Society for Women in Philosophy. For information on SWIP membership, which includes receiving program announcements, the national SWIP newsletter, and a discount subscription to Hypatia, contact the SWIP chapter in your area:
Eastern SWIP: Executive Secretary: Wendy Lee-Lampshire, Department of Philosophy, 219 Bakeless Center for the Humanities, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. (E-mail: [email protected]). Treasurer: Nancy Stanlick, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, University of North Florida, 4567 St. John's Bluff Road, South, Jacksonville, FL 32224- (E-mail: [email protected]).
Midwest SWIP: Executive Secretary: Jacqueline Anderson, Dept. of Humanities, City College of Chicago, Olive-Harvey College, Chicago, IL 60628. Treasurer: Lorraine Ironplow, P.O. Box 251, Elmira, OR 97437. (E-mail: [email protected]).
Pacific SWIP: Executive Secretary: Wanda Teays, Mt. St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA 90049. Treasurer: Renee Lewis, Philosophy Department, California State Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90032-8114-
Call for Papers: 8th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers (lAPh), to be held August 6-10, 1998 in Boston, MA just prior to Paedeia: 20th World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy Educating Humanity. In keeping with that theme, the IAPh Symposium is titled Lessons from the Gynaeceum: Women Philosophizing-Past, Present, and Future. Papers on all aspects of feminist philosophy are welcome including historical pieces, discussions of the vast array of current issues in feminist philosophy and theory, and speculative work about the future directions philosophy of, by, and about women may take. A 250-500 word abstract of your paper should be sent to one of the Chairs of the two IAPh program committees: Abstracts of papers in German or French should be sent to Maja-Pellikaan-Engel, Wiertdijkje 28, NL - 1861 CE Bergen, The Netherlands. FAX +31. (0) 72.525. 45 29; Abstracts of papers in English or Spanish should be sent to Linda Lopez McAlister, Department of Women's Studies, HMS 413, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. FAX +(813) 974-0336. (E-mail: [email protected].) Deadline for submission of abstract: August 15, 1997.
The Society for the Study of Women Philosophers will sponsor two sessions at the Twentieth World Congress of Phifosophy, held at the Marriott Hotel, Copley Plaza, in Boston, Massachusetts on August 10-16, 1998. The general theme of the world congress is “Paideia: Philosophy educating Humanity.” The theme of the SSWP call for papers is Contributions of the Women Philosophers to the Education of Humanity.“Women Philosophers” may refer to women past and present, already recognized or newly discovered. The SSWP also seeks papers revealing important philosophical ideas in the work of women poets, novelists, artists, and essayists, as well as papers reflecting on the way that the work of philosophy itself is affected by women's contributions. Work on women from non-western traditions in welcomed. Because these sessions are in addition to our regular sessions at the Eastern and Pacific division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, we welcome proposals in which you may develop the theme above in relationship to work you may have already presented at earlier SSWP sessions.
Deadline for Proposals: October 15, 1997. Send ten copies of papers to: Dr. Mary Ellen Waithe, Director of Bioethics Program, 1930 Rhodes Tower, Cleveland State University, Cleveland OH 44115. Papers should be no longer than 15 pages, typed, double-spaced. Presentations with discussion should be timed for no longer than 45 minutes. Presenters are encouraged to become members of the society.
The Journal of Women's History is soliciting essays for a Special Issue Women and Fundamentalism: Perspectives on the New Religious Politics. We are particularly interested in contributions on both current and past religious/political movements that are often called “fundamentalist.” Nikki R. Keddie and Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi will serve as guest editors, and the issue will appear early in 1999. We are specifically seeking works that shed light on the rise of movements with conservative gender positions within diverse religious traditions such as Hinduism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity. We especially encourage articles that provide historical perspectives on the rise of contemporary religiopolitical movements; compare two or more such movements; or analyze women and religious politics in the past.
The deadline for submission is September 1, 1997. Send 4 copies of your manuscript (no more than 10,000 words, including endnotes) to Fundamentalism Issue, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, The Ohio State University, 230 W. 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210. For more details on submission policy, email [email protected] or see the Notice to Contributors page in any issue of the Journal of Women's History.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society seeks submissions for a Special Issue on Institutions, Regulation, and Social Control, slated for publication in summer 1999. At every historical moment, contemporary life is shaped by multiple, intersecting systems and processes of social, psychological, cultural, and political regulation. How is lived experience influenced by social, political, economic institutions, by the diverse discourses whereby social impulses are created, shaped, narrowed, regulated? How do processes and experiences of regulation differ by genders, races, ethnicities, classes, sexualities, nationatities? How do artistic and cultural representations produce and/or respond to regulation, broadly conceived? What regulatory work is performed by artistic and critical traditions, forms, and conventions? Are there processes and experiences of regulation that transcend difference, in the context of power inequalities? What can we learn about the shifting meanings of feminisms by exploring processes of regulation? This special issue will address concerns such as the organization and enactment of particular social institutions, including militaries, prisons, schools, religious institutions, and families; the regulation of physical bodies through codes of sexuality and technologies that limit physical freedoms; political and cultural regulations through the rise to power of conservative forces such as the religious right; conflicts and complicities between states’ regulatory practices and situated ethnic nationalisms and allegiances; institutional processes of social control; transnational systems of regulation of populations and their migrations; influences of this multitude of systems of regulation on daily lived experience. This special issue will also address not only resistances to this regulation and social control but also new and more complicated and nuanced thinking about resistance itself. We encourage multidisciplinary analyses that explore the dynamics of interaction between everyday actors and communities on the one hand and regulatory systems on the other. And, importantly, this issue will address intersections among systems of regulation and social control, as they reinforce, undermine, and contradict each other. The editors welcome submissions that are based on either collaborative or independent scholarship. They also welcome submissions from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, disciplines, and approaches to this complex and multifaceted topic.
The special issue editors will include Professors Christine De Stefano (Department of Political Science) andPriscilla Wald (Department of English) of the University of Washington and the Signs Board of Associate Editors. Additional editors will be announced shortly. Please submit articles (five copies) no later than October 31,1997, to Signs,“Institutions, Regulation, and Social Control,” Box 354345, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4345. Please observe the guidelines in the “Notice to Contributors” printed in the current issue of Signs.
The Society for the Stud}of Women Phihsophers seeks papers or proposals for discussions at a session, Why Are There No Great Women Phihsophers? at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, to be held in March, 1998. Especially sought are papers on the following:
• Discovery of work by previously unknown women philosophers
• An aspect of the thought of a recognized woman philosopher
• Philosophical work on women poets, novelists, artists, etc.
• The nature of Philosophy as affected by women's contributions
Completed papers should be no longer than 15 pages, typed, double spaced. Presentations should be timed for 45 minutes or less, including discussion. Papers and proposals will be blind reviewed by SSWP pacific meeting co-coordinators. Deadline for proposals is September 1, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be made by December 1, 1997. Presented papers will be considered for publication in future issues of SSWP papers. Presenters are encouraged to become members of the Society. For further information, contact Robin Parks, (360) 758-7244 (e-mail [email protected]); or Jane Duran, (805) 893-8132 (e-mail [email protected]).
Call for Papers: Rereading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Augustine. There is hardly a figure in western thought whose ideas about women generate more controversy than Augustine of Hippo—a thinker who has exerted an enormous and enduring influence on western culture since the fifth century. Feminist Interpretations of Augustine will be part of the Re-Reading the Canon under the general editorship of Nancy Tuana, published by Penn State Press. This collection will reflect the breadth of Augustine's thinking and will include essays from a wide range of feminist approaches—those already underway as well as those newly conceived. Analyses and critiques from many feminist perspectives and intersecting disciplines are welcomed. Topics may include but are not limited to Augustine's views on women, the body, human sexuality, marriage and the family; the contested notion of “imago Dei”; women in the church and society; his views on concupiscence, love, friendship; and his notions of politics, the state, coercion and violence, especially as these relate to women.
Deadline for submission of completed manuscripts is September 15, 1997. Send inquiries, proposals, and two copies of papers to Dr. Judith C. Stark, Philosophy Department, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey 07079. (E-mail: [email protected]).
The Association f or the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry is sponsoring a conference for Philosophers and Mental Health Professionals, “Gender Perspectives in and on Psychiatric Theory and Practice”, May 30-31, 1998, in Toronto, Canada. The theme of this meeting is intentionally broad, and papers/panel proposals may deal with any dimension of this theme, such as ethical issues in clinical practice; gender and psychiatric classification; self identity, memory and early abuse; lesbian, feminist therapy; boundary issues and identity; gender in depressive subjectivity; eating disorders and gender; women as consumers of psychiatric services; personality disorders; women and gender in cross-cultural psychiatry, Lacanian psychoanalysis, French feminism, the intersections of race and gender in psychiatry and psychiatry and indigenous women. Abstracts of papers should be between 200-300 words and should be structured, addressing (1) the specific problems to be broached in the paper/panel (2) the methodological approach adopted (3) a brief summary of the main steps of the discussion and (4) the main conclusions drawn. Length of manuscripts should permit reading in 20-25 minutes or less. Panel proposals should follow the same format, and be restricted to a group of presentations which would together permit reading in a 60 minute time block. Panels pairing theorists with clinicians are particularly sought.
Submission Deadline: December 1,1997. Submit papers to Jennifer Radden, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA 02125. Telephone (617)287-6546 (e-mail [email protected])
SWIP-L, an electronic mail list f or feminist philosophers is the e-mail information and discussion list for members of the Society for Women in Philosophy and others who are interested in feminist philosophy. To subscribe to this list send the following one-line message: SUBSCRIBE SWIP-L <YOUR NAME> to LISTSERV@CFRVM (Bitnet) or to [email protected] (Internet). When you want to post messages on the list send them to SWIP-L@CFRVM or to [email protected]. The purpose of the list is to provide a place to share information about SWIP and other feminist philosophy meetings, calls for papers, jobs for feminist philosophers, etc., as well as to engage in more substantive discussions related to feminist philosophy. While the list is open to both SWIP members and non-members, it is meant for feminist philosophers and theorists. It is free of charge. The SWIP-L's “owner” is Linda Lopez McAlister. If you have questions please e-mail her at ([email protected]).
