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Call for Abstracts: Decolonizing Feminism

Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Feminism & Globalization

Edited by Margaret A. McLaren

This anthology will address pressing questions for transnational feminism in the 21st Century: strategies, methodologies, and controversies. Following Chandra Mohanty’s call for an inclusive feminist politics, this book will focus on current challenges for global/transnational feminism in a globalized world, and how to decolonize feminist theory and feminism. Authors should submit a proposal for an original essay addressing one of the questions below.

Chandra Mohanty has called for an inclusive feminist politics that would be: decolonizing, anti-capitalist, and allow for solidarity.

• In a time of globalization what would this entail?
• Are the visions of a global feminism and transnational feminism compatible
• Is the human rights approach the best approach for feminists in the 21st century
• How do we (feminists) create networks of solidarity transnationally
• How is decolonization enacted in specific locations and projects
• Which methodologies promote a decolonized transnational feminism
• What strategies of resistance work against the force of neo-liberal globalization
• What are some possible interfaces between the local and the global
• How does social location/positionality/identities influence proposed strategies for achieving global gender justice?

Interested authors should submit a 750-word summary of their proposed chapter to Margaret McLaren: [email protected] by Dec 15, 2015. Include author’s name and institutional affiliation on submission. If accepted, the final 10,000-12, 000 word version of the chapter will be due by Sept. 1, 2016.

 

CFA: Justice and the Social Ontology of Race

FINAL Call for Abstracts- Extended to 9/15:

The North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) invites submissions for its group session at the Pacific APA, 2016. The theme of our session will be:

“Justice and the Social Ontology of Race”

Proposals on topics intersecting this theme, broadly understood, are welcome, and might include:

• The use of racial categories in social planning and policy
• The ontological status and import of racial categories
• Race and the justice system
• The role of race in social and political identity
• Intersectional analyses of racialized experience(s)
• Racial categories and educational institutions
• Race and experience
• Race and equity
• Racial violence
• The status of criminal hate

Other topics in this vein are welcome and encouraged.

Chosen presenters will join our invited speakers, Naomi Zack, Univ. of Oregon, who will present her recent work,"Racial Inequality and Applicative Justice: A Comparative Approach vs. Ideal and Nonideal Theory," and Quayshawn Spencer, U Penn (title TBA).

Submissions should take the form of extended abstracts or papers. Abstracts should be around 1000 words, with bibliography included. Papers should be under 3000 words. Please include the following information in submission: Name, affiliation (if any), email address, and paper title.

We welcome submissions from both members and non-members, but we do require that all presenters join the North American Society for Social Philosophy if their papers are accepted. Notification of acceptance will be made via email in October.

Submission deadline: September 15, 2015

Submissions and questions should be sent to: Devora Shapiro at [email protected], with the subject heading “NASSP APA 2016 SUBMISSION”

For more information on the society and our events, visit our website at:

http://www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/

CFP: Legacies of Colonialism & Philosophies of Resistance

21st Annual Philosophy Conference
Sponsored by the Philosophy Graduate Student Union

“Legacies of Colonialism and Philosophies of Resistance”

Keynote: TBA
April 8-9, 2016
Villanova University

Call For Papers

Millions throughout the world continue to struggle with the consequences of our colonial histories, both in the "first" and "third" worlds. Decolonization is thus an ongoing process that currently has no end in sight, and it implicates intellectuals, politicians, and citizens in all parts of the world. The conference invites participants to join in this process by thinking collectively about the remnants of colonialism's past and the possibility for a decolonized future. Such a project necessarily involves a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, political economy, history, cultural studies, and anthropology among others, as well as interpenetrations among such disciplines.

The Philosophy Graduate Student Union at Villanova University welcomes graduate students and faculty to submit papers of approximately 3000 words (including co-authored work), suitable for a 20 minute presentation, to be considered for our conference. Full papers will be strongly prioritized, though abstracts are also welcome (approx. 500 words). Authors submitting promising abstracts will likely receive feedback along with a suggested date by which to submit a more complete paper.

Please send submissions, prepared for anonymous review, by January 10, 2016 to [email protected]

Suggested
paper/panel topics:

• How is theorizing about our colonial histories continually important for understanding and affecting our present? For example, should we consider the contemporary world colonial, postcolonial, neocolonial, imperial, or are these historical categories no longer sufficient?
• Especially taking into account the multiple racial and ethnic divisions that comprise the binary between colonizer and colonized: How have race relations in former colonies affected philosophies of liberation and political projects? How have these philosophies and these projects affected race relations?
• How have the struggles of oppressed genders affected philosophies of liberation and political projects? How have these philosophies and these projects affected the situations and thought of oppressed genders?
• How have colonial and neocolonial regimes inherited, manipulated, and altered sexual practices and identities?
• How does and how should decolonial theory confront the policies and power structures of neoliberalism in both the “first” and “third” worlds?

We also encourage papers on Liberation Philosophy, Liberation Theology, Epistemologies of Ignorance and Resistance, Feminist Epistemologies, Philosophy of Race, and all other topics that might enliven the discourse of decolonial thought.

Suggested figures:
Gloria Anzaldúa, Samir Amin, Homi Bhabha, Amílcar  Cabral, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Vivek Chibber, Enrique Dussel, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Ranajit Guha, Jamaica Kincaid, María Lugones, Joseph Masad, Achille Mbembe, Albert Memmi, Walter Mignolo, Kwame Nkrumah, Jasbir Puar, Aníbal Quijano, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and others.

For more information, contact:
Luis Alberto Salazar
Graduate Assistant
Philosophy Department
Villlanova University
800 E. Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085
[email protected]

CFP: Shifting the Geography of Reason XIII: Theorizing from Small Places

From the Caribbean Philosophical Association

 

Shifting the Geography of Reason XIII: Theorizing from Small Places

June 16-18, 2016

Storrs, CT

 

Born on the ten-by-twelve-mile island of Antigua, writer Jamaica Kincaid inaugurated a remarkable literary life with reflections on what it meant to occupy A Small Placepresumed to be largely uninhabited by the tourists who came to enjoy its beautiful beaches. In Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone, Anglophone and Dutch Caribbean letters, “the archipelago,” a cluster of islands, has been mobilized as a distinctive trope characterizing a unique geopolitical, existential, authorial, and theoretical disposition. Across the Atlantic some centuries earlier, Genevan-born Jean-Jacques Rousseau, upon encountering Paris, reflected that academies were most developed in empires that trained people in rules of civility and predictability that squelched their potential to “follow their own lights.” He suggested that the most important and innovative ideas almost always emerged from people who came of age in more remote stomping grounds, where they could be led by their own curiosities and priorities, undisrupted in pursuing their projects by distractions of narcissism and a public of glaring, monitoring eyes. 

This year’s conference theme therefore continues the organization’s exploration of our larger motto of “shifting the geography of reason” through challenging the presumption that historic ideas and theory must emerge from large, metropolitan centers. We particularly invite reflection on the global range of small places from which many have undertaken theoretical endeavors and continue to produce vital ideas of worldly significance, the usefulness of Caribbean reflections on this situation, and more generally about how the scale and nature of the terrains where we work inflect the character of our thinking.

Please submit your application here by December 15th, 2015. To submit a paper abstract, click here. To submit a panel proposal, click here. To submit a roundtable proposal, click here. In turn, we will send out acceptance notices by January 30th, 2016. Questions? Write to Jane Gordon at [email protected]

View original CFP online here.

Race and Racism CFA/CFP

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PAPERS

Workshop: Race and Racism

November 13-15, 2015

Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

 

Recent philosophical contributions to critical race theory have been exciting, some of the better and more important philosophical work of the past twenty years. This workshop aims to further this dialogue, in a conversation between scholars from South Africa and scholars from elsewhere. Possible questions for discussion:

• What are races? Are they biological populations or lineages, social creations, or cultures?
• Non-racialist discourse is prominent among intellectuals in South Africa. Is non-racialism something worth aspiring to?
• What value would race-talk have in the unlikely event that racism was finally eradicated?
• What is racism?
• What is the lived reality of racism?
• What is the relationship between races and racism? Are races to be conceived of as dependent upon racism?
• What kinds of racism are there? Are there any forms of racial injustice not properly characterized as ‘racism’?
• How do we defeat racism in our midst?
• Is Black solidarity the most effective means of fighting racism? Why?
• What is the importance of Black consciousness – changes in the outlook of members of groups on the receiving end of racism – in fighting racism?
• What is the relationship between racial (or racialized) identities, race, and racism?
• What is the importance of so-called implicit bias to critical race theory?
• What differences, if any, are there between being having a racial identity in South Africa and having a racial identity in other countries?

Expected speakers: Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie), Samantha Vice (University of the Witwatersrand), George Hull (University of Cape Town)

Five-hundred word abstracts, or full papers, should be sent to Ward Jones ([email protected]), by 30 June, 2015.

There will be no parallel sessions, so competition will unfortunately be tight. Some papers from the workshop will be selected for publication in *Philosophical Papers*. Attendance at the workshop will be free. Lunches and coffees will be provided.

Yours, Ward Jones

WiPhi lectures on race

CFP: Philosophy of Race and WiPhi

 

Wireless Philosophy (WiPhi) is an online project that introduces people to the practice of philosophy by making videos that are freely available in a form that is entertaining, interesting, and accessible to people with no background in the subject. This Spring WiPhi hopes to release a series of about 8-10 videos on topics in Philosophy of Race. For this series, we are looking for introductory-level videos like "Introduction to Philosophy of Race," "What is Race?" and "Race and Identity." We hope to bring our audience into the Philosophy of Race by first giving them the background and the tools they need to participate.

 

Right now, we are looking for contributors to this series; that is, we are looking for Philosophy Professors to record lectures that we can animate. The recording process is very easy, and we have a team of people working to make the process as simple as possible for our contributors.

 

If you'd like to contribute, please contact us.

If you're a graduate student who would like to volunteer, please visit this page.

See our Trello Board for suggested topics and feel free to suggest more.

 

Learn more about the project, and visit WiPhi at Khan Academy.

 

Call for Papers: Perspectives on Gender

Perspectives on Gender

October 24th-25th, 2014
University of California, Irvine
www.perspectivesongender.com

In light of recent national attention given to the status of women in the
field of philosophy, this conference aims to promote open and
multi-disciplinary discussion of issues related to gender. We plan to
exchange views on a variety of topics organized under our conference
themes of gender and knowledge, gender and social justice, gender and
science, and gender and discrimination.  Central goals of the conference
are to encourage discussion in the face of disagreement and a commitment
to problem recognition and resolution in areas related to the conference
themes. Although the conference discourse will extend across disciplines,
we will devote special attention to concerns of women in philosophy.

Perspectives on Gender is organized by the UC Irvine Hypatia Society, an
organization aimed at promoting the recruitment, retention, and success of
graduate women in philosophy at UC Irvine.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Azizah al Hibri (University of Richmond)
Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)
Helen Longino (Stanford)

Call for Papers

We invite contributions on any topic related to gender and particularly
those connected to the themes of gender and knowledge, gender and social
justice, gender and science, and gender and discrimination. Special
consideration will be given to submissions concerning women in philosophy.
 For consideration, please submit a long abstract (500-1000 words) through
our website.

Presentations will be 20 minutes long and will be followed by a 20-minute
question and answer session. Additionally, we have scheduled a one-hour
round table discussion on women in the profession. This session is open to
all, but we especially hope for contributions from conference presenters.

Submission site: http://www.perspectivesongender.com
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2014

Conference Organizers: Ashley Dressel ([email protected]), Maura Priest
([email protected]), Cailin O’Connor ([email protected])

CFP: Philosophy of Race

Philosophy of Race: Introductory Readings

Call for Abstracts
Due by May 1, 2014

http://www.PhilosophyOfRace.com 

Interest in Philosophy of Race is growing. This collection of readings will celebrate and contribute to that growth.

Some philosophical questions about race are metaphysical or ontological, or existential:

Do races exist? If so, what are they? What does their existence depend on? What determines what racial category or categories an individual is a member of? How might race relate to biology, appearance, social facts, history and other categories and characteristics? What is it like to be of a particular race, and of mixed race? How does race affect our conscious experiences? How does race affect our unconscious assumptions? 

Other questions, related to the metaphysical questions, are ethical, social and political:

What is the nature of racism and racial prejudice, discrimination and stereotypes? Why are these wrong? Can racial preference, of any kind, be justified? Is racial solidarity, or racial pride, justified? Can affirmative action, or quotas, be justified? If a racial group has been harmed, what should be done to address that harm? Are racially-oriented hate speech and hate crimes uniquely wrong, and deserving of special punishment? Can racial profiling be justified? 

These are just a few questions in philosophy of race: there are many, many more, including how race relates to philosophical theorizing and the experiences of philosophers as persons and professionals. For more topics, see the list below from PhilPapers*:

While there is much scholarship in these areas, this collection seeks to intentionally bring the issues and arguments of that scholarship to readers with little philosophical background, such as students and general interest readers, as well as scholars new to the field. Diverse submissions, representing a plurality of theoretical, practical and lived perspectives, are sought for this collection.

Submissions must be new, but can be developments of, or reflections on, prior work: e.g., authors might submit an essay that explains a previous argument or inquiry and offers subsequent thoughts, to encourage readers to pursue that earlier work. Final submissions should each be about 2000-5000 words, or longer if necessary, and written in any manner appropriate for a general audience, either as a traditional philosophical essay or an essay infused with personal narrative.

Abstract(s), ideally consisting of an introduction and an outline of the essay, are due by May 1, 2014. Early submissions are encouraged: multiple abstract submissions are allowed. Accepted authors will be notified soon after that deadline; rough drafts will be due at the end of summer; final drafts due early fall.

The intention is that this collection of high quality readings will be be published in an open-access format, as well as a low cost paperback, to allow for maximal access and use, in classrooms and beyond.

Please contact Nathan Nobis, Department of Philosophy and Religion, at Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA USA, with questions and suggestions: [email protected]; 404-825-1740

A PDF of this Call for Abstracts is available here. Please re-post and share this Call. Thank you. 

A list from PhilPapers (used with their permission) provides more topics in Philosophy of Race.

 

http://www.PhilosophyOfRace.com

Implicit Bias Conference: call for papers

Implicit Bias, Philosophy and Psychology

Sheffield: April 20-21, 2013

Deadline for Submission: 15 December 2012

Click through for details...

Diversity in Philosophy: Call for Abstracts

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PANELS

for a conference on

DIVERSITY IN PHILOSOPHY

May 29-May 31, 2013

University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

 

This conference examines and addresses the underrepresentation of women and other marginalized groups in Philosophy. Participants will focus on hurdles and best practices associated with the inclusion of underrepresented groups. It will focus on such questions as:

• Why do white males continue to be over-represented among Philosophy majors, graduate students, and faculty members, especially given that most other fields in the sciences and humanities are increasingly diverse?
• What are some effective ways to improve the recruitment, retention and advancement of women and other underrepresented groups?
• What roles do implicit bias and stereotyping play in who advances in Philosophy?
• How can the climate for women and other marginalized groups be improved?
• What role can philosophers who study marginalized groups play in advancing underrepresented groups in Philosophy?
• What can Philosophy learn from National Science Foundation ADVANCE initiatives that address how to recruit and advance women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields?
• How can we improve the climate for all underrepresented groups in Philosophy, including those who are LGBTQ, disabled, first generation in college, or economically disadvantaged?

Goals of the conference include creating opportunities for networking and building supportive communities as well as sharing cutting edge research.

We invite papers arising from relevant research programs, or about insights arising from relevant professional experience, including research, service and teaching work.  We invite individual presentations of 20 minutes with 10 additional minutes of discussion, or panels consisting of three 15 minute presentations with a total of 15 additional minutes of discussion. You may submit abstracts of papers (200-300 words) or panels (up to 3 abstracts) below.  Only one submission per person.  Panels should only be submitted once.  To submit an abstract or panel, click on “Diversity in Philosophy Conference May 29-31, 2013” in the left sidebar at www.apaonlinecsw.org.

We encourage presenters to give accessible, engaging presentations.  All conferences rooms can accommodate PowerPoint.  Every effort will be made to accommodate participants with disabilities.

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013

On June 1, 2013, immediately following the conference, there will be a workshop for training members of CSW-sponsored site visit teams. These site visits are designed to improve the climate for underrepresented groups in Philosophy departments.   For further information, please click on "Site Visit Program" in the left sidebar at www.apaonlinecsw.org.

Organizing Committee:
Peggy DesAutels, University of Dayton, Chair, APA Committee on the Status of Women
Carla Fehr, University of Waterloo
Sally Haslanger, MIT, Convener, Women in Philosophy Task Force

Sponsors:
American Philosophical Association
American Philosophical Association, Committee on Inclusiveness
American Philosophical Association, Committee on the Status of Women
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division
University of Dayton, Office of the Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences
University of Dayton, Department of Philosophy
University of Dayton, Women's and Gender Studies Program
University of Dayton, Office of Alumni Chair in Humanities