Trans* Experience in Philosophy Conference- Call For Papers
May 13-15, 2016, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2015

This conference aims to explore the intersections between transgender 
studies and philosophy by bringing philosophical reflections to bear on 
trans* experience, representation, identity, and politics. We welcome 
papers that engage a variety of issues or topics, including but not 
limited to trans* embodiment, ethical concerns specific to trans* 
persons, the relationship between transgender studies and feminist 
philosophy, and how classical philosophical frameworks might elucidate 
aspects of trans* experience. Through these reflections, we also hope to 
interrogate our understanding and practice of inclusivity in academia. 
Considering the attention given to the status of women in philosophy in 
more recent years, we are particularly interested in addressing the 
practices, content, and implicit biases of philosophy with regard to 
non-conforming genders and non-cisgender bodies.

Papers engaging with trans* experience and perspectives broadly 
construed from all philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives and 
approaches are welcome. Priority will be given to submissions with an 
intersectional emphasis and, when relevant, of those directly affected 
by or self-reflectively allied with the trans* persons.

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Talia Mae Bettcher

Featured Panel: Trans* Lives in Academia (Facilitator: TBA)

Critical Conversation Workshop: Feminist Inclusivity and Transfeminisms
This workshop seeks to problematize and ponder ways to remedy the 
exclusion of transwomen that continue to prevail implicitly or 
explicitly in certain strands of feminist thought and politics. It aims 
to grapple with issues of inclusion within feminist philosophy in 
particular and explore new definitions of transfeminisms. This will be a 
participant led workshop.

Topics to consider may include, but are not limited to:
-Trans* experience at the intersection of race, class, sexuality, 
(dis)ability, nationality, coloniality, etc.
-Methodological, political, and philosophical debates between feminist 
philosophy and transgender studies
-Transfeminism/Queer feminism
-Trans* exclusion/inclusion in feminism
-Pedagogical and professional barriers for trans* persons
-Ambiguity, alterity, and/or fluidity of gender in western and 
non-western contexts
-Non-binary identities and/or experiences of gender in postcolonial 
contexts
-The coloniality of gender, trans* experience, and the possibility of 
decolonial transfeminism
-Discursive practices of pathologization and normalization in law, 
medicine, education, etc.
-Cis exclusivity, normativity, and privilege in philosophy as a 
discipline
-Trans* embodiment
-Trans* issues in applied ethics
-Trans perspectives as methodology
-Gender diversity, globalization, and capitalism
-Trans* issues at the intersection of imperialism and gender
-Transnationalism and transgender

Please send your submission to, in one Word document to 
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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.

Individual Papers
Please submit a completed paper of no more than 3000 words (exclusive of 
footnotes and bibliography), along with an abstract of 100-250 words, 
for anonymous review. The word count (max. 3000) should appear on the 
top of the first page of your paper. A separate title page with 
identifying information of the author(s), including electronic address, 
paper title, abstract, and word count should also be submitted.

Panels
Please clearly mark your submission as a panel submission both in the 
body of the e-mail and on the submission itself. Your submission should 
include the panel title, an abstract of the panel (100-250 words), 
abstracts for individual papers (100-250 words per paper), and papers in 
one document, prepared for anonymous for review. Individual papers 
should be no more than 3000 words (exclusive of footnotes and 
bibliography). A separate title page with identifying information of the 
author(s), including electronic address, paper title, abstract, and word 
count should also be submitted.

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