CfP: Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1750-1888, Copenhagen 13-14 June 2024.

Call for Papers

Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1750-1888

 

Conference at the University of Copenhagen

June 13^th -14^th 2024

 

 

 

Catherine Flon by Clunie Damus, 2009

 

In June 2023, an interdisciplinary network called Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World was launched with a two-day workshop at the University of Exeter (UK). The aim of the network is to bring together social historians, philosophers, historians of political thought, and art historians to recover how diverse actors—including enslaved litigants, reformers, colonial officials, and Black and African diasporic people—imagined post-slavery futures for the societies they inhabited and confronted fraught emancipatory realities. Participants at the Exeter workshop presented work grounded in a variety of thematic registers, from liminal geographies to post-emancipation unfreedom and the politics of memory. We learned about the struggles, visions, and plans of a range of actors engaged in the work of emancipation, from Haitian abolitionists forging networks of correspondence, to Liberian citizens building a post-slavery republic, European anti-slavery campaigners criticising plans for gradual emancipation, and Afro-Brazilian women in the Luso-Atlantic world embarking on ‘counter-voyages’ that challenge our understanding of the Middle Passage.

 

To build on this promising start, the network will reconvene again at the University of Copenhagen in June 2024 for a two-day conference and welcomes new and past participants. We invite papers that explore eighteenth and nineteenth century visions of emancipation from any region or people in the Atlantic World from 1750 to 1888. We welcome papers on this broad topic, but are also interested in papers that broach the following themes: the temporality of emancipation, contested spaces of emancipation, abolitionism in Africa, alternative historiographies of emancipation, inter-imperial connections and constellations, the impact of Atlantic abolitionism in the Indian and Pacific oceans, and global and transatlantic conversations and networks.

 

Abstracts of not more than 250 words should be sent to Dr Nicolai von Eggers Mariegaard (nicolai.mariegaard@hum.ku.dk) or to Dr Ross Carroll (ross.carroll@dcu.ie) by 1 March, 2024.  

 

The conference will take place at the University of Copenhagen from June 13^th to June 14^th, 2024. Conference participants will be expected to upload their papers to a shared folder two weeks prior to the conference start. During the conference, participants will present abbreviated versions of their papers on pre-set panels in order to facilitate maximum engagement and feedback among conference participants.

 

Steering Committee: Yesenia Barragan, Sandrine Bergès, Kelly Brignac, Brandon Byrd, Ross Carroll, Gunvor Simonsen, Nicolai von Eggers Mariegaard, and Norma Watson.

CFP: The Female Voice in Philosophical Conversations

Location: Australian Catholic University’s Rome Campus (Villa Maria)

Dates: May 30-June 1, 2024

Confirmed Speakers: Virginia Cox (Cambridge), Jana Matuszak (University of Chicago),

Katarzyna Jażdżewska (Warsaw), Julia Hairston (Rome)

Organizer: Dawn LaValle Norman (Australian Catholic University)

At various times and places in history, it was attractive to write philosophy as a conversation

between characters. Only very rarely are any of the philosophical speakers female. When the

female voice was used by male or female authors, it frequently leaned on gendered

associations, such as women’s expertise in certain ‘female’ topics such as love and

reproduction.

Yet, the story is not always so simple. This conference will explore when the female voice

was used, how it was deployed, and what it can illuminate about changing gender norms

and views about the definition and limits of philosophy.

The conference will bring together scholars on philosophical dialogues (as either genre or

discourse mode within other genres) from various time periods and languages, from the 2nd

millennium BCE to the modern day, who are working on theoretical issues around the use of

the female voice in philosophical discussion and drama.

We welcome papers dealing with the use of the female voice in philosophical dialogues

especially outside of the area of Classical and Renaissance literature, for which we already

have some coverage (although abstracts about these areas will certainly be considered).

Non-western topics are especially welcome, as are papers dealing with the 18th century and

later.

We expect to be able to cover housing and meal costs during the conference for accepted

participants but are unable to subsidize travel to Rome. We hope to gather approximately

fifteen scholars together for the workshop, and plan to publish the papers as a special issue

of a journal, subject to peer review.

This conference is sponsored by Dawn LaValle Norman’s Australian Research Council’s

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) on ‘The Female Voice in Ancient

Philosophical Dialogues’.

For consideration, please send your name, affiliation, and a 200-300 word abstract to

dawn.lavallenorman@acu.edu.au by Dec. 15th.

Call for Papers for Conference “Simone de Beauvoir as a Moral Philosopher”

29th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society

28-29 June, 2024, Freie Universität Berlin

 

Organizers: Manon Garcia and Esther Neuhann

Deadline Submission of Abstracts: December 10^th, 2023

 

 

The philosophical value of Beauvoir’s work has in recent decades begun to attract wider recognition. Papers about her work are now published in major journals, and philosophers of very different backgrounds and methods do philosophy with and from her work. Many scholars convincingly argue that her ideas are useful for analyzing our contemporary world. Yet, to many scholars and to the general public, she is primarily seen as a feminist writer, a political philosopher, or a phenomenologist. Literary studies have successfully emphasized the moral dimension of her work, focusing largely on her novels. However, we are convinced that many aspects of Beauvoir’s moral philosophy need to be (re)discovered, e.g., in moral psychology, metaethics, normative ethics. For this conference, we invite philosophers as well as political theorists, sociologists, and literary scholars, historians, linguists, anthropologists, and so on,

to contribute to a study of Beauvoir’s moral philosophy and ethical writing in general. 

 

Contributions on The Second Sex are of course most welcome, but we are also hoping to discuss her moral essays (Pyrrhus and Cineas, The Ethics of Ambiguity, etc.)as well asher travel diaries, her study of old age, her novels and memoirs. 

Some possible topics include: 

–       Normativity in Beauvoir’s work 

–       Existentialist ethics

–       Metaethics in Beauvoir

–       The articulation of moral and political normativity in Beauvoir

–       Morality and Violence

–       Beauvoir’s analysis of authenticity, of bad faith

–       Ambivalence and ambiguity

 

Keynote speakers: Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford University) and Michelle Kosch (Cornell University) 

 

Language: The conference will be trilingual in the sense that we are open to have half a day of parallel sessions in English, French, and German, to encourage scholars of German speaking countries and from French and Francophone countries to apply. However, the plenary sessions will be in English (possibly with handouts translated in French and German to increase accessibility). 

 

Abstract guidelines: 

1. Speakers will have 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. 
2. Please send your abstract of no more than 350 words and a short cv that includes your contact details and institutional affiliation, if any, to fupraktischephilosophie@gmail.com by December 10^th 2023.
3. Save your abstract and cv as Word files, naming them as follows: beauvoir2024yourfamilyname and beauvoir2024CVyourfamilyname.
4. In the subject line of your email, write: beauvoir2024submission.
5. Decisions will be communicated by the end of January 2024.

 

Conference fee

Participants are encouraged to pay membership dues to the Beauvoir Society https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html. There will not be a conference fee and we are hoping to get enough funding to cover meals for speakers. Attendees are responsible for arranging their own accommodation and travel.

 

Travel fund: Liliane Lazar Travel Fund provides support for financially challenged members of the Beauvoir Society whose papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference. And we are hoping to get enough funding to fund a few travel bursaries.  

ENN CfP Education, Virtue, and Citizenship/ Education, vertu, citoyenneté

Call for Papers

Education, Virtue, and Citizenship

Workshop organized by Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy

University of Jyväskylä, 4–5 March 2024

Till one moral and mental standard is established for … every member of a community,
and a free scope afforded for the exertion of their faculties and talents,
without distinction of rank or sex, virtue will be an empty name.

(Mary Hays, ‘Improvements Suggested in Female Education’, 1797)

Pour une version en français, merci de voir ci-dessous

Philosophical discussions of the interrelations between education, virtue, and citizenship go at least as far back as Plato’s Republic. With the Enlightenment, education became an essential aspect of what it is to be a virtuous citizen. With the growth of state power, education has also become a matter of the state, including its interests in molding specific kinds of citizens.

Education has often come with a promise of emancipation, especially from the perspective of marginalized groups including women as well as enslaved and colonized peoples. Different sciences and global knowledge exchanges have played a crucial role, for example, in changing perceptions of human differences. At the same time, education can be viewed as a powerful tool for reinforcing and reproducing existing conceptions of virtue and citizenship and thereby maintaining different systems of social and political stratification, oppression, and domination.

We invite papers that discuss various aspects of the relations and tensions between education, virtue, and citizenship. We are especially interested in papers that focus on the thought of philosophers who have been marginalized in the history of philosophy, such as women, Africana, Non-Christian, and Non-European philosophers as well as philosophers from the Northern and Eastern parts of Europe. Papers may discuss topics and figures from the medieval period to the early twentieth century. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• New perspectives on education, republicanism, and enlightenment
• Education, emancipation, and oppression
• Gendering and racializing virtue and citizenship
• Education, epistemology, and self-knowledge
• Education, natural rights, and citizenship
• Education, virtue, and religion
• Moral and civic visions of schools, universities, and curricula
• Feminist interpretations of the uses and misuses of education
• Theories of disabilities, access, and diversity
• Literary representations of the politics of education

Please send 300-word abstracts and 50-word bios by 17 December 2023 to elad.e.carmel@jyu.fi. Submissions by early career researchers, including PhD students, are especially encouraged. Funding for travel and accommodation will be largely provided to confirmed participants.

Notice of acceptance will be given by 7 January 2024, and confirmed participants should be prepared to submit draft papers by 18 February 2024. The workshop is planned to include 10–12 papers: each paper will be assigned 30 minutes for presentation and a discussant, who will present a comment, followed by a general discussion. Invited discussants include Jacqueline Broad, Marguerite Deslauriers, and Lisa Shapiro.

Organizing committee: Elad Carmel, Tuomas Parsio, and Martina Reuter. This workshop is part of the Extending New Narratives partnership project, supported by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada and partner institutions.

*

Appel à contribution

Education, vertu, citoyenneté

Atelier organisé par le projet Pour de nouveaux récits en histoire de la philosophie

Université de Jyväskylä, 4–5 Mars 2024

Les discussions philosophiques concernant les rapports entre éducation, vertu et citoyenneté peuvent être tracées au moins jusqu’à La République de Platon. Dans la période des Lumières, l’éducation devint un aspect essentiel de ce qui constituerait un citoyen vertueux. Avec l’accroissement du pouvoir de l’État, l’éducation devint une affaire de l’État, vu entre autres l’intérêt de celui-ci à former des citoyen de types spécifiques.

L’éducation a souvent été accompagnée d’une promesse de l’émancipation, notamment en ce qui concerne les groupes marginalisés, tels les femmes ainsi que les peuples assujetis à l’esclavage ou colonisés. De multiples sciences et d’échanges de savoirs au niveau global ont joué un rôle crucial quant aux changements dans la perception des différences humaines. Or en même temps, l’éducation peut être envisagée comme un puissant outil pour renforcer et reproduire les notions établies de la vertu et de la citoyenneté, au service du maintient des systèmes de stratification, oppression et domination politiques et sociales.

Nous souhaitons avoir des contributions sur les divers aspects des rapports et des tensions entre l’éducation, la vertu et la citoyenneté. Notre intérêt porte tout particulièrement sur les travaux autour de la pensée des philosophes marginalisé·e·s dans l’histoire de la philosophie, dont les femmes, les philosophes africain·e·s, non-chrétien·e·s ou non-européen·e·s, ainsi que celles et ceux de l’Europe du nord et de l’Europe de l’est. Vos contributions peuvent traiter de thèmes et d’individus depuis l’époque médievale jusqu’au début du XXème siècle. Voici une liste non exhaustive de thèmes suggérés:

• Nouvelles perspectives sur l’éducation, le républicanisme et les Lumières
• Education, émancipation et l’oppression
• Perspectives de genre et de race sur la vertu et la citoyenneté
• Education, épistémologie et connaissance de soi
• Education, droits naturels et citoyenneté
• L’éducation, la vertu et la religion
• Visées civiques et morales des écoles, des universités et des programmes d’enseignement
• Interprétations féministes des us et abus et l’éducation
• Théories de handicaps, d’accès et de diversité
• Représentations littéraires de la politique de l’éducation

Veuillez envoyer vos propositions (300 mots) accompagnées de votre notice biographique (50 mots) au plus tard le 17 décembre 2023 à elad.e.carmel@jyu.fi. Nous encourageons en particulier les chercheur·se·s en début de carrière, y compris les doctorant·e·s, à soumettre leurs propositions. Un financement couvrant une partie majeure des frais de déplacement sera proposé aux participant·e·s confirmé·e·s.

Les participant·e·s accepté·e·s receveront une confirmation au plus tard le 7 janvier 2024, et seront invité.e.s à partager une première version de leur contribution au plus tard de 18 février 2024. L’atelier comprendra entre 10 et 12 contribution. Chaque contributeur·rice aura 30 minutes pour présenter son travail, et bénéficiera des commentaires d’un·e discutant·e ainsi que d’une discussion générale. Jacqueline Broad, Marguerite Deslauriers et Lisa Shapiro sont parmi les discutant·e·s invité·e·s.

Comité d’organisation : Elad Carmel, Tuomas Parsio, Martina Reuter. Cet atelier fait partie du projet Pour de Nouveaux récits en histoire de la philosophie – Extending New Narratives soutenu par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada et nos institutions partenaires.

Two openings for ENN Postdocs

Supported by the SSHRC Partnership Grant Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy, postdoctoral fellows will conduct research related to the retrieval and recognition of philosophical works by women and individuals from other marginalized groups in both the European and non-European traditions. The project is focused on the historical period from roughly the 9th century through to the early 20th century. The successful applicant(s) will also assist in activities aligned with the project. Information about the project objectives can be found at newnarrativesinphilosophy.net  
 
Two post-doctoral positions are available for the 2024-25 academic year, each to be held at one of the Partner institutions (Simon Fraser University, Western, Guelph, McGill, Duke, Penn, Columbia, Monash, Sydney, Lyon-3, Nanterre, and Jyväskylä). While Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be able to be appointed to positions at non-Canadian institutions, non-Canadians can be appointed to positions only at Canadian institutions. 
 
The successful applicants will have a PhD in Philosophy (within the past five years), expertise in a period in the history of philosophy, and a demonstrated interest in research and pedagogy involving women thinkers and thinkers from other marginalized groups of that period. Experience in methods in digital humanities would also be helpful. The research proposed must be significantly different and distinct from, or add significantly to, that of the applicant’s doctoral thesis.
 
Appointments will be for a period of 12 months, ideally September 1, 2024 – August 31, 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere. However, because of potential delays in securing necessary documentation (work permits, etc.), start dates may be adjusted, but will not go past January 1, 2025.
 
Salary: CAD $55,000/year + benefits. Please submit electronically the completed application form, a letter of application that should explain how the proposed research is related to the Extending New Narratives project, your CV, and a description of a project to be worked on during the post-doc (no more than 750 words), and arrange for 3 letters of reference to be emailed to the ENN Management Committee at new_narratives@sfu.ca. Review of applications will begin 3 January 2024.

Projet « Pour de nouveaux récits en histoire de la philosophie »(« Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy »), Appel à candidatures pour deux bourses postdoctorales. Année académique 2024-2025
 
Financé par le CRSH, le projet « Pour de nouveaux récits en histoire de la philosophie » (« Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy ») propose deux bourses postdoctorales pour mener des recherches liées à la découverte et à la reconnaissance d’œuvres philosophiques écrites par des femmes et par des philosophes appartenant à d’autres groupes marginalisés, de la période médiévale jusqu’au début du 20e siècle. Le post-doctorant (la postdoctorante) seront également invité.e.s à contribuer aux objectifs du projet de manière alignée sur leur recherche. Veuillez trouver des informations sur les objectifs du projet à newnarrativesinphilosophy.net
 
Deux (2) contrats postdoctoraux sont disponibles pour cette année académique. L’un se tiendra Simon Fraser University et l’autre, à l’un des autres établissements partenaires (Western, Guelph, McGill, Duke, Penn, Columbia, Monash, Sydney, Lyon-3, Paris-Nanterre et Jyväskylä). Les Canadien.ne.s et les résident.e.s permanent.e.s de Canada peuvent obtenir des contrats post-doctoraux dans des établissements non canadiens, les non-Canadien.ne.s ne peuvent obtenir ces postes que dans des établissements canadiens.
 
Les candidats retenus auront un doctorat en philosophie (obtenu au cours des cinq dernières années), une expertise dans une période de l’histoire de la philosophie et un intérêt avéré pour la recherche et la pédagogie impliquant des femmes philosophes et des philosophes appartenant à d’autres groupes marginalisés de cette période. Une expérience dans certains aspects des humanités numériques serait également souhaitable. La recherche proposée doit être doit être nettement différente des travaux de doctorat ou doit représenter un apport important à la thèse de doctorat du candidat.
 
L’emploi est offert pour une période de 12 mois, idéalement du 1er septembre 2024 au 31 août 2025. Cependant, en raison des retards potentiels dans l’obtention des documents nécessaires (permis de travail, etc.), les contrats pourront commencer après le 1er septembre pourvu que ce ne soit pas au-delà du 1er janvier 2025, et ce pour une durée toujours égale à 12 mois.
 
Salaire: 55 000 $ CAD / an + avantages sociaux. Veuillez envoyer par courriel le formulaire de demande rempli [téléchargeable en dessous], une lettre de candidature (qui devrait expliquer comment le projet de recherche proposé est lié au projet « Pour de nouveaux récits en histoire de la philosophie »), un CV, la description du projet sur lequel vous allez travailler pendant le post-doctorat (pas plus que 750 mots) et 3 lettres de recommandation par voie électronique au comité du projet d’ENN (Extending New Narratives) à new_narratives@sfu.ca. L’examen des candidatures 3 janvier 2024.

postdoctoralapplicationform2024-25Download

postdoctoralapplicationform2024-25_frDownload

Talk about Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach at Bilkent

Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Princess of Wales: Her Role in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence

By Gregory Brown (Philosophy, Houston)

Thursday October 12, 2023, 15.30-17.00 

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Department of Philosophy, room H232

Abstract: In this paper I briefly discuss the events that unfolded in the runup to the correspondence between Leibniz and Newton’s ally and apologist, Samuel Clarke. I then focus on the role that Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach played in the initiation and development of the correspondence between Leibniz and Clarke. I will argue that the correspondence between Leibniz and Clarke was, from the beginning, much less about the correspondents’ attempting to persuade each other to recant their own views and embrace those of their opponent, and much more about persuading Caroline to accept their own respective positions and to reject those of their opponent. For Leibniz in Hanover, it was about keeping Caroline, the Electoral Princess of Hanover and his erstwhile companion and advocate at the electoral court, loyal to him and his scientific and theological world view; and for Clarke in London, it was about convincing Caroline, the Princess of Wales and future Queen of England, to abandon the Leibnizian world view in Hanover in favor the scientific and theological world view of the Newtonians in England. This story will be told primarily through the letters exchanged between Leibniz and Caroline during the period leading up to and during the correspondence between Leibniz and Clarke.

About the speaker: Greg Brown is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. He received his BA degree in philosophy from the University of Hawaii, Mānoa, and his MA and PhD in history and philosophy of science from the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published widely on the science, metaphysics, and moral philosophy of Leibniz in such journals as Philosophical Review, Journal of the History of Philosophy, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Leibniz Review, Studia Leibnitiana, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. He has also contributed chapters for a number of edited books, including Leibniz’s Key Philosophical Writings (Oxford UP), Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy, Oxford Handbook of Leibniz, Leibniz and His Correspondents (Cambridge UP), Continuum Companion to Leibniz, Leibniz’ Dynamica (Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft 13, Franz Steiner Verlag), and Cambridge Companion to Leibniz. He is co-editor, with Yual Chiek, of Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds (Springer), and his book, The Leibniz-Caroline-Clarke Correspondence, has just been released by Oxford UP. He is currently thinking about a project on the secularization of Leibniz’s moral theory.

Society for Women of Ideas Event

The Society for Women of Ideas invites you to a (virtual) lecture: 

Joyce Avrech Berkman
Singular and Typical: The Autobiographer’s We/I Conundrum

Thursday, October 5, 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
All are welcome! Please register here.

Bio:
Joyce Berkman is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Massachusetts where she taught from 1965-2014. She is the author of Olive Schreiner: Feminism on the Frontier, The Healing Imagination of Olive Schreiner: Beyond South African Colonialism, Edith Stein’s Life in a Jewish Family, and the editor of Contemplating Edith Stein. Her leading secondary interest is in music theory, composition and piano performance.

Abstract

Among the many reasons that individuals write autobiographies is the urge to set forth both their individuality and their typicality. The we/I conundrum unconsciously shaping the self-narrative of philosopher, theologian and saint Edith Stein’s remarkable work, Life in a Jewish Family, 1891-1916: An Autobiography, offers us a valuable entry to a fundamental motif in countless first-person documents. As an early twentieth-century phenomenologist, Stein grappled with the classic issues of essence, type and individual. These appear in fascinating and complex ways in her life account.

Scholars retrospectively analyze an autobiographical text for what they reveal about a person’s experience and thought as representative (or not) of significant populations within a given time and place. Stein is not unusual in her claim that she and her family are typical, as when her “Forward” declares that her family exemplifies German Jewish people of her times. She insists on this typicality to justify her writing at a time of rampant antisemitism. And, yet, she is no less eager to display the myriad ways in which she and certain Stein family members are singular. Since this we/I tension also appears in her philosophical treatises, I plan to correlate her statements in her autobiography with her philosophical treatment of identity, women, and ethnicity in its individual and community experience.

CfP symposium on Women and Logic

The British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference 2024 
will be held 8–10 April 2024 at the University of Liverpool.

In addition to individual papers, proposals for symposia are solicited 
by September 30.  These symposia consist of 3-4 papers (20 minutes each) 
on a topic related to the history of philosophy, and — specifically for 
this iteration of the conference — “proposals on currently 
under-represented philosophical traditions, periods and thinkers are 
especially welcome.”

This is a Call for Paper Proposals for a symposium on Women and Logic, 
organized by Dr. Sara L. Uckelman (Durham University).  Proposals for 20 
minute papers on any aspect of Women and Logic as this these topics 
intersect with history are welcome, including but not limited to:

* The inclusion or exclusion of women from logic in history
* Specific historical women logicians and their work
* The importance of recovering historical women logicians and the impact 
on contemporary logic research and teaching

Please send proposals in the form of a maximum 300 word abstract to Sara 
L. Uckelman at s.l.uckelman@durham.ac.uk by September 27, 2023; 
decisions will be made by September 29, 2023.  The symposium proposal 
will then go to the BSHP organisers for their consideration.

For further information, please contact Sara.

Barbie in Herland

I decided to revise my previous post on Barbie, the Movie, and send it to Public Seminar.

Here it is (with some editorial changes).

Summer Reading

The excellent feminist history of philosophy author Regan Penaluna has listed ten books by women thinkers for your summer reading pleasure (and erudition).

Here they are.

And if you need more, you should definitely read Regan’s own book: How To Think Like A Woman.