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Miscarriage, Pregnancy Loss, and Fetal Death

My interviews on 3CR, Melbourne Community Radio were hosted by Beth Matthews of Radical Philosophy. For a listen or a read, free audio files of Part One and Part Two are at their site, and I host transcripts of Part One here and of Part Two here for those who need text! 

If you want to read the special issue of Journal of Social Philosophy that motivated the interview, it is entirely free online thanks to the proceeds of the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics at Trent University.
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Invited presentations:
  1. 1. 42nd Fritz Marti lecture, Philosophy Department at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, April 12, 2019.
  2. 2. Author-meets-critics panelist, responding to Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, at the Canadian Philosophical Association meeting (CPA), June 5, 2018.
  3. 3. “Online Shaming and Imaginal Relationships,” joint address to St. Paul’s University and co-sponsored by the Ethics & Public Affairs programs at Carleton University, March 20, 2018.
  4. 4. Author-meets-critics panelist, responding to Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity, at the Central Chapter meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), February 21-24, 2018.
  5. 5. Philosophy Department Colloquium presenter, University of Guelph, February 16, 2018.
  6. Moral Emotions workshop, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad del Rosario. Justin D’Arms (OSU), Kathryn Norlock (Trent U), and David Shoemaker (Tulane). Bogota, Colombia, October 19-21, 2017.
  7. “If it's Excusable, then Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Rational Self-Forgiveness When No One Blames Us,” as Philosophy Department Colloquium presenter, University of Connecticut (Storrs), September 8, 2017.
  8. “If it's Excusable, then Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Rational Self-Forgiveness When No One Blames Us,” for the Workshop on Blame and Forgiveness, University of Oslo, Aug. 23, 2017 - Aug. 24, 2017.
  9. 1. "Online Shaming, Part Two: Gender and Cyberspace," for a session organized by Jennifer Szende on behalf of the North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) at the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) meeting, Ryerson University, Toronto, May 2017.
  10.  2. “Forgiveness as a Speech Act: Not Just Warmed-Over Warmke,” Conference to Honor David McNaughton Sponsored by the Werkmeister Bequest, March 24-25, 2017
  11. 3. "Perpetual Struggle: Pessimism, Evils, and Hopeless Situations," colloquium presentation to Queen's University Philosophy Department, October 27, 2016.
  12. 4. “Forgiveness and Evil,” presented at the conference, Understanding Evil, University of Amsterdam, jointly sponsored with University of Manchester, May 2016.
  13. 5. “Real (and) Imaginal Relationships with the Dead,” public presentation as The Walter Murray Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan, March 2016. Seminar presentation titles: “Nonideal Ethical Theory” and “Forgiving the Dead."
  14. 6. “The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress,” presented as part of a memorial session of The Society for Analytical Feminism in honor of Claudia Card, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), January 6, 2016.
  15. “Don’t wait for progress,” a presentation to Rice University’s Why So Few workshop series, October 16, 2015.
  16. “We Know What Works,” presented at the First Annual Event of the Equity and Climate Committee, McGill University, Montreal, QC, March 27, 2015.
  17. Plenary Panel, invited participant, American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), August 1, 2014, on the theme, “Women Undergraduates, Justice, and the Future of Philosophy,” with Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University), Jeanine Weekes-Schroer (University of Minnesota-Duluth), and Jean Keller (College of St. Benedicts), at the 20th Biennial International Workshop hosted by the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University.
  18. Three presentations at the 2014 Conference of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) at the Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University: “Pessimism and Evils,” May 25, “Beyond Accommodation,” May 26, and “Expose yourself: Blogging in the profession,” May 28, 2014.
  19. “Giving Up and Knowing Better: Forgiveness After Genocide/ Moins d’espoir, plus de sagesse: Pardon après le genocide,” Colloque 2014 : Génocides : régimes du pardon/Genocides: regimes of forgiveness, May 12, 2014.
  20. Keynote address, “Choosing Activism and/or Philosophy,” for the Philosophy Dans La Rue!: Activism and Philosophy in the 21st Century conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, May 10-11, 2014.
  21. “Civility, Civil Discourse, and Epistemic Injustice, or, Well-Educated White Ladies Talk About Manners,” co-presented with Alice MacLachlan, invited presentation, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Maryland, April 4, 2014.
  22. “The Status of Women in Philosophy,” invited presentation, Queen's University Workshop on Equity in Philosophy, Kingston, ON, March 14, 2014.
  23. "My First-World Problems: The Ethics of Women's Advancement in Philosophy." Keynote Speech, The 9th Annual Society for Women’s Advancement in Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 21, 2014.
  24. Panelist, “Men Behaving Splendidly: Why and How to Organize a Gender-Balanced Conference,” with Jason Stanley and John Protevi, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, Baltimore, MD, Dec. 29, 2013.
  25. Panelist, workshop mentor, 2nd Biennial Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy, at University of Massachusetts – Amherst, co-directed by Dr. Louise Antony (UMass) and Dr. Ann Cudd (University of Kentucky), June 2-4, 2013.
  26. Keynote speaker, “We Know What Works: How to Improve Philosophy for Everyone,” at The Status of Minorities in Philosophy: Graduate Conference and Workshop at Concordia and McGill Universities, Montreal, April 21-22, 2012. 
  27. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “How Kind and Caring Ethicists Talked Me Right Into Pessimism.”  The Socratic Society, April 6, 2012. 
  28. Lafayette College Environment Ethics Conference, “‘That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best’: Non-ideal Pessimism as a Response to Environmental Evils,” March 24, 2012.  
  29. University of Western Ontario, “Philosophy Curriculum, Moral Perception and Gender Perception.”  Philosophy Colloquium, co-sponsored with Women's Studies and Feminist Research, March 2, 2012.
  30. Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, “Sara Ruddick and Evils,” Special Session in Memory of Sara Ruddick, October 16, 2011. 
  31. Elon University, Annual Reynolds Lecture: “Forgiveness as Moral Housekeeping,” April 13, 2010.
  32. “Fragmented Selves and Self-Forgiveness,” Feminist Philosophy Workshop, Goucher College, sponsored by the Women in Philosophy (WIP) club in the Department of Philosophy, March 5th through 6th 2010.
  33. Ball State University: “Taking My Name: Separatism and Feminist Epistemology,” March 16, 2006, “Forgiveness for Philosophers,” March 17, 2006.
  34. St. Mary’s Ryken High School, Leonardtown, Maryland: “Forgiving for Teachers and Counselors,” October 20, 2005.
  35. “Hitler was a Vegetarian, or, Moral Qualms about Deep Ecology,” at Carleton College, January 2004.
  36. “Forgiveness in Relationship: The explanatory power of feminist models,” at University of San Diego, February 2004.
  37. Panel discussion member of UW Zoology Dept. Faculty/Staff Colloquia, Spring 1997.  Topic: “What moral treatment do animals deserve?”
 

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Conference Presentations, refereed:
  1. "Feminists: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?" Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, November 4-6, 2016.
  2. “Claudia Card’s contributions to emerging Non-Ideal (Ethical) Theory,” poster presentation at the Ninth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August 11-14, 2016.
  3. "Rethinking the Social Psychology of Public Power in Cyberspace's Imaginal Communities, or, Online Shaming," to be presented at the 33rd International Social Philosophy Conference at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from July 21-23, 2016.
  4. “Imaginal Relationships with the Dead,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Campion College at the University of Regina, October 23-25, 2015. Conference theme: Challenging Ontologies: Making Sense in Ethics, Science, Politics, and Art.
  5. “Stranger in a Strange FOODLAND: Developing a Philosophy of Food course as a Newcomer,” presented as part of the Roundtable on Canadian Environmental Philosophy, at the Conference of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) at the Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, June 1-3, 2015.
  6. “Must I Never Complain?” presented at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Philadelphia, December 2014.
  7. “On Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: Improving Feminist Philosophies of Motherhood,” presented at the Conference of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh), Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 24-27, 2014.
  8. "Receptivity as a Virtue of Argumentation," presented at the Virtues of Argumentation conference (Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)) May 22- 25, 2013, at the University of Windsor.
  9. “Childlessness, Miscarriage, and Intersubjective bodily identity,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Oct 26-28, 2012. Conference theme: Theorizing the Body, Embodiment and Body-Practices.
  10. “Philosophy Curriculum, Moral Perception and Gender Perception,” presented at the Pacific APA group session of the Society for Analytic Feminism, San Diego, Cal., April 20, 2011.
  11. “When We Long to Emigrate: Forgivingness, pessimism, and citizenship,” presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries (Inter-Disciplinary.net), Mansfield College at Oxford, United Kingdom, July 15 - July 17, 2010.
  12. “The Moral Imperative for Social Science Research to Amend the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy,” presented at the International Association of Women in Philosophy Conference (IAPh 2010) on Feminism, Science and Values, June 25-28, 2010 at The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
  13. “Recognition, Self-Inflicted Evils and Self-Forgiveness,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), University Of Guelph, October 2-4, 2009; conference theme: “Responsiveness, Responsibility and Repair.”
  14. “Feminism in the Classroom,” workshop panelist, and “Strategies for Success,” mentoring panelist, at the September 2009 conference of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST).
  15. “Why bother?:  Environmental pessimism, forgiveness, and electoral participation,” presented at the Pacific APA, Society for Women In Philosophy panel, Vancouver, Canada (April 2009).
  16. “Teaching ‘Against Marriage,’” presented at the 10th Annual Ethics Across the Curriculum conference, sponsored by Towson University, Baltimore, MD (November 14-16, 2008).
  17. “Why Our Students Stay: Strategies for retention and teaching of women of color in STEM disciplines,” presented at the National Association for Research and Science Teaching (April 2008).
  18. “Why Self-forgiveness Needs Third-Party Forgiveness,” presented at the 1st Global Conference:
  19. Forgiveness – Probing the Boundaries, Salzburg, Austria (March 2008).
  20. “A Moral Imperative: Professionalizing Women,” presented at the UK Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Conference, University of Nottingham, University Park campus, Nottingham, England (November 22–23, 2007).
  21. “Race and the Academy: What we can and should do,” presented at The National Women’s Studies Association 28th Annual Conference, St. Charles, Illinois, June 28-30, 2007. 
  22. "Why (Some) Women of Color are (Still) in Science,” presented at Gender Balance/ Gender Bias: The 6th International Gender and Education Association Conference, Trinity College Dublin (March 28-30, 2007).
  23. “Women’s Altruism and Academic Professions,” presented at Educating Women/Women’s Education In the Post-Secondary Context, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (February 8 – 10, 2007); acceptance included consideration for publication in Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal.
  24. “The Impossibility of Responding Ethically to Environmental Atrocity,” presented at the group session of the International Society for Environmental Ethics at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 2006.
  25. “The politics of pedagogy: Global warming, public policy, and the ethics of identifying controversy,” presented at the 32nd Annual Richard R. Baker Colloquium in Philosophy, on Environmental Philosophy and the Duties of Citizenship, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, October 13, 2006. 
  26. “Meaningful Narrative and Genuine Forgiveness,” presented at the special session of The Society for Analytical Feminism at the Central APA, April 2004.
  27. “Humility and Moral Luck,” presented at the Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Feb. 2000.  
  28. “Forgiving the wrongdoer for harms to others: A defense of third-party forgiveness,” at the Central Division Meeting of the Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP), Fall 1998, Loyola University in Chicago.