Feminism, Materialism, Critical Theory:
A Symposium to Celebrate and Engage with the Work of
Gillian Howie (1965-2013)
Monday 16th December, 2013
School of the Arts Library, University of Liverpool
“My guiding principle is that the work of philosophy should be concerned with the intelligibility of the world. This is not because everything can be explained, grasped, or even communicated, but because if, as feminists, we wish to change the world, then we need to know what we are dealing with”.
(Gillian Howie, 2010)
Morning Sessions
10.15: Welcome
10.20 – 11.20: Session 1
J’annine Jobling, University of Liverpool
‘The Angel of History: Death, Transcendence and a Feminist Materialist Spirituality’
Patrice Haynes, Liverpool Hope University
‘Encouraging a Thoughtful Love of Life: Practicing Philosophy with Pamela Sue Anderson and Gillian Howie’
Chair: Daniel Whistler, University of Liverpool
11.20 – 11.40: Coffee
11.40 – 13.00: Session 2
Christine Battersby, University of Warwick
‘Gillian Howie’s Situated Philosophy: Theorising the Intersections of Self, Body and World’
Stella Sandford, Kingston University
‘“I suggest we regroup around the idea of dialectical materialism’”.
Chair: Joanna Hodge, Manchester Metropolitan University
13.00- 14.15: Lunch
Afternoon Sessions
14.15 – 15.15: Session 3
Roundtable discussion on ‘Living with Dying’
With Pamela Sue Anderson (Oxford University), Beverly Clack (Oxford Brookes University), Ned Hassan (Liverpool Hope), Michael McGhee (University of Liverpool), Ruth Gould (Dadafest, Liverpool)
Chair: Laura Green, University of Liverpool
15.15 – 15.45: Coffee
15.45 – 17.00: Session 4
Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics
‘Reflections on Howie on Late Feminism’
Victoria Browne, Oxford Brookes University
‘“Come back to me when you’ve read the Critique of Pure Reason”:
Gillian Howie on Pedagogy and Intellectual Inheritance’
Chair: Margrit Shildrick, University of Linköping
17.00: Closing
Evening
17.30 – 19.00
Wine Reception (SOTA Library)
19.30
Dinner at The Quarter, Falkner Street
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Enquiries to v.r.browne at liv dot ac dot uk
