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Simone De Beauvoir - Events Celebrating the Centennial of Her Birth
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NEW! Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology
Gustave O. Arlt Award
Nominations for Distinguished Woman Philosopher of the Year
Binghamton University Philosophy Department, New Faculty
Point Foundation Scholarships for LGBT Students
Women Friendly Graduate Programs
New Journal - Questions
PIKSI - Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute - Undergrad Opportunities
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Events Celebrating the Centennial of Simone de Beavoir's Birth
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris January 1908, some of the events that are planned during 2008 to mark the Centennial of her birth include the following:
The Legacies of Simone de Beauvoir. Organised by the International Simone de Beauvoir Society, this conference will be held in the North of England, in Newcastle, in June. For more information contact: Susan.Bainbrigge@ed.ac.uk
International Association for Philosophy and Literature. A special session will be devoted to the work of Beauvoir at the association’s meeting in Melbourne, Australia, in July. For more information contact: Gail Weiss at gweiss@gwu.edu
Association for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC). A session on Beauvoir will be held in Vancouver, Canada, in June, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. For more information contact: Christine.Daigle@Brocku.CA
North American Sartre Society. A session on Beauvoir will be held at the society’s biennial meeting Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA in April. For more information contact: Christine.Daigle@Brocku.CA
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Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology
Exciting developments in feminist philosophy at the University of Oregon. Beata Stawarska and Bonnie Mann have received generous funding from the College of Arts of Sciences, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon to launch a new Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology. They are working in collaboration with Eva-Maria Simms, the project’s national advisor at Duquesne, and Sara Heinamaa, the project’s international advisor at the U. of Helsinki. Their first institute and conference will gather scholars from Canada, Europe and the US this spring. For more information join the listserv by sending an email to majordomo@lists.uoregon.edu with the words subscribe sifp in the body of the email.
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Gustave O Arlt Award - Bonnie Mann
Bonnie Mann of the U. of Oregon was unanimously chosen by a distinguished panel of graduate deans to receive the Council of Graduate School’s Gustave O Arlt Award for her 2006 book, Women’s Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism, Postmodernism, Environment. This award is given each year to a scholar who has earned a doctorate in the past seven years and whose book is judged to represent an outstanding scholarly contribution to the humanities. One competition reviewer noted Mann’s “ability to sort out arguments in a way that allows readers to feel that they are participating in a dialogue, not merely reading about dialogues engaged by others.” Learn more about the book, here.
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Nominations for Distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2008
The Society for Women in Philosophy kindly asks for nominations for the Distinguished
Woman Philosopher of 2008.
Each year the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy comes together to honor a woman philosopher whose contributions to the support of women in philosophy and to philosophy itself are outstanding and merit special recognition. A panel and reception celebrating the honoree’s accomplishments will be organized for the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Philadelphia , December 27-30, 2008.
Nominations should include a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae and a minimum of two supporting letters, which summarize the nominee’s contributions to philosophy and support of women in philosophy.
Please e-mail all nominations to Jen McWeeny, ESWIP Executive Secretary no later than Monday, March 3, 2008.
Recipients of the Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award:
Joan Callahan (2007)
Ruth Millikan (2006)
Linda Martin Alcoff (2005)
Susan Sherwin (2004)
Eva Feder Kittay (2003)
Sara Ruddick (2002)
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (2001)
Marilyn Frye (1999)
Linda Lopez McAlister (1998)
Claudia Card (1997)
Gertrude Ezorsky (1996)
Alison Jaggar (1995)
Iris Marion Young (1994)
Kathryn Pyne Addelson (1993)
Virginia Held (1992)
Jane Roland Martin (1991)
Sandra Harding (1990)
Hazel Barnes (1989)
Leigh Cauman (1988)
Elizabeth Flowers (1987)
Mary Mothersill (1986)
Marjorie Greene (1985)
Elizabeth Beardsley (1984)
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New Feminist Faculty Member at Binghamton University Philosophy Department
The Binghamton University Philosophy Department’s graduate program in Social, Political, Ethical and Legal Philosophy (SPEL) is pleased to announce the addition of another feminist faculty member, Anna Gotlib, as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Prof. Gotlib works in the areas of bioethics, normative ethics (including moral psychology), philosophy of law, and feminist philosophy. The SPEL program is strongly supportive of feminist work. There are three feminist faculty members in addition to Prof. Gotlib: Bat-Ami Bar On (Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies and Chair of the Philosophy Department), whose work focuses on theories of violence, political and social theory, and feminist social-political philosophy; Lisa Tessman (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy), who specializes in ethics, feminist ethics and social theory, and critical race theory; and Melissa Zinkin (Associate Professor of Philosophy), whose areas include Kant, History of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Feminist Theory. SPEL students are also able to earn a Graduate Certificate in Feminist Theory alongside their MA or PhD. The program welcomes applications from members of groups that are underrepresented in Philosophy, and Binghamton University offers Clark Fellowships reserved for members of underrepresented groups. Full information about the SPEL Philosophy program is available at: http://spel.binghamton.edu/
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Point Foundation Scholarships for LGBT Students
Point Foundation (Point) is the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students of merit. Point provides financial support, leadership training, mentoring and hope to LGBT students who are marginalized because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. The organization provides its scholars with the financial ability to attend the nation’s foremost higher educational institutions and its donors and mentors with the rare satisfaction of directly investing their resources and time in future generations of leaders.
Point Foundation believes in rewarding these individuals who endure the daily harassment and abandonment of family, friends, educational institutions and communities with the opportunity of higher education. Through Point’s scholarship and community, the organization empowers its scholars and gives them the support and encouragement to excel both academically and personally. Applications for scholarships beginning in the fall semester 2008, are available on-line after 1/2/08 at www.pointfoundation.org.
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Women Friendly Graduate Programs:
Christina Bellon has provided a spreadsheet including women and feminist friendly graduate programs. Click here to view a copy. Thank you Christina!
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New Journal - Questions
Questions publishes philosophical work by and for young people, including stories, essays, poems, photographs and drawings, etc. In addition, articles related to doing philosophy with young people, reviews of books and materials useful for doing the same, lesson plans (include description or transcripts of student responses), classic thought experiments redefined/modified for modern audience interests and demographics, transcripts of philosophy discussions, photographs of classroom discussions, and more are sought.
Images, whether photographs, drawings, paintings, et al. should be sent as uncompressed TIFF files (with at least 300 dpi resolution.) Written submissions should be sent in Word, WordPerfect, or Rich Text File formats (as .doc, .wpd, or .rtf). Scholarly articles should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style for textual and citation manners; please use endnotes rather than footnotes.
Be sure to include contact information with your submissions. A copyright release is needed for publication. All submissions should go to QuestionsJournal@gmail.com
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PIKSI - Philosophy in an Inclusive Key
Summer
Institute
This seven-day institute is designed to encourage undergraduate students from under-represented groups to consider future study in the field of philosophy. PIKSI will emphasize the on-going project of greater inclusiveness that is transforming the discipline, inviting students to be participants in the conversation.
PIKSI will be permanently housed at the Rock Ethics Institute on the campus of the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. The director and the theme will change on a regular basis.
If you know promising undergraduate women or men from underrepresented groups such as African Americans, Chicano/as and Latino/as, Native Americans, Asian Americans, LGBT persons, economically disadvantaged communities, and people with disabilities, please call this program to their attention. In addition, please consider serving as their “sponsor.” Faculty sponsors mentor students, helping them to prepare their applications, and, when possible and appropriate, work with the students after the Summer Institute to help further the gains the students have made.
Transportation to and from the institute, room and board, and a small stipend will be provided for participants. While we expect that most students will come from four-year colleges, promising students from two-year institutions are also welcome.
For more information, click here.
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