[PHILOS-L] Call for Participation: Normativity and Gender Workshop, Tampere, June 9-10

[Jenni Rytilä (TAU)]

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We are pleased to announce the upcoming in-person workshop Normativity and Gender, to be held at Tampere University, Finland, on June 9-10, 2026.

Description: The workshop explores issues concerning normativity, gender, and their connections. It is natural to theorize gender within a normative framework: gender is not a neutral classificatory category, but one which encodes evaluative assumptions, sets standards of correctness, and generates reasons and obligations for individuals. At the same time, philosophical thought about normativity itself - for instance, about the nature of agency, reasons, authority, or objectivity - has been shaped by socially situated assumptions. As a result, the intersection between gender and normativity as areas of philosophical theorizing can be particularly fruitful, enhancing our understanding of both categories and motivating revisions to our existing accounts of either.

Programme:

June 9 (9.30–16.30):

N. G. Laskowski (Maryland): "How Not to Argue that 'Woman' is Monosemous" 

Siiri Porkkala (Tampere): “Nonbinary Genders, Binary Gender Model, and Ideology”

Stina Björkholm (Stockholm): "Varieties of lost disagreement and the prospects of a uniform solution"

Jaakko Reinikainen (Tampere): “A causal-historical account of deadnaming and misgendering”

June 10 (9.30–16.30):

Laura Nicoara (Tampere): ”Gender kinds and gender membership”

Jacob Blitz (Arizona): ”Maps, not Cages: Gender Identities as Traditions”

Giulia Basile & Vittoria Campisi (Milan): “The Cost of Refusal: or How Gender Norms Shape Our Ability to Say No”

Katie Zhou (MIT): [TBA]

 

Venue: Tampere University Central Campus, Pinni B4115

 

The workshop is in-person only. Attendance is free, and no registration is needed. However, for catering reasons, please contact laura....@tuni.fi if you wish to attend the workshop.

The workshop is organized by the Normativity, Gender, and Mathematics project, funded by Kone Foundation, and the Quasi-Realism project, funded by the Research Council of Finland.  

Organizers: Laura Nicoară, Siiri Porkkala, Jenni Rytilä, Teemu Toppinen, Vilma Venesmaa. 

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