Sue Weinberg Lectures History


Fall 2016-Spring 2017:
October 28, 2016   
Anne Barnhill (Dept. of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania)
Jessica Martucci (Fellow in Advanced Biomedical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania)
“Public Health Skepticism and Respect for Women’s Voices”
 
December 2, 2016
Susan Brison (Philosophy, Dartmouth University)
“Why Rape Is Not Sex Minus Consent”

Monday, March 27, 2017
Naomi Zack (University of Oregon)
“Starting from Injustice: Political Theory for the Disadvantaged”
 
Monday, April 3rd, 2017
Philosophy in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Linda Martin Alcoff (Hunter College and the Graduate Center) and Charles Mills (CUNY Graduate Center)

Fall 2015-Spring 2016:
Sep 18, 2015 - Panel in Honor of Anne Donchin - with Lisa Eckenwhiler (George Mason University), Serene Khader (Brooklyn College), and Georgina Campelia (The Graduate Center, CUNY).
Mar 23, 2016 - Gina Schouton (Illinois State University)
Stereotype threat in philosophy: is it a problem and what should we do if it is?
May 20, 2016 - Lori Watson (University of San Diego)
Interrogating "Sex Work"
Fall 2014-Spring 2015:
Sep 19, 2014 - Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University)
Beloved Communities: Toni Morrison on Genesis of Philosophical Creativity.
Oct 24, 2014 - Christia Mercer (Columbia University)
Feeling Our Way to Truth: Women, Reason, and the Real Story about Early Modern Rationalism
With Commentary by Jessica Gordon Roth (Lehman College)
April 17, 2015 - Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University)
The Completion of Care: A Normative Theory of Care
With commentary by Georgina Campelia (The Graduate Center, CUNY).
Fall 2013-Spring 2014:
October 15, 2013 Sue Weinberg Lecture Series: A Panel on the New Translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex With translators Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier and commentary by Debra Bergoffen, moderated by Kyoo Lee. 
November 22, 2013 Sue Weinberg Lecture Series: Virginia Held (the Graduate Center, CUNY) - Justice and Care, Still? with commentary by Cara O’Connor (SUNY Stonybrook)
July 29, 2014 - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - "Philosophy in service of the world?"
Fall 2012-Spring 2013
May 3, 2013 - Lectures in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus - with Delia Graff Fara (Princeton), Karen Lewis (Barnard/Columbia), Sun-Joo Shin (Yale), and Maya Eddon (UMass Amherst)
Dec 7, 2012 - Panel on Women's Reproductive Rights - with Rebecca Kukla (Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University) and Julie Zilberberg (Independent Scholar, CUNY PhD).
Spring 2012
Sue Weinberg Lecture Series: A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF SUE WEINBERG (1925-2010)
March 2, 2012 Panel: Occupy Wallstreet: Women in Philosophy Respond. Speakers: Kathy Miriam (Independent Scholar), Jennifer Uleman (SUNY Purchase), Cinzia Amuzza (New School), Rachel McKinney (the Graduate Center, CUNY). Graduate Center Room 9205.
April 27, 2012: Diana Meyers (Loyola University Chicago), “Rethinking Coercion for a World of Poverty and Exploitation.” Graduate Center Room 9204.
Fall 2010                                                                      
Sue Weinberg Lecture Series: A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF SUE WEINBERG (1925-2010)
Dr. Sue Weinberg was a long term chair and founding member of NYSWIP.  She was NYSWIP’s heart and backbone.  She is sorely missed.  Please join us for this mini-conference in her honor, featuring papers by her friends and colleagues, on philosophical topics that were close to her heart.
Oct. 29, 2010 12- 6:15pm, CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave., (at 34th street)), rooms 9205, 9206, and 9207
Spring 2010
Speaker Series: Panel on Feminism and Capitalism.  Ann Cudd (U Kansas) and Nancy Holmstrom (Rutgers Newark)
Fall 2009                          
Speaker Series: Linda Alcoff (Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY)  “Sotomayor’s Reasoning.”
Spring 2009
Elizabeth Harman (Philosophy Department and University Center for Human Values, Princeton University), “How Can we Blame the Honest Sexist, Homophobe, or Abortion Opponent?:  Do False but Justified Beliefs Get Them Off the Hook?”
Third Wave Feminism: A Panel Discussion                                 Linda Nicholson (Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women’s Studies, Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis)                                    Jennifer Baumgardner (Author and Activitist)                                                                          Serene Khader (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Wheaton College)                                                   
Fall 2008 
Anne O’Byrne (Department of Philosophy, SUNY at Stony Brook) 
“What Does It Mean to Be Born Today?: Arendt on Birth in the Modern Age” 
Karen Detlefsen (Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania) 
Women and Institutions in the History of Natural Philosophy: Cavendish and du Chatelet – Two Case Studies 
Spring 2008 
Panel: Women, Philosophy & Hegel 
Anelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College), Chair and Discussant 
Mitchell Aboulafia (Juliard School), “What if Hegel’s Master & Slave were Women?” 
Jean Schroeder (Cardozo, Yeshiva University), “Hegel, Lacan, Property & the Feminine” 

Ishani Maitri (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Rutgers University) 
“What Speech Does: Racist Speech & Its Uses” 
Fall 2007 
Joan Tronto (Political Science, Hunter and CUNY Graduate Center) 
“Caring Democracy” 
Louise Antony (Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 
“Is Diversity an Epistemic Value?” 
Spring 2007 
Panel: Women, Philosophy, and Kant 
Angelica Nuzzo (Philosophy, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center) 
Jennifer Uleman (Philosophy, SUNY Purchase) 
Lisabeth During (Philosophy, Pratt Institute) 
Commentator: Ornaith O’Dowd (Philosophy, Brooklyn College) 
Gender and Borders: Law’s Migration and Democratic Iterations 
Seyla Benhabib (Political Science and Philosophy, Yale) 
Judith Resnik (Law, Yale) 
Fall 2006 
Alison M. Jaggar (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder) 
“The Poorest of the Poor: Justice and the Feminization of Global Poverty” 
Panel: Women in Academia: Are We Advancing? 
Virginia Valian (Psychology and Linguistics, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) 
Elizabeth Minnich (Senior Fellow, Ass. Of Am. Colleges and Universities) 
Barbara Andrew (Philosophy, William Patterson University) 
Spring 2006 
Panel: Gender and Globalization 
Ann Ferguson (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 
“Women, Globalization, and Global Justice” 
Hester Eisenstein (Sociology, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center) 
“Globalization, Empire, and the Women’s Movement: Complicity or Resistance?” 
Amy Allen 
“The Politics of Ourselves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory” 
Fall 2005 
Sandra Lee Bartky (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago) 
“The Experiential and Emotional Roots of Feminist Philosophical Papers” 
Commentator: Sophia Wong (Philosophy, Long Island University) 
Kimberly Yuracko (Law, Northwestern) 
“Private Nurses and Playboy Bunnies: Explaining Permissable Sex Discrimination” 
Spring 2005 
Alison Wylie (Women’s Studies and Philosophy, Barnard and Columbia) 
Doing Research in the Social Sciences ss a Feminist 
Respondent: Patricia Clough (Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center) 
Panel: Care Ethics Goes Global 
Robin Isserlies (Sociology, Borough of Manhattan Community College) 
Development as Human Flourishing: Toward a Political Culture of Care 
Eva Kittay (SUNY, Stony Brook) 
Spoke on a WHO-Funded Project on Care 
Fiona Robinson (Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa) 
Beyond Labor Rights: Care Ethics and Women’s Work in the Global Economy 
Fall 2004 
Sandra Lee Bartky (Women’s Studies and Philosophy, University of Il., Chicago) 
Cancelled 
Linda C. McClain (Law, Hofstra) 
Negotiating Gender and (Free and Equal) Citizenship: the Place of Associations 
Spring 2004 
Margaret Walker (Philosophy, Arizona State University, Tempe) 
Forgiving 
Panel: the Status of Women in Philosophy – Problems of Inclusion and Exclusion 
Rosemarie Tong (Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Charlotte) 
Nancy Tuana (Philosophy, Penn State) 
Fall 2003 
Laura Purdy (Philosophy, Wells College) 
Politics and Beyond: Medicalizations and Women’s Reproductive Decisions 
Claudia Card (Philosophy, University of Wisconsin) 
Making War on Terrorism After 9/11 
Spring 2003 
Lori Gruen (Philosophy, Wesleyan University) 
Women, Environment, and Development: A Multicultural Environmental Approach 
Panel: Queer Theory 
Jana Sawicki (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Williams College) 
Michael Murray (Philosophy, Vassar College) 
Dean Spade (Founder: Sylvia Rivera Legal Resource Program of the Urban Justice Center) 
Fall 2002 
Martha Fineman (Emory University) 
The Autonomy Myth 
Sally Haslanger (MIT) 
Oppressions: Racial and Other Respondent: Anna Stubblefield 
Spring 2002 
Maria Pia Lara (Autonomous University, Mexico City) 
Globalizing Women’s Rights 
Panel: Global Feminism 
Rada Ivekovic (University of Paris) 
Ratna Kapur (Georgetown University Law Center) 
Fahima Varquez (Activist in RAWA) 
Fall 2001 
Anne Donchin (Philosophy, Indiana University, Indianapolis) 
Designed Descendants: Puzzles about Personal Autonomy in the Biotech Age 
Patricia Smith (Philosophy, Brooklyn College) 
Motherhood and In-Subordination: Thoughts on Cultural Revolution, Overpopulation, and 
Political Reform 
Spring 2001 
Gail Weiss (Philosophy, George Washington U.) 
Are Myths Indispensible? Rethinking Myths and Reality 
Panel: Women and Economics 
Nancy Folbre (U. Mass Amherst) 
Julie Nelson (Harvard Div. School) 
Fall 2000 
Jane Roland Martin (UMass Boston, em.) 
Academic Women: What Price Belonging? 
Elizabeth Grosz (SUNY Buffalo) 
Sexuality, Pleasure, and Power 
Spring 2000 
Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana University) 
Objectivity: A Double Standard? 
Frances Kamm (NYU) 
Jean Hampton on Self and Society 
Fall 1999 
Mary Hawkesworth (Rutgers) 
Democratization: Reflections on Gendered Dislocations in the Public Sphere 
Kelly Oliver (SUNY Stony Brook) 
The Look of Love: Toward a New Conception of Vision 
Spring 1999 
Margaret Simons (S. Ill. U.) 
De Beauvoir’s 1927 Diary, and Sartre: Reopening the Question of Influence 
Nancy Hirschmann (Cornell) 
The Social Construction of Women’s Choices 
Fall 1998 
Nel Noddings (TC) 
Care and Social Policy 
Vicki Schultz (Yale Law) 
Reconceptualizing Sexual Harassment 
Spring 1998 
Panel: Feminism and Philosophy of Science 
Karen Barad (Pomona College) 
Naomi Oreskes (NYU) 
Marueen Linder (U. Mich. Dearborn) 
Linda Nicholson (SUNY Albany) 
I am Modern, Hear Me Roar: The Rise of the Psychological Self 
Fall 1997 
Uma Narayan (Vasser) 
The Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism 
Susan Brison (Dartmouth) 
The Aftermath of Violence: Traumatic Memory And the Politics of Forgetting 
Spring 1997 
Panel: Feminist Aesthetics 
Hilde Hein (Holy Cross) 
Carol Armstrong (CUNY Graduate Center) 
Barbara Savedoff (Baruch)Sara Ruddick (New School) 
Ideals of Fatherhood 
Respondent: Hilde Nelson (U. of Tenn.) 
Fall 1996 
Iris Young (U. of Pittsburgh) 
Difference as a Resource in Democratic Communication 
Nancy Fraser (New School) 
Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics 
Spring 1996 
Carol Gould (Stevens Institute) 
Embodied Politics 
Respondent Nancy Holmstrom (Rutgers) 
Panel: Women of Color in Philosophy 
Anita Allen (Georgetown Law) 
Uma Narayan (Vassar) 
Graduate and Undergraduate Students 
Fall 1995 
Eva Kittay (SUNY Stony Brook) 
Dependency Work, Political Discourse and a New Basis for Coalition Among Women 
Respondent: Barbara Omalade (City College) 
Jessica Benjamiin (psychoanalyst, NYU and New School) 
Discussion of Diana Meyers’ Subjection and Subjectivity 
Respondents: Diana Meyers (U. Connecticut) 
Robin Dillon (Lehigh) 
Spring 1995 
Margaret Walker (Fordham) 
Feminist Skepticism, Authority and Transparency 
Linda Alcoff (Syracuse) 
Are Feminist Critiques of Reason Rational? 
Respondent: Maureen Linker (CUNY Graduate Center) 
Rosi Braidotti (U. of Utrecht) 
Nomadic Subjects 
Fall 1994 
Annette Baier (Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh) 
Hume 
Virginia Held (Philosophy, Hunter College) 
Who’s Agenda? Feminist Ethics and Cognitive Science 
Spring 1994 
Sarah Burns (NYU Law) 
Sexual Harassment in Employment 
Maria Lugones (SUNY Binghampton) 
Women of Color: Boundary Drawing and Hostility Among Us 
Fall 1993 
Helen Longino 
Report on Women in Academia – Statistics, Fields/Ranks 
Eileen O’Neill 
Women Philosophers 

SWIPshop History

Fall 2015-Spring 2016
​Oct 13, 2015 - Rachel Fedock (Arizona State University)
Toward a Feminist-Focused, Ideal Theory of Love
Oct 27, 2015 - Cat Saint-Croix (University of Michigan Ann Arbor) and Robin Dembroff (Princeton University)
Social Roles and the Dimensions of Social Identity
Nov 17, 2015 - Amy Baehr (Hofstra University)
A Capacious Account of Liberal Feminism
Dec 8, 2015 - Lisa McKeown (New School for Social Research)
Problems with Pornography: Rethinking Authority in Speech Acts
Feb 2, 2016 - Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut, Stors)
Passivity in Theories of the Agentic Self: Reflections on the View of Soran Reader and Sarah Buss
Mar 1, 2016 - Karen Baird (Purchase College, SUNY)
When Sex Becomes Dangerous: HIV Prevention Policies the Creation of Prevention 'Knowledge'
Apr 18, 2016 - Monique Deveaux (University of Guelph)
​Exploitation, Structural Injustice, and the Cross-Border Trade in Human Ova
Fall 2014-Spring 2015
December 4th with Robin Dembroff (Princeton University) (Rm 5409) “What is Sexual Orientation?”
November 13th with Shiloh Whitney (Fordham University) (Rm 7113) “The Political Economy of Affects: Gender and Body Image in Affective Labor and Affect Transmission”
October 9th with Alyssa Adamson (Stony Brook University) (Rm 5409) “Feminist & Queer Critiques of Rawls: Elizabeth Brake and Care
Fall 2013-Spring 2014
Tuesday May 13, 2014 (Rm 5409): Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University) ”Philosophy in Service of the World?”
Thursday Apr 24, 2014 (Rm 5414):Rachel McKinney (The Graduate Center, CUNY) ”Communication and Reproductive Epistemic Labor”
Thursday Mar 27, 2014:Brittany Koffer (Columbia University) ”On the Liberating Use of Objectification”
Thursday Feb 27, 2014: Lauren Alpert (The Graduate Center, CUNY) ”Cosmetics, Self-Portraiture, and the Authentic Self”
Thursday Jan 30, 2014: Krista Johansson (New School for Social Research) “The Concept of ‘Woman’: Detangling Nietzsche’s Challenge”
Thursday Dec 5, 2013: Esa Diaz-Leon (University of Manitoba) “The Social Construction of Sexual Orientations”May 9, 2013:Amy Baehr (Hofstra University) “Feminist Liberalism and Property-Owning Democracy”
Thursday Nov 7, 2013: Arina Pismenny (CUNY Graduate Center) ”Love and Irreplaceability”
Thursday Oct 31: Sharyn Clough (Oregon State University) ”WANTED: Objective, Politically-Engaged Scientist. Reward Offered if Found”
Fall 2012-Spring 2013
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?”
Fall 2011-Spring 2012
August 9, 2012 (summer session): 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 (summer session): Myisha Cherry “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, 6:30pm. Elvira Basevich (the Graduate Center, CUNY) “Theorizing Sexuality, the Dialectic and Freedom: Reading Marcuse Against Butler”
April 17, 2012, 6:30pm. Jane Dryden (Mount Allison University, Canada) Embodiment and Vulnerability in Fichte and Hegel
March 29, 2012, 6:30pm. Jennifer Morton (City College, CUNY) “Cultural Code-Switching: Straddling the Achievement Gap”
February 9, 2012, 6:30pm.  Liz Camp (University of Pennsylvania), “Slurs, Semantics, and Stereotypes”
January 26, 2012, 6:30pm.  Courtney Zehnder (Teachers College, Columbia), “I Have a Boyfriend, But … Giving a Personal Account of Sexuality in the Classroom”
December, 2011, 6:30pm.  Amanda Montgomery (NYU), “A Defense of Consequentialism and the Impartiality Principle”
October 27, 2011, 6:30pm.  Kelsey Borrowman (Stony Brook), “Plasticization as Necrophilia: Death, Decomposition, and the Inorganic in Foucault”
September 21, 2011, 6:30pm.  (This is a Wednesday!)  Gina Campelia (CUNY Graduate Center), “Empathy as Knowledge: Realizing the Epistemic Content in Empathy”
Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011 (summer session): Michel DeMatteis, CUNY Graduate Center, “Empathy and Knowledge” and Sonja Mönkedieck, “The Power of (De-)Construction”
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 (summer session): Rachel Fedock, CUNY Graduate Center, “The Caring Person: Care as a Virtue and the Relational Self” and Sophia Wong, Long Island University-Brooklyn, “When Does Caring for Family Members Become a Form of Child Labor?”
Friday, June 17, 2011 (summer session): 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.  ”Solidarity versus Civic Friendship: a Feminist Analysis”.  Sixth Floor.
April 14, 2011.  Nathifa Greene.  ”A Shattered Self: Hypervigilance and the Disruption of Habit in Post-Traumatic Experience.”  Sixth Floor.
February 24, 2011.  Jordan Pascoe.  ”Promiscuity, Personhood, and Protection: Some Thoughts on Kant and Infanticide.”  Sixth Floor.
January 20, 2011.  Asha Bhandary.  ”Freedom to Care: A Procedural Solution to the Maldistribution of Dependency Work.”  Second floor seminar room.
December 16, 2010.  Sophia Wong (Long Island University). “My Brother’s Keeper: Siblings as Caregivers to People with Disabilities.”  Meeting on the 6th floor.
November 18, 2010.  Mark Alfano.  ”Virtue Presupposes Care.”   Meeting on the 6th floor.
September 30, 2010.  Rachel McKinney (CUNY Graduate Center).  ”Just Making Conversation: Speech Acts and Agenda-Setting.”  Meeting on the 6th floor.
Fall 2009-Spring 2010
May 27, 2010.  6:30pm: Shaireen Rasheed (Long Island University), “Sexualized Spaces in Public Spaces: Islam, Women and an Ethics of the Erotic.”
March 18, 2010.  6:30pm: Kathleen Wallace, (Hofstra University), “The Relational Self”
February 22, 2010.  6:30pm: 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.  6:30pm: Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton University), “The Original Sin of Cognition: Fear, Prejudice, and Generalization”
November 19, 2009.  6:30pm: Ishani Maitra (Rutgers University), “Subordinating Speech”