is exactly to
> inspire organizers to go a little bit further in their recruitment efforts
> to overcome those pesky child-care duties.
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> Perhaps it also might inspire a re-thinking of the “traditional” divisions
> in philosophy if all that are available are all male panels by one division
> of topics, but the possibility of gender-balanced panels by another
> division. Kind of reminds me of the days not long ago when a metaphysics
> course was taught free and clear of women philosophers on the reading list,
> all because it was presumed that there is no feminist metaphysics, or
> because women just aren’t interested in metaphysics so there aren’t any
> good books/articles, or because students will read women philosophers in
> that other (feminism) course… really.
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> *On Behalf Of *Sara Protasi
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 08, 2015 11:25 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: Advertise 'Metaphysics and Pregnancy: the foetus and the
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> 2015-07-08 19:23 GMT+01:00 Sara Protasi <[log in to unmask]>:
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>  I was about to send a message about this. It's fairly incredible.
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> 2015-07-08 19:20 GMT+01:00 Lori Gruen <[log in to unmask]>:
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>  This is a joke right?  Four white men as the speakers at a conference on
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> On Jul 8, 2015, at 2:11 PM, "Veltman, Andrea - veltmaal" <[log in to unmask]>
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>  From Elselijn Kingma ([log in to unmask])
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> From: Kingma E.M. [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 12:50 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Advertise 'Metaphysics and Pregnancy: the foetus and the maternal
> organism' ?
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> Dear List-owners,
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> if you deem this of sufficient interest (which I think it is) please could
> you advertise the below?
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> "Taking Pregnancy Seriously in Metaphysics I: The Foetus and the Maternal
> Organism”
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> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/news/events/2015/07/21-the-foetus-and-the-maternal-organism.page
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> 21 July, University of Southampton, UK.
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> SPEAKERS & TITLES
> Eric Olson (Sheffield): ‘Is the foetus a part of the mother’s body?’
> John Dupre (Exeter): ‘Pregnancy as a bifurcating process’
> Rohan Lewis (Souhtampton): ‘No going back: biological perspectives on the
> emergence of biological identity in reproduction’
> Barry Smith (Buffalo): ‘Embryontology’
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> DESCRIPTION
> Although philosophers have explored metaphysical questions related to
> pregnancy – most obviously abortion and the metaphysical status of the
> fetus – little philosophical attention has been paid to pregnancy itself.
> This workshop explores on of the main metaphysical questions posed by
> pregnancy: how do the entities involved in pregnancy - the embryo or fetus
> and the maternal organism relate to each other? Should the fetus be
> regarded as part of the mother, or as ‘merely inside ‘ or ‘surrounded by’
> the mother?
> This workshop is one of a series of four in the project Taking Pregnancy
> Seriously in Metaphysics, Ethics & Epistemology, funded by the Southampton
> Ethics Centre and the University of Southampton ‘Adventures in Research’
> Scheme, with added support from the British Society for Philosophy of
> Science and the Aristotelian Society. It will be followed by another
> workshops on Metaphysics on the 18th of September and was preceded by two
> workshops on Ethics and Epistemology on the 18th of June 2014 and the 13th
> of April 2015.
> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/research/projects/taking-pregnancy-seriously.page#events
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> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/research/projects/taking-pregnancy-seriously.page%23events
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> REGISTRATION
> Registration is free of charge, and will include tea/coffee/refreshments.
> Delegates must provide/ pay for their own meals; there is an option to sign
> up for a buffet lunch (cost: GBP 8.50) when registering via the online
> store: http://go.soton.ac.uk/6gn
> Please register by July 12th. If you would like to attend but childcare
> duties render your attendance difficult, please contact the organisers (as
> far in advance as possible).
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> MORE INFORMATION
> For more information, program, accessibility information & registration:
> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/news/events/2015/07/21-the-foetus-and-the-maternal-organism.page
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> NOTE ON THE GENDERED CONFERENCE CAMPAIGN
> I am aware that the line-up of this workshop violates the gendered
> conference campaign (
> https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/gendered-conference-campaign/).
> This is a particularly egregious violation, since the focus of this
> workshop is ‘taking pregnancy seriously’.
> I support the gendered conference campaign as, I would like to point out,
> does at least one of the speakers who took the trouble to point the failing
> out to me. A note of explanation is in order.
> This workshop was organized in conjunction with a second one, on
> pregnancy, identity and persistence, that will take place on the 18th of
> September.
> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/news/events/2015/09/18-identity-and-persistence.page
> Speakers of either gender were invited for both workshops, but due to
> their eventual topic choice and for scheduling reasons (often involving the
> accommodation of child care duties), this workshop ends up with an all-male
> list. The September workshop, however, has an all-female one. Taken
> together, the workshops have a 50% gender balance. (If the two earlier
> workshops on ethics and epistemology in this project are taken into
> account, the speaker balance is 75% women, 25% men).
> I decided that that was good enough – and that the disadvantage of having
> two single-gendered line-ups was less important than accommodating the
> schedules and topic choice of the preferred speakers, as long as there is
> an acceptable gender balance in the workshops combined.
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> Elselijn Kingma
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> Lecturer in Philosophy
> University of Southampton
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