A handful of upcoming conferences that would be great places to submit or experience new works in feminist approaches to bioethics.

Calls for Proposals due May 15th, 2023

The History & Philosophy of Pregnancy – a hybrid conference at the University of Dayton, October 6-7, 2023. More info and the CFP are here.

The London Feminist Philosophy Conference – at Kings College London, June 15-16, 2023. Work by graduate students and early career scholars especially welcome and limited financial support for travel may be available. More info and the CFA are here.

Upcoming Events in June, 2023

philoSOPHIA 16th Annual Conference – Hybrid Online/In-Person at UNC Charlotte, June 1-3, 2023. http://www.philosophiafeministsociety.com/

This year, we have invited contributions that promote a broad understanding of feminist theorizing and organizing through an examination of both regional and diasporic relations between the U.S. South and the Global South, including relations among African, Indigenous, Caribbean, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Asian gender/sexuality studies and their U.S. Southern connections. We have also encouraged dialogue on these regional and diasporic relations within transnational disability theory, global discourses of queer/cuir/quare and trans/travesti studies, and migration studies.

Care Ethics Otherwise: A Conference – Penn State University Park, June 9-10, 2023. https://rockethics.psu.edu/care-ethics-otherwise-a-conference/

This conference is an invitation to deeply consider previously underexplored approaches to examining and practicing care ethics and care theory. It is organized around a call to actively decenter understandings of care rooted in white, bourgeois, heteronormative domestic/kinship norms and practices—in other words, a call to think care and do care ethics otherwise. By this the organizers mean (at least) two things. First, we are looking to the margins, to the underground, to unconventional domains to invite reflections on care from those who are regularly othered or experience themselves as “the other.” Second, we are motivated to create space with a focus on reimagining and remaking care ethics otherwise we risk neglecting important opportunities to grow care ethics in new, more inclusive directions. Thinking on care has followed multiple genealogies and flourished across, between, and beyond academic disciplines; accordingly, this conference will be interdisciplinary and open to participants working both within the academy and beyond it.

DIY-ing Gender: A Zine Fest – Durham University, June 9, 2023. https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/gender-law/events/diy-ing-gender/

Supported by Gender and Law at Durham (GLAD) and Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD) , we are running a zine fest as an alternative to traditional academic conferences. Zines are created to articulate emerging ideas, lived experiences, and radical positions through a more visual and accessible medium – what is so great about zines is that they allow us, as academics, to present our research outside of the traditional presentation/poster format.