Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:53:46 -0500
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Knowing Subjects: Human Lives,


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CALL FOR PAPERS

Knowing Subjects: Human Lives, Human Worlds


How do knowledge and subjectivity intersect to create and sustain human lives
and human worlds?  In what ways is the position of the "knowing subject" a
position of constraint or possibility?  How do "knowing subjects" become
intelligible through categories of race, gender, class, sexuality, ability and
what happens when those categories are challenged, transgressed, or refused?
How are human lives and worlds subject to disciplinary practices that render
certain ways of being and knowing unthinkable?  What cultural values and
critical practices help us to imagine future horizons where human lives and
human worlds can be remade?


The GW Graduate Program in the Human Sciences seeks to explore these and other
questions in its 7th Annual Conference, to be held April 20-21st, 2001.  This
year the conference celebrates the work of Peter Caws, University Professor of
Philosophy and co-founder and first director of the Human Sciences Program, on
the occasion of his 70th birthday.  We invite and anticipate a variety of
approaches to these questions from scholars working in various disciplines
across the humanities and social sciences.


Plenary speakers, all former students and/or colleagues of Dr. Caws, include
Jonathan Moreno (UVA), Nancy Fraser (New School), David Goldberg (UC Irvine),
Eva Kittay (SUNY Stony Brook), Lewis Gordon (Brown), Virginia Held (CUNY,
Hunter College) and Hugh Silverman (SUNY Stony Brook).


Submissions need not address Caws' work, but papers and panel proposals
focusing on his interests are strongly encouraged.  Those interests, which are
broad (probably, as he puts it, too broad for his own good) include:


·	Philosophy of Science, from Physics to the Human Sciences
·	Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
·	Existentialism
·	Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
·	Philosophy and literature
·	Philosophy and film
·	The Analytic-Continental Divide
·	Belief, fundamentalism, and religious indoctrination
·	Identity
·	Race
·	Ethics
·	Gender and Feminism
·	Interdisciplinarity and the Idea of the Human Sciences
·	The Value of Theory
·	Subjectivity, Lived Experience and Lifeworlds


Anything brilliant that doesn't fit into the above headings will also be
welcome.



Please send a 250-word abstract with your name, affiliation, and contact
information by 15 January 2001 to:


Knowing Subjects
The Human Sciences Program, 2035 F St., N.W.
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C., 20052.


For updated information and links to related sites, please visit our website
at: www.gwu.edu/~knowing, and for further inquiries, please do not hesitate to
contact us at knowing-AT-gwu.edu.