CFP: Midwest SWIP July 22, 2008

The Midwest division of SWIP (Society for Women in Philosophy) is looking for papers, poetry, panel
proposals and/or other proposals for our upcoming conference.

The conference will be held Sept 19, 20, and 21, 2008 at the University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater. We invite work in all areas relating to feminism and
feminist practices; anti-racist theory/practice; political theory and ethics; metaphysics and epistemology as well as papers, panels, and performances that engage feminist anti-racist praxis
and theorizing more broadly.

Midwest SWIP is an interdisciplinary conference with a particular emphasis on troubling the discipline of philosophy and the theory/practice dichotomy.

Queries and submissions should be sent via email to each of the following: Tinola Mayfield-Guerrero at tinolam AT yahoo.com and
Chris Gallagher at cgallag3 AT utnet.utoledo.edu

Please visit us at: http://blogs.uww.edu/midwestswip/

The deadline has been extended to August 1, 2008.

CFP: Feminism, Fashion and Flair July 10, 2008

Call for Papers: Feminism, Fashion and Flair: Confronting Hegemony with Style (8/15/08)

We are soliciting academic papers for an anthology on feminism and fashion. Fashion is a powerful way we express our politics, personalities, and preferences for who and how we love. Yet fashion can also repress freedom and sexual expression. Fashion encourages profound creativity, rebellion, and defiant self-definition while simultaneously controlling and disciplining the body. Fashion signals resistance to sexual morés and it can also promote a problematic consumer culture. Fashion creates collective identity, but also constrains individual voice. In other words, fashion contains the paradoxical potential for pleasure and subjugation, expression and conformity.

This book explores the productive tensions generated by fashion and style. We are interested in essays that take up questions of gender with special attention to race, class, sexuality, age, and ethnicity. This collection blends theory and pop culture analysis in exciting ways, focusing on contemporary trends and controversies.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Theories of agency, style, and the presentation of self
• Performing identity: race, class, gender and sexuality through style
• Consumerist pleasure and anxiety
• Fashion production in the context of global capital and trade
• Bois, grrls, trannies and styles of queerness
• Hardcore, metro, punk, and khakis: constructing masculinities through fashion
• Body art and ethnic appropriations
• Debates in plastic surgery and re-fashioning the body
• Class identity and decorating domestic space
• Feminist fashion: debates over style and politics
• The ethics of green production and marketing
• Everyday pornography and fashion fetish
• Virtual style and online identities
• Material culture and craft in a postmodern world
• Slumming and radical chic: tensions of authenticity and irony
• Vintage and thrift fashion: nostalgia and class signifiers
• DIY Style: fashion off the corporate grid

Deadline for abstracts is August 15, 2008.

Format for abstracts: Word document, double-spaced, between 300 and 500 words. Include contact information and short bio.

Send to: FashionBook1@yahoo.com

Shira Tarrant
Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies Department
California State University, Long Beach

and

Marjorie Jolles
Assistant Professor, Women’s & Gender Studies Program
Roosevelt University

CFP: Val Plumwood June 17, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS - special issue honoring Val Plumwood

Ethics & the Environment is considering papers for a special issue in honor of Val Plumwood. We welcome submissions on Plumwood’s philosophy, ecofeminism, indigenous environmental ethics, ecological perspectives on rationality, and other relevant topics.

Submission deadline: February 15, 2009. Manuscripts may be submitted as word files via e-mail to eande@uga.edu. For matters of style, consult The Chicago Manual of Style.

This special issue is in conjunction with a symposium in honor of Val Plumwood to be held at the University of Georgia March 20-21, 2009
Melissa Link
Managing Editor
Ethics & the Environment
University of Georgia
Department of Philosophy
Peabody Hall
Athens, GA 30602
Tel: (706)542-2362
Fax: (706)542-2839
E-mail: eande@uga.edu

Thanks, Kate!

CFP: Feminist Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition June 15, 2008

Society for Analytical Feminism
Feminist Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition

CALL FOR PAPERS
SAF Session at the Central Division APA Meetings
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
February 18-21, 2009
NOTE DATE CHANGE!

The Society for Analytical Feminism invites submissions for a session at the 2008 Central Division APA meetings to be held in Chicago in February 18-21, 2009. Please note that this is a different date than you may be used to!

The Society seeks papers that examine feminist issues by methods broadly construed as analytic, or discuss the use of analytic philosophical methods as applied to feminist issues. Reading time should be about 20 minutes. Authors should submit either (1) a paper, or (2) an extended abstract, as detailed as possible (up to 1000 words) accompanied by a bibliography. Please delete all self-identifying references from your submission to ensure anonymity. You may submit papers as a word attachment to sharon.crasnow@rcc.edu (preferred) or mail four copies to:

Sharon Crasnow
925 Archer Street
San Diego, CA 92109

The deadline for submissions is August 15, 2008.

CFP: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory June 13, 2008

For a Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

FEAST: Current Work in Feminist Ethics and Social Theory

Edited by Diana Tietjens Meyers

This call is for the first of two FEAST special issues to be hosted by Hypatia. This issue will appear in January-March 2010.

This is an open issue, and all FEAST members are invited to submit their work. At the 2007 conference, we had a wonderful array of theoretical and applied papers. Conference themes included the following:

$ virtue ethics

$ care ethics

$ responsibility

$ violence and bigotry

$ testimony and story-telling

$ justice and ethics in interpersonal relationships

$ international justice and human rights

$ terrorism and national security

$ stem cell research

$ sex, gender, power, and solidarity

$ Beauvoir and Arendt

Throughout the conference and in diverse ways, speakers underscored the relations between theory and social processes and between power, experience, and moral philosophy. I would like this special issue to mirror the scope, as well as the depth, of what FEAST members are contributing to philosophy. The themes I have listed illustrate the range of conference papers. Submissions on other topics in feminist ethics and social thought are welcome.

**************************************************************

Diana Tietjens Meyers

Professor of Philosophy

University of Connecticut

Storrs CT 06269-2054

office phone: 860-486-3587

shared fax: 860-486-0387

http://www.philosophy.uconn.edu/department/meyers/meyers.html

cfp: GENDER, CREATIVITY AND THE NEW LONGEVITY June 6, 2008

 I’m happy to officially inform you of a conference for Fall 2008 (November 13- 15, 2008) - on GENDER, CREATIVITY AND THE NEW LONGEVITY.From the Women;s Studies program at the University of Houston.

The conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists and practitioners to consider the social and personal consequences of the new longevity. What will it mean both for individuals and for the wider community that so many are living into our 80s, 90s and beyond?

How does this huge transformation in the life course affect existing notions of aging, community, health care, work place policy, aesthetics, and family? How does gender affect experience in all these realms? How can we address the inequitable impact of class on lifespan? What changes in policy, in research focus and in our shared concepts of aging and the life course will best serve our transforming community now and in the coming years?

Katha Pollitt will be our keynote, on the evening of Thursday Nov. 13.

In addition there will be linked art exhibition at DiverseWorks, opening on November 14, curated by MaryRoss Taylor and entitled THRIVE!

Demographers, health researchers, cultural critics, economists, philosophers, sociologists, artists, policy analysts, religious thinkers, social workers, city planners, etc are invited to participate.

Please send one-page proposals by JULY 15, 2008 to:

GCNL Conference Committee, Women’s Studies Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3005
or Fax to 713-743-0931
For more information visit
www.friendsofwomen.org or call 713-743-3214

Update June 6, 2008

Readers might find the comments section of this cfp helpful.  And thanks to Mark White for stopping by!

CFP: From the Margins to the Center: Feminist Disability Studies and/in Feminist Bioethics June 5, 2008

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

TO A SPECIAL ISSUE OF

 

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FEMINIST

APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS (IJFAB)

Vol. 3, no. 2, Fall, 2010       

 

From the Margins to the Center:

Feminist Disability Studies and/in Feminist Bioethics

 

Guest Editor,  Shelley Tremain

 

In recent years, work done in mainstream bioethics has been challenged by the emerging field of disability studies. 

 

A growing number of disability theorists and activists point out that the views about disability and disabled people that mainstream bioethicists have articulated on matters such as prenatal testing, stem cell research, and physician-assisted suicide incorporate significant misunderstandings about them and amount to an institutionalized form of their oppression. 

 

While some feminist bioethicists have paid greater attention to the perspectives and arguments of disabled people than other bioethicists, these perspectives and arguments are rarely made central.  Feminist disability theory remains marginalized even within feminist bioethics. 

 

This issue of IJFAB will go some distance to move feminist disability studies from the margins to the center of feminist bioethics by highlighting the contributions to and interventions in bioethics that feminist disability studies is uniquely situated to make.

 

The guest editor seeks contributions to the issue on any topic related to feminist disability studies and bioethics, including (but not limited to):

 

•                     Critiques of bioethics by feminist disability theorists from within feminist bioethics

 

•                     The relevance of feminist disability studies in developing countries

 

•                     What’s still missing from feminist arguments in the debates about stem cell research and other forms of biotechnology

 

•                     The importance of perspectives of disabled embodiment in feminist bioethics

 

•                     How the critiques of bioethics advanced in disability studies are gendered

 

•                     The integration of political analyses of disability into feminist bioethics

 

•                     The critique of  notions of normalcy embedded in (feminist) bioethics

 

•                     The reevaluation of feminist approaches to care from a feminist disability studies perspective

 

 

Articles should be 3,000 - 8,000 words in length.  Shorter pieces written for the Commentaries section of the issue should be 2,000-3,000 words in length. 

 

All submissions should be double-spaced, prepared for anonymous review (no identifying references in the body of the text or bibliography), accompanied by an abstract of 150 words, and prepared in accordance with the journal’s style guidelines which are posted on the IJFAB website (www.ijfab.org .).  

 

Contact information  – email address, street address, and affiliation (if applicable) –  should appear on a separate page which also includes a statement verifying that the work has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. 

 

Submissions should be sent as email attachments in Microsoft Word or rtf to Shelley Tremain at s.tremain@yahoo.ca

 

The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2009.  The guest editor strongly encourages authors to contact her before completing their submissions.

What we’re up against June 4, 2008

The CFP: An International Conference on Human Rights and Biomedicine.
The invited speakers: 10 men and 1 woman.
So, Robin Fiore wrote in expressing her disappointment at the sex/gender imbalance, and calling attention to the fact that women might have particularly important insights on topics in biomedicine (especially since, though she didn’t call attention to it, one of the suggested topics was “the protection of foetuses”.)

The reply:

Dear Robin (if I may),
Thank you for the interesting opinion. The conference organizers have extensively discussed the conference themes and speakers in advance. We agreed to select academics with an outstanding scientific reputation in their field of expertise. Secondly, for dialectic reasons we invited speakers with rather controversial ideas. Although the organizers recognize the scientific relevance of e.g., organ donation and clinical trials from a feminist perspective, our aim is - with all respect - to discuss the themes from a broader perspective. To comfort you, I can say that we have also had some suggestions to include shamanism and health care rights as a conference theme, but I
fear that the response would not be that overwhelming as it is now. Secondly, two other invited speakers were women but to capable/willing to write a contribution for the conference book, a precondition for invited speakers. Nonetheless, I feel confident that our colleague and friend Deirdre Madden will intrigue the audience, which exists for 61 percent of women! Finally, the organizers are open for your suggestions to organize a parallel session on femenist ethics.

Now, obviously part of the problem is linguistic. But linguistic error does not explain the apparent equation of feminism and shamanism. Or the thought that feminism is not a sufficiently broad perspective to be represented when discussing such things as “protection of foetuses”. If you’d like to share your thoughts on the CFP and the way that the Fiore’s email was handled, write to m.ghari@erasmusmc.nl and let him know. Fiore tells me, by the way that in the past conferences like this have been responsive to complaints of this sort. And she advises that it’s important not to provide cover for their lack of high-profile women speakers by organising a panel presentation with women and/or feminists. (And definitely not shamanists.)

The organisers are being invited to respond to this post in comments.

Update: As you can see in the comments, the organisers have now responded very positively. Hurrah! Well done everyone.

An opportunity for feminist irony? June 3, 2008

     Well, see what you think:

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Iron Man and Philosophy

The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

Please circulate and post widely.

Apologies for Cross-posting.

To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact the Series Editor,

William Irwin, at wtirwin@kings.edu.

Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader. Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium.

Possible themes and topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

Virtue ethics, Iron Man, and the superhero as moral inspiration; Communism vs. capitalism in Iron Man stories; S.H.I.E.L.D. and the justification of counter-terrorist rights infringement; Iron Man’s revelation of his identities, contractual agreements, and contractual loopholes; The Illuminati, paternalism, and liberalism; The Superhuman Registration Act and the limits of privacy; Iron Man, Plato’s Philosopher King, and the Noble Lie; Genius, invention, and creativity; Role/responsibility of a futurist; If science can do it, should science do it? Weapons of mass destruction and the ethics of technology; Vengeance on my kidnappers: Is revenge ever justified?; Time travel in Iron Man stories, the Butterfly Effect, and determinism; God is dead: Iron Man as the replacement god; Human suffering, the Problem of Evil, and Iron Man as savior; Merging the two Starks (Pocket and Marvel universes) and the question of what counts as personal identity; Iron Man’s “living armor” and the possibility of artificial intelligence; Depictions of Masculinity: Iron Man and Iron John; Robotics, Heidegger, and technology; Capturing consciousness in computer: Mind as computer (Hypervelocity); Iron Man and Captain America: The pragmatist and the idealist; Stark’s alcoholism and the possibility of freedom for the addict; Social pressure and self-deception in Iron Man stories; Civil War: Are (bad) decisions judged by their intentions or consequences?

Submission Guidelines:

1. Submission deadline for abstracts (100-500 words) and CV(s): August 15, 2008.

2. Submission deadline for first drafts of accepted papers: February 1, 2009.

Kindly submit by e-mail (with or without Word attachment) to:

Robert Arp: rarp@buffalo.edu

 

CFP: Representations of Women in Film and Digital Media May 27, 2008

Call for Papers

Pics and Politics: Representations of Women in Film and Digital Media

Wagadu. Journal of Transnational Women`s and Gender Studies
(http://wagadu.org) is looking for submissions that address the visual work of women who
are concerned with gender and change. We welcome discussions of film and
media from a variety of perspectives incl. but not limited to film and media
studies, ethnology, critical theory, area studies, and art history. We envision
an issue located on the interstices of academic, artistic and activist discourse
communities.

Submissions should be marked by an interest in feminism, a fascination
for visionary works, and attentiveness to generative theoretical paradigms.
In line with the journal’s focus, we especially welcome submissions critical of
globalization and its ongoing shocks upon the subjects of culture.

Your submission may address one of the following topics:

- film and video artists (mainstream, experimental) who represent
vantage points in the history of feminism and / or discussions of sexuality, e.g.
Tracey Emin, Sadie Benning, Yoko Ono

- film and video artists who foreground (issues related to) race and cultural identity,
e.g. Yong Soon Min, Fanta Regina Nacro, Portia Rankoane

- video performance / installation artists, e.g. Kirsten Johannsen, Ingrid Mwangi

- contemporary multimedia and net artists, e.g. Shilpa Gupta

- contemporary media culture dubbed “post-feminist”, e.g. reality-tv
“Country XY`s Next Top Model”, “The Real Housewives of Orange County”;
representations of career women in film; or portrayals of girls and teenagers
in film TV and new media

- computer-based designers such as Brenda Laurel

Formats: Academic articles and analyses; reviews; art; book reviews;
festival reports, e.g. Zanzibar, Carthago; etc. (APA style format). Nota bene:
The authors take responsibility for contingent copyright issues of visuals and clips.

Deadline for submissions of abstracts (ca. 250-300 words): July 15,
2008.

Deadline for submissions of finished products: December 15, 2008

Please mail your inquiry and abstract to:

Editor: Dr. Nina Zimnik, Zuercher University for Applied Sciences,
Switzerland
nina.zimnik@phz.ch

Other inquiries:
Mecke Nagel, State University of New York at Cortland (Editor-in-Chief
of Wagadu)

nagelm@cortland.edu

Mechthild Nagel
Professor, Philosophy and Editor-in-Chief, Wagadu
Philosophy Department
SUNY Cortland
POB 2000
Cortland, NY 13045
607-753-2013
607-753-4114 (fax)
http://web.cortland.edu/nagelm/
http://wagadu.org/
nagelm@cortland.edu

CFP: Transformations May 20, 2008

The School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast is seeking paper proposals for a two-day conference [28th-29th November 2008] on the subject of

Transformation and the Dynamics of (Radical) Change
Insights from Political Theory and Philosophy

Transformation is a seemingly ubiquitous concept within the field of political theory and philosophy. Whilst some idealize transformation as a source for progress and the improvement of the human condition, others frame it as a disruptive and unsettling process which can damage the social, political and natural elements of our world.

Paper  proposals should include a tentative title, an abstract (200-300 words) and details of the author’s institutional affiliation and contact information. Proposals should address any of the following issues/topics:
•       Factors and actors in transformation: Pluralism, nationalism, individualism, collectivism, recognition, complexity.
•       Forces of transformation: Globalization, economic change, social change, processes, transformation of conflict.
•       Objects and subjects of transformation: ideas; norms; values; ideology; the concept of transformation itself; state and sovereignty; government; governance; social structures and  processes; environment and nature; human beings, including the self.
•       Evaluations of transformation: theories, approaches, critiques and the possibility of a broader discourse on transformation.
All papers should make an explicit contribution to the establishment of a broader discourse on transformation and the dynamics of (radical) change.
The organizing committee welcomes papers from scholars in all fields and also encourages submission from early-stage academics, as well as from postgraduate students.
The deadline for submissions is JUNE 15th 2008.
Please send your submission to: transformations(at)qub.ac.uk
For further information, please visit: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Events/Transformations/#d.en.94863

Fabian Schuppert
On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee
‘Transformation and the Dynamics of (Radical) Change: Insights from Political Theory and Philosophy’
Hosted by the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Events/Transformations/#d.en.94863

CFP: ‘Transformation and the Dynamics of (Radical) Change’ April 7, 2008

 

Dear colleagues,the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s
University Belfast is seeking paper proposals for a two-day conference
(28th-29th November 2008) on the subject of ‘Transformation and the
Dynamics of (Radical) Change Insights from Political Theory and
Philosophy’.

Transformation is a seemingly ubiquitous concept within the field of
political theory and philosophy. Whilst some idealize transformation as a
source for progress and the improvement of the human condition, others
frame it as a disruptive and unsettling process which can damage the
social, political and natural elements of our world.

Paper proposals should include a tentative title, an abstract (200-300
words) and details of the author’s institutional affiliation and contact
information.

Proposals should address any of the following issues/topics: Factors and
actors in transformation: Pluralism, nationalism, individualism,
collectivism, recognition, complexity.

Forces of transformation: Globalization, economic change, social change,
processes, transformation of conflict.

Objects and subjects of transformation: ideas; norms; values; ideology; the
concept of transformation itself; state and sovereignty; government;
governance; social structures and processes; environment and nature; human
beings, including the self.

Evaluations of transformation: theories, approaches, critiques and the
possibility of a broader discourse on transformation.

All papers should make an explicit contribution to the establishment of a
broader discourse on transformation and the dynamics of (radical) change.
The organizing committee welcomes papers from scholars in all fields and
also encourages submission from early-stage academics, as well as from
postgraduate students.

The deadline for submissions is JUNE 15th 2008. Please send your submission
to: transformations(at)qub.ac.uk

For further information, please visit:
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Events/Transformations/#d.en.94863

Fabian Schuppert
School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy
Queen’s University Belfast
transformations@qub.ac.uk

 

International Assoc of Women Phil in Seoul March 31, 2008

Dear Colleagues,You are cordially invited to participate in the thirteenth International Association of Women Philosophers Conference. It will be held in Seoul, Korea from July 27th to 29th, 2008. It would be greatly appreciated if you could inform of the conference to your colleagues and encourage their active participation.The theme of IAPh 2008 is “Multiculturalism and Feminism.” We strongly encourage women scholars’ contribution from diverse cultural and traditional background. Proposal submission due is April 30, 2008. More specific information will be found in the following website. http://www.iaph2008.org.

The Conference will consist of five sessions: plenary session, general session, special session, student session, round tables.l The plenary session consists of key note speeches on “multiculturalism and feminism” by four prominent women philosophers.l The general session is an opportunity in which women philosophers from different backgrounds address and discuss various issues and difficulties which contemporary women are facing.l The special session, prepared by Korean Women’s Development Institute, consists of invited lectures on “women, work, and family.” Invited lecturers from various traditions will enlighten us to identify women’s issues which originate from particular political, cultural, and religious context.l The student session is prepared in order to provide graduate student with the opportunity to present their papers. Those who participate in the students’ session will be provided with free meals and accommodation during the conference.l Round tables are the opportunity in which women philosophers exchange their thoughts and ideas on various issues and challenges against women and share their perspective.

Based on the visions, ideas and opinions obtained throughout the Conference, we shall seek the way to promote women’s condition and bring out better future for women.We sincerely hope that you will join us in making IAPh 2008 conference a success. We look forward to welcoming you to Seoul and to IAPh 2008.Sincerely,Heisook Kim, Ph.D.Dean of Scranton College Prof. of Philosophy, Ewha Womans University Seoul 120-750, Korea 822-3277-6590, 2211 (office)

8211-346-9939 (cell)

CFP: Transgender Studies and Feminism March 13, 2008

For a Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities Edited by Talia Mae Bettcher and Ann Garry.

The recent publication of The Transgender Studies Reader (ed. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, New York: Routledge, 2006) marks a watershed in the development of trans studies. Arising in the early nineties in close relation to queer theory, trans studies is characterized by the coming-to-voice of trans people, long the theorized and researched objects of sexology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and even feminist theory. Sandy Stone’s groundbreaking “The Empire Strikes Back: A PosttranssexualManifesto” sought the end of monolithic accounts of trans people (authored by non-trans) to reveal a multiplicity of trans narratives told by trans people themselves.

By recognizing trans people as flesh and blood humanbeings with particular access to experiences of “transness” and transphobic oppression, as its starting point, trans studies opens up a way of theorizing “transgender”–for trans and non-trans people alike–that ideally resists, rather than reinforces, mechanisms of transphobia. This raises important questions in feminist theory and politics. How can feminist theory best understand transphobia and trans resistance? Where do feminist and trans politics meet? Where are the overlaps and gaps, the points ofconnection and disconnection? 

Hypatia invites submissions to a special issue on transgender studies and feminism, which recognizes the emergence of trans studies.We welcome articles that investigate the relations between feminism and transgender studies. Articles exploring the intersections of multiple oppressions are especially welcome, as are submissions that come from subject-positions outside the United States (and North America more generally). We seek a collection of papers that is international in scope.We also welcome articles that focus on issues specific to trans studies,trans politics, and trans people. This includes (but is hardly limited to) the following: medical regulations of trans bodies; transphobic violence ;transphobia in housing, employment, education, medical treatment, and the like; sexual violence against trans people; critiques and concerns about various views within trans studies or politics, tensions between queer theory and trans studies.

Submissions need not be limited to the discipline of philosophy; we encourage interdisciplinary submissions. Regardless of disciplinary orientation, all submissions need to be theoretically sophisticated.Submissions that show a sensitivity to the interrelations among theory,politics, and real impacts upon flesh and blood human beings are especially welcome.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, prepared for anonymous review, andaccompanied by an abstract of no more than 75 words. Please provide a cover letter identifying your paper as a submission for the special issue“Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities.”

The deadline for submissions is 15 April, 2008. Papers should be submitted by electronic attachment in Word to Ann Garry at agarry AT calstatela.edu.Submissions should follow Hypatia guidelines.Please address all correspondence, questionsand suggestions to Ann Garry or Talia Bettcher at tbettch AT calstatela.edu.

Graduate Student Paper Competition March 10, 2008

NASSP Conference Awards for Graduate Students

To promote new scholarship focusing on social philosophy and to encourage student participation, the North American Society for Social Philosophy has established the NASSP Awards for Best Graduate StudentPapers. These awards give special recognition to papers to be read by a graduate student at the NASSPannual conference. The winners of the annual prizes will each receive $300 upon attendance at the annual International Social Philosophy Conference, and will be honored at the conference.This year’s annual conference will be held:July 17-19, 2008 at the University of Portland (Oregon)Special attention will be devoted to the theme:Gender, Inequality, and Social Justice but papers in all areas of social philosophy are welcome.

Graduate students who wish to be considered for the award should send completed papers of no more than 3,000 words and a 300-500 word abstract byMarch 15, 2008 with an indication that you would like to beconsidered for the Graduate Student Award to the Program Committee:
Jordy Rocheleau
Department of Philosophy
Austin Peay State University
Box 4486
Clarksville, TN 37044
rocheleauj AT apsu.edu

Richard Buck
Department of Philosophy
Mount Saint Mary’s University
16300 Old Emmitsburg Rd
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
buck@msmary.edu

Accepted papers will then be considered by a three member committee for the award.  The evaluation criteria include originality and quality ofphilosophical writing. Papers may be drawn from thesis work or intended for eventual publication, should be no more than 3,000 words, and conform to the requirements set out by the APA for colloquium submissions to annual Divisional meetings.The prizes are awarded only to conference attendees,though there is no obligation to use the money for conference-related costs. Any graduate student enrolled in a program towards a degree beyond the B.A.or first university diploma is eligible. The paper should be consistent with the framework of those presented at the International Social Philosophy Conference, addressing any topic in social philosophy.

Have you written something on war and/or peace? March 5, 2008

Then consider submitting it (quickly!) for the Sharp Prize.  Here’s what Carol Gould wrote to the (US) SWIP  mailing list:  

Please consider submitting an essay for consideration
for the Sharp Prize on issues relating the philosophy of war
and peace. I’m chair of the committee this year and it
would be great to have some submissions from feminist
philosophers. Here’s the info (note that you need to act
quickly!):

FRANK CHAPMAN SHARP MEMORIAL PRIZE

Most recent awardee: 2007 Jeff McMahan, “The Morality and
Law of War”

Deadline for submission for 2009 Prize: March 15, 2008.

Summary

This prize is awarded to the best unpublished essay or
monograph on the philosophy of war and peace submitted for
the competition.

Process: The winning entry is selected by a committee of 3-6
members, appointed by the Chair of the APA’s Committee on
Lectures, Publications, and Research, in consultation with
LPR committee members.

Frequency: Every 2 years (odd years)

Award Amount: $1,500

Last Award: 2007

Next Award: 2009

Background

The Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize was established in
1990 with funds donated by Eliot and Dorothy Sharp and
several other members and friends of the Sharp family to
honor the memory of Eliot’s father. Frank Chapman Sharp was
President of the Western Division of the APA in 1907-08 and
was a member of the philosophy faculty at the University of
Wisconsin from 1893 until his retirement in 1936. Dr. Sharp
was born in 1866 and died in 1943.

Submission Procedures

APA Members and student associates are eligible to submit
unpublished essays or monographs for the prize. Manuscripts
should be between 7,500 to 75,000 words (between 30 and 300
double-spaced typed pages), and not published OR committed
for publication at the time of the award. Undergraduate
entrants must be philosophy majors (or something close);
graduate students must be enrolled in, or on leave from, a
graduate program in philosophy. Authors must be current
members of the APA in good standing. Send four (4) copies of
the paper, with the title and author’s name and affiliation
on a separate page. Any identifying references in the body
and footnotes of the manuscript should be removed. Deadline
for submission: March 15, 2008. Submissions should be sent
to: Sharp Memorial Prize, American Philosophical
Association, 31 Amstel Avenue, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE 19716.

CFP: Shulamith Firestone February 27, 2008

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIRST COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON SHULAMITHFIRESTONE’S THE DIALECTIC OF SEX

2010 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the most radical manifesto of contemporary feminism. Firestone’s ‘The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution’ became a bestseller, yet unlike the other celebrated feminist polemics of that year (Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics), Firestone’s work is scarcely remembered today.  Firestone called not only for the abolition of the nuclear family and the economic and social independence of children, but for the end of pregnancy itself.  The cybernetic revolution was hailed as the technological solution to the curse of Eve and the subordination of mothers just as automation was claimed to offer an end to brutal physical labour. Today, as researchers attempt to devise a prosthetic womb, Firestone’s call seems prescient. More importantly, her philosophical challenge to the cultural significance of genital difference returns us to the unresolved question of genderdichotomy, whether this is understood as discursive, social, psychologicalor physical, and its relation to the continuing subordination of women and homosexuals.We are requesting papers of  7,000 to 9,000 words addressing The Dialectic of Sex  its argument, its reception, its salience today.  Please send 300 word synopses, together with a brief biography, to Mandy Merck and Stella Sandford at m.merck AT rhul.ac.uk by April 1, 2008. 

CFP: Gender, Inequality, and Social Justice. January 28, 2008

This society provides a congenial venue for feminist scholars, we are told.

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The 25^th Annual International
Social Philosophy Conference
Sponsored by the
North American Society for Social Philosophy
July 17-19, 2008
at the University of Portland (Oregon) 
 
Special attention will be devoted to the theme
Gender, Inequality, and Social Justice
 
but proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome 
 
The Program Committee will be chaired by:
Professor Jordy Rocheleau
of Austin Peay State University and
Professor Richard Buck
of Mount Saint Mary’s University
 
A 300-500 word abstract should be sent to the program chairs.  Individuals who wish to be considered for the award for best graduate student paper should submit their entire paper and abstract. Electronic Submissions welcomed and encouraged.

Jordy Rocheleau
Department of Philosophy
Austin Peay State University
Box 4486
Clarksville, TN 37044
tel. 931-221-7925
rocheleauj@apsu.edu
 
Richard Buck
Department of Philosophy
Mount Saint Mary’s University
16300 Old Emmitsburg Rd
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
tel. 301-447-5368
buck@msmary.edu
 
The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2008
or, for those living outside the
 United States and Canada, January 15, 2008
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CFP: Bioethics/Health Care January 15, 2008

FAB 2008 Congress, Call for Panel and Paper Abstracts
We cordially invite proposals for panels and papers. The Congress theme is “Voice, Power and Responsibility in Health Care”. Papers on any topic in feminist bioethics are welcome, although the plenary sessions will be devoted to the Congress theme.

This theme should be interpreted broadly. Examples of topics include but are not restricted to:

· Health care challenges for members of marginalized groups;

· Imperialism in international health research;

· Power relations among health professionals and within the profession of bioethics;

· Concepts of ‘personal responsibility’ in public health discourse;

· Power and knowledge in reproductive medicine;

· Surrogate decision-making in non-traditional families;

· Disability perspectives on voice, power and responsibility.

Abstracts should be 350-400 words, and be accompanied by both a descriptive title for the paper proposed and 2-3 keywords. Individual papers accepted for presentation will be allotted a maximum of 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. Please provide enough detail about your argument for reviewers to be able to assess your proposal from the abstract.

To submit an abstract or a plenary paper for consideration, please fill out the submission form and e-mail the form and your submission, saved as .doc or .pdf, to FAB.Croatia2008@gmail.com . This e-mail address should only be used for communications concerning submissions, and not for general conference or FAB inquiries.

There is the opportunity for one or two submitted papers to be selected for plenary presentations. If you wish your paper to be considered for a plenary, please submit the full paper and indicate that you seek review for a plenary.

Publications from Congress

Vol II, no.2 of IJFAB will be based on the conference proceedings. All papers whose abstracts are accepted for the conference will be eligible for inclusion. Once abstracts are accepted, they will be forwarded to the editorial staff of IJFAB, which will follow up with authors in having them submit a paper. Authors will have sufficient time after the conference to make revisions. Any author who does not wish to have their paper reviewed for inclusion in IJFAB should indicate this when submitting the abstract. Please note that, all other things being equal, preference will be given to those submissions that are available for inclusion in IJFAB­.

Support for new researchers

We encourage submissions from early career researchers. Dr Angela Ballantyne has offered to provide support and mentoring for early career researchers. If you are such a researcher and would like feedback on your abstract before submitting it, please contact Angela directly (from 1 September 2007) at angela.ballantyne@yale.edu