philoSOPHIA: A Feminist Society

10^th Annual Meeting

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

 

March 11-12, 2016

University of Colorado Denver

Denver, CO

 

The 10th annual meeting of philoSOPHIA will run from the morning of Friday, March 11, 2016, to the evening of Saturday, March 12, 2015, on the campus of the University of Colorado Denver.  There will also be a poetry reading March 10, 2016, on the campus of the University of Colorado Boulder.

Conference theme:

Poetry, Politics, and Feminist Theory

 

Highlights:

Keynote speaker: Lyn Hejinian

Plenary speakers: Rachel Jones, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Elena Ruiz

 

Suggested topics:

 

·      Figures whose work addresses the themes of the conference (for example: Ai, Gloria Anzaldúa, Black Took Collective, Gwendolyn Brooks, Anne Carson, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Hélène Cixous, Michelle Cliff, Lucille Clifton, Barbara Guest, belle hooks, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Audre Lorde, Harryette Mullen, Alice Notley, Claudia Rankine, Joan Rettallack, Adrienne Rich, or Rosemary Waldrop.)

·      Historical and contemporary relationships between poets and philosophers

·      The production of identity and the use of language

·      Submerged, subjugated, silenced, muted, and underrepresented voices

·      Gender violence (in local, national, and/or international contexts)

·      Crises in the contemporary poetic moment

·      Poetics of resistance

·      Philosophy of language

·      The poetics of racial subordination and domination

·      Critical disability studies approaches to poetry

·      The poetics of intersectionality and assemblage

·      Feminism and popular culture

 

 

 

In addition to traditional panels, there will be two workshops, one lead by a poet and the other a philosopher.  We encourage graduate students and junior scholars to apply to these workshops.  Poetic and philosophical projects at any stage of completion welcomed.  The themes of the panel will be:

 

1. Philosophy and Poetry, lead by Perry Zurn, Hampshire College

 

2. Poetry and Philosophy, lead by a poet to be announced

 

 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:

 

You may submit one of the following:

1. Individual abstracts of 500-700 words;

2. Panel proposals (500 words) with individual abstracts (500-700 words each);

3. Workshop paper abstracts (500-700 words). Please identify which workshop;

4. For those graduate students who wish to be considered for a travel award, a complete paper (3000 words). Please also declare your status as a graduate student in the body of your email.

 

Abstracts, panel proposals, workshop paper abstracts, and papers should be submitted in an email attachment suitable for anonymous review. In the body of your email, please include your name, affiliation, contact information, and a brief bio, along with the title of your presentation.

 

For more information, please visit: www.philosophiafeministsociety.org.

 

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DEADLINE: November 1, 2015