FYI.... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Chris J. Cuomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All are invited -- this colloquium is a Saturday morning event, but we're having a dinner reception in the evening. If you need local housing and can notify me asap, we can probably provide space. Philosophy and Women's Study Colloquium Saturday, November 14th Feminism, Philosophy and Science 9: 00-12:00 AM Annie Laws Drawing Room, Teachers College, University of Cincinnati Lorraine Code: "Naming, Normalizing, Naturalizing: `The Child' as Fact and Artefact." Lynn Hankinson-Nelson: "Scientism and Social Constructivism Well Lost, Evidence Regained: The Case for a Social Empiricism" Sandra Harding: "Gender, Environment, and Sustainable Development: Philosophy of Science Issues" Nancy Tuana: "Material Locations: Dissolving the Realist/Constructivist Dichotomy" *** Loraine Code is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University (Canada). Code's most recent publications are Rhetorical Spaces: Essays on (Gendered) Locations (1995) and What Can she Know? Feminist Theory And The Construction of Knowledge (1991). Lynn Hankinson Nelson teaches philosophy at the University of Missouri/St. Louis. She is the author of Who Knows: From Quine to a Feminist Empiricism (1990). Sandra Harding is the director of the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA. She has authored numerous books including Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms and Epistemologies (1998); Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking From Women's Lives (1991). Nancy Tuana is currently teaching in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is the author of The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature (1993) and Women and the History of Philosophy (1992). This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Women's Studies, the Philosophy department, and the "Women, Gender and Science" Project with the support of a UC Faculty Development Grant. for more info contact:</bigger></bigger></fontfamily> Chris J. Cuomo Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 45221 513-556-6325 513-556-2939 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
