CFP: Feminist Pragmatism in Place Colloquium

Feminist Pragmatism in Place Colloquium

*The University of Dayton*

*October 19-20, 2012 *

This colloquium will address feminist pragmatist approaches to place,

broadly construed, including natural and built environments, and spaces of

exclusion and belonging in historical and contemporary contexts.

*Plenary Speakers:*

Lisa Heldke, author of *Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer* and

Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, will speak on "Urban

Farmers and Rural Cosmopolitans? Pragmatist Musings on Contemporary Food

Movements"

Louise W. Knight, author of *Citizen: Jane Addams and the

Struggle for Democracy* and *Jane Addams: Spirit in Action,* Visiting

Scholar, Northwestern University Gender Studies Program and School of

Communication, will speak on "Reading Addams's Rhetoric on Social Justice"

*Due Date: May 28, 2012.**  *Papers will be blind reviewed. Please submit

two files, one with the paper title, your name, and email address, and the

other with the full paper of no more than 3500 words of text, without your

name or other identifying information. Send to Cynthia King (*

Cynthia.King@notes.udayton.edu*).

For more information  please contact the colloquium organizers, Denise

James (*Denise.James@notes.udayton.edu*) and Marilyn Fischer *(

Fischer@udayton.edu*), of the Department of Philosophy, University of

Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.