Convenors:
Jaana Virta (Tampere University): jaana.virta@tuni.fi
***ALL TIMES ARE UTC TIMES (ECT -4 hours, BST +1 hour, etc.)***
Tuesday 8th September
Metaphysics of Gender
13.00–14.00 – Jaana Virta: Welcome to the Workshop
14.00–15.00 – Keynote: Ásta: “Descriptivism about Gender”
(30 minutes break)
15.30–16.30 – Phillip Yoon: “A Step Towards Achieving Gender Justice: The Consideration of Gender Self-Identification”
16.45–17.45 – Jade Fletcher: “Defending the Nonseparability Argument for Gender Nominalism”
18.00–19.00 – Gabrielle Bussell: “Feminist Theory, Gender Identity, and Liberation from Patriarchal Power: An Argument for an Ascriptive Account of Gender”
Wednesday 9th September
Conceptual Approaches to Metaphysics of Gender
13.00–14.00 – Keynote: Esa Diaz-Leon: “A contextualist response to gender-critical views”
14.15–15.15 – Matthew Cull : “For an Ameliorative Semantic Pluralism”
(30 minutes break)
15.45–16.45 – Madhavi Mohan: “Descriptive and Normative Grounds for Understanding Genders as Essentially Contested”
17.00–18.00 – Claudia Mazzuca and Matteo Santarelli: “Politicized concepts as abstract concepts: the case of gender”
18.15–19.00 – Chatting about the themes of the first two days with coffee/tea/drink
Thursday 10th September
Metaphysics of Gender Identity / Metaphysics of Gender II
13.00–14.00 – Keynote: Katharine Jenkins: “Gender Pluralism and the Constraints and Enablements Framework”
14.15–15.15 – Matthew Turyn: “The need for epistemic first-person authority”
(45 minutes break)
16.00–17.00 – Joshua Petersen: “Who (gets to be) a lesbian? Identity gatekeeping and the relevance of metaphysics to political praxis”
17.15–18.00 – Chatting about the themes of the day with coffee/tea/drink
Friday 11th September
Future of Gender
13.00–14.00 – Keynote: Robin Dembroff : “Problems with Patriarchy”
14.15–15.15 – Danny Weltman: “Gender Abolitionism: Not Now, But Late”
(45 minutes break)
16.00–17.00 – Giuseppe Vicinanza: “The trans-gender society. Thoughts for a future manifesto”
17.15–18.00 – Conclusion + Planning how to smash the patriarchy asap
WARNING: The keynote talks focus around the theme of their day only by change.
