There will be no session this week as it conflicts with an amazing workshop on climate ethics. Please join us there: http://stacees.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2024/05/Climate-Week-Conference-Schedule-%E2%80%93-May-2024-%E2%80%93-DU49273.pdf This event is part of the Inaugural 58吃瓜 Climate Week: https://stacees.ac.uk/university-of-st-andrews-climate-week/
Title:聽A Very Large Peruvian Painting Abstract:聽This talk is in some ways about a missing object in search of a satisfying narrative frame. More concretely, it鈥檚 about a painting. The painting was made in Lima in 1791, and was intended to be sent to King Charles IV of Spain, but, as a result of a series…
Sophie Grace Chappell聽will present her new book聽Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World聽– followed by bubbles to celebrate!
This coming Tuesday (11th), the one and only Sebasti谩n will be leading a reding group on ‘Relationality: aesthetic and ethical consequences ‘ the second chapter of Yuriko Saito’s book ‘The aesthetics of care’. Please get in touch for a copy of the reading
You are cordially invited to join us on a cover-to-cover reading of Meyer’s 2020聽Midnight Sun. The meeting will be online, and the session will be around 60 minutes. The plan is to discuss the book’s first five chapters, as well as set up a plan and dates for our next sessions. If you want to…
Title: Phallicism as Racism against the Male Target: Dehumanization, Misandric Aggression, and the Splitting of Gender. Abstract: Much of the current theory explaining the vulnerability of racialized outgroup males focus on death. In Adam Jones鈥檚 (2000) account of gendercide as well as Jim Sidanius鈥檚 (1999) theory of Social Dominance, outgroup or subordinate males become specifically…
Title: Some Thoughts on Victimhood and Feminism Abstract: In her book Conflict Is Not Abuse (2016), Sarah Schulman argues that, in many domains of public and private life, false accusations of harm allow (groups of) people to conflate 鈥渃onflict,鈥� which is quotidian, and 鈥渁buse,鈥� which is more problematic but infrequent. The general tendency to mis-identify…
Title:聽Respect, Religion, and Feminism: Political Liberalism as Feminist Liberalism? Abstract:聽This chapter considers whether political liberalism, specifically, can be used for feminist ends. There is significant disagreement among feminists and liberals about the compatibility between their two doctrines. Political liberalism is vulnerable to particular criticism from feminists, who argue that its restricted form of equality is…
You are cordially invited to join us on a cover-to-cover reading of Meyer’s 2020聽Midnight Sun. The meeting will be online. We will discuss chapters 5-10. Still, even if you don’t manage to catch up on the reading, you’re still more than welcome to show up! If you want to sign up get in touch with…