Lauren Guilmette

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

·      “Making Feminist Fragments: A Bookmaking and Collage Workshop,” a three-hour workshop co-organized with Lynne Huffer (Emory) for philoSOPHIA 2025, hosted at Texas A&M in College Station, TX, on April 11, 2025

·      philoSOPHIA conference (with Ada S. Jaarsma), “Feminist Making, Sensing & Doing,” Mount Royal University, Calgary, March 14-17, 2024 (www.feministmaking.com) 

·      Experimental “Feminist Making” Workshop, a two-day workshop co-organized with Ada S. Jaarsma (Mount Royal), Qrescent Mali Mason (Haverford), Taylor Rogers (Loyola University of Chicago) and Bailey Szustak (University of Illinois-Chicago) and held in conjunction with philoSOPHIA, UNCC, May 31-June 1, 2023

·      Image-Text and Experimental Writing Workshop, a day-long workshop organized with Lynne Huffer (Emory) and held in conjunction with philoSOPHIA at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, June 1, 2022

·      Foucault’s Twenty-First Century Afterlives, Virtual Workshop pairing current Foucault scholars with Elon senior seminar participants, Elon University, November 2020

·      philoSOPHIA conference, “Affect and Social Justice”, hosted at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL, March 30 – April 2, 2017

PRESENTATIONS

Refereed Conferences:

·      Roundtable on Liberatory Practices and Communal Safety (with Leyla Savloff and Julieanne Liebenguth, both of Elon University), given at the Society for Utopian Studies, October 17-19, 2024, hosted in Tulum, Mexico

·      Roundtable on Foucault’s “Lives of Infamous Men,” Foucault Circle, May 2024 (virtual)

·      “Atmospheric Interventions: Notes Toward an Ethics of Community Gardens,” American Philosophies Forum (APF) in Charlotte, NC, April 6-8, 2023; also given at the virtual 2023 meeting of WGS South, March 30 – April 1, 2023 (online conference)

·      “Wayward Fables, Poem-Life Experiments: Foucault and Hartman in the Archives,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), held Oct 13-15, 2022 at Texas A&M (College Station, TX)

·      “The Weight of Papier Mâché: Affect and Emotion in the Archives of Infamy,” given at the Foucault Circle, May 13-15, 2022, at Emory University in Atlanta, GA

·      “Affect and Intelligibility: Questions for a Decolonial Feminist Philosophy of Disability,” philoSOPHIA 2020 in Nashville, TN, May 14-17, 2020 – Cancelled due to COVID

·      “Expression, Animation, and Intelligibility: Concepts for a Decolonial Feminist Affect Theory,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2019, Pittsburgh (Honorable Mention for Best Submission by a Junior Scholar)

·      “The Forgetting of Ableism in Affect Theory” (with Joel Michael Reynolds), International Merleau-Ponty Circle, hosted in NYC, September 12-14, 2019

·      “How We Tend to Feel: Foucault, Fictions, and the Present-Day Politics of Personal Feeling,” 2018 Foucault Circle, hosted at John Carroll U. in Cleveland, April 5-8, 2018

·      “Unsettling the Coloniality of the Affects Toward the Human: On Foucault, Wynter, and Brennan” (workshop) and Book Panel on Shelley Tremain’s Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, philoSOPHIA 2018, held in Richmond, VA

·      “The Politics of Personal Feeling: Reading Teresa Brennan in the Age of ‘Post-Truth’,” SPEP 2017 in Memphis, TN

·      “‘Here Be Dragons’: Police Brutality and the Imaginary-Affective Limits of the Moral Community,” SPEP 2016, Salt Lake City (also given at philoSOPHIA 2015, Atlanta, GA)

·       “Curiosity-as-Care: Feminist Philosophies of Disability and the Ethics of Curiosity,” Society for Philosophy and Disability 2016, organized alongside Eastern APA in Washington D.C. (earlier version given at the Society for Disability Studies 2015, Atlanta)

·      “Spinoza, Foucault, and the Re-Scripting of Affect,” SPEP 2015, Atlanta

·      “Lynne Huffer’s Queer Ethics of Eros,” presented at the 2015 NeMLA), held in Toronto

·       “Foucault’s Affect: That Curiosity Which Enables One to Get Free of Oneself,” SPEP 2014, New Orleans, LA (also given at philoSOPHIA 2014, Penn State)

·      “‘In What We Tend to Feel is Without History’: Foucault, Genealogy, Affect," presented at the October 2013 meeting of SPEP in Eugene, OR (Award for Best Submission by a Graduate Student), and at the May 2013 meeting of philoSOPHIA in Banff, Alberta

Invited Talks and Workshops:

·      “Something in the Atmosphere: Community Gardens and the Project of an Affective Commons,” Edwards Lecture at Emory University, October 26, 2024

·      philoSOPHIA panel at SPEP 2024 on “Feminist Making, Doing, & Sensing,”  co-organized with Qrescent Mali Mason (Haverford), Tay Rogers (Governors State), and Ada Jaarsma (Mount Royal), September 27, 2024 in Rochester, NY

·      “Image-Text: Feminist Experiments in Visual Processing,” philoSOPHIA, March 2024

·      Memorial Panel for Drucilla Cornell (1950-2022), given at SPEP 2023 in Toronto

·      “Something in the Atmosphere: Theorizing Transpersonal Structures of Feeling,” given at the 2023 Boston Phenomenology Circle, March 31-April 1, 2023

·      “Neuroqueer Phenomenology; or, How I am Learning to Think about Affect and Attention,” Philosophy, Disability and Social Change, second annual conference, hosted virtually by Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, Dec 7-10, 2021.

·      Respondent, Book Panel, Noëlle McAfee, Fear of Breakdown (2019), SPEP 2021 (online)

·      “Fear and Desire in the Age of Paranoia: Teresa Brennan's Socio-Historical Theory of Affect,” American Philosophies Forum (APF), April 8-10, 2021

·      Panelist for “Thinking with Julia Kristeva,” NYU’s La Maison Française, March 17, 2021

·      Feminist Foucault Workshop, Nov 13-14, 2020, which I also hosted and organized at Elon

·      Feminist Foucault Workshop, Nov 15-17, 2019, hosted at John Carroll U., Cleveland, OH

·      Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy, July 2019 (Text Seminar Leader)

·      “Baldwin’s Dragons: On Mattering and the Politics of Preciousness,” Philosophy Colloquium Talk at Florida International University (FIU), March 7, 2019

·      “Unsettling the Coloniality of the Affects: Expression, Animatedness, and Impressibility,” Decolonization Across the Disciplines Symposium, FAU, Boca Raton, January 26, 2019

·      “On Teresa Brennan”, Archives Make History: The Pembroke Collections, Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women, Brown University, March 10, 2017

·      “Learning to See: Cellphone Photography and Citizenship”, Philosophy Without Teachers Workshop, Elon University, June 5-10, 2016

·      “Risk-Averse Bodies: Florida’s Baker Act and the place of “care” in mental healthcare”, “Bodies of Care: Somaesthetics of Vulnerability”, FAU, January 2016