The 3rd Independent Conference for the Hannah Arendt Circle
March 27-29, 2009
The Departments of Philosophy, Communications, and Foreign Languages at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville will be hosting the third independent conference for the Hannah Arendt Circle March 27-29, 2009. We invite individual submissions for papers on any aspect of Arendt's work, including critiques and applications of her thinking. Please send an abstract of the paper, by e-mail (750 word limit). Abstracts should be formatted for anonymous review and submitted to the program committee chair, Karin Fry at kfry@uwsp.edu on or before November 14th, 2008. Please indicate "Arendt Circle submission" in the subject heading, and include the abstract as a ".doc" attachment to your message. Program decisions will be announced by the end of December.
Program Committee: Karin Fry, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
Tama Weisman, Quincy University
Irene McMullin, University of Arkansas
Our first two independent meetings were outstanding, and we are looking forward to the same camaraderie and intense discussion of Arendt’s work at this year’s conference. Each speaker will have approximately 35 minutes for paper presentation and discussion combined —papers should be a maximum of 3000 words (15-20 minutes).
The University of Arkansas is located in the beautiful Ozark Mountains. Lodging has been reserved at Carnell Hall: 1-800-295-9118. See also: www.innatcarnallhall.com. Program and other information will be available no later than January 2009 at: www.arendtcircle.com
Harms to Persons as Workers Workshop
March 19-20, 2009
The Centre for Ethical Philosophy at Durham University in association with the Institute for Advanced Study is inviting proposals for the first of a series of interdisciplinary Harm Workshops. This two-day workshop will be held at the Centre for Ethical Philosophy, Durham University, UK March 19-20, 2009.
Send 400-word abstracts by email to: centre.ethphil@durham.ac.uk with 'Harm Workshop' in the header line. Please indicate whether for a paper or discussion (suggestions for respondents or panelists welcome). For further information and updates email centre.ethphil@durham.ac.uk or see CEP website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/cep/ Extended Deadline: December 19th, 2009.
In contemporary public discourse there is much talk of things like 'harm prevention', and 'putting the victim at the heart of the justice system'. Such talk may reflect a growing awareness that harm is an important part of human life. Yet harm remains a relatively undertheorised concept. A series of CEP Harm Workshops will bring together academics and others with direct experience of harm to share understandings, identify issues and find promising avenues for research. The method used in the workshops will be innovative and experimental. Where in traditional academic study detached experts focus on perpetrators or bystanders, or treat victims as objects of study, at CEP Harm Workshops participants will work with victims as articulate experts whose knowledge and concerns will shape and ground inquiry.
For the first workshop in March 2009, abstracts for papers and discussion proposals are invited from people who have suffered harms as workers. The original 'Basic Needs Approach' to human development of the 1970s presented work as a basic human need. Human beings prevented from or interfered with in doing the work that defines them, suffer particular and profound harms, compounded when such harms are not recognized as serious, with 'work' and 'career' commonly theorized as luxuries or extras which human beings can do without. The concept of 'work' does not mean just paid work for an employer, but is broadly construed to include work of subsistence, maintenance, care and creation.
Possible topics might include: harms to work-specific freedoms, harms to autonomy or freedoms of thought, speech and action, harms to workers as members of profession-specific communities or practitioner-groups, harms to persons as members of wider culture and society, as beings vulnerable to discrimination, as practitioners of specific practices or of work generally, or harms to persons as holders of distinctive vocations. Proposals for discussion of any harm which has struck a sufferer as important and interesting are invited - including practical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, physical harms and aspects of harms. Whilst the central purpose is to give victims an opportunity to explore, apply and extend their knowledge, papers exploring elements of perpetrator, colluder or bystander behavior where this aids understanding of a particular harm, are also welcome.
Evolution, the Environment, and Responsible Knowledge
January 26-28, 2009
A call for papers, posters, and panel discussions for a conference on Envolution, the Environment, and Responsible Knowledge: An International Multi- and Interdisciplinary Conference Presented by the University of Central Florida Department of Philosophy, the QEP for Information Fluency, the UCF Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, and AAC&U's Core Commitments Grant. Held on January 26-28, 2009 at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.
In the brief time humans have inhabited the earth, we have wrought great changes in the biosphere and in our consciousness. A responsible approach to knowledge would help us clarify and disseminate the best information to formulate an appropriate response to biological, social, and ethical challenges we are facing now and will face in the future.
The topics of this conference are complexly interconnected and interrelated across a variety of disciplinary dimensions, and we welcome contributions transcending academic boundaries, developing disciplinary insights in creative and unexplored ways, and those that express perspectives in diverse or underutilized media, including visual imagery, song, dance, storytelling, and technologically novel creations. Presentations focused on any dimensions of the conference topic are welcome. We seek to be inclusive and diverse in appeal and participation, welcoming submissions of abstracts, artworks, poster sessions, and panel discussion plans from persons of various backgrounds and interests. For example, evolution may be understood as a time dimension; environment as spatial; knowledge as the dimension of consciousness, and some combination of these dimensions leading to a fourth, the dimension of the facilitation of responsible action.
This conference is the third in a series of conferences on the ability to acquire, evaluate, synthesize, and use information in responsible ways and is designed to appeal to and include a broad range of interests and topics, discussions and disagreements, and forms of presentation on these interrelated but independent issues. Our goal is to bring together scholars (students, faculty members, and administrators from both higher and secondary education), business leaders, artists, poets, musicians, health care professionals, researchers, engineers, environmentalists, activists, government employees, and all others who have interests in any or all of the topics of the conference.
Proposals/abstracts are accepted between September 30th and November 3rd, 2008. Those received by October 15th will be reviewed by an expedited process, so please send your proposal/abstract as soon as possible. Proposals/abstracts are accepted by e-mail only. Send to: stanlick@mail.ucf.edu (Nancy Stanlick, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy University of Central Florida). Proposals and abstracts for poster sessions, performances, academic papers, panel discussions, and any other forms of conference submissions are accepted by e-mail only. Send to: stanlick@mail.ucf.edu.
Registration Fees: (UCF Students and Faculty are free of charge)
Non-UCF Professionals and Full-Time Faculty Members:
Early registration: $250 (by November 15)
On-time registration: $300 (by December 5)
In-person/on-site registration: $350 (by January 28, 2009)
Non-UCF Students, Part Time Faculty, and Others:
Early registration $150 (by November 15)
On-time registration $200 (by December 5)
Late registration $250 (by January 28, 2009)
There are no refunds after January 15, 2009. A 25% administrative fee will be charged for all registration cancellations. Information on Hotel Accommodations is available at http://www.if.ucf.edu. Driving Directions to UCF are available at http://www.if.ucf.edu.
Women and Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium
March 12-14, 2009
The Organizers of the 2009 Women and Spirituality Symposium invite proposals for individual scholarly papers, panels, and other formal presentations, such as lectures, roundtable discussions, exhibitions, performing arts activities, films, etc. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, social, cultural, historical, political, and artistic/literary contexts for understanding the experiences of women and spiritual traditions in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Santeria, Yoruba, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shamanism, Wicca,, Druidic/Celtic, Norse/Heathenry, Sufi, Condomble, Voodoo, Native American, Pagan/Neo-Pagan, the Dagara teachings of Malidoma Some, and other traditions, including comparative feminism. Established and emerging academic scholars, independent scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, visual and performing artists, ministers and lay leaders, and other community participants are encouraged to submit proposals. This years Women and Spirituality Symposium will be held March 12-14, 2009 at Cleveland State University. Concurrent sessions will last 1 hour.
Deadline for receipt of proposals: November 15, 2008
Electronic submissions preferred
Please submit a 250-word abstract and a one-page c.v. or resume for each presenter/panelist to spirituality@csuohio.edu
or mail to:
Cleveland State University
Department of History
Attention: Dr. Regennia N. Williams
2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1
915
Cleveland OH, 44115
For more information contact Dr. Regennia Williams at: r.williams@csuohio.edu
The Association for Feminist Ethics And Social Theory Conference
September 24-27, 2009
FEAST, The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, invites submissions for the Fall 2009 conference held September 24 – 27, 2009 in Clearwater Beach, Florida. Keynote speakers: Ofelia Schutte and Joan Tronto. Submission deadline: February 27, 2009. Submissions, for either paper or panel sessions, should consist of papers no longer than 3,000 words and abstracts of 100-250 words. Presenters are encouraged to submit revised, expanded versions of their papers for a FEAST special issue of Hypatia that will appear in 2011—submission details to be announced in Spring 2009.
FEAST 2009 will also include two invited panels:
Environmental Feminism, with Chris Cuomo, Trish Glazebrook, and Chaone Mallory
Evolutionary Psychology, with Carla Fehr, Letitia Meynell, and Anya Plutynski
Theoretical papers on all topics within the areas of feminist ethics and social theory are welcome. The program committee aims to create a conference with a diverse group of presenters and a diversity of philosophical topics and styles. Proposals for presentations other than papers (e.g. workshops, discussions, etc.) should include detailed descriptions demonstrating that the ideas are as developed as they would be in a paper. We especially invite submissions for the “Difficult Conversations” workshop, which is held as a lunchtime event at each FEAST conference. Previous workshops have included a discussion of how racism has affected participants’ lives, a conversation between women with disabilities and women who care for persons with disabilities, and a dialogue about feminist sexualities and identities.
FEAST strongly encourages members of groups that are underrepresented in both the discipline of philosophy and at feminist philosophy conferences to send submissions. The Steering Committee apologizes for the oversight of scheduling the conference to end on the day that begins Yom Kippur (Sept 27th, 2009), and we will do our best to accommodate scheduling requests relating to religious and cultural practices.
Please send your submission, in one document (a Word or pdf file), to lhschwar@msu.edu by February 27, 2009. Your document should include the paper title, abstract, and paper, but no identifying information. The word count (max. 3,000) should appear on the top of the first page of your paper. Panel organizers, please send the panel title and all three abstracts and papers in one document, along with the word counts (3,000 for each paper). In the body of the e-mail message, please include: your paper or panel title, name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, surface mail address, and phone number. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed.
For more information on FEAST or to see the programs from past conferences, go to: http://www.afeast.org/ Questions may be directed to Lisa Schwartzman: lhschwar@msu.edu
The Art of Gender in Everday Life VI
April 2-3, 2009
A multidisciplinary conference, The Art of Gender in Everyday Life VI, will take place at Idaho State University (ISU), April 2&3, 2009. In addition to sessions, the conference will include: keynote speech by The Chronicle of Higher Education's own Ms. Mentor, and a screening of LUNAFEST on Thursday evening. A formal call for papers, an announcement of our student competition, and a registration form can be found on our website at http://www.isu.edu/andersoncenter. Abstracts must be postmarked by November 10, 2008.
The Conference Committee invites abstracts from university faculty and staff as well as from graduate and advanced undergraduate students. ALL submissions related to the art of living gendered lives will be considered. This year, given our speakers, we are especially interested in submissions that address gender and the academia (including the presentation of gendered performances, films, etc., as well as academic papers) gender and career and gender and education.
During our annual conference, we welcome gender scholars from across the country to Pocatello. The conference is an opportunity for them to present current research on gender issues. Participants from past years have consistently commented on the friendly atmosphere at The Art of Gender in Everyday Life conferences, and it is our principal mission to continue our tradition of creating a collegial, supportive and nurturing environment for the discussion of gender issues from across the disciplines.
The Art of Gender in Everyday Life VI is a special opportunity to network with colleagues in the relaxed setting of Pocatello, Idaho, nestled in the picturesque Bannock Range of the Rocky Mountains. We're pleased to announce that again this year, participants will have the opportunity to register for a day trip to near-by Lava Hot Springs. Those taking part in the trip will experience a day of relaxation in the naturally-occurring mineral hot springs, the temperatures of which range from 102-112 degrees. More information about Lava Hot Springs is available at http://www.lavahotsprings.com/hotpools.html
Getting to Pocatello is easy! Delta flies to the Pocatello Regional Airport, and ground shuttles are available from the Salt Lake City International Airport to Pocatello through Salt Lake Express at https://secure.bluedepot.com/trailways/index.cfm
For further information, please contact Heidi Harold, Anderson Center Assistant Director, via phone (208-282-2805) or email (gndrctr@isu.edu).
University of Kentucky Philosophy Graduate Student Associattion’s 12th Annual Conference
April 18, 2009
The University of Kentucky Philosophy Graduate Student Association is holding the 12th Annual Conference on Perception and Human Experience at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Susanna Siegel from Harvard University. Dr. Siegel will speak on cognitive penetrability and perceptual justification, arguing that several popular theories of perceptual justification make false predictions in cases where perceptual experiences are cognitively penetrated.
We invite submissions from graduate students to our 12th annual graduate student conference. We encourage submissions from various academic disciplines interested in exploring the interdisciplinary roles of perception and its connection to human experience. Submissions should philosophically broach the question of sensory modalities and what they tell us.
By submitting an abstract and outline, the author agrees that upon conference admittance, he or she will prepare and submit a draft manuscript by March 1, 2009. Only submissions that adhere to the following guidelines will be considered.
Submission guidelines:
1) A working abstract of 150 words, along with a detailed outline of your argument. Your abstract and outline should be prepared for a blind review. Please provide two electronic files, where one file contains only biographical information and title of paper and a second file containing only abstract and outline. Please do not include any identifying information in the file containing abstract and outline.
2) Deadline for abstract: January 9, 2009
3) Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please send submissions to: ukphilosophy@yahoo.com
CUNY Graduate Student Conference
April 17 & 18, 2009
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 12th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference will be held on April 17 & 18, 2009 at the CUNY Graduate Center, in New York City.
Keynote Speakers:
- April 17, Elizabeth Harman, Princeton University
- April 18, Ted Sider, New York University
Paper submissions are invited from graduate students in all areas of philosophy. Papers should be approximately 3,000-4,000 words, suitable for a 40-45 minute talk. Papers should have a cover page with the author's name, address, school, and email address. Please specify the philosophical area the paper falls under and include a brief abstract on the second page. The deadline for submissions of papers is January 15, 2009. Please email submissions to CUNYgradconference@gmail.com, as .txt, .rtf, .doc, or .pdf attachments. Please use the subject heading 'Conference Submission'.
The conference organizers will arrange accommodation with CUNY Graduate Center students for visiting participants. If you have any questions, please email Jake Berger or Monique Whitaker, at CUNYgradconference@gmail.com
Feminist Philosophy Made Simple
February 13, 2009
Proposals for papers or workshops are invited for a one-day SWIP UK conference, in association with the International Association of Women in Philosophy (IAPh), to be held in London on 13 February 2009 at a venue to be announced.
Feminism claims women are oppressed, and aims to free them. Like any liberation movement, feminism is dogged by propaganda. But anti-feminist propaganda has been astonishingly effective. Despite endemic and persistent serious harms to women including abuse of girl-children, rape, domestic violence, economic, legal and political disadvantage, and despite centuries of work by feminists, most men and women today will say 'I'm not a feminist' or 'feminism goes too far'.
The aim of this conference is to affirm the unity and simplicity of feminism in the face of the propaganda. The unity is captured well in Simone de Beauvoir's phrase 'absolute feminism', which points to necessity as well as unity. The liberation of women is necessary, not something a just society can do without. At the conference we will explore how the apparent complexity and diversity of feminism may be no more than a superficial effect of oppression. Feminists face sceptical, even hostile, standards of evidence and argument. They are expected not only prove there are problems, and suggest solutions. They are also expected to prove feminist solutions are possible, will work - and are not just covert attacks on men. In epistemic conditions like this, it is no wonder feminists modify their claims, distance themselves from each other, and make distinctions so fine they tend to paranoia.
Pace the propaganda, feminism is simple. It needs just a couple of concepts to hold it together. At its core, it needs the idea that there are women, who are being harmed and need help. But it seems the propaganda has found a way to undermine even this most fundamental feminist idea. The concept 'gender' used to be a feminist tool for exposing the wrongs of sex roles. But it can also become a patriarchal Trojan horse, smuggling into the heart of feminism tools for the dismantling of the core concept 'woman'.
Proposals are invited for philosophical ways to re-affirm women, without affirming oppressive sex roles. Please send abstracts of up to 400 words by 9th January 2008 by email to soranreader@fastmail.fm with the title 'SWIP UK Spring 2009' in the header line. Please note this is a women-only event. Venue to be announced. For further information and updates see SWIP UK website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/swipuk/ IAPh website http://www.iaph-philo.org/
National Women’s Studies Association Call for Proposals
Difficult Dialogues
November 12-15, 2009
Location: Atlanta, GA
Program Co-Chairs: Beverly Guy-Sheftall, NWSA President and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies, Spelman College and Vivian M. May, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Syracuse University
Deadline: February 15, 2009
Download the complete CFP from the conference site:
http://www.nwsaconference.org/cms/?q=node/21
Visit the Discussion forum to find other panelists for your proposal or to join a panel: http://www.nwsaconference.org/forum/
About the Theme: Difficult Dialogues: NWSA 2009 will examine how feminist intellectual, political, and institutional practices cannot be adequately practiced if the politics of gender are conceptualized (overtly or implicitly) as superseding or transcending the politics of race, sexuality, social class, nation, and disability.
Despite claims that “everyone” now “does” (or has always “done”) WS from intersectional and transnational perspectives, many of the ways in which the politics of both race and nation have been taken up in the field have been more nominal than transformative. Despite widespread changes in the WS curriculum, in feminist scholarship, and in WS institutional formations, there remains an ongoing struggle over what constitutes the legitimate terrain of feminist theory and inquiry, past and present.
The Difficult Dialogues theme builds on Johnnella Butler’s essays (beginning with her 1989 article in the Women’s Review of Books) about the contested relationship among and between Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Women’s Studies in the U.S. academy. Butler pinpointed a reluctance to engage questions of gender and sexuality in Black Studies and Ethnic Studies, and a reluctance to engage with questions of race and class in Women’s Studies.
NWSA 2009 identifies several thematic areas in which ongoing and new difficult dialogues across differences are urgently needed but frequently avoided, consciously or unconsciously:
• Thinking, Speaking, and Working Margin to Margin;
• Intersectionality as Theory, Method, and Politics;
• Reconceptualizing Women’s Studies within the Transnational;
• Negotiating the Politics of Memory; and
• Women’s Studies 40 Years Later: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?
NWSA invites all of those interested to submit proposals for panels, papers, workshops, and performances that represent the wide rage of intersectional and transnational scholarship in the US and beyond. Please note that all submitted proposals must address one of the five themes above
25th Anniversary Hypatia Conference and Special Issue
Feminist Legacies/ Feminist Futures
October 22-24, 2009
Hypatia has been published as an independent journal of feminist philosophy since 1986; Volume 25 will appear in 2010. To mark this significant anniversary—to celebrate the accomplishments of Hypatia, its founders, editors, and contributors, and to consider where feminist philosophy is headed in the next twenty-five years—the current editors will host a Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Conference at the University of Washington in the Fall of 2009 (October 22-24), and the final issue of Volume 25 (Fall 2010) will be designated a Special Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue.
Submissions are welcome, for both the conference and the Special Issue, on any topic in feminist philosophy addressed by contributors to Hypatia in its publication history. We encourage a forward-looking focus that draws on retrospective assessment to envision future directions: what issues are emerging, what lines of inquiry are taking shape, what questions need attention, given the trajectory of feminist philosophy evident in the articles, reviews, symposia and special issues published by Hypatia since the mid-1980s? You might, for example:
- identify a paper or debate published by Hypatia that especially influenced you (positively or negatively) and assess the implications of its insights, its lacunae, its implications for future directions in feminist philosophy;
- if you are a Hypatia author, return to a paper you published in the journal and assess how thinking in this area has changed, what new directions are taking shape;
- consider how, and why, some topics that were prominent in early issues of Hypatia have continued to set the agenda for feminist philosophy while others have been reframed or set aside: how has work on these topics evolved and where it can be expected to go in the future?
25th Anniversary Conference: October 22-24, 2009
Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington
Deadline for conference abstracts: June 1, 2009
Please submit a 1-2 page (250-500 word) abstract for your proposed paper to the Hypatia editorial office, clearly identified as a Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Conference submission.
25th Anniversary Special Issue: to appear as the final issue of Volume 25 (Fall 2010)
Deadline for special issue submissions: November 16, 2009
Please submit a manuscript clearly identified as a Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Special Issue submission to the Hypatia editorial office; see the Hypatia website for detailed submission guidelines. Special Issue submissions need not originate in the conference.
Hypatia editorial office: hypatia@u.washington.edu
Hypatia website: http://depts.washington.edu/hypatia/
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Ethics & the Environment
Ethics & the Environment is considering papers for a special issue in honor of Val Plumwood. We welcome submissions on Plumwood’s philosophy, ecofeminism, indigenous environmental ethics, ecological perspectives on rationality, and other relevant topics. This special issue is in conjunction with a symposium in honor of Val Plumwood to be held at the University of Georgia March 20-21, 2009.
Special issue submission deadline is February 15, 2009; all other manuscripts for consideration may be submitted at any time. Manuscripts should be sent as word files via e-mail to eande@uga.edu. For matters of style, consult The Chicago Manual of Style. Upon acceptance, an abstract of 100 words will be required. To view recent issues, visit http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/ete.
Informal Logic
We invite submissions for a special issue of the journal Informal Logic that will address the relationship of reasoning and argumentation to political change and progress. Informal Logic (www.informallogic.ca) is a peer-reviewed open access online journal. It addresses topics related to reasoning and argumentation in theory and practice. It is multi-disciplinary, welcoming theoretical and empirical research from any pertinent field.
This issue of Informal Logic will focus on “Reasoning for Change.” Whether we seek to redress existing social inequities such as sexism and racism or halt the decay of our natural environments, the operations of reason can aid the achievement of social and political progress. In turn, political engagement can affect how people reason, and be involved with theories about reasoning and argumentation.
Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: What forms of reasoning are most effective in bringing about change in social, political, or environmental circumstances? What forms of reasoning encourage or discourage activism and political engagement? Which types of reasoning entrench existing views and which encourage change? How may activism affect a person’s or a community’s reasoning and argumentation? Do specific models of argumentation help or hinder understandings across differences (social, cultural, political, or religious differences, for example)? What are the liberatory potentials of monological as opposed to dialogical models of reasoning and argumentation? What are the political implications of the distinction between formal and informal logic?
The editors for this special issue are Catherine Hundleby, Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada (hundleby@uwindsor.ca), and Phyllis Rooney, Department of Philosophy, Oakland University, Michigan, USA (rooney@oakland.edu). We accept submissions for review only on condition that that the material is not under review for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be anonymously reviewed by the editors and additional readers. Papers should be submitted to Lauri Daitchman at daitchm@uwindsor.ca no later than Monday, February 10, 2009.
Submissions should be in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. Prepare manuscripts for anonymous reviewing with no identifying references in the paper, and include an abstract of no more than 100 words at the beginning of the paper. A separate title page must include the author’s name(s), e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, and title of the paper. Submissions must comply with the Informal Logic author guidelines available at: www.informallogic.ca
International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB)
The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Vol.3, no. 2, Fall 2010 seeks contributions for a special issue titled, From the Margins to the Center: Feminist Disability Studies and/in Feminist Bioethics. In recent years, work done in mainstream bioethics has been challenged by the emerging field of disability studies. A growing number of disability theorists and activists point out that the views about disability and disabled people that mainstream bioethicists have articulated on matters such as prenatal testing, stem cell research, and physician-assisted suicide incorporate significant misunderstandings about them and amount to an institutionalized form of their oppression. While some feminist bioethicists have paid greater attention to the perspectives and arguments of disabled people than other bioethicists, these perspectives and arguments are rarely made central. Feminist disability theory remains marginalized even within feminist bioethics. This issue of IJFAB will go some distance to move feminist disability studies from the margins to the center of feminist bioethics by highlighting the contributions to and interventions in bioethics that feminist disability studies is uniquely situated to make.
The guest editor, Shelley Tremain, seeks contributions to the issue on any topic related to feminist disability studies and bioethics, including (but not limited to): Critiques of bioethics by feminist disability theorists from within feminist bioethics, the relevance of feminist disability studies in developing countries, what’s still missing from feminist arguments in the debates about stem cell research and other forms of biotechnology, the importance of perspectives of disabled embodiment in feminist bioethics, how the critiques of bioethics advanced in disability studies are gendered, the integration of political analyses of disability into feminist bioethics, the critique of notions of normalcy embedded in (feminist) bioethics, the reevaluation of feminist approaches to care from a feminist disability studies perspective.
Articles should be 3,000 - 8,000 words in length. Shorter pieces written for the Commentaries section of the issue should be 2,000-3,000 words in length. All submissions should be double-spaced, prepared for anonymous review (no identifying references in the body of the text or bibliography), accompanied by an abstract of 150 words, and prepared in accordance with the journal’s style guidelines which are posted on the IJFAB website (www.ijfab.org).
Contact information – email address, street address, and affiliation (if applicable) – should appear on a separate page which also includes a statement verifying that the work has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be sent as email attachments in Microsoft Word or rtf to Shelley Tremain at s.tremain@yahoo.ca. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2009. The guest editor strongly encourages authors to contact her before completing their submissions.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Feminist Philosophy
Christina M. Bellon, Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University is looking for volunteers to write articles for the Encyclopedia of Philosophy on a variety of feminist topics. For a list of possible topics visit this link: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/b/bellonc/iep.html. However, this isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list. Email Christina Bellon if you are interested in writing an article not on the list or if you have some ideas for what should be included (even if you don’t want to write it). There is also a need for volunteers to serve as reviewers for any area of feminist philosophy. Junior colleagues should feel especially encouraged to consider writing. Since the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is widely used by undergraduate and graduate students, this is a wonderful opportunity to contribute to shaping the content of philosophy for coming generations of philosophers. Link here to visit the Encyclopedia: http://www.iep.utm.edu/. All articles are anonymously peer reviewed. Since it is an electronic publication, there are no publication cycles. Once an article is completed and accepted, it will be posted. If interested in either writing or reviewing for the Encyclopedia please contact Christina M. Bellon at bellon@csus.edu.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Medical Biotechnologies
A call for papers for a Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Medical Biotechnologies, deadline 15 March 2009. Edited by Marin Gillis and Inmaculada de Melo-Martín.
Medical biotechnologies have been heralded as both the solution to most problems affecting human beings and their environments, and as a threat to all that matters to us. Feminist analysis of current medical biotechnologies has much to offer to this debate. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy invites submissions that use feminist philosophy to evaluate medical biotechnologies.
Articles exploring feminist philosophical analyses of medical biotechnologies and those evaluating how feminist values might shape the development and implementation of such technologies are welcome. Also of interest are essays reflecting on the gendered, race, and class dimensions of medical biotechnologies, those evaluating the impact of globalization on these biotechnologies and vice-versa, and articles offering new insights into the effects of medical biotechnologies on social and political arrangements.
Although feminist work in biomedicine is frequently assumed to be about women's capacity to procreate, this issue seeks to highlight other dimensions of medical biotechnologies, including human genetic modification, cloning, xenotransplantation, chimeras, pharmacogenomics/genetics, and human genetic databases.
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 100 words. Please provide a cover letter identifying your paper as a submission for the special issue "Medical Biotechnologies." The deadline for submissions is 15 March 2009.
Papers should be submitted by electronic attachment in Word to Marin Gillis at mgillis@medicine.nevada.edu. Submissions should follow Hypatia guidelines (see http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/) Please address all correspondence, questions, and suggestions to Marin Gillis or Inmaculada de Melo-Martín at imd2001@med.cornell.edu.
The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies
Special Issue of the Journal for Peace and Justice Studies on Sustainability. Deadline for submissions: October 30, 2008. Manuscripts and related correspondence should be sent electronically to the Managing Editor at jpjs@villanova.edu. Manuscript submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter containing all contact information and title of the essay. No identifying information may be in the submission itself. All manuscripts submitted for publication must be prepared for blind review. Articles should be double-spaced throughout, with notes gathered at the end. An abstract of 100- to 150-words must be included with the submission. Authors are advised to use inclusive language throughout the manuscript, and to follow the MLA Style Sheet. Essays accepted for publication must be prepared in Microsoft Word (.doc) format.
Regular Mailing Address:
The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies
Villanova University
Sullivan Hall - Lower Level
800 Lancaster Ave.
Villanova, PA 19085-1699
For more information on this special issue, contact Sally J. Scholz at sally.scholz@villanova.edu.
The History of Women Philosophers Web Site
A call for papers, chronologies, bibliographies:
The History of Women Philosophers web site seeks: short essays (200 – 2000 words for any of the women listed on the site) as well as chronologies, bibliographies for any woman philosopher who lived before the 21st century who is not yet listed.
See: www.women-philosophers.com. Contact: Dr. Kate LIndemann at lindeman@msmc.edu with proposals. Use: women philosophers as Subject line.
