Colloque – Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine

18-21 May, 2011
Uppsala, Sweden

Most welcome to four exciting days on the theme of Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine! Key-notes are, among others, Prof. Gail Weiss, Prof. Margrit Shildrick, Prof. Nikki Sullivan and Prof. Cressida Heyes.

Please register by May 1, 2011 at www.genna.gender.uu.se/femphenmed

Conference program:

Wednesday, May 18

University Main Building
9.00-9.30 Registration

Lecture Hall X
9.30-9.45 Welcome

9.45-11.00 Samantha Murray, Macquarie University
Not just fat to thin: Trans-en-abled? embodiment after weight loss surgery?
Commentary by Ellen Feder, American University

11.00-12.15 Margrit Shildrick, Queens University Belfast
Visceral phenomenology: organ transplantation, identity and sexual difference?
Commentary by Gail Weiss, George Washington University

12.15-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 Parallel session 1

English Park Campus 7-0042
1A Norms and resistance: Illness, aging and dying
Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Durham University
Engaging biography: Feminist approaches to reading illness in life narratives
Linn Sandberg, Linköping University
Touch me, I want to feel your body!: Old age, masculinity and meanings of touch
Michael Lundblad, Colorado State University
The female animal at the end of life: Terry Tempest Williams and the biopolitics of terminal cancer

English Park Campus 7-0043
1B Exclusions and erasure
Ulrica Engdahl, Linköping University
Recognition of the lived experience of identity
Erika Sigvardsdotter, Uppsala University
Bare life embodied Undocumented persons as legal residuals in the Swedish welfare state
Brenda Beagan, Lisa Goldberg & Ami Harbin, Dalhousie University
A feminist phenomenological approach to the health care encounters of queer women and providers in Eastern Canada?

15.30-16.00 BREAK

16.oo-17.30 Parallel session 2

English Park Campus 7-0042
2A Knowledge production
Wilhelm Kardemark, Karlstad University
Knowledge and responsibility?
Kamilla Peuravaara, Uppsala University
Entering the field and becoming the other for oneself as a researcher: a phenomenological approach

English Park Campus 7-0043
2B Social biology
Alexander Edmonds, University of Amsterdam
Bare sex
Denise Malmberg, Uppsala University
The gender of bodily fluids and odours
Astrida Neimanis
Morning sickness

Thursday, May 19

University Main Building

Lecture Hall X
9.00-10.15 Fredrik Svenaeus, Södertörn University
The Body Uncanny: Alienation, Illness and Anorexia
Commentary by Dorothée Legrand, École Polytechnique

10.15-10.30 BREAK

Lecture Hall IX
10.30-11.45 Linda Fisher, Central European University
The illness experience: a feminist phenomenological perspective?
Commentary by Samantha Murray, Macquarie University

11.45-13.00 Abby Wilkerson, George Washington University
Depression, phenomenology, and feminist disability studies
Commentary by Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Linköping University

13.00-14.30 LUNCH

English Park Campus 7-0042
14.30-15.45 Lanei M. Rodemeyer, Duquesne University
Feminism, phenomenology, and hormones
Commentary by Fredrik Svenaeus, Södertörn University

15.45-17.00 Paul Qualtere-Burcher and Sarah LaChance Adams, University of Oregon
The communal push and its implications for Merleau-Ponty´s theory of intersubjectivity
Commentary by Cressida J. Heyes, University of Alberta

17.00-17.30 BREAK

English Park Campus Ihre
17.30-18.45 Nikki Sullivan, Macquarie University
Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the phenomenology of perception?
Commentary by Lisa Folkmarson Käll, Uppsala University

19.00 Reception

Friday, May 20

University Main Building

Lecture Hall X
9.00-10.15 Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Linköping University
Doing illness, doing time ? phenomenological perspectives on gender and agency
Commentary by Paul Qualtere-Burcher and Sara LaChance Adams, University of Oregon

10.15-10.30 BREAK

Lecture Hall IX
10.30-11.45 Cressida J. Heyes: ?Anaesthetics of existence, University of Alberta
Commentary by Lanei M Rodemeyer, Duquesne University

Lecture Hall IX
11.45-13.00 Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Guntram, Linköping University
Female embodiment reconsidered: Disruption, Style and Life with no Vagina or Womb
Commentary by Linda Fisher, Central European University

13.00-14.30 LUNCH

14.30-15.30 Parallel session 3

English Park Campus 16-0043
3A Gender and Cardiac Problems
Diane Pitt, University of Hull
Women, hearts and narrative: A case for a phenomenological approach to clinical diagnostics
Michael Deere, Salem State University
Towards a Phenomenology of Pains and Bodies

English Park Campus 7-0043
3B Gendered Violence
Christa Binswanger, University of Basel & Lotta Samelius, National Swedish Police Academy
Tranquilized Bodies and Suffering in Intersubjective Meaning-Making
Jessica Cadwallader, University of Groningen
Stopping Suffering: Rape, PTSD and the potentials of ‘therapeutic forgetting’

15.30-16.00 BREAK

English Park Campus 16-0043
16.00-17.15 Dorothée Legrand, École Polytechnique
Mafalda a-voiding soup: anorexia and the hollowed female body
Commentary by Erik Malmqvist, Université Paris Descartes

18.30 CONFERENCE DINNER

Saturday, May 21

English Park Campus Ihre

9-00-10.15 Gail Weiss, George Washington University
?Un-cosmetic surgeries in an age of normativity?
Commentary by Nikki Sullivan, Macquarie University

10.15-10.30 BREAK

English Park Campus 7-0042
10.30-11.45 Ellen Feder, American University
Reassigning Ambiguity: Intersex, Biomedicine, and the Question of Harm
Commentary by Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Guntram, Linköping University

11.45-13.00 Erik Malmqvist, Université Paris Descartes
Towards a phenomenology of complicity with dubious social norms: The case of cosmetic surgery
Commentary by Margrit Shildrick, Queens University Belfast

13.00-14.30 LUNCH

English Park Campus 7-0042
14.30-15.45 Lisa Folkmarson Käll, Uppsala University
An ethics of exposure
Commentary by Abby Wilkerson, George Washington University

15.45-16.00 BREAK

16.00-17.00 Closing discussion