FYI...
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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From: Stefani Jones/Bethesda/IBM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 9/18/00 6:40 PM
Subject: CFP - "Knowing Subjects: Human Lives, Human Worlds"
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Knowing Subjects: Human Lives, Human Worlds
How do knowledge and subjectivity intersect to create and sustain human
lives and human worlds? In what ways is the position of the "knowing
subject" a position of constraint or possibility? How do "knowing
subjects" become intelligible through categories of race, gender, class,
sexuality, ability and what happens when those categories are
challenged,
transgressed, or refused? How are human lives and worlds subject to
disciplinary practices that render certain ways of being and knowing
unthinkable? What cultural values and critical practices help us to
imagine future horizons where human lives and human worlds can be
remade?
The GW Graduate Program in the Human Sciences seeks to explore these and
other questions in its 7th Annual Conference, to be held April 20-21st,
2001. This year the conference celebrates the work of Peter Caws,
University Professor of Philosophy and co-founder and first director of
the
Human Sciences Program, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. We invite
and anticipate a variety of approaches to these questions from scholars
working in various disciplines across the humanities and social
sciences.
Plenary speakers, all former students and/or colleagues of Dr. Caws,
include Jonathan Moreno (UVA), Nancy Fraser (New School), David Goldberg
(UC Irvine), Eva Kittay (SUNY Stony Brook), Lewis Gordon (Brown),
Virginia
Held (CUNY, Hunter College) and Hugh Silverman (SUNY Stony Brook).
Submissions need not address Caws' work, but papers and panel proposals
focusing on his interests are strongly encouraged. Those interests,
which
are broad (probably, as he puts it, too broad for his own good) include:
� Philosophy of Science, from Physics to the Human Sciences
� Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
� Existentialism
� Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
� Philosophy and literature
� Philosophy and film
� The Analytic-Continental Divide
� Belief, fundamentalism, and religious indoctrination
� Identity
� Race
� Ethics
� Gender and Feminism
� Interdisciplinarity and the Idea of the Human Sciences
� The Value of Theory
� Subjectivity, Lived Experience and Lifeworlds
Anything brilliant that doesn't fit into the above headings will also be
welcome.
Please send a 250-word abstract with your name, affiliation, and contact
information by 15 January 2001 to:
Knowing Subjects
The Human Sciences Program, 2035 F St., N.W.
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C., 20052.
For updated information and links to related sites, please visit our
website at: www.gwu.edu/~knowing, and for further inquiries, please do
not
hesitate to contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer
Environmental Management & Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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