FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- ******************************************************* > CALL FOR PAPERS > ******************************************************** > GENDERING ETHICS/ THE ETHICS OF GENDER > > AN INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE > 23 - 25 JUNE 2000 > > CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY GENDER STUDIES > UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS > > Recent years have seen a growing interest in issues > of ethics within > feminist scholarship. As faith in the grand > narratives and > political projects of modernity has faltered, there > has been a turn > towards situated, contingent ethical frameworks. > Both the > philosophical basis and the political contours of > these emerging > frameworks are the subject of intense debate among > feminists. > Developments in science and technology raise new > ethical dilemmas, > and the demands of subaltern groups disturb old > moral certainties. > Across a wide range of disciplines questions of > ethics are taking > centre stage. This conference will be the first > major international, > interdisciplinary feminist conference in the United > Kingdom to > address these issues. > > *********************** > Keynote Speakers include: > ************************ > Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University (USA);Cynthia > Cockburn, City > University (UK); Lynette Hunter, University of > Leeds (UK); Grace > Jantzen, University of Manchester (UK); Sabina > Lovibond, University > of Oxford (UK); Lois McNay, University of Oxford > (UK); Selma > Sevenhuijsen (University of Utrecht, Netherlands); > Joan Tront Hunter > College, CUNY (USA); Nira Yuval-Davis, University of > Greenwich (UK). > > ******************************************************************** > We welcome short papers for parallel sessions on a > range of themes including: > ********************************************************************* > G e n d e r and moral subjectivity; the ethics of > science and > technology; bodily integrity; the new ethics of the > public sphere; > religious traditions and gender ethics; social > policies and normative > frameworks; intimate ethics; gender, reason and > rationality; > representation and ethics; violence, war and ethics; > human rights, > universa sm and particularism; agency, autonomy and > ethics; the > ethics of sex; gender, nature and animals; feminist > ethical histories > - abolitionism, peace, prostitution, sexual > violence; the ethics of > the market; postmodernism, ethics and politics; the > ethics of ace and > space; ethics and the politics of difference; > alternative moral > communities - historical, fictional, utopian. > > Send 200 word abstracts by 1 February 2000 to: > Sasha Roseneil and Linda Hogan > Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies > University of Leeds > Leeds LS2 9JT > UK > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For more information, visit our website: > http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gender-studies > ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
