Related Events
Upcoming
The Philosophy Graduate Students Association (PGSA) is organizing an international political philosophy conference titled Politics at the Limits of Civil Society from September 20 – 22, 2013. The PGSA is pleased to host a number of papers on feminism, including:
- “On the Limits of Political Representation: A Badiouian Critique of Irigaray and Frye,” Elisabeth Paquette (York University)
- “The Invention of the Common: Virno, Simondon, and the Feminist Politics of Renaturalization,” Miriam Tola (Rutgers University)
Recent Presentations
Sandra Harding, "Secularism, Multiculturalism and Democracy: Philosophy of Science Issues." Presentation to the Department of Philosophy. March 24, 2011.
Sandra Harding, “Objectivity and Diversity.” Annual Guelph Lecture in Philosophy. March 23, 2011.
The Department of Philosophy Speaker Series has hosted a number of presentations from scholars working in feminist philosophy:
- Karen Wendling, “Changing the Subject of Ethics.” January 18, 2012.
- Helen Fielding, "Multiple Moving Perceptions of the Real: Arendt, Merleau-Ponty and Truitt.” March 4, 2011.
- Gillian Einstein, "The Multiple Selves of Alzheimer's Disease." October 17, 2009.
- Margrit Shildrick, "Reconfiguring the Gift: Issues in Organ Transplantation." October 9, 2009.
- Catherine Malabou, "The Future of the Humanities." April 27, 2009
Past Activities
The Feminist Philosophy Research Group and Department of Philosophy hosted the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy annual conference, October 2-4, 2009.
On March 13, 2010, the PGSA organized their Third Annual Graduate Conference titled Bodies in the World. The conference's goal was to facilitate discussions concerning the body and its interactions with its environment from perspectives central to feminist philosophy, such as perception, mind, identity, sexuality, community and politics, and normativity and difference. It featured a keynote address by Dr. Hasana Sharp (McGill University) who has worked extensively on the feminist theory, and especially the politics of renaturalization in Spinoza.
Reading group on Lorainne Code's Ecological Thinking, April - May 2008. Participants included Karen Wendling, John Hacker-Wright, and Maya Goldenberg.