{"id":51819,"date":"2018-06-12T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=51819"},"modified":"2018-06-12T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T22:44:36","slug":"brock-to-host-international-philosophy-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/06\/brock-to-host-international-philosophy-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to host international philosophy conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock will welcome philosophers from around the world this week for a conference devoted to contemporary French feminist thinker Luce Irigaray.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hosted by Brock\u2019s Department of Philosophy, the ninth annual meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle will be held at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in downtown St. Catharines from Thursday, June 14 to Saturday, June 16. The Circle is an interdisciplinary group of academics who produce significant scholarship on Irigaray\u2019s philosophy and feminist thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will be the first time the event is held in Canada, making it the first Canadian conference devoted to Irigaray\u2019s work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEach meeting of the Circle is a purposively unique event, which is organized around a specific theme in order to further Irigarayan scholarship in a new direction,\u201d says Athena Colman, conference organizer and Brock Associate Professor of Philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSite selection for the meeting is highly competitive and is a recognition of the organizer\u2019s contribution to new areas of research in the field.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event has previously been hosted by Stony Brook University in New York, University of Bergen in Norway and University College of London in England, among other locations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year\u2019s three-day interdisciplinary conference, titled \u201cHorizons of Sexual Difference,\u201d will explore scholarship and creative work inspired by Irigaray.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference will look at new ways in which Irigaray\u2019s thinking can be applied to recent philosophical and feminist discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Themes explored by the circle include analyses of contemporary social and political issues and spirituality in relation to sexual differences, as well as investigations into the role of literature and art in philosophical thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock will welcome philosophers from around the world this week for a conference devoted to contemporary French feminist thinker Luce Irigaray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":46849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,37,1,4],"tags":[391,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51821,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51819\/revisions\/51821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}