InterPhil: CFA: Dissertation Fellowship in Cross-cultural Philosophy
__ Call for Applications Type: Philosophy Dissertation Fellowship Institution: APRA Foundation Berlin Location: Berlin (Germany) Date: 2020–2023 Deadline: Ongoing __ The purpose of the APRA Foundation Berlin Philosophy Dissertation Fellowship is to motivate pursuit of a well-rounded education in philosophy that prepares the applicant to flourish in a variety of professional environments – whether academic or otherwise – that demand cross-cultural knowledge, logical reasoning, and recognition of the extent to which Western culture is rooted in the more ancient cultures of the Near and Far East. To this end, it requires of the applicant prior completion of a background program of philosophical study that extends beyond the scope of most undergraduate and graduate degree requirements, in its inclusion of required coursework in logic, Eastern philosophy, and the Arabic and Jewish thinkers in Medieval philosophy. In this way, the Fellowship Applicant Credentials establish a foundation for advanced philosophical study that cultivates both familiarity with philosophical approaches from a variety of non-Western traditions, and also the shared tools of consistent reasoning and analysis through which to reintegrate them into meaningful relation with the Western tradition. This will serve all Fellowship applicants well whether they actually win the Fellowship or not. The successful applicant will receive a grant of € 12,000.00/year, divided into 12 sequential monthly payments of € 1,000.00 each, for a period of 36 sequential months, running from September of the first year through August of the third sequential year. The Fellowship is portable to any accredited philosophy dissertation program in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, or North America. It is the responsibility of the Fellow to gain admission to such a doctoral program at an accredited institution, to obtain a dissertation advisor, and to discharge the academic and administrative requirements described above. The Fellow agrees to teach no more than one course per semester at the most, in addition to researching and writing the dissertation, during the Fellowship period. For further information, please visit: http://adrianpiper.com/foundation/PhDFellowshipMenu.shtml Cotact: APRA Foundation Berlin Postfach 288 52 10131 Berlin Germany Tel./Fax: +49 30 4403-9244 Email: cont...@adrianpiper.com Web: http://www.adrianpiper.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Social Development of Humanity from the Perspective of Multiculturalism
__ Call for Papers Theme: Social Development of Humanity from the Perspective of Multiculturalism Type: International Conference Institution: Nanchang University Location: Nanchang (China) Date: 25.–26.7.2020 Deadline: 15.4.2020 __ Theme Since the birth of culture in the world of human existence, there have always been many types of classifications, and differences between one culture and another. Even in the same historical era, different cultural types emerged in different geographical areas. Multiculturalism is important for different cultural carriers to characterize their own people, country or nation. Although different cultural types have their own characteristics, there have been always cultural exchange and cooperation in the process of cultural development. No culture can be isolated from other cultures, because diverse cultures are interacting and cooperating within a large system of the world culture. The process of cultural development is open and dynamic, without communication and cooperation with external cultures, it is impossible to achieve one’s own growth. The history of the development of world culture is the history of exchanges among different and diverse cultures. With the acceleration and deepening of economic globalization, the popularization and utilization of modern science and technology has enabled cultural exchanges to be much broader and more frequent. The rapid development of the Internet has made peoples around the world either passively or actively engage in the process of globalization in various aspects. There exists not only a communication between traditional and advanced cultures, but also the conflict between local and foreign cultures. We are facing many challenges in such a process, especially in the human social development. There might be conflicts when cultures and peoples encounter one another partly due to their differences. However, this could be also a learning process to understand each other better. Thus it is necessary to examine the issue of human social development from a multicultural perspective. The conference will focus the following sub-themes: 1. Cultural exchanges and construction of a community of shared human destiny 2. Justice and human social development 3. Non-traditional security and international cooperation 4. Global ecological crisis and responses and strategies 5. Multiculturalism and globalization 6. China's poverty reduction and world anti-poverty Abstract Please send 300 words and a brief CV to Deng Yangqi [d...@ncu.edu.cn], Li Ren [li...@ncu.edu.cn] and [cua-...@cua.edu] by April 15, 2020. Full paper will be due on June 1, 2020. Well-developed papers will be considered to be published by the RVP in its publication series "Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change." Logistics There is no registration fee. Participants will cover their own travel costs and the local organizers will provide accommodations. Contact Deng Yangqi and Li Ren School of Marxism Nanchang University Nanchang China Email: d...@ncu.edu.cn and li...@ncu.edu.cn Conference website: http://www.crvp.org/conferences/2020/Nanchang.html __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
