CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY
CONFERENCE 2011, University of Victoria:
Friday (pm) October 14 - Sunday (am) October 16
http://www.cswip.ca
THEME: Global Justice, the Environment, and the Economy
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Laura Westra, Professor Emerita (Philosophy),
University of Windsor
The Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy invites papers from all areas
of philosophy related to the theme of the conference. There are many
possible topics, the following being just a small sample:
• Conceptions of nature and the environment in the history of philosophy.
• The ethics and politics of food.
• Property and freedom.
• Aesthetics and the environment.
• Global justice and the role of international law.
• Controversial science: debating environmental research.
• Social, cultural, ethical, and political constructions of nature and the
environment.
• Capitalism and distributive justice.
• Shared contexts, shared worlds: families, communities, environments.
• Moral standing / moral consideration beyond humanity?
• Egalitarianism: local, national, global.
• Philosophical implications of biotechnology.
• Gender justice and climate change.
• Environmental science and the role of values.
SUBMISSIONS:
Standard submissions:
Submissions of long abstracts (1000 words) are invited (for eventual
presentation-papers not exceeding 3000 words). Please email the abstract as
both a double-spaced Word.doc and also as a RTF attachment, prepared for
anonymous review. Please note: this requires that you remove all
identifying-author tags from your document content and file properties.
Please include your full contact information in the email only (not with the
abstract). Submission deadline: midnight Eastern time, Friday April 1, 2011.
Submissions from graduate students wishing to be considered for the CSWIP
Graduate Award:
This newly instigated award gives special recognition to an outstanding
paper to be read by a graduate student at the CSWIP annual conference. The
Award will be announced at the conference. To be eligible the student must
be registered in a graduate degree programme and not yet have been awarded a
PhD by the time of the CSWIP submission deadline for the conference.
Submission deadline: Both the long abstract of 1,000 words and the completed
paper (not exceeding 3,000 words) must be prepared for anonymous review
(which requires that you remove all identifying-author tags from your
document content and file properties). Both the long abstract and the
completed paper must be submitted simultaneously by midnight Eastern time,
Friday April 1, 2011. Email the abstract and the paper as two separate
attachments. Please email as both a double-spaced Word and also as a RTF
attachment. Please include your full contact information in the email only
(not in the paper or with the abstract) and indicate in the email that you
wish to be considered for the CSWIP Graduate Award.
Please do not reply to this email to send submissions. All submissions to be
sent electronically to the review coordinator:
Dr. Kathryn Norlock,
Department of Philosophy, Trent University,
Peterborough, Ontario
at: [email protected]
Call for nominations for the CSWIP Award Committee: CSWIPAwardCommNom.pdf
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