Hypatia 25th Anniversary Conference: Program
For the final program, please follow this link for a DOWNLOADABLE PDF.
The abstracts for papers and panels, and presenters' biographical sketches, are also available.
Conference events will be held in the Communications Building, the HUB (Husky University Building), and Kane Hall; the conference banquet will be hosted at Portage Bay Café on Roosevelt Way, just a few blocks from campus and the hotels where conference rate rooms are available.
For a PDF map of the conference locations and hotels, click here.
Program Highlights and Logistics
The conference opens on Thursday evening (October 22) with a keynote panel on the founding and formation of the journal and a welcoming reception.
- A Journal of Her Own: Hypatia Founders and Editors
5:00-6:30, Communications Building 120
- Welcoming reception
6:30-8:00, in the Simpson Center for the Humanities (Comm 204)
- Registration will open at 3:30 in the Simpson Center; you are welcome to drop in for informal coffee and tea before the opening keynote panel.
Conference sessions begin at 9:00 am and run all day on Friday and Saturday (October 23 and 24). See the links above for campus maps indicating the location of the buildings where we'll be meeting.
- Friday sessions and conference registration will be located in the students' union (HUB) next door to the Communications Building; registration and coffee/tea/snacks will available be in the HUB Auditorium Foyer, beginning at 8:30.
- Saturday sessions will be in the Communications Building, with registration and coffee/tea/snacks at the Simpson Center, beginning at 8:30.
- Session format: all sessions are an hour and a half long: individual papers are organized in tentative thematic clusters of three (presenters will each have a half hour), and panel groups will determine the format of their sessions (in some cases these include more than three presenters). It will be important to keep sessions on time so participants can move between sessions.
Keynote panels: The program includes altogether six keynote panels; here are the details (also listed in the program).
Opening Keynote Panel
A Journal of Her Own: Hypatia Founders and Editors
October 22, 5:00 - 6:30 (Communications Building 120)
- Azizah Y. al-Hibri, University of Richmond (founding Editor 1982-1984)
- Joan C. Callahan, University of Kentucky (Oral History Project)
- Ann Garry, California State University, Los Angeles (a founding Associate Editor)
- Hilde Lindemann, Michigan State University (Editor, 2003-2008)
- Linda López McAlister, University of South Florida (Editor 1990-1995, Co-editor 1995-1998)
- Laurie J. Shrage, Florida International University (Co-editor 1998-2003)
- Margaret A. Simons, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (Editor 1984-1990)
Thematic Keynote Panels
Hypatia Founders Reflect on Rationality, Science, and Epistemic Humility
October 23, 9:00-10:30 (HUB Auditorium)
- Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles
- Nancy Hartsock, University of Washington
- Helen Longino, Stanford University
- Elizabeth Potter, Mills College
Hypatia Founders Rethink Value Theory
October 23, 1:30-3:00 (HUB Auditorium)
- Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin
- Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Eva Feder Kittay, Stony Brook University
- Maria Lugones, Binghamton University
Hypatia Founders Engage Continental Traditions
October 24, 9:00-10:30 (Communications Building 120)
- Christine Di Stefano, University of Washington
- Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University
- Jana Sawicki, Williams College
- Margaret A. Simons, Southern University of Illinois at Edwardsville
Comparative/Reflective Panels
Feminist Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Perspective
October 23, 5:00-6:30 (Kane Hall 220)
- Eva Cherniavsky, UW English
- Judith Howard, UW Sociology and Women’s Studies
- Barbara Reskin, UW Sociology
- Janelle Taylor, UW Anthropology
- Kathleen Woodward, UW Simpson Center for the Humanities
What Lies Ahead: Envisioning New Futures for Feminist Philosophy
October 24, 5:00-6:30 (Communications Building 120)
- Kristen Intemann, Montana State University
- Emily S. Lee, CSU Fullerton
- Kristin McCartney, DePaul University
- Shireen Roshanravan, Kansas State University
- Alexa Schriempf, Pennsylvania State University
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Contributed Papers and Panels: The call for papers and panel proposals circulated in Fall 2008 drew an enormously strong pool of submissions. All accepted (and confirmed) papers and panels are listed in the program. Here is the original call for papers.
Call for Conference Papers and Panels
Hypatia has been published as an independent journal of feminist philosophy since 1986; Volume 25 will appear in 2010. In celebration of this significant anniversary, the current editors of Hypatia will host a conference at the University of Washington in the fall of 2009; this is an opportunity to honor the accomplishments of Hypatia—its founders, editors, and contributors—and to consider where feminist philosophy is headed in the next 25 years.
Papers and panels are welcome on any topic in feminist philosophy addressed by contributors to Hypatia in its publication history. We particularly encourage topics that draw on retrospective assessments to envision future directions: what possibilities are taking shape, what lines of inquiry should be explored, given the trajectory of feminist philosophy evident in the articles, reviews, symposia and special issues published by Hypatia since the mid-1980s? You might, for example:
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identify a paper or debate published by Hypatia that especially influenced you (positively or negatively) and assess the implications of its insights, its lacunae, its impact, for future directions in feminist philosophy;
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if you are a Hypatia author, return to a paper you published in the journal and reflect on how thinking in this area has changed, what new directions are taking shape;
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consider how, and why, some topics that were prominent in early issues of Hypatia have continued to structure feminist philosophy while others have been reframed or set aside: how has work on these topics evolved and where can it be expected to go in the future?
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propose a panel on a particular topic in feminist philosophy, perhaps based on the topic of a Hypatia special issue, and discuss new directions taking shape in this area; panel topics might include, for example, postcolonial challenges, disability, ecofeminism, indigenous women, women’s work, feminism and science, the history of women in specific philosophical traditions.
Submission deadline: June 15, 2009
Submission guidelines: Please email a 1–2 page (250–500 word) abstract for your proposed paper or panel, clearly identified as a 25th Anniversary conference submission, to conf25@u.washington.edu. If you are proposing a panel, your abstract should provide an overview of the panel as a whole and you should include, as well, a list of confirmed presenters with titles and a brief description of their topics.
We encourage conference presenters to submit manuscripts for consideration for the 25th Anniversary Special Issue (Fall 2010, Issue 25.4). The deadline for special issue submissions is November 16, 2009. Please see the special issue call for papers.
For a pdf of this call for papers and panels that can be printed, downloaded, and posted, please click here.
Pacific SWIP will be meeting in conjunction with the 25th Anniversary conference. For their call for papers, see the PSWIP webpage: http://www.csus.edu/org/pswip.
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