CfP: Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP)

…Another conference of potential interest to those in the “Intimacy, Intersubjectivity, and Problems of the Self” course:

From: http://www.c-scp.org/en/2011/11/18/call-for-paper-canadian-society-for-women-in-philosophy-cswip.html

Full submission guidelines/requirements can be found through the link above.

CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE 2012

Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB
Friday (pm) October 26 – Sunday (am) October 28

THEME:  Theorizing the Body, Embodiment, and Body-Practices

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Dr. Cressida J. Heyes, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality, University of Alberta

The Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy invites papers from all areas of philosophy related to the theme of the conference, including the history of philosophy, analytic and continental philosophy.  We also welcome submissions of panel proposals that focus on specific questions, problems and concepts at work within analyses of the body, embodiment, and body-practices.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

•  The metaphysics of the body itself and the materiality of somatic practices like dance, sports, and yoga
•  The aesthetic, ethical, or moral dimensions, real or imagined, of body-practices
•  The role of bodies as the subjects of research science, in scientific testing, and in scientific practice more generally
•  The integrity of the body in medical practice and intervention
•  The taxonomies of bodies, like identity-categories of sex, gender, sexuality, race, disability and fatness, as well as the social, political, biomedical and epistemological processes by which such categories are mobilized, reinforced, and undermined
•  How technologies of the body intersect with conceptions of health, bodily capacity, and life, and, conversely, with norms that give rise to judgments of deviance, incarceration, and other forms of social exclusion
•  Personhood, language and agency in human and non-human animal bodies
•  Methodological debates about the study of embodiment, including somatocentric and phenomenological explanations of behaviour, the study of embodied consciousness and situated cognition, and the relations between cognitive and corporeal processes
•  Theoretical accounts about the embodiment of pedagogy and the complex interplay between desire, affects, and bodies in the classroom

This conference will be an accessible conference, and if you have any questions about accessibility, please do not hesitate to contact the conference organizer, Ada Jaarsma, at:  ajaarsma@mtroyal.ca

CfP: 19th Biennial Conference of the North American Sartre Society

This CfP may be of interest to those currently studying in the “Intimacy, Intersubjectivity, and Problems of the Self” course (and anyone else with research interests in Sartrean/existentialist philosophy)

From: The North American Sartre Society

CALL FOR PAPERS

19th Biennial Conference of the North American Sartre Society

Hosted by Texas A&M University,
November 28-30, 2012

This year’s keynote speaker will be Eduardo Mendieta. Mendieta is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook. Over the last decade he has written and edited a dozen books dealing with the Frankfurt School, contemporary Latin American philosophy, and issues relating to religion, globalization, and global justice. His most recent monograph is entitled Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latin Americanisms, and Critical Theory (SUNY, 2007). He has edited and translated the works of one of Latin America’s most important living philosophers–Enrique Dussel. He has also edited and translated from the German the work of the innovative philosopher Karl-Otto Apel. He is the author of an essay that surveys Hispanic existentialism in Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context, ed. by Jonathan Judaken and Robert Bernasconi (Columbia, 2012), which will be a focus of his address.

Papers in any area of Sartrean scholarship are welcome (philosophy, literature, psychology, politics, intellectual history). In addition to individual papers, we would be very interested in receiving suggestions for panel topics. Panel topics that deal with any aspect of Sartre’s work, as well as those that deal with Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir or other figures associated with existentialism, or Sartre’s work considered in relation to other authors will be seriously considered. Reading time for a paper should be 25-30 minutes to be followed by the respondent’s commentary (optional) and 10 minutes of discussion. Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers. A limited number of stipends will be available to help defray the cost of travel and lodging. Graduate students whose paper has been accepted must subsequently apply for these stipends.

We invite anyone interested to submit proposals for papers. Nevertheless, those whose papers are accepted will have to become members of NASS (if they are not already) in order to present their paper.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: APRIL 30, 2012.

Please E-MAIL a 1 page abstract of your paper as an attachment to hamel.yan@teluq.ca For panel submissions, please submit an abstract for the whole panel as well as abstracts for each individual paper. These will be forwarded to the Program Committee for blind refereeing.

Deadline extended to contribute to PhiGSA’s Undergraduate Journal

Thank you so much to those of you who have already submitted your work to the PhiGSA Undergraduate Philosophy Journal.  We were really pleased with the response, and are very much looking forward to reviewing your submissions over the next few weeks.

Even though the initial deadline has passed, we have decided to continue accepting submissions until Friday Feb. 10th, 2012 at 4pm. If you have not yet submitted, here’s your final chance to do so!

To be fair to those who have already submitted their work, those works received by the initial deadline will be given first consideration (and contributors are also welcome to resubmit if they would like to make changes before the new deadline).

As always, feel free to contact us if you have any questions, or click here to review submission guidelines and requirements.  Please remember: you must submit BOTH an electronic and hard (paper) copy of your submission(s).

Undergraduate Journal – one week left to submit!

First of all, a big thanks to all of those who have so far submitted papers – we can’t wait to review them!

If you haven’t yet submitted, but would like to, there is one week left to do so before we the deadline on Friday February 3rd, 2012 at 4pm. Please remember to submit both an electronic copy (by email) and a hard copy to the Graduate Students’ Lounge at 413 Jorgensen Hall.

Click here for full submission guidelines and requirements, and don’t hesitate to email us if you have any questions.

Congratulations Chris!

Congratulations to Chris Dragos who has had his paper “Reconciling Realism and the Strong Program” accepted at the peer-reviewed Erasmus Graduate Conference in Rotterdam this March.

For more information, visit http://www.eur.nl/fw/english/eipe/conferences/gcps/

Congratulations again, Chris!

Call for Papers: “The Status of Minorities in Philosophy” (Concordia University)

In case anyone is interested in submitting, but hasn’t yet gotten around to doing so the deadline to submit to Concordia’s upcoming conference “The Status of Minorities in Philosophy” has been extended to February 1st, 2012.

Visit http://concordia-mcgill.blogspot.com/ for more information, or review the CP, below:

Our deadline has been extended to
February 1st. 

It is now sufficient to submit the abstract only (successful applicants must provide their completed essays no later than
April 1st).

Call for papers

We invite quality graduate and undergraduate papers that address the themes of the conference: the problem of the under-representation of groups in philosophy, or the implications of this in the profession more broadly. Papers in both “analytic” and “continental” traditions are welcome. Papers in French are welcome.

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts should be between 300 and 600 words, prepared for blind review in .DOC or .PDF format. Successful applicants must provide their completed essays no later than April 1st, 2012. (NB: Although submission of abstracts is sufficient at this point, preference will be given to those who submit their completed paper alongside the abstract by February 1st).

Student presentations will not exceed twenty (20) minutes in length, followed by a question and answer period. Therefore, the completed papers should not (grossly) exceed 3,500 words (not including footnotes).

In a separate cover letter, authors must include their name, affiliation, e-mail address and the title of their submission.

The same author(s) may submit up to two abstracts for consideration. Papers that contain previously published materials should be identified as such.

Send submissions & questions:   concordia.mcgill.2012@gmail.com

Submission Deadline:  January 22^nd  February 1^st, 2012
Applicants will be contacted with final decisions by February 25th, 2012.

Congratulations Leland!

Congratulations to Leland Harper, who has had a paper accepted for the Uehiro Graduate Student Philosophy Conference at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa!

Be sure to send us a postcard , Leland