March 1st Deadline: Call for Papers in the Centennial Celebration of the work of Mary Warnock (1924-2019)
The Journal of Applied Philosophy (JOAP) plans a special issue to commemorate Mary Warnock’s centennial with the final issue of the 2024 volume. The issue will feature both academic articles (6000-8000 words) in any area of applied philosophy, with special emphasis on areas in which Mary Warnock published; as well as shorter interventions (1500-3000 words) in public philosophy, understood as the attempt to engage lucidly and nontechnically with timely issues of public debate or to put issues onto the public agenda.
Academic articles: Papers are invited in any area of applied philosophy, with special emphasis on those in which Mary Warnock published. Papers should be prepared for anonymous review according to JOAP guidelines and submitted through the Journal’s submission portal. When submitting, select “Special Issue” and type in “Warnock”. Deadline: March 1, 2024
April 30th Deadline: Call for Abstracts for the Care Ethics Research Consortium Conference “Care, Aesthetics, and Repair”
This conference aims to bring together care ethicists; artists, designers, and other makers; artistic researchers; architects and urban planners; philosophers; methodologists; educators; policymakers; and others committed to exploring the fundamental question: what does it mean to care? Scholars and practitioners from all disciplines within and beyond the humanities and social sciences are invited to submit either an abstract (between 250-300 words) for a 20-minute presentation or a proposal for a work of art/performance on the theme of aesthetics, care, and repair in the context of modern-day society.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- Everyday performance and aesthetics of care
- The art of care and the care of art
- Politics and care aesthetics
- Care aesthetics and reparative justice
- Care ethics and postcolonial repair
- Care aesthetics, ecology, and the environment
- Aesthetics and ethics of multi-species care
- Feminist, queer, trans*, and decolonial care aesthetics
- Care ethics, repair, and disability justice
- Care aesthetics and the subversion of oppression
- Maintenance work and caring infrastructures
- Care aesthetics, public health, and urban planning
- Design thinking the aesthetics of care
- Care practices in contemporary literature and art
- Caring and the ethico-aesthetics of death, grief, and loss
- Aesthetics of care and democracy in crisis
- The aesthetics of embodied care
- Arts-based methodologies in care ethics
- Care performance as resistance
- Care ethics and decolonial aesthetics
- Artful practices of care and speculative ethics
- Critical and creative pedagogies of care
- Co-creating cultures of care
- Beauty in caring
- Care ethics and aesthetics in times of precarity
- (Post-)pandemic care aesthetics
Submission guidelines
Send your abstract or art proposal for peer review to cerc.conference.2025@gmail.com by Tuesday 30 April 2024. Please type ‘CERC proposal’ and your last name in the subject line. Individuals may only submit one proposal. In your e-mail, please include a brief biographical note (250 words max) with primary research or artistic interests and institutional affiliation (if applicable).
Please attach a Word document to the e-mail that is anonymous and ready for peer review. The Word document should contain:
- the title of the presentation;
- the abstract (250-300 words max), which should outline the main arguments of the paper, as well as its theoretical and/or empirical contribution(s) to the existing literature (and a few words on methodology, if applicable);
- presentation equipment requirements (if applicable);
- indicate whether you wish to present on-site (24-25 January 2025) or online (30-31 January); if you prefer to present online, please specify your time zone.
Artistic and performative contributions, as well as poster presentations, may also be proposed to the organizing committee of the conference. In case of artistic or alternative contribution formats (e.g. performance lectures, video or sound papers, embodied social justice workshops, ritual, dialogue, curation, etc.) please clearly describe all technical and logistical requirements of the contribution, including equipment needed, whether you are providing that equipment, space requirements, any special auditory, lighting or other physical needs, time needed for set-up, etc.
Panel proposals will also be considered (please include a brief description of the panel, the abstracts of three papers, and the name of a chair and discussant).
Criteria for the selection of presentations include effective and explicit engagement with the conference theme, clarity of the abstract, contribution to the diversity of presentations, and potential significance for advancing the field of care ethics. We cherish transdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue, and encourage the inclusion of voices, perspectives, and practices that are not commonly heard in academic conferences.
Decisions on the abstracts will be communicated by Monday 1 July 2024. Please note that the abstracts selected for our conference will be posted (as received) on our website prior to the conference. All conference presenters must register for the event before the conference program’s official release date. Detailed information concerning accommodation in Utrecht and registration costs will be offered on the CERC website in the summer of 2024. For questions about the conference or abstract submissions, please write to cerc.conference.2025@gmail.com.
