Throw it against the wall to see if it sticks.

Invitation to the Seminar of Luce Irigaray

2011-02-02T15:40:00.001Z

Invitation to the Seminar of

LUCE IRIGARAY

13 – 18 June 2011

University of Bristol

Since 2003, Luce Irigaray has held an annual seminar for researchers doing their PhD on her work. The seminar offer the opportunity to receive personal teaching from Luce Irigaray and to exchange ideas, methods and experiences with other participants. The seminar was hosted by the University of Nottingham during the first three years (see Luce Irigaray: Teaching edited by Luce Irigaray with Mary Green, and published by Continuum, London & New York, 2008), by the University of Liverpool the fourth year, by Queen Mary, University of London, the fifth year, by the Goodenough College of London the sixth year and by the University of Nottingham the seventh year. It will take place at the University of Bristol in 2011.

The framework of the seminar is this: a group of fifteen researchers doing their PhD on the work of Luce Irigaray stay one week on the university campus. The schedule includes: a presentation by each researcher on the aspect of their PhD which most focuses on the work of Irigaray, the discussion of this presentation by the group, comments from Luce Irigaray herself and her answers to questions raised by each participant. Also included are sessions devoted to the explanation of key-words or key-thoughts chosen by the participants. Personal meetings with Luce Irigaray are organised on the last day. The participants pay for their travel, but receive hospitality from the university. The seminar is conducted in English.

The participants in the seminar come from different regions of the world. They belong to different cultures, traditions and fields of research including Philosophy, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Literature, Arts, Critical and Cultural Studies, etc. The themes of their research include, for example: the treatment of personal or cultural traumatic experience; the resources that various arts can offer for dwelling in oneself and with the other(s); the maternal order and feminine genealogy; the interpretation and embodiment of the divine today; the contribution of sexuate difference to personal and social development; new perspectives in philosophy etc. In each of these fields, diverse domains, approaches and methods are represented. To date, participants have come from Australia, Vietnam, Korea, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Ireland and from different regions and universities of the U.S.A. and of the U.K. Beyond the multicultural teaching which results from such a gathering, the participants learn to live together and to share in difference during the time devoted to the work, and also during meals, walks, personal meetings etc. The atmosphere of the seminar is intense but friendly and joyful, and its outcome highly successful for both the research and the life of each participant.

If you are interested and would like to participate in the seminar please send, as soon as possible, a CV, a PhD abstract (1 page) and a presentation of the issues and arguments of your PhD that most focus on the work of Luce Irigaray (5-6 pages) to Luce Irigaray (by mail: 15, rue Lakanal, 75015 Paris, France). After receiving this material, Luce Irigaray will tell you if you can participate in the seminar of 2011. After this, you will be contacted by the University in the Spring with information about accommodation.

CFP: Invitation to Luce Irigaray Post-Graduate Seminar

2010-11-11T12:49:00.002Z

An Invitation to the Seminar of

Luce Irigaray

Since 2003, Luce Irigaray has held an annual seminar for researchers doing their PhD on her work. The seminar offers the opportunity to receive personal teaching from Luce Irigaray and to exchange ideas, methods and experiences with other participants. The seminar was first hosted by the University of Nottingham for three years (see Luce Irigaray: Teaching edited by Luce Irigaray with Mary Green, and published by Continuum, London & New York, 2008). It was then hosted by the University of Liverpool in its fourth year, by Queen Mary, University of London, in its fifth year and by the Goodenough College of London in its sixth year. In 2010, the seminar returned to the University of Nottingham. The location and dates for the 2011 seminar will be announced at a later time.

The framework of the seminar is this: a group of fifteen researchers doing their PhD on the work of Luce Irigaray are invited to stay one week on the university campus. The schedule includes: a presentation by each researcher of the aspect of their PhD which most focuses on the work of Irigaray, the discussion of this presentation by the group, comments from Luce Irigaray herself and her answers to questions raised by each participant. Also included are sessions devoted to the explanation of key-words or key-thoughts chosen by the participants. Personal meetings with Luce Irigaray are organised on the last day. The participants pay for their travel, but receive hospitality from the university. The seminar is conducted in English.

The participants in the seminar come from different regions of the world; they belong to different cultures, traditions and fields of research – Philosophy, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Literature, Arts, Critical and Cultural Studies, etc. The themes of their research include, for example: the treatment of personal or cultural traumatic experience; the resources that various arts can offer for dwelling in oneself and with the other(s); the maternal order and feminine genealogy; the interpretation and embodiment of the divine today; the contribution of sexuate difference to personal and social development; new perspectives in philosophy etc. In each of these fields, diverse domains, approaches and methods are represented. To date, participants have come from Australia, Vietnam, Korea, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Ireland and from different regions and universities of the U.S.A. and of the U.K. Beyond the multicultural teaching which results from such a gathering, the participants learn to live together and to share in difference during the time devoted to the work, and also during meals, walks, personal meetings etc. The atmosphere of the seminar is intense but friendly and joyful, and its outcome highly successful for both the research and the life of each participant.

If you are interested and would like to participate in the seminar please send, as soon as possible: a CV, a PhD abstract (1 page) and a presentation of the issues and arguments of your PhD that most focus on the work of Luce Irigaray (5-6 pages) to Luce Irigaray (by mail: 15, rue Lakanal, 75015 Paris, France). Please be sure to include a telephone number, postal address and email address where you may be contacted. After receiving this material, Luce Irigaray will tell you if you can participate in the seminar of 2011. You will then receive further particulars from the university hosting the seminar.

Title and Abstract for Luce Irigaray talk, London 5 December

2010-11-11T10:44:00.000Z

Luce Irigaray is speaking in London on 5 December, 2010. Her talk is part of the Sexuate Subjectivities conference taking place at UCL. Conference programme is here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sexuate-subjects/conferenceprogramme

This is the title, abstract and biography for her talk:

Title: Remembering humanity

Neither sciences nor a return to traditional religious values, which render difficult the coexistence between different cultures, can save humanity today. Instead this could perhaps happen thanks to a thought inspired by the heart, the organ that can join our corporeality to our spirituality and allow the "old man" of our Western tradition to attain a new humanity. Thinking as an act that concerns the whole being, and especially the heart, can favour the gathering of each within oneself and the coexistence with the other, with others, through the acknowledgement of all the real, the remembrance of it and the love for it. The role of university is crucial for accomplishing this cultural evolution. Will it be capable of being faced with such a task?

Biography: Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. She is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Her work focuses on the elaboration of a culture of sexuate subjects and of their relations. Which represents a basic starting point to meet and share with the other as other, from the most intimate level to the most global and universal level. Luce Irigaray is the author of over thirty books translated in many languages.

Roundtable on Latina Feminism - CFA

2010-11-09T09:58:00.000Z

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

ROUNDTABLE on LATINA FEMINISM

April 29-30, 2011

John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH

Abstract Deadline FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Invited Speaker:  María Cotera, Director, Latina/o Studies Program--
                                                           Program in American Culture &
                                                        Department of Women's Studies, University of Michigan

You are invited to participate in the 2011 meeting of the Roundtable on Latina Feminism, a forum for discussion of Latina feminist theory and Latina feminism in general. Abstracts exploring all themes on Latina feminism are welcome. Suggested themes include but are not limited to the following:

*Immigration *Selfhood

*Frontiers and Borders *Latina Embodiment

*Visual Representations of Latinas *Political Activism

* Group Identity/Cultural Identity *History of Latinas in the U.S.

*Mestizaje *Mulataje

*Queer Latinidad *Latina Theology

*Latina Pedagogy *Latina Aesthetics

*Latina Literary Theory

*Coalitions across difference

*Works on individual Latina/Chicana feminist writers and theorists (Norma Alarcón, Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo, Marta Cotera, Aída Hurtado, María Lugones, Linda Martín-Alcoff, Cherríe Moraga, Paula Moya, Anna Nieto Gomez, Sonia Saldovar-Hull, Emma Perez, Chela Sandoval, Ofelia Schutte and others)

Guidelines for Sumission:

1. Abstracts should be approximately 900 words.

2. Abstracts should be suitable for anonymous review. In a separate document, please include your name, affiliation, contact information, brief bio, and the title of your presentation.

3. Please submit all proposals electronically to Mariana Ortega at mortega@jcu.edu. Please note “Roundtable Submission” in the subject line.

4. For more information on past roundtables go to

http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/lfr/index.htm

Please Note: Participants are expected to attend all sessions of the Roundtable

Mariana Ortega
Professor
Shula Chair in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
John Carroll University

University Heights, OH

Additional Info on Howard University

2010-10-07T12:38:00.002+01:00

The team over at feminist philosophers posted additional information for getting in touch with those at Howard:

Addition:

Wondering how likely it is that many people would snail mail a letter to Howard, I went to their site and found a whole bouquet of telephone numbers and email addresses; see below. And since so many of us have educational addresses, email can add to the credibility. I think the next step is for us to compose some letters, so people can just copy a letter and email it. How about seeing some letters showing up in the comments?

University Officers

**President Sidney A. Ribeau, Ph.D.
202-806-2500

**Provost and Chief Academic Officer James H. Wyche, Ph.D.
james.wyche@howard.edu
202-806-2550

Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer Troy A. Stovall
troy.stovall@howard.edu
202-806-2050

Senior Vice President
Strategic Planning, Operations & External Affairs & Chief Technology Officer Hassan Minor, Ph.D.
svp@howard.edu
202-806-2530

**Senior Vice President &
Secretary of the Board of Trustees Artis Hampshire-Cowan, J.D.
ahampshire-cowan@howard.edu
202-806-2250
More Contacts…

Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer – Treasurer Robert Tarola
robert.tarola@howard.edu202-806-2411
More Contacts…

Senior Vice President and
Executive Dean for Health Sciences Eve J. Higginbotham, M.D.
eve.higginbotham@howard.edu
202-865-7470

General Counsel Norma Leftwich, J.D.
nleftwich@howard.edu
202-806-2650

Interim Vice President for
Development and Alumni Relations Nesta Bernard
nbernard@howard.edu
202-238-2340
More Contacts…

Vice President of Research & ComplianceFlorence Bonner, Ph.D.
fbonner@howard.edu202-806-4759

Vice President for
Human Capital Management Elizabeth Stroud
estroud@howard.edu
202-806-5500
More Contacts…

–>**Vice President for Student Affairs Barbara L.J. Griffin, Ph.D.
Johnson Administration Building, Suite 201
bgriffin@howard.edu
202-806-2100

Irigaray conference - London - Registration open

2010-10-06T08:42:00.000+01:00

I am, of course, going to this one:

Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics

UCL, London

Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th December 2010

Please register now via the website.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sexuate-subjects/

This international interdisciplinary conference seeks to generate new theories and practices of subjectivity ‘sexuate subjects’ through contemporary poetic and political research in the visual arts, humanities and social sciences, and with reference to Luce Irigaray’s theory of ‘sexuate difference’. It explores how these positive ethical subjectivities for women and men are constructed through spatial, material and textual feminist poetics and politics. Over three days, it will examine especially how sexuate subjects (people/disciplines) aid interdisciplinary responses to contemporary global crises of community conflict, social and environmental wellbeing.

Sexuate Subjects will focus on these issues as they are expressed in political, poetic and ethical practice in disciplines including:

architecture, art, literature, modern languages, philosophy, the political and social sciences. Nine panels and invited keynote speakers examine the following themes:

- environmental and social crises

- sustainable ecologies

- poetic communities, pedagogies, voices and bodies

- the politics of bio-medicine, body-rights, family and well-being

By examining these complex expressions of our physical and psychic lives through artefact, body, dialogue, image, installation and word, the event

will provide a platform of diverse approaches which can help us build

sexuate futures for all. Such approaches aim to contribute towards

developing more nuanced understandings of the diversity of global cultures

and their academic and public intersections. International experts from

higher education, professional and public realms, as well as young

researchers and practitioners, are invited to attend.

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Principal Keynote:

Luce Irigaray, Doctor in Philosophy and Director of Research in Philosophy

at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientific, Paris,

Keynotes:

Dr Caroline Bergvall, AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts,

School of Humanities, University of Southampton,

Dr Karen Burns, Department of Architecture, Monash University,

Australia,

Professor Lorraine Code, Department of Philosophy, Toronto University,

Professor Elizabeth Grosz, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies,

Rutgers University, New Jersey - video conference presentation.

Professor Dorita Hannah, Spatial Design, College of Creative Arts, Massey

University, New Zealand,

Dr Doina Petrescu, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée and the Department of

Architecture, University of Sheffield,

Invited:

Professor Katja Grillner,

Dr Meike Schalk,

Dr Katerina Bonnevier,

Brady Burroughs of FATALE, School of Architecture, KTH, Stockholm,

Dr Gillian Howie, Department of Philosophy, Liverpool University,

Professor Mary Rawlinson, Departments of Philosophy and Comparative

Literature, Stony Brook University, State University of New York,

Dr Margrit Shildrick, School of Sociology, Social Policy & Social Work,

Queen’s University, Belfast,

Professor Gail Schwab, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature,

Hofstra University, Long Island NY

Professor Judith Still, School of Modern Languages and Culture, The

University of Nottingham

Taking Place: Feminist Spatial Practice collective

For more information and contact details please go to the Conference

website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sexuate-subjects/

CFP: Evil, Women and the Feminine

2010-10-06T08:39:00.000+01:00

I had a paper accepted for this one last year, but they charge £250 in conference fees! I couldn't go. If you'd like to send me £250 to go this year, I'll more than happily deliver my work on matricide in Family Guy.

3rd Global Conference
Evil, Women and the Feminine
13th to 15th May 2011
Warsaw, Poland

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to
examine issues surrounding the conjunction between
evil and the feminine. In many cultures women have
been long suspected as the source of sundry human
miseries, however basic to society they may be. At
the same time as ideals of purity and dedication
to family have been exalted and feminine beauty
lauded, women have been viewed as embodying
sinister forces of evil. Mistrusted as
seductive and beguiling, women are also often
thought of as vengeful, manipulative and even
malevolent. In grappling with our understanding of
what it is to be 'evil' the project aims to shine
a spotlight on this dark area of the human
condition and explore the possible sources of the
fear and resentment of women.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops
are invited on issues related to the following themes:

- Evil Women and Feminine Evil
- Representing and Misrepresenting the Female
- Motherhood; Monstrous Motherhood
- Monstrous Births and Infanticide
- Matriarchy / Matricide
- Devious Sexuality and Feminine Perversions
- Women and the Abject
- Menstruation, Castration
- Fears and Myths: Feminine Blood
- Anthropological Perspectives
- Historical Perspectives
- The Evil Woman in Literature
- Psychoanalytic perspectives: "Vagina Dentata" etc
- Sexualizing the Female or Evil Objectification
- Jezebel, Delilah, Lilith, Harpies and the Femme
Fatale
- The Bitch
- Women and Power
- Beauty as threatening or evil
- Portrayals of Evil Women
- Fantasy
- Mythology
- Vampires, Witches and Sirens
- Case Studies

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the
submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers
will also be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
26th November 2010. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 1st April 2011.

300 word abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats with the following information and in this
order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
E-mails should be entitled: EWF3 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do
not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest that you then
look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:
* Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Hub Leader, Project Co-Leader, School of English,
Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland
E-mail: snf@inter-disciplinary.net

* Stephen Morris
Hub Leader, Independent Scholar, New York USA
E-mail: smmorris58@yahoo.com

* Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader,Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: ewf3@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the At the Interface
programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and interests
to share ideas and explore various discussions
which are innovative and exciting. All papers
accepted for and presented at the
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).

For further details about the project pleases visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/

Philosophy Dept cut - Howard University

2010-10-06T08:36:00.000+01:00

I'm deeply upset about this one. How can such a major and unique institution cut philosophy?

Dear Colleagues:

See below regarding the collapsing of the philosophy department at Howard University) and the CLR James Library in London):

Howard University--Philosophy Department risking elimination. Request for letters to the university President.

Dr. Sidney Ribeau, president of Howard University, is recommending that Howard University’s Philosophy Department be eliminated. Would you be kind enough to help support those of us who see this as a strategic mistake in the struggle for Black equality. In showing support would you write a letter to Dr. Ribeau giving your opinions on the historic centrality of the Philosophy Department at Howard University and the reasons why you believe it should be continued. This will we a tough fight and Dr. Ribeau will make this decision final December 1, 2010. Please write to:

Dr. Sidney Ribeau, President
Howard University
2400 6th Street NW
Washington, DC 20059

In solidarity,

Richard A. Jones
Howard University
Department of Philosophy

Under-represented Groups in Philosophy

2010-10-05T15:26:00.001+01:00

Under-Represented Groups in Philosophy
A SWIP-UK / BPA Conference
Supported By: The Mind Association, The Aristotelian Society

Venue: Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Dates: November 26th & 27th 2010
Organisers: Dr Jules Holroyd, Dr Alessandra Tanesini, Professor Jennifer Saul

Programme:
*Louise Antony (UMass, Boston) Title TBC

*Helen Beebee (Birmingham University) 'Women and deviance in philosophy'.

*Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, (Gallaudet University, Washington DC) 'Triple
Threat: Brown, Female, and Deaf'.

*Samantha Brennan, (University of Western Ontario) 'Rethinking the Moral
Significance of Micro-Inequities: The Case of Women in Philosophy'

*Pamela Hood (San Francisco State University) 'Socrates and King: An
Invitation to Philosophy'

*Jennifer Saul (University of Sheffield) 'Unconscious Influences and Women
in Philosophy'

*Mahlet Zimeta (Roehampton University) 'Philosophy and the Social Good'

*Roundtable discussion, chaired by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Nottingham
University)
*SWIP-UK AGM meeting.

The conference will start at 10.30 on Friday 26th (first paper at 11am), and
end on Saturday 27th at approximately 3.30pm. A detailed programme will
later be available on the conference website.
http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/newsandevents/events/conferences/groups.html

Registration:
Unwaged/student/SWIP member: £20
Waged: £25
Deposit for conference dinner: £5

The registration includes lunch and refreshments, but does not cover
accommodation or the conference dinner (which will be reasonably priced).
Accommodation venues can be found in the PDF document on the conference
website. Further alternatives can be found at laterooms.co.uk.

NB: it is advisable to book accommodation as early as possible, as sporting
events in the city mean accommodation is very hard to find unless bookings
are made in good time. If you have difficulties finding suitable
accommodation, please contact us as we will try to be of assistance.

To register, please send the tear-off slip below, with a cheque made payable
to 'Cardiff University', to: Dr Jules Holroyd, Philosophy, Humanities
Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff University, CF10
3EU.
Alternatively, a registration form (to be printed and sent) will be
available from the conference website:
http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/newsandevents/events/conferences/groups.html

Further inquiries can be directed to the Cardiff-based organisers:
Jules Holroyd: HolroydJ@Cardiff.ac.uk
Alessandra Tanesini: Tanesini@Cardiff.ac.uk

Emails in French

2010-09-28T10:22:00.000+01:00

Bonjour,
J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que mon second livre vient de paraître. C'est le deuxième volume de mon autobiographie, intitulé
La Vie dure, éducation sentimentale d'une lesbienne.
Paula Dumont

Mauvais Genre et La Vie dure constituent la seule autobiographie de lesbienne en

langue française. En effet ces deux volumes racontent les quarante premières

années d'une femme homosexuelle.

Catherine et Pascale se sont aimées quand elles étaient en terminale, mais Catherine, qui n’arrivait pas à accepter son homosexualité, a très vite rompu avec Pascale. Vingt ans plus tard, elle renoue avec son amie. Mais elle est mariée et elle a des enfants. Quant à Pascale, elle vit depuis douze ans avec Martine qui voit d’un mauvais oeil ces retrouvailles…
Après Mauvais genre, récit d’enfance et d’adolescence, Paula Dumont raconte avec distance et humour dans La Vie dure les joies et les peines de Pascale, Catherine et Martine, ces femmes qui aiment les femmes, ainsi que les difficultés auxquelles elles sont confrontées au même titre que la majorité de leurs semblables. Ce second livre autobiographique veut être un témoignage sur la situation des homosexuelles dans un monde lesbophobe.

LA VIE DURE

Education sentimentale d’une lesbienne

PAULA DUMONT

L'Harmattan
ISBN : 978-2-296-11335-0; 262pages Prix éditeur : 25 €

Extrait :

Nous étions attablées dans un lieu public et nous devions chuchoter pour que les autres clients du restaurant n’entendent pas ce que nous disions. J’ai donc réfréné l’envie de caresser sa main qui n’était qu’à vingt centimètres de la mienne. J’avais l’impression qu’elle était aussi aimante qu’à notre dernière rencontre. Elle semblait tout émue de me retrouver, son regard se posait sans cesse tendrement sur moi, elle atten-dait et buvait chacune de mes paroles, bref elle était avec moi comme au cours de nos autres entrevues, ce qui me paraissait de bon augure. Le déjeuner terminé, elle m’a proposé de m’emmener au jardin public qui se trouve près de la bibliothèque municipale. Il faisait un temps magni-fique et j’ai accepté. Dans la voiture, je lui ai pris la main si bien que pendant un instant, elle a perdu le calme dont elle faisait constamment preuve au volant et nous avons fait une embardée. Je lui ai demandé de dire en ma présence qu’elle ne me désirait plus. Elle a soupiré :
— Bien sûr, je suis toute troublée, comme chaque fois qu’on se voit. Mais j’ai besoin de calme, en ce moment, essaie de comprendre !
Essayer de comprendre ! Voilà quatre mois que je ne faisais que ça, mais j’y perdais mon latin. J’ai répondu que je faisais ce qu’elle me demandait puisque j’acceptais une promenade en sa compagnie alors que j’aurais pu rester à Grenoble jusqu’au lendemain pour passer la nuit avec elle. Mais je ne voulais pas la contraindre ni user avec elle d’un quelconque chantage. Ce qui m’avait plu, dans nos retrouvailles, c’est qu’elle revienne d’elle-même, que je sente son désir et son amour avant les miens puisque c’étaient eux qui leur avaient redonné vie. J’aimais qu’elle vienne à moi en toute liberté, mue par son seul désir et je saurais attendre le temps qu’il faudrait pour la retrouver telle que je la souhaitais. Ainsi elle pourrait faire d’utiles comparaisons entre la “servitude sexuelle” qu’elle avait mentionnée dans sa dernière lettre et ce dont je rêvais pour nous.
— Mais enfin, ai-je murmuré, cette curiosité que nous avons l’une de l’autre, ce besoin toujours recommencé de communication auquel tu faisais allusion pendant le déjeuner, tout cela ajouté au désir que nous avons l’une de l’autre, à ce trouble comme tu dis, tu ne l’appelles pas de l’amour ?
Elle m’a jeté un regard malheureux que je n’ai pas su comment in-terpréter. Mais elle m’avait souvent demandé de ne pas la ménager, aussi ai-je continué :
— Tu faisais moins d’histoires quand tu t’es jetée tête baissée dans le mariage avec un type que tu connaissais à peine et pour qui tu n’éprouvais rien ! ai-je repris.
Je continuais à avoir le sentiment d’une immense injustice. Pour-quoi me faisait-elle subir tous ces examens, pourquoi refusait-elle l’évi-dence quand il s’agissait de moi alors qu’elle ménageait tant le sombre crétin à qui elle était attelée ? Avait-elle besoin de tant se dévorer de culpabilité à son endroit ? Après tout, si elle n’était pas heureuse, elle n’avait qu’à le dire à ce jocrisse qui s’obstinait à ne rien voir.
— Tu sais très bien, ai-je repris, que si nous étions seules, nous serions déjà dans les bras l’une de l’autre.
J’ai regardé avec envie les couples de jeunes gens qui s’embras-saient sur les bancs. Cela non plus, ce n’était pas pour nous. Et non seulement il fallait subir les pressions extérieures, le rejet de la meute hétérosexuelle, mais il fallait en plus que la femme qui me redonnait vie depuis quatre mois s’obstine, elle aussi, à me persécuter. Elle m’a redit une fois de plus sa peur de l’amour et son épouvante devant le plaisir qu’elle pouvait trouver auprès d’une femme. C’était la première fois que nous avions une véritable conversation. Elle m’avait dit qu’elle m’aimait en février, sous les fenêtres de mon directeur, pour que je lui dise la même chose, quitte à s’effrayer ensuite des conséquences possibles d’un tel aveu. Elle exigeait sans cesse de moi une ligne de conduite sérieuse et réfléchie alors qu’elle se laissait perpétuellement mener par ses pulsions du moment. Quant à nos rencontres passion-nées, elles nous avaient surtout permis d’éviter de penser au lendemain en savourant l’instant présent. Dans mes premières lettres et nos pre-mières conversations, j’avais sans cesse censuré ce qui pouvait l’effrayer, de crainte de la faire fuir, et j’avais cherché seulement à entre-tenir ce qui nous réunissait et qui me faisait revivre. Seule ma dernière lettre avait été plus explicite parce que Catherine souhaitait voir évoluer notre amour en tendre amitié, ce qui me semblait prématuré.
Je suis sortie de la prudente réserve que j’observais depuis nos retrouvailles et je lui ai enfin dit la vérité, combien je l’aimais, combien elle m’était essentielle et combien je me sentais sûre et forte grâce à elle. Elle était visiblement bouleversée. Elle m’a dit qu’elle se sentait parta-gée, déchirée et qu’elle ne voulait pas pour moi d’une solitude d’encore quatre ans au moins. Si, à cause de nos errements d’adolescentes, ma vie adulte avait été une vie d’infirme ou plus exactement une survie, il était temps, à trente-huit ans, que je me mette à vivre.
— Mais je suis heureuse avec toi, ai-je murmuré. Jamais encore je ne m’étais sentie autant aimée.
Je crevais littéralement d’amour et je la mangeais des yeux à défaut de pouvoir la consommer d’une manière plus agréable. Elle a murmuré :
— Ne me regarde pas comme ça. Je ne peux pas supporter ton regard, baisse les yeux. Je suis tellement perméable à ton amour...
J’ai détourné les yeux pour ne pas lui déplaire. Nous avons marché un moment en silence. J’ai pensé qu’il était temps d’aborder l’essentiel du sujet et je me suis aventurée encore un peu plus loin :
— Quand tu as éprouvé le besoin de me retrouver, tu voulais effacer le crime que tu pensais (à juste titre, ai-je souri) avoir commis il y a vingt ans. Mais tu veux aussi autre chose. Ta famille te dit : “Pense à ton mari, à ta position sociale, à tes enfants”. Tu attends que je te dise : “Pense à toi, sois vraie, une bonne fois pour toutes !” C’est ça ?

CFP: Women in Contemporary French & Francophone Theatre

2010-09-23T08:58:00.002+01:00

Women in Contemporary French and Francophone Theatre

42nd Annual NeMLA Convention

April 7-10, 2011

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Areas: French Theatre, Women’s and Gender Studies

Since the post-war period, female voices in French and Francophone theatre have begun to develop and mature. Earlier intentions of female dramatists frequently challenged voyeuristic traditions and freed female subjects from patriarchal representations and masculine structures. However, mapping the feminine voice within recent decades of French language theatre, contemporary female authors disrupt theatre’s hegemony, stimulating investigation of cultural and social constructions that dictate the ideologies affecting both genders.

This panel hopes to address the new theatrical forms created by French and Francophone female playwrights. These women have begun addressing crucial questions of theatre’s coercive nature of conventional representations and their implications for subjectivity. Rupturing theatre’s immutable truths and ideologies, their theatre complicates relations between language and character, audience and actor, self and other. Across a plurality of writing styles and of socio-cultural contexts of contemporary society, how do these French and Francophone female playwrights signal a range of new possibilities for the voice of women on stage?

Possible female playwrights or directors this panel might investigate (but are not limited to) are as follows:

Simone Benmussa, Ariane Mnouchkine, Carole Fréchette, Catherine Anne, Suzanne Lebeau, Nathalie Sarraute, Noëlle Renaude, Denise Bonal, Yasmina Reza, Marguerite Duras, Fatima Gallaire, Fanny Mentré, Hélène Cixous, Denise Chalem, Louise Doutreligne, Lorraine Lévy, Marie NDiaye.

Please submit a 300-word abstract in English or French to Elizabeth Lindley, el261@cam.ac.ukby October 1^st, 2010.

Conference proceedings may lead to publications.

Dr. Elizabeth Lindley, el261@cam.ac.uk, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 9BB

CFP: Genealogies: Graduate Symposium on the History of Women & Gender

2010-09-23T08:57:00.000+01:00

Genealogies: Graduate Symposium on the History of Women & Gender

contact email: gendersymp@gmail.com

The Executive Committee of the Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 3-5, 2011. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women’s and gender history. Papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year’s Symposium.

This year’s theme, “Genealogies,” references two trends in the field the emergence of kinship and the family as tools for interpreting the past, on the one hand, and the continuing importance of the method Foucault called “genealogy,” on the other and seeks to ask a question about the connections (and contentions) that might unite them. How might a history of the family be affected by Foucault’s insistence on refusing origin stories, and how might the new scholarship on intimacy-kinship influence an understanding of the instability and discontinuity of history? Is it possible, in other words, to construct a genealogy of genealogy?

Papers need not take up these questions directly, but they should enthusiastically and intriguingly address some aspect of these concerns. In gathering together what we hope will be a geographically, temporally, and disciplinarily diverse body of papers, the conference will create opportunities for dialogue and discussion across these different fields. To that end, successful proposals could focus on, but would not be limited to, studies of whether and to what extent kinship relationships and claims of belonging might be said to have a history. Of related interest would be proposals that engage the idea of intimacy, particularly in relation to familial or social networks and their surrounding histories. When thinking of the idea of ‘family’, we challenge potential paper authors to critically examine the concept of ‘family’ and how the term is defined, utilized and deployed in a variety of contexts. Additionally, we encourage panelists to focus on the kinship-related facets of the concept, including but not limited to: personal family histories, borderlands histories, architectural manifestations of gendered space, changing conceptions of the ‘traditional’ family, and family as viewed through the lens of modernity . In keeping with this year's focus on gender, genealogy and kinship, we also hope to assemble a specifically historiographic panel addressing the state of the field. We are, then, particularly interested in paper proposals that problematize the history of genealogies or the genealogies of history–or suggest new historiographic avenues of inquiry.

For the Twelfth Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in her work:

• Tiya Miles, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan, author of Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (University of California Press, 2005)

The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters’ proposals and the availability of funds.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method): please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.

For more information, please contact gendersymp@gmail.com

Five College Dissertation Fellowship

2010-09-23T08:55:00.002+01:00

A great opportunity for those wanting support while they write up:

Five College Fellowship Program 2011-12

Five Colleges is pleased to announce its search for Fellows for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Five College Fellowships offer year-long residencies for doctoral students completing dissertations. The program supports scholars from under-represented groups and/or scholars with unique interests and histories whose engagement in the Academy will enrich scholarship and teaching. Normally, four fellowships are awarded each year.

Each Fellow is hosted within an appropriate department or program at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College or Smith College. (At Smith, recipients hold a Mendenhall Fellowship.) This is a residential fellowship. Fellows are provided research and teaching mentors and connected through the consortial office to resources and scholars across the five campuses, which include UMass Amherst. The office also supports meetings of the Fellows throughout the year.

The fellowship includes a stipend of $30,000, a research grant, health benefits, office space, housing or housing assistance, and library privileges at all five campuses belonging to the consortium.

While the award places primary emphasis on completion of the dissertation, most fellows teach at their hosting institution, but never more than a single one-semester course.

Date of Fellowship: August 31, 2011 to May 31, 2012 (non-renewable)
Stipend: $30,000
Review of Applications Begins: January 3, 2011
Awards Announced: March 2011

For application instructions, go to:

http://www.fivecolleges.edu/academic_programs/academprog_fellowship_app.html

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Dundee Research Seminar Series

2010-09-23T08:52:00.002+01:00

I've said it once, and I'll say it again, I dig the Dundee philosophy department.

University of Dundee
Philosophy Research Seminar Series

Semester 1, 2010-11

All seminars Wednesdays 4-6 PM in Dalhousie Building room 2F15
(exception: Wednesday Sept. 29 is in Dalhousie room 1G05)
Dundee, Scotland

All welcome! Travel directions and campus map available here:
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/general/travel/

Sept. 22
Eileen John (Warwick), “Beauty, Interest, and Autonomy”

Sept. 29
Lorenzo Chiesa (Kent), “Christianity or Communism? Zizek's Marxian
Hegelianism and Hegelian Marxism”

Oct. 27 - Dalhousie 2F15
Simon Glendinning (LSE), "The unity of the philosophical in question:
interference and opacity within philosophical communication today"

Nov. 3
Peg Rawes (UCL), “Relational Ecologies: sexed subjectivity, nature
and aesthetics”

Nov. 10
Martin Kusch (Vienna), “Picture and Disagreement in Wittgenstein's
‘Lectures on Religious Belief’”

Nov. 17
Lorens Holm (Dundee), “Capitalism and the Death Drive: the view from
suburbia”

Dec. 1
Dominic Smith (Dundee), “Beginning to Think: Thought as a Political
Act in the Age of the Internet”

Gender & Space - Newcastle - 29 October

2010-09-23T08:50:00.002+01:00

Gender and Space
A Postgraduate Research Symposium
A Gender Research Group Event
Room 2.22 - Research Beehive
1-6pm, Friday 29 October 2010
The Gender Research Group: Postgraduate Steering Committee invites you to attend a postgraduate symposium showcasing the innovative and interdisciplinary critical interventions currently being made at the intersection of gender and space. Please see the attached poster for further details.
Attendance at this event is free, but spaces are limited. Please contact: emma.short@ncl.ac.ukemma.short@ncl.ac.uk> to confirm a space.
On behalf of the Gender Research Group: Postgraduate Steering Committee – Emma Short (SELLL), Ashleigh Sawyer (MACS), Anne Graefer (MACS) and Rosalie Tuplin (SELLL).

Reminder: CFP: (Re)branding Feminism

2010-09-23T08:45:00.002+01:00

(RE)BRANDING FEMINISM

A conference hosted by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5ND.
1st -2nd March 2011.

Call for Papers:

There has been a general recognition, if not acceptance, of many of feminism’s key concepts. But does this mean that it has ceased to assert itself as a unique movement? Indeed, should feminism be (re)branded in an age when all ideologies are subject to market forces? And what should this rebranding consist of?

Two years on from the stimulating ‘Where are we now? A workshop on women and heterosexuality’ hosted by the IGRS, this conference will address some of the issues raised then to question the place of feminism in the twenty-first century. While there has been ambivalent press and general apathy towards those issues that once encouraged women to put the political into the personal, it is increasingly women themselves who think there is nothing more to discuss. Why has there been a decline in the link between the personal and the ideological? Do we need a different kind of feminism to meet the cultural, political and academic needs of a younger generation?

Topics might include but are not limited to:

• Are sisters doing it for themselves?
• Feminism on the frontline
• I can be a real bitch
• Family romances
• Home-makers and career women
• God was/is a woman
• Feminism and the sex industry
• Feminist renaissance
• Feminism is bollocks
• Rebranding feminism
• Pub talk

Abstracts between 200-300 words that explore any aspect of (re)branding feminism are sought as are poster submissions of 200 - 300 words on any topic related to rebranding feminism. Submit poster ideas and abstracts in a word document or .pdf.

Please send abstracts and poster ideas to both Jean Owen (ojean27@yahoo.com) and Elisha Foust (elishafoust@googlemail.com) by 5pm 1 October 2010.

JOB: Feminist Philosophy - Oklahoma

2010-09-04T10:01:00.002+01:00

THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, Norman, OK. Assistant Professor of Philosophy beginning fall semester, 2011. AOS: Ethics. AOC: Open. Candidates with an AOC in feminist philosophy, philosophy of race or gender, or areas in the history of philosophy are especially encouraged to apply. Ph.D. prior to appointment. Four courses (undergraduate and graduate) per year. Evidence of teaching ability and promise in research essential. Salary competitive. EO/AAE. Send complete dossier (including vita, 3 letters of recommendation, and a sample of written work) to Reinaldo Elugardo, Philosophy Search Committee, Department of Philosophy, 455 W. Lindsey, Room 605, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-2006. Screening will begin December 1, 2010; applications will be accepted until position is filled.

Public Lecture - Gender and Political Theory - London

2010-09-04T10:00:00.001+01:00

'It's my body and I'll do what I Like with it' Bodies as possessions and objects

Anne Phillips, Professor of Gender and Political Theory, LSE

A Gender Institute and Department of Government Public Lecture

* Wednesday 29 September, 2010
* 6.30pm
* Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
* Chair: Professor Emily Jackson, Department of Law, LSE
* Open to all - no booking required. Followed by an informal drinks reception at the Gender Institute, 5th Floor, Columbia House.

Click here for more details: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute/events/eventsProfiles/bodiesAsPossessions.aspx

Abstract
We commonly use the language of body ownership as a way of claiming personal rights, though we do not normally mean it literally. Most people feel uneasy about markets in sexual or reproductive services, and though there is a substantial global trade in body tissues, the illicit trade in live human organs is widely condemned. But what, if any, is the problem with treating bodies as resources and/or possessions? Is there something about the body that makes it particularly inappropriate to apply to it the language of property, commodities, and things? Or is thinking the body special a kind of sentimentalism that blocks clear thinking about matters such as prostitution, surrogate motherhood, or the sale of spare kidneys?

The related question is whether there is something about feminism that makes it particularly resistant to the body as property. The critique of objectification suggests there is, but there is also an influential strand that defends the commodification of sexual and reproductive services and queries the idea of the body as special. In this lecture, Anne Phillips defends the idea that the body is special, but argues that debates about body ownership are best understood as debates about market relations, not simply claims about the body per se.

For speaker biographies and a list of all forthcoming Gender Institute events, visit http://www2.lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute/events/eventsSchedule10.aspx

For information on how to get to LSE, accessibility maps and how to get around campus, please visit http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/Home.aspx

The Gender Institute (LSE) was established in 1993 and brings together social sciences and humanities approaches in order to address key problems in gender studies transnationally. We provide a leading role internationally in combining innovative theory and epistemology with policy concerns. We provide a vibrant research environment and train the largest number of postgraduates qualifying in Gender Studies anywhere in Europe.

Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/planningAndCorporatePolicy/legalandComplianceTeam/legal/disclaimer.htm

Special Issue - Informal Logic - feminist epistemology

2010-09-03T12:38:00.002+01:00

We are pleased to announce that a special issue of *Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice* that we co-edited, and titled, “Reasoning for Change,” is just out! This journal is now open access, and this issue is available online at: http://informallogic.ca.. The Table of Contents is given below.

We hope that this special issue will contribute to the ongoing development of (in Lorraine Code’s words) a “rhetorical space” connecting work in informal logic, philosophy of argument, and argumentation theory, on the one hand, and feminist philosophy (especially feminist epistemology) on the other. As we note in the introduction, “All of the papers in this special issue draw attention to significant advances in both informal logic and feminist epistemology that promise fruitful further development, and particularly when these two areas of philosophy more actively draw each from the other.”

Among the topics examined in this special issue are: adversarial argumentation (including in philosophy), gendered argumentation contexts, argumentative injustice (as a specific type of epistemic injustice), limitations of the fallacies approach to argument evaluation, and the implications for rhetorical argumentation of (feminist) epistemologies of situated knowledges.

On a related note, the call for papers for the 2011 Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) conference is at:

http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cpa/OSSA/conference2011/call_for_proposals.htm

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is coming up: Sep 7, 2010. We have found this conference to be a very supportive venue for the development of feminist work related to argumentation, critical thinking, and informal logic.

Informal Logic, Vol 30, No 3 (2010):

Special Issue: Reasoning for Change

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reasoning for Change

-Phyllis Rooney, Catherine E. Hundleby

Philosophy, Adversarial Argumentation, and Embattled Reason

-Phyllis Rooney

Verbal Sparring and Apologetic Points: Politeness in Gendered Argumentation Contexts

-Sylvia Burrow

Argumentative Injustice

-Patrick Bondy

The Authority of the Fallacies Approach to Argument Evaluation

-Catherine Hundleby

Feminist Epistemologies of Situated Knowledges: Implications for Rhetorical Argumentation

-James C. Lang

Job: Feminist Philosophy - PA

2010-09-03T12:37:00.002+01:00

WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY, West Chester, PA. Join a vibrant campus community
whose excellence is reflected in its diversity and student success. West
Chester University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track
Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies, with demonstrated competency
in philosophical methodologies (graduate coursework in philosophy strongly
preferred), to begin in Fall 2011. We seek candidates with expertise in
interdisciplinary approaches to teaching women’s and gender studies which draw
on other fields in the arts and sciences. We also seek candidates with an
interest in the development of innovative policies, practices or programs, and
in participating in service and shared governance. Applicants should be
prepared to teach introductory women’s and gender studies courses, undergraduate
courses in feminist theories, and courses in performance studies, sexuality
studies and queer theories. The Philosophy Department requires teaching
competency in a) Transgender or Queer Theory, b) Intro to Feminist Philosophy,
and c) one of our regularly scheduled lower division courses such as (but not
limited to) Intro to Philosophy, Intro to Existentialism, Philosophy in Film,
Intro to Ethics (emphasizing theories of oppression/social justice). A Ph.D. in
Women’s and/or Gender Studies, or a Ph.D. in another discipline with a record of
contributions in Women’s and/or Gender Studies, is required.

Applicants must have a record of successful teaching and evidence of
high-quality scholarship in Women’s/Gender Studies and/or Philosophy.

We currently offer both a major and minor in Women’s Studies with contributing
faculty from a wide variety of departments across the University. Since the
Women’s and Gender Studies Program is not a department, this hire will be housed
in the Philosophy Department, and will have a 25% teaching commitment there.
The teaching load is 4-4. Competitive Salary and Benefits. (http://www.wcupa.edu/womensstudies).

West Chester University, a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education, continues to build a culturally diverse, broadly trained faculty
capable of fostering an inclusive environment. West Chester, located 25 miles
west of Philadelphia, is convenient to major cultural and commercial
institutions, recreational activities, and is within driving distance of
Wilmington, DE, NYC, and Washington, DC. Developing and sustaining a diverse
faculty and staff advances WCU’s educational mission and strategic Plan for
Excellence. The University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer
encouraging diversity. Women and persons of color are particularly encouraged
to apply.

To Apply: Please send a letter of interest, CV, official graduate transcripts, 3
or more letters of reference, a statement of teaching philosophy, a writing
sample demonstrating philosophical competency, and two sample syllabi (1. A
course in Transgender or Queer Theory, or Gender Studies, and 2. A
lower-division philosophy course [see c. above]) to Dr. Jen Bacon, Director of
Women’s and Gender Studies, West Chester University, West Chester PA 19383. In
order to be considered a finalist, applicants must successfully complete an
on-campus interview, which includes both a teaching demonstration and a
scholarly presentation. Review of applications will begin October 15th, 2010 and
continue until the position is filled. The filling of this position is
contingent upon available funding. All offers of employment are subject to and
contingent upon satisfactory completion of all pre-employment background and
consumer reporting checks.

JOB: Feminist Philosophy - Connecticut

2010-09-02T15:39:00.003+01:00

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT. Assistant Professor (tenure-track), teaching load 2 +
2. AOS: moral/social/political, or cognitive science, or history of western or
eastern philosophy. AOC: competence in teaching feminist philosophy highly
desirable. The person hired must contribute through research, teaching, and/or
public engagement to the diversity and excellence of the learning experience.
The University of Connecticut actively solicits applications from minorities,
women, and people with disabilities. Salary competitive. Applicants must be
qualified to teach in a strong PhD program and show evidence of excellence in
research, and must have completed all the requirements for a PhD by August 23,
2011. To be assured of full consideration, applications must be received by
November 1. Apply through Husky Hire by uploading your cover letter and CV,
evidence of teaching experience at http://jobs.uconn.edu. In addition, please
send by hard copy five (5) letters of recommendation to !
Search Committee, Philosophy Department, University of Connecticut, U-2054, 344
Mansfield Road, Storrs, CT 06269-2054. The University of Connecticut is an
EEO/AA Employer.

FWSA student essay prize - deadline 1 November

2010-09-02T08:56:00.002+01:00

To encourage a new generation of feminist scholars, the FWSA sponsors an annual student essay competition for work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The top six entries of each year are published in theJournal of International Women’s Studies and the winner will also receive free FWSA membership for one year. Students at any stage of their studies at a British or Irish university are encouraged to submit previously unpublished work. Entries should be 5,000 to 7,000 words (including footnotes, excluding bibliography) and must be submitted electronically, including a completed competition coversheet. Please note that entries without this coversheet will not be considered. The deadline for this competition is 1^st November of each year.

Please note that you must be an FWSA member in order to submit your entry. For detailed entry requirements, guidelines, the competition coversheet, and joining options please visit our website at www.fwsa.org.uk.

A new (school) year

2010-09-01T09:05:00.001+01:00

Hello blogland,

We were all doing so well during the summer - following each other, building things up. I was learning from you and spending tons of time passing on your good bits of information to others. And then it all came to an abrupt stop. (or as Irigaray would say, it came to 'a pause'). Why? Because my mother-in-law became deathly ill. Everything stopped for 5 weeks. She is doing better now, thank you - though she's still in ICU and each day is a struggle for her. She's making good, but slow, progress and we are all learning lessons in patience after learning a big lesson about the fine line between life and death.

Sometime in the middle of that 5 weeks, my biological father died. I haven't seen him since I was 12 and had long ago let go of those fantasies that come with absent fathers - of meeting up and having a great chat. What I felt was sad for him. Sad because he seemed so damned lonely. Sad for me because I tend towards loneliness too.

It's the first of September and time to get on with a new school year. I have proposals to write, a thesis to finish and three papers due in all before December. All of it's interesting. All of it's exactly what I want to do. So, let's get on with it.

CFP - ReBranding Feminism - Deadline 1 October 2010

2010-09-01T08:56:00.000+01:00

Send me your abstracts!!!!!

(RE)BRANDING FEMINISM

A conference hosted by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5ND.

1st -2nd March 2011.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

· Are sisters doing it for themselves?

· Feminism on the frontline

· I can be a real bitch

· Family romances

· Home-makers and career women

· God was/is a woman

· Feminism and the sex industry

· Feminist renaissance

· Feminism is bollocks

· Rebranding feminism

· Pub talk

Please note that the conference is a women-only event.

Please send abstracts and poster ideas to both Jean Owen (ojean27@yahoo.com) and Elisha Foust (elishafoust@googlemail.com) by 5pm 1 October 2010.

Find us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rebranding-Feminism-London-March-2011/122979677718664?ref=ts

PhD Bursary - Feminist Philsophy - Dundee

2010-07-20T08:40:00.000+01:00

If I didn't own a house, I'd be off to Dundee in a heartbeat. I love the Philosophy Dept there!

Please find below details of a PhD full home fees bursary in Philosophy at the University of Dundee - please encourage strong candidates to apply.
Research Studentship Fees Bursary in Philosophy (£10,200 over 3 years)

Philosophy Programme, University of Dundee
Applications are invited for this three year fees bursary to support a full time PhD student attached to the Philosophy Programme. Applicants should have a strong PhD proposal and a good Honours degree in Philosophy or a related subject area; a taught postgraduate degree (MA or MLitt) is an advantage.
PhD proposals are welcomed in any area of European Philosophy in which the Programme can provide appropriate supervision. Preference will be given to projects involving feminist philosophy or issues of gender. For further details of staff specialisms, please see the Guide for Postgraduate Applicants on the Philosophy website: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/philosophy/postgrad/pgguideapplicants.htm
The bursary covers home (UK/EU) PhD fees; applications from international students are welcome, although students would have to secure separate funding to cover the remainder of the international PhD fees.
The bursary is attached to the role of Project Assistant for a Royal Society of Edinburgh Network Grant, Engendering Dialogue: Feminist Thought and Contemporary Debates in Art, Science and Education. The successful candidate will be expected to undertake c.300 hours of project support over their first 2 years of study. The third year of study is tied to a teaching assistantship involving 3 contact hours per week over two semesters (22 weeks in total), teaching philosophy tutorials to Level 1 or 2 undergraduate students.
Applications should be made via the standard research student application procedure. Further information is available in the Guide for Postgraduate Applicants on the Philosophy website: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/philosophy/postgrad/pgguideapplicants.htm

Please signal on your application that you wish to be considered for the fees bursary.
Applications for this bursary must be submitted by 16th August 2010. The start date will be between September - December 2010.
Informal enquiries about the bursary and/or the related role as Project Assistant for the RSE Network Grant should be directed to Dr Rachel Jones: r.e.jones@dundee.ac.uk

CFP: Women and Religion - Bristol

2010-07-20T08:37:00.002+01:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

Women and Religion: Doctrinal, Historical and Social Perspectives

Saturday 20 November 2010

University of Bristol, UK

Keynote speaker: Dr. Carolyn Muessig, Reader in Medieval Religion, University of Bristol

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together doctoral researchers and early

career academics from a variety of disciplines and fields to explore the role and place of

women in religion encouraging research and collaboration in the University of Bristol itself,

and with other Universities both within the UK and abroad.

The research on women and religion is often divided by religious tradition or academic

field, and often occurs at the margins of academic discourse and practice. This

interdisciplinary conference seeks to expand the focus of research by sharing approaches

and perspectives in different religious traditions and in different academic fields.

We are now accepting abstracts for the 3 panels running at the conference, each

consisting of three 20 minutes papers. Contributions are welcome from any perspective:

theological, historical, anthropological, sociological, archaeological, etc. as long as the

paper deals centrally with the theme of one of the following panels:

Women Religious Leaders

The Ordination of Women: Controversy in Different Religious Traditions?

Women’s Spiritual Paths: Subverting the Patriarchal Religious Order

We are also accepting submissions of posters, to be composed in A1 format (594x841

mm, 23.39x33.1 in). Six posters (two for each of the above themes) will be selected to

be exhibited at the conference venue. Poster authors will have the opportunity to discuss

their work with participants during tea and lunch breaks.

Please send your abstracts of 500 words or less and posters, both in .pdf format to

Jinho Fashi (thzmc@bristol.ac.uk) AND Massimo Rondolino (m.rondolino@bristol.ac.uk).

The deadline for receipt of abstracts and posters is 10 September 2010.

It is hoped that an edited volume arising from Conference proceedings will be published

Participation to the conference is free, and includes lunch and refreshments. Some help

may also be available to assist speakers and poster presenters with travel expenses.

For more information and registration, please visit:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/gradschool/community/conferences/women-religion.html

Carnival of feminist cultural activism

2010-07-20T08:36:00.000+01:00

Ok, I'd prefer that if you are in the UK next March, you come to the Rebranding Feminism conference in London. But if art is more your thing, this might be for you.

Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, UK.

3-5 March 2011
http://www.feminist-cultural-activism.net/
We welcome proposals for a three-day conference and festival of academic papers, presentations, performance, exhibitions & workshops.
We ask: can feminist art* change the world and, if so, how?

and we invite responses from activists, artists and academics.
*street theatre :: poetry :: music :: knitting :: zines :: digital fiction :: podcasts :: dance :: performance :: painting :: puppetry :: frockmaking weaving :: gardening :: cooking :: sketches :: pottery :: blogs :: song :: cartoons :: writing :: sculpture :: posters :: comics :: tweeting :: and so on
The event is designed to generate action as well as debate, and to inspire, celebrate & challenge understandings of women, grassroots art & politics.
Please send 300-word proposals for papers, panels, exhibitions, workshops and performances plus a 50-word biography, by 31 October 2010 to:
carnival@feminist-cultural-activism.net
or post to:

Carnival of feminist cultural activism

Centre for Women's Studies

University of York

Heslington

Yo10 5DD

UK

New posts

2010-07-20T08:30:00.000+01:00

Hello blogland. Sorry to have not been around lately. I'm still sorting through the crash of my hard drive and just haven't felt compelled to blog since that happened. However, there are loads of really interesting things going on at the moment, so I shall share. I promise.

As a side note, I had a postcard from Luce Irigaray the other day. The nature of our relationship has changed so much so that I now get postcards full of instructions. This one read something like this:

Tell Katz to give you my article and tell her to read the article in the journal I told her about.
Finish your PhD.
Maybe, I want to do a conference for the participants of my seminars. I will let you help me.
I might also let you help me publish something, but I'm not sure yet.

It was absolutely the best postcard I've ever received! I'm going to buy a book where I can display the cards she sends so one can see the front and back of them.

Announcement - FWSA Event

2010-06-29T08:15:00.003+01:00

Dear Members,

We are pleased to announce this year's FWSA event 'A Dead End?: Feminism Within & Beyond the Academy', which will be held at the Women's Library (London) on 2nd October 2010 at 1pm. The event will consist of a roundtable discussion followed by the presentation of the 2010 FWSA Book Prize, and the association's Annual General Meeting. Chaired by Srila Roy (University of Nottingham), the roundtable will include the following speakers: Kat Banyard (UK Feminista),Sukhwant Dhaliwal (Goldsmiths/ WAF), Clare Hemmings (London School of Economics) and Maggie O’Neill (Durham University).

Admission is free, but attendees must register in advance via email (administrator@fwsa.org.uk) in order to be guaranteed a place on the day. There are 40 places available and, once registrations have reached this number, FWSA members will be given priority on the waiting list.

Please advertise the event widely by circulating the poster attached. For more information please emailadministrator@fwsa.org.uk.

Very best wishes,

Nadine Muller

(FWSA Publicity Co-Ordinator)

Nadine Muller

Department of English

University of Hull

Cottingham Road

Hull

HU6 7RX

n.muller@2009.hull.ac.uk

CFP: Centre for the Study of Women and Gender - post-grad

2010-06-28T16:50:00.002+01:00

CSWG CALL FOR PAPERS

The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick would like to invite postgraduate students from any institution working in the field to present at the Graduate Student Seminar Series for the coming academic year 2010/2011. We welcome submissions from a number of disciplines on any gender related topic. This year, as well as welcoming conventional papers, we also encourage innovative and creative methods of presentation (such as the use of visual or more interactive materials, for example).

The annual Graduate Seminar Series provides a friendly, informal setting for graduate students to give presentations and exchange ideas relating to women and gender studies. Seminars aim to be interactive, and at each meeting students present for twenty minutes each on a topic of their choice, followed by a question-answer session and general discussion. Attendance is open to everyone, both faculty members and students, within and outside the university. Seminars will take place on two or three Wednesdays per term at 5pm (dates TBC).

The goals of the seminar series:
• To provide a safe and comfortable venue for students to present their research, to fine-tune conference presentations/possible publications or to simply get used to the idea of speaking in front of a group.
• To encourage everyone to get together informally to learn about what the student community in the UK are working on in relation to gender/feminist studies.

This centre is interdisciplinary and draws its membership from across the university. It aims to provide a focus for research and teaching on women and gender in the university and to facilitate the development of interdisciplinary research in the area of women’s and gender studies. Women’s and gender studies has been established for around twenty years at Warwick; the Centre itself was established in 1993 and in the summer of 2002 it became a research centre based in the Department of Sociology. For more information about the Centre please visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/gender/

Abstracts should be:
• Maximum 200 words
• Submitted along with a brief biography of the author; including their institution and department, and research interests.
• Submitted by September 3rd 2010
• Email abstracts to Katy Pilcher: K.E.M.Pilcher@warwick.ac.uk

Call For Design - Women's History Month

2010-06-25T08:28:00.002+01:00

Calling all female artists, designers, illustrators and creatives!

Women's History Month needs a logo!

The winning design will feature on our website, all our publicity material and any future merchandising material.

We are a very new, very small, voluntary, as yet unfunded organisation, so we cannot offer payment for this job, but your name and website will be credited on our website, we will give you freebies of any merch we make and your work will be helping to promote and celebrate women's history and achievements and empower women.

You have complete creative freedom. All we ask is that you include the words 'Women's History Month' and the tagline 'What about her story?' and some kind of icon.

Please submit your logo as a tiff or jpeg no bigger than 10mb to mzzzpiggy@gmail.com by Friday 30th July. We encourage you to get in touch with any questions you may have.

Women's History month is organised by a small group of female volunteers and emerged from the London Feminist Network in May 2010.

Women's History Month is an annual event that aims to raise knowledge and awareness of women's history, and celebrate and promote women's achievements.
The first UK Women's History Month will be 1st-31st March 2011.

You can read more about the group here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117048825006401&v=info&ref=ts

CFP - Sexual Nationalisms

2010-06-25T08:26:00.002+01:00

Conference - 27 & 28 January 2011 - University of Amsterdam

Sexual Nationalisms
Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Belonging in the New Europe

Since 1989, and even more so after 9/11, the rise of new nationalisms has been
inextricably linked to a refashioning of the politics, identities and
imaginaries of
gender and sexuality in Europe. The old virile nationalism analyzed by
George Mosse is
now being reinvented in the light of a new brand of sexual politics.
Feminist demands and
claims of (homo)sexual liberation have moved from the counter-cultural
margins to the
heart of many European countries? national imaginations, and have
become a central factor
in the European Union?s production of itself as an imaginary
community. Rhetorics of
lesbian/gay and women?s rights have played pivotal roles in discourses
and policies
redefining modernity in sexual terms, and sexual modernity in national
terms. How are
these baffling shifts in the cultural and social location of sexuality
and gender to be
understood?
In Europe and beyond, the refashioning of citizenship contributes to
the redefinition of
secular liberalism as cultural whiteness. Homophobia and conservatism,
gender segregation
and sexual violence have been represented as alien to modern European
culture and
transposed upon the bodies, cultures and religions of migrants,
especially Muslims and
their descendants. In the process, the status of Europe?s ethnic
minorities as citizens
has come under question. How can the entanglement of sexual and gender
politics,
anti-immigration policies, and the current reinvention of national
belonging be analyzed?
How are we to understand the appropriation of elements of the feminist
and sexual
liberation agenda by the populist and Islamophobic right?
The prominence of sexual democracy in the remaking of European
national imaginaries
requires bringing the critique of gender and sexuality beyond
second-wave feminism and
post-Stonewall liberationist perspectives. In late-capitalist,
post-colonial Europe,
struggles for sexual freedom and gender equality no longer necessarily
challenge dominant
formations; on the contrary, they may be mobilized to shape and
reinforce exclusionary
discourses and practices. The new politics of belonging is thus
inseparable from the new
politics of exclusion. This shift has not been without consequences
for progressive
social movements. Whereas in social and cultural analysis, nationalism
has long been
associated with male dominance, sexual control and heteronormativity, certain
articulations of feminism and lesbian/gay liberation have now become
intimately entwined
with the reinforcement of ethnocultural boundaries within European countries.
As feminist historian Joan W. Scott recently argued when she coined
the provocative
notion of ?sexularism?, new forms of sexual regulation have been
introduced, especially
targeting migrants, their descendants, and other ?non-whites?.
Discursively defining the
new national common sense, sexularism also operates at the level of
the visceral,
reaching deep into the sexual and racial politics, habits and emotions
of everyday life.
A required allegiance to sexual liberties and rights has been employed
as a technology of
control and exclusion ? what could be called a ?politics of
sexclusion?. Symmetrically,
the Europeanization of sexual politics has entailed counter-reactions
both inside and
outside Europe. In Eastern Europe admission to the European Union has
been conditioned on
the acceptance of the new standards of sexual democracy, which sometimes led
anti-European reactions to also frame themselves in sexual terms. In
Western Europe
?non-?whites can sometimes be tempted to identify with the caricatures
imposed upon them.
An increasing number of scholars in the humanities and social sciences
have begun to
investigate the important shifts taking place in discourses of sexual
freedom and gender
equality across the continent. These shifts open up new arenas for
ethnographic and other
empirical research. What role do sex and gender play in various
European nationalisms? In
which cultural terms are sexual and gender boundaries articulated?
What different
trajectories can be discerned, and how can differences between
countries be explained?
What are the effects of these transformations at the level of the
formation of community
and subjectivity? How do these discursive shifts become tangible in
everyday life? And
how can sexual politics avoid the trap of exclusionary
instrumentalization without
renouncing its emancipatory promise?
In order to discuss such questions, we invite contributions grounded
in ethnography and
other empirical research along the five following themes:

1. The Nationalization of Gender Equality
In secular European imaginations of immigrants and their descendants,
the Islamic
headscarf in particular has been perceived as an axiomatic signifier
of religious and
gender oppression. It has been listed along other ?uncivilized? ills
also attributed to
ethnic minorities and disadvantaged neighborhoods, whether they be
domestic violence,
forced marriage, or female genital mutilations. In contrast, recently
acquired milestones
in gender equality, like the legal right to abortion, have been
adopted by Left and Right
politicians alike as new symbols of timeless national essences. What
representations of
gender have been conveyed by contemporary constructions of the nation?
How have forms of
domination between men and women been challenged and/or reproduced in
neonationalist and
secularist projects? In what ways are migrant women?s lives affected
by the entwinements
of feminist discourses and movements with these projects? How have those women
experienced and handled being framed as simultaneously the main
victims and the main
accomplices of the new Islamic threat?
Whereas religion is understood as operating at the level of the
embodied, the habitual,
material and visceral aspects of secularism are generally ignored or
obscured. But what
is the secular counterpart of the religious body? What does a gendered
politics of
secularism look like? At times, restrictive policies against women
wearing headscarves
have been justified in terms of the necessary limitation of religion
to the private
sphere; at other times, they have been framed in terms of gender
equality and feminist
ideals. Should this justificatory plurality be taken at face value, or
does it point to
deeper and more complex resentments against postcolonial and other
?non-white? migrants?

2. The National Politics of Sexual Freedom
In Europe, ideals and practices of sexual freedom have mostly been
experienced as a
tangible break with formerly hegemonic religious traditions and the
restraints of
community and family. In particular, gay people have sometimes been
framed as the very
embodiment of modern liberalism, as self-fashioning, unattached, and
autonomous subjects.
Why have such representations been so effectively tied to the
nationalization of
modernity in some countries but not in others? What have been the
specific trajectories
of such representations, and how have they affected
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender
identified people in everyday life? What new normativities have been
shaped in the
process? And what have been the consequences of these discourses for
those who have been
framed as the ?others? of sexual democracy ? Muslims and ethnic minorities?
What have been the implications of such reinventions of sexual
whiteness for everyday
life in the global cities of Western Europe, and the sexual, cultural,
religious and
political diversity they offer? How have feminist and lesbian/gay
movements been affected
by these shifts in the social location of sexual and gender politics?
What does ?race?
have to do with the refashioning of sexual politics and identities? If
sexual freedom and
gender equality are being mobilized in a culturalist re-enactment of
European racism, how
does this affect white imaginaries and subjectivities? How are those
(historically)
excluded from whiteness affected by it? Which bodies come to be
constructed in the sexual
politics of neonationalisms? Which forms of ?queerness? are being
authorized and which
articulations of sexual otherness are being ?queered? and thus
excluded from sexual
normality? On what grounds does this occur, and how do these processes
materialize in
everyday life?

3. The Urban Geographies and Class Politics of Sexual Democracy
The interweaving of urban governance with sexual politics has been
normalizing certain
sexual spaces at the exclusion of others. In the context of an emergent urban
entrepreneurialism and as part of gentrification processes, sexual
others have been
conscripted into urban politics and spatial renewal, while new hetero- and
homonormativities have taken shape in the process. Gender
representations have also
played important roles in framing and representing cities as aesthetically and
commercially attractive for business, tourists and aspiring residents.
Simultaneously,
certain brands of urban theory have celebrated gay men and women as
the avant-garde of
urban change, hence of the conquest of formerly working class and
ethnic minority
neighborhoods by bohemian middle and upper classes. What roles have
sexuality and gay
urban presence played in processes of gentrification? How have sex and
gender been
articulated in the urban governance of social marginalization?
How are the sexual politics of neoliberalism to be understood? What
role does the market
play in the sexual reinvention of nationalism and citizenship and in
shaping new
(homo)normativities? Is the stigmatization of Muslim migrants as
sexually conservative a
reenactment of discourses that in the past stigmatized working class
communities as
immoral, archaic or authoritarian? What do the class politics of
?sexularism? look like?
What kinds of subjectivities are produced in new regimes of sexual progress?

4. The Sexual Politics of Immigration Policies
The ever-stricter immigration policies of Europe ? both at national
levels and at the
level of the E.U. ? have often been justified in terms of sexual
democracy: migrants,
especially from Africa or other Islamic countries, have been
ostensibly kept out, not on
racial, but on sexual grounds, in order to preserve the hard-won
democratic values of
Europe in the treatment of sexual minorities, and even more crucially,
of women. As a
consequence, these same migrants, whose matrimonial (forced, fake,
etc.) or sartorial
(hijab, niqab, etc.) practices have thus been under constant scrutiny,
are expected to
demonstrate a sincere adhesion to sexual democracy that is presumed
inherent to European
cultures, despite its very recent history and contemporary limitations.
How does such a constraint redefine the subjectivities of migrants ?
as well as that of
their European partners? What does it mean for a woman of Islamic
culture to be
encouraged to reject her family?s expectations in order to express her
sexual modernity?
What are the strategies available to migrant women and sexual
minorities who attempt to
resist oppression, even violence, while refusing to be co-opted by
anti-immigrant, if not
xenophobic or racist, politics? In other words, what are the
interactions between the
sexual logic of immigration policies and the sexual imaginaries and
practices of the
migrants thus targeted?

5. European Sexual Modernization and Its Discontents
Today, the borders of Europe are also sexual boundaries. Admission
into the E.U. requires
identifying with the agenda of sexual democracy. At the same time,
almost by definition,
non-European countries are suspect. Turkey?s tradition of secularism
largely inspired by
the French historical model has not been sufficient to dispel the
suspicion that this
Muslim country is alien to European sexual democracy ? as evidenced by
the visible
presence of the Islamic headscarf. In the same way, international
campaigns against
homophobia have largely been about the homophobia of others: the logic
of human rights
has focused more on legal repression than on legal discrimination ?
the penalization of
homosexuality outside Europe rather than the exclusion of gays and
lesbians from rights
of marriage and adoption within Europe.
Conversely, the Europeanization of sexual democracy has fueled
reactive nationalisms, not
only in those countries that are bound to remain on the margins of
Europe, such as the
Maghreb, but also in recent E.U. members ? regarding homosexuality in
particular, for
example, in Poland or Lithuania. How are European and non-European
sexual politics
reconfigured in this new context, i.e. what are the political
consequences, in various
countries within and outside of Europe, of this geopolitical context?

We invite all those interested to submit a one-page abstract and a CV by:
September 1, 2010.
Abstracts as well as questions can be sent to: Robert Davidson
(R.J.Davidson@uva.nl)

CF Submissions - TheAlogies of the Goddess

2010-06-25T08:24:00.000+01:00

Call for Submissions

TheAlogies of the Goddess:
Dialogues within the Feminist Spirituality Community

Book Editors:
Angela Hope, Saint Mary’s University
Katherine MacDowell, Ocean Seminary College

Contact angela.hope@hotmail.com
Deadline to Submit Abstract: August 30th, 2010

Scope of the Proposed Book

Thealogy, or more accurately thealogies, constitutes a newly burgeoning field with respect to feminist praxis within the Goddess spirituality and feminist spirituality movements in recent decades. Despite this, most scholarly works on the Goddess movement and feminist spirituality are situated from a sociological, psychological, anthropological, or religionist approach. Aside from several ovarinal contributions from thealogians such as Carol Christ, Charlotte Caron, Melissa Raphael, and various others, thealogy within the context of Goddess spirituality and feminist spirituality has received little wider scholarly attention. The proposed book: TheAlogies of the Goddess: Dialogues within the Feminist Spirituality Community is an attempt to explore the thealogical dimensions of what it means to be a Goddess Feminist or Spiritual Feminist in this world from a scholarly and/or experiential perspective. Its intended audience is comprised of both scholars and practitioners alike.

Aim and Purpose of the Proposed Book

The book seeks to create an ongoing dialogue within the Goddess and feminist spirituality tradition, rather than to dictate doctrine or ascribe universal thea-based ideologies to the movement. It creates the space for Goddess and Spiritual/Religious Feminists to name their own thealogies, while facilitating constant discussions within the larger community. Our hope is that this book will engender lively discussion amongst women and men of various social backgrounds that will continue beyond the confines of this book, inspiring and supporting future thealogical scholarship and discussions within the spiritual feminist community about ways of doing thealogy. The aim of the book is to explore new ideas and new directions within thealogy rather than replicating or recycling the present introductory literature on thealogy. Though the book focuses on thealogical discourse, we welcome chapters in all aspects of the discourse, especially ones that create new language and new ways of doing/understanding thealogy. Thus, the goal is to continue crafting what constitutes thealogical discourse and praxis. Moreover, it is preferred that thealogy is not defined in relationship to theology, whereby theology becomes the Other to which thealogy gains its meaning and identity.

Situating Thealogy

Thealogy is distinct from theology in that it is ultimately the inquiry into the Goddess, the Sacred Feminine aspects of the Divine, or nonpatriarchal understandings of the Divine; whereas theology tends to focus on the Judeo-Christian (male) God. Its methodological and epistemological orientation tends to be rooted in feminist thought, thus thealogy is more accurately described as feminist thealogy. Thealogy is done by anyone who aspires to know and experience life in relation to Goddess and the Divine Feminine and has been expressed by such diverse groups as: Goddess Feminists, Goddessians, Dianics, Wiccans, Christian Feminists, Goddess Christians Feminists, Quaker Pagans, Goddess-Jewish Feminists, and so forth. This wide expression highlights how thealogy is a unique discourse that engages people across different religious and spiritual boundaries.

Engaging in thealogical reflection is not only personal, but also an interactive and dialogical endeavor. It is mental and experiential rather than dualistic or solely a cognitive function. As such, it is constituted in both theory and practice. Moreover, the nature of thealogical discourse is, we suggest, fluid, continuous, and in a constant process of becoming; it is never stagnant, unchanging, or even authoritatively binding. It is further hesitant towards universal truth claims and carries a healthy neo-pagan cautionary stance towards the notion of established doctrine. Thus, thealogy is focused more on processes that can mutate rather than producing products that are immutable and determinant. It is within this spirit that we suggest the following potential topics.

Potential Topics

The following are suggested, potential topics written to generate ideas and inspire creativity rather than be a binding, exhaustive list. We welcome any topic that deeply engages thealogy in new and innovative directions.

• Explorations in naming the nature of thealogy, the different kinds of thealogy, sources of thealogy, and/or the task of thealogy. From this vantage point, one would be talking more about the theoretical and methodological structures of thealogy. Does the Goddess tradition have its own sources to draw from such as experience, ritual, magic, and the arts? How does one engage in thealogy using these various sources? Furthermore, one might consider what it means to be a thealogian, including outlining what it is a thealogion does.
• Topics that concern language and thealogy, or Goddess-talk. What are the implications for women in naming the Divine—Goddess, and using the concept of “She”? What are the implications for men, nonhuman animals, and the ecosystem?
• Explorations concerning the nature of Goddess or the Divine Feminine. In other words, one might possibly entertain the ‘who, what, where, how, and why’ questions as they pertain to the Goddess. Is Goddess a separate entity, metaphor, or a projection of our mental processes? What does this mean for a Goddess or Spiritual Feminist?
• What is the nature of the ontological relationship between Goddess and life-form? What does it means to be a life-form, woman, male, or a Goddess/Spiritual Feminist in the world in relation to Goddess. Are we part of Goddess or separate from Goddess?
• Topics that explore the relationship between humans and other humans, nature, and animals as they might be rooted within an ecothealogical perspective.
• Understandings and approaches to suffering, hardship, and ‘evil’ as it is understood within neo-pagan ontology and epistemology. Is there such a thing as theadicy? Additionally, how does Goddess factor in to these understandings? Does Goddess cause suffering or ‘evil’? Is Goddess even omnipotent or omniscient? Or is Goddess understood best through a process thealogical perspective?
• Explorations in thealogical ethics or how ethics can be approached and informed by a thealogy. How is a human or Goddess Feminist to live their life in terms of morality?
• Explorations in performative thealogy or ritual thealogy and what the practice of ritual provides for the enactment and experience of thealogy. What is the task of performative thealogy in a Goddess context? How does magic contribute to our understandings of thealogy? What might define underlying ritual theory within a Goddess/Spiritual Feminist perspective?
• Topics that explore the goddesses and sacred myths: Are there mythological sources that can be engaged with in order to do thealogy? Can they be used to expound our understandings of creation from a thealogical perspective?
• Explorations of the myth of matriarchal history and whether or not this is meaningful from a thealogical perspective. Does it serve as the basis of a problematic soteriology with patriarchal tendencies or is it emancipative for women and men?
• Topics that explore that relationship between politics, political activism, and thealogy. Is doing thealogy related to feminist praxis? How do Goddess Feminists engage the public and political realm? Must all women who engage in Goddess/Spiritual Feminist traditions be feminists?
• Topics that explore whether or not Goddess Feminists experience transformation rather than redemption? What is the nature of this experience—teleological or process-oriented, static or constant, embodied or disembodied?
• Explorations in understanding the body from a thealogical perspective. How does the body and sexuality inform a Goddess Feminists understanding of thealogy?
• Explorations of Goddess/Spiritual Feminist identity. How do women and men experience and define themselves as embodying the sacred feminine or their faith? How do these self-definitions impact their day-to-day lives? What does it mean for an individual to be an adherent of the Goddess/Divine Feminine?
• Exploration of Goddess/Spiritual Feminist spiritual and religious development and revelation. How do individuals come to know the Goddess? How is the Goddess/Divine Feminine revealed to individuals? How do traditions unfold and evolve?

If you are interested in submitting a chapter to this edited book, please submit a 250 word abstract to Angela Hope at angela.hope@hotmail.com by August 30, 2010. For any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.

A note on Rebranding Feminism Conference

2010-06-22T09:04:00.000+01:00

As you know, I and my friend Jean Owen are organising a conference for next March called 'Rebranding Feminism'. A few weeks back, I announced the conference to a group of women who were interested in young feminism. Overwhelmingly, their responses were excited and curious. A handful of listeners, however, sat with dark clouds over their eyes. They clearly disagreed with the premise of the conference. Though, sadly, none of them came to tell me about their disagreement.

I want to stress that we are really interested in hearing both sides of the debate. Do you fundamentally disagree with the notion of rebranding feminism? Send me an abstract telling me why. The conference CFP is attached below:

(RE)BRANDING FEMINISM

A conference hosted by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5ND.
1st -2nd March 2011.

Call for Papers:

There has been a general recognition, if not acceptance, of many of feminism’s key concepts. But does this mean that it has ceased to assert itself as a unique movement? Indeed, should feminism be (re)branded in an age when all ideologies are subject to market forces? And what should this rebranding consist of?

Two years on from the stimulating ‘Where are we now? A workshop on women and heterosexuality’ hosted by the IGRS, this conference will address some of the issues raised then to question the place of feminism in the twenty-first century. While there has been ambivalent press and general apathy towards those issues that once encouraged women to put the political into the personal, it is increasingly women themselves who think there is nothing more to discuss. Why has there been a decline in the link between the personal and the ideological? Do we need a different kind of feminism to meet the cultural, political and academic needs of a younger generation?

Topics might include but are not limited to:

• Are sisters doing it for themselves?
• Feminism on the frontline
• I can be a real bitch
• Family romances
• Home-makers and career women
• God was/is a woman
• Feminism and the sex industry
• Feminist renaissance
• Feminism is bollocks
• Rebranding feminism
• Pub talk

Abstracts between 200-300 words that explore any aspect of (re)branding feminism are sought as are poster submissions of 200 - 300 words on any topic related to rebranding feminism. Submit poster ideas and abstracts in a word document or .pdf.

Please send abstracts and poster ideas to both Jean Owen (ojean27@yahoo.com) and Elisha Foust (elishafoust@googlemail.com) by 5pm 1 October 2010.

PhD Scholarship in Global Women's Studies

2010-06-22T08:56:00.002+01:00

Please note the following PhD Scholarship in Global Women's Studies now available at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Dr. Stacey Scriver Furlong
Postdoctoral Researcher
Global Women's Studies Programme
School of Political Science and Sociology
National University of Ireland, Galway
Ph. 091 494116
Rm. 204
10 Upper Newcastle Rd.
Galway
Ireland

CONNECT Doctoral Research Scholarship

Global Women's Studies

Research theme: Gender, participation and realising human rights in local and community contexts

The College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies at NUI Galway is pleased to offer a CONNECT Doctoral Research Scholarship in Global Women's Studies commencing in the autumn of 2010, renewable for up to three years.

The active engagement of community groups in monitoring the local implementation of international human rights standards is a new and exciting area of human rights practice that warrants scholarly investigation (see for example www.pprproject.org). We also know that while women are generally under-represented in national politics and policy making, they are more active in community based advocacy. Recognising these trends, applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates with demonstrable academic interests in gender, human rights and the role of civil society organisations in the implementation of international human rights standards. The successful applicant will normally have a good honours MA degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Political Science, Human Rights/Law, Community Development, Women's Studies) with strong research, communications and organisational skills. Applications will also be considered from students who hold, or expect to attain before Ju!
ly 2009, a high honours primary degree (first class or higher 2nd class) from a recognised institution in a relevant discipline. Practical knowledge of human rights and/or equality policies or mechanisms and/or of advocacy work in a relevant civil society organisation would also be an advantage.

The CONNECT Scholar will be an integral member of the Global Women's Studies Programme in the School of Political Science and Sociology, with Dr. Niamh Reilly acting as primary supervisor of the PhD project. In addition to undertaking PhD research on a topic, proposed by the applicant, related to gender, participation and the practice of human rights in local contexts, the CONNECT Scholar will contribute to the BA CONNECT in Global Women's Studies (approximately 15 hours per month from Year Two). This will include the ongoing development and delivery of advocacy oriented modules, coordination of activities to promote links between the BA CONNECT programme and local organisations, and related research activities. The Scholarship provides EUR15,000 per year (exclusive of fees) over a maximum period of 4 years. For further details and to download the required forms (CONNECT Scholarship Application and Referee forms and Scholarship Terms & Conditions) please visit: www.nuigalw!
ay.ie/womens_studies. For informal inquiries, please contact: Dr. Niamh Reilly (niamh.reilly@nuigalway.ie)

Deadline for receipt applications: July 9th 2010

CFP: Doing Women's Film History: Reframing

2010-06-18T09:05:00.001+01:00

Women’s Film History Network – UK/Ireland

Doing Women’s Film History: Reframing
Cinema Past and Future
13-15 April 2011
Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies: University of Sunderland

Despite their marginalization in film history, women have always been widely involved in and around cinema as: producers, directors, scriptwriters, cinematographers, editors, designers, actresses, sound designers, voice coaches, composers, distributors, programmers, cinema managers, publicists, critics, audiences, and so on. This international conference brings together researchers, archivists, librarians, filmmakers, website and database designers to explore new research in women’s film history, its future development, and its impact on approaches to cinema and film history itself.

We welcome individual case-studies of women working in or around silent, sound and digital cinemas, in different national contexts, or across different media; papers on historiographic, socio-economic and aesthetic issues (including the impact of the women’s movement); and considerations of the future of women’s film history posed by globalization, digital media and changes in archiving and databasing. Proposals for papers might include issues such as:

* sources and methodologies for gender-oriented film research
* strategies for archiving, preservation and programming of women’s films
* impact of women on cinema as audiences, campaigners, fans
* women’s career moves from other creative media into cinema
* future histories of women’s movement film workshops and recent filmmaking
* cross-national connections and comparisons
* relationship between feminism and women’s history
* usefulness of ‘women’s cinema’ as a category in post-feminist and digital contexts
* significance of women’s film history to women’s film practice now
* curriculum issues, e.g: critical canons, teaching and film availability
* women’s film historiography: filling gaps or changing film history?
*
Contributions from post-graduate researchers are welcome and some bursaries offered. Women’s History Review, Journal of British Cinema and Television and Framework have indicated interest in publishing suitable papers, subject to reviewers’ reports.

Keynote speakers and panelists will be confirmed in October.
The conference will include screenings, forums on teaching women's film history, the film studies curriculum, and the future organization and web presence of the Women’s Film History Network.

Proposals (150 word limit) for presentations of 20 minutes (including audiovisual material) should be sent by 1 December 2010 to: Lianne Hopper, The David Puttnam Media Centre, Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peter’s, St Peter’s Way, Sunderland, SR6 ODD, UK; or by email to: wfhconference@sunderland.ac.uk. For more information about the Network and Conference please visit our wiki at http://wfh.wikidot.com.

CFP: Motherhood and Philosophy - US

2010-06-15T09:35:00.002+01:00

Call for Papers

Philosophical Issues of Motherhood

APA Newsletter for Feminism and Philosophy
The most recent issues of the Newsletter (including the one currently in
completion) were devoted to the question of the numbers and status of women in
professional philosophy (explanations for why we comprise a mere 21% of
professional philosophers, survival strategies, coping strategies for those who
survive, and enhancement strategies to bring more women in, publication issues
for women philosophers, success strategies for career survival).
This and coming years will also prove a challenge for many women in philosophy
as state and federal budgets are balanced by cuts to academic and educational
institutions and to public services which support those who make up the
politically marginalized and vulnerable populations. These hard economic times
affect all women, whether we are in professional philosophy struggling for
promotion, research funding, or just to keep our jobs, or we are returning to
school to improve our chances of getting or keeping work, or we are trying to
keep hearth and home together, children fed, companions in good spirit, and
ourselves economically viable.
It seems appropriate and timely to address a question central to the lives of
many women: motherhood.
The next issue of the Newsletter will be devoted to the question of motherhood
in its full breadth and depth. Essays on any topic related to motherhood will be
considered.
Please format your essays according to Newsletter requirements and should be
prepared for anonymous review. Length is limited to 4000 words inclusive of all
endnotes and references.
Submissions must be received by October 15th, 2010.
Send submissions electronically in either Word or PDF formats to Christina
Bellon, bellon@csus.edu using an appropriate subject
heading.

CFP: Motherhood, Servitude and Care

2010-06-14T11:04:00.000+01:00

MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)
Call for Participation
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care  Conference
and
`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour`
Digital Media Competition
 at Birkbeck, University of London  September 23rd and 24th 2010
MaMSIE is an international network of scholars, artists and activists working in the emerging interdisciplinary field of maternal studies. Our 6th conference focuses on the interrelations between labour, capital, care and the maternal. In particular, it will consider the diverse ways ‘maternal care’ has been, and continues to be delegated and shared, and the implications for our understandings of maternal subjectivities and the labour of care. The conference will open up ‘maternity’ as a term that includes the paid and unpaid work of a diverse range of social actors: carers, domestic workers, au-pairs, nannies, child-minders, nurses, care-workers, extended family members and members of friendship networks, in addition to complex organisations such as charities and NGOs. The aim of this event is to generate a dialogue between two rich and substantial bodies of feminist scholarship; work on the history of domestic labour, service and servitude and current debates about globalism, migration and the care industries, recasting existing scholarship through the lens of maternal studies.

Key Questions

How do we understand the (maternal) subjectivities of a range of care workers and what might a consideration of such subjectivities contribute to our understandings of the maternal?
What are the political, economic, affective and subjective effects of sharing maternal labour?
How do histories of class, servitude, service, gender, ‘race’, and ‘care’ interact with contemporary neoliberal patterns of migration?
· What are the potentials for new relations that might emerge from specific constellations of maternal subjectivity and modes of care work?

We welcome submissions for participation from academics, artists, clinicians, activists and other practitioners working on issues related to the maternal, care, servitude, domestic labour, migration, etc. Please submit a 250-word abstract as an email attachment to mamsie@bbk.ac.uk by 30th June 2010.

The conference will feature keynote talks and a range of smaller workshop sessions. A small number of papers will be selected for live presentation; a larger number of papers will be included on the conference website; everyone will be welcome to participate from the floor and in the small workshop discussions.
Conference Fees: £60/£30 (unfunded)

`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour`
Digital Media Competition

As part of the Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference, MaMSIE are delighted to launch a Digital Media Competition.
Digital media entries should respond to the title `Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour`. This might take the form of a digital photographic work or a more abstract piece, such as a work of multimedia digital fiction or creative nonfiction, an experimental digital film, or website. Any form of digital output will be considered.
Everyone is welcome to enter, professional or amateur. Finalists will be chosen by a distinguished panel of artists, writers and journalists.
Prize: There will be a cash prize of £150 for the winning entry and two small runners up prizes. The winner and runners up will also receive free entry to the conference and their work will be featured on the conference website, and the online journal, Studies in the Maternal. Maximum 2 works per entrant, either as a digital file or URL.
To enter, please:
·Mark entries with your name, contact details and the title of the work
·Include a 250-word description of your piece
·Include a 100-word biography of yourself
·Include the work itself as digital file or URL
·Write ‘Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour
Digital Media Competition and Exhibition’ in the e-mail header
·Send entries to Kate Pullinger at kpullinger@dmu.ac.uk.

Deadline for entries: August 1st 2010.
Successful entrants will be informed by 15 September, 2010
For more information please visit: www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk

Editors sought for thirdspace, a journal of feminist theory

2010-06-14T08:38:00.002+01:00

The editors of /thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture/ want you to join our team. We are looking for feminist scholars to strengthen our editorial working group and help sustain /thirdspace/ as a prime online journal for the best international work in feminist theory and culture.
Founded in 2000, our mandate is to produce a peer-reviewed journal, offering work in both English and French, that presents the best in scholarship on feminist theory and culture, broadly conceived. Our priority is enabling the publication of dynamic and cutting edge feminist scholarship within the modern climate of a profit-driven and competitive publishing industry. Our open-access model has been enormously successful in terms of readership, and can be viewed at: www.thirdspace.ca
We are seeking feminist scholars for the following roles:
Proofreaders
Layout editors
Section editors
The journal’s operations are conducted primarily through online contact (e-mail, instant messaging, the open access journal system). All editors must have regular access to e-mail and the web, and be comfortable with virtual collaboration. Editor duties include: reviewing submissions for suitability; soliciting referees to review articles; copyediting; and preparing submissions for final publication on the website. Other duties include fundraising, promotion of the journal, and soliciting submissions.
One position is reserved for scholars who are capable of editing submissions in French at a high academic level and performing English-French translation, as well as enthusiasm for promoting the journal to the francophone community and soliciting submissions from French-speaking scholars.
At this time, our editorial positions are non-stipendiary, as our insistence on open access has limited our opportunities for funding.
For all applicants, please indicate your experience in editing academic work, the strengths you would bring to the position, and the scholarly communities you are involved in. We welcome applications from emerging and early-career scholars (including senior ABDs, post-doctoral fellows, and new independent scholars).
Desirable, but not required, assets include: fluency in French; experience in fundraising and promotion; and HTML/web design experience.
The position(s) will commence in August 2010.

Please send a CV, a short letter of interest, and your contact details (including e-mail address) as a Word attachment by July 1 2010 to:
info@thirdspace.ca
We will be in correspondence with all applicants.

Conference on Women's Worlds - Canada 2011

2010-06-14T08:29:00.000+01:00

(The English CFP is in the middle section)

¡Responde al llamado! Answer the call. Répondez à l'appel.

Si estás involucrada en la investigación y/o la defensa de la igualdad, el empoderamiento y los derechos de las mujeres, entonces deberías saber más sobre Mundos de Mujeres 2011, un espacio para entrar en contacto y entablar una conversación que TE incluye.

El 30º aniversario de esta conferencia feminista internacional e interdisciplinaria se llevará a cabo en Ottawa-Gatineau, Canadá del 3 al 7 de julio de 2011.

Hasta el 15 de septiembre estaremos aceptando propuestas de participación, que pueden venir de la academia, de las filas activistas y de cualquier grupo, coalición, red o equipo.

¡Esperamos que respondas al llamado!

Este evento congregará a académic@s, activistas, investigador@s, legislador@s, abogad@s, y artistas de todas las edades y de los cuatro puntos cardinales para discutir el tema "Inclusiones, exclusiones, reclusiones: viviendo en un mundo globalizado".

Para más información: info@womensworlds.ca

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Are you engaged in research and/or advocacy relating to women's equality, women's rights, women's empowerment?

Then you should know about Women's Worlds 2011, a place where we can all connect and converse. The conversation includes you.

The 30th anniversary of this international and interdisciplinary global feminist conference will take place in Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada from 3-7 July of 2011.

Until September 15, 2010, we are accepting proposals from academia, the community level, and everywhere in between -- groups, individuals, coalitions, networks, teams.

We hope you will ANSWER THE CALL.

This event will bring together academics, advocates, researchers, policy-makers, workers, activists, and artists of all ages from around the world under the theme "Inclusions, exclusions, and seclusions: Living in a globalized world".

For more information: info@womensworlds.ca

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Vous êtes engagée dans la recherche ou vous plaidez pour l'égalité des femmes, leurs droits ou leur autonomisation?

Vous devez assister Mondes des Femmes 2011, l'occasion rêvée de nous rassembler et d'échanger. Soyez partie prenante de cette conversation.

Le 30e anniversaire de cette conférence féministe internationale et interdisciplinaire aura lieu du 3 au 7 juillet 2011 au Canada, dans la ville d'Ottawa-Gatineau.

Jusqu'au 15 septembre 2010, nous acceptons des propositions venant des milieux universitaires et communautaires, tout autant que de groupes, personnes, coalitions, réseaux et équipes.

Nous esperons que vous allez RÉPONDEZ À L'APPEL

MF 2011 va rassembler des universitaires, militantes, chercheures, décisionnaires politiques, travailleuses, activistes et artistes de tous âges et de partout pour échanger sous le grand thème "Inclusions, exclusions et réclusions: Vivre dans un monde globalisé".

Pour plus d'information: info@mondesdesfemmes.ca

What is Feminism For? Monday 14 June - Lucy Cavendish College

2010-06-11T16:29:00.000+01:00

You are warmly invited to come and discuss:

"What is Feminism For?"

Kat Banyard, author of "The Equality Illusion", will be appearing at the

annual Women's Word Festival at Lucy Cavendish College on Monday 14 June

(6.30pm-7.30pm).

In her new and ground breaking book, The Equality Illusion, Kat Banyard

sets out the major issues for 21st-century feminism, from the growing power

of the sex industry, and the myths and taboos which still surround rape and

domestic violence, to the widening pay gap.

Forty years after the Equal Pay Act, women are paid on average nearly 25%

less per hour than men, and 30,000 of us are sacked every year simply for

being pregnant. Women make up only 12% of FTSE directors, and remain firmly

in the minority in parliament and in the legal profession.

Meanwhile, women's bodies are objectified like never before in magazines,

online and in lap dancing clubs.

At “What is feminism for?” Kat Banyard will discuss the timely and important

resurgence of the feminist movement currently being spearheaded by young

and politically active women in 21st-century Britain.

Tickets for the event are £6. To book a place, please go to

http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages//posts/what-is-feminism-for135.php
and follow the links to the Women's Word online booking page

womensword@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk

01223 764020 / 339243

UK Feminista Summer School - How cool is this?

2010-06-11T08:37:00.000+01:00

UK FEMINISTA SUMMER SCHOOL

http://www.ukfeminista.org.uk/all-events/3-ukfeminista-event/72-summerschool.html

Dates:Sat 31.07 - Sun 01-Aug-2010
Times:10:00 to 17:00
Place:London
Address:Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London. EC2A 3EA
Contact person:UK Feminista
Web Site:http://www.ukfeminista.org.uk
Telephone:
07775 855037

We're delighted to announce the first ever UK Feminista Summer School is taking place on Saturday 31st July - Sunday 1st August 2010!

Two whole days of of feminist activist training and inspiration - and absolutely free! Open to all women and men who want to create a more gender equal world. Book today because places are strictly limited!

How to register: Download a registration form and return it to
info@ukfeminista.org.uk

AGENDA

Please note: further sessions and speakers are still being confirmed and a full agenda for the Summer School will be posted here soon!

DAY 1: Saturday 31st July, 10:00-17:00

Speakers confirmed: Zoe Williams, the Guardian; Karin Robinson, Democrats Abroad; Shaista Gohir MBE, Muslim Women's Network UK; Heather Harvey, Amnesty International UK; Denise Marshall, Eaves; Baljit Banga, Newham Asian Women’s Project; Kat Banyard, author of The Equality Illusion & Director of UK Feminista; WOMANKIND Worldwide; Fawcett Society

Workshops: How to run a feminist group; running an effective campaign; fundraising skills
Panel discussions & seminars: The importance of feminist organising; the feminist year ahead; men and masculinity

DAY 2: Sunday 1st August, 10:00-17:00

Speakers confirmed: Kira Cochrane, the Guardian; Hannah Pool, journalist; Michelle Daley, Disability Awareness in Action; Pragna Patel, Southall Black Sisters; Jess McCabe, the F Word; Joy Millward, Principle; Julia Minnear, Women's Environmental Network; OBJECT; Lynne Parker, Funny Women

Workshops: How to use the media; how to influence local and national politics; creative campaign and direct action; promoting diversity within feminist groups; public speaking skills;
Panel discussions & seminars: Women and the media; Feminist Question Time; Why climate change is a feminist issue

Download the poster for UK Feminista's Summer School

ACCOMMODATION & VENUE DETAILS

For information about how to get to the Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre visit the Amnesty website.

Download a list of hotels and hostels within the vicinity of the venue.

Women 2.0 - The history of the movement

2010-06-11T08:17:00.000+01:00

Watch the full episode. See more Women 2.0.

CFP: P-SWIP Annual Fall Meeting

2010-06-11T08:04:00.002+01:00

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS
PACIFIC SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY ANNUAL FALL MEETING
November 6-7, 2010
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

P-SWIP welcomes submissions on any relevant topics in feminist philosophy.

This year, we are happy to announce Lori Gruen, Wesleyan University, as the
keynote.

Essays should not exceed 4000 words, standard format, prepared for anonymous
review, and submitted electronically in WORD or PDF formats. Draft or otherwise
incomplete submissions will not be accepted.

Submission deadline: August 13, 2010

Please submit essays to Emily S. Lee, Executive Secretary, Pacific SWIP at
elee@fullerton.edu.
Notification of acceptance will be made by September 15, 2010.

Come join us and celebrate women in philosophy!

Emily S. Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Executive Secretary, Pacific SWIP
Department of Philosophy
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92834
657-278-3694
elee@fullerton.edu

Funny Friday

2010-06-11T07:54:00.001+01:00

My funny friend Anna sent me this today. It caused coffee to run out my nose. That's happened twice this week (so far).

Women, Power and Politics - London - Theatre

2010-06-10T08:51:00.002+01:00

Check out the Tricycle Theatre's Women, Power and Politics Season!

http://www.tricycle.co.uk/festivals/women-power-and-politics/

CFP: Art of Gender in Everyday Life - Idaho

2010-06-10T08:27:00.001+01:00

THE ART OF GENDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE VIII
A Multidisciplinary Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
March 10 & 11, 2011

ABSTRACT POSTMARK DEADLINE: Friday, November 19, 2010

Gender is not a given. Its meaning and significance are constantly in flux.
This conference will explore the various ways in which gender is crafted, celebrated, endured, deciphered, expressed or, in short, the art of how it is lived on a daily basis.

ALL submissions related to the art of living gendered lives will be considered.
* Given our keynote speaker, Andi Zeisler, Co-founder of Bitch Magazine, the Committee is especially interested in submissions that address the following:

GENDER AND THE MEDIA
GENDER IN POPULAR CULTURE
GENDER AND THE ARTS (including: the presentation of gendered performances, films, etc., as well as academic papers)

* The committee is also interested in receiving submissions from graduate and advanced undergraduate students. The committee will hold a student paper competition and award prizes for the graduate and undergraduate submissions they select.

PRESENTATION FORMATS: Presentations may take several different formats, including: papers (resulting from group work or individuals); slide presentations; films; readings; and performances. Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes in duration.

Complete panels can also be submitted. Panel submissions will only be considered, however, if the following information is included: cover sheets and abstracts for a complete group of four participants; and the specific question to be addressed.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions will be accepted BY POST ONLY.
POSTMARK DEADLINE: Friday, November 19, 2010

Please enclose the following items for the committee’s consideration:

1. an ABSTRACT of no more than 300 words
The title should appear clearly at the top of the abstract; the presenter’s name should not appear on the abstract. No changes to either the title or abstract can be made following submission.
2. a COVER SHEET with the following information: presenter’s name; presentation title; presentation format; institutional affiliation (including department) and academic status; phone number, street and email addresses; A/V needs; and a 50 word bio
3. a CD or DISK with both the abstract and cover sheet as Microsoft Word documents (as abstracts, affiliation, email addresses and bios will be reproduced in a booklet for all presenters)
4. a REGISTRATION FORM AND CHECK for the registration fee for each presenter made out to the Anderson Center; this fee will help us to cover conference expenses including meal costs and admission for both the keynote speaker, Andi Zeisler, and LUNAFEST.
PLEASE NOTE: If the abstract is not accepted, this check will be destroyed.

Send all materials to:
Anderson Gender Resource Center
Idaho State University, Stop 8141
Pocatello, ID 83209-8141
Attn: The Art of Gender in Everyday Life VIII Committee

PLEASE NOTE: Should your abstract be accepted, you will be required to provide a draft of your paper by NO LATER THAN JANUARY 28, 2011, so that your session discussant will have time to review your work.
Also, if your abstract is accepted, you will be subscribed to the listserv artofgender@mm.isu.edu, and you will receive all updates via email from that account.
QUESTIONS? Email us at: gndrctr@isu.edu or check out our website at www.isu.edu/andersoncenter

Fellowship for Women in Philosophy

2010-06-09T09:23:00.002+01:00

National Humanities Center Offers Fellowship for Young Women in Philosophy

The National Humanities Center has endowed a fellowship in philosophy in memory of the late Philip Quinn. It will be awarded to young women in philosophy, preferably untenured assistant professors. The first award will be made for the academic year 2011-12, and the fellowship will be awarded annually thereafter. The fellowship will support a year in residence at the National Humanities Center with a fellowship stipend of $50,000 plus travel expenses. The application deadline is October 15, 2010.
Applicants should submit the Center’s standard form, available online at nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/appltoc.htm Candidates eligible for the Quinn Fellowship will automatically be considered. For the purposes of this fellowship the Center will waive its normal expectation that recent Ph.D.s not be revising dissertations.
For further information on the Quinn Fellowship, see nationalhumanitiescenter.org/newsrel2010/prquinnfellowship.htm

Toril Moi Lecture - Nottingham - 29 June

2010-06-07T12:34:00.001+01:00

CAS Annual Lecture

What does it mean to Claim that Sex, Gender and the Body are Socially Constructed?

Professor Toril Moi
James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University

Tuesday 29th June 2010
5 – 6.30pm
A30 Arts Centre Lecture Theatre
with a wine reception

To register your attendance,
please contact Allison Pearson:
allison.pearson@nottingham.ac.uk

Luce Irigaray - Public Lecture - 16 June Nottingham

2010-06-07T12:21:00.002+01:00

The Centre for Advanced Studies at The University of Nottingham are pleased to announce the following Annual Lecture:

Towards Reciprocal Exchanges with the Other(s)
A lecture from Professor Luce Irigaray, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Introduced by Professor Judith Still, Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham

Wednesday 16th June 2010, 5.00 – 6.30pm
A-30, Arts Centre Lecture Theatre

To be followed by a wine reception, to which you are cordially invited.
Please RSVP to Allison Pearson (allison.pearson@nottingham.ac.uk) in order that we can cater accordingly.
Centre for Advanced Studies
The Orchards, University Park
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD
Tel: 0115 95 14838

hetero-gay

2010-06-02T10:08:00.000+01:00

I'm lucky enough to have befriended a young (oh my god she's 13 years younger than I am!) woman who is highly intelligent with a dynamic personality. Recently, she's come out. Good for her I say! Upon coming out, she hoped for what (I thought) we all hope for: love. What she is finding is in some ways, just the opposite: sex. She's fallen for a girl who thinks that to aim for monogamy is a betrayal of gay. To aim for monogamy and to be gay is hetero-gay.

I have to admit to loving this term. It sounds very much like something I would throw around in my early 20s because it sounds good.

So I wonder - has the term hetero-gay been co-opted from Foucault's 1970 interview, printed in Foucault Live? I don't have access to the text right now, but if I recall correctly, Foucault challenges the gays (and I suppose the lesbians) to live differently; to find new ways of creating love and sex and bonds that are otherwise than those of heterosexuality. He wishes for gays to find ways to exist together beyond those tied to the history of marriage and the asymmetrical power relations that exist therein.

Great, I say! Fantastic! However, once you get to be in your mid-thirties and find that you are one of a handful of people in the world with the right to legally partner with the one you love, ideology goes out the window. Well, it does for me in any case. I am horrified by the stories that come out of America telling tales of couples who have have spent decades together only to be separated by hospital staff in their final days. I'm equally horrified that families, many of whom have had no contact with their gay son or daughter, have the right to take over property and assets with no recognition of the relationship their child was in. Horrified.

Ideology is one thing when you're young but quite another when you're old.

Irigaray: Public Lecture in June in UK

2010-05-27T09:09:00.001+01:00

I've heard word that Luce Irigaray will be giving a public lecture in the UK in June. I suspect the lecture will be held at Nottingham, but am not yet certain. Watch this space for more details.

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Update: Thanks, anon, for pointing out my rather delicious Freudian slip. I'm rather thrilled with it, I have to say.

Middlesex: Further action needed

2010-05-27T09:02:00.001+01:00

If you've been following academic events in the UK lately, you will know that the management at Middlesex U announced the closure of its philosophy department this month. You may not, however, know that due to their protest activity 3 members of staff and a handful of students have been suspended from communicating with anyone at Middlesex. This effectively means that these folks have been silenced for protesting against the department closure. A new petition has been created in response to this silencing. The petition advocates a boycott of Middlesex University. Please consider signing the petition and participating in the boycott. You can find the petition here

Lots of things are going on!

2010-05-26T12:13:00.000+01:00

Hello blogland,

I apologise for being absent these past few weeks. May has been an incredibly busy month. I've had lots of things come past my inbox lately though. I'll try to catch you up with them this week.

Of immediate interest from SWIP:

I know Summer time is when many of us do the bulk of our writing, and I also know how useful regular feedback can be to shaping our thinking and maintaining our stamina. And yet, there are so few venues to getting feedback from each other -- expensive conferences, and journal submission reviews that can take a long time to get back (and are often too little too late). This is why, inspired by the recent ESWIP Virtual Conference, I am setting up a Summer feminist philosophy "virtual institute" draft exchange for those working in topics in feminist philosophy broadly construed. Here are some of the details:

-Private website where you will be able to upload or provide a link to your work, as well as share other links, call for papers, photos, video, and other media. It is a social and rich media environment.
-Membership will be limited to 6-12 people at any given time; keeping the scale small will insure against an impersonal experience.
-I am asking that people commit to spending 2 hours a week reading and commenting others' drafts in June and/or July; after that, we will re-evaluate as a group.

If you think you might be interested in taking part of this, send me an e-mail dralfonso@berkeley.edu letting me know what you are working on this Summer and a small sample of your writing (maybe an abstract you've submitted for a CFP). Also, let me know how many and which weeks you can commit to participating. As for me, I am working on feminist and queer conceptions of space, and thinking through the connections between representational spaces in queer visual and performance art and the production of queer socio-political spaces. Right now, I'm working with social geography texts, Henri Lefebvre, Doreen Massey, Maria Lugones, Judith Halberstam, as well as Foucualt and feminist interpretations of Foucault. I will be moving into phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty on the body in space, and feminist and queer appropriations of phenomenology (Iris Marion Young, Sarah Ahmed, Vivian Sobchack, Irigaray, etc.) I am looking for others with similar and intersecting interests.

I look forward to hearing from some of you!

Best,
Rita Alfonso

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Under-represented Groups in Philosophy
November 26th 2010
Cardiff University
A SWIP-UK/ BPA conference
Supported by: The Mind Association, The Aristotelian Society

**Keynote speakers**
**Professor Helen Beebee** (Birmingham University, UK)
http://www.ptr.bham.ac.uk/staff/beebee.shtml

**Professor Louise Antony** (UMass, Amherst, USA)
http://www.umass.edu/philosophy/faculty/faculty-pages/antony.htm

Organisers: Dr Jules Holroyd, Dr Alessandra Tanesini

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers that address any aspect of the problem of under-representation within
the profession, or strategies for responding to these problems and their
philosophical underpinnings, or suitably related issues are invited for
submission.

Abstracts or short papers of up to 3000 words should be sent to:
HolroydJ[at]cardiff.ac.uk suitably prepared for anonymous refereeing.

The deadline for submission is August 10th 2010. Decisions will be made as
promptly as possible.

EVENT RATIONALE
This conference aims to focus attention on the following topics;

a)identifying the specific problems that minorities in philosophy encounter,
especially those that may perpetuate or sustain that minority status;

b)articulating the philosophical concepts and frameworks that may be of use
in thinking about these problems;

c)identifying strategies that might be employed in attempting address gender
imbalances and the underrepresentation of disabled people and individuals of
minority racial or ethnic identities

d)exploring the philosophical underpinnings of these strategies, and
critically assessing them.

KEYNOTES
Professor Helen Beebee will speak on the work she has been doing with the
BPA in gathering information about under-representation in academic philosophy.

Professor Louise Antony has worked on feminist topics in epistemology such
as the role of bias in science (1993), the epistemic authority of minorities
in academia (2005)

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Women in the profession of academic philosophy are in a minority. Discussion
in print and online has recently focused on possible explanations of this,
with attention being paid to the effects of stereotypes, solo status, and
hostile or chilly environments in academic culture. Discussions have also
highlighted the underrepresentation of individuals of minority racial or
ethnic identities, disabled people, and from working class socioeconomic
backgrounds.

There have also been a number of positive attempts to address problems that
may face minorities in the profession, and increase their visibility in
philosophy. Some strategies include:

-Gathering data on the number of women and underrepresented minorities in
philosophy

-Alerting conference organisers as to the problems of homogenous speaker
programmes and encouraging them to consider speakers from a more diverse pool;

-Constructing databases of writings by women in philosophy, to facilitate
greater gender-balance in undergraduate reading lists;

-Coordinating networks of minorities in philosophy to facilitate working
links, and, for example, to promote the work of women in philosophy;

-Encouraging educators and conference organisers to create accessible and
inclusive spaces within which to do philosophy.

By focusing attention on the problems of under-representation, this
conference aims to clarify our understanding of the problems, of strategies
in response and their philosophical underpinnings.

Project Funding Opportunity - Humanities

2010-05-10T12:07:00.001+01:00

This is a call for proposals for the 12th tranche of project funding from the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies

Total funding available = £25,000; maximum funding per project = £4,000

Application deadline: 1 June 2010

Applications are welcomed for the funding of projects designed to:
- encourage a culture in which innovative developments in learning, teaching and assessment are valued and acknowledged at a national level
- promote good practice in the development and evaluation of innovative methods of learning, teaching and assessment
- disseminate within the wider community innovative methods or materials originally developed for use within a single institution

in subject disciplines the Subject Centre covers:
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies
- Theology
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Philosophy of Science

For further details and how to apply, please visit the Subject Centre website: http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk/view.html/PrsFundingOps/12

Dr. Clare Saunders
Senior Academic Co-ordinator (Philosophy)
Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies
School of Humanities
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
URL: http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 1166
Fax: +44 (0)113 343 3654
Email: clare@prs.heacademy.ac.uk

New York Times forgets that Gen X has any women in it

2010-05-10T11:37:00.001+01:00

New York Times forgets that Gen X has any women in it

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Updates on Middlesex from Peter Hallward & what to do now

2010-05-10T08:57:00.000+01:00

update from middlesex from peter hallward

A quick update on the situation at Middlesex:

On Wednesday 6 May, after a rally in support of the occupation of the boardroom at Trent Park, the occupation expanded to take over the whole of the main building on the Trent Park campus (the Mansion building). The students explained their intentions and demands in an open letter, at http://savemdxphil.com/2010/05/07/open-letter-to-middlesex-staff-faculty-and-students/.

On Thursday afternoon 7 May, Middlesex administrators finally met with the students (on condition that no member of staff attend as a silent observer); they apparently confirmed their decision to close the undergraduate programmes, and to freeze recruitment to the graduate programmes. The meeting ended in an impasse.

Since Wednesday evening, the students have been organising a series of informal events in the occupied Mansion building: improvised concerts, discussions, lectures on a variety of topics (Spinoza, Lacan, student and university politics, the mobilisation in Iran…), political film screenings, etc. The current schedule is posted near the top of http://savemdxphil.com/. If you can get to Trent Park this weekend it’s become an interesting place to visit.

The Guardian has a story on the protests and the occupation, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/may/07/philosophy-cuts-closures-middlesex-university.

The Facebook site has a few photos, etc., http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=119102561449990&v=photos, and now has more than 10,000 members.

Some of the many letters of support we’ve received are now posted at http://savemdxphil.com/letters-of-support/, and we’ll be posting more letters over the weekend; it’s been impossible to keep up with the flood of email. Some of the most recent letters have been signed by entire departments.

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What can you do?

Sign the petition: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-middlesex-philosophy.html

Join the FB group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=119102561449990&ref=ts

Write a letter (or lots of letters!) to:

Michael Driscoll, vice-chancellor of the university – m.driscoll@mdx.ac.uk
Waqar Ahmad, deputy vice-chancellor, research and enterprise – w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk
Margaret House, deputy vice-chancellor, academic – m.house@mdx.ac.uk
Ed Esche, dean of the School of Arts & Education – e.esche@mdx.ac.uk

m.driscoll@mdx.ac.uk; w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk; m.house@mdx.ac.uk; e.esche@mdx.ac.uk

Keep up to date on the Save Middlesex Philosophy Webpage: http://savemdxphil.com/

Reminder: CFP: Irigaray Summer School

2010-05-10T08:31:00.000+01:00

Last weekend, I spoke to Madame Irigaray about the summer seminar for this year and she told me that a few things have changed: The dates have been moved to (I think) 28 June - 3 July. Also, there has been a venue change - the seminar will now take place at the University of Nottingham. There are still a few places left. If anyone was thinking of applying and thought they had missed the boat, there is still time.If you would like to attend, send CV, a PhD abstract (1 page) and a presentation of the issues and arguments of your PhD that most focus on the work of Luce Irigaray (5-6 pages) to Luce Irigaray (by mail: 15, rue Lakanal, 75015 Paris, France). After receiving this material, Luce Irigaray will tell you if you can participate in the seminar of 2010.

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Invitation to the Seminar of Luce Irigaray

Since 2003, Luce Irigaray has held an annual seminar for researchers doing their PhD on her work. The seminar offers the opportunity to receive personal teaching from Luce Irigaray and to exchange ideas, methods and experiences with other participants. The seminar was hosted by the University of Nottingham during the first three years (see Luce Irigaray: Teaching edited by Luce Irigaray with Mary Green, and published by Continuum, London & New York, 2008), by the University of Liverpool the fourth year, by Queen Mary, University of London, the fifth year and by the Goodenough College of London the sixth year. In 2010, it will be hosted by Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, in Ireland.

The framework of the seminar is this: a group of fifteen researchers doing their PhD on the work of Luce Irigaray stay one week on the university campus. The schedule includes: a presentation by each researcher of the aspect of their PhD which most focuses on the work of Irigaray, the discussion of this presentation by the group, comments from Luce Irigaray herself and her answers to questions raised by each participant. Also included are sessions devoted to the explanation of key-words or key-thoughts chosen by the participants. Personal meetings with Luce Irigaray are organised on the last day. The participants pay for their travel, but receive hospitality from the university. The seminar is conducted in English.

The participants in the seminar come from different regions of the world; they belong to different cultures, traditions and fields of research – Philosophy, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Literature, Arts, Critical and Cultural Studies, etc. The themes of their research include, for example: the treatment of personal or cultural traumatic experience; the resources that various arts can offer for dwelling in oneself and with the other(s); the maternal order and feminine genealogy; the interpretation and embodiment of the divine today; the contribution of sexuate difference to personal and social development; new perspectives in philosophy etc. In each of these fields, diverse domains, approaches and methods are represented. To date, participants have come from Australia, Vietnam, Korea, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Ireland and from different regions and universities of the U.S.A. and of the U.K. Beyond the multicultural teaching which results from such a gathering, the participants learn to live together and to share in difference during the time devoted to the work, and also during meals, walks, personal meetings etc. The atmosphere of the seminar is intense but friendly and joyful, and its outcome highly successful for both the research and the life of each participant.

If you are interested and would like to participate in such a seminar please send, as soon as possible, a CV, a PhD abstract (1 page) and a presentation of the issues and arguments of your PhD that most focus on the work of Luce Irigaray (5-6 pages) to Luce Irigaray (by mail: 15, rue Lakanal, 75015 Paris, France). After receiving this material, Luce Irigaray will tell you if you can participate in the seminar of 2010. You will be contacted for further practical information by Marita Ryan at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick after the selection of the candidates.

Essay Prize: Philosophy

2010-05-10T08:22:00.002+01:00

PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATIONS ESSAY PRIZE 2011

The journal Philosophical Explorations has inaugurated an annual essay
prize for philosophers in the early stages of their career. Papers are
invited on all aspects of the philosophy of mind and action. They should not
be under consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not be
submitted to any other journal until the outcome of the competition is known.

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The Prize
* Publication of the winning essay in Philosophical Explorations as the
opening article of the June 2011 issue (volume 14, issue 2).
* The winning essay will be promoted on the website of the journal.
* Cash prize of #250.

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Jury

All submitted papers that qualify (see conditions) will be evaluated by the
journal's editorial board. The top 5 papers will be nominated for the Prize
and will be judged by a jury consisting of three members of the journal's
advisory board. The jury will evaluate the papers on the originality of the
paper, the quality of the argumentation, conceptual clarity, and overall
readability.

The decision of the jury will be final. There is only one prize per year and
the jury reserves the right to award no prize at all if submitted material
is not of an appropriate standard.

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Conditions

* Philosophers who have earned their doctorate no more than five years prior
to submission are invited to submit (The winner will be required to document
that this is the case).

* Papers should be on the topic of the journal, i.e. the philosophy of mind
and action broadly understood (see general rules regarding submissions for
Philosophical Explorations in the journal or on our website:
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rpex).

* Word limit: 3000-9000 words, including notes and references.

* Closing date for submissions: August 30, 2010.

* Papers must be submitted by e-mail to prize@philexpl.nl. Please indicate
clearly in the subject line that you wish to have the paper considered for
the Essay Prize. Make sure that the essay is modified for blind review, and
that it has an abstract. A separate sheet with information about the
university where you earned your doctorate, the date it was (or will be)
awarded, and current mailing address is required.

* For more information about the prize, please contact the assistant editor
of the journal, Melissa van Amerongen (mvanamerongen@philexpl.nl).

For further information about Philosophical Explorations please visit the
journals homepage at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rpex.

Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html.
Prolonged discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.
Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.

Philosophy of Psychiatry Workshop

2010-05-10T08:20:00.001+01:00

This looks really interesting:

University of Birmingham, 8th June 2010
WORK-IN-PROGRESS WORKSHOP IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHIATRY

The School of Philosophy Theology and Religion will host a workshop on
recent developments in the philosophy of psychiatry. Issues to be
discussed include the metaphysics of psychiatric disorders and psychiatric
kinds; autonomy and mental illness; and the interplay between
psychopathology and spirituality in phenomena such as 'possession' and
religious delusions.

Speakers:

Helen Beebee (Birmingham): 'Are psychiatric kinds real?'

Marion Godman (KCL):'The Swedish Apathetic Children: some epistemic and
metaphysical issues in grounding psychiatric kinds.'

Rachel Cooper (Lancaster):'Is psychiatric classification a good thing?'

Jill Craigie (KCL): 'Decision-making competence and practical rationality
in anorexia nervosa.'

Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway):'Religion and psychiatry: a medieval
perspective.'

Paolo Mantovani (KCL):'On distinguishing delusions from religious beliefs.'

There is no registration fee, but if you want to attend you need to let
Lisa Bortolotti know by 15th May as places are limited. Just email:
l.bortolotti@bham.ac.uk

Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html.
Prolonged discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.
Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.

Fellowship Opportunity in Humanities

2010-05-09T18:01:00.002+01:00

Philip L. Quinn Fellowship in Philosophy
to be established at the National Humanities Center

News Release Date: March 2, 2010

Research Triangle Park, N.C. Philip L. Quinn (1940-2004) worked in philosophy of science and philosophy of religion. He taught at Brown University, where he held the William Herbert Perry Fraunce Professorship, and at the University of Notre Dame, where he was the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy. He served as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, and he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Philip Quinn served on the final selection committee of the National Humanities Center in 1984 and subsequently assisted the Center as a preliminary reviewer of applications for many years. He was one of the dedicated scholars whose judgment insured the quality of the Center's Fellows, and though he himself never came to the Center as a Fellow, he valued it as a crucial American institution for the nurture and improvement of scholarship in the liberal arts.

After Professor Quinn's death in 2004, his Notre Dame colleague in philosophy, Paul Weithman, and another close friend, Mary Lou Solomon, were named co-executors of his estate. Paul Weithman had been a Fellow of the National Humanities Center in 2000-2001, and he was aware of Philip Quinn's long-standing connection and interest. He inquired whether a suitable memorial might be established at the Center, and in the end the two co-executors decided to endow the Philip L. Quinn Fellowship to be awarded annually in philosophy, preferably supporting young women in the early stages (pre-tenure) of their scholarly careers. The endowment will be established with $800,000 from the Quinn estate matched by $700,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The first Quinn Fellowship will be awarded to a member of the class of 2011-12 at the Center.

It is especially gratifying that a distinguished and much-loved member of the academic world admired the National Humanities Center and that his co-executors have chosen to memorialize him here. It speaks to the place that the Center holds in the hearts and minds of American scholars, and it is fitting that Philip Quinn's intellectual and ethical commitments in the profession be transmitted thus to future generations of philosophers.

Closure of Philosophy at Middlesex - updates

2010-05-04T13:59:00.000+01:00

Nina Power is doing a fantastic job of keeping us updated about activity around the announced closure of the philosophy department at Middlesex University.

Her blog is: http://infinitethought.cinestatic.com/

CFP - Women in Philosophy of Education

2010-05-04T08:43:00.002+01:00

Women in Philosophy of Education
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
Branch Seminar

Ethics, Politics and Love in Education

September 24-26, 2010
University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education

Invited Speaker:

Alison Assiter
Professor of Feminist Theory
The University of West England
‘Action and Love in Kierkegaard and Arendt: Questions for Education’

In an attempt to profile the work of women in philosophy of education, the organisers of this first weekend seminar on the theme ethics, politics and love in education invite participation from a variety of perspectives and request submissions to present works in progress. Submissions not directly related to the theme are also welcome. Our hope is to create a fertile environment for discussion, networking, and mentoring across a range of interests. We strongly encourage both new and more experienced scholars to get involved in generating an active and lively intellectual community.

We are inviting proposals of works in progress of 2000-3000 words. Deadline for submission is August 24, 2010. The seminar will run from 3 p.m. Friday to 12 p.m. Sunday and there will be 3 time slots for presenters to discuss their work, Friday evening, Saturday morning and afternoon, with a scheduled meeting planned for Sunday morning. We will group the proposals thematically for each of the three time slots, and post them on-line prior to the seminar so that everyone can read them beforehand.

The conference registration fee is £20 and confirmation of participation is required by September 3rd. Funding is available for travel, bed and breakfast accommodation and meals. You do not need to present a paper to apply. Since our budget is limited, travel funding will be prioritised according to need. For more information please contact one of the organisers below.

CFP - (Re)branding Feminism Conference

2010-05-04T08:31:00.001+01:00

(RE)BRANDING FEMINISM

A conference hosted by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5ND.

1st -2nd March 2011.

There has been a general recognition, if not acceptance, of many of feminism’s key concepts. But does this mean that it has ceased to assert itself as a unique movement? Indeed, should feminism be (re)branded in an age when all ideologies are subject to market forces? And what should this rebranding consist of?

Two years on from the stimulating ‘Where are we now? A workshop on women and heterosexuality’ hosted by the IGRS, this conference will address some of the issues raised then to question the place of feminism in the twenty-first century. While there has been ambivalent press and general apathy towards those issues that once encouraged women to put the political into the personal, it is increasingly women themselves who think there is nothing more to discuss. Why has there been a decline in the link between the personal and the ideological? Do we need a different kind of feminism to meet the cultural, political and academic needs of a younger generation?

Topics might include but are not limited to:

· Are sisters doing it for themselves?

· Feminism on the frontline

· I can be a real bitch

· Family romances

· Home-makers and career women

· God was/is a woman

· Feminism and the sex industry

· Feminist renaissance

· Feminism is bollocks

· Rebranding feminism

· Pub talk

Please note that the conference is a women-only event.

Abstracts between 200-300 words that explore any aspect of (re)branding feminism are sought as are poster submissions of 200 - 300 words on any topic related to rebranding feminism. Submit poster ideas and abstracts in a word document or .pdf.

Please send abstracts and poster ideas to both Jean Owen (ojean27@yahoo.com) and Elisha Foust (elishafoust@googlemail.com) by 5pm 1 October 2010.

Find us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rebranding-Feminism-London-March-2011/122979677718664?ref=ts

Another Philosophy Dept. bites the dust

2010-04-28T17:26:00.002+01:00

http://thethirdestate.net/2010/04/middlesex-university-shamefully-cuts-philosophy-department/

There's no longer any doubt that the value of thought is on the decline. Middlesex University is closing its Philosophy Dept even though the dept. is ranked world leading and contributes its fair share to the University budget.

Help us do something about it (taken from Nina Power's blog:

To express support and to help with the campaign email Professor Peter Osborne: peter@peterosborne.f2s.com making reference to Middlesex philosophy in the subject line. PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS NEWS WIDELY - closure at Liverpool and cuts at KCL and elsewhere have been avoided due to protests. It IS possible to stop the demented venal idiocy of university management

UPDATE: Meeting next Wednesday, May 5, 7:30pm - 9:00pm, Oakwood Tavern, 155 Bramley Road, Oakwood, London, N14 4XA (Facebook group for meeting)

Join the Save Middlesex philosophy group on Facebook.

University News – Philosophy at Middlesex

UPDATE: What you can do to help - and please do help even if you're not in the UK.

A petition has been made, please sign it to show your support
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-middlesex-philosophy.html

and also it would be helpful if you could send an email to these peope, resonsible for the decision that has been made.

Vice-Chancellor of the University, Michael Driscoll, m.driscoll@mdx.ac.uk;

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise, Waqar Ahmad, w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk;

Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic, Margaret House, m.house@mdx.ac.uk;

Dean of the School of Arts & Education, Ed Esche, e.esche@mdx.ac.uk.

(The full set of emails is m.driscoll@mdx.ac.uk; w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk; m.house@mdx.ac.uk; e.esche@mdx.ac.uk).

If you are able to send such an email, it would be helpful if you blind copied (BCC) it to our campaign email, savemdxphil@gmail.com.

The Women in Philosophy debate - How the Light Gets in

2010-04-27T08:44:00.000+01:00

So last week, Bidisha published this on the Guardian's comment is free section.

There have been two responses from men involved with the How the Light Gets in Festival:

One from Julian Baggini, which claims that if you had more women on panels at the conference, you would just have more token women on the panels: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/25/women-outnumbered-by-men?showallcomments=true#comment-51

The other from Hilary Lawson, which claims that the object of the festival - to bring philosophy into the lives of everyday people - is more important than spending a bit more time encouraging women to participate: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/26/fighting-philosophy-gender-imbalance

The debates following both articles are really interesting - men expressing fear and resentment about feminists; women re-iterating the cultural conditions that work to subordinate women and exclude them. So who's right?

One of the issues that has yet to be raised was one brought up at the last SWIP (Society for Women in Philosophy) - UK conference I attended. Many women who do philosophy do it in departments other than philosophy departments. On the whole, in the UK, you will find that women make up about 10% of the philosophy departments. Why is this?

I think it's because in the UK, the philosophy that women do doesn't count as philosophy. If, for instance, Judith Butler were in this country, what analytical-based department would she be in? None. The only departments that consider continental philosophy to be philosophy are: Middlesex, Warwick, Dundee, (please do name others). Only in these would Butler's work be called philosophy. I think we'd find her, as I've found many female philosophers, in Modern Language Departments, in Art Departments, in Psychology departments.

So when the male organisers and the male advisors of this festival claim that only 20% of philosophers are women, I suspect they haven't in any way considered that what women do is often not called philosophy at all. As such, they've missed a chance to connect with the female philosophers in this country who are already bringing philosophy to the lives of everyday people in film departments, literature departments, language departments, even history and medicine-based departments. If you ask me, they've missed out on a valuable resource already doing the work that the festival aims to accomplish.

Puritanical Feminism - the bursting of my bubble.

2010-04-26T11:31:00.000+01:00

I recently have found myself in disagreement with a group of feminists who identify as 'Female Assigned at Birth' feminists. The blog is located here . As I read this blog, I quickly became perplexed about the lack of intellectual rigour at work in the discussion. I suppose I'd become so used to talking to feminist who were wiling to disagree with my using the basic tools of research and listening. My bubble has bursts with the discovery of a set that seek to demean other women by treating them with disrespect (acting condescending towards them and by calling them names).

BUT then! A light at the end of the tunnel appeared. Quiet Riot Girl sent me a link to her recent blog on puritanical feminism. I now have language in which to think my reaction to this group, and I'm grateful for it. Check out Quiet Riot Girl here.

CFP - Levinas and Psychology of the Other - Seattle

2010-04-26T09:00:00.000+01:00

Anyone want to put a panel together on Levinas and Kristeva?? Or, Levinas and Irigaray?

Levinas and Psychoanalysis/Psychotherapy: A Conversation

Seattle University October 22-24, 2010
Call for Papers

The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas is distinctly important for psychotherapy. He reminds us of the command to be responsible for the Other person. Informed by Levinas’ ethical phenomenology, the primacy of the immediate therapeutic face-to-face relationship challenges and haunts our clinical practice and theories. It forces an evolution in our conceptualizations and how we, as clinicians, attend to the Other. Attention to the “between,” as Buber would say, and the responsible “facing,” as Levinas deepens this, can also be seen in some of the recent shifts in psychoanalytic discourse and clinical emphasis. The terms “Other,” “asymmetrical,” and the “interhuman/intersubjective” occupy a shared space in Levinas’ thought and contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. Attunement, attention, and recognition of the Other are core concerns in both circles, yet their disparate meanings are difficult to parse out. The purpose of this seminar is to investigate how Levinasian ideas have and continue to influence the work of psychoanalysts, as well as other psychotherapists, for the mutual enrichment of meaning in clinical practice.

Keynote Address by Dr. Paul Marcus
(next)
Dr. Paul Marcus is a Supervising and Training Analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. His books include Being for the Other: Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Living, and Psychoanalysis, Ancient Religious Wisdom, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis: Autonomy in the Extreme Situation, and a forthcoming book titled In Search of the Good Life: Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Art of Living.
Call For Papers

We invite papers and posters that seek some form of interchange between Levinas and psychotherapy. Papers geared toward clinical work are highly encouraged. Abstracts no longer than 250 words should be submitted via Word Document to both gkunz@seattleu.edu and dgoodman@cha.harvard.edu. Deadline for submission is July 15th, 2010. Notifications will be sent to presenters by August 1st. Submission should include the following:
 Author(s) name(s)  Working Title  250 word abstract  Institutional Affiliation  Preference for Paper or Poster (if submitting as a paper presentation, indicate
willingness to present poster if not accepted as paper)  Contact information (including preferred phone number and e-mail address)
Please and future registration: http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/map/inner.aspx?id=7174
go to the conference website (hosted by Seattle University) for more information
Also, please feel free to inquire further by contacting George Kunz (gkunz@seattleu.edu) or David Goodman (dgoodman@cha.harvard.edu).

Excellent piece on Gaga and feminism

2010-04-26T08:55:00.002+01:00

Nina Power's blog pointed me to this excellent piece on gaga:

http://populardemand.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/taking-it-all-in/

I just adore smart women.

21st Century Heidegger CFP - Dublin

2010-04-26T08:45:00.002+01:00

I know it's not feminist, per se, but Irigaray has shown that Heidegger can be read from a female subjectivity in interesting ways:

Call For Papers: Twenty-First Century Heidegger

DATE: 10th-11th September 2010
VENUE: UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Professor Miguel de Beistegui
The University of Warwick

Dr Joseph Cohen
University College Dublin

This two-day conference intends to explore, expand, and contest
contemporary research on the German phenomenologist Martin Heidegger. The
principal aim of the conference is to examine the oppositional,
complementary, and sometimes contradictory ways in which Heideggerian
scholarship has been developed in the first decade of the twenty first
century. Scholars are invited to critically address fundamental questions
in the Heideggerian scholarship, including its direction, problems, and
potential. The conference hopes to bring together the increasingly
disparate approaches to Heidegger’s work, whether those approaches are
traditional in their employment of phenomenology and hermeneutics or
whether they apply Heidegger’s thinking in new and surprising ways. Papers
from a wide variety of disciplines including, but not limited to,
philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, cognitive sciences, archaeology,
anthropology, sociology, political science, language studies, literature,
film studies, geography, and architecture are encouraged. It is hoped that,
by bringing together both traditional and contemporary scholars, the
conference can initiate, facilitate, and foster further research and
collaboration related to Heidegger’s philosophy.

The following list—which is by no means exhaustive or exclusive—contains
some of the themes the conference intends to address:

Classic problems and questions of phenomenology and hermeneutics
The overcoming of metaphysics as a task of a new epoch
Papers on recently published volumes from Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe and
recently published translations
The significance or insignificance of the existential analytic for
contemporary society
Space, place, and dwelling in Heidegger’s work
Potential applications of Heidegger’s topology, topography, and geography
Heidegger’s influence on environmental thought and architecture
Heidegger’s relation to literary and film studies
Heidegger’s relationship to Eastern thought and his reception in the East
Political and social issues arising from Heidegger’s engagement with
National Socialism
Heidegger’s contribution to the philosophy of science
Heidegger among the psychiatrists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists
The post-modern and post-continental engagement with Heidegger
The future of Heidegger’s philosophical thought

The conference language is English, and each speaker will be allotted
twenty minutes of presentation time. Please e-mail an abstract of
approximately 250 words to: heidegger2010@gmail.com. Please include a
separate page with the title of the paper, the name of the author, your
institutional affiliation, and e-mail address.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 23th

Organizers:
Paul Ennis
Dr. Tziovanis Georgakis

Token Women

2010-04-23T09:32:00.002+01:00

There's a great article today in the Guardian about tokenism in the arts by Bidisha. Check it out here.

My general response to events that feature either no women on panels or only put one woman on the panel of 4 or 5 is that I just don't attend. I won't pay for events that are unconsciously (or consciously) sexist. Bidisha's article has inspired me to ask - what if we boycott an event in London this summer? Is it possible to put word out to the extent that on, say, the 3rd day of the How the Light Gets In festival, no women attend? Would anyone notice? Might make for an interesting experiment.

Let's divvy up equality.

2010-04-22T19:16:00.000+01:00

I've been reading a whole helluva lot lately, so I can't be sure who's written that when men are unequal and women are unequal, we reach a certain level of equality. I thought we might approach inequality as one would a negotiation. How would such a negotiation go? Imagine a boardroom where all the men and women of the world are sat on opposite sides of the table. (The transfolks, androgynous folks and everyone else of indeterminate sex would also need to sit on the women's side simply because women don't tend to kill these people and men do.) So, we're in the boardroom:

The women agree that the men can have professional sport and that they'll take majority representation in government (in the UK, this would be 70%).
The men agree that they would like to keep objectifying women as sex objects and in return will give up prostitution and pornography.
The women agree to buy into the illusion that the Iraq war is about democracy and the men agree to shut down Fox news.

Everyone's happy until the women decide they're done with childcare. They agree men should take over childcare and in return women will support the pub industry.

I especially like this last solution. :-)

Palin by Comparison

2010-04-22T09:19:00.000+01:00

Sarah Hickman is a local Texas singer/ songwriter. This song includes an awesome genealogy of women who've left the world better than they've found it, something we're all quite certain Palin will not accomplish. Check it out.

Glee: Are you really that surprised?

2010-04-21T08:31:00.000+01:00

So here's the major plot line: There's this guy in his 30s who teaches Spanish at a high school. He has two women after him (sometimes 3). These include: his wife, his co-worker and random other hotties that find him adorable.

Here's the second major plot line: There's this guy in his teens who's captain of the football team, quarter back and male lead in the glee club. He has two women after him. These include: the girl he thought he knocked up and the female lead in glee club.

Is anyone surprised that the show is deeply, deeply sexist? It portrays a world in which girls moon over guys they can't get and guys feel confused and often quite lucky that so many girls moon after them.

And yet! Who's the most interesting person on Glee:

Without question, if Jane Lynch wasn't covering the comedy portion of the show, it would look a lot like High School Musical (shudder). Jane Lynch, I would argue, also played one of the most interesting characters on the L Word. I've chosen in my own feminist way to ignore the moony-boy plot lines in Glee and cheer at the fact that a woman is doing brilliant comedy on television.

Stepping off my soap box . . .

Kristeva in London - 24 May 2010

2010-04-21T08:19:00.000+01:00

Check it out!

In conversation with Julia Kristeva

Jacqueline Rose and Marian Hobson talk to Julia Kristeva about her life and work

6.30pm - 8.00pm, followed by a drinks reception

Monday, 24 May 2010
British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1

Julia Kristeva, FBA, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, is a writer, psychoanalyst, a professor at the Institut Universitaire de France and a full member of the Paris Société psychoanalytique. She is a major theorist of literature, someone who could claim to have introduced a whole way of writing about literature to Western Europe (she is Bulgarian in origin). She is also an important theorist of psychoanalysis and feminism, and a novelist. Her work has been recognised by many awards: the Holberg Prize (2004), the Hannah Arendt Prize (2006), the Vaclav Havel Prize (2008) and the 2010 Prix Simone de Beauvoir.

She has also (and sometimes at the same time) been a Head of Department at Paris7, where she directs the doctoral programme 'Langue, literature, image,' a member of the Economic Environmental and Social Council of France, and was recently charged by President Sarkozy with the composition of a report on 'The intercultural vocation of French as an international language: the cultural message of France'. She is the author of some thirty works including Revolution in Poetic Language, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, the trilogy Female Genius: Hannah Arendt, Melanie Klein and Colette, Hate and Forgiveness, The Incredible Need to Believe (2007), Possessions: A Novel, Murder in Byzantium, and two works soon to be published in English, Seule une femme and Thérèse mon amour (2008).

About the Speakers
Marian Hobson, CBE, FBA, is Professorial Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Jacqueline Rose, FBA, is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London.

Registration is not required for this event. Seats will be allocated on arrival.

This visit is made possible by the support from the S T Lee Visiting Fellowship fund, endowed through the generosity of Dr S T Lee of Singapore.

What you're reading

2010-04-20T09:06:00.000+01:00

Good morning blogland.

I thought I'd take a moment and share with you what you're reading. There aren't many 'yous' in the 'you're' I'm referring to. I get about 30 visitors a day, which I think is marvellous considering that all I post are updates on academic feminist events going on the in the world.

However, there is a trend in your reading that is disturbing me. Most people who visit this blog are looking for something on Christina Hoff Sommers. (Now that I've written her name, I'll get 15 new visits). I find this incredibly unsettling. Here I am telling you about Irigaray, about Kristeva (who by the way is giving a talk in London in May) about Nina Power and Ariel Levy and you're here to find Christina Hoff Sommers. My only hope is that you're looking for dirt to support an argument detailing why that woman should neither be teaching nor publishing under the category of feminism, even as feminism dissident.

Here's some ammunition:

http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9502/sommers.html Hoff Sommers thinks feminists are creating a 'rape culture' on American campuses. She thinks that the 1 in 4 statistic published by studies is creating unnecessary feelings of anxiety amongst young women. Hoff fails, however, to consider the reality of rape - that most victims know the men that rape them - those men are their fathers, their husbands, boyfriends and friends. For an argument that DOES consider the reality of rape, check out Kat Banyard's The Equality Illusion. It's well-written and well-researched, meaning that if you choose to disagree, she's pointed very clearly to where you can take issue.

And Sommers book on how feminism has harmed boys? 'The WAR against boys?' Good lord. let's read the snippet so as to understand the lack of academic rigour in this book:

'It's a bad time to be a boy in America. As the century drew to a close, the defining event for American girls was the triumph of the U.S. women's soccer team. For boys, the symbolic event was the mass killing at Columbine High School.'

Wait, did she just say that the 'defining' event for girls was the triumph of a soccer team? Unless you follow women's sport (which I don't and I suspect a large proportion of American's don't either) how would you know the girl's soccer team won anything? I seriously doubt that such an event was 'defining'. Hoff Sommers seems bent on perpetuating the sex divide. Rather than consider that both girls and boys suffer in different ways and that by creating environments in which both are encouraged to communicate and to think scientifically, Hoff Sommers argues that there is a 'War against boys'.

At the very least, she should be ignored for perpetuating the myth that the sexes are 'waring'. This myth gets us (women/ men, children, the elderly, the poor) no-where.

HowTheLightGetsIn festival

2010-04-19T11:27:00.000+01:00

I suppose we should feel grateful for the 10 women participating in the 'philosophy sessions' at the 'How the Light Gets In' philosophy and music festival in Hay. I hope that the women invited are outspoken and confident as they are the minority in each session they've been asked to participate in. No 'philosophy session' in the line-up has more women on the panel than men. Surprising? no. Disappointing? yes.

Here the programem:

http://www.howthelightgetsin.org/tickets-and-programme-2/

Throw it against the wall to see if it sticks.

Invitation to the Seminar of Luce Irigaray

CFP: Invitation to Luce Irigaray Post-Graduate Seminar

Title and Abstract for Luce Irigaray talk, London 5 December

Roundtable on Latina Feminism - CFA

Additional Info on Howard University

University Officers

Irigaray conference - London - Registration open

CFP: Evil, Women and the Feminine

Philosophy Dept cut - Howard University

Under-represented Groups in Philosophy

Emails in French

CFP: Women in Contemporary French & Francophone Theatre

CFP: Genealogies: Graduate Symposium on the History of Women & Gender

Five College Dissertation Fellowship

Dundee Research Seminar Series

Gender & Space - Newcastle - 29 October

Reminder: CFP: (Re)branding Feminism

(RE)BRANDING FEMINISM

A conference hosted by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5ND.1st -2nd March 2011.

JOB: Feminist Philosophy - Oklahoma

Public Lecture - Gender and Political Theory - London

Special Issue - Informal Logic - feminist epistemology

Job: Feminist Philosophy - PA

JOB: Feminist Philosophy - Connecticut

FWSA student essay prize - deadline 1 November

A new (school) year

CFP - ReBranding Feminism - Deadline 1 October 2010

PhD Bursary - Feminist Philsophy - Dundee

CFP: Women and Religion - Bristol

Carnival of feminist cultural activism

New posts

Announcement - FWSA Event

CFP: Centre for the Study of Women and Gender - post-grad

Call For Design - Women's History Month

CFP - Sexual Nationalisms

CF Submissions - TheAlogies of the Goddess

A note on Rebranding Feminism Conference

PhD Scholarship in Global Women's Studies

CFP: Doing Women's Film History: Reframing

CFP: Motherhood and Philosophy - US

CFP: Motherhood, Servitude and Care

Editors sought for thirdspace, a journal of feminist theory

Conference on Women's Worlds - Canada 2011

What is Feminism For? Monday 14 June - Lucy Cavendish College

UK Feminista Summer School - How cool is this?

Women 2.0 - The history of the movement

CFP: P-SWIP Annual Fall Meeting

Funny Friday

Women, Power and Politics - London - Theatre

CFP: Art of Gender in Everyday Life - Idaho

Fellowship for Women in Philosophy

Toril Moi Lecture - Nottingham - 29 June

Luce Irigaray - Public Lecture - 16 June Nottingham

hetero-gay

Irigaray: Public Lecture in June in UK

Middlesex: Further action needed

Lots of things are going on!

Project Funding Opportunity - Humanities

New York Times forgets that Gen X has any women in it

Updates on Middlesex from Peter Hallward & what to do now

Reminder: CFP: Irigaray Summer School

Essay Prize: Philosophy

Philosophy of Psychiatry Workshop

Fellowship Opportunity in Humanities

Closure of Philosophy at Middlesex - updates

CFP - Women in Philosophy of Education

CFP - (Re)branding Feminism Conference

Another Philosophy Dept. bites the dust

The Women in Philosophy debate - How the Light Gets in

Puritanical Feminism - the bursting of my bubble.

CFP - Levinas and Psychology of the Other - Seattle

Excellent piece on Gaga and feminism

21st Century Heidegger CFP - Dublin

Token Women

Let's divvy up equality.

Palin by Comparison

Glee: Are you really that surprised?

Kristeva in London - 24 May 2010

What you're reading

A conference hosted by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5ND.
1st -2nd March 2011.