The Midwest division of SWIP (Society for Women in Philosophy) is looking
for papers, poetry, panel proposals and/or other proposals for our upcoming
conference.
The conference will be held Sept 19, 20, and 21, 2008 at the University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater.

We invite work in all areas relating to feminism and feminist practices;
anti-racist theory/practice;political theory and ethics; metaphysics and
epistemology as well as papers, panels, and performances that engage
feminist anti-racist praxis and theorizing more broadly. Midwest SWIP is an
interdisciplinary conference with a particular emphasis on troubling the
discipline of philosophy and the theory/practice dichotomy.

Contested Spaces: Conflict, Counter-Narrative an Culture From Below

in Canadian and Québécois Literatures

The state legitimates its ideologies though specific material strategies and practices in the aim
of defining social discourse and those who may participate in its production. If the
normalization and codification of public spaces produces the “proper” citizen who participates
in the consumption of the marketplace, it also produces the obverse - the homeless, the
criminal, the unemployed, the welfare recipient, the declassed migrant, the prisoner, the
dispossessed aboriginal, the racial and linguistic other.

The Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial will be held in Philadelphia,
October 8-11, 2009, at The Hyatt Regency, Penn's Landing.

Abstracts or panel proposals related to any aspect of Poe's work, context, life, and/or influence will
be considered.

Send abstracts to Scott Peeples at PeeplesS_at_cofc.edu or to Steve Rachman at rachman_at_msu.edu. Please put "Bicentennial Poe" in the subject line of your email. Deadline: January 3, 2009.

Through a generous donation from a member of the Poe Studies Association, travel scholarships
will be available for selected graduate students or international presenters.

Fetishism is used in three distinct but, arguably, interconnected ways: commodity fetishism, sexual
fetishism and religious fetishism. In all cases, the fetish is always, an object that exceeds both its
value and its function as a mere object and always a stand-in for something else. This conference
aims to explore what this “something else” may be, how the substitution functions and the possible
connections between the three kinds of fetishism.
Papers are solicited from disciplines that include, but are not limited to, cultural studies, film
studies, literature, art history, cultural anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis,