Feminism and the Corporation: Radical Metaphysics, Radical Politics?

A two-day workshop on feminist philosophy, social ontology and the corporation. The workshop forms a part of the ERC grant Corporate Moral Progress, and will take place at Trinity College Dublin. 

Speakers

Jade Fletcher (St Andrews)

Carol Gould (CUNY)

Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR)

Vanessa Wills (George Washington)

Luciana Soria (Barcelona)

Ellen Vieira de Paiva (Maranhão / TU Berlin)

Carolina Berrutti (Vienna)

Sitian Liu (Guangxi)

Wishy Kane (ASU)

Workshop Summary

Feminist philosophy has gone from strength to strength in recent years, with feminist work on social ontology and power asking us to rethink our very understanding of the social world. However, one relative lacuna in this growing field has been feminist work on the corporation. With philosophers like Åsa Burman urging emancipatory metaphysicians to engage with the ‘economic base’ alongside work on traditional topics like gender and race, this conference seeks to find ways to begin to fill that gap. In a world where corporate domination is near-universal, where platforms like Google are rapidly entrenching a new (and potentially post-capitalist) ruling class, and where corporate power has helped to give rise to increasingly fascist national governments around the world, the need for feminist theorisations and critiques of the corporation has never been more urgent.

Registration

Please register by emailing [email protected] 

Accessibility

The planned location, Trinity Business School, is wheelchair accessible, and we are keen to provide for other disability accommodations - please let us know if we can make the workshop more accessible for you!