Exploring Collaborative Contestations

Call for papers: Hypatia 2015 Conference

May 28-30, 2015
Villanova Conference Center
Villanova University

We are happy to announce the call for papers or panels for the Hypatia 2015 Conference.  This year’s theme, Exploring Collaborative Contestations, aims to create a space for diverse perspectives, difficult conversations, and marginalized voices within feminist philosophy.  We welcome papers and panel proposals on topics that address: a commitment to diversity, broadly construed; an openness to disagreement among feminists on difficult issues; and opportunities for collaboration among feminist philosophers within and across various disciplines, subfields, and theoretical orientations.  Submissions on any topic in feminist philosophy will be considered.  Deadline for submission of 250-500 word proposal for paper or panel: January 1, 2015.

Suggested topics include:

  • Exploring intersectionality: race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, social class, disability
  • Engaging disability studies within philosophy: ethics, politics, epistemology, metaphysics
  • Exploring new connections with philosophies of race and ethnicity
  • Theorizing LGBTQ coalitions among philosophers and within philosophy
  • Working through and across borders of disciplines: interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and multidisciplinarity
  • Building on constructive disagreements within feminist philosophy
  • Exploring new connections for feminist theorizing: activism, youth movements, transnational alliances
  • Challenging philosophical subfields
  • Occupying: resistance and repercussions in the profession

Additional features of the Hypatia 2015 Conference:

  • Professional workshops on publishing feminist philosophy in journals, anthologies, books, blogs, and more hosted by the Hypatia Local Board.
  • Held in conjunction with the 2015 American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women Conference on Diversity meeting.
  • The APA Diversity Summit, May 29, 2015 during the conference!
  • Workshop on sexual harassment and bystander training.
  • APA/CSW Site Visit Training: May 31st at Villanova.
  • Modest travel grants available for presenters in need.

Presenters are encouraged to submit papers to Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy after the conference.  The Hypatia Editorial Office is committed to rapid review for all papers affiliated with the conference.

Conference website: http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/hypatiaconference/.

Accessibility planning in action – please contact conference coordinator editorialassistant@hypatiaphilosophy.org

Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, Villanova University and the APA Committee on the Status of Women.

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