Past NYSWIP Programs
Spring 2010
Panel on Feminism and Capitalism. Ann Cudd (U Kansas) and Nancy Holmstrom (Rutgers Newark)
SWIPshop:
Ornaith O'Dowd (CUNY), "Care and Abstract Principles"
Nancy Fraser (New School), "Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Toward a Neo-Polanyian Conception of Capitalist Crisis"
Kathleen Wallace, (Hofstra University), "The Relational Self"
Shaireen Rasheed (Long Island University), “Sexualized Spaces in Public Spaces: Islam, Women and an Ethics of the Erotic.”
Fall 2009 Speaker Series:
Linda Alcoff (Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY) "Sotomayor's Reasoning."
SWIPshop:
Ishani Maitra (Rutgers University), "Subordinating Speech."
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton University), "The Original Sin of Cognition: Fear, Prejudice, and Generalization"
Spring 2009
Elizabeth Harman (Philosophy Department and University Center for Human Values, Princeton University), "How Can we Blame the Honest Sexist, Homophobe, or Abortion Opponent?: Do False but Justified Beliefs Get Them Off the Hook?"
Third Wave Feminism: A Panel Discussion Linda Nicholson (Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies, Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis) Jennifer Baumgardner (Author and Activitist) Serene Khader (Philosophy and Women's Studies, Wheaton College)
Fall 2008
Anne O’Byrne (Department of Philosophy, SUNY at Stony Brook)
“What Does It Mean to Be Born Today?: Arendt on Birth in the Modern Age”
Karen Detlefsen (Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania)
Women and Institutions in the History of Natural Philosophy: Cavendish and du Chatelet – Two Case Studies
Spring 2008
Panel: Women, Philosophy & Hegel
Anelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College), Chair and Discussant
Mitchell Aboulafia (Juliard School), “What if Hegel’s Master & Slave were Women?”
Jean Schroeder (Cardozo, Yeshiva University), “Hegel, Lacan, Property & the Feminine”
Ishani Maitri (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Rutgers University)
“What Speech Does: Racist Speech & Its Uses”
Fall 2007
Joan Tronto (Political Science, Hunter and CUNY Graduate Center)
“Caring Democracy”
Louise Antony (Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
“Is Diversity an Epistemic Value?”
Spring 2007
Panel: Women, Philosophy, and Kant
Angelica Nuzzo (Philosophy, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center)
Jennifer Uleman (Philosophy, SUNY Purchase)
Lisabeth During (Philosophy, Pratt Institute)
Commentator: Ornaith O’Dowd (Philosophy, Brooklyn College)
Gender and Borders: Law’s Migration and Democratic Iterations
Seyla Benhabib (Political Science and Philosophy, Yale)
Judith Resnik (Law, Yale)
Fall 2006
Alison M. Jaggar (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder)
“The Poorest of the Poor: Justice and the Feminization of Global Poverty”
Panel: Women in Academia: Are We Advancing?
Virginia Valian (Psychology and Linguistics, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)
Elizabeth Minnich (Senior Fellow, Ass. Of Am. Colleges and Universities)
Barbara Andrew (Philosophy, William Patterson University)
Spring 2006
Panel: Gender and Globalization
Ann Ferguson (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
“Women, Globalization, and Global Justice”
Hester Eisenstein (Sociology, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center)
“Globalization, Empire, and the Women’s Movement: Complicity or Resistance?”
Amy Allen
“The Politics of Ourselves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory”
Fall 2005
Sandra Lee Bartky (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago)
“The Experiential and Emotional Roots of Feminist Philosophical Papers”
Commentator: Sophia Wong (Philosophy, Long Island University)
Kimberly Yuracko (Law, Northwestern)
“Private Nurses and Playboy Bunnies: Explaining Permissable Sex Discrimination”
Spring 2005
Alison Wylie (Women’s Studies and Philosophy, Barnard and Columbia)
Doing Research in the Social Sciences ss a Feminist
Respondent: Patricia Clough (Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center)
Panel: Care Ethics Goes Global
Robin Isserlies (Sociology, Borough of Manhattan Community College)
Development as Human Flourishing: Toward a Political Culture of Care
Eva Kittay (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Spoke on a WHO-Funded Project on Care
Fiona Robinson (Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa)
Beyond Labor Rights: Care Ethics and Women’s Work in the Global Economy
Fall 2004
Sandra Lee Bartky (Women’s Studies and Philosophy, University of Il., Chicago)
Cancelled
Linda C. McClain (Law, Hofstra)
Negotiating Gender and (Free and Equal) Citizenship: the Place of Associations
Spring 2004
Margaret Walker (Philosophy, Arizona State University, Tempe)
Forgiving
Panel: the Status of Women in Philosophy – Problems of Inclusion and Exclusion
Rosemarie Tong (Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
Nancy Tuana (Philosophy, Penn State)
Fall 2003
Laura Purdy (Philosophy, Wells College)
Politics and Beyond: Medicalizations and Women’s Reproductive Decisions
Claudia Card (Philosophy, University of Wisconsin)
Making War on Terrorism After 9/11
Spring 2003
Lori Gruen (Philosophy, Wesleyan University)
Women, Environment, and Development: A Multicultural Environmental Approach
Panel: Queer Theory
Jana Sawicki (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Williams College)
Michael Murray (Philosophy, Vassar College)
Dean Spade (Founder: Sylvia Rivera Legal Resource Program of the Urban Justice Center)
Fall 2002
Martha Fineman (Emory University)
The Autonomy Myth
Sally Haslanger (MIT)
Oppressions: Racial and Other Respondent: Anna Stubblefield
Spring 2002
Maria Pia Lara (Autonomous University, Mexico City)
Globalizing Women’s Rights
Panel: Global Feminism
Rada Ivekovic (University of Paris)
Ratna Kapur (Georgetown University Law Center)
Fahima Varquez (Activist in RAWA)
Fall 2001
Anne Donchin (Philosophy, Indiana University, Indianapolis)
Designed Descendants: Puzzles about Personal Autonomy in the Biotech Age
Patricia Smith (Philosophy, Brooklyn College)
Motherhood and In-Subordination: Thoughts on Cultural Revolution, Overpopulation, and
Political Reform
Spring 2001
Gail Weiss (Philosophy, George Washington U.)
Are Myths Indispensible? Rethinking Myths and Reality
Panel: Women and Economics
Nancy Folbre (U. Mass Amherst)
Julie Nelson (Harvard Div. School)
Fall 2000
Jane Roland Martin (UMass Boston, em.)
Academic Women: What Price Belonging?
Elizabeth Grosz (SUNY Buffalo)
Sexuality, Pleasure, and Power
Spring 2000
Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana University)
Objectivity: A Double Standard?
Frances Kamm (NYU)
Jean Hampton on Self and Society
Fall 1999
Mary Hawkesworth (Rutgers)
Democratization: Reflections on Gendered Dislocations in the Public Sphere
Kelly Oliver (SUNY Stony Brook)
The Look of Love: Toward a New Conception of Vision
Spring 1999
Margaret Simons (S. Ill. U.)
De Beauvoir’s 1927 Diary, and Sartre: Reopening the Question of Influence
Nancy Hirschmann (Cornell)
The Social Construction of Women’s Choices
Fall 1998
Nel Noddings (TC)
Care and Social Policy
Vicki Schultz (Yale Law)
Reconceptualizing Sexual Harassment
Spring 1998
Panel: Feminism and Philosophy of Science
Karen Barad (Pomona College)
Naomi Oreskes (NYU)
Marueen Linder (U. Mich. Dearborn)
Linda Nicholson (SUNY Albany)
I am Modern, Hear Me Roar: The Rise of the Psychological Self
Fall 1997
Uma Narayan (Vasser)
The Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism
Susan Brison (Dartmouth)
The Aftermath of Violence: Traumatic Memory And the Politics of Forgetting
Spring 1997
Panel: Feminist Aesthetics
Hilde Hein (Holy Cross)
Carol Armstrong (CUNY Graduate Center)
Barbara Savedoff (Baruch)
Sara Ruddick (New School)
Ideals of Fatherhood
Respondent: Hilde Nelson (U. of Tenn.)
Fall 1996
Iris Young (U. of Pittsburgh)
Difference as a Resource in Democratic Communication
Nancy Fraser (New School)
Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics
Spring 1996
Carol Gould (Stevens Institute)
Embodied Politics
Respondent Nancy Holmstrom (Rutgers)
Panel: Women of Color in Philosophy
Anita Allen (Georgetown Law)
Uma Narayan (Vassar)
Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Fall 1995
Eva Kittay (SUNY Stony Brook)
Dependency Work, Political Discourse and a New Basis for Coalition Among Women
Respondent: Barbara Omalade (City College)
Jessica Benjamiin (psychoanalyst, NYU and New School)
Discussion of Diana Meyers’ Subjection and Subjectivity
Respondents: Diana Meyers (U. Connecticut)
Robin Dillon (Lehigh)
Spring 1995
Margaret Walker (Fordham)
Feminist Skepticism, Authority and Transparency
Linda Alcoff (Syracuse)
Are Feminist Critiques of Reason Rational?
Respondent: Maureen Linker (CUNY Graduate Center)
Rosi Braidotti (U. of Utrecht)
Nomadic Subjects
Fall 1994
Annette Baier (Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh)
Hume
Virginia Held (Philosophy, Hunter College)
Who’s Agenda? Feminist Ethics and Cognitive Science
Spring 1994
Sarah Burns (NYU Law)
Sexual Harassment in Employment
Maria Lugones (SUNY Binghampton)
Women of Color: Boundary Drawing and Hostility Among Us
Fall 1993
Helen Longino
Report on Women in Academia – Statistics, Fields/Ranks
Eileen O’Neill
Women Philosophers