Mary Anne Franks : Presentations
Unpublished
PRESENTATIONS
"Combating Sexual Harassment in Cyberspace." Work-in-Progress Faculty Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, September 17, 2009.
"Title VII and Title IX in the Internet Age." Cyber Civil Rights Symposium, Denver University Law Review, Denver, Colorado, November 20, 2009.
"Unwilling Avatars: Idealism and Objectification in Cyberspace." Law and Society Association 2009 Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado, May 28, 2009.
"Unwilling Avatars: Idealism, Objectification, and Liberty in Cyberspace." Lior Strahilevitz, Commentator. Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender Workshop. University of Chicago Law School, April 29, 2009.
"Law and Moral Choice." Guest presentation in Professor Gregg Bloche's seminar, Mind and the Law. University of Chicago Law School, April 21, 2009.
"The Future of Guantánamo." Panel discussion with Eric Posner. Sponsored by the ACLU (University of Chicago chapter). Chicago, Illinois, March 5, 2009.
"Believing Our Eyes: U.S. Policy on Women's Rights in Iraq and Afghanistan." Panel on Women and International Armed Conflict. Sponsored by the University of Chicago Law Women's Association. University of Chicago Law School, October 27, 2008.
"Loving the Neighbor (To Death): Freud on Love, Sex, and Death." Lecture at Harvard University, April 1, 2008.
"Placing Guantánamo: Torture, Terror, and the Zone of Indistinction." Lecture at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, May 2007.
"Breaking Down and Breaking Away: Film, Feminism, and Fantasy." Lecture at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2007.
"Getting Particular about the Universal: The Question of Gender and Human Rights." Guest lecture for seminar Human Rights: Translating Theory to Practice, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2006.
"The Philosophy of Misogyny." Guest lecture for Diane Rosenfeld's course Gender Violence, Law, and Social Justice, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2005.
"Fates Worse Than Death? Race, Gender, and Genocide in Gujarat and Rwanda." Society for the Philosophical Study of Genocide and the Holocaust. Memphis, Tennessee, October 2004.
"The Mismeasure of Knowledge: Pedagogy and Postmodernism." Quincy College Faculty Workshops. Quincy, Massachusetts, May 2004.
"Desire, Despair—The Language Is Leaving: Of Masters, Masochists, and Neighbors." 5th Annual University of South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference: The Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism in the New Millennium. Columbia, South Carolina, February 2003.
"Of Sex and Other Acts: Violence and Resistance in Slavoj Zizek and Judith Butler." International Philosophical Seminar (IPS) XII: Reading Slavoj Zizek's Ticklish Subject. Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy, July 2002.
"Sex/Marks/Bodies: Death and the Maiden in South Africa and Afghanistan." InterMedialities, International Association of Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) Conference. Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 2002.
"Controlled Exposure: Courbet's L'origine du monde and the Containment of the Woman/Object." Sixth Cambridge French Studies Conference: Exposure. Cambridge University, UK, March 2002.
"Feminism and the Sex Industry." Forum on International Feminisms. Oxford University, UK, April 2001.
"Nothing to see here: Sex, Sight and the Body in Ingeborg Bachmann and Jean Baudrillard." Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst (IWK—Institute for Arts and Sciences) Feministische Theorie und Frauenforschung (Feminist Theory and Women's Studies Lecture Series). Vienna, Austria, April 2001.
"Woman Does Not Exist: Fantasy, Otherness, and the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan." Session on Genocide and Radical Evil, Society for the Philosophical Study of Genocide and the Holocaust (SPSGH) at the American Philosophical Association (APA, Eastern) 2000. New York City, New York, December 2000.
"Obscene Supplements, or, what we write about when we write about death." PostModern Productions: text power knowledge. Erlangen, Germany, November 2000.
"Crimes of Anti-Memory: Women, Rape Warfare, and Genocide." American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division, Boston, MA, December 1999.
MODERATED PANELS
"Criminal Law, Race, and Crime," The Criminal Justice Roundtable, University of Chicago Law School, May 1, 2009.
"Critical Tools for Practicing Human Rights: Education, Advocacy and Organizing." University of Chicago Human Rights Program. Chicago, Illinois, February 26, 2009.
"Women's Rights in Iraq and Afghanistan." Women in War: Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Conference. Harvard Law School, April 2005.
