About the Irigaray Circle
2007 Meeting of the Irigaray Circle, Stony Brook Manhattan
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2014 Meeting of the Irigaray Circle, Melbourne, Australia
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The Luce Irigaray Circle is an interdisciplinary society dedicated to stimulating and supporting scholarly and creative endeavors that are inspired by or informed by the philosophy of Luce Irigaray. The Circle was established at Stony Brook University in 2006 by the philosophers Sabrina L. Hom, Serene J. Khader, and Mary C. Rawlinson with support from the Office of the President.
The Circle supports scholarship on the philosophy of Luce Irigaray, but it also promotes scholarly and creative work that develops the main themes of Irigaray’s philosophy in new directions. These themes include, but are not limited to, the rethinking of philosophical concepts and the history of philosophy in relation to sexual difference, investigations of ethics and bioethics that provide new figures of agency informed by sexual difference, analyses of contemporary social and political issues in relation to sexual difference, attempts to rethink the infrastructures of life such as food, architecture, or transportation to provide a more livable future, investigations of the role of literature and art in philosophical thinking and practice, and reconsiderations of spirituality that take sexual difference into account.
Annual Conference
The Circle sponsors an annual conference. Recent conferences have been hosted by the Barlett School of Architecture at University College London, the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Bergen, Hofstra University, Stony Brook University, Winchester University, and Brock University.
Conference proceedings have been developed and published in Thinking with Irigaray, Mary C. Rawlinson, Sabrina L. Hom, and Serene J. Khader, editors, Albany: SUNY Press, 2011; Engaging the World: Thinking After Irigaray, Mary C. Rawlinson, editor, Albany: SUNY Press, 2016; Thinking Life With Luce Irigaray: Language Origin, Art, Love, Gail M. Schwab, editor, Albany: SUNY Press 2020; and Horizons of Sexual Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray, Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp, editors, Albany: SUNY Press, 2022. All of these volumes are part of SUNY Press's Series in Gender Theory, edited by Tina Chanter.
The Circle also awards annually the Karen Burke Memorial Prize to the best paper submitted for the conference by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. The prize celebrates the life and work of Karen Burke, who was a member of the original organizing committee at Stony Brook.
The Circle supports scholarship on the philosophy of Luce Irigaray, but it also promotes scholarly and creative work that develops the main themes of Irigaray’s philosophy in new directions. These themes include, but are not limited to, the rethinking of philosophical concepts and the history of philosophy in relation to sexual difference, investigations of ethics and bioethics that provide new figures of agency informed by sexual difference, analyses of contemporary social and political issues in relation to sexual difference, attempts to rethink the infrastructures of life such as food, architecture, or transportation to provide a more livable future, investigations of the role of literature and art in philosophical thinking and practice, and reconsiderations of spirituality that take sexual difference into account.
Annual Conference
The Circle sponsors an annual conference. Recent conferences have been hosted by the Barlett School of Architecture at University College London, the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Bergen, Hofstra University, Stony Brook University, Winchester University, and Brock University.
Conference proceedings have been developed and published in Thinking with Irigaray, Mary C. Rawlinson, Sabrina L. Hom, and Serene J. Khader, editors, Albany: SUNY Press, 2011; Engaging the World: Thinking After Irigaray, Mary C. Rawlinson, editor, Albany: SUNY Press, 2016; Thinking Life With Luce Irigaray: Language Origin, Art, Love, Gail M. Schwab, editor, Albany: SUNY Press 2020; and Horizons of Sexual Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray, Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp, editors, Albany: SUNY Press, 2022. All of these volumes are part of SUNY Press's Series in Gender Theory, edited by Tina Chanter.
The Circle also awards annually the Karen Burke Memorial Prize to the best paper submitted for the conference by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. The prize celebrates the life and work of Karen Burke, who was a member of the original organizing committee at Stony Brook.