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Wednesday, April 13
4:15 p.m., Forum South Lounge, "The Subject of Feminism Revisited" by Rosi Braidotti, Professor of Women's Studies and Director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies at the University of Utrecht. She co-ordinates ATHENA, the European Thematic Network of Women's Studies for the European Commission's SOCRATES program, and is the author or editor of several books, including Patterns of Dissonance: A Study of Women in Contemporary Philosophy (1991), Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (1994), Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis (1994) and, most recently, Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming (2002).
8:00 p.m., Forum South Lounge, "The Trouble with Difference" by Susan Bordo, the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. She has written and edited several books, including Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (1993, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. (1997) and, most recently, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private (1999).
Thursday, April 14
11:00 a.m., Herrick Chapel, "Feminist Fundamentalism" by Amy Hollywood, Professor of the History of Christianity and Theology at the University of Chicago, where she teaches courses on early and medieval Christian thought and practice, the history of Christian mysticism, and contemporary theory, all with particular attention to questions generated by feminist and queer studies. She is the author most recently of Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (2002) and is currently writing a book about the reception—medieval, early modern, and modern—of medieval Christian women’s mysticism.
4:15 p.m., Forum South Lounge, "Difference, Vulnerability, and Metamorphosis" by Penelope Deutscher, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, where her main research interests are twentieth century and contemporary French philosophy, and philosophy of gender. She is the author of Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (1997), and A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (2002). Deutscher has also co-edited with Kelly Oliver a collection of essays: Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman (Cornell University Press, 1999), guest edited for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy the special issue ‘Contemporary French Women Philosophers’ (15:4, 2000), and is a co-editor, with Francoise Collin, of Repenser la politique: L’apport du féminisme, an anthology of French translations of contemporary Anglo-American women political philosophers (Les Cahiers du Grif/Campagne Première, 2005).
Friday, April 15
4:15 p.m., Forum South Lounge, Round Table: Susan Bordo, Rosi Braidotti, Penelope Deutscher, Amy Hollywood, Jenny Anger, Johanna Meehan, Kathleen Skerrett, Alan Schrift.
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