2025 Conference
Last updated: January 20, 2025
FemPhilAZ 2025 will continue to be offered in an all hybrid in-person/Zoom format. Our in-person venue will be the Department of Philosophy’s J. Christopher Maloney Seminar Room, Social Sciences Building Room 224 (1145 E South Campus Dr).
Accessibility:
- The Social Sciences Building is wheelchair accessible via a side door facing the parking lot, and from there an elevator can take you to the second floor.
- For accessibility reasons, we ask all in-person participants to wear N94/N95 or similar masks, which may be picked up at no cost from the registration table.
- A nursing room (Social Sciences 113A) and a quiet room (Social Sciences 308, which is a classroom that we have reserved) are available for use.
- The University of Arizona supports the option of individuals to use the restroom that meets their individual needs or in which they feel safest; in addition, an all-gender bathroom can be found on the third floor (Social Sciences 309). (If you are feeling adventurous, there is a secret all-gender bathroom inside the auditorium, Social Sciences 100, in the backstage.)
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!
Friday, February 7, 2025
| 8:45–9:15 | Breakfast in the Maloney Seminar Room (Social Sciences 224) |
| 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 in the Maloney Seminar Room (Social Sciences 224) |
| 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 |