21st Annual Women & Society Conference - 2012
October 19 & 20, 2012
Marist College, Poughkeepsie New York
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2012 Women & Society Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students, so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered. Undergraduates may attend at no cost.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Linda Martín Alcoff
Dr. Linda Martín Alcoff will be delivering the keynote address on Friday, October 19th. A Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center who focuses on social identity and race, epistemology and politics, sexual violence, Foucault, and Latino issues in philosophy, Dr. Martín Alcoff has written two books: Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, which won the Frantz Fanon Award in 2009, Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory; and she has edited ten, including Feminist Epistemologies co-edited with Elizabeth Potter; Thinking From the Underside of History co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta; Epistemology: The Big Questions; Identities co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta; Singing in the Fire: Tales of Women in Philosophy; The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy co-edited with Eva Feder Kittay; Identity Politics Reconsidered co-edited with Michael Hames-Garcia, Satya Mohanty and Paula Moya; and Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion co-edited with Jack Caputo. She is currently at work on two new books: a book on sexual violence, and an account of political epistemology. A co-editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, she has held an ACLS Fellowship and a Society for the Humanities at Cornell University Fellowship. In 2006 she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business magazine.
Please send your 250 word abstract with a brief bio by July 15, 2012.
Papers, workshops, roundtables and panels are welcome; please include abstracts and bios for all participants, with one contact person. Please include all contact information--including home and e-mail addresses for summer correspondence to:
Women & Society Conference c/o Shannon Roper
Lowell Thomas 219
School of Communication & the Arts
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
OR
For more information e-mail: shannon.roper@marist.edu
Please circulate the CFP, thank you.
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