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############################Good morning, Feasties –
I would like to add a bit of diachronic detail to the founding of FEAST.
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.
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.
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?
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
**************************************Diana Tietjens MeyersProfessor Emerita of PhilosophyUniversity of Connecticut, StorrsTo unsubscribe from the FEAST-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=FEAST-L&A=1
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