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Moving to Online Presentations

In light of the recent risks associated with international and domestic travel, the PGSA has decided to move from hosting the conference in person to hosting it remotely via a Zoom conference call.

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If you would like to take part in the Zoom call on March 14th, please follow this link: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/180553646

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Please see the schedule of events posted below to see which talks will be given at what times.

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We will try to keep to the original announced schedule of events. However, in the coming days there might be changes made to the schedule, and we will try to keep everyone updated about these changes as they happen.

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Disjointed Triangle

Feminism, Identity, and the Disparity of Power

Historically, women have experienced powerlessness and oppression in the public domain. Throughout this history, there have been narratives about gender that have affected the identity of women, limiting them to a minimal range of expression.

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Only recently have the power dynamics shifted to include women’s experience in public discourse. Along with that inclusion, we have begun to evaluate narratives about gender and change them.

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The goal of this conference is to understand, criticize, and evaluate the way that narratives about gender identity and gender relations affect our social and political institutions, moral theories, and ethical responsibilities.

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Schedule of Events

Here is our finalized schedule of presentations:
11:00 - 11:50 AM : "Black Prisons, White Hands: Whiteness as Prison through Foucault, Butler, and Fanon" by Tirza Ben-Ezzer, Kent State University
12:00 - 1:00 PM : LUNCH BREAK
1:00 - 1:50 PM : "Our Obligations in Constructing Others" by Sam Sumpter, University of Washington
2:00 - 2:50 PM : "Feminist Theory, Gender Identity, and the Liberation from Patriarchal Power: An Argument for an Ascriptive Account of Gender" by Gabrielle Bussell, Eastern Michigan University
3:00 - 4:30 : "Countering a Counterstory", Keynote Presentation by Hilde Lindemann.

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Our Keynote Speaker

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Hilde Lindemann

Hilde Lindemann is a Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Michigan State University. Her books include An Invitation to Feminist Ethics (McGraw-Hill 2005) and, as Hilde Lindemann Nelson, Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair (Cornell University Press 20 0 1). With James Lindemann Nelson she coauthored Alzheimer's: Answers to Hard Questions for Families (Double day 1996) and The Patient in the Family (Routledge 1995), and she has also edited three collections: Feminism and Families and Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics (both Routledge 1997), and, with Marian Verkerk and Margaret Urban Walker, Naturalized Bioethics (Cambridge 2008). The former editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, she was also coeditor (with Sara Ruddick and Margaret Urban Walker) of Rowman & Littlefield's Feminist Constructions series and the general coeditor (with James Lindemann Nelson) of the Reflective Bioethics series at Routledge. A Fellow of the Hastings Center, her ongoing research interests are in feminist bioethics, feminist ethics, the ethics of families, and the social construction of persons and their identities.

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Contact Us

For general inquiries about the 2020 UT Knoxville Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, please contact us by email at UTKnoxPGSA@gmail.com

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