Call for Papers
‘A Sharing of Speech: Scholarship on or Inspired by the Work of Luce Irigaray’
8th Conference of The Irigaray Circle
The Institute for Theological Partnerships at the University of Winchester, UK June 23rd-25th 2017
This conference will examine the diversity of scholarship inspired and informed by the philosophy of Luce Irigaray.
The conference will feature the following keynote speakers:
- Ellen Mortensen, University of Bergen
- Christine Battersby, University of Warwick
- Yvette Russell, University of Bristol
- Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary University
We welcome engagements with Irigaray in fields such as politics, philosophy, aesthetics, visual culture, linguistics, literature, media and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, religious studies, music, sound studies, architecture, education and legal studies.
In addition to the keynotes, the conference will include papers presented in 30 minute with 10 minutes for discussion. If you would like to participate, please send the following information to brenda.sharp@winchester.ac.uk by 31st March 2017.
- The title of your paper
- An abstract (max 300 words)
- 5 keywords
- A list of no more than six references
In addition, the Irigaray Circle will sponsor the 6th annual Karen Burke Memorial Prize, awarded to the best paper submitted by a graduate student or recent PhD (PhD awarded in 2011 or later.) The winner of the competition will give the Karen Burke Memorial Prize Lecture at a plenary session of the 2017 conference. Complete papers should be submitted to irigaray06@gmail.com by