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Feminist Philosophy and Essentialism Conference

HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN, GERMANY INSTITUT FÜR PHILOSOPHIE SYMPOSIUM SERIES:

FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY AND… ESSENTIALISM

Dates: 19 – 20th of July 2012

Location: Senatssaal, Humboldt-Universität Main Building (Unter den Linden 6), Berlin

Description: Would you be the same individual if you were gendered differently? The workshop asks this and related questions with a special emphasis on Charlotte Witt’s recent book The Metaphysics of Gender (Oxford University Press, 2011). According to Witt, most ordinary social agents find the answer to the above question to be an obvious ‘No!’ and they have no difficulties providing an intuitive answer. By contrast, most academic feminists working on gender find the answer neither obvious nor easy. What generates such divergent views and why are ordinary agents so secure in their gender ascriptions? In her book, Witt provides an articulation of this and offers an account of gender essentialism that is based on Aristotelian unification essentialism: gender (being a woman/ man) functions to unify social individuals so that an individual – rather than an aggregate of diverse parts – exists. The workshop interrogates Witt’s view, considers alternatives to it and discusses the role of gender essentialism in feminist philosophy.

Speakers:

Dan López de Sa (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

Eva von Redecker (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

Natalie Stoljar (McGill University, Canada)

Alison Stone (Lancaster University, UK)

Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire, USA)

Attendance is free but places are limited. To register, please email feminismhu@gmail.com by 30th of June 2012. We hope to be able to provide travel bursaries for students/ unwaged participants. If you would like to be considered for one, or have any queries regarding the Symposium Series/ this event, please contact the organiser Mari Mikkola (mari.mikkola@hu-berlin.de). ---

Prof. Dr. Mari Mikkola Juniorprofessorin für Praktische Philosophie/ Junior Professor in Practical Philosophy Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Philosophie Under den Linden 6 D-10099 Berlin Germany Website: http://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/institut/lehrbereiche/politik/mikkola/mitarbeiter/mikkola_mari

Spring 2012 Symposium: Witt on the Metaphysics of Gender

Find the Spring 2012 Symposium here.

Race Forum

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychosocial/our-research/affiliated-research-centres-1/race-forum/

The Race Forum is a public site for discussions about ‘race’ and racism, class, multiculture and postcoloniality; diaspora and global migration and ‘race’, gender, sexuality and desire. It brings together students and academics from different institutions and from across the disciplines of Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies, Law, Literary Studies, Education Studies, Psychosocial Studies, Urban Studies, History and Social Anthropology with others outside the academy.

The Race Forum opens up a space for discussions on the global geopolitics of the twenty-first century and incorporates debates on postcolonialism and empire; the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq and ‘the war on terror’; the recent civil unrest and civil disobedience in the U.K and across the globe; resurgent nationalisms and human rights. It also focuses on political cultures such as religious revivalisms, anti-globalisation, peace, anarchist, postcolonial feminist and prison abolition movements. It is a place for conversations on music and cultural politics, 'whiteness'; intersectionality; 'homonationalism'; class, 'race' and criminalisation; militarism; policing; 'urban regeneration'; addiction, illiteracy and incarceration; 'race', class and education; racial and sexual violence and institutional racism.

New Symposium on Thomas McCarthy, Race, Empire and the Idea of Human Development (2009)

 

Find the symposium here.

Linda Alcoff on Censorship of CRT in Arizona

Please read!

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/in-arizona-censoring-questions-about-race/?emc=eta1

Gooding-Williams on Trayvon Martin and Fugitive Slave Mentality

A must-read.

 

CFP: Gender, Race, and Sexuality Conference in Barcelona

Gender, Race, and Sexuality Conference in Barcelona: Issues in Philosophical Methodology

Dates: 25-26 June 2012
Venue: Residència Investigadors del CSIC (c.Hospital 64, Barcelona)

The topic of the conference will include issues in connection with gender, race, and sexuality, with special attention to methodological considerations in “applied” (analytic) philosophy.

Details below the fold...

Conference on Xenophobia & Racism at the University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco's Philosophy Department is pleased to announce a series of events and a conference featuring the visiting scholar Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center). Information about these events can be found by following this link. USF Philosophy Department Conference on “Xenophobia and Racism” Friday, February 24, and Saturday, February 25, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Lone Mountain 100. The speakers include: Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center), “Occupying Whiteness without Xenophobia” Alia Al-Saji (McGill University): “Cultural racism or Xenophobia? The racialization of Muslim veiling" Jorge Aquino (USF): Manufacturing the Other of 21st Century White Supremacism Xenophobia Redux as Conventional Electoral Politics Lawrence Blum (University of Massachusetts, Boston): “Racialist and Culturalist Discourses: On Thomas McCarthy’s Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development” Eduardo Mendieta (SUNY, Stonybrook): The Somatology of Xenophobia: Towards a Biopolitical Analysis of Disgust and Hate Kyoo Lee (CUNY, John Jay College): What is Xenoracism?—To Learn More from Benjamin Franklin, “the First American” Mickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts, ! Boston): State Xenophobia, National Identity and (Sacred) Secularism Jaideep Singh (CSU, East Bay): A New American Apartheid: Racialized, Religious Minorities in the Post-9/11 Era Ronald R. Sundstrom (USF): Sheltering Xenophobia Cynthia Willett (Emory University): Going to Bed White and Waking up Arab: On Xenophobia, Affect Theories of Laughter, and the Social Contagion of the Comic Stage (coauthors: Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett) This conference is sponsored by generosity of the Mortimer Fleishhacker Fund for Philosophy at USF. The conference is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Prof. Sundstrom: rrsundstrom@usfca.edu

 

Table of Contents: Hypatia February 2012

Hypatia © Hypatia Volume 27, Issue 1 Pages 1 - 240, February 2012

Introduction FEAST Cluster on Feminist Critiques of Evolutionary Psychology—Editor's Introduction (pages 1–2) Diana Tietjens Meyers Article first published online: 28 OCT 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01239.x Articles Evolutionary Psychology, Ethology, and Essentialism (Because What They Don't Know Can Hurt Us) (pages 3–27) Letitia Meynell Article first published online: 3 NOV 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01240.x “Not Much to Praise in Such Seeking and Finding”: Evolutionary Psychology, the Biological Turn in the Humanities, and the Epistemology of Ignorance (pages 28–49) Kim Q. Hall Article first published online: 23 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01229.x Feminist Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology (pages 50–72) Carla Fehr Article first published online: 15 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01221.x Introduction Cluster: The Myths of Maternity – Editor's Introduction (pages 73–75) Linda Martín Alcoff Article first published online: 3 NOV 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01245.x Articles For Shame: Feminism, Breastfeeding Advocacy, and Maternal Guilt (pages 76–98) Erin N. Taylor and Lora Ebert Wallace Article first published online: 28 OCT 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01238.x Idealized and Industrialized Labor: Anatomy of a Feminist Controversy (pages 99–117) Jane Clare Jones Article first published online: 15 SEP 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01217.x Against Matricide: Rethinking Subjectivity and the Maternal Body (pages 118–138) ALISON STONE Article first published online: 9 FEB 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01169.x Irigaray and Lyotard: Birth, Infancy, and Metaphysics (pages 139–162) Rachel Jones Article first published online: 28 OCT 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01236.x Hospitality and the Maternal (pages 163–181) IRINA ARISTARKHOVA Article first published online: 29 SEP 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01147.x Open Issue Content Articles Donna Haraway's Cyborg Touching (Up/On) Luce Irigaray's Ethics and the Interval Between: Poethics as Embodied Writing (pages 182–200) MARGARET E. TOYE Article first published online: 7 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01198.x Foucault and Familial Power (pages 201–218) CHLOË TAYLOR Article first published online: 4 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01171.x Book Reviews How Terrorism Is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence. By VIRGINIA HELD (pages 219–222) Susan Hawthorne Article first published online: 15 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01150.x Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances. By AIMEE CARRILLO ROWE (pages 223–227) Dawn Rae Davis Article first published online: 22 DEC 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01162.x The Politics of Persons: Individual Autonomy and Socio-historical Selves. By JOHN CHRISTMAN (pages 227–230) Diana Tietjens Meyers Article first published online: 4 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01173.x Musings The Politics of Feminism and the Feminism of Politics: Reflections on a Roundtable Hosted by the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (pages 231–236) Anya R. Topolski Article first published online: 28 NOV 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01249.x Notes on Contributors (pages 237–240) Article first published online: 13 JAN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01252.x

Hypatia CFP: Interstices: Women of Color Feminist Philosophy

Hypatia Special Issue:
Interstices: Women of Color Feminist Philosophy

Call for Papers

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy seeks papers for a special issue on women of color feminist philosophy. We welcome feminist philosophical scholarship with the aim of interrogating and/or demonstrating work created within the terrain of these three terms- women of color, feminist, philosophy. As the profession of philosophy has witnessed a small emergence of women of color who are pursuing academic degrees in philosophy as well as those who find philosophy useful in the service of other types of research and activism, women of color feminist philosophers still struggle to negotiate political and/or academic spaces often acknowledged as “interstitial” or “liminal.” And, yet, when one considers that within the past decade that younger (i.e. newer) feminist scholars now have access to successful and now classic works of a handful of senior feminist philosophers of color, one can instantly recognize that we are at a threshold of expanding the purviewofwhatitmeanstophilosophizeasawomanofcolorfeministphilosopher. Thislatter circumstance points to a significant transformation. We are at a juncture that deserves celebration as well as seriouscontemplationonthepresenceorlackthereofwomenofcolorfeministphilosophicalwork. Tothis end, we encourage new essays that explore the promises of scholarship as well as problems of objectives and/or methodologies pertaining to women of color feminist philosophy.

By women of color feminist philosophy, we mean intellectual work done by feminists who take women of color as their primary philosophical touchstones and/or scholarly focus. As such, we invite papers on a wide range of topics. We look forward to new insights concerning the identity and/or existence of “women of color” feminist philosophical scholarship as well as whether and what philosophy and philosophical tools aid or prohibit pursuing and addressing women of color feminist work. We also encourage essays on the process ofincludingwomenofcolor’svoicesintoone’sownacademicwork. Inparticular,wehopethatthisissue will stimulate articulation of the diverse truths inherent to the diversity of women included in the moniker women of color, as it is understood within and against the American context or post-racial, post-feminist sensibilities. To this end, we encourage contributors to explore integrating resources from their particular racial, ethnic, and/or cultural background with an attention to the hazards or victories of such an exploration. We welcome essays ranging from ethical and social political explorations to metaphysical and epistemological concerns. We invite discussion of ways in which the label “women of color” translates and/or does not translate in contexts outside the US as well as whether and how it can be re-appropriated and transformed within international arenas. We also encourage explorations of the relationship and distinctions between women of color feminist philosophy and critical race feminism or transnational feminism including articulations of what makes a work philosophical and how it becomes so.

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2012

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. In addition to articles, we invite submissions for our Musings section. These should not exceed 3,000 words, including footnotes and references, and unless they are invited contributions, they will be subject to external review. For details please see Hypatia’s submission guidelines, http://depts.washington.edu/hypatia/submission_guidelines.html

Please submit your paper to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hypa. When you submit, make sure to select “Interstices” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor(s) indicating the title of the paper you have submitted:
Kristie Dotson: dotsonk@msu.edu; Donna-Dale Marcano: Donna.Marcano@trincoll.edu