CFP: Fourth Annual Meeting of Society For Women in Philosophy Turkey (SWIP-TR)

Over the past year, the pandemic has rendered precariousness as our ontological condition ever more salient. As we are pushed to live in isolation, face our own mortality on a daily basis, witness millions of people falling ill, live in the midst of economic uncertainty and fear for our loved ones, women face disproportionate burdens as we are expected to fulfil our pre-pandemic responsibilities in addition to these new challenges. In spite of these difficulties, carving out the time to write and develop our ideas has rarely been more necessary. Growing more and more isolated and for the most part separated from our intellectual communities, the need to come together and share our ideas has seldom felt more acute.

Given the pressing urgency and necessity of philosophical reflection in the context of this global public health emergency, the Society for Women in Philosophy Turkey invites papers that engage questions around life and death--broadly construed--from a philosophical lens.

We welcome all philosophical approaches and traditions, especially those that have been historically underrepresented or epistemically suppressed.The conference will consist of virtual panels on Zoom in Turkish and English spread over two days (November 19-20).

We envisage a wide range of contributions on philosophies of life and death, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

- race, biopower, and necropolitics
- vitalism and indigenous metaphysics
- ecocentrism, post- & trans-humanism, and beyond human life
- philosophy as a way of life and the aesthetics of existence
- mortality and the afterlife
- virtue, happiness, and the good life
- nihilism, will to power, and life affirmation
- forms of social death, hate crimes, and structural violence
- suicide, absurdity, and the meaninglessness of life
- precarity, vulnerability, and care
- war, genocide, and asylum
- death and mourning
- Dasein and being-toward-death
- alienation and labor as life activity
- domestic violence and femicide
- sickness and health
- zoe, bios, and bare life
- pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion
- aging and disability
- imprisonment, hunger strikes, and capital punishment

We invite self-identified women philosophers to submit extended abstracts (900-1200 words) or full papers (3000 words) for blind review.

Keynote Speakers:

Seyla Benhabib, Yale University

Banu Bargu, UC Santa Cruz

Yıldız Silier, Bogazici University

Submissions:

Email: Please email your contact information and anonymized abstracts in a separate document to [email protected] (either as a Word or PDF file) with the subject title "2021 SWIP-TR Abstract Submission".

Review Process: Submissions will be evaluated according to the criteria described on our SWIP-TR website. At the request of the authors, feedback will be provided for unaccepted abstracts.

Publication: The articles presented at the conference will be published (after another independent review process) in the Kilikya Journal of Philosophy. For more information about the journal please visit: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/kilikya