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Call for Papers Theme: Conversations XII Subtitle: Interrogating Caribbean Philosophical and Intellectual Traditions Type: 12th Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS) Institution: Department of History and Philosophy, University of the West Indies β Cave Hill Location: St. Michael (Barbados) Date: 19.β21.4.2017 Deadline: 30.11.2016 __________________________________________________ Please note that, due to unforeseen circumstances, the date of this Symposium has been postponed to April, 2017. βOne of the peculiar features of Caribbean intellectual life is the near absence of an explicitly cultivated tradition. Yet the region has produced authors such as C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon, and Wilson Harris, whose works are brimming with original philosophical insights and arguments.β (Paget Henry) The theme of the twelfth edition of Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS) centres on interrogating Caribbean philosophical and intellectual traditions. In this endeavour, we seek papers exploring the variety of philosophical and intellectual issues within, or relevant to, the Caribbean region. We are interested in papers that examine the theoretical foundations of issues pertinent to the Caribbean: issues such as those pertaining to investigation of identity, race, and social change; the question of diaspora; slavery, colonialism, and reparations; aesthetics and ethics; religion, spirituality, and culture; gender and sexuality; regionalism and integration; ramifications of CSME. In keeping with the spirit of our conversations, we hope to bring together thinkers operating in and across different cultural and philosophical traditions as well as other disciplines that share a boundary with philosophy, disciplines such as cultural studies, critical theory, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, theology, etc. Abstracts (300-500 words) are due by November 30, 2016 to uwich...@gmail.com. Feedback on abstracts will be provided within a week of submission. Participants whose abstracts are accepted by the vetting committee will then be required to submit their completed papers via email as an attachment in Open or LibreOffice, Word, or Wordperfect by the firm deadline of March 15, 2017. These papers will then be posted online for other participants to consult prior to the conference with the intention that time at the Symposium can be devoted more to discussion than to exposition of the written papers. Further information and some papers from earlier symposia will be available at: http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/histphil/chips.aspx Keynote speaker: Paget Henry is Professor of Sociology and African Studies at Brown University. His specializations are Dependency Theory, Caribbean Political Economy, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Art and Literature, Africana Philosophy and Religion, Race and Ethnic Relations, Poststructuralism, and Critical Theory. He has served on the faculties of S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, The University of the West Indies (Antigua) and the University of Virginia. He is the author of Shouldering Antigua and Barbuda: The Life Of V.C. Bird, (Hansib 2009), Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (Routledge, 2000), Peripheral Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Antigua (Transaction Books, 1985), and co-editor of C.L.R. James's Caribbean (Duke UP, 1992) and New Caribbean: Decolonization, Democracy, and Development (Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983). He has published more than fifty articles, essays, and reviews. Contact: Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium Email: uwich...@gmail.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
