The Association of Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies,
Metaphysics and Science Studies

Lynn Hankinson Nelson was the host and main organiser of the conference. Here she is at the opening reception with the one to whom we owe all, Sandra Harding.

 

Here I am with Marianne Janack (middle) and Nancy McHugh. Marianne shares my admiration of Richard Rorty's work. In fact her edited collection on Feminist Interpretations of Rorty, including a contribution from me, will be out in the fall of 2009.

 

Here's the feminist blogger-extraordinaire, Evelyn Brister, with Sharon Crasnow, both alums of the 2003 NEH seminar in Pittsburgh. Can you guess what colour Sharon's hair will be at the next FEMMSS? It's pretty exciting :)

 

Here I am trying to convince my colleagues that values are a matter of fact (!)

 

The lovely and talented Ann Garry, with energy to spare, on the last day of the conference.

 
 

At the panel session dedicated to my book Beyond Epistemology, here I am with four brilliant commentators, Moira Howes, Elizabeth (Libby) Potter, Catherine (Cate) Hundleby (the organiser of the session), and Nancy McHugh (seated).

At the opening plenary session, here I am with the ever-fabulous Alison Wylie (now editor of Hypatia) on my right, and on my left, amazing philosopher by day, carpenter by night, Libby Potter!

At Sharon Crasnow's session, we have L-R: Someone being strangled, perhaps by Lisa "I hate getting my picture taken" Heldke,  followed by Peg O'Connor and Marianne Janack :)

At the conference banquet, here's Alison with the always generous and incredibly prolific (!) Sandra Harding.

Fellow Canuck, Edrie Sobstyl,  Sharon Crasnow (with black hair - stunning!), and me, squeezed into a booth on the last night.

 

A trio of Canucks - me, Edrie and Cate Hundleby - even though they hate it, I make us pose like this every time we get together (see below for earlier shots - Oh yes I did!)

At the first FEMMSS conference Fall 2004

At the Feminism/Naturalism conference in St. Louis, Fall 1999. (Look how cute we were back then - 10 year ago as of this writing! and me with bare arms! Who do I think I am? Michelle Obama?)

 
 

This is Lisa Johnson, Southern belle, queer epistemologist, pied piper of young philosophers, bath-house entrepeneur. We are now bffs. Buy her book: Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire. (Feminist desire? Is there really such a thing? Who knew?!)

Here is Lisa (in the orange, of course) with one of her students to her left (Lindsay Harris, who presented on the opening day). Being kissed is the session chair, Yvonne Ivory. The kissee is one of the session presenters, Stacey Haney. These four are all from the University of South Carolina, Upstate - you might think that the USCU grrrrrlz were taking over, but hovering above is sister Canuck, Alexis Shotwell  - this year we Canucks were ubiquitous. More on the grrrrrrlz from the True North, Strong and Free, below.

Here's Sarah Richardson - she's a blur because she is always moving - she's one to watch, having just graduated from Stanford and now headed to U Mass. She wins best paper title for "Sexing the X: How the X became the female chromosome."

Cate Hundleby	Letitia Meynell	Karen Houle	Alexis Shotwell
Carla Fehr (with honourary Canadians, Phyllis Rooney and Nancy McHugh)	And on the program, but not my camera: The magnificent Deboleena Roy	Lorraine Code	... and Heidi Grasswick! My apologies to the other Canucks on the program who I missed - come out, come out wherever you are!

Here's Nancy McHugh, and my fave gal pal Kristen Intemann enjoying the sun of South Carolina.

Having crawled out from the pacific northwest I am in shock; blinking in the sun - my eyes! My eyes!

Fabulous research assistant, tango dancer, OSU honours scholar, Meghan Kahnle :)

Here are two of my favourite feminist filosofers in action: Miriam Solomon (l) and Alessandra Tanesini (r). They're a blur! I should have video'd them - it would have been like watching Sheldon and Raj "working on theoretical physics" only more fun (and important!).

 

Here I am with Nancy McHugh, pragmatist feminist extraordinaire. She organised the opening plenary session we were in together, along with Alessandra. Here's a link to our slides.

 

And the trio "without whom not," Sharon Crasnow, Inmaculada de Melo-Martin, and Kristin Intemann: always inspiring each other and smiling :)

 

And later at dinner, Miriam and Kristen joined by the stunning Deboleena Roy, a great feminist scientist, Canadian, hilarious, charming. The whole package.

And here's Phyllis Rooney with the feminist scientist to watch for, Chelsea Parker, off to Wash U for a PhD in Immunology - go Chelsea! Way to make OSU proud :) Here's a copy of her slides from her presentation on feminist values and creation science.

Sister Canuck Cate Hundleby, and FEMMSS 2012 conference co-organiser, takes us home with a wrap-up plenary on feminism and informal logic. Check out the special issue of Informal Logic, Vol. 30, No. 3 that she and Phyllis Rooney co-edited: "Reasoning for Change."

A sunny airport goodbye with Sandra Harding, always more charitable and kind than she has any need to be. I am better for knowing her. Plus we both have backyard chickens and could talk about them for hours :) Thanks to Cate Hundleby, Nancy McHugh, and Nancy Tuana for organising a great conference. Looking forward to FEMMSS 5!