Save the Date! Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, October 19-20, 2012

The University of Dayton will host a colloquium on “Feminist Pragmatism in Place.” The colloquium will be of interest to people working on feminist pragmatist approaches to place, broadly construed, including natural and built environments and spaces of exclusion and belonging in historical and contemporary contexts.

A formal call for papers will be issued in the fall.

Plenary Speakers:

Lisa Heldke, author of Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer and Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, will speak on a feminist pragmatist approach to contemporary issues of food and community building. 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.

The colloquium organizers are Denise James ( Denise.James@notes.udayton.edu ) and Marilyn Fischer ( Fischer@udayton.edu ), of the Department of Philosophy, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.