philoSOPHIA 2024 – Conference Details - CLICK HERE for our 2024 conference website!

Full conference program coming soon in January!

Feminist Making, Doing, & Sensing is the 17th meeting of philoSOPHIA, society for continental feminism.  We’ll be meeting as a hybrid conference on Treaty 7 Territory in southern Alberta, hosted by Mount Royal University’s Library in Calgary, Canada on March 14-17, 2024. We will feature keynotes from Qrescent Mali Mason (Haverford College) and Natalie Loveless (University of Alberta) and a special plenary session by sound studies philosopher Robin James. Panels include experimental making/doing sessions and participatory workshops as well as paper presentations, which take up “making,” “doing,” and “sensing” from feminist perspectives, such as: the affective, somatic, biocultural, human and nonhuman, sonic, pedagogical, archival, ritual-based, poetic, gestural, art-based, political, existential, relational, and experimental.

As a way to enact and explore feminist making and doing, we’ll organize the program along three kinds of sessions:

§  experimental making/doing sessions

These sessions will feature projects in feminist philosophies/theories that intersect with tangible forms of creation. We especially invite graduate students and scholar-artists who are creating art (film, music, poetry, visual arts, crafts) as part of their research.  We are also interested in feminist scholars who are working in sound studies, thinking with and through sound, and making sonic pieces as part of feminist philosophy. To learn more about what is possible in the MRU Library’s Maker Space, Audio Production rooms, Immersion Studio during the conference, the Maker and Media Commons and Immersion Studio are excellent resources.  If you’ve got an idea for a proposal and need more information from the Library’s experts on what is possible and available, please consider contacting:

Maker Studio—Alieka Rudder

Immersion Studio—Genista Kipin

Audio Studio—Gabrielle Pyska

§  participatory workshops

These sessions will feature feminist works in progress that are best presented interactively.  We especially invite contributors who would like to explore new or speculative ideas and collaborative practices with others.  If participants are interested, these workshops will include an informal exchange before the conference of short drafts or readings with others in the session.

§  presentations and papers (either new, emerging projects or close-to-completion projects)

We especially invite work that intersects with the theme feminist making, doing, and sensing.  We look forward to proposals about work in trans studies, critical race studies and abolition, critical disability studies, decolonial and critical Indigenous studies, multisensory storytelling, plant and animal studies, affect studies, critical craft studies, love studies, experimental pedagogies, critical university studies, aesthetics, poetics, and other areas of feminist thinking. 

Participants in the 2024 program will be invited to submit papers, arts-based work, and other forms of feminist thinking to an edited book collection, as well as to a special section of a philosophy journal.

For any questions or information, contact Ada Jaarsma and the organizing team at philosophia2024@gmail.com