CFP: BIPPA Annual Conference 2022 - Race, Gender, Identity

Every year, the British and Irish Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BIPPA) organises its Annual Conference, when we aim at bringing together postgraduate students from all over the UK and the Republic of Ireland to present their work, meet their peers and strengthen the postgraduate philosophical community. The conference includes talks by graduate students, keynote addresses by senior academics, and the BIPPA Annual Careers Workshop. During the second day of the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to attend our BIPPA Annual Masterclass.

This year’s conference will take place in person at University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, on the 11th and 12th of November 2022. The theme of the conference is ‘Gender, Race, Identity’. We welcome proposals for talks that fall within this topic, broadly understood, from all postgraduate students in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. We particularly encourage applications from all who identify as members of underrepresented groups in academia. People who have previously completed a postgraduate degree and are in the transition to another are also welcome, regardless of their enrolment status. Some topic suggestions for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following:

·       The social and political dimension of identity (including any philosophy that concerns the historical, political and economic constitution of race, gender, sexuality and class and potentially their overlapping) 

·       Philosophy of personal identity (including debates in Metaphysics , Phenomenology, Existentialism, Frankfurt school and beyond)

·       Feminist philosophy (including under-represented canonical figures in the history of philosophy, feminist readings of the history of philosophy, branches of feminist philosophy e.g. Poststructuralist feminists, Black feminism, Marxist feminism, Analytic feminism and also lesser-known feminist thinkers)

·       Transgender philosophy, Transphilosophy, and Queer Theory 

·       Afro-futurism, afro-pessimism, Africana critical theory/Black existentialism and Critical Race theory

·       Post-colonial, anti-colonial thought and Orientalism 

·       Non-Western approaches to gender, race, personal identity, and social/political identity

To submit an abstract, please fill in the form below. Abstracts should be around 500 words, and cannot exceed 700 words. We also offer nine travel bursaries of up to £250 for participants of the event who will not have their expenses covered by their home university or their funding institution.

https://forms.gle/mtFBcUmLykQJ37bg8

In the form, you will be asked to answer the following information about yourself:

·       Name

·       Preferred pronouns

·       Affiliation

·       Email address

·       Postgraduate degree you are studying

·       Title of submission and abstract

·       Whether you consider yourself to be part of an underrepresented group in Philosophy

·       Whether you would like to be considered for our travel bursaries, and whether your university or funding institution could cover your travel expenses

The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to Sunday 11th September 2022, 12pm BST. Please, note that this is a hard deadlne. The selected candidates will hear back by the end of September. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

Please, note that participants at the conference will be asked to pay a conference fee of £20, in order to cover the costs of running the event. While we have tried to keep the fee to a minimum, we understand that some students may experience a difficult financial situation, so we will be happy to consider a fee waiver for these cases. 

We would like to thank the Royal Institute of Philosophy, as well as University College Dublin, for their generous support and the funding provided. We would also like to thank Kelly Louis Rexzy P. Agra (UCD) for her invaluable help in the organization of the event.