InterPhil: ANN: Postponement of the Emerging Ideas on Conversational Thinking Conference
Dear Colleagues, This is to inform the academic community that the International Conference on the theme Thinking Africa: Glocal Solutions to Glocal Problems originally scheduled for August 26-28. 2020 at the University of Pretoria, South Africa has been postponed to a future date due to the coronavirus pandemic. We will announce a new date as soon as the present global situation changes. Please, stay safe! Thank you. Yours in conversation, JO Chimakonam -- Original Message -- Date: 20.02.2020, 15:26 +0100 From: Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil To: InterPhil Subject: InterPhil: CFP: Thinking Africa: Glocal Solutions to Glocal Problems __ Call for Papers Theme: Thinking Africa Subtitle: Glocal Solutions to Glocal Problems Type: 1st CSP Emerging Ideas on Conversational Thinking Conference (EICT) Institution: Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP) Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria Location: Pretoria (South Africa) Date: 26.–28.8.2020 Deadline: 28.2.2020 __ From Jonathan Chimakonam The Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP), in collaboration with Thinking Africa (Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria), invites scholars to submit abstracts (200 words max) for consideration. Priority will be given to submissions that comply with the eight postulates of the conversational method. Conversational Philosophy (CP) is a philosophic tradition that promotes conversational thinking. It aims at questioning orthodoxy, unveiling new concepts, opening new vistas for thought and promoting the global expansion of thought. Papers to be presented on the theme and sub-themes of the 1st edition of EICT-2020 must propose new ideas, reflectling an African perspective to knowledge, in line with the eight postulates of CP. We encourage submissions on any of the following sub-themes: Inequality; poverty; migration; Afrophobia; femicide; rape; infanticide; climate change; suicide; Othering; racism; borders, disability; gender; epistemic marginalisation/injustice; philosophical counselling; ignorance; Afro-communitarianism; personhood; decoloniality; decolonial curriculum studies; Albinism; theory of the human minimum; relational ethics; Ezumezu logic; harmonious monism; Ibuanyidanda philosophy/logic; consolationism; Ubuntu Ontology; Uwa ontology; deliberative epistemology; theories of truth in a post-truth world; complementary epistemology; explanatory models in African philosophy of science; intercultural exchanges; AI and the future of Africa. Submissions: Submit your abstract to: confere...@cspafrica.org Timeline: Submission Deadline: February 28, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2020 Publication of proceedings: - One special issue in an accredited journal would be dedicated to selected papers. - In addition, two edited anthologies will be published under the Thinking Africa imprint (UKZN Press). Conference Registration Fees: - Africa-based students $50; - outside Africa-based students $100. - Africa-based academics $100; - outside Africa-based academics $150; Keynote Speakers: - Prof. Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. - Prof. Robert Bernasconi, The Pennsylvania State University, USA. - Prof. Obioma Nnaemeka, Indiana University, USA. - Dist. Prof. Thaddeus Metz, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Plenaries: The conference will be a plenary event in that all presentations will take place in one hall. Acceptance to present a paper at the conference is conditioned on attendance of all sessisons and that a final, reworked paper will be submitted for publication considerations. There will not be parallel sessions. We are also pleased to announce the creation of a number of Awards: 1. Ground-breaking work in African Philosophy and Studies (monographs) 2. Outstanding female African Thinker award (monographs and articles) 3. Outstanding research on Africa’s intellectual history (monographs) 4. Outstanding research on African logic and critical thinking (articles and monographs) 5. Radical idea in African philosophy (articles) These awards will be presented every two years to recognise and celebrate research excellence in African philosophy and studies. The first round of awards will consider peer-reviewed research published between January 2018 and December 2019. Submissions should be made to awa...@cspafrica.org by simply emailing the pdf of your work on or before midnight, April 30, 2020. Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered by the award panel. Authors may submit to multiple categories. Submission email must have a subject, affiliation/address, email and phone contacts of the author. Cultural Event: A cultural event will be organised for the 29th of August 2020. It would most likely be a trip to Marupeng or City tours. Details will be made available closer to the time.
InterPhil: CFP: Ethical Governance of Surveillance Technologies in Times of Crisis
__ Call for Papers Theme: Ethical Governance of Surveillance Technologies in Times of Crisis Subtitle: Global Challenges and Divergent Perspectives Type: A Multi-Session and Online Conference Institution: Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges, Utrecht University Location: Online Date: 30.10./5.11.2020 Deadline: 15.7.2020 __ The Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges invites submissions for this interdisciplinary online workshop examining how crises and crisis-narratives interact with the ongoing transformation in the governance of surveillance technologies in different parts of the world. This event is organised by the research platform on Disrupting Technological Innovation? Towards an Ethical and Legal Framework within Utrecht University’s Centre for Global Challenges: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/centre-for-global-challenges Background The increasing sophistication and globalisation of surveillance technologies has intensified concerns about whether existing governance structures and human rights principles provide adequate protections for individuals. At the same time, the urgent need for effective coordination of responses to global crises has strengthened calls for solutions that rely heavily on surveillance technologies. Faced with these conflicting concerns, many states are increasingly invoking ‘extraordinary circumstances’ to legitimate the heightened surveillance of individuals. But there are profound differences between and within countries in how much weight is given to appeals to crises. The Covid–19 pandemic provides a particularly compelling illustration of this constellation of issues raised at the intersection of surveillance technology, divergent perspectives, and crisis narratives. Taking the Covid–19 pandemic as a point of departure, the workshop will emphasise a comparative approach to this intersection of issues – including comparisons with the role of surveillance technologies in other global crises – with special emphasis on divergent perspectives from across the globe. One of the defining characteristics of the Covid–19 pandemic has been the heightened awareness of the extent to which one’s behaviour can have dramatic effects on others. In order to change behaviour and monitor threats, governments around the world are taking a number of ‘emergency’ measures within, or even outside, existing legal frameworks. Contact tracing via smartphones is one prominent example of surveillance technology being used either to produce behaviour change or monitor compliance or both. Typically, these measures are presented as temporary. Yet it is widely known that some of the governmental responses to previous crises have been normalised and perpetuated. A similar concern arises with governmental responses to the Covid–19 pandemic and other global crises. But the ethical governance surveillance technology is merely a matter of protecting the individual actors from government interference with privacy. Private actors also need to be held accountable. As the UN’s Special Rapporteur David Kaye articulated in his report entitled ‘Surveillance and Human Rights,’ in the development and use of digital surveillance tools, public and private sectors are close collaborators. Such public-private collaboration regarding digital surveillance can be even intensified during the times of crisis. While the Covid–19 pandemic is a global crisis, governments differ in terms of how they intend to track individuals’ movement and data. This variance gives rise to a further question of the varied acceptability of digital surveillance among different societies. As the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation acknowledged its June 2019 report, concepts and expectations of privacy ‘differ across cultures and societies,’ Different justifications can be readily put forward in balancing individuals’ privacy against other interests during the times of crisis. The workshop will examine various national and regional initiatives taken in response to Covid–19 pandemic in order to collect, store, analyse, and transfer individuals’ data. The workshop will take a comparative approach, so that we can compare some of the responses to the pandemic to those of previous so-called crises. The Workshop Format In order to facilitate participation from a wide range of global perspectives, the workshop will take place online during two sessions: Friday 30 October (9:00 – noon, Central European Time) and Thursday 5 November 2020 (14:30–17:30, CET). Each interactive session will include presentations, discussions in breakout groups, and plenary panel discussion, integrating input from the breakout sessions. Workshop Themes We welcome papers that address one (or more) of the following thematic perspectives: - Politics and science: What are the roles of expertise and scientific narrative in changing the use
InterPhil: CFP: Controversy and Consensus
__ Call for Papers Theme: Controversy and Consensus Subtitle: Shifting Places, Patterns, and Perspectives Type: International Graduate Historical Studies Conference (IGHSC) Institution: Central Michigan University Location: Mt. Pleasant, MI (USA) Date: 16.–17.4.2021 Deadline: 9.1.2021 __ The International Graduate Historical Studies Conference will host “Controversy and Consensus: Shifting Places, Patterns, and Perspectives” at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, April 16 and 17, 2021. We invite graduate and advanced undergraduate students from across the social sciences and the humanities to submit proposals for papers or panels that adopt an interdisciplinary or transnational approach, but we are also seeking papers or panels that approach historical topics in more traditional ways. All submissions must be based on original research. In keeping with the theme of the conference, individual papers will be organized into individually chaired panels that cross spatial, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. The IGHSC will present prizes for the best papers in several categories. Send abstract (250-350 words) and a short curriculum vitae as an attachment to: histc...@cmich.edu Preference will be given to papers and panels received during the early submission period which ends January 9, 2021. The final deadline for abstracts is February 20, 2021. Full papers are due March 13, 2021. For more information visit us at: http://www.ighsc.info Keynote Speaker: Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University Note: Emails received during June, July, and August will not be responded to until September when the IGHSC Committee convenes. Thank you in advance for your patience. Contact: International Graduatate Historical Studies Conference Committee Email: histc...@cmich.edu Web: http://www.ighsc.info __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
