The Program Committee for Midwest SWIP is pleased to announce the Fall '09 Conference:
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Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy
Conference Program 
November 6-8, 2009 
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI


Friday, November 6th 
7:00-7:50 pm.          Welcome Gathering

8:00-9:15 pm         Kate Lindeman  (Professor Emerita, Mt. St. Mary College) Older Women, Philosophy, and SWIP

Saturday, November 7th
9:00-9:50 am         Stephanie Adair (Duquesne University) Unity and Difference: A Critical Appraisal of Polarizing Gender Identities

10:00-10:50 am         Carol Hay (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) In Defense of Nussbaum's Feminist Liberalism

11:00-11:50 am         Sheana Director (Duquesne University) The Fantasy and the Fat Lady: Reading Fat Feminism Liberation in Lacon and Vertigo

12:00-2:00 pm Lunch Break

2:00-2:50 pm         Crista Lebens (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater) Whiteness and Rationality: Feminist Dialogue on Race in Academic Institutional Spaces

3:00-3:50 pm         Minerva Ahumada Torres (Northeastern Illinois University) Narrative Ethics: The Ethical Account Told by Bombal, Valenzuela, and Ferré

4:00-4:50 pm         Sarah Hoagland (Northeastern Illinois University) Giving Testimony and the Coloniality of Knowledge

5:00-6:00 Business Meeting

Sunday, November 8th
9:30-10:20         Allison Wolf (Simpson College) Medicalizing the Reproduction of Whiteness

10:30-11:20         Sonya Charles (Cleveland State University) Reproductive Justice and Domestic Violence




Attending Midwest SWIP: 
Midwest SWIP seeks to make attendance affordable for all participants.  
This includes help finding accommodations with local SWIP members; no conference attendance fee; travel grants ($70) for students, the unemployed, and the underemployed; and free snacks throughout the conference.  You do not need to be a SWIP member to participate in the conference, request local housing, or to request a travel grant.

For local accommodations, please contact Lauren Woormer at [log in to unmask] 
Requests for travel grants (of $70 per person) may be made once you arrive at the conference venue or through an e-mail to the SWIP Treasurer, Allison Wolf:  [log in to unmask]
For information about membership in Midwest SWIP, contact the Executive Secretary:  Gaile Pohlhaus at [log in to unmask]




Midwest SWIP Fall '09 Program Committee:
Allison Wolf and Jennifer Benson

Dr. Allison Wolf
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Simpson College
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Dr. Jennifer Benson
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Washington College
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Dr. Jennifer Benson
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Washington College
300 Washington Ave
Chestertown, MD
21620

Office: 116 Smith Hall
Phone: (410) 810-7474
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