Irigary Circle General CFP December 2010 Conference

Call for Papers: The Karen Burke Memorial Prize Lecture

The Irigaray Circle invites submissions for The Karen Burke Memorial Prize.  The award honors our late colleague Karen Burke, who was a gentle philosopher and founding member of the Luce Irigaray Circle.  The award recognizes excellent work by a graduate student on or inspired by Luce Irigaray.  In addition to receiving a prize of $500, the winner will present the third annual Karen Burke Memorial Lecture at the 2010 meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle at UCL, December 3-­5, 2010.

We invite papers from all disciplines that engage with any aspect of Irigaray's work, such as:

• The history of philosophy
• Epistemology
• Ethics
• Ecology, environmental ethics, and sustainability
• Architecture and the built environment
• Bioethics
• Medicine, health, and the body
• Political theory
• Multiculturalism
• Psychoanalysis
• Language, literature, and the arts

Submission requirements:  All applicants must be enrolled as graduate students as of June 2010.

• Papers should be no more than 4,000 words and prepared for anonymous review.
• Applicants should submit papers as an email attachment to irigaray06@gmail.com in .doc or .rtf format, with the subject line “Burke Prize”.
• Papers should be accompanied by an email listing the paper title and the applicant’s name, affiliation, and email address.
• Deadline for submissions:  June 15, 2010.

The 2010 meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle will take place from December 3 - 5, 2010 at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), London, UK. For more information see preliminary conference program.