I hope to see many of you in the Pacific Northwest in October.  Ahh, B.C., just what a feminist philosopher needs!  And in answer to a few individual emails, no, you do not have to be a Canadian to apply:
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY
　
Global Justice, the Environment, and the Economy
CONFERENCE 2011, University of Victoria
　
[cswip.ca <http://cswip.ca/>]
 
Friday (pm) October 14, 2011 - Sunday (am) October 16, 2011
 
THEME: Global Justice, the Environment, and the Economy
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Laura Westra, Professor Emerita (Philosophy),
University of Windsor
 
The Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy invites papers from all
areas of philosophy related to the theme of the conference. There are
many possible topics, the following being just a small sample:
* Conceptions of nature and the environment in the history of philosophy.
* The ethics and politics of food.
* Property and freedom.
* Aesthetics and the environment.
* Global justice and the role of international law.
* Controversial science: debating environmental research.
* Social, cultural, ethical, and political constructions of nature and
the environment.
* Capitalism and distributive justice.
* Shared contexts, shared worlds: families, communities, environments.
* Moral standing / moral consideration beyond humanity?
* Egalitarianism: local, national, global.
* Philosophical implications of biotechnology.
* Gender justice and climate change.
* Environmental science and the role of values.
 
SUBMISSIONS:
Standard submissions:
Submissions of long abstracts (1000 words) are invited (for eventual
presentation-papers not exceeding 3000 words). Please email the abstract
as both a double-spaced Word.doc and also as a RTF attachment, prepared
for anonymous review. Please note: this requires that you remove all
identifying-author tags from your document content and file properties.
Please include your full contact information in the email only (not with
the abstract).
 
*Submission deadline: midnight Eastern time, Friday April 1, 2011. *
 
Submissions from graduate students wishing to be considered for the
CSWIP Graduate Award:
This newly instigated award gives special recognition to an outstanding
paper to be read by a graduate student at the CSWIP annual conference.
The Award will be announced at the conference. To be eligible the
student must be registered in a graduate degree programme and not yet
have been awarded a PhD by the time of the CSWIP submission deadline for
the conference. Submission deadline: Both the long abstract of 1,000
words and the completed paper (not exceeding 3,000 words) must be
prepared for anonymous review (which requires that you remove all
identifying-author tags from your document content and file properties).
Both the long abstract and the completed paper must be submitted
simultaneously by midnight Eastern time, Friday April 1, 2011. Email the
abstract and the paper as two separate attachments. Please email as both
a double-spaced Word and also as a RTF attachment. Please include your
full contact information in the email only (not in the paper or with the
abstract) and indicate in the email that you wish to be considered for
the CSWIP Graduate Award.
 
All submissions to be sent electronically to the review coordinator:
Kathryn Norlock,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
Email: kathrynnorlock [at] trentu [dot] ca
 



 

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