Autumn 2009 • HUM 596A • 1 credit, C/NC
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Feminist Legacies / Feminist Futures

Alison Wylie (Philosophy and Anthropology)

Tuesdays, October 13 and November 3
Conference event attendance October 22-24
Communications 202
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This seminar is linked to the 25th anniversary conference for Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, to be hosted by the Simpson Center for the Humanities October 22-24, 2009. Graduate students in any field who have an interest in the philosophical dimensions of feminist scholarship are encouraged to participate.

Hypatia is a forum for feminist scholarship in all areas of philosophy—ethics and social political theory, epistemology and philosophy of science, philosophy of language and mind, history of philosophy—and for feminist engagement with philosophical issues as they arise across the social sciences and humanities and within many sciences. Founded as an autonomous journal in 1986, Hypatia’s editorial office is currently based at the University of Washington. This anniversary conference recognizes Hypatia’s accomplishments, takes stock of feminist philosophy’s development since the early 1980s, and considers where the field is headed in the next 25 years.

Seminar participants will meet once before the conference for a preview and once afterwards to reflect on the implications of the proceedings for the range of fields and topics on which seminar participants themselves are working. Participants are expected to attend the keynote panels and a selection of contributed papers sessions at the conference. They are particularly encouraged to join the Friday lunchtime discussion groups that will be hosted by keynote speakers. See the conference website for more information.

Additional seminar requirements include background reading related to at least one speaker or session (to be chosen by individual participants as relevant to their own research interests in consultation with the instructor), maintenance of a conference journal and participation in a seminar discussion board. Before the post-conference meeting participants will precirculate a brief reflection piece that integrates commentary on their background readings with what they learned from the conference presentations and discussions. The