Month: February 2018

SWIP panel at the Joint Session – call for papers

Monkey

SWIP UK Panel at the Joint Session of the Mind Association and
Aristotelian Society, University of Oxford, 6th-8th of July 2018.
At the 2018 Joint Session there will be a Society for Women in Philosophy UK panel of papers. Papers submitted to the panel should be consistent with the aims of SWIP UK, namely:

  • to facilitate co-operation between women in philosophy,
  • to support women in philosophy,
  • to promote philosophy by women, past and present,
  • to foster feminism in philosophy and philosophy in feminism,
  • to collect information of potential interest to women in philosophy,
  • to raise public awareness of discrimination against women in philosophy, past and present,
  • to end discrimination against women in philosophy.

We solicit full papers (2000 words) plus 250 word abstract, suitable to be delivered in no more than 20 minutes with a further 10 minutes for discussion. We encourage submissions from graduate students. (As with all the Open Sessions, papers accepted for this session will not be published in the Supplementary Volume of the Aristotelian Society).
The closing date for submissions is 2nd April 2018. We expect to confirm which papers have been accepted by the end of April.
Please make sure that your submission is suitable for anonymous reviewing and attach a separate document with your name and contact details. Email submissions are preferred; please send your full paper, with an abstract, as either .doc or .pdf attachment to Komarine Romdenh-Romluc at k.romdenh-romluc@sheffield.ac.uk
To speak at this event you will need to register as a delegate for the Joint Session. For information about registration and more details see the Joint Session website. https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-joint-session/the-2018-joint-session/
Organisers
Dr. Meena Dhanda, Faculty of Arts, University of Wolverhampton, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton, W1 1DT.
Email: m.dhanda@wlv.ac.uk
Dr. Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Department of Philosophy, 45 Victoria Street, Sheffield, S3 7QB.
Email: k.romdenh-romluc@sheffield.ac.uk

For more information on SWIP UK visit our website:
http://www.swipuk.org/

Marx 2.0: All Male

jennysaul

Marx 2.0
A symposium at UNSW Sydney, School of Humanities and Languages
February 22-23, 2018
Morven Brown G3

Thursday, February 22
9.30 Welcome
9.45-11.00 Michael Quante (University of Muenster): Positive liberty as realizing the essence of man
11.00-12.15 Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa): Marx as Post-Kantian Perfectionist? Reconsidering Left-Hegelian Debates
12.15-1.45 Lunch
1.45-3 Thomas Gutmann (University of Muenster): Marx, Alienation, Individual Rights?
3-4.15 Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW Sydney): Rehabilitating Species Essence
4.15-4.45 Coffee
4.45-6.00 Charles Barbour (Western Sydney University): The Young Republican: Marx Before Communism

Friday, February 23
9.30-10.45 Samuel Chambers (Johns Hopkins): As The Hart Pants…; Or, Money is Not a Commodity: Marx’s Unorthodox Account of Money, and Why it Matters
10.45-12.00 Carleton Christensen (Australian National University): Abstractly Human Labour and the Reduction to Concrete Labour
12.00-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.45 Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie University): Marx in the age of automation
2.45-4.00 Andy Blunden (Independent, Melbourne): Capital and the Ur-praxis of the fight for socialism
4.00-4.30 Coffee
4.30-5.45 Thomas Meyer (University of Muenster): Was Engels the first causal interventionist?

 

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Feminist Sites, suicide and self-harm

annejjacobson

You may not associate all the terms above, but it looks like some people may. At least that’s the conclusion I draw from the notices I received about why my SKY server blocks fitness is a feminist issue For their default sign up category.

I don’t have time to investigate this right now, but clearly we need to check it out, unless some one of us knows of an innocent explanation that tells us adolescents are not blocked from feminist, etc, sites.

Conference in remembrance of Pamela Sue Anderson

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Faculty of Philosophy; Faculty of Theology and Religion

University of Oxford

Love and Vulnerability:

In Memory of Pamela Sue Anderson

2:15 pm Friday 16th March to 1:00 pm Sunday 18th March 2018
Mansfield & Regent’s Park Colleges, Oxford

Attendance Free

This conference focuses on Pamela Anderson’s wonderful, but largely unpublished, late work on love and vulnerability but also includes reflections on her earlier writings. The event is interdisciplinary and international, reflecting Pamela’s achievements in British and European Philosophy, Theology and Feminism and her influence in Europe, North America and China. Speakers include her teachers, colleagues and former students. While focusing on love and vulnerability, participants will explore connections with related themes drawn from her work, such as forgiveness and its limits; dialogue; epistemic injustice; self-confidence; nonsensicality; ineffability; and vulnerability in relation to invulnerability, violence, human and divine affectivity, narrative, friendship, thoughtfulness, resilience, belonging, and enhancing life. Her engagement with Kant, Wittgenstein and the French philosophers, Henri Bergson, Paul Ricoeur, Simone de Beauvoir, Emmanuel Lévinas and Michèle Le Doeuff, will also be represented. The portrait of Pamela’s passionate commitment to making sense of what it is to be human will be shared through a special issue of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities.

Conference Programme

FRIDAY 16th March

Mansfield College

2.15 pm Conference Opening & Welcome

2.30 pm Associate Professor Laurie Anderson Sathe, Saint Catherine, Minneapolis:
A Place at the Table for Love and Vulnerability
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Doritos– for women!

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There may be a lot of terrible and terrifying stuff going on in the world, but now we’ve got something wonderful to look forward to: Lady Doritos! (Thanks, J-Bro!)

Because women have been struggling, and failing, to enjoy Doritos, Nooyi said that Pepsi is designing a series of innovative chips for women. The products will be packaged differently and offer, “low-crunch, the full taste profile,” but, “not have so much of the flavor stick on their fingers.” It’s serious flavor-equity gap created by generations of phallocentric chips that PepsiCo is bent on closing.

 

 

Why it’s not enough to add a ‘nonbinary’ option

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Robin Dembroff writes in the NYRB:

I grant to progressive lawmakers that it is better to have a third, nonbinary option than to limit constituents to “male” and “female.” It is an achievement to resist a near-universal legal practice of marking (and policing) bodies according to a binary classification of reproductive features. The best solution, though, would be eliminating all gender markers on state-issued identification. Americans should not have to resign themselves to a choice between two legally classified genders based on genitals and three legally classified self-identities.

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