Paper proposals are invited for the fourth conference of the Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies (FEMMSS) to be held at The Pennsylvania State University, May 10-12, 2012. For more information about FEMMSS and our past conferences see femmss.org.
We welcome new participants and perspectives from across the academy and outside it that provide feminist discussion on any topic in epistemologies, methodologies, metaphysics, or science studies. Note the following broad themes of recent and ongoing interest:
- Practicing & teaching science as a feminist
- Gender, justice & climate change
- Liberatory approaches to science policy
- Feminist perspectives on cognition, logic, argumentation & rhetoric
- Liberatory methodologies
- Knowledges of resistance
- Experience, authority & ignorance
- Science, technology & the state
- Public philosophy
Proposals of 250-300 words, plus bibliography, and a CV of no more than 3 pages should be combined in a single Word (or Rich Text Format) file. Submissions by e-mail attachment are due by August 1, 2011 to hundleby@uwindsor.ca. Please note “FEMMSS4 submission” in the subject line.
Dr. Catherine Hundleby Associate Professor of Philosophy Cross-appointed to Women’s Studies Fellow, Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric MAILING ADDRESS: Department of Philosophy University of Windsor 401 Sunset Avenue Windsor, Ontario Canada N9B 3P4 PHONE: 253-3000, ext. 3947 E-MAIL: hundleby@uwindsor.ca