Events from 2008 to present

SPSL at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2, 2010, San Francisco

• Topic: "Intersex: Bodies, Norms, and Identities"


• Hida Viloria, intersex activist and author, "Intersex Unplugged," a reading from her Mighty Hermaphrodite: An Intersex Memoir


• Ellen Feder, American University, "Normalizing Medicine: Between 'Intersexuals' and Individuals with 'Disorders of Sex Development'" (link to longer version of this paper is here)


• Sharon Sytsma, Northern Illinois University, "Being True to Oneself: Intersexuality and the Quest for Authenticity"


• David Ozar, Loyola University, Chicago, "Intersex and the Inadequacy of Stable Binary Norms"


• Chair: Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo

SPSL Session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 2009, New York City

• Yolanda Estes, Mississippi State University, J. G. Fichte’s Account of Feminine Sexual Desire"
• Comments by Jane Dryden, Mount Allison University


• Yiftach Fehige, "The Sexual Body Paradox: On the Irreducibility of Human Sexuality"
• Comments by Lanei Rodemeyer, Duquesne University


• Chair: Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo

"Sexual Selves": A Conference on Sexuality and Sexual Identity, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May 1-3, 2009

Friday May 1:

• Scott Anderson, University of British Columbia, "On Sexual Obligation and Sexual Autonomy"
• Chair: Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo
  


• Alice Maclachlan, York University, "The Good of 'Out'"
• Chair: Richard Mohr, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


• Deirdre Golash, American University, "Polyamory and the Boundaries of the Self"
• Chair: Tom Digby, Springfield College


• Anita Superson, University of Kentucky, "Honky Tonk Woman"
• Chair: Krista Thomason, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


• Samantha Brennan, University of Western Ontario, and Jennifer Epp, University of Western Ontario, "A Child's Right to Sexual Agency"
• Chair: Katherine Piatti, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


• Deen Chatterjee, University of Utah, "Misogyny and Homophobia: Two Dogmas, Same Logic"
• Chair: David Sussman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


• Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago, Keynote Address: "Sexual Orientation and the Constitution"

Saturday May 2:

• Ami Harbin, Dalhousie University, "Sexual Authenticities"
• Chair: Sharon Sytsma, Northern Illinois University


• Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Yale University, "Sexual Citizenship: Derridean Friendship or Cavellian Re-marriage?"
• Chair: Ginna Husting, Boise State University


• Johanna Oksala, University of Dundee, "Sexual Experience: Foucault, Phenomenology and Feminist Theory"
• Chair: Adam Bowen


• Richard Nunan, College of Charleston, "Transgendered Marriage and the Legal Coercion of Gender Identity"
• Chair: Dan Korman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


• Melissa Orlie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Amor fati: The Impersonal Matter of Being a Parent and a Lover"
• Chair: Shelley Weinberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


• Laura Werner, Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and CoE in Political Thought and Conceptual Change at the Academy of Finland, "Sex and the City-State: Political Participation as Virility and the 'Right of Desire' in 18th Century Philosophy"
• Chair: Joe Swenson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


• Laurie Shrage, Florida International University, Keynote Address: "The Idea of a Sexual Orientation: And its Relation to Sex Identity (with apologies to P.W....)"

Sunday May 3:

• Jacob Hale, California State University, Northridge, "Desire in the Dust of the Transsexual Archive"
• Chair: Lisa King, Edgewood College
  
  
• Ellen Feder, American University, "Sexual Selves and their Parents: Reflections on Shame, Envy, and Unconditional Love"
• Chair: Suzanne Senay, Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
  
  
• Speaker: Ann J. Cahill, Elon University, Feeling Bodies: Material Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Objectification"
• Chair: Ingrid Albrecht, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

SPSL Session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 2008, New York City

• Kathleen J. Wininger, University of Southern Maine, "The 'Pinnacle of his Spirit': Nietzsche and the Erotic"
• Comments by Maudemarie Clark, Colgate University


• Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Yale University, "Bearing the Beyond: Women and the Limits of Language in Stanley Cavell." Has since been published in Gender Forum: Gender and Langauge 20, 2008)
• Comments by William Day, Le Moyne College


• Chair: Helga Varden, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Events from 1977 to 1992
• Events from 1993 to 2007