CFP: Trans* Experience in Philosophy Conference

Submission deadline: January 10, 2016

Conference date(s):
May 13, 2016 - May 15, 2016

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Conference Venue:

Philosophy Department, University of Oregon
Eugene, United States

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Trans* Experience in Philosophy Conference- Call For Papers

May 13-15, 2016, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Submission Deadline: January 10, 2016

This conference aims to explore the intersections between transgender studies and philosophy by bringing philosophical reflections to bear on trans* experience, representation, identity, and politics. We welcome papers that engage a variety of issues or topics, including but not limited to trans* embodiment, ethical concerns specific to trans* persons, the relationship between transgender studies and feminist philosophy, and how classical philosophical frameworks might elucidate aspects of trans* experience. Through these reflections, we also hope to interrogate our understanding and practice of inclusivity in academia. Considering the attention given to the status of women in philosophy in more recent years, we are particularly interested in addressing the practices, content, and implicit biases of philosophy with regard to non-conforming genders and non-cisgender bodies.

Papers engaging with trans* experience and perspectives broadly construed from all philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches are welcome. Priority will be given to submissions with an intersectional emphasis and, when relevant, of those directly affected by or self-reflectively allied with the trans* persons.

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Talia Mae Bettcher and Dr. C. Riley Snorton

Critical Conversation Workshop: Feminist Inclusivity and Transfeminisms

This workshop seeks to problematize and ponder ways to remedy the exclusion of transwomen that continue to prevail implicitly or explicitly in certain strands of feminist thought and politics. It aims to grapple with issues of inclusion within feminist philosophy in particular and explore new definitions of transfeminisms. This will be a participant led workshop.

Topics to consider may include, but are not limited to:

·      Trans* experience at the intersection of race, class, sexuality, (dis)ability, nationality,      coloniality, etc.

·      Methodological, political, and philosophical debates between feminist philosophy and transgender studies

·      Transfeminism/Queer feminism

·      Trans* exclusion/inclusion in feminism

·      Pedagogical and professional barriers for trans* persons

·      Ambiguity, alterity, and/or fluidity of gender in western and non-western contexts

·      Non-binary identities and/or experiences of gender in postcolonial contexts

·      The coloniality of gender, trans* experience, and the possibility of decolonial transfeminism

·      Discursive practices of pathologization and normalization in law, medicine, education, etc.

·      Cis exclusivity, normativity, and privilege in philosophy as a discipline

·      Trans* embodiment

·      Trans* issues in applied ethics

·      Trans perspectives as methodology

·      Gender diversity, globalization, and capitalism

·      Trans* issues at the intersection of imperialism and gender

·      Transnationalism and transgender

Please send your submission to [email protected] by January 10, 2016. In the body of the email message, please include: your paper or panel title, name, institutional affiliation, e- mail address, surface mail address, and phone number. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed.

Individual Papers
Please submit a completed paper of no more than 3000 words (exclusive of footnotes and bibliography), along with an abstract of 100-250 words, for anonymous review. The word count (max. 3000) should appear on the top of the first page of your paper. A separate title page with identifying information of the author(s), including electronic address, paper title, abstract, and word count should also be submitted.

 

Panels
Please clearly mark your submission as a panel submission both in the body of the e-mail and on the submission itself. Your submission should include the panel title, an abstract of the panel (100-250 words), abstracts for individual papers (100-250 words per paper), and papers in one document, prepared for anonymous for review. Individual papers should be no more than 3000 words (exclusive of footnotes and bibliography). A separate title page with identifying information of the author(s), including electronic address, paper title, abstract, and word count should also be submitted.

If you have any questions about the conference email the conference committee at [email protected]

This conference is generously supported by Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy through a Hypatia Diversity Project Grant.

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