Fall 2016 Program
U.S. MIDWEST SWIP 2016 CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 7-9 AT CENTRE COLLEGE IN DANVILLE, KENTUCKY
Friday, October 7th 6-9:30pm Welcome gathering at the Cottage on St. Mildred’s Court,
131 St. Mildred’s Court.
We will have finger food and refreshments (alcoholic and non-alcoholic).
6:00pm Shuttle departs from Lexington airport for Centre College
Saturday, October 8th all food and sessions are in the Ewen Room in the Campus Center
8:00am-8:30am Coffee and snacks provided by Centre College
(breakfast vouchers also available for Cowan dining hall in Campus Center)
Φ 8:30-9:30am “Some virtue epistemic reasons to accept the claims of standpoint
theorists”
Krista Hyde (Saint Louis University)
Φ 9:40-10:40am “Epistemic Oppression and Ameliorative Epistemology”
Emily Colleen McWilliams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Φ 10:50-11:50am “Trauma, Transformation, and the Rationality of Desire”
Amber Rose Carlson (Vanderbilt University)
11:50-1:30pm Lunch Break on your own in Dansville
Φ 1:30-2:30pm “Simone de Beauvoir’s Sexual Ethics: Affirmative Consent, Token
Resistance and the Marquis de Sade”
Qrescent Mason (Berea College)
Φ 2:40-3:40pm “Complicit Suffering and Self-Regarding Obligations”
Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco (University of Connecticut)
Φ 3:50-4:50pm “What’s Wrong with the (White) Female Nude?”
Zoey Ockenden (The City University of New York)
5:00-6:00pm Business Meeting (Stephanie Rivera Berruz, William Paterson University)
6:30pm Dinner Gathering, details to be announced at the conference
Sunday, October 11th all food and sessions are in the Ewen Room in the Campus Center
8:00-8:30am Coffee and snacks provided by Centre College
(breakfast vouchers also available for dining hall)
Φ 8:30-9:30am “Genital Alterations and Virtuous Parenthood”
Sonya Charles (Cleveland State University)
Φ 9:40-10:40am “Vulnerable Bodies: Thresholds of Hospitality”
Elizabeth Lanphier (Vanderbilt University)
Φ 10:50-11:50pm “On Wickham Street”
Kit Connor (Miami University of Ohio)
1:00pm Shuttle departure from Campus Center to Lexington airport
Programming Committee:
Lauren Woomer (DePaul University) and Tempest M. Henning (Vanderbilt University)
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