The 37th International Social Philosophy Conference
Due to COVID-19,the face-to-face conference for 2020 has been cancelled. NASSP will hold a limited virtual conference on July 16, 17, and 18. To join the virtual conference, please sign up for membership at the Philosophy Documentation Site
The conference is virtual in that we will meet on Zoom. It is limited in that we will host only: (1) sessions featuring each of our keynote speakers, Linda Martín Alcoff and Susan Brison; (2) our traditional Book Award session; and (3) a business meeting, to include presentation of this year’s recipient of the Grad Award, given to the best paper written by a graduate student.
This year’s conference will not, unfortunately, feature presentation of the papers that were accepted by the Program Committee. Nonetheless, the editors of Social Philosophy Today welcome submissions of those papers. Papers submitted will undergo the usual peer-review and those accepted will be published next year in Volume 37 of the journal. All non-published papers are automatically accepted for presentation at next year’s conference, which will be held at the venue intended for this year’s conference–Neumann University outside of Philadelphia–on dates in July 2021 yet to be determined. Next year’s conference will center on a new theme that is inclusive of this year’s, so your papers will still be relevant to our discussions in 2021.
We encourage you to list your paper on your CV as accepted for presentation, with a note that presentation was deferred due to the global pandemic.
Anyone with an active membership in the North American Society for Social Philosophy is welcome to access the conference and join the discussion online; there will be no fee to participate in the virtual conference beyond that associated with membership. More details will be forthcoming shortly
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/submit-abstracts/
Questions? contact@northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org.
The Program Committee:
Lisa Schwartzman, Michigan State University (chair)
Maurice Hamington, Portland State University
Janice Moskalik, Seattle University
Local host: Geoff Karabin, Neumann University
Members of the Program Committee may be reached at:
program@northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org
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 gradaward@northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org – 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.