I'm forwarding below a Call for Abstracts for the upcoming North American Society for Social Philosophy's 37th International Conference, which will be focused on the theme

Respect, Social Action, and #Me Too.  The conference will feature two keynote speakers:  Susan Brison (Dartmouth University) and Linda Martín Alcoff (The Graduate Center, CUNY). 

More information can be found on the NASSP website:  http://www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/category/annual-conference/  and the link for submission is included below.

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Thirty-Seventh International  Social Philosophy Conference

Sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy

Neumann University

Aston, Pennsylvania

July 16-18, 2020

Proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome, but special attention will be devoted to:

Respect, Social Action, and #MeToo

Some possible paper topics include:

• Dissent and disrespect 
• Respect and allyship
• Social media and #activism
• Bridging online and on-the-ground activism 
• Online communities and resistance
• Sexual harassment and assault of trans and non-binary people
• Political value of respect and disrespect
• How to be an active ally 
• Privilege and allyship
• Title IX & due process in the #MeToo era 
• The political implications of implicit bias 
• Misogyny & “misogynoir”
• Intersectionality 
• Epistemic (in)justice and #MeToo
• Truth, propaganda, and “fake news”
• Rethinking masculinity 
• Pornography
• Sex and consent 
• Reasonableness/unreasonableness in politics
  
• Respect and political polarization
  
• Sexual harassment and assault of trans and non-binary people
• Reclaiming populism

We welcome submissions from both members and non-members, but we require that all presenters join the North American Society for Social Philosophy if their papers are accepted and if they present at the conference.

Submission Deadline:  February 15, 2020. Please submit a 300 word abstract at: http://www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/call-for-abstracts/

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The Program Committee:

 

Lisa Schwartzman, Michigan State University (chair)

Maurice Hamington, Portland State University

Janice Moskalik, Seattle University

 Members of the Program Committee may be reached at:
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Local host:  Geoff Karabin, Neumann University

Papers presented at the conference are eligible for consideration for publication in Social Philosophy Today, a peer-reviewed journal published electronically and available for print on demand.  Although the main sections of articles published in Social Philosophy Today are based on papers presented at the conference, the journal is not a proceedings volume.  Only those articles recommended on the basis of peer review will be accepted for publication. 

NASSP Support for International Presenters

The NASSP will waive fees for conference registration and for the banquet for those participants traveling from outside of the United States and Canada. 

NASSP Conference Awards for Graduate Students:

The North American Society for Social Philosophy has established the NASSP Awards for Best Graduate Student Papers to promote new scholarship in social philosophy and to encourage student participation in our Conference.  The winners of the annual prizes each receive $300.  The prizes are awarded only to conference attendees, though there is no obligation to use the money for conference-related costs. Any graduate student enrolled in a program towards a degree beyond the B.A. or first university diploma is eligible.  The paper may address any topic in social philosophy. Papers should be no more than 3,000 words (include a word count with submission), and they should conform to the requirements set out by the APA for colloquium submissions to annual Divisional meetings.Those who want to be considered for this award should send their full papers on or before February 15 to [log in to unmask] – and they should also submit abstracts to the site by February 15, 2020.  Only those whose abstracts are accepted by the program committee will be considered for the graduate award.