8th Symposium of the
International Association of Women Philosophers
"Lessons from the Gynaeceum:
Women Philosophizing—Past, Present, and Future"
August 6-10, 1998 Boston University

Tentative Program (Revised 8/4/98)

Wednesday, August 5, 1998

6:00—9:00 p.m. Registration (Warren Towers Lobby, 700 Commonwealth Ave.)

Thursday, August 6, 1998

7:00—9:00 Breakfast (Warren Towers Dining Hall)

8:30—5:00 p.m. Registration (595 Commonwealth Ave., SMG Atrium)

9:00—10:15 p.m. IAPh Board Meeting (SMG Aud)    

Session I (SMG Aud)
10:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m.

12:30—2:00 Lunch Break

Session II (College of Arts and Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Ave.)
2:00—3:45 Concurrent Panels on the History of Philosophy

1. Sappho, Diotima, Hipparchia of Maronea (CAS 213)

2. 15th, 16th, and 17th Century Discourses on Women (CAS 214)

4. Re-writing and Teaching History of Philosophy (CAS 222)

5. Simone de Beauvoir (CAS 226)

Session III
4:00—5:45 Concurrent Sessions on the History of Philosophy

1. Genealogies of Women Philosophizing (CAS 222)

2. Eighteenth Century Women Thinkers (CAS 214)

3. The Uses of Phenomenology (CAS 216)

4. Some 17th Century Thoughts About Women: Anna Maria Van Schuurman and Thomas Hobbes (CAS 222)

5. Beauvoir and Sartre (CAS 226)

Session IV
6:00—7:45 Concurrent Sessions on the History of Philosophy

1. Ancient Thoughts, Ancient Thinkers (CAS 213)

2. On Liberty and Education (CAS 214)

3. Hannah Arendt (CAS 216)

4. Feminist Re-Readings of Hegel and Others (CAS 222)

5. Feminism and Pragmatism (CAS 226)

Women Philosophers in Film (TBD)
8:30—10:30 p.m.
"Yo, La Peor de Todas" (I, The Worst of All) A film biography of 16th century Mexican scholar, philosopher, poet, playwright Sor Juana Inez de la Cruce by Argentinian feminist film maker Maria Luisa Bemberg. (Spanish with English Subtitles)

Friday, August 7, 1998

7:00—9:00 Breakfast (Warren Towers Dining Hall)

8:30—2:00 p.m. Registration (SMG Atrium)

Session V
9:00—10:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions on the History of Philosophy

1. Feminist Views of Plato's Writings (CAS 213)

2. Women in the History of Philosophy (CAS 214)

3. Nietzsche on Women and Women on Nietzsche (CAS 216)

4. Legacies of Pythagorean Women and Aristotle (CAS 222)

5. Musings on Masculinity and Genius as Male (CAS 226)

Session VI
11:00—1:30 Plenary Session on Simone de Beauvoir (SMG Aud)

3:00—5:00 p.m.

Tours of Radcliffe College Gender Studies Resources and Reception at the Bunting Institute. Location: Radcliffe College, 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA. (Take the "T" Green Line to the Park Street Station and transfer to the Red Line (direction Alewife) to Harvard Square. From Harvard Square follow Massachusetts Avenue past Out of Town News and BankBoston. Turn left onto Garden St. Meet tour guides at Schlessinger Library)

7:30—8:15 p.m. International Association of Women Philosophers Membership Meeting (Morse Auditorium)

Session VII
Special Plenary (Morse Auditorium)
8:30 p.m.

Chair: Jane Caputi
Mary Daly, reading from her forthcoming book, Quintessence...Realizing the Archaic Future
A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto.

Saturday, August 8, 1998

7:00—9:00 Breakfast (Warren Towers Dining Hall)

8:30—5:30 p.m. Registration (SMG Atrium)

Session VIII Concurrent Panels on Contemporary Philosophy
9:00 a.m.—10:45 a.m.

1. The Technological Dream and the Intersections of Gender and Bioscience (SMG 222)

2. Work, Leisure and Economic Justice (SMG 220)

3. Some Bodies (SMG 211)

4. Fear, Hate, Evil and Ethics (SMG 224)

5. Gendered Rationality? (SMG 228)

Session IX
Plenary Session (SMG Aud)
11:00—12:30
New Directions in Feminist Epistemology: Nature, Ecology, and Marxism
Chair: Ann Garry (USA)
Lorraine Code (Canada)
Nancy Hartsock (USA)
Anne Seller (UK)

Session X Concurrent Panels on Contemporary Philosophy
2:00 p.m.—3:45 p.m.

1. Issues of Life and Death (SMG 211)

2. Authenticity and Identity (SMG 220)

3. Theorizing Feminist Politics (SMG 222)

4. Motherhood (SMG 224)

5. Gender Neutrality and the Role of Feminist Values in Science (SMG 228)

Session XI Concurrent Panels on Contemporary Philosophy
4:00 p.m.—5:45 p.m.

1. Issues in Feminist Moral Philosophy

2. Corporality or Lack Thereof (SMG 220)

3. Phantom Equality (SMG 222)

4. Feminism in a Diverse World (SMG 224)

5. Feminist Epistemology (SMG 228)

Session XII
5:45—7:15 Concurrent Sessions on Contemporary Philosophy

1. The Constructed Body? (SMG 211)

2. Place, Movement, Nomadism (SMG 220)

3. Moral Realism, Moral Inquiry, Moral Partiality (SMG 222)

4. Sexual Difference (SMG 224)

5. Ontology and Reality (SMG 228)

Women Philosophers in Film (SMG 208)
8:30—10:30 p.m.: "Edith Stein: The Stations of a Life" (Germany, 1986). A film biography of Edith Stein, a phenomenologist who studied with Husserl and who successfully lobbied for women's right to obtain teaching posts at German Universities. As a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism and later a Carmelite nun, she was killed in Auschwitz by the Nazis in 1942. On October 11, 1998 she is to be canonized as St. Teresa Benedicta a Cruce.

Sunday, August 9, 1998

7:00—9:00 Breakfast (Warren Towers Dining Hall)

8:30—5:30 p.m. Registration (SMG Atrium)

Session XIII
Plenary Session (SMG Aud)
9:00—11:15
Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminisms: Challenges to Philosophy

Session XIV—Concurrent Panels on Contemporary Philosophy
11:30—1:00 p.m.

1. Let's Talk About Sex (SMG 211)

2. Workshop on Patriarchal Language and Linguistic Reform (SMG 220)

3. Issues of War and Peace (SMG 222)

4. Issues Around Liberalism and Liberal Feminism (SMG 224)

5. Love and Cixous (SMG 228)

Session XV—Concurrent Panels on Contemporary Philosphy
2:00—3:45

1. Space, Time, and Ontology (SMG 211)

2. Philosophy, Utopian Thinking, and Community (SMG 220)

3. Rights, Autonomy, and Care (SMG 222)

5. Moral Theory (SMG 228)

Session XVI—Concurrent Panels on Contemporary Philosophy
4:00—5:45

1. Self, Other, Race (SMG 211)

2. Studies in French Feminist Philosophy

3. Art as a Means to Feminist Celebration, Subversion, Spirituality and Autonomy (SMG 222)

4. Roundtable on Analytic Philosophy and Feminism (SMG 224)
Facilitators: Ulrike Ramming and Kathe Trettin (Germany)

5. Feminist Critiques of Postmodernism (SMG 228)

Session XVII—Concurrent Panels on Contemporary Philosophy
6:00—7:30 p.m.

1. Aesthetics and Literature (SMG 211)

2. Ecofeminism (SMG 220)

Women Philosophers in Film (Sargeant 101, 635 Commonwealth Ave.)
8:00—10:30 p.m.
"The Seventh Chamber of Edith Stein: An Interpreted Life" ("Sidmy pokój," Hungary, 1995) (French with English subtitles) This second film biography of Edith Stein by award winning Hungarian film maker Marta Mestasos
takes more liberties with the facts of Stein's life but is more cinematically daring than the other Stein biographical film.

Monday, August 10, 1998

Session XVIII
7:30—8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (SMG Atrium)

8:00 a.m.—9:30 a.m. Plenary Session: The Future of Women in Philosophy (SMG Aud)

Morning Free so that the World Congress participants can attend the opening session and visit the book exhibits at the Marriot Hotel.

Session XIX—Concurrent Panels on Contemporary Philosophy
12:00 p.m.—1:30 p.m.

1. Native Women Philosophers (SMG 211)

2. Difference, Tolerance, and Exclusion (SMG 220)

3. The Constructed Body, Materialism, and Performativity (SMG 222)

4. Women's Rights (SMG 224)

5. Ethics and Power (SMG 228)

Session XX—Concurrent Panels on Contemporary Philosophy
1:45 p.m—3:15 p.m.

1. Genetics, Ethics, and Society: Feminist Approaches (SMG 211)

2. Reproduction, Images of Maternity, and Maternal Authority (SMG 220)

3. Women's Reason, Women's Studies and Women Academics (SMG 222)

4. Two Views of the Status of Feminist Philosophy (SMG 224)

Feminist Philosophers in Documentary Film (SMG 208)
3:30 p.m.—5:30 p.m.
"Daughters of Beauvoir" (UK), a documentary about the influence of Simone de Beauvoir on various women throughout the world. Produced by Penny Foster.
"My Feminism" (Canada), a documentary about feminism in 1997 by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert.

Session XXI
6:00 p.m.—7:50 p.m. First IAPh Session at the World Congress of Philosophy (Mariott Copley Place)

Crossing Borders; Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Philosophies

Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity
Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy

Note: Most World Congress events of special interest to IAPh members are scheduled for August 10 and 11. The following events are open only to people registered for the World Congress. Single day reduced rate registrations are available.

9:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m. World Congress Book Exhibits—Marriott Copley
Place

10:00—11:50 a.m. World Congress Opening Session—Marriott

8:00—9:30 p.m. Special Reception

Gender and Philosophy Sessions at WCP

Tuesday, August 11
9:00—9:50 a.m.

Contributed Papers

12—1:50 p.m.

Invited Panel: Feminist Epistemology
Linda Alcoff, Louise Antony, Sally Haslanger

Contributed Papers

2:00 p.m.—3:50 p.m.

Invited Panel: Feminist Approaches to Essentialism
Cheryl Hall (USA), Marilyn Myerson (USA), Natalie Stoljar (Australia)

Society for the Study of Women Philosophers

Metaphysics and Morals in Modern Women Philosophers
Speakers: TBA

Contributed Papers

6:00—7:50 p.m.

Second IAPh Session at the World Congress of Philosophy
Speaker: TBA

Preview of the 9th IAPh Symposium, Zuerich, 2000.
Business Meeting

8:00—9:50 p.m.

Contributed Papers