Black Feminism Reimagined: In Conversation with Jennifer C. Nash
HUB 340, February 10

Sponsored by the Benjamin Rabinowitz Endowment in Medical Ethics, Program on Ethics, and Department of Philosophy, University of Washington (UW)

10.15am: Welcome and coffee

10.30-11.30am:

“Black Women’s Sexual Politics and Pleasure: Embracing Erotic Empowerment and Ecstasy”

Kathryn Sophia Belle (Philosophy and African American Studies, Penn State)

11.30am-12.30pm:

Panel presentations: Loving Critics on Intersectionality

Levin Kim (IT School, UW), Jennifer Baker (English, UW) and Kai Milanovich (Philosophy, UW)

12.30: Lunch

1.15-2.15pm:

“Narrating Womanhood and the Black Birthing Experience”

Keisha Ray (Bioethics and Humanities, UT Health Houston)

2.15-3.15pm:

Panel presentations: On Birthing Black Mothers

Wendi Zhou (Philosophy; History, UW), Julia Pelger (Philosophy, UW) and Carina Fourie (Philosophy, UW)

3.15: Coffee

3.30-5.00pm:

Keynote speech “On Beauty, or all about Black Feminist Theory’s Mothers”

Jennifer C. Nash (Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke)

5-6pm: Reception