FemPhilAZ 2025

We are excited to share that the 6th Annual Arizona Feminist Philosophy Graduate Conference (FemPhilAZ 2025) will be held on February 7–8, 2025, in an all-hybrid format as usual and with Professor A.W. Eaton (feminist philosophy of art, University of Illinois Chicago) and Professor Rowan Bell (trans feminist philosophy, University of Guelph) as our keynote speakers.

FemPhilAZ is free to register and open to the public. To be counted for food, please register by 12pm on Friday, January 24; to receive presentation materials and/or the Zoom link, please register by 12pm on Thursday, February 6.

Zoom participants: Please note that we do not observe Daylight Saving Time here at the University of Arizona. All times listed are in Mountain Standard Time (MST or America/Phoenix), which is not the same as Mountain Time (MT) or Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)!

Sponsors: Thank you to our amazing campus community for making FemPhilAZ 2025 possible—we would like to thank, in particular, the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, the James E. Rogers College of Law, the Women & Gender Resource Center, the Graduate College, the School of Anthropology, the School of Geography, Development & Environment, the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of French & Italian!

Please don’t hesitate to contact Ding at [email protected] if you have any questions or accessibility needs/requests!

Friday, February 7, 2025

8:45–9:15
Breakfast

9:15–10:15
“Sexual Racism as Perception”
Yixuan Wu (University of Michigan)
Comments: Ella LaRose (University of Arizona)
Chair: Isabel Herburger (Rutgers University)

10:30–11:30
“A Beauvoirian Analysis of Ageism: Children & the Elderly as ‘Other’ ”
Adelle Goldenberg (Cornell University)
Comments: Urna Chakrabarty (Cornell University)
Chair: Luke Golemon (University of Arizona)

11:30–12:30
In-Person/Zoom Lunch-Together (feat. The FemPhilAZ Playlist)
We will have lunch together while listening to a conference playlist!

12:30–1:30
“Swimming Upstream Together: Catharine MacKinnon’s Alternative to Consent”
Yana Stoykova (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Comments: Ding (University of Arizona)
Chair: Sofia Weiss Goitiandia (University of California, San Francisco)

1:45–2:45
“You Lied to Me: Transphobia, Intimacy, and Intimate Deception”
Rose Fonth (Rutgers University)
Comments: Kexuan Liu (Duke University)
Chair: Giannis Vassilopoulos (Georgia State University)

3:00–5:00
Keynote Address/Philosophy Colloquium
Rowan Bell (Assistant Professor of Philosophy & SXGN, University of Guelph)
Chair: Ding (University of Arizona)

5:45–7:15
Dinner at La Indita (722 N Stone Ave)

7:45–
Informal social activities in person
& social hour on Zoom

Saturday, February 8, 2025

10:00–10:30
Breakfast

10:30–11:30
“Oppressive Acts and Pornography”
Shiying Li (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Comments: Shramana Pramanik (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Chair: Rose Fonth (Rutgers University)

11:30–12:30
In-Person/Zoom Lunch-Together (feat. Feminist Poetry Open Mic)
Bring your favorite poems to read, by anyone & in any language!

12:30–1:30
“Loving Places: Murdoch, Candiotto, and Zwicky on Learning to Look and Listen”
Madeleine Léger (Georgetown University)
Comments: Jacob Blitz (University of Arizona)
Chair: Yixuan Wu (University of Michigan)

1:45–2:45
“ ‘Woman’: From Semantics to Pragmatics”
Isabel Herburger (Rutgers University)
Comments: Yashin Voss (Arizona State University)
Chair: Kyle Kirby (University of Arizona)

3:00–4:00
“A Defense of Allyship as a Political Commitment”
Giannis Vassilopoulos (Georgia State University)
Comments: Will Cailes (University of Arizona)
Chair: Henry Weiss (University of Arizona)

4:15–6:15
Keynote Address: “Aestheticizing Rape”
A.W. Eaton (Professor of Philosophy & Associate Dean of LAS, University of Illinois Chicago)
Chair: Ella LaRose (University of Arizona)
NB: Please note that I will be discussing rape culture and “high art” pictures that glorify and eroticize rape, as well as pictures that condemn rape.

7:00–
Unofficial dinner at Tumerico (not paid for by the conference; 2526 E 6th St)
& social hour for Zoom attendees