FEMMSS 4: Call for Proposals
Oct 31, 2010 → Aug 12, 2011
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.
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
Please register at femmss4. Enter an abstract of 250-300 words plus bibliography in the “abstract” section, then 3-10 keywords in “keywords” space. Upload a CV of no more than 3 pages in .pdf format or Word (.doc or .docx) into the space for a “paper.” Submissions are due by August 1. (If you have any difficulty with the system contact Hundleby