We are excited to announce the return of the U.S. Midwest SWIP conference after an extended hiatus due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Please join us Fall 2022 in beautiful Milwaukee, WI.
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U.S. MIDWEST SWIP
2022 CONFERENCE
SEPTEMBER 22-24 AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
IN MILWAUKEE, WI
Call for Abstracts:
The Midwest U.S. Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy invites papers in all areas of feminist philosophy, theory, and praxis, including but not limited to ethics, social/political
philosophy, aesthetics, phenomenology, existentialism, epistemology, and metaphysics. U.S. Midwest SWIP is interested in enriching discussions about contemporary social and political issues, and we welcome work that interrogates how such issues intersect with
race, gender, ability, sexuality, class, and the like.
For our 2022 conference, USMSWIP is pleased to welcome MARIANA ORTEGA as
our keynote speaker.
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit an extended abstract of 800-1000 words with a preliminary bibliography (We will also accept full paper submissions of no more than 3000 words). Please send all submissions
as MS word documents, and include as a separate attachment, a cover page with the title, institutional affiliation, rank or occupation, and email address of the presenters to: [log in to unmask] by May
1st, 2022.
In light of this year’s keynote address, we are particularly interested in submissions that engage with the art of trespassing, how to use art resistantly, liminality and resistance, Latinidad,
and/or the work of Mariana Ortega specifically, and will give preference to submissions that address these topics.
Other potential themes include:
- Mass
Incarceration, Cradle-to-prison Pipeline, and Carceral Feminisms
- Sexual
Assault and Gender-based Violence
- Police
and State Violence against People of Color and Trans* People
- Coloniality
and Decolonial Methodologies
- Queer/Crip
Theory and Disability Studies
- Insurrectional
Political Action and Uprisings
- Reproductive
Justice
- Climate
Change, the Anthropocene, and Muzzling/Silencing of Climate Research
- Indigeneity
and Indigenous Rights
- Immigration,
Assimilation, and Statelessness
-
Austerity Measures and Neoliberalism
- Food
Justice and Food Politics
- Social
Epistemology, esp. investigations into and critical readings of epistemology of ignorance and epistemology of resistance literature
- Pluralist
and/or Multiplicitous theories of Identity
The program committee gives preference to women and members of other marginalized groups who are working on feminist projects that engage
multiple axes of oppression. We also welcome the work of scholars at any stage in their careers.
GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Host Institution
Department of Philosophy
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
Thanks to generous support from the Association of Marquette University Women and Marquette’s Center for the Advancement of the Humanities, hotel accommodation for presenters will be provided. Once your conference
submission is accepted, and you wish to make lodging arrangements, please contact our host liaison.
Host Liaison
Dr. Desiree Valentine
Program Organizer
Dr. Meredith Verrochi