[ecrea] Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies 4: Call for Proposals

FEMMSS 4: Call for Proposals

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
<_mailto:hundleby@uwindsor.ca_> @ <_mailto:hundleby@uwindsor.ca_>
uwindsor <_mailto:hundleby@uwindsor.ca_> .
<_mailto:hundleby@uwindsor.ca_> ca <_mailto:hundleby@uwindsor.ca_> .
Please note “FEMMSS4 submission” in the subject line.