Settembre 2018
Feminism & Technology Conference
School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, 3rd- 4th December 2018 Technology is changing the way humans relate to the world and to each other at an ever-increasing rate. While many of the changes are positive, the infiltration of technology into almost every aspect of human life and the potential for its misuse raise serious questions. An important dimension of such considerations concerns the impact of emerging technologies on feminism. While the question of feminist technology has been recently raised…
Per saperne di più »Ottobre 2018
[AtGender] CFP Special Issue “Feminist new materialisms: Activating ethico-politics through genealogies in social sciences”
Message from the Guest Editors New materialisms refer to a specific ethico-political and onto-epistemological turn deeply committed to decentralize knowledge production, cut across pre-established dichotomies, and focus on processes transversing hierarchies of power relations that organize diverse forms of life. In particular, it is a methodology of situating material-discursive practices that form specific socio-cultural phenomena via a relational ontology. Here, different elements come to being through intra-actions. Agency materializes and redefines itself as a more than isolated human agency. This…
Per saperne di più »[cfp] On the Threshold: Ambiguities, Differences, Intersections in Simone de Beauvoir’s Oeuvre ///
November 22−24, 2018, University of Latvia, Riga Abstract Submission Deadline (extended): Monday, October 1st, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: Monday, November 17th, 2018 The international conference On the Threshold: Ambiguities, Differences, Intersections in Simone de Beauvoir's Oeuvre is dedicated to the 110th anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir’s birth. It is hosted by the Institute ofPhilosophy and Sociology and the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Latvia. Simone de Beauvoir refused to be called a philosopher. She did not identify herself as a feminist either, at least not initially. None of these disclaimers hold true…
Per saperne di più »Novembre 2018
CFA – Le donne filosofe dall’antichità ai giorni nostri /
Workshop organizzato da Università di Bergamo (LFC) & SWIP Italia Bergamo, 13-14 dicembre 2018 Keynote speakers: Caterina Pellò (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Cambridge University), Sandra Plastina (Università della Calabria) Benché il canone filosofico tradizionale sia popolato da figure quasi esclusivamente maschili e la filosofia accademica risenta ancora fortemente di pregiudizi di genere, il futuro della filosofia si prospetta più giusto ed egualitario. Il pensiero delle donne è infatti oggi oggetto di un maggiore riconoscimento e di una crescente rivalutazione: dalle filosofe pitagoriche…
Per saperne di più »CFP: “Feminist Ethics and the Question of Gender”
DE ETHICA - A JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND APPLIED ETHICS www.de-ethica.com <http://www.de-ethica.com> Special Issue: "Feminist Ethics and the Question of Gender" Why should feminist ethics and gender be a central focus in the work of philosophical and theological ethics? While this question has been discussed within the fields of feminist and gender theory, philosophers and theologians have often overlooked the category of gender in their work. Is feminist ethics a distinct ethical theory, or rather a category of inquiry in…
Per saperne di più »Dicembre 2018
Gender & Development: Feminist Values in Research issue
In November 2019, the international journal Gender & Development will examine the theme of Feminist Values in Research. G&D is a unique journal: a forum for the sharing of analysis and experience between feminist activists involved in development research, policy, and practice. For more information, visit http://www.genderanddevelopment.org Research needs to be rooted in the experience, needs, and interests of the whole of humanity. But down the centuries, educated elites have shaped and dominated research and defined knowledge and learning. This…
Per saperne di più »Gennaio 2019
Our Space, Our Place: Creating Ecofeminism // CFP //
Glasgow Women’s Library Saturday 30th March 2019 10am-4pm Global ecological activism is built on the work of women. Yet the value of women’s environmental campaigning and action often remains invisible. Our Space, Our Place: Creating Ecofeminism, a partnership between researchers at universities across Scotland and Glasgow Women’s Library, calls together ecofeminist academics, environmental campaigners, writers, artists, community workers and performers for a day of papers, performances and workshops, exploring how ecofeminist theory and practice can unite to imagine and realise…
Per saperne di più »Febbraio 2019
I International Conference Women in Modern Philosophy – Rio de Janeiro, June 2019
The First International Conference on Women of Modern Philosophy will be held in Rio de Janeiro, 17th to 20th June 2019). Rio de Janeiro is a national center of Early Modern Philosophy. All Brazilian researchers who confirmed participation in the meeting are heirs of that school of reading the history of philosophy with a method of conceptual analysis, with deep respect to the letter of the historical text. It will be be a joyous occasion for the beginning of an exchange and network on…
Per saperne di più »Marzo 2019
Simone de Beauvoir Studies (Brill)
Les Simone de Beauvoir Studies (SdBS) acceptent des articles pour être publiés dans la revue. Merci de regarder le site de la revue pour les instructions aux auteurs et aux autrices, et pour soumettre un article : www.brill.com/sdbs. Son premier numéro paraîtra en 2019 et il contiendra les articles sur les thèmes « Nouveau visage pour les Simone de Beauvoir Studies » (vol. 30, no. 1) et « Dialogues avec Beauvoir » (vol. 31, no. 2). SdBS est une revue interdisciplinaire à comité de rédaction dédiée aux écrits, à la pensée et à…
Per saperne di più »CFP – Beauvoir in Conversation
Simone de Beauvoir Studies is currently accepting submissions for its Fall Issue 2019 (Vol. 30, Issue 2), which will be oriented around the theme “Beauvoir in Conversation.” There are at least three relevant senses of conversation at play in the essays featured in this special issue. First, it implicates engagement with those thinkers who were Beauvoir’s interlocutors in life or on the page, as well as those conversations that are waiting to happen with thinkers whose ideas and writings speak to Beauvoir’s in…
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