Call for Nominations: 2017 'Distinguished Woman in Philosophy' Award

Call for Nominations:

Each year the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy (ESWIP) comes together to honor a woman philosopher whose contributions to the support of women in philosophy and to philosophy itself are outstanding and merit special recognition. 

A panel and reception celebrating the honoree’s accomplishments will be organized for the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, January 4-7th, 2017, in Baltimore, MD.

Nominations should include a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae and a minimum of two supporting letters, which summarize the nominee’s contributions to philosophy and support of women in philosophy. Two-thirds of letter writers for any given nomination must be members of the Society for Women in Philosophy in good standing.


Please email all nominations to Johanna Luttrell, ESWIP Executive Secretary (jluttre2@central.uh.edu) no later than August 30th, 2016.  Please put “DWP Nomination” in the subject line.

Photos from Conference

(R to L) Amy Nigh, Wallis Nader, and Jay Jenkins
speaking on the state of the incarcerated in Texas

Here are some photos from our 2016 conference, on Restorative Justice, held April 8-9 at the University of Houston!

Jolanda Jones, attorney and Houston ISD Board member,
speaking on the harm of suspensions

Safa Ansari-Bayegan, speaking on death penalty work in Texas

Leigh Ellis and Amy McKiernan speaking on the state's urge
to punish drug-addicted mothers

Azura Crispino speaking on Restorative Justice and sexual assault

(R to L) Janice Moskalik, Lauren Woomer, and Ami Harbin

Ami Harbin on security and transformative justice

UH undergrad Meryem Keskin
speaking on Hobbes and altruism

UH undergraduate Ariana Perruzi speaking on consequentialism

Restorative Justice Poster

Program: Restorative Justice Conference

Eastern Society for Women in Philosophy (ESWIP)

& The Hobby Center for Public Policy

April 8 & 9^th, 2016

Honors College Commons, MD Anderson Library, University of Houston

Friday, April 8^th: 

1 pm: Welcome, Johanna Luttrell and Amy Nigh, ESWIP officers

1:15 pm- 2 pm: “Suspensions in Houston Schools, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline”

Jolanda Jones, attorney and Houston Independent School District Board Member

2:15- 3 pm: “The State of the Incarcerated in Texas”

Wallis Nader, Attorney, Texas Civil Rights Project

Jay Jenkins, Attorney, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition

3:15- 4:30 pm : “Death Penalty Work in Texas”

Safa Ansari-Bayegan, Mitigation Specialist at Regional Public Defender Office, Lubbock

“Institutionalized Torture: How States Commit Human Rights Abuses”

Glaydon Jose de Freitas Filho, University of Houston School of Law

7 pm, Dinner

Saturday, April 9^th:

8:45 am: coffee in commons

9 am:              “Not Caring about Convicts: A Case of Affective and Epistemic Insensitivity”

Lauren Woomer, DePaul University

9: 30 am:        “The Three Rs: Retribution, Revenge, and Restoration”, Tamler Sommers, University of Houston

10 am:            “Just Motherhood: Understanding the State’s Urge to Punish Drug Addicted Pregnant Women”

Amy McKiernan, Vanderbilt University, and Leigh Ellis, public benefits attorney at Legal Services of Hudson Valley in White Plains, New York

10:30-11 am: Coffee Break

11 am:            “Can’t Unrape You: Rape, Restorative Justice, and Transformative Justice”

Azzurra Crispino, Austin Community College and PAPS (Prison Abolition Prisoner Solidarity)

11:30 am:      “Goodwill and Reconciliation”, Janice Moskalik, University of Washington

Noon -1 pm:   Lunch, Served in Commons

1 pm:              “Justice for the Cognitively Disabled”, Caroline Christoff, University of Texas, Austin

1:30 pm:        “Pragmatics as Remedy: Addressing Microaggressions as a Step Toward Restorative Justice”,  Mark Tschaepe, Prairie View A&M University

2 pm:              “Restorative Practices: Conflict Resolution for Social Movements”

Lindsay Whittaker, Virginia Tech

                       

2:30-3 pm:     Coffee Break

3 pm:              “Shared Social Securities and Transformative Justice”

Ami Harbin, Oakland University

3:30 pm:        “The Foreigner and Parresia: (Re)examining Structures of Exclusion and Belonging”, Amy Nigh, independent scholar

4:30 pm:        Undergraduate Session

“Re-examining Hobbes' Social Theory According to the Evolution of Altruism" Meryem Keskin, University of Houston

“Love, Consequentialism, and a Conflict of Belief”, Ariana Peruzzi, University of Houston