When I saw how great the program looked for the annual Logos Workshop hosted by the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame, I couldn’t help but remember the discussion over at NewAPPS last year, and our own earlier discussion, regarding whether or not philosophy of religion as a sub-discipline had a greater gender imbalance than other areas in philosophy. Despite the seeming dearth of women in the field, it seems inclusion can be accomplished.
Category: conferences with lots of women
Security, Protection, Self-Care: international Feminism’s agenda
Apparently a good amount of international peace and justice activists’ discourse is focused these days on issues about security, protection and self-care. At the same time, it can be difficult for policy makers to have much sense of the immense range of responsibilities women’s lives can involve; plans for a nation can too often neglect or work against women’s interests. In responding to this problem, women working for the security and protection of women in developing countries have, over the last several decades, developed a very nuanced and detailed agenda. It is still evolving, of course, but the recent meeting in Istanbul of the Association of Women’s Rights in Development seems to me to suggest an exciting and maturing convergence of agendas.
There is so much going on; so many questions being raised, so many action plans being developed. Follow through on some of the links from the conference, and see what you think.
I’m told there was not much Western presence. I think that is a situation we should think about critically. Many of the problems being discussed are not regional.
Science and Technology in Society Day — LOTS of women
Science and Technology in Society Day Friday March 23, 2012
Location: Great Hall, Conrad Grebel University College
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Please join us for an examination of issues at the intersection of science, technology and society with new faculty Carla Fehr (Wolfe Chair in Science and Technology) and Heather Douglas (Waterloo Chair in Science and Society) and a variety of experts from the Waterloo area. The event is free, but pre-registration, for individual events or the whole day, is requested.
Register here: http://sciencetechsociety.uwaterloo.ca/
Schedule:
9:15 Coffee and Welcome
9:30 Café Scientifique I: Scientists and the Burden of Responsibility
What are scientists’ responsibilities with respect to society? While it is clear that scientists have responsibilities to not falsify data and to treat research subjects ethically, it is more controversial the extent to which scientists should consider the potential impact of their work on society. This lecture and directed discussion will delve into the basis and nature of those responsibilities and how institutional structures might assist scientists.
- Heather Douglas, Waterloo Chair in Science and Society, Department of Philosophy
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Panel Discussion I: Structural Obstacles to Scientific Investigation
How do community-wide practices, technologies, and standards alter which scientific knowledge is developed? This panel will examine cases of concern across a range of disciplines.
- Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute
- Trefford Simpson, School of Optometry
- Richard Wells, Department of Kinesiology
12:15 Break for Lunch
1:45 Panel Discussion II: Science and Technology: Who is in/Who is out?
What sorts of factors determine who gets to be a scientific expert? How does the distribution of expertise influence that way that science is conducted and the kinds of knowledge that science produces? This panel will examine patterns of inclusion and exclusion from philosophical, anthropological and psychological perspectives.
- Kathryn Plaisance, Centre for Knowledge Integration
- Christine Logel, Psychology, Renison University College
- Jennifer Liu, Department of Anthropology
3:00 Coffee Break
3:15 Café Scientifique II: If You Want Research Excellence, Fight for Diversity
Does a commitment to improving diversity in our science and engineering departments result in sacrificing research excellence? Research in the social sciences and philosophy demonstrates that the answer is “No.” This lecture and directed discussion explores ways that diversity improves the creativity and rigor of our research communities.
- Carla Fehr, Wolfe Chair in Science and Technology, Department of Philosophy
4:30 Reception
CFP: Formal Epistemology
Call for Papers
Fifth and Final Formal Epistemology Festival
Toronto, June 3-5, 2013
Organized by Rachael Briggs (ANU), Kenny Easwaran (USC), Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto), and Franz Huber (Konstanz/Toronto).Speakers include Lara Buchak (Berkeley), Anna-Sara Malmgren (Stanford), Jennifer Nagel (Toronto), Carolina Sartorio (Arizona), and some of the organizers.
There are up to 6 slots available for contributed papers.
Please submit full papers prepared for anonymous review to: formal.epistemology AT uni-konstanz.de
Deadline for submissions: September 22, 2012
Notification of acceptance: December 31, 2012
Speakers will be partially reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses.
Might I also note: Wow, 4 female invited speakers on formal epistemology!
Conference on Poverty, Coercion, and Human Rights
Click here for a webpage that contains more information about the issues explored at this wonderful looking conference.
Click here for a webpage that contains a list of conference speakers, titles of conference papers, and brief speaker bios.
CSWIP in October
Conferences with lots of women!
Reader S sent us this one, noting that perhaps it help get submissions from women to have a woman as part of the subject matter: “Man and Nature – From Descartes to Wollstonecraft”, Bogazici University.
And reader L sent us this one: Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference. (And note that they’ve got an offer to arrange childcare right there, prominently, on the website!)
Another language conference with lots of women!
(Thanks, R!)
Ancient Philosophy Conference, lots of women
The organiser, Matthew Duncombe, tells me that the submitted papers were chosen by anonymous review, and *all* turned out to be by women. He notes that “The respondents are mostly men, but sadly that was unavoidable, as they are all PhD students at Cambridge in a rather male-dominated department.”
Evolution, Gender and Sexuality, and ISH: a conference including women and feminist topics
This year’s ISHPSSB meeting, that is The International Society for The History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (fondly called ‘Ishkabibble,’ or just ‘Ish’), is fast approaching. While the deadline for submitting papers has passed, you can still register to attend, or just take a moment to be pleased with the inclusion of women and feminist topics! It will take place July 10-15, 2011 in Salt Lake City. Conference themes mentioned in the cfp include: Civic engagement; Race; Policy, science funding, and scientific progress; Sustainability, environment, energy, and economics; Gender and LGBT; Genetic testing; Evo-Devo; and Education. The conference committee is international and includes prominent women. And, the conference is associated with a forum on Evolution, Gender and Sexuality. Well done!
The Forum on Evolution, Gender and Sexuality
The University of Utah Department of Philosophy will be hosting a Biohumanities Public Forum to complement ISHPSSB 2011. It is scheduled from 7-9 pm on Thursday, July 14, following the final ISHPSSB sessions that afternoon. The topic of the forum is, “Evolution, Gender & Sexuality.” We are honored to be able to feature three panel members: Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana University), John Dupré (University of Exeter), and Lisa Diamond (University of Utah).
The following is from the CFP:
Our expectation for the Salt Lake City meeting is that we will have more cross-disciplinary sessions than ever before. In addition, we expect that all sessions will be geared toward wider audiences. This was a major thrust of the discussions that came out of the Brisbane meeting in 2009. Every scholar has numerous meetings in which to present work to her or his peers: historians speaking to historians, philosophers speaking to philosophers, sociologists speaking to sociologists, and biologists from across the spectrum speaking to biologists within their specialty. ISHPSSB is uniquely situated to provide us the opportunity to talk to each other, across disciplinary boundaries, about biology studies. In order for this to happen, we need to think broadly about each other as an audience. We hope you will begin now to look for ways of collaborating.
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Presenters should think about ways their work will potentially connect to other sessions throughout the meeting. We hope this can be accomplished by thinking about the larger themes that are illuminated by your work. These themes are meant to be broad and overlapping, but will help to provide benchmarks for organizing sessions as well as signposts for people at the conference seeking out areas of inquiry. Some themes we have identified include: Civic engagement; Race; Policy, science funding, and scientific progress; Sustainability, environment, energy, and economics; Gender and LGBT; Genetic testing; Evo-Devo; and Education. Details about several of these themes can be found on the bulletin board, and more will be posted as we move forward. Please note that not all papers and sessions are expected to fit into one of the themes, and we hope that as we see work that pushes beyond these categories we can all be more aware of the new directions scholars and members of ISHPSSB are taking.
And finally, here is the program committee:
Callebaut, Werner
Millstein, Roberta
Santesmases, María Jesús
Suárez, Edna
Stotz, Karola
El-Hani, Charbel
Largent, Mark (co-chair)
Young, Chris (co-chair)
Local organizers are Matt Haber and Jim Tabery
Feminist Philosophers 