CFP: Dominating Speech
Submission deadline: September 22, 2014
Conference date(s):
November 20, 2014 - November 23, 2014
Conference Venue:
Department of Philosophy, and other university departments, University of Connecticut
Hartford,
United States
Topic areas
Details
Call for Abstracts:
The Injustice League in the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut seeks abstracts on topics related to the conference theme. Suggested topics include: hate speech, slurs, propaganda, slut-shaming, bragging, and gossip.
Keynotes: Ishani Maitra (Michigan); Jason Stanley (Yale); Richard Wilson (UConn Law)
We seek philosophical work from a variety of subfields, including: ethics, political philosophy, social philosophy, philosophy of language, epistemology (e.g. epistemic injustice), feminist philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of race, and queer theory.
Please send abstracts of 750 - 1000 words, prepared for blind-review, to our project assistant, [email protected] by September 22nd, 2014. Please put "DS Submission" in the subject line of the email. Decisions will be made by the end of September.
If you have any questions pertaining to the conference, please email: [email protected]
Papers resulting from the conference will be strongly considered for publication in a special issue of Social Theory and Practice focused on the conference theme, guest edited by Hallie Liberto.