Conference on Feminist Philosophies and Methods

Thursday 23rd October 2025

Venue: Teorifagbygget hus 4, room: 4.262.

(Teams (day 1): Bli med i møtet nå Meeting-ID: 310 791 786 081 0 Password: c6EN6ei2)

 

09:15-09:30 Welcome (Melina Duarte, head of department for philosophy, University of Tromsø – The Arctic university of Norway) & Oda Davanger, leader of Solidarity Society (Norwegian Society for women in philosophy))

09:30-10:30 Keynote: Filipa Melo Lopes

 

First session. Chair: Melina Duarte

10:45-11:15 Lilli Mittner, Lena Haselmann-Kränzle, & Janke Klok RESCAPE: As feminist method or applied feminist philosophy?

11:15-11:45 Sibylle Schmidt Feminist science communication and the importance of frustration

11:45-12:15 Hege Dypedokk Johnsen Furies in Philosophy


12:15-13:15 Lunch (for speakers, invited guests and FemPhil/ Solidarity Society-members)


Second session. Chair: Fredrik Nilsen

13:15-13:45 Ying Huang (online) Hermeneutical Friction and the Limits of Inclusion in Feminist Philosophy

13:45-14:15 Valerie Scheibenpflug Feminist Philosophy, the Canon, and the Private-Public Dichotomy: Methods of Critique and Transformation

14:15-14:45 Ashwini Ramesh Sharma Gender, Methods, and Philosophy: Reading Early Modern Women Philosophers through a Feminist Lens


Third session. Chair: Hedda Smedheim Bjerklund

15:00-15:30 Zhixuan Li Theorizing Sexual Harassment in Analytic Feminism --An Inquiry of Philosophical Methodology

15:30-16:00 Joshua Caine-Welch Competing Views of Sexual Difference: Discerning The Nature of Ethical Gestures and Sexual Difference In The Thought of Luce Irigaray

16:00-16:30 Saumya Sirothia Ritual Embodiment and Feminine Agency: Dynamism of Tantra in Reconfiguring Feminist Philosophical Canon


19:00 Conference dinner (for speakers, invited guests and FemPhil/ Solidarity Society-members)

                                


                  

Friday 24th October 2025

Venue: Teorifagbygget hus 4, room: 4:262

(Teams (day 2): Bli med i møtet nå Meeting-ID: 338 609 876 988 1 Password: ZD2RV7K3)


Fourth Session. Chair: Oda Davanger

09:00-09:30 Kyle M. Stroh Intersectionality, Mutual Constitution, and a Feminist Holism

09:30-10:00 Rose Trappes Mainstreaming feminist philosophy of science

10:00-10:30 Erika Ruonakoski How Feminist Theories Function and Evolve: Parallel Developments and Generation Gaps

 


Fifth Session. Chair: Maria Danielsen

10:45-11:15 Laida Arbizu (online) Hermeneutical Injustice and the Politics of Meaning: A Feminist-Philosophical Analysis of Gender-Based Violence Denialism

11:15-11:45 Hedda Smedheim Bjerklund Decolonizing feminism or/and feminist decolonialization

11:45-12:15 Özlem Duva Kaya (online) Transforming Knowledge Production: Feminist Epistemology, Methodology and Epistemic Justice


12:15-13:15 Lunch (for speakers, invited guests and FemPhil/ Solidarity Society-members)

 


Sixth Session. Chair: Jonas Jakobsen

13:15-13:45 Katrina Torso A Framework for Feminist Logic

13:45-14:15 Julia Shenot Reproductive Labor and Justice in Plato’s Republic

14:15-14:45 Elsie Bokaba (online) African Feminist Gerontology: Understanding Feminism Through the Lens of Our African Foremothers

 


Seventh Session. Chair: Chantalle Brückel

15:00-15:30 Bhattacharjee Sukalpa Feminine Writing as Epistemic Agency

15:30-16:00 Fredrik Nilsen Feminist history of philosophy?

Starts: 23.10.25 kl 09.00
Ends: 24.10.25 kl 16.00
Where: TEO-H4 4.262 / Teams
Location / Campus: Digitalt, Tromsø
Zielgruppe: Ansatte, Studenten, Besøkende, Invited
Responsible: Fredrik Nilsen
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