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Conferences
(selection of last 7 years)
2023. “The Harms of Obstetric Violence – Some Reflections from Feminist Philosophy.” Interdisciplinary Colloquium “Sorrow/Harm and Wrong”, The Philosophy Department. Flensburg University, Germany.
2023. “Obstetric Violence: A Perspective from Feminist Philosophy.” Feminist Jurisprudence. Oxford University, UK.
2023. “Birth: Perspectives in Feminist Philosophy.” TORCH – The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities Seminar. Oxford University, UK.
2023. “Complicity with Submission in Obstetric Violence.” The Philosophy Department Seminar, Durham University, UK.
2023. “Obstetric Violence – A Perspective from Feminist Philosophy.” Seminar Obstetric Violence, a Multidisciplinar Analysis, Durham University, Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences. Video
2023. “Keeping Birthing Bodies Grotesque- or Resisting Obstetric Violence through Crip Phenomenology.” Women and their Body Conference. Paderborn University, Germany. Video
2023. "Grotesque Bodies, Bad Mothers and the Question of Complicity: Shame in Obstetric Violence.” The Shame and Medicine Project Seminar, the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, Exeter University, UK. Video
2023. “Resisting Obstetric Violence through Crip Phenomenology.” Philosophy of Birth Workshop, Utrecht University of Humanities, The Netherlands.
2022. Main organizer, International three day workshop on childbirth (ISF funded), “Childbirth: A View from the Humanities”, University of Haifa.
2022. “Is Obstetric Violence Sexual Violence ?” The Philosophy Researchers’ Seminar, UNAM, Mexico City. Video
2022. “From Beauvoir to #MeToo – or Why Gender Violence is Invisible.” Inaugural Conference, 1st Year Students, UNAM, Mexico City.
2021. “Doomed to Sacrifice? Existential and Phenomenological Perspectives on Sacrifice and Gender.” From Women’s Sacrifice to Feminist Sacrifice: Medicalized Birth and ‘Natural’ Birth vs Woman-Centered Birth, Vienna Institute for the Human Sciences.
2020. “Eye-Level Gynecology: Gynecology from the Women’s Perspective.” Mistreatment and Abuse in Childbirth: Theoretical Questions, Hadassah Medical Center.
2020 (online). “Motherhood – A Philosophical Perspective.” A Philosophical-Phenomenological Analysis of Motherhood – COVID times and Beyond. The International Forum for Latin American Women Philosophers. Video
2019. “Towards a Beauvoirian Understanding of Obstetric Violence.” 26th Conference of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society in conjunction with Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II, George Washington University, Washington D.C.
2019. “A Phenomenology of Obstetric Violence.” PHILBIRTH Seminar, The University of Alcalá, Madrid.
2019. “That’s the Way It Is – or Not: Challenging Childbirth Through Phenomenology, Changing Philosophy Through Childbirth.” Analyzing Darkness and Light: Dystopias and Beyond, University of Helsinki.
2019. “Why ‘Normal’ Feels so Bad: Violence and Vaginal Examinations in Childbirth, a Feminist Phenomenology.” Seminar: Vaginal Examinations in Childbirth, Consent and the Law, The Faculty of Law, Oxford.
2018. “Obstetric Violence as Gaslighting.” The Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth and Early Motherhood; Society for Women in Philosophy in collaboration with PhilBirth, University of Southampton, UK.
2018. “Obstetric Violence and Epistemic Injustice.” Childbirth: Vulnerability, Violence and Control, The Faculty of Law, Oxford.
2017. “Beauvoir’s Feminism(s).” The 24th Conference of the International Society for Simone de Beauvoir Studies, University of Haifa.
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