CFP: U.S. MIDWEST SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOOPHY CONFERENCE

Call for Abstracts:

The U.S. Midwest Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy (MWSWIP) invites papers in all areas of feminist philosophy, theory, and praxis, including but not limited to ethics, social/political philosophy, phenomenology, existentialism, epistemology, and metaphysics. MWSWIP is interested in enriching discussions about contemporary social and political issues, and we welcome work that interrogates how such issues intersect with race, gender, ability, class, and so on.

For our 2025 conference, MWSWIP is pleased to welcome MICH CIURRIA as our keynote speaker.

Submission Guidelines: 

Submit an extended abstract of 800-1000 words with a preliminary bibliography prepped for blind review. As a separate attachment, please include a cover page with the paper title, any institutional affiliation, rank or occupation you may have, and email address of the presenters. Submit all documents in MS Word to [email protected] by December 20th, 2024. 

In light of this year’s keynote, we are particularly interested in submissions that engage with marginalized perspectives on responsibility and moral agency, and/or the work of Mich Ciurria specifically, and will give preference to submissions that address this topic.

Other potential themes include:

-       Reproductive Justice

-       Mass Incarceration, Cradle-to-prison Pipeline, and Carceral Feminisms

-       Sexual Assault and Gender-based Violence

-       Police and State Violence against People of Color and Trans* People

-       Coloniality and Decolonial Methodologies

-       Queer/Crip Theory and Disability Studies

-       Insurrectional Political Action and Uprisings

-       Climate Change, the Anthropocene, and Muzzling/Silencing of Climate Research

-       Indigeneity and Indigenous Rights

-       Immigration, Assimilation, and Statelessness 

-      Austerity Measures and Neoliberalism

-       Food Justice and Food Politics

-       Social Epistemology, esp. investigations into and critical readings of epistemology of         

        ignorance and epistemology of resistance literature

-       Pluralist and/or Multiplicitous theories of Identity

The program committee gives preference to women and members of other marginalized groups who are working on feminist projects that engage multiple axes of oppression. We also welcome the work of scholars at any stage in their careers.