InterPhil: CFP: Hate Speech in Asia
__ Call for Papers Theme: Hate Speech in Asia Subtitle: Challenges and Solutions Type: International Conference Institution: Asia Centre Location: Bangkok (Thailand) Date: 8.–10.7.2020 Deadline: 29.2.2020 __ Overview Across Asia hate speech based on fake news has led to an increase of violent incidents as disinformation divides communities during periods of political and communal tensions. With rising internet penetration and use of mobile devices, abusive and threatening remarks both in speech and writing are going viral over social media. Often such content expresses intense prejudice against individuals or particular groups, on the basis of disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, political ideology, race, religion or sexual orientation which can rise up to a frenzy leading to violent outcomes. Governments have enacted laws to preserve public order as well as to protect human dignity. They have also sponsored and assembled inter-faith dialogues and embarked on social cohesion efforts. Other stakeholders such the UN, international organisations, civil society and faith-based groups are also doing their part to combat hate speech. In the search for solutions to these challenges, there is also a need for an evidence-based discussion to critically examine the phenomenon of hate speech and its impact on democracy, the rule of law and human rights. This conference seeks to address the issue of hate speech from an evidence-based and a solution grounded approach while upholding freedom of expression. Themes The key issues that will be examined are as follows: - Blasphemy, hate speech, “harmony” (national, social, religious) laws and bills - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) - Human rights mechanisms (UN [UPR/Special Procedures], AICHR, NHRIs) - Non-legal interfaith dialogues and social cohesion or social harmony initiatives - Perspectives from religion, race, ethnicity and nationalities - Political and nationality-based discrimination and hate - Social protection of gender and LGBTIQ stakeholders - Role of media, social media and technology - Impact on democracy, freedom of expression, human rights and the rule of law - Any other relevant or related themes Objectives The conference aims to achieve the following objectives: - Convene interested individuals and organisations researching hate speech - Exchange information and trends around legislation to prevent hate speech - Examine non-legal measures to promote social cohesion and harmony - Evaluate hate speech’s impact on democracy, freedom of expression, human rights and the rule of law Conference Structure The conference will consist of short remarks, keynote speeches and plenary and breakout sessions made of thematic panels and country-specific discussions. Conference Participants Registration is open to all presenters and participants from academic institutions, businesses, national and regional civil society organisations, international NGOs, political parties and intergovernmental organisations to facilitate knowledge sharing and networking. Due to the stability of internet connection available, Asia Centre is not able to accommodate online presentations and participation. Conference Fee This is a self-funded conference, hence a flat fee of USD $300 that will be charged to all keynote, paper and poster presenters, participants and drop-in visitors. This will go towards covering the cost of the venue, equipment and logistics, coffee breaks on all days, certificates for participants, conference communications and staff. Submission Guidelines - Paper Presentations and Speeches Researchers and practitioners wishing to present papers or share their experiences are invited to submit a title, an abstract in English of 300-350 words along with a biographical paragraph of 100 words here: http://bit.ly/2y0GcEb For those submitting papers, full papers should be 5000 words. - Poster presentations Limited space is available for 4 to 5 poster presentations. Your presentation may be submitted in word / pdf format to the Asia Centre for consideration. A 60×80 cm poster will be printed and displayed during the conference. Full conference fees apply. Key Dates - Accepting abstracts now (deadline 29 Feb 2020) - Payment due following acceptance of paper - Full papers (deadline 15 June 2020) Contact: Dr. James Gomez, Convener Asia Centre 128/183 Phayathai Plaza Building (17th Floor) Phayathai Road Thung-Phayathai Rachatewi Bangkok 10400 Thailand Email: resea...@asiacentre.org Conference website: https://asiacentre.org/event/hate-speech-in-asia-challenges-and-solutions/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/
InterPhil: CFP: Centralizing African Philosophy for African Development
__ Call for Papers Theme: Centralizing African Philosophy for African Development Type: African Philosophy Conference Institution: Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan Pan African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG) Location: Ibadan (Nigeria) Date: 8.–11.7.2020 Deadline: 30.4.2020 __ Background Once upon a time, African Philosophy struggled under the yoke of ontological, epistemological, axiological and logical denial. Eurocentrism and racism combined to consign the ancestral homeland of human intellectual, scientific, religious, axiological heritage to the oblivion of primitivity and barbarity; this consignment was a product of rank greed, ignorance and perversion which affected both the humanity of Africans as well as of Europeans – after all, a sa koko, ati koko e, awon mejeeji jo maa gbe ni. Since we passed the stage of philosophical exclusion, numerous strides have been made, and tomes have been published celebrating the fecundity and depth of African Philosophy globally. And numerous symposia, conferences and colloquia have convoked in various parts of Africa. These have been good developments. However, the challenge has been unmasking and transcending the paradigms and topographies ordained by EuroAmerican restrictive and often puerile trajectories of engaging reality seen from Nordic perspectives. This particular challenge has manifested in what Claude Ake ably described in 'Social Science as Imperialism'; Olufemi Taiwo in 'How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa'; Franz Fanon in 'Black Skin, White Mask'; Orlando Patterson in 'Slavery and Social Death'; John Bewaji in 'Narratives of Struggle'; it is the facticity which has made Africa and its Diaspora mendicants, dependent on crumbs from the largesse taken from Africa through brain, brown and resource extraction over 700 years of interface with Asia Minor and Europe (USA/ China). African Philosophy, like all aspects of African Academy, requires creative engagement in all its dimensions. Following the West in its doomed blustering with reality, encapsulated in Trumpism, Brexit and Macronism will only exacerbate the decadence and depreciation of Global African humanity. Investigating, researching, documenting, teaching and propagating African Philosophy require totally both traditional and new, orthodox/unorthodox and creative methodologies. Narratives which emanate from the core of African experiences must guide this process. The received knowledge which has made our leadership no more than messengers to global denudation of African matrimony and patrimony require challenge by our seasoned and upcoming researchers. Tropes of globalization, information communications technologies, educational and religious paradigms which continue to enslave our imaginative spirits and impoverish our spaces and places in the comity of humanity require urgent and immediate attention. Business as usual will not cut it. Africa does not have the luxury of waiting, nor can Africa continue to totter on the precipice of another colonization, thereby making her people fools who are thirsty in the abundance of waters (Bob Marley). This unique Conference on African Philosophy being hosted by the Department of Philosophy, in collaboration with PANAFSTRAG, is the first of many initiatives aimed at giving a foundational bases for the principles and practices by which our existence are guided, determined and managed. To this end, we invite students, scholars, researchers and policy makers from all the disciplines and walks of African life – Humanities, Social Sciences, Technologies, Medicines, Agricultures, Business, Finance, Governance, Voluntary NGOs, etc. – to examine the African intellectual foundations of their methodologies, theories, pedagogies and practices and bring forward reflective papers, panels and roundtables as contributions to this effort. We wish to note that the University of Ibadan is in the process of institutionalizing in a novel, unprecedented, deliberate and future oriented way the necessary structures to continue investigating and disseminating the issues which are core to this Conference. As an ongoing effort, our partners, collaborators, researchers and scholars will continue to be engaged within the continent and without. The Main Theme for this Conference is: Centralizing African Philosophy for African Development The Decade of the Peoples of African Descent (2014-2024) ends in four short years, with very little to show for it. But the challenges of global Africa has only escalated with the introversion and nationalistic tendencies of erstwhile hegemons. Critical to the survival of Africa (continentally and globally) is Philosophy. Religion, Business, Social Existence, Culture, Technology, Politics, International Relations and everything, conceivable and otherwise, derive their foundations from Philosophy writ
InterPhil: PUB: Music, Culture and Dialogue
__ Call for Publications Theme: Music, Culture and Dialogue Publication: Culture and Dialogue Date: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2021) Deadline: 1.10.2020 __ Culture and Dialogue is an international peer-reviewed journal of cross-cultural philosophy and humanities that is published semi-annually both in print and electronically. Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. For each issue, the Journal seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator. ISSN -3282 Our first 2021 issue (Vol. 9.1) will focus on the theme of Music, Culture and Dialogue. This Issue welcomes contributions from any areas of interdisciplinary philosophy of music, which include: - Music as dialogue, its role and significance as intercultural experience - Comparative philosophy of music, which may analyse one or more particular cultural perspectives (Eastern, African, Western, Indian etc.) - Philosophical reflection on modes of understanding the nature of music (anthropological, social, religious, political, psychological, scientific etc.) - Inquiry into the cultural dimensions of music from across the traditions of interpretive and analytic philosophies We welcome essays that address any of these topics from different cultural perspectives or philosophical traditions. Submissions to: ad...@culture-dialogue.net Notes for Authors: www.culture-dialogue.net/notes-for-authors Deadline: 1st October 2020 Contact: Erika Mandarino, Manuscript Editor Culture and Dialogue Email: mandarinoer...@gmail.com Web: http://www.culture-dialogue.net __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
