Science, Technology, and Gender conference - CALL FOR PROPOSALS

[Wendy Philpott]

Science, Technology, and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities

Call for Proposals | Submission deadline February 15, 2014

Submissions are invited for a joint meeting of the Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies (FEMMSS) and the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) to be held at the University of Waterloo, August 10 to 13, 2014.  FEMMSS is a multidisciplinary organization.

This conference welcomes submissions from across the disciplines. We invite feminist papers, posters, panels, and workshops related to Science, Technology and Gender.  Conference presentations are eligible for submission for consideration and review in a resulting anthology or special journal issue. Topics can include but need not be limited to:

  1.  Challenges to and challenging scientific literacy
  2.  Implicit bias and stereotype threat
  3.  Creating equitable Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics organizations and institutions
  4.  Gender, oppression, and the public understanding of science
  5.  Rhetoric, argumentation, and gendered communication
  6.  Epistemologies of ignorance
  7.  Policy of/for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
  8.  Intersectionality in practice and study of science and technology
  9.  The ethics and politics of science and technology
  10. Science, technology and global justice
  11. Feminist methodologies in the humanities, social and natural sciences
  12. Production of biological "differences"
  13. Feminist scholarship of teaching and learning
  14. Professional development (ex. interdisciplinary communication/ teaching/ research)

Submission instructions and more conference information<https://uwaterloo.ca/science-technology-society/conferences/science-technology-and-gender-challenges-and-opportunities>.

Sent on behalf of Dr. Carla Fehr, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, Department of Philosophy.


Wendy Philpott
Communications Manager
Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo
Office: PAS 2411  |  Phone: 519 888-4567 x 38530
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