16th Meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle
‘Liveable Futures’
9-11 July 2026
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
The 16th meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle is an interdisciplinary conference devoted to scholarship and creative work on, or inspired by, the thought of Luce Irigaray. Irigaray’s work has influenced scholarship across a range of fields including Gender & Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Studies, Indigenous Studies, Sociology, Political Theory, Geography, Philosophy, Literary and Cultural Studies, Classics, Religious Studies, Linguistics, Legal Theory, Art, Architecture, Design, Music, Performance, and more. The Circle cultivates a space for honouring and interrogating the question of sexual difference by supporting multiple research trajectories, methods, and projects inspired by Irigaray’s thought.
From rethinking the most fundamental philosophical questions about life and ethics to concrete interventions in law, democratic politics, architecture, and ecology, Irigaray’s thought provides essential resources for imagining, and building, a more liveable future. Inspired by this task, the 2026 conference is devoted to exploring the conceptual and practical infrastructures that might sustain liveable futures.
The Circle invites proposals for individual papers (20-25 minutes), complete panels (3 papers), works-in-progress, and creative works.
Please submit all proposals at https://forms.office.com/e/aiPBWtvzjY by 1 February 2026.
To accommodate international travel planning, early decisions are available on abstracts from 5 January 2026. Please note this on your submission form if needed.