NYSWIP SWIPshop Archive

May 3, 2019
Ashley, Atkins (West Michigan University), “Mournful Politics: Compassion and Grief as Political Emotions”

April 5, 2019
Annette Martin (NYU), “Obliviousness: Racial, Gendered, and Other”

February 22, 2019
Rose Bell (Syracuse), “Ascriptivism about Gender and Normativity”

November 20, 2017
Tracy Llanera (Macquarie University, Australia and University of Connecticut Humanities Institute) “Egotism from Westboro to the Klan”

October 23, 2017
Suki Finn (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
“Lady-Parts and Baby-Containers: The Metaphysics of Pregnancy”

May 23, 2017
Karen Jones (University of Melbourne), “Radical Consciousness and Epistemic Privilege.” 

April 25, 2017
Saray Alaya-Lopez (Cal. State, Sacramento), “Agency in Structural Explanations of Injustice”

March 15, 2017
Lisa McKeown (New School), “Words and Worlds: Hermeneutical Responsibility and Speech Acts”

November 15, 2016
Elizabeth Edenberg (Philosophy, Fordham University), “Where Should We Ground the Feminist Potential of Political Liberalism?”

October 18, 2016
Laura W. Kate (The Graduate Center, CUNY), “Who Cares? Examining Needs, Care, and Responsibility for a More Caring Version of the State”

September 20, 2016
Lisa Michelle McKeown (New School for Social Research), “Making Room for Mistakes: How Interpretation Informs Illocutions”

April 18, 2016
Monique Deveaux (University of Guelph), “​Exploitation, Structural Injustice, and the Cross-Border Trade in Human Ova”

March 1, 2016
Karen Baird (Purchase College, SUNY), “When Sex Becomes Dangerous: HIV Prevention Policies the Creation of Prevention ‘Knowledge’”

February 2, 2016
Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut, Storrs), “Passivity in Theories of the Agentic Self: Reflections on the View of Soran Reader and Sarah Buss”

December 8, 2015
Lisa McKeown (New School for Social Research), “Problems with Pornography: Rethinking Authority in Speech Acts”

November 17, 2015
Amy Baehr (Hofstra University), “A Capacious Account of Liberal Feminism”

October 27, 2015
Cat Saint-Croix (University of Michigan Ann Arbor) and Robin Dembroff (Princeton University), “Social Roles and the Dimensions of Social Identity”

October 13, 2015
Rachel Fedock (Arizona State University), “Toward a Feminist-Focused, Ideal Theory of Love”

December 4, 2014
Robin Dembroff (Princeton University) (Rm 5409) “What is Sexual Orientation?”

November 13, 2014
Shiloh Whitney (Fordham University), “The Political Economy of Affects: Gender and Body Image in Affective Labor and Affect Transmission”

October 9, 2014
Alyssa Adamson (Stony Brook University), “Feminist & Queer Critiques of Rawls: Elizabeth Brake and Care”

May 13, 2014
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University), ”Philosophy in Service of the World?”

Apr 24, 2014
Rachel McKinney (The Graduate Center, CUNY), ”Communication and Reproductive Epistemic Labor”

March 27, 2014
Brittany Koffer (Columbia University), ”On the Liberating Use of Objectification”

February 27, 2014
Lauren Alpert (The Graduate Center, CUNY),”Cosmetics, Self-Portraiture, and the Authentic Self”

January 30, 2014
Krista Johansson (New School for Social Research), “The Concept of ‘Woman’: Detangling Nietzsche’s Challenge”

December 5, 2013
Esa Diaz-Leon (University of Manitoba), “The Social Construction of Sexual Orientations”

November 7, 2013
Arina Pismenny (CUNY Graduate Center), ”Love and Irreplaceability”

October 31, 2013
Sharyn Clough (Oregon State University), ”WANTED: Objective, Politically-Engaged Scientist. Reward Offered if Found”

May 9, 2013
Amy Baehr (Hofstra University), “Feminist Liberalism and Property-Owning Democracy”

April 11, 2013
Jennifer Morton (The City College of New York), “Governing of a Self Torn Asunder: Injustice, Self-Governance, and Rationality”

March 21, 2013
Minerva Ahumada (LaGuardia Community College), “The Case Against Kant: The Centrality of Narratives in Moral Theory”

February 21, 2013
Tim Johnston (SUNY Stony Brook), ”Identity Politics and Queer Theory: or, What’s so Queer about Bergson?” 

December 6, 2012
David Black (Rutgers University), “The Impossibility of Consent”

November 15, 2012
Nathifa Greene (SUNY Stony Brook), “In Motion on the Flywheel: Feminist Conceptions of Habit in William James’ Radical Empiricism”

October 18, 2012
Grace Hunt (Bard College), “What Can Resentment Tell Us About Moral Harm?”

August 9, 2012
Kris Sealy, “Power as (or in) Vulnerability: Fanon and Levinas on an Ethical Politics” and Carolyn Plunkett “Creating Room for Emotion in Deliberative Democracy” 

July 12, 2012
Myisha Cherry (John Jay), “Forgiveness, Respect, and the Reclaiming of Rage For Social Justice” and Laura Kane (the Graduate Center, CUNY) “On the Public/Private Distinction: Why all acts of harm are public acts”

May 10, 2012
Elvira Basevich (the Graduate Center, CUNY) “Theorizing Sexuality, the Dialectic and Freedom: Reading Marcuse Against Butler”

April 17, 2012
Jane Dryden (Mount Allison University, Canada) Embodiment and Vulnerability in Fichte and Hegel

March 29, 2012
Jennifer Morton (City College, CUNY) “Cultural Code-Switching: Straddling the Achievement Gap”

February 9, 2012
Liz Camp (University of Pennsylvania), “Slurs, Semantics, and Stereotypes”

January 26, 2012
Courtney Zehnder (Teachers College, Columbia), “I Have a Boyfriend, But … Giving a Personal Account of Sexuality in the Classroom”

December, 2011
Amanda Montgomery (NYU), “A Defense of Consequentialism and the Impartiality Principle”

October 27, 2011
Kelsey Borrowman (Stony Brook), “Plasticization as Necrophilia: Death, Decomposition, and the Inorganic in Foucault”

September 21, 2011
Gina Campelia (CUNY Graduate Center), “Empathy as Knowledge: Realizing the Epistemic Content in Empathy”

August 18, 2011
Michel DeMatteis (CUNY Graduate Center), “Empathy and Knowledge”
Sonja Mönkedieck, “The Power of (De-)Construction”

July 13, 2011
Rachel Fedock (CUNY Graduate Center),“The Caring Person: Care as a Virtue and the Relational Self”
Sophia Wong, Long Island University-Brooklyn, “When Does Caring for Family Members Become a Form of Child Labor?”

June 17, 2011
Julia Nevarez (Kean University), “The Global Library” and Evelyn Burg, LaGuardia College and Queens College CUNY, “How was Analytic Philosophy Useful and/or Problematic for Feminist Thought?” 

May 12, 2011
Sibyl Schwarzenbach (Baruch and CUNY), ”Solidarity versus Civic Friendship: a Feminist Analysis”.  Sixth Floor.

April 14, 2011
Nathifa Greene (Stony Brook), ”A Shattered Self: Hypervigilance and the Disruption of Habit in Post-Traumatic Experience”

February 24, 2011
Jordan Pascoe, ”Promiscuity, Personhood, and Protection: Some Thoughts on Kant and Infanticide”

January 20, 2011
Asha Bhandary (UConn), ”Freedom to Care: A Procedural Solution to the Maldistribution of Dependency Work”

December 16, 2010
Sophia Wong (Long Island University). “My Brother’s Keeper: Siblings as Caregivers to People with Disabilities”

November 18, 2010
Mark Alfano.  ”Virtue Presupposes Care”

September 30, 2010
Rachel McKinney (CUNY Graduate Center).  ”Just Making Conversation: Speech Acts and Agenda-Setting”

May 27, 2010
Shaireen Rasheed (Long Island University), “Sexualized Spaces in Public Spaces: Islam, Women and an Ethics of the Erotic.”

March 18, 2010
Kathleen Wallace, (Hofstra University), “The Relational Self”

February 22, 2010
Nancy Fraser (New School), “Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Toward a Neo-Polanyian Conception of Capitalist Crisis”

January 28, 2010
Ornaith O’Dowd (CUNY), “Care and Abstract Principles”

December 17, 2009
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton University), “The Original Sin of Cognition: Fear, Prejudice, and Generalization”

November 19, 2009
Ishani Maitra (Rutgers University), “Subordinating Speech”