Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 09:01:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CFP: Hegelian politics of gender
From: "Judith L Poxon" <jlpoxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu>



From: Laura Werner <laura.werner-AT-HELSINKI.FI>

Call for Papers


Conference
HEGELIAN POLITICS OF GENDER
SPIRIT - NATURE - LAW

University of Jyväskylä, Finland
12.-13. December, 2003


Guest speaker: Prof. Kimberly Hutchings (London School of Economics),
author of Hegel and Feminist Philosophy (Polity, 2003)).

Invited speakers (this far): Prof. Tuija Pulkkinen (University of
Jyväskylä), Prof. Kevät Nousiainen (University of Helsinki), D.Phil.
Susanna Lindberg (University of Helsinki).


G.W.F. Hegel has been an ambivalent figure for many feminist
philosophers, including Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray and Judith
Butler. His writings on Antigone have opened up the issue of gender in
the areas of law, state and kinship. Although Hegel’s master-slave
dialectic makes no explicit reference to gender, it has worked to
illuminate gender relations as power relations. What, then, has been the
impact of Hegel’s philosophy in feminist thought? In which way has it
performed in history in constituting gender hierarchies? Despite of
Hegel´s views on women, does Hegelian thought provide significant help
in the dilemmas of current feminist controversies, as Kimberly Hutchings
suggests in her Hegel and Feminist Philosophy (2003)?

Presentations in this conference explore various aspects of Hegel´s
thought and Hegelian thought on issues related to gender. Papers are
invited on for example such questions as Hegel’s philosophy of nature;
his master-slave dialectic; his views of marriage, sex and sexual
identity; differences of gender; Hegel and romanticism; political
philosophy; the public/private distinction; feminist readings of Hegel;
embodiment; desire; familial love and heteronormativity as well as
reflections on impact of Hegelian thought in feminist theory.

Each paper will last 30 minutes, and will be open to the floor for 15
minutes of discussion. Abstracts of proposed papers of not more than 500
words should be sent by Monday 19th May either by regular mail to: Prof.
Tuija Pulkkinen, Women’s studies, PL 35 (MAB), 40014 University of
Jyväskylä, Finland or by e-mail (in the body of the e-mail, not as
attachment) to Laura Werner, laura.werner-AT-helsinki.fi

Further information and general enquiries to: laura.werner-AT-helsinki.fi

Conference arranged by the Academy of Finland project Polity,
Contingency and Conceptual Change. Co-sponsor: Finnish Graduate School
of Gender Studies.

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Laura Werner
Researcher
Department of Social and Moral Philosophy
PO Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 20 A)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Tel. +358-9-191 29286
Fax +358-9-191 29273
laura.werner-AT-helsinki.fi
  http://www.helsinki.fi/people/Laura.Werner/
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