ANNUAL PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE AT VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
The annual philosophy conference at Villanova University has been a tradition since 1996. Sponsored by the Philosophy Graduate Student Union (PGSU), it began as one of the first graduate philosophy conferences in continental philosophy. Now open for faculty as well as graduate students, the conference has drawn participants from all areas of philosophy, as well as from around the world.
26th Annual Conference
Philosophy Graduate Student Union Annual Conference
Mommy-Daddy-Me:
Social Critique and Kinship
Conference: Saturday, April 9th, 2022
Garey Hall Room 10A
FEATURING
Robyn Marasco PhD, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
Villanova University, Saturday April 9, 2022
Garey Hall Room 10A
Keynote address by Dr. Robyn Marasco
(Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center)
A central image in utopian and dystopian thought, “the family” has a rich and diverse political and philosophical history. Recent scholarship on models of family, kinship, and care has included historical surveys of how the family has been resituated as the core economic unit in the neoliberal era, experiments with familial structures and alternatives to them, and even direct calls for abandoning hegemonic forms of the family.
We invite presentations that engage recent scholarship on topics including but not limited to:
- Historicizing economic, cultural, and geographical iterations of the family
- Historic philosophical accounts of the family
- Marxist analyses of the structural role of family forms under capitalism
- Feminist, queer, trans, psychoanalytic, critical race, and disability theoretical approaches to the study of families and kinship
- Reflections on family, kinship, and community
- Exploring alternative forms of care and kinship
Please submit to villanovaphilgrad@gmail.com for review either: abstracts up to 800 words; full papers up to 3000 words; or panel proposals. For panel proposals, include a description of the panel alongside one abstract per presentation. Presentations should not exceed 25 minutes. This conference primarily solicits graduate student submissions. We welcome academic as well as artistic submissions. We especially welcome work by scholars from underrepresented groups. The conference will be made accessible for Deaf or HH scholars. For planning purposes, we would appreciate notification of interpreting preferences if possible.
Deadline for proposals: February 1. Decisions conveyed to respondents by February 15.
9:00-9:30 am Welcome Address (Dean Emory Woodard)
9:30-11:30am Panel I
9:30-10:30: Livia Samson (Humboldt University Berlin, Zoom): Family Abolition: From Capitalism to Communized Care
10:30-11:30: Rhiannon Lindgren (University of Oregon, Zoom): Decolonial Praxis as Reproductive Struggle: Fanon on the Family and the State
11:30-12:30: Lunch
12:30-2:30 PM: Panel II
12:30-1:30: Maggie Castor (Stony Brook, in-person): “Whoz ya people?”:
Considerations on Acknowledging and Upholding Indigenous Sovereignty Outside of Grounded Normativity
1:30-2:30: Helen Gavin Ross (University of Chicago, in-person): Sacred Precincts
Break: 2:30-3:00
3-5pm: Keynote Address by Robyn Marasco (Hunter College), "The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Reading of Carl Schmitt,"
Break: 5-5:30pm
2021: "Phenomenology and Its Worlds" (virtally)
Keynotes: Alia Al-Saji, PhD, McGill University; Megan Craig, PhD, Stony Brook University
2020: “Phenomenology and its Worlds” (canceled)
Keynotes: Alia Al-Saji, PhD, McGill University; Megan Craig, PhD, Stony Brook University
2019: “Political Epistemologies”
Keynote: José Medina, PhD, Northwestern University
2018: "Resistance: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theories"
Keynotes: Amy Allen, PhD, Penn State University; Jamieson Webster, PhD, Eugene Lang College of the New School
2017:"Philosophies of Incarceration and The Incarceration of Philosophy"
Keynote: Sarah Tyson, PhD, University of Colorado-Denver
2016: “Legacies of Colonialism and Philosophies of Resistance”
Keynotes: Enrique Dussel, PhD, UNAM; Nelson Maldonado-Torres, PhD, Rutgers University
2015: "New Encounters in French and Italian Thought"
Keynote: Jason E. Smith, PhD, Art Center College of Design
2014: "Feminism: Body, Image, Power"
Keynote: Lisa Guenther, PhD, Vanderbilt University
2013:"Apocalyptic Politics: Framing the Present"
Keynote Speakers: Mladen Dolar, PhD, University of Ljubljana; Alenka Zupančič, PhD, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Slavoj Žižek, PhD, Birkbeck, University of London; Catherine Malabou, PhD, Kingston University; John D. Caputo, PhD, Syracuse University and Villanova University
2012: "Critical Theories"
Keynote: Nancy Fraser, PhD, New School for Social Research
2011: "The Return of Metaphysics"
Keynote: Graham Harman, PhD, American University, Cairo
2010: “The Place of Psyche: Politics, Art, Nature”
Keynote: Jonathan Lear, PhD, University of Chicago
2009: “New French Thought”
Keynote: Bernard Stiegler, PhD
2008: “Time, History, Memory”
Keynote: David Wood, PhD, Vanderbilt University
2007: “Philosophy and Sexuality”
Keynote: Alphonso Lingi, PhD, Penn State University
2006: “Materialism”
Keynotes: Daniel Smith, PhD, Purdue University; Jay Bernstein, PhD, New School for Social Research
2005: “Philosophy and Art”
Keynote: Hal Foster, PhD, Princeton University
2004: “Empire, War, Violence”
Keynote: John Protevi, PhD, Louisiana State University
2003: “Psychoanalysis and Philosophy”
Keynote: Sara Beardsworth, PhD, University of Memphis
2002: “Race and Philosophy”
Keynote: Lewis Gordon, PhD, Brown University
2001: “Contemporary Feminist Theory”
Keynote: Tina Chanter, PhD, University of Memphis
2000: “Aristotle”
Keynote: Aryeh Kosman, PhD, Haverford College
1999: “Revolutions in Socio-Political Thought”
Keynote: Bill Martin, PhD, DePaul University