Midwest SWIP 2025 Conference Schedule
March 20-22 @ Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
All events take place at the Morris University Center (MUC), located in the heart of SIUE’s campus.
Thursday, March 20
Mississippi-Illinois Room Morris University Center
1:00-1:50pm — Welcome Reception @ the MUC. We look forward to welcoming you to campus with refreshments served in the Illinois/Mississippi room of the Morris University Center.
2:00-2:50pm — Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco, “People Pleasing as Affective Injustice”
3:00-3:50pm — Katie Peters, “The Harm Perspective in Moral Responsibility”
4:00-4:50pm – Rebecca Sanaeikia, “Killing Me Worldly”
Friday, March 21
Mississippi-Illinois Room Morris University Center
8:15am-8:50am — welcome gathering, coffee and snacks provided by SIUE Graduate School & Department of Philosophy
9:00-9:50am — Mridula Sharma, “On Sexual Violence: Feminist Theory and Rhetoric”
10:00-10:50am — Katherine Villa, “The Affective Asymmetries of Blame”
11:00-11:50am — Tammy Nyden, “The Making of the Unfit Mother: The Eugenicist and Euthenist History of Motherblame-Stigma & Its Legacy of Institutional Gaslighting.”
12:00-1:20pm — Break for lunch
{a list of nearby eateries will be provided at the conference}
1:30-2:20pm — Kexuan Liu, “Birthing into the margin: World-Traveling, Epistemic Fluidity, and an Anti-Essentialist Standpoint Epistemology.”
2:30-3:20pm — Tempest Henning, “Habitual Knowing: Black Feminist Epistemology and Knowledge Attribution”
4:00-5:30pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Responsibility, moral agency, and personhood: perspectives from the margins.
Dr. Mich Ciurria
{reception immediately to follow}
Saturday, March 22
International Room - Morris University Center
10:00-10:15am —welcome gathering, coffee and snacks provided by SIUE Graduate School & Department of Philosophy
10:15-10:50am — Elaine Chen, “Breaking Free of the Birdcage: Rethinking Feminist Agency Amidst Structural Constraints”
11:00-11:50am - Saba Fatima, “In the times of genocide, what do we owe as academics?”
12:00-12:50pm — Yingshihan (Shihan) Zhu, “Struggling in the Middle: Why Privileged Oppressed Agents Are Doubly Morally Damaged.”
1:00-2:00pm - Business Lunch + conversation/reflection
{catered by SIUE Graduate School and Department of Philosophy}
A special thanks to our 2025 program review committee:
- Dr. Eva Cadavid – Centre College, Danville, KY
- Dr. Saba Fatima – SIUE, Edwardsville, IL
- Dr. Ezgi Sertler – Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
