Queer Aɸ Conference @ UC Santa Cruz

The UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference at UC Santa Cruz on April 12-13, 2025 (the Saturday and Sunday before the Pacific APA, which starts on the 15th in San Francisco). The aim of the conference is to foreground philosophical work in the analytic tradition (very broadly conceived) that is informed by queer experience, community, and theorizing, as well as to build community among queer scholars in philosophy. In addition to talks, the conference will include a workshop on LGBTQIA+ activism and philosophy, a party (of course), and other glam surprises.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Imagination and desire from a queer perspective

• Ideology, propaganda, and queer and anti-queer activism

• Standpoint epistemology and cishet ignorance

• Self-knowledge of gender and sexuality

• Discriminatory language and hate speech

• Resistant queer linguistic practices

• Identity labels and the representation of queer identities

• Varieties of essentialism about LGBTQ+ identities

• Queer solidarity and queer forms of political organizing

• Re-imagining and abolishing the family

• Gender reform and abolitionism

• The metaphysics of sex, gender, and sexuality

• Queer critiques of science

• Queer aesthetics and the aesthetics of queer art

• Philosophical aspects of historical queer thought

• Queer approaches to the emotions and to reactive attitudes

• Queer approaches to the philosophy of love, sex, and relationships

• Bioethics and the treatment of queer bodies