*Please note that the submissions deadline has been extended to June 30.*
Diotima:
A Graduate Conference for Feminist Philosophers
Feminism, Technology and
the World: Ecological Perspectives
University
of Western Ontario
September
25-26, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference
aims to bring together graduate students who share an interest in feminism,
post-coloniality, queer theory, critical race theory, philosophy of disability
and anti-oppression theory in general, regardless of their primary area of
research.
Keynote Speaker: We are pleased to announce Lorraine Code, Distinguished Research
Professor Emerita at York University and recipient of the Distinguished Woman
Philosopher Award (2009), as our keynote speaker. Prof. Code’s work explores “ecological thinking as a conceptual
apparatus and regulative principle for a theory of knowledge – an epistemology
– capable of addressing feminist, multicultural, and other postcolonial
issues.”
We
are also pleased to announce Gillian
Barker as our faculty keynote speaker. Prof. Barker specializes in philosophy of science and of
biology. She is interested in
ecological conceptions of organism-environment interaction and their
implications for our thinking about agency, normativity and knowledge, and in
ecological psychology as a tool for
transformative learning and action.
We
invite submissions in any area of
philosophy or feminist theory, that have been influenced by your feminist
commitments broadly construed, including but not limited to:
·
Feminist
analysis of information sharing systems and new technologies;
·
Social consequences of genetic or biomedical research and treatment;
·
Explorations of a human/non-human divide, or personhood generally;
·
A discussion of a recent work or emerging political concern;
·
Developing interactions between theorists from different cultures;
·
Wilderness, the built environment, poverty and politics;
·
Environmental disaster and response;
·
Intergenerational justice
Presenters will
have 30-35 minutes to speak, followed by a 10-minute commentary and a 25-30
minute discussion period. Papers
should be approximately 4000 words.
Please include an abstract with your submission of no more then 200
words.
**EXTENDED** SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE: June 30
Please send your submissions electronically to [email protected].
All papers will be evaluated by blind review; identifying information
should appear in a cover letter only.
UWO’s philosophy department has
an established strength in feminist philosophy, philosophy of science, and is
home to the newly formed Rotman Institute for Science and Values.