People in the Bay Area might be interested in checking some of the Radical Philosophy Association meeting out--it's at SF State.
Frances kicking herself because she cancelled a trip to the RPA to go to a conference in Gainesville that same weekend... **********
RPA conference Program and Schedule
Thursday - Nov. 5
12:00 - Arrival and Registration
-- coffee with donuts and bagels
1:00 - Panel session #1 (2 hrs)
The Left; What's Left?
Richard Peterson - Race as Politics
Rosemary Klein - The US Left; What's Left?
John Sanbonmatsu - Gramsci and Merleau-Ponty: Hegemony and the
Phenomenology of Praxis
Moderator: Bob Stone
Tom Athanasiou's "Divided Planet": a Discussion with the Author
Phil Gasper
Mary Ann Warren
Tom Athanasiou - respondant
Confronting the Social in the Global
Kevin Graham -- Dialogue, Democracy, and Global Justice
Harry van der Linden - High Consumption as Legitimation for Global
Capitalism
Dr. Gabriel Vargas Lozano - "Democracia liberal y democracia
radical en la globalizacion" [Liberal Democracy and Radical
Democracy in the context of Globalization]
Feminist Epistemology I
Mary Ann McClure - Chaos Theory and Feminist Philosophy: Some
Parallels
Lorraine Code - Taxonomies: the Politics of Feminist Encyclopedia
Making
Constance Mui - Pornography and the Sartrean "Look"
The State and Neoliberalism
Cliff Durand
Milton Fisk
Humberto Miranda
Dra. Ana Maria Rivadeo - "Neoliberalismo y democracia".
--- 15 minute break with coffee et al
3:15 - Panel session #2 (2 hrs)
Ideology, Nationalism, Resistence
Kim Leighton - Signed and Unsigned: the Strange Power of language
and the Power of Publicity
David Kaplan - Ricoeur's Critical Theory
Bat Ami Bar-On - Friendship for Enemies
A Return to Socialist Ethics
Deborah Hawkins - Kant and the Extension of Liberty
Horace Fairlamb - If Rights were Rule-Utilities, Could Marx Live
with Them?
Peter Hudis - The Power of Negativity: New Perspectives on the
Hegelian-Marxian dialectic
A Critique of Justice
David Ingram - Multicultural and Multiracial Justice
David Kahane - Justice, Empathy, and Dissociation
Kathryn Witzig - On the Nature, Necessity, and Morality of Racial
Stereotypes
Radical Masculinity: a forum on alternatives
Kim Holder
Herb Green - Baldwin, sexuality, and race authenticity
Richard Schmitt
Sandra Bartke
The Relevance of Dialectics
Tony Smith - Value Theory and Dialectics
Patrick Murray - Phenomenology, Essentialism, and the Systematic
Dialectical Presentation
Jennifer Ring - Minimalist Dialectics
5:30 - Plenary I (2 hrs)
Critical Feminisms in the Era of Globalization
Norma Alarcon
Marissa Belausteguigoitia
Angela Chabram
Chela Sandoval
7:30 - Reception, mixer, beer and wine, and serious finger food
-- until closing time
Friday - Nov. 6
--- coffee et al
9:00 - Panel session #3 (2 1/2 hrs)
Radical Pedagogy
Les Gottesman - To Fight and Learn: the Praxis and Promise of
Literacy in Eritrea's Independence War
Eduardo Mendieta - Teaching Ethics in a Global Context
Amie MacDonald - Feminist Pedogogy and the Appeal to Epistemic
Privilege
Robert Figueroa - Stretching the Moral Imagination Across Identity
Jose Orosco: moderator
Sartre and the Uprisings of May 1968
Joe Walsh
John Gerassi
Bob Stone
Betsy Bowman
-- Bill McBride - moderator
Queer and Monstrous Bodies: Representation of Bodies and Bodies of
Representation
Abby Wilkerson - Medicalizing the Monstrous, Monstering the Medic
Melissa Burchard - Perversion, Harm, and the Construction of
Identity
Quincy Foley - A Queer Geography: A Mapping of the Daddy Fantasy
Dan Williamson - untitled
Visions of Resistance: Post-Modern Feminism and the Question of
Materialism
Patricia Huntington - The Body as Materiality: Overcoming Women's
Melancholic Subjectivity
Alison Brown - Post-Modern Strategies of Critique with Haraway and
Young
Mecke Nagel - Technologies of the Self: A Materialist Feminist
Perspective
Tina Chanter - The Impossibility of Love's Law
--- 15 minute break; coffee et al
11:45 - business meeting ===> with box lunch provided
Agenda includes organizational questions, publications, the
Cuba conferences, the FAT solidarity campaign, and the Chiapas
work, announcing the Chiapas workshop to be held on Saturday,
at 6:30, just before the banquet.
2:00 - Panel session #4 (2 hrs)
Performative Democracy
Michelle Grisat -- Radical Democracy in a Performative Mode
Wendy White -- The Political and Cultural Legacy of Audre Lorde
Mtra. Yolanda Angulo -- Philosophical Vitalism, Educational Vitality
On Charles Mills's "The Racial Contract"
John Exdell
Tommy Lott
Olufemi Taiwo
Steve Martinot - moderator
Market Socialism: a Debate
David Schweickart
Bertell Ollman
Lewis Gordon - discussant
Whither Latin America
Arturo Arias - Latin America and Globalization: New Subjects, New
Politics
Jose Orosco - Democracy in the Time of Cholera: Utopia and the
Postsocialist Condition in Latin America
Wes Rehberg - Popular Education, Popular Struggle for Human Rights,
and Popular Theology in Mexico
Early Career Feminist Philosophers: Opportunity, Opportunism, and
Oppression
Kim Hall - 'Yes, but can you teach intro?:' On Being a Feminist
Philosopher
Kathy Miriam - Disciplining Feminism: Reflections on the
(Im)possibility of the Feminist Academic as Public
Intellectual
Louise Collins - I was a Teen-aged Platonist: Confessions of a
Feminist Philosopher
Cressida Heyes - moderator
--- 15 minute break; coffee et al
4:15 - Panel session #5 (2 hrs)
Alternate Modes of Democracy
Omar Dahbour - Three Alternate Modes of Community
Alison Jaggar - Multicultural Democracy
Jeffrey Paris - Postmodern Socialism in a Neocolonial Age
Power, Bodies, and Archetypes
Dasiea Cavers-Huff -- Archetypes of oppression
Joanna Crosby - Girl Power
Margaret Walsh - Geographies of Gender: Transgender Experiences
Revise the Map
Spirit, Spirituality, and Marxism
John Brentlinger - Marxism and Spirituality: a Critique and
Proposal
Thomas Jeannot - The Secular Religion, Postsecularism, and Marxism
Doug Allen - Eliade and Marx: a Critical Intersection
Feminist Epistemology II
Linda Warren - Freedom and Economy: Seeking a Poetic Politics of
Survival
Nancy Hartsock - Marxist Feminist Dialectics for the 21st Century
Celeste Friend - Marriage and its Discontents: the Case against
Heterosexual Marriage
Philosophical Ethics and Social Justice
Rodney Peffer - Social Justice and Saving the Environment
Jordy Rocheleau - Discourse Ethics and Identity Politics (from
Habermas)
John Cleveland - Identity and Difference in Moral Theory
--- ending at 6:15
-- some snacks provided before the plenary
6:30 - 8:30 - Plenary II (2 hrs)
Political Prisoners and the Prison Industry
Ward Churchill - Univ. of Colorado
Cheryl Harris - UCLA Law Sxhool
Muhjah Shakir - Jericho 98
J. Marcos Vilar - Puerto Rican Independence
Joy James - Univ. of Colorado
After 8:30, there will be no organized session; there will be a general workshop and forum from 8:30 on for remembering and discussing 1968: the SF State Strike, USA, Mexico, the World
Saturday - Nov. 7
--- coffee et al
9:00 - Panel session #6 (2 1/2 hrs)
Jurisprudence in Contradictory Directions?: on the Philosophies and
Rhetorics of Contemporary Law
Julie Thompson - On the Possibility of Postmodern Politics as a
Legitimating Strategy for Queer Parents
Jack Green Musselman - The Two Faces of Craftsmanship: Politics and Logic
of Legal Reasoning
Mark Clinton - Original-Intent Jurisprudence as a Political
Ideology
Thomas Spademan - We Know Exactly What Judges are Doing:
"Contradictions" in Legal Judgments as Sartrean Totalizations
Racialization, the Production of Class, and Class Consciousness in the US
Steve Martinot - The Construction of Class on the Basis of Race
Theodore Allen - The Invention of the White Race
Mike Hill - Whiteness, Ideology, State Power: the case of Census 2000
Ruth Gilmore - Secular Bulls, Cyclical Bears, and Mandatory Corrections
Politics of Dialogue: Dispute and Symbiosis
Fred Evans - Foucault, Bakhtin, and Geneological Critique
Michael Palamarek - Language and Labor in Bakhtin
Matthew Ally - On the Political Limits of Theoretical Coherence:
Discourse and the Recalcitrance of the Practical
Tanya Glaser - We the People: Rationality and Participation in
Seyla Benhabib's Communicative Ethics
Ethics of Resistence, Resistence of Ethics
Scott Schaffer - Towards a Resisting Social Ethics
Lisa Tessman - Character and Racial Discourse
Marvin Glass - the Radical Feminist Moral Imperative
--- 15 minute break; coffee et al
11:45 - Plenary III (2 hrs) ==> with box lunch provided
Feminist Emancipation Strategies: Theory and Practice
Ann Dolinko
Barbara Epstein
Pat Mann
2:00 - Panel session #7 (2 hrs)
Identity Politics: Identity and Politics
David Kim - Asian-American Identity, Double Consciousness, and Dual
Personality
Frances Latchford - Under No Un/Certain Terms
Elise Young - Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology and Palestinian
Women in Refugee Camps in Jordan: Global Politics from a
Feminist Transnational Perspective
Racialization Epistemologies
Shannon Sullivan - Racialization of Space
Carl Briscoe - Fanon, Malcolm X, and Resistence
Jared Sexton - There is No (Interracial) Sexual Relationship: The
Multiracial Movement, Philosophies of Race, Theories of
Sexuality
Views of Communitarianism
Bill Martin - Some Communitarian Aspects of the Maoist Synthesis
Mike Principe - Marx as Communitarianism's Specter
Margo Okazawa-Rey and Gwyn Kirk - Redefining Security for the New
Millenium
Norman Fischer: moderator
Medical Science and Ideology: Health Care and Social Control
Eugenia Porto - The Production of Medical Knowledge and a
Social/Democratic Alternative
Luis Aviles - Epidemiology that Colonizes: Public Health and the
Discourse of Development
Richard Brown - Medicine and Capitalism in America
Philosophy in the Time of Zapatismo
Dr. Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez - "Una utopia para el siglo XXI".
Dr. Roberto Hernandez Oramas.
Mtra. Maria del Carmen Garcia
--- 15 minute break; coffee et al
4:15 - Panel session #8 (2 hrs)
Intersections: a Critique of Masculinism
Emily Zakin - Modernity, Masculinity, and Marx
Cathryn Bailey - Liquid Power: the Construction of Masculine
Potency Through Fables of Ejaculation
Cressida Heyes - "Intersectional" Identities, Standpoint Theory,
and the View from the Middle
Social Epistemologies
Peg O'Connor - If All are Responible, then None are Responsible
Joan Mason-Grant - Toward an Epistemology of Everyday Life,
Corporeality, Know-how and Social Privilege
Ann Ferguson - Women and the Public Good: Capabilities, rights, and
Global Development
Radical Political Ecology
Andrew Light - The Urban Blindspot in Environmental Thought
Sandra Harding - The "Global Crisis" and Enlightenment Philosophy:
Perspectives from the Gender, Environment and Sustainable
Development Debates
Steven Vogel - Environmental Ethics after the End of Nature
Anti-Racist Teaching: a roundtable discussion
Greg Moses
Terry McMullen
Richard Jones
LIsa Heldke - moderator
--- 15 minute break; coffee et al
6:30 - Chiapas workshop: TriNational delegation reports, slides,
solidarity and support projects (1 1/2 hr plus)
Chiapas Workshop, Saturday Nov. 7, 6:30-8 pm Come and hear first-hand impressions of the current situation in Chiapas from five RPA'ers who visited Chiapas on July 4 - 9, 1998! We wish to gather in an informal setting to discuss recent events and to develop strategies for responding to increased militarization and for addressing new epidemics of hunger and disease in Chiapas.
Eileen Robertson-Rehberg, commentary on the Seeds of Genocide in Chiapas Patricia Huntington and Martin Matustik, slides of La Realidad, a center of zapatista support and indigenous self-governance. Anna Brown, impressions of Acteal, site of the Dec. 22, 1997 Massacre Wes Rehberg, observations and video on Military Incursions into Indigenous Communities
8:00 - (or whenever the Chiapas discussion ends) -- Banquet
-- then party, with Dr. Loco
-- Jose Cuellar, introduced by Tommy Lott, for a
multi-media presentation.
Sunday
--- coffee et al
9:00 - Panel session #9 (2 1/2 hrs)
Marcuse and the Prospects for Critical Theory
Martin Matustik
Doug Kellner
Carl Boggs
Karsten Struhl
Iris Young
Co-ops and Workers Control: The Prospects and Problems of Economic
Democracy
Len Krimerman
Mike Howard
Tim Huet
Deb Grey
The Campaign to Abolish the Penalty in the US: What is to be Done?
Everet Green - The Crimes of Capital and Capital Punishment
Anna Brown - Teaching the Death Penalty: Liberation from all Cells,
including the Classroom
George Caffentzis - The US as a Pariah Nation: and Internationalist
Abolitionist Assessment
Silvia Federici - Race, Sex and Class from the Perspective of the
Death Penalty
The Public Good
Anatole Anton - Corporations and Public Welfare
Nancy Holmstrom - Collective Action
Kurt Nutting - Law and the Public Good
Nel Nodding - Education and the Public Good
Richard Lichtman - Psychology and the Public Good
--- 15 minute break; coffee et al
11:45 - Plenary IV (2 hrs)
Joy James's "Resisting State Violence": a Critique and Appreciation
Angela Davis
Thomas Sheehan
Dylan Rodrigues