PROGRAM

Marginalized Body Epistemologies and 4E Embodied Cognition

Spelman College, October 4-6

Friday:

5-6: Meet and greet

6-7:15- Keynote

Elena Clare Cuffari “Truth in Language: Gendered Practices of Participation and Power,” Department of Psychology, Embodied Approaches to Communication and Cognition Lab, Franklin and Marshall College 

Dinner on your own (Recommended@ Lee and White area or Castleberry Hill area)

Saturday:

10-11:30: Panel, Women’s Health (Zoom)

“Introceptive Experience and Ecological Care: An Embodied Approach Within Therapeutic Realms for the Case of Menstruation and Endometriosis”

Itzel Cadena Alvear, Psychology, Philosophy of Science, National Autonomous University of Mexico 

Ximena González Grandón, Institute of Philosophy and Complex Sciences, Iberoamerican University of Mexico City

Melina Gastelum Vargas, Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico 

11:45-12:15: Neurodivergence and Oppression

“Schizophrenia and the Embodied Spatial Location of Emotions” (Zoom), Sofia Jeppsson, Philosophy, Umeá University, Sweden

“The Impact of Linguistic Oppression on Brain Development,” Mahdi Dadgarialamdari, Applied Psychology and Human Development, Grad Student, University of Toronto

Lunch: 12:30-2pm (Lee and White, Uber eats, or Student Center)

2-3:30: Embodied Aesthetics 

“The Embodied Political Aesthetics of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Concept of Metaphor,” Sarah Lee, Philosophy, Grad Student, University of Memphis

“Getting to the Roots: Black Hair and Affect,” Tempest Henning, Philosophy, Fisk University

“Collective Effervescence and Tarantism as Community-Led and Community-Oriented Therapeutic Practice”, includes movement, Christian Kronsted, Philosophy, Practice, Merrimack College 

3:45-5:15: Feminist 4E

“At the Nexus of Feminist Ethics and 4E: An Affordance Account of Relational Autonomy,” Muhammad Velji, Philosophy, Western Ontario University 

“Journey through My Embodied Mind: Trauma, Brain Maps, and Affective Framing,” Shay Welch, Philosophy, Spelman College; Penijean Gracefire, Neurofeedback specialist, Brainstar Innovations

Dinner on your own (Recommended@ Lee and White area or Castleberry Hill area)

Sunday:

10-11:30: Participatory Sense-Making and Epistemic Harms

“Black Embodied Epistemologies and Epistemic Injustice in Classrooms,” Spencer Nabors, Philosophy, Grad Student, Northwestern University, C’20

“Enabling as Embodied “Sacrifice,” Taraneh Wilkinson, Philosophy, Grad Student, University of Cincinnati

“I’m building a relationship with the mountains”: Multi-Timescale Couplings, Interrelated Bodies, and Vital Gestures of Ultra-runner,” Simon Harrison, English, City University of Hong Kong (Zoom)

11:45-12:15: Recovering Embodied Knowledges

“Interpreting “Petro-Masculinity”: Retrieving Liberatory Embodied Knowledge of Rural Affective Injustice,” Michaela Peters, Philosophy, Grad Student, Boston College

“Discovering Memories Lost to Hermeneutical Injustice: How Adult Victims Remember Abuse through the Body Memory,” Naima Castellano Isaac, Grad Student, Penn State University, C’23

“Native North American Onto-Epistemology Grounded Extended Cognition,” Delaney McNulty, Philosophy, Romanell Center for Clinical Ethics and the Philosophy of Medicine, University of Buffalo

Lunch: 12:30-2 (Lee and White, Uber eats, or Student Center)

2-3:30: Indigenous Oceanian Embodied Philosophy, Fiji Study Abroad Session

Special visit by Master Wame, Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific

“Sacred Bonds, Embodied Cognition, and Bodily Integrity in Oceanian Philosophy,” Valencia White, Philosophy, Grad Student, U of Cincinnati, C’24

“Embodied Knowledge and Music in Oceanian Philosophy”, includes singing, Kelbe Nails, Philosophy, Undergraduate, Spelman College, C’26

“Oceanian Embodied Self-determination, Music, and Silence,” Mia Aleem, Philosophy and English, Undergraduate, Spelman College, C’26

3:45-5:00: Keynote

Susi Ferrarello, “More Gossip, Less Ethics”: You, Me, and the Maternal Body,” Department of Philosophy, Philosophy Counselor, Cal State University