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Extended CFP: Diotima Graduate Conference

*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.

2nd Annual Law and Philosophy Workshop

September 25, 2009 - Room 38, Faculty of Law, 12:30-2:00PM

This year's speaker is Stephen Smith, who is the James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University. The title of his talk is "Rules and Citizens, Orders and Courts." Professors Dennis Klimchuk (Philosophy) and Stephen Pitel (Law) will provide comments.

Professor Smith teaches and researches common law and civil law obligations and legal theory. A former law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, Professor Smith taught for a number of years at St. Anne's College, Oxford University. He is the author of Contract Theory (2004) and Atiyah’s Introduction to the Law of Contract, 6th ed (2005), along with numerous other articles and book chapters. In February 2008, Professor Smith received a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts for his project "Court Orders and the Replication, Transformation and Creations of Rights."