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.
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.
Christina M. Bellon, PhD
Chair, Philosophy Department
California State University, Sacramento
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Sacramento, CA 95819-6033
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Sara Protasi
2015-07-08 19:23 GMT+01:00 Sara Protasi <[log in to unmask]>:
I was about to send a message about this. It's fairly incredible.
Sara
Sara Protasi
2015-07-08 19:20 GMT+01:00 Lori Gruen <[log in to unmask]>:
This is a joke right? Four white men as the speakers at a conference on pregnancy??
Lori Gruen, Ph.D.
William Griffin Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Subject: Advertise 'Metaphysics and Pregnancy: the foetus and the maternal organism' ?
Dear List-owners,
if you deem this of sufficient interest (which I think it is) please could you advertise the below?
"Taking Pregnancy Seriously in Metaphysics I: The Foetus and the Maternal Organism”
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/news/events/2015/07/21-the-foetus-and-the-maternal-organism.page
21 July, University of Southampton, UK.
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’
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<http://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/research/projects/taking-pregnancy-seriously.page%23events>
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).
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?
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.
Elselijn Kingma
Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Southampton
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University of Southampton
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