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The Society of the Philosophy of Sex and Love is delighted to announce a call for abstracts for its session—“Love and Sex in Times of Rupture”—at the 2023 APA Pacific Division Meeting in San Francisco, CA (April 5-8, 2023).

In “Love as Political Resistance” from Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, adrienne marie brown (2019) simultaneously engages with love, pleasure, and rupture in an account of radical transformation and care.

Audre Lorde taught us that caring for ourselves is “not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”  And although we know how to meme and tweet those words, living into them is harder.  We have a deeper socialization to overcome, one that tells us that most of us don’t matter—our health, our votes, our work, our safety, our families, our lives don’t matter—not as much as those of white men.  We need to learn how to practice love such that care—for ourselves and others—is understood as political resistance and cultivating resilience.  (brown 2019, 59)

We invite abstracts for papers that take up brown’s call to practices of love, sex, pleasure, and care amidst and as rupture.  We are open to different orientations to the concept of “rupture.”  We are especially interested in non-majoritarian and intersectional engagements with the theme.  How do you, or how ought we live into practices of love, care, and pleasure in this time of COVID, war, disenfranchisement, and the spread of authoritarianism and totalitarianism?  What might living into these practices make possible under these conditions?

We invite abstracts of 300-500 words due by 11:59PM ET on August 10th. Please send abstracts to jordan.pascoe@manhattan.edu

We will alert those who have been accepted by late August/September 1st.

The Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love invites papers and panel proposals on any topic related to the philosophy of sex and love for the Fall and Spring terms of its new virtual seminar, which will run online from August 2022 to May 2023.

Each session will last approximately 1hr 30 minutes and will consist of:

–          One talk lasting approximately 40-50 minutes, followed by a 40 minutes discussion, or;

–          Joint sessions (mini-workshop format), consisting of two or three 20-25 minutes talks followed by a 10-20 minutes discussion.

Submissions:

We welcome submissions for individual abstracts and joint sessions. Anonymized abstracts should be sent to: elibenjamin@temple.edu. 
Deadline: Abstract Submission (250-500 words each): May 31, 2022; Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2022 

We particularly encourage proposals that foster gender–equality and diversity, including researchers with various institutional affiliations, at diverse stages of their professional careers, with different geographical origins, and from underrepresented groups.

SPSL members: if you are willing to evaluate submissions and/or to co-organize the seminar, please contact me at elibenjamin@temple.edu.

Join SPSL at the APA Central in Chicago during the 2 to 5PM slot on Saturday, February 26^th!

• Jonathan Ichikawa (University of British Columbia) “A Euthyphro Problem for Consent Theory” 
• Gary Foster (Wilfrid Laurier University) “Desire, Love, and Identity in Sartre”
• Chair, Justin Clardy (Stanford University)

Due to some scheduling changes, SPSL needs a Chair for our panel at the APA Central (Chicago 2.23 to 2.26).

The panel is during the 2 to 5PM slot on Saturday, February 26^th and features two papers:

• Jonathan Ichikawa (University of British Columbia) “A Euthyphro Problem for Consent Theory” 
• Gary Foster (Wilfrid Laurier University) “Desire, Love, and Identity in Sartre”

Please contact me (awarmac@emory.edu) or Jordan (jordan.pascoe@manhattan.edu) if you would like to be a hero.

Jordan Pascoe

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Call for Papers and Proposals : Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, APA Central (February 2021)

The Society for Sex and Love invites papers and panel proposals on any topic related to the philosophy of sex and love for our panel session at the APA Central in Chicago, IL (February 23-26, 2022). Deadline for submission is August 15, 2020. All submissions should be sent to jordan.pascoe@manhattan.edu

Guidelines for Papers: We invite papers on any topic related to the philosophy of sex and love. Papers should be no more than 3,000 words.

Guidelines for Panel Proposals: We invite panel proposals for a two-hour session at the APA Pacific on any topic related to the Philosophy of Sex and Love. This might take the form of 3-4 linked papers, 3-4 presenters responding to a single question or theme, or 1-2 papers with invited commentary. Proposals should include the following:(1) An overview of the central theme or question(2) Names and affiliation of all participants, including confirmation that they have agreed to participate in the panel(3) abstracts for all papers included in the panel.

For more information about the Society, see our webpage at http://www.philosophyofsexandlove.org/

For more information about the Central APA meeting, see https://www.apaonline.org/group/central

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Please join the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love at the APA Central Meeting February 24-25.

The Society for Sex and Love invites papers and panel proposals on any topic related to the philosophy of sex and love for our panel session at the APA Central in New Orleans, LA (February 24-27, 2021). Deadline for submission is August 10, 2020. All submissions should be sent to jordan.pascoe@manhattan.edu

Guidelines for Papers: We invite papers on any topic related to the philosophy of sex and love. Papers should be no more than 3,000 words.

Guidelines for Panel Proposals: We invite panel proposals for a two-hour session at the APA Pacific on any topic related to the Philosophy of Sex and Love. This might take the form of 3-4 linked papers, 3-4 presenters responding to a single question or theme, or 1-2 papers with invited commentary. Proposals should include the following:(1) An overview of the central theme or question(2) Names and affiliation of all participants, including confirmation that they have agreed to participate in the panel(3) abstracts for all papers included in the panel.

For more information about the Society, see our webpage at http://www.philosophyofsexandlove.org/

For more information about the Central APA meeting, see https://www.apaonline.org/m/event_details.asp?id=1256286

Please forward and share widely! Thank you!

Please join us in Philadelphia at the Eastern APA on Thursday, January 9, 12:15-2:15 for