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philoSOPHIA CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS Memorial University, Signal Hill Campus, St. John’s, Newfoundland, May ?-AA PLEASE NOTE: Workshops are closed to everyone but presenters. Panels and plenary sessions are open to all. Thursday, May ? ":$$-&:$$ PM Registration (Atrium) PLENARY SESSION: LEE MARACLE (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO) &:$$-):*$ PM “Decolonization, Continental Feminism, and Indigeneity” (B#$$W) Chair: Max Liboiron, Associate VP (Indigenous Research), Memorial University :*$-0$:$$ PM RECEPTION (B) Friday, May AJ :*$-1:*$ Registration (Atrium) and Coffee (B) PANEL : FEMINISM AND CONSENT (B#$$Wb) WORKSHOP A: FOUCAULT AND WYNTER: LUCINDA VANDERVORT, A PHILOSOPHICAL ENCOUNTER WITH “Conceptions of Individual and AND AGAINST THE HUMAN (B%$$%) Group Consent in the #%st Century” WORKSHOP COORDINATORS: CALEB WARD, “Locating Lynne Huffer and Taryn Jordan Responsibility to a Partner within PARTICIPANTS: Haylee Harrell, Ege Selin Structural Critiques of SeXual Consent” Islekel, Rebecca Longtin, Elaine Miller, ABBY KLUCHIN, “Feeling Willing: Toward Mukasa Mubirumusoke, an Intersubjective Theory of Consent” Elisabeth Paque_e Chair: Jordan Van Den Hoonaard :*$ AM– WORKSHOP B: FEMINIST (Memorial University) :*$ AM SOLIDARITIES (B%$$#) PANEL : TRANS SUBJECTIVITY (B%$$d) FLORENTIEN VERHAGE, “Surging FANNY SÖDERBÄCK, “Fantastic from the Wreckage of Colonialism” Antigones: Queer Deaths, Trans WHITNEY RONSHAGEN, “Eating Lives, and the Right to Grieve” Together as ‘World’-Travelling” JILL DROUILLARD, “The King Was MALIHEH DEYHIM (Graduate Student Pregnant: Reproductive Ethics Essay Prize Winner), “But a Piece of and Transgender Pregnancy” Clothing: On Removing the Hijab” DAZE JEFFERIES, “Drowned Knowing: Fragments TABOR FISHER, “Space-Time and Social toward Island Trans Fishy Subjectivities”* Location: Re-placing Intersectionality” Chair: Evan Gray (Memorial University) ‘ :DE AM – PLENARY SESSION: KELLY OLIVER (VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY) :0E PM “The Special Plight of Women Refugees” (B#$$W)* :0E-:0E PM Boxed lunch (for presenters), guided walk up Signal Hill WORKSHOP C: AFFECT AND PANEL *: DECOLONIZATION INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS (B%$$%) AND INDIGENEITY (B#$$Wb) KYM MACLAREN, “Criminalization CAROL-LYNNE D‘ARCANGELIS, “Reading and the Self-Constituting Resistance in the Works of María Lugones Dynamics of Distrust” and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson” LISA MADURA, “Anti-Social SONJA BOON AND KATE LAHEY, Habit and Critical Disruption” “The Impossibility of a Future in the ALI BEHELER, “What is a Mother? Absence of a Past: Drifting in the In-Between” The Interimplication of Agency VICKI HALLETT, “Floating in Se_ler-Colonial :0E PM– and Maternity” ConteXt: Meanings and Implications” :DE PM Chair: Samuel Underwood (Memorial University) WORKSHOP D: NATURE AND HEALTH (B%$$#) PANEL : THE PROPER AND THE IMPROPER: ALICE EVERLY, “Constructing Anew: AFFECT, HEALTH, AND SPEECH (B%$$d) Looping Effects, Sociogeny, SHILOH WHITNEY, “Decolonizing the and Systems of Social Value” Authenticity Critique of Affective Labor” TRISTANA MARTIN RUBIO, “Age, Time, JANE DRYDEN, “Gut Microbiome and the Politics of the ‘Biological Clock’” and Care of the Self” MARJOLEIN OELE, “The Dissolution of the PATRICIA DOLD, “Discourse on Female Body, Pregnant City: A Phenomenological Speech, and Identity in Hindu Narratives”* Account of Early Pregnancy Loss” Chair: Kristen Lewis (Memorial University) E:$$ PM– PLENARY SESSION: MARÍA LUGONES (BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY) (B#$$W) :*$ PM THIS SESSION IS CANCELLED :*$ PM Dinner (on your own) LEE MARACLE reads from HOPE MATTERS Eastern Edge Gallery, W# Harbour Drive (note location change!) :*$ PM Chair: Michelle Porter (Memorial University) Refreshments and cash bar Saturday, May AA :*$-1:*$ AM Registration and Coffee (B) WORKSHOP A: FOUCAULT AND PANEL : RACE IN ECOLOGY, SEXUALITY, AND WYNTER: A PHILOSOPHICAL DEMOGRAPHICS (Bb) (9:30 start time) ENCOUNTER WITH AND AGAINST THE ROMY OPPERMAN, “Thinking the Afterlife of Slavery HUMAN (B) (9:00 start time) Ecologically: Saidiya Hartman’s Natural History” WORKSHOP COORDINATORS: SABRINA L. HOM, “Rape Fantasies: Interracial SeXuality Lynne Huffer and Taryn Jordan and the Construction of ‘Pure’ White Desire” PARTICIPANTS: Haylee Harrell, Ege ANDREA J. PITTS, “A Death-Dealing Selin Islekel, Rebecca Longtin, Elaine Displacement of Difference: Crip Theory, Miller, Mukasa Mubirumusoke, Crimmigration, and Penal Abolitionism” Elisabeth Paque_e Chair: Elizabeth Hill (Memorial University) :/1:*$ AM– :$$ AM WORKSHOP B: FEMINIST SOLIDARITIES PANEL : ECOLOGICAL ETHICS AND (B%$$#) (9:30 start time) THE UNHUMAN GROUND OF IDENTITY LORNA QUIROGA, “Different (B%$$d) (9:30 start time) Ways of Weaving Gender, SUZANNE MCCULLAGH, “Becoming- for a Pluriverse Proposal” Woman and/or the Disappearance MAURA ROBERTS, “Relating in Place: of Woman in Ecological Ethics”* Engaging with Strawberries CASEY FORD, “Bodies, Vile and Virile: Bare and Indigenous Feminisms” Life in Lispector, CiXous, and Agamben” EMERSON BODDE, “Is Spinoza DANIEL GRIFFIN, “A New Flesh: David Cronenberg, a Decolonial Feminist?” Flesh-Images, and Queering the Male Body” Chair: Patrick Renaud (Memorial University) :0E AM– PLENARY DISCUSSION: FEMINISM’S FUTURE(S) (B#$$W) :DE PM Chair: Shannon Hoff (Memorial University) :DE–:* PM BUSINESS MEETING (open to all), lunch on your own WORKSHOP C: AFFECT AND PANEL &: WORKING TOWARD SOLIDARITY INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS (B%$$%) IN THE COLONIAL CONTEXT (B#$$Wb) ANNA E. MUDDE, “Crafting ELISABETH PAQUETTE, “Indigeneity and Presence in the World” Solidarity in Decolonial Theory: CELIA EDELL, “Theorizing the Persistence of On Sylvia Wynter and Jodi A. Byrd” :*$ PM– Oppression: Epistemology of Ignorance” SARAH M. KIZUK, “Se_ler Shame: :*$ PM KATHY KILOH, “On Eva Hesse’s A Critique of the Role of Shame Contingent: An Aesthetic Investigation in Se_ler Identity in Canada”* of Julia Kristeva’s Herethics”* ROXANA AKHBARI: “Se_ler Colonial ELDEN YUNGBLUT, “A Transfeminist Lands in the Age of Apology”* Mobilization of Luce Irigaray’s Chair: Amelia Harris (Memorial University) Strategy of Mimesis” WORKSHOP D: NATURE AND HEALTH (B%$$#) PANEL : QUEER NORMATIVITY (B%$$d) TALIA WELSH, “ A Feminist Critical STEPH BUTERA, “The Hope of Humanism: Phenomenology of Health Promotion” Queering Phenomenological Posthumanism” EMILY R. DOUGLAS, “Materializations of TYLER CARSON, “Engendering the :*$ PM– Illness and Somatic Capacitations” Anti-Social Thesis: The Queerness of :*$ PM SHANNON BOSS, “A Phenomenology of Pregnancy in Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts”* OrthoreXia: Health and Gender in SHAWN HUBERDEAU, “Feminism-On-Trial: Experiences of Dys-appearance”* Abjection as a Theory of Liberation” VICTORIA SMITH, “Women Embedded in Chair: Michelle Mahoney Nature: A Critique of Mellor’s Ecofeminism” (Memorial University) PLENARY SESSION: UMA NARAYAN (VASSAR UNIVERSITY) :DE PM – “How ‘Sisterhood’ Becomes ‘Doing Good’: Asymmetries of Positionality, Privilege :0E PM and Political Concern between Western Subjects and their Nonwestern Others” (B#$$W) Chair: Jennifer Dyer (Memorial University) :0E PM RECEPTION (B#$$W) :$$ PM BANQUET (B#$$W) * Presentation may include slides philoSOPHIA would like To Thank The following people and groups for Their supporT: Our hosts: The Department of Philosophy at Memorial University; the Staff and Facilities at Signal Hill Campus; Eastern Edge Gallery Our local organizers: Carol-Lynne D‘Arcangelis, Shannon Hoff, Victoria Smith (Memorial University) Our sponsors: The Departments of Philosophy, Religious Studies, Gender Studies, and English at Memorial University; Vice-President of Research; the Scholarship in the Arts Fund; the Office of Public Engagement Quick Start Fund Our Program CommiSee: Natalie Cisneros (Seale University), Jane Dryden (Mount Allison University), Shannon Hoff (Memorial University), Sabrina L. Hom (Georgia College), Katherine Loevy (Pacific University), Kym Maclaren (Ryerson University), Talia Welsh (University of Chaanooga-Tennessee) Our Executive CommiSee: Elaine Miller (EXecutive Director, Miami University), Lauren Guilmette (Assistant Director, Florida Atlantic University), Kelsey Borrowman (Villanova University), Alyson Cole (Queens College, CUNY), Namita Goswami (Indiana State University), Rachel Jones (George Mason University), Kyoo Lee (John Jay College, CUNY), Robert Leib (Florida Atlantic University), Ann Murphy (University of New MeXico), Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University), Elisabeth Paquette (University of North Carolina-Charlotte), David Pena-Guzman (San Francisco State University) ABSTRACTS Roxana Akhbari (York UniversiTy), “SetTler Colonial Lands in The Age of Apology: Segregation of IndigeneiTy and (Im)migration by The Canadian STaTe.” In the past few decades, there has been a global increase in nation state apologies to racialized communities, leading to the designation of the “age of apology” for describing our time. In Canada, apologies are made to various immigrant and Indigenous populations, but they ironically function to create a climate of political segregation among them. Here, I analyze an instance of the state’s segregationist approach to redress movements by problematizing the dichotomous construction of the “Aboriginal”/“non-Aboriginal” categories in its 1998 apology to Indigenous peoples. Drawing upon “epistemologies of ignorance,” I suggest that these kinds of segregation serve to put constraints on alliance- building potentials across different Indigenous self-determination and other ethnocultural anti-racist movements. Finally, using Day’s account of the triangular logic of settler