CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

FEMINIST LEGACIES / FEMINIST FUTURES
Hypatia has been published as an independent journal of feminist philosophy since 1986; volume 25 will appear in 2010. In celebration of this significant anniverary, the editors of Hypatia and the Simpson Center for the Humanities will host a conference at the University of Washington, to honor the accomplishments of Hypatia--its founders, editors, and contributors--and to consider where feminist philosophy is headed in the next 25 years.

October 22-24, 2009
University of Washington
Conference website

PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ROUNDTABLE
An annual conference co-organized with James Bohman and Paul A. Roth since 1999. A Roundtable special issue of the Journal of Philosophy of the Social Sciences appears every March, based on the preceding year's program.

2009 Roundtable - March 20-22, 2009
Emory University, Atlanta GA: 2009 Program / 2009 Abstracts
Roundtable website: Previous Programs and PoSS Special Issue contents

SCIENCE STUDIES NETWORK
A biweekly colloquium and speaker series, founded in Fall 2007 and hosted by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. The 2009-2009 colloquium is organized as a readings-based faculty and graduate seminar on the theme, "Democratizing Science."

SSNet website
2008-2009 Colloquium

EXPANDING INTERDISCIPLINARITY FROM CAMPUS TO COMMUNITIES: EXPLORING INNOVATION IN COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
An exploratory conference/workshop on strategies and epistemic implications of community-based collaborative research (CBPR) in community forestry, collaborative archaeology, and public health/genetics. Co-organized with Kelly Fryer-Edwards and sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

University of Washigton
June 5-7, 2008
Conference website / Program

WHEN DIFFERENCE MAKES A DIFFERENCE: EPISTEMIC DIVERSITY AND DISSENT
EPISTEME: Journal of Social Epistemology
The 2006 annual Episteme conference co-organized with James Robert Brown (local arrangements) and Alvin Goldman (journal editor). A special issue of Episteme based on the proceedings of this conference appeared as Volume 3, Issues 1-2 (2006). 

University of Toronto
June 2-3, 2006
Conference Program
Episteme website

WOMEN, WORK & THE ACADEMY: RESPONDING TO 'POST-CIVIL RIGHTS ERA GENDER DISCRIMINATION
A public panel and working conference on workplace environment issues for women in the academy, co-organized with Janet Jakobsen and sponsored by the Gildersleeve Foundation and the Barnard Center for Research on Women. A conference report has been published in the BCRW series, New Feminist Solutions.

Barnard College
December 9-10, 2004
Conference Website: Rationale, Participants' Statements, Panel Video
Conference Report: Women Work and the Academy; New Feminist Solutions