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 fourth annual Karen Burke Memorial Lecture at the 2013 meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle at the University of Bergen, June 5-7, 2013.
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 2013.

• 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: January 21, 2013.

The 2013 meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle will take place from June 5-7, 2013 at University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. For more information see preliminary conference program.