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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:43:35 -0400 (EDT) From: malgosia askanas <ma@panix.com> CALL FOR PAPERS enGendering Rationalities April 18-20, 1997 Center for the Study of Women in Society University of Oregon This conference will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, economics, history, literature, the natural sciences, philosophy, political science, psychology, rhetoric, sociology, and women's studies to investigate how feminist research and practice challenge and transform current views of rationality and knowledge. Feminists are problematizing theories of rationality that exclude emotions, the body, and intuition from the knowing process, and are critiquing the ways dominant theories of rationality involve colonialist and imperialist interests. The conference is designed to provide an opportunity for multidisciplinary and cross-cultural feminist conversations concerning these topics and to encourage collaborative research projects. Conference topics include: * intersections of race, ethnicity, class and gender in feminist knowledge projects * the adequacy of current theories of knowledge to feminist theory and practice * forms of knowing that emerge from women's practices * activism's role in the development of knowledge/ the effect of feminist theories of knowledge on feminist activism * the interrelations among ethics, politics, and epistemology * the relations between power and knowledge * collaborative and interdisciplinary models for developing feminist theory * the audience and purpose of feminist knowledge projects * the tensions between relativism and activism Our preliminary list of conference participants includes: Joan Acker, Barbara Pope, Linda Alcoff, Karen Barad, Drue Barker, Lorraine Code, Susan Hekman, Lisa Heldke, Sandra Morgen, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Elizabeth Potter, Phyllis Rooney, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Nancy Tuana, and Alison Wylie. Proposals for papers, panels, or roundtable discussions should include three copies of a two-page abstract and a short vitae for each participant. Proposals must be postmarked no later than NOVEMBER 1, 1996. If you have any questions or would like to be put on the conference mailing list, contact Leeann Bennett, (541) 346-5015 or email to: engender@oregon.uoregon.edu. Send proposals in hard copy to: enGendering Rationalities, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1201 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201. Do not send proposals by email. We will maintain a conference website (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csws/enGender/) for updates on all information related to this conference. The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: majordomo@is.in-berlin.de and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@is.in-berlin.de