Save the Date! October 19-20, 2012.


The University of Dayton will host a colloquium on “Feminist Pragmatism in
Place.” The colloquium will be of interest to people working on feminist
pragmatist approaches to place, broadly construed, including natural and
built environments and spaces of exclusion and belonging in historical and
contemporary contexts.


A formal call for papers will be issued in the fall.


Plenary Speakers:


     Lisa Heldke, author of Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food
     Adventurer and Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College,
     will speak on a feminist pragmatist approach to contemporary issues
     of food and community building.


     Louise W. Knight, author of Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for
     Democracy and Jane Addams: Spirit in Action, Visiting Scholar,
     Northwestern University Gender Studies Program and School of
     Communication, will speak on reading Addams’s rhetoric on social
     justice.


The colloquium organizers are Denise James ([log in to unmask])
and Marilyn Fischer ([log in to unmask]), of the Department of Philosophy,
University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.Peggy DesAutels

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Dayton
300 College Park
Dayton, OH  45469-1546

http://academic.udayton.edu/PeggyDesAutels
Office Phone: 937-229-1344
Philosophy Dept Phone: 937-229-2933
FAX:  937-229-4400