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</i>work on or inspired by Luce Irigaray<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">June 14-16, 2018<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><i class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" class="">The gestures and words that we have to invent will be appropriate
 therefore to an opening outside the horizon of the identical, of the similar, of the familiar to one alone.
</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;—Luce Irigaray<i class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" class="">Keynote Speakers<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" class="">Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
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Department of Critical Culture, Gender &amp; Race Studies<br class="">
Washington State University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" class="">Rachel Jones</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
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Department of Philosophy <br class="">
George Mason University <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" class="">Irene Watson<br class="">
</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Aboriginal Leadership and Strategy, School of
 Law<br class="">
University of South Australia</span><b class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" class=""><br class="">
</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" class="">Tanganekald, Meintangk, Boandik First Nations</span><b class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;" class="">&nbsp;</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">The Department of Philosophy, with the support of the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University, will host the 9<sup class="">th</sup>
 meeting of The Luce Irigaray Circle in a three-day interdisciplinary conference devoted to scholarship and creative work on, or inspired by, the thought of Luce Irigaray at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at the Brock downtown campus.
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">Luce Irigaray’s thinking has far-reaching influence across a number of disciplines and practices including Philosophy,
 the Natural Sciences, Women’s Health, Literature and Literary Criticism, Women’s and Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Political Theory, Classics, Linguistics, Architecture, Performance Studies, Music, Sound Studies, Feminist Legal theory,
 Art and Aesthetic practices, etc. The Circle seeks to generate new possibilities for thinking sexual difference by honouring and supporting interdisciplinarity and the multiple research trajectories, methods and projects inspired by Irigaray’s thought. &nbsp;<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">This year’s conference draws its theme from the figure of the
<i class="">horizon </i>mobilized in Irigaray’s work that encompasses social, political, ethical, and cultural processes in relation to sexual difference; a figure that indicates new possibilities for meaning – meanings that are located, historical and specific
 to the horizon of their appearance. In particular, we seek to reconsider Irigaray’s call to bring into view the appearance of sexual difference as a question for our time, as well as problematize the centrality of this claim. Does sexual difference open up
 other horizons of difference or occlude them? How can we conceive horizon<b class=""><i class="">s</i></b> of sexual difference?
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">The 9<sup class="">th</sup> meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle will initiate conversations between this broader
 context of the figure of the horizon and sexual difference, and invites papers, panels, presentations, and performances that contribute to our understanding of the contemporary world by critically re-assessing and furthering the figure of the horizon and the
 concept of sexual difference. Please note all creative work and scholarship on or inspired by Irigaray’s thought will be considered. However, the circle especially welcomes submissions that address the following topics for inclusion in a number of thematically
 organized panels:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">Decolonizing Sexual Difference<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">Race and Sexual Difference<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">Performativity and Sexual Difference<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">Trans and Sexual Difference<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">the Global South and Sexual Difference<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">Sexual Difference across borders, including Sexual Difference and War, Sexual Difference and Migration<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">Deploying the horizon against itself<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">In addition to plenary session speakers, the conference will organize thematically appropriate parallel sessions
 across a broad range of disciplines presented in 20 minute talks/presentations with 10 minutes for discussion. &nbsp;If you would like to participate, please send the following information to&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><a href="mailto:irigaray06@gmail.com" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">irigaray06@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">
 by&nbsp;<b class="">March 1, 2018</b>. (Earlier review processes are available by request to accommodate travel considerations.)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">The title of your paper<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">An abstract (max 300 words)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">5 keywords<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">A list of no more than six reference (not to be included in the word count)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">In addition, the Irigaray Circle will sponsor the 6th annual Karen Burke Memorial Prize, awarded to the best paper
 submitted by a graduate student or recent PhD (PhD awarded in 2012 or later.) The winner of the competition will give the Karen Burke Memorial Prize Lecture at a plenary session of the 2018 conference. Complete papers should be submitted to&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><a href="mailto:irigaray06@gmail.com" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">irigaray06@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;" class="">&nbsp;by
 March 31st, 2018.&nbsp;<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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 Brock University is located in St Catharines, a relatively small city surrounded by the winemaking Niagara region of Southern Ontario, Canada.&nbsp; We are a short distance from Buffalo, New York, easily accessible by car or transit, 20 minutes from Niagara Falls,
 Canada, and a roughly one-hour drive from Toronto. &nbsp;<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><font face="Arial Narrow" class="">Dr Laura Roberts&nbsp;<br class="">
Lecturer, Gender Studies &amp; Philosophy<br class="">
University of Queensland, Australia<br class="">
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Co-director (2017), The Irigaray Circle,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.irigaray.org/" class="">www.irigaray.org</a><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class="">
Co-founder, The Queensland School of Continental&nbsp;Philosophy,&nbsp;</span></font><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/QLDSCP/" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">https://www.facebook.com/QLDSCP/</a></font></div>
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