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

Shuttle reservation form

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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