Thirty-Fourth International Social Philosophy Conference. Sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy with the Department of Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago. July 13-15, 2017
Proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome, but special attention will be devoted to: Justice: Social, Criminal, Juvenile
Some possible paper topics include:
- Justice and the law
- Justice in law and public policy
- Injustice
- Children's rights
- Policing
- Incarceration
- Law and power
- International criminal justice
- Due process at the border
- Legal responsibility
- Restorative justice
- Violence and resistance
- Jury nullification
- Black Lives Matter
- Modern day "debtor's prison"
- Criminal law and ideology
- Race and criminal justice
- School-to-prison pipeline
- Multiculturalism and the law
- Micro-injustices
- Criminal justice and gender
- Wealth and justice (or injustice)
- Adversary trials and truth
- Justice and sexual assault
- Justice for victims
- Solitary confinement
- Capital punishment
- Care and social justice
- Rights of felons
- The prison-industrial complex
- Charging juveniles as adults
- Community policing
- Reproductive injustice and prisons
- Captivity and carcerality
- Social and civil death
- Prison abolition and reform
We welcome submissions from both members and non-members, but we require that all presenters join the North American Society for Social Philosophy if their papers are accepted and if they present at the conference.
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2017. Please submit a 300 word abstract at: http://www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/call-for-abstracts/
Questions? contact _at_ northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org.
The Program Committee
Joan Woolfrey, West Chester University of Pennsylvania (chair)
Kathryn Norlock, Trent University
Ann Levey, University of Calgary
Local host: Heidi Malm, Loyola University, Chicago.
Members of the Program Committee may be reached at: program _at_ northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org
NASSP Support for International Presenters
The NASSP will waive fees for conference registration and for the banquet for those participants traveling from outside of the United States and Canada.
NASSP Conference Awards for Graduate Students: The North American Society for Social Philosophy has established the NASSP Awards for Best Graduate Student Papers to promote new scholarship in social philosophy and to encourage student participation in our Conference.
The winners of the annual prizes each receive $300. The prizes are awarded only to conference attendees, though there is no obligation to use the money for conference-related costs. Any graduate student enrolled in a program towards a degree beyond the B.A. or first university diploma is eligible.
The paper may address any topic in social philosophy. Papers should be no more than 3,000 words (include a word count with submission), and they should conform to the requirements set out by the APA for colloquium submissions to annual Divisional meetings.
Those who want to be considered for this award should send their full papers on or before February 15 to gradaward _at_ northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org - and they should also submit abstracts to the site by February 15, 2017.
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