Call for Papers for this year’s CSWIP, being hosted at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, November 4-6, 2016, on the theme “Philosophy and its borders: negotiating interdisciplinarity and traditions.”

Dear CSWIPers, Here is the Call for Papers for this year’s CSWIP, being hosted at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, November 4-6, 2016, on the theme “Philosophy and its borders: negotiating interdisciplinarity and traditions.” The keynote address will be by Dr. Susan Sherwin (Dalhousie). Looking forward to welcoming you to the Maritimes! Please don’t hesitate to email with any questions: jdryden@mta.ca. The deadline for proposals is February 26, 2016. A French version of the CFP is available at cswip.ca. The CFP is just below All the best, Jane Dryden   Philosophy and its borders: negotiating interdisciplinarity and traditions  November 4-6, 2016 Mount Allison University Keynote Address by Susan Sherwin, Dalhousie University (Emerita) A workshop will also be held on accessibility in the academy, particularly at conferences like CSWIP. Further details to come. The Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy invites papers and panel proposals from all areas of philosophy and all philosophical approaches, including and not limited to analytic, continental, and historically oriented philosophy. Philosophy has developed a number of connections with other disciplines, both in an effort to understand the different methods and models employed within the search for knowledge, and to draw upon tools and insights that other disciplines have discovered. Philosophy itself contains a number of different traditions whose conflicts and tensions can be a rich source of creative possibility but also used to police each other. Recent challenges to the discipline have encouraged philosophers to recognize that Western philosophy itself – including analytic, continental, or pragmatist traditions – is just one more collection of approaches alongside Eastern, indigenous, and Africana traditions. Given that feminist philosophy has often been pluralist in drawing together knowledge from different sources and standpoints in an effort to better understand and critique dominant models of thought, this year’s CSWIP is encouraging participants to think through the question of working across borders in philosophy. What does it mean to draw disciplines and traditions together? What does it mean to draw a line around a particular tradition or approach? How do particular traditions and approaches exert power over others? What model or picture of the discipline ought we present to our students as they are first coming to grasp "philosophy"? Paper and panel topics may therefore include, but are not limited to:   How have feminist philosophy, critical race theory, disability theory, and other approaches reshaped understandings of the discipline and its subdisciplines, such as bioethics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and political philosophy? What successes have there been? What areas of conflict or tension? What does it mean to think of philosophy as having "core" areas? How do these relate to its borders? Non-western and indigenous philosophies alter assumptions about what counts as philosophy. What challenges are posed by integrating them into disciplinary curricula? What does it mean to take the insights and norms of philosophical argumentation and bring them to bear in analyzing work in other disciplines? How can different philosophical methodologies be brought together? Do we take our methods with us when we cross borders? Do we weave different methods together? Pedagogy and the role of teaching philosophical traditions: what is appropriate when training students new to the discipline? What becomes possible, ethically, politically, and scientifically, when we cross borders, especially given that disciplines understand the nature of "borders" in different ways? This conference will prioritize accessibility. Guidelines for accessible presentations will be distributed with successful participant notifications. Conference rooms and the reception space are wheelchair accessible, and information about wheelchair accessible transportation and accommodations will be available by the time of participant notifications. Participants will be asked to use microphones for all talks and for discussion periods. Information about CART availability for the keynote and other sessions will be posted to the website soon. Food will be vegan/vegetarian, and there will be space on the registration form to note food allergies and sensitivities. Participants are asked not to bring or wear strong scents. A quiet room will be available. Further information, such as information about childcare, breastfeeding and change room areas, and transportation to and from Sackville will be available soon atwww.cswip.ca and also upon request. If you have any questions or concerns about accessibility, please contact the conference organizer, Jane Dryden, at jdryden@mta.ca. All conference participants will be asked to identify any presentation technologies and/or other supports required to participate, and anything else that can help mitigate potential barriers to participation. All information will be kept confidential. For information about Mount Allison, see www.mta.ca. For information about the town of Sackville, see www.sackville.com Submissions of long abstracts (1000 words) are invited for eventual presentation of papers not exceeding 3000 words. Deadline: 12am EST, February 26, 2016. 1. Please email the abstract as a double-spaced document in Word, prepared for fully anonymous review. 2. In your email, please provide your contact information and brief biographical material (for our SSHRC application), including: your institutional affiliation and degrees (starting with the most recent and specifying the discipline); recent positions and publications, especially those relevant to the event. 3. We encourage all graduate students to submit their papers for consideration for the 2016 Jean Harvey Student Award. To do so, please indicate in the body of your email that you would like for the paper to be considered. In that case, the completed paper, not exceeding 3000 words and prepared for anonymous review, must be submitted by 12am EST, Monday July 11, 2016. Panel proposal submissions: Please submit two separate documents. 1) A panel proposal, including paper abstracts, for anonymous review. 2) A document with all panelist names and biographical information for the SSHRC application. Please send all submissions to the following address:cswip2016.submissions@gmail.com Questions? Please email Jane Dryden at jdryden@mta.ca