Call For Abstracts:
Dominating Speech
Dominating Speech
Conference at UConn, November 21-23
Keynotes:
Ishani Maitra (Michigan)
Keynotes:
Ishani Maitra (Michigan)
Jason Stanley (Yale)
The Injustice League in the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut seeks abstracts on topics related to the conference theme. Suggested topics include: hate speech, slurs, propaganda, slut-shaming, bragging, and gossip.
We seek philosophical work from a variety of subfields, including: ethics, political philosophy, social philosophy, philosophy of language, epistemology (e.g. epistemic injustice), feminist philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of race, and queer theory.
Please send abstracts of 750 – 1000 words, prepared for blind-review, to our project assistant, alycia.laguardia@uconn.edu by September 22nd, 2014. Please put "DS Submission" in the subject line of the email. Decisions will be made by the end of September.
If you have any questions pertaining to the conference, please email: Suzy.Killmister@uconn.edu
Papers resulting from the conference will be strongly considered for publication in a special issue of Social Theory and Practice focused on the conference theme, guest edited by Hallie Liberto.