‘Multiculturalism and Feminism’, the 2008 International Association of Women Philosophers Conference, will be held at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul on 27-29 July 2008.The deadline for submissions has been extended to 28 December 2007.Abstracts of 3-500 words should be submitted online here, where further information about the conference and the theme are also available. Note the IAPh conference is timed to precede the 22nd World Congress ofPhilosophy, taking place in Seoul from July 30 to August 5th 2008. Further information about the World Congress can be found here.
Day: December 19, 2007
CFP: Embodiment and Identity
Embodiment and Identity: Call for papers
SWIP UK conference hosted by the Centre for Research into Embodied Subjectivity, Philosophy, and the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Hull, May 22–23 2008.
Keynote Speaker: Linda Alcoff
This conference aims to explore the role the body plays in constituting aspects of our individual and social identity. The claim that biology fixes identity has been hotly contested in recent decades, but its apparent abandonment has led to intense theoretical debate over the role of the body in constituting both individual subjectivity and categories of social identity. We will be focusing particularly on gendered, cultural and racial identity, disability and identity, and identities reached by degrees of bodily modification. In each case attention will be paid to the role of social others in constituting the meaning and recognition bestowed on bodily physiognomies. The common assumption that such categories of identity are required for social participation, political agency and constructions of subjectivity, will be subjected to critical scrutiny.
Papers are welcome on any aspect of embodiment and/or identity, (including; “raced” identities, “cultured” bodies, diasporic and transcultural identity, hybridity, disability and the body, trans-sexuality, bodily integrity, body dysmorphia, identity and recognition, materiality and the body, imaginary bodies).
Confirmed Speakers
Linda AlcoffProfessor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women’s Studies , Syracuse University (website)
Dr. Lois McNaySomerville College, Oxford (website)
Dr Jackie ScullyNewcastle University (website)
Dr. Margrit ShildrickQueens University, Belfast (website)
Dr.Simone GiordanoManchester University (website)
Abstracts
Abstracts should be sent to Stella Gonzalez Arnal by 18 February 2008. Contributors will be informed if their abstracts are accepted by 3 March 2008.
If you wish to discuss possible proposals or other aspects of the conference you can also contact other members of the organising committee: Gill Jagger; Minae Inahara; Kathleen Lennon; Sue Walsh.
And do note: Anyone can submit papers to this conference. Paper-giving SWIP-UK is now open to all.
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