Seminar hosted by the Centre of Ethics and the Research Project Ethics in Motion
14.00-16.00 in Veröld 008 30th of April
Participants:
Julia Vélez Ramos, Anna Gotlib, Emma Rivard Henriot and Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir
In this seminar, we’ll explore epistemologies of ignorance in relation to women’s health. From feminist studies, this framework reveals how women’s bodies have been ignored, how certain forms of knowledge have been hidden or dismissed, and how entire communities have been pushed to unlearn what they once knew. Building on feminist work on epistemologies of ignorance, we’ll explore how not‑knowing is socially produced within women’s health: what gets obscured, why it happens, and with what consequences.
Throughout the session, we’ll look at how this socially constructed ignorance has shaped medical history and how it continues to affect women and other groups that have been systematically marginalized.
About the participants:
Julia Vélez Ramos is aPhD Candidate in Moral and Political philosophy at the University of Salamanca (Spain). Her research focuses on the analysis of studies on epistemic injustice and its connections with other epistemic and non‑epistemic phenomena, as well as on the application of these studies to cases of social injustice concerning women and other vulnerable populations.
Anna Gotlib is an associate professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY, specializing in feminist bioethics/medical ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of law. She received her PhD in philosophy from Michigan State University and a JD from Cornell Law School. Anna is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB). Her work has appeared in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Journal of Medical Humanities, Hypatia, Teaching Philosophy, Aeon/Psyche, and other journals and refereed collections.
Emma Rivard Henriot is a PhD student at the University of Iceland. She holds a master’s degree from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her PhD project focuses on the lived experience of endometriosis (Endo) for teenagers. She is exploring how the onset of Endo during the transformative period of the teenage years — which involves puberty —affects teenagers’ experiences and identities.
Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir is a research assitant professor at the Centre for Ethics and an adjunct at the School of Education. Nanna has written widely on #MeToo, vulnerability and feminist philosophy but she also studies fatigue, disability and chronic illnesses such as ME/CFS. Nanna is the principal investigator of the EMFEM project along with Eyja M.J. Brynjarsdóttir.
