2nd CORE Workshop “Conceptualizing Oppression-Related Emotions”
29, 30 and 31 May 2024, Brock University
book of abstracts available!
We are glad to invite you to the Interdisciplinary Feminist Theory and Emotions to be held at Brock University on May 29th, 30th, and 31st.
The workshop will explore how feminist approaches in different disciplinary areas (feminist phenomenology, psychology, and the analytic philosophy of emotions) can contribute to understanding emotions and their embodiment, particularly in relation to oppression axes. The workshop is a space where scholars from different disciplines but with a feminist lens in common can have an interdisciplinary exchange.
During the workshop, we will engage with philosophical, social, and psychological definitions of emotions. We will explore the role of feminism in their development and understanding (e.g., how a feminist perspective can help us understand our emotions, and how our emotions can lead us to feminist theory) as well as the role of gender in their manifestations. We aim to understand the role of emotion in knowledge processes and production on the one hand, and in distress and well-being on the other, acknowledging the specific conditions of women’s and girl’s physical and mental suffering, as evidenced by feminist literature and scientific research on painful conditions that predominantly affect women and girls.
The workshop will take place over two and half days, with the mornings and early afternoons taken up by public presentations and the late afternoons devoted to more seminar-like moments of discussion.
If you would like to participate in the seminar sessions (the break-the-ice session, the inter/intra-active knowledge production session, and the final roundtable), please send us an email at valentina.bortolami(at)unipd.it and/or cdaigle(at)brocku.ca stating your name, surname, affiliation, and reason of interest in the workshop before May 27, 2024. Because these sessions are meant to be more intimate and conversational we will accept up to ten registrations for extra participants in the afternoon sessions.
We warmly invite you to join us!
29th May
13.15-14.30 Welcoming reception
14.30-15.30 Valentina Bortolami – “Oppression-Related Emotions: A Conceptual Proposal and Some Methodological Issues (with a Hopeful Coda about Insights)”
15.30-15.45 Break
15.45-17.30 Seminar session: Breaking-the-ice session
30th May
08.30-09.00 Welcoming coffee
09.00-10.00 Michelle Lafrance – “Women’s experiences of distress: Understandings from feminist psychology”
10.00-10.15 Break
10.15-11.15 Anna Mudde – “Feminist Receptivity and ‘Staying with the Trouble’”
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Arina Pismenny – “Feeling Rule Enforcement: Emotion Policing as Emotional Injustice”
12.30-14.30 Lunch break
13.15-14.30 The Labyrinth
14.30-15.30 Christine Daigle – “Joyful Disruptive Feminist Interventions”
15.30-15.45 Break
15.45-17.30 Seminar session: Inter/Intra-active working session
31st May
08.30-09.00 Welcoming coffee
09.00-10.00 Smaranda Aldea – “The Possibility of Transcendental Phenomenology as Radical Critique of the Present: Imagination as Self- and Lifeworld-Constituting”
10.00-10.15 Break
10.15-11.15 Athena Colman – “A phenomenology of the voice with and beyond lived experience”
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Jane Dryden – “Microbiomes, mood, and mastering the self”
12.30-14.30 Lunch
13.15-14.30 Nature Encounter
14.30-15.30 Seminar session: Final Roundtable
15.30-15.45 Break
15.45-17.30 Seminar session: Final Roundtable