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The 11th Postgraduate Course “Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective”:Love and Terror (Extremis Malis Extrema Remedia)Dubrovnik, IUC, May 22-26, 2017Call for ApplicationsFaced with the current moral collapse in dealing with migrations prompted by terror, with the supposed“importation of terror” by (im)migrants, with actual terrorist attacks and their various performativemodes (cfr. Bharucha, 2014), as well as with the justification for anti-terrorist measures that thrive onmore subtle and less visible forms of terrorizing, we propose a radical response of love. From minimalgestures of…

Uppsala University (Sweden); 22nd – 23rd May.   Keynote Speakers:  -       A. W. Eaton (University of Illinois at Chicago) -       Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University) -       Helen Frowe (Stockholm University, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace) -       Kristin Sampson (University of Bergen)   Aim:  The conference will bring together female philosophers from all areas, serve to further the interaction of our research community, provide a platform for female philosophers, and most importantly, provide inspiration for female students of philosophy whilst surrounded by such role…

CALL FOR PAPERS International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein in collaboration with the University of Portland and the McNerney-Hanson Endowed Chair in Ethics presents the Fourth Bi-Annual International Conference Applications & Implications: Ethics and Metaphysics in Edith Stein’s Philosophy June 8, 9, 10, 2017, University of Portland, USA Guest Speakers: Sarah Borden Sharkey (Wheaton College), Michael F. Andrews (University of Portland), Christof Betschart (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) and Suzanne M. Batzdorff Edith Stein (1891–1942) never…

Power, Reproduction, and Unpaid Work/Energy in the Capitalist World-Ecology World-Ecology 2017: Binghamton, USA Third annual conference of the World-Ecology Research Network 21-22 July, 2017, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY We welcome proposals for individual papers as well as paper sessions, book sessions, and panel discussions. Inquiries and proposals may be sent to: worldecology2017@gmail.com Deadline for proposals: 15 February, 2017: worldecology2017@gmail.com. Two important currents of critical thought have gained special prominence over the past decade: the Marxist critique of capitalist ecology, and…

CALL FOR PAPERS “Literature, Translation, and Mediation by and for Children: Gender, Diversity, and Stereotype” Università di Bologna, Campus di Forlì, 25-26-27 ottobre 2017 Il convegno internazionale è organizzato da MeTRa, Centro Studi interdisciplinari sulla Mediazione e la Traduzione a opera di e per ragazze/i. Gli interessi di ricerca del Centro MeTra sono molteplici e spaziano dalle problematiche linguistiche, pedagogiche e interculturali connesse alla traduzione di testi orientati a un pubblico di giovani lettrici/lettori e spettatrici/spettatori, alla riflessione critica sul…

A CfP for Gender, Work and Organisation. The special issue deadline is the end of February 2017 and the special issue aims to address the potential for feminist perspectives to enhance our understanding of work and nonhuman animals. Submissions may address questions such as: · How can feminist theory be used to reveal and understand the gendered labour of human and nonhuman animals within organizations? · In what ways can the feminist critical post-humanist and post-anthropomorphist approaches of thinkers like…

Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, & Ethics (CAPPE) University of Brighton Interdisciplinary Conference Giving Life to Politics: The Work of Adriana Cavarero 19th June - 21st June 2017 Keynote Speakers Adriana Cavarero Judith Butler Bonnie Honig This three-day conference is a sustained engagement with, and celebration of, the life work of Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero. It also marks the publication of her most recent text Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude (Stanford University Press, 2016). Adriana Cavarero has been at…