IPONS is excited to announce the 28th Annual International Hybrid Nursing Philosophy Conference titled, “Listening and Speaking Otherwise: Encounters at the Edge of Nursing and Philosophy.“
The HYBRID conference will take place physically at the University of California, Irvine in sunny, coastal Southern California, USA, as well as virtually via Zoom.
This hybrid, multidisciplinary conference aims to generate conversations between philosophy and nursing through a series of invited panel conversations and events. Cutting-edge peer-reviewed abstract panels on current scholarship and ideas in nursing philosophy will also be featured.
IPONS is excited to share an opportunity for our membership to participate in to advance their philosophical knowledge and community with “Summer Camp.” Please see the information below regarding this event. Registration is required.
The Nursing Philosophy Interest Group is hosting “Summer Camp” on July 25 from 9:00-10:30am PST.
The session will be relatively informal and is designed to generate community among philosophers and the philosophy-curious.
Read materials ahead if you can, or just jump in for the conversation!
Thank you to everyone who attended the International Philosophy of Nursing Society (IPONS) Virtual Panel:Showcasing the Work of Emerging Nursing Philosophers!
Please see the flyer below for our free virtual IPONS webinar on Friday, May 23rd from 1:30 – 3:30 PM PST hosted with the University of Victoria. Come support and learn from our emerging nurse philosophers!
It is with great sadness that we announce that Dr. Pawel Krol died on December 9th, 2024 at the age of 51. Pawel was an exceptional IPONS member, and held the role of secretary. An associate professor at the Faculty of Nursing at Laval University, Quebec, Canada, Pawel’s scholarship focused on critiquing the nursing disciplinary foundations as well as modern issues related to nursing practice. Pawel’s worldview was rooted in critical and emancipatory epistemologies, such as continental and critical theory traditions. He was passionate about the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. We will dearly miss Pawel, and hope to honor him by showcasing his dedication to nursing philosophy in the below notable works. Please see the link below for a more expansive view of Pawel’s important work for nursing practice.
C’est avec une grande tristesse que nous annonçons que le Dr Pawel Krol est décédé le 9 décembre 2024 à l’âge de 51 ans. Professeur agrégé à la Faculté des sciences infirmières de l’Université Laval, au Québec, au Canada, les travaux de Pawel ont porté sur la critique des fondements disciplinaires ainsi que sur les enjeux dans la pratique contemporaine des soins infirmiers. La perspective de Pawel était enracinée dans des épistémologies critiques et émancipatrices, telles que dans les traditions de la théorie continentale et critique. Il était passionné par l’œuvre de Friedrich Nietzsche. Pawel nous manquera énormément et nous espérons lui rendre hommage en mettant en valeur son engagement envers la philosophie infirmière dans les œuvres remarquables notées ci-dessous. Veuillez consulter les pour un aperçu plus détaillé du travail important de Pawel.
Krol, P., Einboden, R., Wong, H., Geia, L., & Tembo, A. (2024). Reimagining a nursing ecosystem in an uncertain world. Nursing Philosophy, 25(4), e12501. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12501
Krol, P., et al. (2024, January 25). Nietzsche’s influence on posthumanism. Oral presentation at the IPONS-CNP Virtual Panel: Post/humanism(s): Critical perspectives, issues, and possibilities for nursing.
Krol, P. & Holmes, D. (2024). Philosophies et sciences infirmières : contributions essentielles à la discipline. Presses de l’Université Laval.
Dallaire, C., & Krol, P. (2018). Revisiting the roots of nursing philosophy and critical theory: Past, present, and future. Nursing Philosophy, 19(1), e122204. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12204
Krol, P., Lavoie, M. (2014). Beyond nursing nihilism, a Neitzschean transvaluation of neoliberal values. Nursing Philosophy, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12025
For a link to Dr. Pawel’s obituary and to send your condolences please follow this link/Pour accéder à l’avis de décès du Dr Pawel et pour envoyer vos condoléances, veuillez suivre ce lien: https://yveslegare.com/en/avis-deces/pawel-krol-1973-202
Dear members of the International Philosophy of Nursing Society (IPONS),
We are currently seeking up to six executive members to join the IPONS executive team for a three-year term starting in September 2025. Additionally, we are in search of a new treasurer for the society, this person must be currently on the IPONS Executive Board
• The role of an executive member involves participating in two or three annual meetings (including the annual general meeting AGM) where IPONS matters are discussed, such as upcoming conferences, budgets, and various activities related to the Nursing Philosophy journal or other scholarly Societies or Journals, as well as other IPONS-related affairs. During the AGM (either in-person or remotely), which typically takes place at the current year’s conference, new elected members are announced along with various resolutions and matters concerning IPONS. We would be delighted to have your in our team, and we invite you to submit your application before August 15th.
• The treasurer’s role primarily involves maintaining the financial accounts regarding memberships and overseeing certain IPONS affairs and is open to a current member of the Executive Board.
Furthermore, if you have received this email but at the wrong address, please reply to this email and provide us with your institutional email address (university, research center, or other) to facilitate easier communication.
As a reminder:
The aims of IPONS are:
To promote and establish philosophy of nursing, and health care in general, as a credible and important field of philosophical and critical inquiry.
To establish a growing international network for this purpose.
To conduct and support philosophical inquiry in a manner that informs and engages with health care practice, theory, research, education and policy from national and international perspectives.
To support philosophical inquiry into nursing and health care across cultures and countries, including those who may find it difficult for their voices to be heard.
To advance the education of the public and health care professionals in philosophy of nursing by arranging meetings, conferences and seminars, and by such other means as the executive committee in their absolute discretion think fit.
This special issue of Nursing Philosophy invites papers that address the question of nursing today through the event of current nursing theory and practice. The question of the event has been at the centre of work in 20th and 21st-century continental philosophy and process thought, unsettling our ready-made conceptualizations and habits of seeing and doing, of knowing and thinking. For example, Charles Sanders Peirce noted, “that the world lives, and moves, and has its being, in a logic of events” (1976, p. 439, italics in original). Gilles Deleuze was explicit in saying “I’ve tried in all my books to discover the nature of events; it’s a philosophical concept, the only one capable of ousting the verb ‘to be’ and its attributes” (1995, p. 141).
However, this philosophical effort has not yet fully registered in the nursing literature. Indeed, one could argue that the event of nursing has for the most part been covered over by a ‘matrix of (un)intelligibility’ (Petrovskaya, 2023 resourcing Butler’s original concept, 1990), a dogmatic image of thought that actively eliminates the eventfulness at the heart of nursing. Notions of agency, selfhood, causality and substance are central to this image, which seeks to secure for nursing its autonomous identity and its clarified, well-bounded structures of knowledge for practice. While nursing scholars have done the work challenging these more conventional modes of intelligibility in this journal, demonstrating the ways they make invisible or paper over the actual contextualities and practices that comprise nursing, there is much more to do.
We want to continue this stream of scholarship by inviting papers that address how we might express what it means to think, live and act within the event of nursing. Just as Evidence-Based Practice attempts to make nursing programmable, predictable and calculable (see for example Kirkham et al., 2007; Thorne & Sawatzsky 2014), how could expressions of the event of nursing help us to conceive nursing in ways that move beyond this?
At the heart of the event is the new, the present or a now that is in passage. How can we bear witness to this passage, be carried along with it and, at the same time, better attune to and/or counter-actualize its emerging possibilities? How might we learn to think and act otherwise as nurses within the event, incorporating its ruptures, intensities and unanticipated encounters into our practices? Can we imagine and create for ourselves new event-driven nursing ideas, concepts, and even methodologies?
To think with the event of nursing, the journal welcomes a wide range of theoretical and philosophical approaches. For example, nurse scholar John Drummond (2002) has argued, from a position informed by the French philosophers Deleuze and Guattari, that we might draw on the concept of ‘care’ to think about the event of nursing. Or, we might try to think with agential realism “how matter comes to matter” (Barad, 2007, p. 192) in the event of nursing. Can nursing engage with what Whitehead (1978) has taught us; that concrescing the event involves both retroactive selection (prehension) and futural orientation (superjection) without simple location? Perhaps, borrowing from Braidotti (2005), we might contribute to a new cartography of nursing with alternative figurations of what the event of nursing might become in the present. In all cases to think the event of nursing does not mean its appropriation by the resources of a newly restored ‘reason’, but an encounter with the unthought, the untimely and the outside.
Topics for this call for papers include but not restricted to:
Novel expressions what it means to think, live and act within the event of nursing
Cartographies of nursing disclosing alternative figurations of nursing
Reconceiving traditional nursing concepts to re-think the event of nursing
Expressions of event-driven nursing ideas, concepts, and even methodologies
Guest Editor
Keith Robinson University of Arkansas United States of America
Keywords: Nursing Philosophy; Event of Nursing; Nursing Theory; Philosophy of Nursing
Submission Guidelines/Instructions
All manuscripts will be blind peer reviewed in line with the journal’s policy. When submitting your manuscript, in the Special Issue section of the submission process, you will be asked to indicate what Special Issue your submission is for. Please select “Thinking the Event of Nursing” from the drop-down menu to ensure your manuscript is identified as a Special Issue submission for this Call for Papers.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke university Press.
Braidotti, R. (2005). A critical cartography of feminist post-postmodernism. Australian feminist studies, 20(47), 169-180.
Butler, J. (1990, 2002). Gender trouble. Routledge.
Deleuze, G. (1995). Negotiations, 1972-1990. Columbia University Press.
Drummond, J. (2002). Freedom to roam: A Deleuzian overture for the concept of care in nursing. Nursing Philosophy, 3(3), 222-233.
Kirkham, S. R., Baumbusch, J. L., Schultz, A. S., & Anderson, J. M. (2007). Knowledge development and evidence-based practice: Insights and opportunities from a postcolonial feminist perspective for transformative nursing practice. Advances in Nursing Science, 30(1), 26-40.
Peirce, C. S. (1976). The elements of mathematics: Volume IV mathematical philosophy. Mouton Publishers and Humanities Press.
Petrovskaya, O. (2023). Nursing theory, postmodernism, post-structuralism, and Foucault. Taylor & Francis.
Thorne, S., & Sawatzky, R. (2014). Particularizing the General. Advances in Nursing Science, 37(1), 5–18.
Whitehead, A. N. (1978). Process and reality: An essay in cosmology. New York: The Free Press
