From August 23 to 26, 2018, Societas Ethica held its 54th annual conference in Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium. This was the last conference organized under the presidency of Hille Haker (Loyola University Chicago). Hille Haker was the first woman to be elected president of Societas Ethica, and this conference marked the first time that the society considered feminist and queer ethics as an independent topic of philosophical and theological reflection. One issue that was considered in many

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... ions was the issue of systemic sexual harassment and abuse and the #metoo-movement. This issue in particular emphasized the renewed urgency of feminist interventions. Societas Ethica is the European society for research in ethics and is open for scholars in philosophical ethics, theological ethics and applied ethics; it draws its members from various traditions within these fields. Consequently, this conference in particular became a forum that brought together very different perspectives, sparked controversial debate, and became a source of (hopefully) productive irritation for many participants. The conference had 21 paper presentations, two special invited papers, four keynote presentations, and one concluding panel discussion that reflected on the progress of and the challenges to feminist ethics over the last 25 years. In the introductory keynote lecture, "Sexual Subjectivity and Sexual Violence", Linda Martín Alcoff (Graduate Center of the City University of New York), an internationally recognized specialist on the philosophy of race and feminist epistemology, problematized the established legal discourse on sexual violence. This discourse centers on the notion of consent, however, there is a long-standing feminist tradition of critiquing consent as a moral and legal standard of sexual relations. Sexual relations are often embedded in power relations, and so someone may consent to sex that -as a matter of fact -is not in accordance with their