InterPhil: CFP: Critical Emancipations

2022-12-30 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Critical Emancipations
Type: International Conference
Institution: Higher Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven
Location: Leuven (Belgium)
Date: 12.–13.5.2023
Deadline: 8.1.2023

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The broad tradition of critical theory is historically, politically
and theoretically committed to emancipation. But the modern notion of
emancipation is also a contested concept. This is already apparent in
Marx’s attempts to provide an alternative theory of emancipation to
the liberal (Hägglund 2019) and the classical republican versions
(Roberts 2018). Now that capitalism is back on the agenda (Fraser &
Jaeggi 2018) and presenting new challenges in the form of an emerging
platform economy (Muldoon 2022), crises of care and the climate
(Fraser 2022) and ubiquitous economic precarity (Azmanova 2020), it
is time reconsider both the nature and potential of this concept.

Even though capitalism pervades all spheres of social life, it does
not do so in univocal or homogenizing ways and neither is it the sole
determining influence. It is thus unclear whether emancipation can
carry the same meaning in, for instance, the sphere of production,
surrounding migrant rights or in struggles over reproductive justice.
A self-reflective tradition of critical theory should therefore take
into account radical critiques of the Marxist idea of emancipation.
Postcolonial scholars, for instance, criticize the philosophy of
history present in Eurocentric notions of emancipation (Allen 2015)
and show that anti-colonial struggles produced their own ideas of
emancipation (Coulthard 2014; Getachew 2016). Feminists and queer
critical theorists, to give another example, contest masculine ideas
of emancipation (Von Redecker 2018) and encourage us to question the
central place of waged labor in the movement for social emancipation
(Weeks 2011; Bhattacharya 2017).

Finally, this conference also wants to consider two fundamental
challenges to the notion of emancipation. First and foremost, the
irreparable damages caused by climate change in differential ways
across the globe force us to question whether the idea of
emancipation remains adequate for our times. To what extent were the
achievements of emancipation in ‘developed countries’ dependent on
the exploitation of nature (Mitchell 2011)? Which role can
emancipation still play in climate struggles? And if not
emancipation, how can we conceptualize political interventions from a
distinctly critical theoretical perspective? Second, it also remains
important to examine the ‘dialectic of emancipation’: the process
through which emancipation turns into its opposite. How can we
explain or prevent that emancipatory struggles end up constituting
exclusionary regimes or committing acts of cruelty (Balibar 2014;
2015)?

Possible research topics include:

- Reconstructions of Marx’s theory and concept of emancipation:
e.g. the critique of juridical and political emancipation; the
relation between the concept of emancipation and concepts like
alienation, exploitation, reification or freedom; comparisons with
precursors and contemporaries of Marx

- The concept of emancipation in the broad critical theoretical
tradition:
e.g. the concept of emancipation in the Frankfurt School; French
phenomenological or (post-)structuralist Marxism; the Budapest
School; (Post-)Operaismo; etc.

- The concept of emancipation in feminist, postcolonial or black
radical traditions: 
feminist, queer, postcolonial or black radical reformulations of the
concept of emancipation (e.g. Fanon, Federici, Robinson);
anti-colonial or indigenous struggles and the reconfiguration of
Marxist ideas of emancipation; the relation and conflicts between
difference and universalism in the concept of emancipation

- Contemporary transformations and political intervention:
emancipatory politics in light of ecological, democratic, and
economic crises; contemporary theories of migration and emancipation;
emancipation in the age of digital transformations

- Emancipation and political repertoires:
the relation between emancipation and different political strategies
and tactics (e.g. strikes, occupations, riots, disobedience);
organizational forms and emancipation; emancipation and
violent/non-violent resistance within the Marxist tradition

Keynote speakers

- Martin Hägglund (Yale University)
- Eva von Redecker (University of Verona; Humboldt University of
  Berlin)
- William Clare Roberts (McGill University)

Organizational details

If you are interested in participating in this conference, please
submit an anonymized abstract for 20 min presentations (max. 500
words), along with an email including your name, title, and
affiliation to:
criticalemancipati...@kuleuven.be

Deadline for abstract submissions:
8 January 2023

If accepted, you are invited to develop your abstract into a full
paper. We also encourage junior scholars and scholars 

InterPhil: CFP: Considering Violence

2022-12-29 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Considering Violence
Type: International Conference
Institution: Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies,
Tel Aviv University
Location: Tel Aviv (Israel)
Date: 18.–19.6.2023
Deadline: 10.2.2023

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One witnesses and experiences violence everywhere one turns – in the
physical, material, spatial, temporal, structural, psychological,
symbolic, and epistemic domains. In Gore Capitalism, Valencia Sayak
claims that “[v]iolence and its spectacularization now cut across all
fields of knowledge and action; it has become the preeminent model
for the analysis of contemporary reality.” Hence, the renewed
academic interest in violence that has been burgeoning in recent
decades in various disciplines is not surprising. However, the theory
and critical study of violence remain lacking in many fields. Even
when violence is discussed and analyzed, it tends to be isolated by
academic barriers preventing us from comprehending this phenomenon or
comparing it across different fields.


Aims & Objectives

We thus plan a two-day interdisciplinary conference at Tel Aviv
University dedicated to rethinking violence. This conference is
conducted in response to the current (glocal) state of affairs while
also following the humanist traditions of thought, critique, and
resistance regarding violence. The conference has three key
objectives: providing an interdisciplinary venue for multiple
perspectives, articulations and manifestations of violence;
exchanging thoughtful feedback for the participants’ research; and
developing new understandings of violence. We see the three
objectives as interrelated and imminent for each other's success.  

In this open call for papers and applications, we intentionally do
not predefine the concept of violence so that different
conceptualizations can be pursued. We view the conceptualization
process as affecting the concept's implications. Thus, a significant
emphasis will be put on the question, “What is violence?". However,
this question is subjected to specific conditions - geographically,
disciplinary, discursively, etc. - under which one may generate
different answers. We will therefore place another emphasis on
contextualizing violence.

Several central pillars are to be addressed at our conference. First,
we cannot ignore the local and ongoing issue of Palestine/Israel
while also accounting for the wider theoretical frame of
postcolonialism, settler colonialism, decolonization, and violence. A
second imperative pillar is how violence operates regarding
sexualized, gendered, and queer bodies. Third, we will examine the
idea of violence perpetrated against animals and other non-humans.
Lastly, we will inquire about our arena – the academy – and its
affinities to types of violence. These four broad thematic
considerations will hold the grounds to explore violence from varied
perspectives, including, but not limited to, material, epistemic,
ontological, symbolic, and institutionalized violence. 

Our inquiry into violence will not ignore the political and ethical
issues of resistance and the justification of violence: What does
resistance have to do with violence? Can violence sometimes be
justified, and what constitutes, if any at all, its legitimacy? To
address these questions and others, the conference will examine
different perspectives on (non-)violence and resistance in relation
to the contexts in which they occur.


Conference Structure

The conference will host several types of meetings and activities.
These will include workshops, panels, roundtables, and a keynote
lecture.   

- Workshops dealing with foundational problems concerning research on
  violence will be held as interactive discussions led by one or a few
  facilitators. The main aim of these workshops is to support
  participants in developing their own research.
- Roundtables and Panels are sessions that include short
  presentations of a few papers. These sessions will address current
  issues and new theorizations while allowing an open discussion
  between the audience and the participants.  
- Keynote lecture by Dr. Daniel Loick (University of Amsterdam).

The conference will be held mainly in English, with the possibility
of Hebrew and Arabic sessions. Due to its international nature and
following COVID-19 recommendations, the conference will be held in a
hybrid format. Please inform us through the application form if you
are interested in participating in-person or online. 


Eligibility

We invite scholars to send paper proposals - either work in progress
or published - to be presented in panels and roundtables. We also
welcome scholars whose research is related to the idea of violence to
apply for participation in the conference’s workshops. We highly
encourage young scholars and advanced graduate students to apply for
the workshops.

- Participants interested in presenting a paper 

InterPhil: CFA: Summer Institute on Global Geographies of Knowledge

2022-12-23 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Theme: Global Geographies of Knowledge
Subtitle: Creating, Representing, and Commodifying Ideas Across Early
Modern Places (1400-1800)
Type: NEH Summer Institute
Institution: Saint Louis University
Location: St. Louis, MO (USA)
Date: 26.6.–21.7.2023
Deadline: 3.3.2023

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The early modern world was characterized by the integration and
fragmentation of space that arose from the increasing mobility and
interaction of peoples and objects. “Global Geographies of Knowledge”
focuses on the fluid processes of encountering and transmitting ideas
about peoples and objects in physical and imaginary landscapes.
Conversely, this Institute also analyzes how such ideas affected the
human and nonhuman relations with specific sites and environments. We
seek to bring together higher education faculty and advanced PhD
students from around the country to deepen their knowledge and
research using critical ways of thinking spatially in the humanities
and social sciences and to develop innovative ways of applying them
to themes in world history and cultures of knowledge in the classroom.

To foster this inquiry, the institute directors have invited eight
renowned guest faculty from diverse humanistic disciplines to lead
master classes and deliver themed lectures. In addition to these
sessions, participants will pursue a project connecting their
research and/or teaching to institute themes. The institute’s 30
participants will make regular use of the collections and spaces of
the university’s libraries and special collections, as well as local
partner institutions including the Saint Louis Art Museum, the
Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Jesuit Archives and Research
Center. The institute will be held on Saint Louis University’s
beautiful North Campus located in Midtown St. Louis and adjacent to
the city’s vibrant Arts District.


Application

Please upload both a CV (no more than 5 pages) and a cover letter (no
more than 2 pages) and fill out each box at our website:
https://geographiesofknowledge.org/apply/

Be sure to include answers to the following questions in your cover
letter:

- How do you envision your teaching and/or research interacting with
  notions of space?
- How did you hear about the Global Geographies of Knowledge Summer
  Institute?
- Have you participated in a NEH Summer Institute for Higher
  Education Faculty before?

In addition, please solicit two letters of recommendation.

All applications are due by March 3, 2023. 

Applicants will be notified of the status of their application on
April 3, 2023.

Individuals must send in their acceptance of an offer to participate
in the Institute by April 14, 2023.

Please email geographiesofknowle...@gmail.com with questions or if
you experience technical difficulties in applying.


Directors

Claire Gilbert
Email: claire.gilb...@slu.edu

Fabien Montcher
Email: fabien.montc...@slu.edu

Charles Parker
Email: charles.par...@slu.edu


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InterPhil: CFP: Philosophy across Boundaries

2022-12-23 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Philosophy across Boundaries
Type: 25th World Congress of Philosophy
Institution: International Federation of Philosophical Societies
(FISP)
   Italian Philosophical Society (SFI)
   Sapienza University of Rome
Location: Rome (Italy)
Date: 1.–8.8.2024
Deadline: 1.11.2023

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Philosophy across Boundaries is the general theme of the 25th World
Congress of Philosophy, that will be held in Rome, Italy, from August
1st to August 8th, 2024.

Under the joint responsibility of the International Federation of
Philosophical Societies, the Italian Philosophical Society, and
Sapienza University of Rome, the 25th World Congress intends to
foster scholarly and public reflections on the future of our
societies. By questioning human beings and their diverse ways of
thinking, agency, and relationships, along with the social, economic,
political, technological, and cultural destiny of our common world,
it will:

- Use philosophical reflections as a springboard for public
  discourses on urgent shared concerns, including inequalities,
  cultural and gender diversity, natural environment, justice, rights,
  and political transformations on a global scale.

- Enlarge the scope of philosophical debates to involve
  representatives of the sciences, economy, information, medicine and
  public health, technology, and public institutions.

- Actively encourage and defend diversity in all forms by bringing
  together ideas, traditions, and people from all continents and
  regions.

- Dismantle rigid cultural and disciplinary boundaries by focusing on
  the complex interconnectedness of human civilizations from antiquity
  to the present.

The 2024 Congress invites shared reflections and discussions on the
models we would like our societies to be inspired by. It encourages
large participation of students and young scholars from all
continents and regions. It will provide a unique opportunity to
present and share diverse philosophical concerns from all regions of
the world. Finally, it is committed to pluralism and it aims at
engaging reflectively and critically with the struggles of our time,
addressing its main ethical, social, political, and spiritual
concerns.

We intend to hold the whole Congress in presence.

The Congress will focus on five Spheres of Boundaries, each of which
will include one Plenary Session and two Symposia. There will also be
eighty-nine Sections for Contributed Papers, Endowed lectures,
Special lectures, Round tables, Invited sessions, Society sessions,
and Student sessions.


Submissions

1. Registration and submissions are open.
Registration to the Congress is now open and available through the
website of the Congressm. Online submission of contributed papers is
also possible through the website. Please note that anyone can submit
a paper to one of the 89 sections of the Congress; instructions about
the modalities of online submission can be found on the website.
Please feel free to write to the Secretariat of the Congress for any
particular query.

2. Round tables.
Proposals for round tables are welcome. Please send your proposals
either through the submission platform of the website. Please note
that, according to WCP rules, round tables panelists should proceed
from three different nationalities at least and that the standard
duration for round tables is 2 hours.

3. Student sessions.
The Programme Committee of the Congress is working to enhance
students sessions in the programme. These sessions are meant to help
graduate and undergraduate students from different countries discuss
their ongoing researchers with prominent international scholars.
Additional information about these sessions will be provided at the
beginning of 2023. At this stage, all members of Fisp network are
encouraged to promote and support students’ participation in the
Congress.

4. Society sessions.
Member societies, associations, and institutes of Fisp can hold their
own sessions during the Congress. Society sessions may include
scholarly symposia, administrative meetings, assemblies, and any
other format that a society might choose to adopt; they imply no
additional costs. As the number of available rooms may not be
unlimited, though, it is advisable to submit requests as early as
possible.

November 1st, 2023 is the deadline for submitting contributed papers
and for proposals for round tables, workshops, and student sessions.

Papers and proposals received after this deadline, but before
February 1st, 2024, may be accepted depending on availability.


Contact:

25th World Congress of Philosophy
WCP Secretariat
Email: secretar...@wcprome2024.com
Web: https://wcprome2024.com






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InterPhil: CONF: Decolonizing Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias

2022-12-23 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Conference Announcement

Theme: Decolonizing Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias
Type: International Workshop
Institution: University of Tromsø
Location: Tromsø (Norway) – Online
Date: 25.–26.1.2023

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The workshop establishes a connection between the topic of epistemic
injustice and decolonial theories, which have so far been treated
relatively separately. It thus contributes to making the
cross-connections between the two topics obvious and thus accessible
for further scientific analysis. It addresses three main questions of
this important relationship:

- To what extent can theories of epistemic injustice be applied to
  fields of inquiry in decolonial theories?

- To what extent are theories of epistemic injustice and decolonial
  theories necessarily to be thought of together, especially in
  relation to social inequality and our academic practices of
  theorizing?

- To what extent do theories of epistemic injustice themselves need
  to be decolonized?

While theories of epistemic injustice are have reached a wide
audience and are being investigated in detail , as can be seen from
the increasing number of books, papers, workshops, and seminars being
offered on the topic, there is still little significant research on
the intersection of epistemic injustice and decolonial theories. The
edited collection is intended to contribute to closing three gaps in
the academic discourse: (A) To highlight the importance of decolonial
research in the field of epistemic injustice and to explore the
relation between decolonial theory and theories of epistemic
injustice; (B) to enrich the debate on epistemic injustice with
non-Western experts on epistemology and/or decolonial theory; and (C)
to critically investigate the ways in which the debate on epistemic
injustice and our academic and, more generally, epistemic practices
have to be decolonialized themselves.

Speakers are:

- Fabian Schuppert: Decolonising climate justice: On the epistemic
  injustice of neo-colonial climate politics
- Veli Mitova: Can Theorising Epistemic Injustice Help Us Decolonise?
- Hilkje Hänel: Epistemic Decolonization in the midst of Europe?
- Ezgi Sertler & Elena Ruiz: Theories of Epistemic Colonialism
- Gaile Pohlhaus: An Epistemology of the Oppressed: Resisting and
  Flourishing under Epistemic Oppression
- Amandine Catala: Decolonizing Social Memory: Epistemic Injustice
  and Political Equality
- Desirée Lim: Substantive and Procedural Epistemic Injustice
- Dennis Masaka: Overcoming Epistemic Injustice in Africa: A Global
  South Perspective
- Kerstin Reibold: Knowledge-specific forms of epistemic injustice
  and the remnants of colonialism
- Karl Landström: On Epistemic Freedom and Epistemic Injustice
- Caroline Marim: Decolonizing Epistemic Injustice: Ambivalent or
  Multiple Borders?
- Elad Lapidot: Europe’s Suppressed Jewish Episteme
- Ekata Bakshi: In Search of a “Truly-Feminist” Agency? Rethinking
  Feminist Epistemology in the Context of Partition-Induced Forced
  Migration in India
- Kjersti Fjørtoft

If you like to attend (online or in person), please sign up here:
https://forms.gle/NnvrXRtvmadfogg26

Website of the workshop:
https://en.uit.no/tavla/artikkel/796917/workshop_decolonizing_epistemic_injustice_and_im






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InterPhil: PUB: War and Philosophy

2022-12-22 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: War and Philosophy
Publication: Journal of Continental Philosophy
Date: Special Issue
Deadline: 28.4.2023

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The Journal of Continental Philosophy is now accepting submissions on
the topic “War and Philosophy.”

“What is a state of war? What is a civil war? And if the death
penalty is abolished within a country in peacetime, what is going to
define the enemy, the public enemy, as Rousseau says, and wartime?
External war and civil war? I leave in reserve here what stands at
the heart of the problem: not only the definition of the exception,
of the state of exception, but of war and the state of war.” (Jacques
Derrida, The Death Penalty, Vol. I, pp. 125–6)

“What is a state of war?” The phrase suggests at least two things: a
condition of war, or a state which wars. War is defined in statutes,
conventions, constitutions. Just as Derrida’s meditations on the
death penalty situate it at the centre of philosophy, so war might
occupy a central role in understanding contemporary societies and
life. What is it? Where is it? How does it constitute a state? How do
philosophy and art respond to this condition?

Contributions addressing these questions are welcome: scholarly
articles (including translations), interviews, round table
discussions, works of literature.

Manuscripts should be no longer than 10,000 words (excluding
footnotes). Please refer to this link for more details on submissions
guidelines:
https://www.pdcnet.org/jcp/Submission-Guidelines

Submissions deadline: April 28, 2023

Please send submissions and proposals to:
j...@westernsydney.edu.au

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InterPhil: JOB: Professor of Indian Philosophy

2022-12-22 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Job Announcement

Type: Professor of Indian Philosophy
Institution: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Location: Oxford (United Kingdom)
Date: from September 2023
Deadline: 16.1.2023

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The Faculty of Philosophy are seeking to appoint an Associate
Professor or Professor in Indian Philosophy, in association with a
Tutorial Fellowship at Lady Margaret Hall. The successful candidate
will have an area of specialisation in Indian Philosophy, together
with a broad range of philosophical interests. This post is available
from 1 September 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a
permanent appointment (subject to an initial probation).

Salary range: £50,300 - £67,541 p.a. plus substantial college
allowances, including a housing allowance of £10,055 per annum. An
additional salary payment of £2,931 per annum would be payable upon
award of the title of full Professor (without change to the duties of
the post).

The successful candidate will be expected to engage in advanced
research and must be able to provide research-led teaching and
supervision at all levels, undergraduate and graduate. The successful
candidate will also be expected to provide small-group undergraduate
teaching for Lady Margaret Hall, in the form of tutorials, on a range
of subjects at both introductory and advanced levels (please see the
further details for required teaching expertise).

Candidates must demonstrate a research record of international
standing in Indian Philosophy appropriate to the stage of their
career; the ability to deliver excellent teaching; the ability to
supervise graduate students; and a willingness to undertake
administration and pastoral responsibilities on behalf of Lady
Margaret Hall and of the University.

Candidates should hold a completed doctorate, or a completed doctoral
dissertation submitted for examination by the advertised closing date
for this position, in Philosophy or a closely related field.

Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and
minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic
posts in Oxford. All applicants will be judged on merit, according to
the selection criteria.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 16 January 2023.
Interviews are expected to be held in mid to late February 2023.

For further details on this post, including the job description and
details on how to apply please access the link below:
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=162392






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InterPhil: PUB: Gender, Body, and Colonialism from a Global Perspective

2022-12-22 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Gender, Body, and Colonialism from a Global Perspective
Subtitle: Ruptures and Continuities in a Long Duration
Publication: Edited Volume
Deadline: 15.2.2023

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This collection of essays takes a global approach to exploring the
complexities of the body, gender, and work through the lens of
colonialism. By using colonialism as a lens, scholars are able to
demonstrate that the experiences of women at work in relation to
their bodies forsakes temporality.

We are seeking scholarship that will take us around the world to
investigate the ways in which power, capital, and race impact women’s
work experiences in the context of colonialism. Considering different
types of colonial and postcolonial societies, the articles will also
address the possible connections on the women’s work experience in a
long duration. 

The essays will be workshopped over the course of two in-person
mini-conferences (hybrid is an option of necessary) that will also
include a public facing event.

- May 22-26, 2023 - Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro,
  Brazil
- October 23-27, 2023 – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
  Illinois, US
- May 2024 – Submit full draft to press.

The goal of these mini-conferences will be to work collaboratively to
create a published collection of essays that are in conversation with
one another as well as to build relationships among scholars working
in different times and geographies.

Proposals must include:

- A 500 word abstract;
- Recent CV;
- Contact information and affiliation; &
- Whether or not you are able to attend the mini-conferences in person

Proposals due:
February 15, 2023

Email Proposals to Elisa Fruhauf Garcia and Emily E. LB. Twarog.

Please note: At this time, there is no funding to assist with travel
to Brazil and the US. Each mini-conference will include a public
facing event in which each scholar will receive an invitation from
the host campus to participate in an effort to assist you in securing
funding from your home university.

Co-Editors:

Elisa Fruhauf Garcia
Fluminense Federal University
Email: elisagar...@id.uff.br

Emily E. LB. Twarog
University of Illinois
Email: etwa...@illinois.edu






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InterPhil: CFP: Life beyond the Anthropocene

2022-12-14 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Life beyond the Anthropocene
Subtitle: The Human and Ecological Attunement
Type: International Conference
Institution: Centre for Philosophy and Culture, King's University
College, Western University
Location: London, ON (Canada)
Date: 17.–19.3.2023
Deadline: 15.1.2023

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The depth, scale, and urgency of our contemporary ecological
precipice cannot be denied. In less than a century humanity has more
radically transformed and exploited the Earth than all previous
generations combined and thus far the 21st century has only
intensified this exploitation. The manifestations are well-known:
dependence on fossil fuels andplastics; industrial scale
deforestation;rapid extraction and depletion of natural resources
including freshwater, proliferation of toxic waste products, etc. To
these geophysical symptoms and mechanisms can be added increasing and
rampant socioeconomic inequity and widespread spiritual malaise and
alienation. As ecosystems collapse and species go extinct, the
continued survival and well-being of human and nonhuman life forms on
Earth cannot be taken for granted. Indeed, the exponential rate of
consumption, exploitation, and destruction leads to the real
possibility of global resource wars coupled with increasing
mechanisms of state security to maintain severe inequality. However,
despite glimmers and whispers of dawning alternatives, there is
little indication of widespread collective action. At this critical
moment, we appear paralyzed by a crisis in human self- understanding
and an inability to imagine the human outside the framework of Homo
economicus.

Many mainstream proposed responses to the ecological crisis are
largely rooted in a Neo-Liberal framework of monetization and
profit-making. Green energy and sustainable models of resource
management, along with geoengineering schemes of carbon capture and
economic strategies of carbon trading and offsets, are touted as new
frontiers for financial investment, with returns pitched in both
moral and economic terms. Such tactics fail to address the
fundamental problem of human understanding. The changes needed cannot
be brought about by continuing to think within an economic model of
subjectivity largely responsible for the escalation of the
Anthropocene in the last century. Instead, confronting these complex
challenges requires rethinking and renewing fundamental understanding
of what it means to be human.

Such elemental scrutiny has long been the province of religion and
philosophy. And yet, both religion and philosophy have just as often
functioned as forces of division and modes of justification for
hierarchy and domination. Nevertheless, and despite necessary
critiques of the overreach and harms of false universalizing, we
believe the time is right for renewed projects seeking to articulate
transcendental or universal conditions of the human, even as such
projects must never lose touch with the concrete singularity,
difference, and value of each particular life. Can we learn to
understand such unique singularity not as a mode of separation, but
rather as an expression of the interconnectedness of life that the
philosopher Glenn Albrecht calls “sumbios” (living together)? As the
present crisis makes starkly clear, despite differences in
vulnerability and culpability, all humanity, and indeed all life,
share a fundamental dependency on the Earth and its climates.

Moreover, if it is increasingly clear that paradigmatic
transformations are necessary for more authentically symbiotic
relation with each other and all life forms, this does not mean
beginning from a blank slate or jettisoning the inheritance of the
world’s religious and philosophical traditions. Nor must it be
approached through the false and damaging dichotomy that posits
sciences and faiths as mutually exclusive opponents. Rather, what is
needed is a dual project of revisioning and rediscovering what
remains relevant from the past for the novel present and future.
Could the possibility of a planetary scale transformation inspire
deepened reflection, renewal, and cultivation of what is valuable in
our diverse heritages and traditions? Instead of positioning
differing traditions as competitors for the sole mantle of authority,
could we work with their different lenses in the process of
creatively synthesizing or collaborating towards a new culture and
human understanding?

With such questions in mind, the Centre for Philosophy and Culture
(formerly the Centre for Advanced Research in European Philosophy)
will host an international conference from March 17 to 19th, 2023
bringing together scholars, philosophers and visionaries to explore
vital questions of human self-understanding. Can we transform
prevailing conceptions of the human to become a contributing, and not
dominating, participant in the life of the planet? What seeds can be
found in our respectiv

InterPhil: PUB: Contested Categories in the Context of Migration

2022-12-14 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Contested Categories in the Context of Migration
Publication: Ethnic and Racial Studies
Date: Special Issue
Deadline: 15.1.2023

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International migration is a particularly fruitful site for examining
categories and processes of categorization. On the one hand, states
use categories such as age, gender, sexuality, religion, marital
status, and nationality to manage migrants’ entry, reception, legal
status, and access to resources, making categorization extremely
consequential for individual migrants. On the other hand,  categories
often differ greatly between migrants’ home countries and receiving
states in terms of, for example, their historical genesis,
bureaucratic documentation, and  socio-political relevance. As a
result, governments, the public, and other actors involved in
processes of migration negotiate categories under extremely high
stakes and often within unequal and shifting power relations.
Migration scholars must thus pay attention to systems of
categorization to understand the management of migration and
migrants’ own lived experiences, and scholars interested in
categorization should recognize migration as a site where existing
categories can be seen with rare clarity, and novel and emerging
categories can be identified.

In this special issue, we want to highlight this nexus between
migration and categorization, with two interconnected goals: to
better understand the experience and governance of migration through
the categories that shape both, and to better understand the social
construction of categories and their fluid, context-dependent nature
by examining them in the particularly revealing context of migration.
We are especially interested in how individuals make sense of,
navigate, and oppose categorization. While more attention has been
paid to how categories shape migration policies, research only just
begins to explore how those subjected and placed within particular
categories reinforce or resist these categories.

We invite transdisciplinary contributions — based on quantitative or
qualitative empirical research, or theoretical in nature — that
engage with particular categories or processes of categorization in
the context of migration. Topics may include:

- What is the role of categories and categorization in migration
  governance?
- How do meanings of social categories shift during processes of
  migration?
- How do migrants navigate categories across origin and destination
  countries?
- How are categories and processes of categorization negotiated and
  resisted?
- How do migrants contest categorizations they disagree with?
- How do the coloniality of knowledge and migrants’ resources affect
  their ability to articulate other categories?

Please submit abstracts of max. 500 words and a short bio by January
15, 2023 to
bia...@mmg.mpg.de

Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by February 15, 2023
and included in a Special Issue proposal to Ethnic and Racial
Studies.

Pending approval in March 2023, selected authors will be invited to
submit a full paper and to participate in a writing workshop in
Göttingen or Berlin, Germany, taking place in summer 2023 and hosted
by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic
Diversity.

The deadline for invited papers (up to 9,000 words, including
references) will be September 15, 2023.


Special Issue Editors:

Ulrike Bialas
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Email: bia...@mmg.mpg.de

Johanna Lukate
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Email: luk...@mmg.mpg.de

Steven Vertovec
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Email: verto...@mmg.mpg.de  


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https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/contested-categories-migration/


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InterPhil: CFP: Borders and Boundaries

2022-12-13 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Borders and Boundaries
Type: 2023 IARPT Conference
Institution: Institute for American Religious and Philosophical
Thought (IARPT)
   Catholic Academy of Berlin
Location: Berlin (Germany)
Date: 12.–15.6.2023
Deadline: 15.2.2023

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The Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought
(IARPT) is pleased to announce its 2023 international meeting, which
will be held at the Katholische Akademie in Berlin on June 12-15
2023. The theme of the meeting is borders and boundaries. Keynote and
plenary speakers include Sigurd Bergmann, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary,
Terrence Deacon, John Thatamanil, Robert Yelle, Marcia Pally, Matthew
Bagger, and Randall Auxier.  

As sites of power manifested, borders and boundaries characterize
some of the prevailing developments of our time, encompassing
families separated, hope and hopelessness, and the limits of civil
and political order. Christian Parenti has written that “the border
becomes a text from which to read the future — or a version of it”
(2011). This conference theme finds inspiration in Parenti’s
metaphor, both by recognizing a radical openness to the present
situation and insisting on the capacity of theology, philosophy,
ethics, and other associated disciplines to rewrite better outcomes
and mitigate those that are catastrophic.

This conference program invites an interdisciplinary and integrative
look at these dynamics. In the fluidity of the contemporary global
order, attending to relationships among forms of bordering offers
lessons on how to reimagine borders and boundaries more justly and
with greater sensitivity to both ecological systems and human
communities, religious or otherwise. Particularly welcome are
proposals for papers that explore political, religious, ecological,
or analytical borders, which can be defined as follows and linked to
some (non-exhaustive) potential paper topics:

- Religious borders/boundaries can be defined as points at which the
contrasts between religious traditions become explicit and
self-conscious to the members of the cultures in question or to third
parties, giving rise to narratives that reinforce said contrasts.
Possible paper topics include: approaches to interreligious dialogue,
the theological “spatial turn,” the limits of the
secular/post-secular, political theologies regarding land and
territory, or peace/violence in interreligious terms.

- Political borders/boundaries can be defined as demarcations between
neighboring sovereign territories, in which sovereignty is typically
understood according to the (contested) norms of the Westphalian
system, i.e., as mutually recognized, mutually excluded, and
uniformly distributed within each territory in question. Possible
paper topics include: the proliferation of walls, changing patterns
of sovereignty, cartographic practices, and postcolonial dynamics, as
well as various theoretical perspectives.

- Ecological borders/boundaries can be defined as thresholds
concerning human interaction with more-than-human biological and
climatic systems, challenging as well as reinforcing such terms as
“nature” and “culture” and traversing the limits of the human.
Possible paper topics include: the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries
ecology, biosemiotics, or ecotheologies.

- Analytical borders/boundaries can be defined either as distinctions
between analytical approaches, i.e., academic disciplines, or as
distinctions which are themselves of a predominantly analytical
character, i.e., logical or metaphysical distinctions. Possible paper
topics include: approaches to interdisciplinarity, paradox,
continuity/discontinuity, spatial or temporal boundaries considered
as such, or theories of entanglement.

By examining and layering these forms of bordering in succession, the
program for the conference represents a structure by which the
various types of borders can be analyzed and compared. To do so is to
invite inquiries into the dynamics of interreligious interaction,
territorial sovereignty, and the human relationship with nonhuman
nature within planetary systems. Any paper that speaks to some aspect
of the above question is welcome, but we particularly welcome papers
that engage with one or more of the core traditions of IARPT:
pragmatism, process thought, naturalism/empiricism, and liberal
theology. Moreover, as always, we will consider proposals that do not
address the conference theme but are related to the intellectual
traditions that are of special interest to IARPT.

Proposals should contain a descriptive title and a brief (no more
than 500 words) but informative and readable description of the paper
to be presented. Proposals should also include a brief (150-word)
biographical sketch of their authors. Proposals should envision paper
readings of approximately twenty minutes followed by moderated
questions from the audience. All proposals should be sent 

InterPhil: CFP: Corporate Accountability for Gross Human Rights Violations

2022-12-13 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Corporate Accountability for Gross Human Rights Violations
Subtitle: Actors, Visions, Strategies
Type: International Conference
Institution: National School of Political Science and Public
Administration (SNSPA)
   Movement Engaged Research Hub, George Mason University
Location: Bucharest (Romania)
Date: 25.–26.5.2023
Deadline: 25.1.2023

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In the past ten years an increasing number of NGOs, trade unions,
grassroots communities, data scientists, whistleblowers,
investigative journalists, principled-issue networks,
university-based research hubs or “labs,”  and other civil society
actors have started to develop strategies to hold economic actors
accountable for their direct involvement or complicity in gross human
rights violations across the globe. These actors have been
instrumental in putting on the national and international agendas the
need for sanctioning multinational and transnational corporations and
domestic companies implicated in massive infringement of human
rights, ranging from genocide and war crimes, to torture and forced
labor, and to extreme environmental degradation. Nevertheless, the
academic literature on corporate accountability has paid too little
attention to the variety of actors involved in these efforts, with
their diverse repertoires of action and their different visions for
human rights, economic globalization and development.

This international conference aims to fill this gap by exploring the
role of national civil societies and transnational advocacy networks
in the struggle for corporate accountability. We argue that in order
to understand what happens in this emergent field of activism, it is
necessary to profile the agents that shape this field and to connect
their visions of corporate liability to their professional and
regional backgrounds, as well as their political goals. Participants
are invited to reflect on a variety of actors and networks seeking
justice across the world, and the ways their strategies are informed
by different national and regional contexts, and diverse ideological
and professional understandings of accountability processes. The
conference is open to research on this large spectrum of actors and
their repertoires of actions, including, but not limited to, advocacy
for regional and international treaties, criminal and civil
litigations, boycotts, divestment campaigns, truth commissions,
formal declarations, whistleblowing, shadow accounting, shareholder
activism, developing social disclosure standards, physical occupation
of assets and other forms of direct action.

We encourage proposals on the following topics, but other, non-listed
themes are welcome:

- How do different actors around the globe mobilize for corporate
  accountability, what repertoires do they adopt, whom do they
  address, and with what results?
- How do different local, national, regional, transnational and/or
  trans-local contexts, with their diverse political, socio-economic
  and cultural diversity affect strategies of corporate
  accountability?
- How do different visions of human rights, democratization,
  development, and economic globalization impact strategies of and/or
  organizational alliances for corporate accountability?
- To what extent do professional interests and competition for
  funding affect and fragment actors’ particular agendas for corporate
  accountability, their repertoires of action, and/or their choices to
  pursue (or not) certain legal or movement campaign strategies?
- What is the interplay between national and transnational
  mobilizations of advocacy groups?

Please submit your proposal including authors’ names, email addresses
and affiliations, a short CV and an abstract of around 300 words by
25 January 2023. The conference organizers will provide a response to
the proposals by 30 January 2023. Selected participants will be
invited to submit their papers (max. 7,000 words including tables,
figures, and references) by 10th May, 2023. Papers presented at this
conference will be considered for publication (in English) in a
special issue of an international academic journal or  an edited
volume at a prestigious university press.

Please, submit paper abstracts to:
corpacco...@politice.ro

For additional information, please contact Raluca Grosescu:
raluca.grose...@politice.ro

Funding opportunities for travel and accommodation are available, but
we ask that contributors also explore funding opportunities at their
home institutions.


Contact:

Raluca Grosescu
National School of Political Science and Public Administration
Email: raluca.grose...@politice.ro
Web: https://cssr.gmu.edu/events/13834






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InterPhil: TOC: Ethical issues of the nation and nationalism in Central Europe in historical contexts

2022-12-13 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Table of Contents

Theme: Ethical issues of the nation and nationalism in Central Europe
in historical contexts
Publication: Ethics & Bioethics
Date: Volume 12, Issue 3-4 (December 2022)

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We are happy to announce that a new issue of the journal Ethics &
Bioethics (in Central Europe) has already been published.

It is focused on the topic of nation and nationalism (with the target
article by Professor Miroslav Hroch, a world-renowned expert on the
subject) with an emphasis on the experience of Central Europe (and
Ukraine) in history, but also in the present.

You can find the full issue of the journal on the following website:
https://sciendo.com/issue/EBCE/12/3-4


Contents

Editorial
Wendy Drozenová
(108–110)

Morality and the nation: Was the birth of the European nation an
immoral deviation?
Miroslav Hroch
(111–127)

Nation and language: Magyar and Slovak ideas of common good (The
first half of the 19th century)
Vasil Gluchman
(128–144)

Responsibility and idea of Slavism in Kollár’s and Štúr’s thinking
Pavol Krištof
(145–153)

The nation, Slavism, and Russia in the national emancipation
conception of Svetozár Hurban Vajanský
Marcel Martinkovič
(154–165)

Philosophical and geopolitical resources for ethical justification of
the national and state revival of the suppressed nations in Central
Europe
Miloslav Bednář
(166–172)

The crisis of modern man in the light of Masaryk’s national philosophy
Jan Svoboda
(173–182)

The vice of nationality and virtue of patriotism in 17th century
Czech Lands
Kateřina Šolcová
(183–189)

The question of the ethical issues of the nation in the community of
nations: Inspiration of the Polish Pope John Paul II
Inocent-Mária V. Szaniszló
(190–198)

The national identity and Orthodox Church: The case of contemporary
Ukraine
Dmytro Shevchuk, Kateryna Shevchuk and Kateryna Khudoba
(199–211)

Cultural diversity and clashing narratives about national culture: A
Central European stoic pragmatist perspective
Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński
(212–220)


About the journal

Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) is one of the leading Central
European international journals in ethics and bioethics focusing on
philosophical ethics, bioethics and applied ethics also including the
history of ethics, ethical and moral education as well as
professional ethics. The journal publishes theoretical articles and
empirical findings concerning all aspects of ethics and morality.

Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) is published in print as well
as electronic format, two issues per year (June and December). Only
articles in English are accepted for publishing. 

ISSN: 2453-7829


Journal website:
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InterPhil: CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Global Health and Transnational Justice

2022-12-12 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Type: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Global Health and Transnational
Justice
Institution: Research Centre "Normative Orders", Goethe University
Frankfurt
Location: Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
Date: 2023–2024
Deadline: 31.1.2022

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The Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme, funded by Höppsche
Stiftung and directed by Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst and Prof. Dr. Darrel
Moellendorf at the University of Frankfurt, is seeking to appoint up
to two post-doctoral fellows for the academic year 2023/2024. The
Fellows will be part of the Frankfurt academic community, especially
of the Normative Orders Research Network.

Candidates should have completed a doctorate in philosophy or the
social sciences and should have proven potential to conduct and
publish research at an international level. Candidates' research
should fall within the programme’s areas of focus, especially
questions of global health and transnational justice.

Please send your application in English, in one pdf document (a 2-3
page research project, CV and two letters of reference (and no more
than two)) to Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst, using the address:
sekretariat.fo...@soz.uni-frankfurt.de

The reference letters may also be sent directly from the referees.

Closing date is January 31, 2023.

Duration and Starting Date: 10 Months, starting on October 1st 2023.

The full advert is available at:
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InterPhil: CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowship on Diversity and Democracy

2022-12-12 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Type: Postdoctoral Fellowship on Diversity and Democracy
Institution: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Diversity and
Democracy (CRIDAQ), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Location: Montreal, QC (Canada)
Date: September 2023 – June 2024
Deadline: 27.1.2023

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Description

The members of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Diversity
and Democracy (CRIDAQ) are offering, for the 2023-2024 academic year,
a non-renewable postdoctoral fellowship. This internship must be used
to carry out a project that falls within the scope of CRIDAQ’s
research axes and themes under the supervision of one of its members,
in a Quebec university:

- Axe 1: Nations and diversity
- Axe 2: Institutions, social justice and territories
- Axe 3: Democracy and pluralism

General rules

- In order to apply, candidates must have defended their thesis by
  September 1, 2023;
- Candidates must have obtained their Ph.D after April 30, 2019;
- Candidates must have sufficient knowledge of French to participate
  in CRIDAQ activities;
- The doctoral thesis must not have been written under the
  supervision of a regular member of CRIDAQ.

The CRIDAQ will offer to its fellow:

- $ 40,000 (gross amount granted by the Center*);
- An individual workstation;
- Access to the host university facilities;
- Assistance with the material organisation of the stay.

In return, the fellow is expected to:

- Pursue the research project for which the postdoctoral fellowship
  was granted;
- Participate, on a regular basis, in the activities (workshops,
  seminars, conferences, colloquia) organized by the CRIDAQ host
  university;
- Present his/her current work to other researchers through the
  activities of the Center in the host university, as well as in at
  least one other partner university;
- Provide scientific direction for the Séminaire jeunes chercheur.e.s
  du CRIDAQ to be held in 2024;
- Ensure a regular presence on the premises of the university to
  which he/she is affiliated.

Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

- The quality of the research project submitted and relevance to
  CRIDAQ’s mandate;
- The quality of previous research and the ability of the candidate
  to benefit from/ and contribute to the activities of the Center.

Candidates should send the following documents:

- A letter of motivation, written in French in which the candidate
  indicates which researchers he/she wishes to work with;
- An email or letter from a regular member of CRIDAQ indicating their
  interest in supervising the work of the candidate;
- A curriculum vitae (for submitted publications, please include a
  confirmation email);
- A writing sample (book chapter, article or academic paper); Note
  that the work submitted must be written in either French or English;
- A research proposal of about 1500 words, followed by a project
  timeline (1 page max);
- Two letters of reference (directly sent to the Centre by email
  before the deadline: cri...@uqam.ca)

Application submission

Please upload your application in a single PDF document in the order
prescribed at our website.

Important dates

- Deadline for applications: January 27, 2023, 5 p.m.;
- Competition results: March 1st, 2023;
- Duration of the internship: September 2023 to June 2024.

All details here:
https://cridaq.uqam.ca/bourses-et-concours/cridaq-postdoctoral-fellowships/
 


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Description

Les membres du Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la
diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ) sont heureux d’offrir, pour
l’année académique 2023-2024, un stage postdoctoral de 40,000$
(montant brut octroyé par le Centre*), non renouvelable. Ce stage
doit servir à mener un projet qui s’inscrit dans les axes et
thématiques de recherche du CRIDAQ, sous la supervision d’un.e membre
du Centre dans une université québécoise :

- Axe 1 : Nations et Diversité
- Axe 2 : Institutions, justice sociale et territoires
- Axe 3 : Démocratie et pluralisme

Conditions de participation

- Avoir soutenu sa thèse au plus tard le 1er septembre 2023;
- Avoir obtenu son doctorat après le 30 avril 2019;
- Avoir une connaissance suffisante du français pour pouvoir
  participer aux activités du CRIDAQ;
- La thèse de doctorat ne doit pas avoir été rédigée sous la
  direction de chercheurs membres réguliers du CRIDAQ.

Le CRIDAQ s’engage à offrir au/ à la lauréat(e) :

- 40,000$ (montant brut octroyé par le Centre*);
- Un poste de travail individuel;
- L’accès aux infrastructures de l’université à laquelle il/elle sera
  affilié.e (par exemple : bibliothèques);
- De l’assistance pour l’organisation matérielle du séjour.

En retour, le/la lauréat.e s’engage à :

- Poursuivre le projet de recherche pour lequel le stage postdoctoral
  a été accordé;
- Participer régulièrement aux activit

InterPhil: CFA: (Post-)Doctoral Fellowships in Jewish Scepticism

2022-12-12 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Theme: (Jewish) Scepticism as a Strategy and Challenge in Past and
Present
Type: Doctoral Fellowships and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Institution: Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS),
University of Hamburg
Location: Hamburg (Germany)
Date: October 2023 – September 2024
Deadline: 31.1.2023

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The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS) at Universität
Hamburg would like to invite researchers to apply for its junior
fellowship programme for the academic year 1 October 2023 to 30
September 2024.

The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies is a Humanities Research
Institute at Universität Hamburg led by Prof. Dr Giuseppe Veltri and
funded by the German Research Foundation. MCAS’s central aim is to
explore and research scepticism in Judaism in its dual manifestation
as both a purely philosophical tradition and a more general
expression of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the
cultural field.

Topic: (Jewish) Scepticism as a Strategy and Challenge in Past and
Present

Though scepticism is often discussed as the philosophical doctrine
that we cannot have knowledge about a specific domain, it can also be
taken in a much broader sense. According to this broader conception,
scepticism is a general attitude to life and enquiry that comes with
a range of different tactics and strategies. A sceptic in this
broader sense questions and attacks all dogmatic convictions by
pointing out their dependence on dubious assumptions or their
reliance on fragile and vulnerable methods of argumentation.

MCAS’s research during the previous year has shown that this broader
type of scepticism is an important element of Jewish life and
culture, which—for various reasons—is particularly shaped by
controversies and dialectical disputes. In its last year, MCAS thus
seeks to focus on the specific operation of sceptical thoughts and
strategies in Judaism and beyond, thereby highlighting both the
difficulties created by a sceptical attitude and its often innovative
and critical force.

Accordingly, typical questions to be pursued this year are: To what
(argumentative or rhetorical) end and how do (Jewish) philosophers
and theologians return to sceptical considerations and what are their
implications? What is the significance of stories about sceptics or
accusations of scepticism in religious discourse? How is scepticism
manifested in visual and literary sources and how is it employed to
convey meaning and messages to the audience? How exactly and with
respect to which sources is scepticism harnessed as a tool to
challenge an opponent or authority in politics and social discourse?

These questions can be addressed from the point of view of several
disciplines, such as Jewish studies, philosophy, history, literature,
the arts, and cultural anthropology. The successful candidate’s
project should resonate productively with the annual topic as
described.

Junior Fellowships (PhD and Postdoc)

Junior fellowships are awarded to advanced PhD students and
postdoctoral researchers (within four years of receipt of PhD) in
Jewish studies, history, philosophy, Islamic studies, religious
studies, or related fields in the humanities. PhD students must have
obtained an MA degree at the time of their application. Postdoctoral
candidates must be in possession of a doctoral degree at the time of
their application.

Fellowship period: 12 months (1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024)

Successful applicants (junior and senior fellowship programme) will
be asked to take up residence in Hamburg, to carry out research at
MCAS, to actively attend events at the centre, and to take part in
the centre’s activities, such as contributing to the Encyclopaedia of
Scepticism and Jewish Tradition or the Maimonides Review of
Philosophy and Religion. Funding is subject to the terms and
conditions of MCAS’s regulations, following suggestions made by
Universität Hamburg. Rates and allowances are as follows:

- PhD Junior Fellows receive 1,365 EUR per month, plus a research
  allowance of 103 EUR per month, travel allowance (one round trip),
  and — where applicable — a child allowance.

- Postdoctoral Junior Fellows receive 1,750 EUR per month, plus a
  research allowance of 103 EUR per month, travel allowance (one round
  trip), and — where applicable — a child allowance.

MCAS also provides working spaces, IT equipment, and access to
various libraries.

Applicants are requested to submit the following documents in English
in one PDF file:

- A completed application form:
  
https://www.maimonides-centre.uni-hamburg.de/dokumente/2021/application-form.pdf

- A research proposal of two to three pages, including the project’s
  relationship to the annual topic, the status quaestionis of the
  chosen topic, the candidate’s prior research that is relevant to the
  proposed topic, a detailed programme of work including a timetable,
  

InterPhil: CFP: Bodies in Contexts

2022-12-11 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Bodies in Contexts
Subtitle: Epistemological Considerations for a Diverse Society
Type: Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
Institution: Boston University
Location: Boston, MA (USA)
Date: 31.3.–1.4.2023
Deadline: 15.1.2023

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The philosophy graduate students at Boston University are soliciting
papers and abstracts from graduate students in any area of philosophy
for the Boston University Annual Graduate Student Conference on
“Bodies in Contexts: Epistemological Considerations for a Diverse
Society”.

The recognition and appreciation of diversity lie at the intersection
of the epistemological, the ethical, and the practical. Commitment to
diversity calls for a change in our linguistic, epistemic, and
ethical practices from everyday life to medical, legal, and academic
contexts.

However, one concern is that philosophy has not provided sufficient
room for reflecting on bodies, identities, and their situatedness
within social contexts. Such reflections are a necessary step for a
meaningful philosophical contribution towards a diverse and more
equitable society.

We welcome contributing papers that address the following questions
and topics:

- Standpoint epistemology
- Relationship between embodiment and identity
- The epistemic implications of bodily situatedness
- The epistemology of diversity
- The possibility of bodily objectivity
- Bodily awareness and perception
- Bodily oppression
- Bodily autonomy (e.g. in sexual and/or medical contexts)
- Bodies and decolonization
- Underrepresented philosophical traditions’ approaches to bodies
- The study of disability
- Diversity as a value
- Language inclusivity


Information for Submission:

- Submissions should be in the form of a short abstract (200-250
  words) and a full-length paper (4,000-5,000 words). Please include a
  word count at the top of your submission.
- Papers and abstracts should be prepared for anonymous review.
  Please omit any self-identifying marks within the body of the
  documents.
- Please submit your abstract and paper using this form by January
  15th: https://forms.gle/QEd5MHmb3LbgXWxk7
- Successful applicants will be contacted by February 20th.

Authors must be current graduate students in any related disciplines.

Members of all underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to
apply.

Selected presenters will be given 30 minutes to present and will be
assigned a commentator.

We are committed to disability justice and creating an
access-centered conference. We encourage you to contact us if you
have any access needs that require our awareness.

We hope to provide partial funding for students whose institutions
cannot reimburse the expenses and who would otherwise be unable to
attend the conference in person.


Keynote Speaker:
Rima Basu, Claremont McKenna College


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InterPhil: CFP: Black Feminist Internationalism and Eurasian Knowledge Production

2022-12-11 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Black Feminist Internationalism and Eurasian Knowledge
Production
Subtitle: The Archive Revisited
Type: Online Workshop
Institution: Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies,
Ohio State University
Location: Online
Date: 23.–24.5.2023
Deadline: 1.2.2023

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The Archive Revisited focuses on reimagining the legacies of Black
feminist internationalism in Soviet Eurasia, i.e., East Europe and
Central Asia. The workshop invites scholars, artists, and activists
to submit contributions that explore these legacies for their meaning
today. Black Internationalist intellectuals shared knowledge globally
and formed alliances across nations and continents. For example,
Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, Eslanda Robeson, Langston
Hughes, and Audre Lorde, among many others, tackled the problems of
their times, forged transnational relations, and imagined alternative
futures that could secure survival for everybody. However, existing
archives often hold fragmented traces (if any) of Black women and
queer people’s experiences in Soviet Eurasia. Even less is known
about Eurasian communities’ perceptions of Black sojourners and their
intellectual contributions. Likewise, the role of Eurasian knowledge
production in Black internationalists' theorizing does not often come
through easily in the archive and scholarship. Against these gaps and
absences, workshop participants are invited to reflect on the meaning
and value, including the limitations and possibilities, of past
relationships, encounters, and intellectual exchanges. The workshop
approaches the archive as a site of exploration and location of
creative invention and critical knowledge production. It invites
participants to explore and elevate perspectives muted in the archive
as well as to look at the archive beyond what happened or has not
happened. Participants are encouraged to read the archive for what it
withholds or implies and reveal/ imagine stories suppressed or
discarded by traditional historiographies. Furthermore, the Archive
Revisited invites potential contributors to foreground the value of
past relationships for the contemporary moment.

The workshop aims to forge a cross-border and cross-disciplinary
exchange between scholars, artists, and activists from different
geographies. Participants may engage with various narrative and
visual forms - academic and artistic - for their contributions (e.g.,
essays, conversations or interviews, visual art, poetry, short
stories). During the workshop, participants, grouped into panels,
will present and discuss their contributions prepared in advance. The
workshop will provide an opportunity for thoughtful conversation and
engagement with participants’ works. After the workshop,
participants’ contributions will be assembled into a digital gazette.
The idea of a gazette draws inspiration from the West Indian Gazette,
founded by the Black organizer and journalist Claudia Jones in 1958
to strengthen Afro-Asian and Caribbean solidarity links. The Archive
Revisited digital gazette will catalogue the workshop and contribute
to building contemporary anti-colonial connections across borders and
differences.

There will be two keynote lectures prior to the workshop.
Participants are encouraged to respond to or reflect on the keynotes
in preparation for the workshop.

To participate in this online workshop, please submit a proposal: a
short bio and a 200-word synopsis of your idea and its connection to
the topic. Participants can apply individually or as an artistic
group or collective.

Potential workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

- The importance or influence of Black feminist internationalism on
  Eurasian communities.
- The mobility of ideas across borders (e.g., travel of written works
  and their translations) that reveal intellectual exchanges between
  communities historically and in the present.
- What constitutes the archive of Black feminist internationalism,
  and what place Eurasian communities and their cultural and
  intellectual perspectives have within that tradition.
- The different historical circumstances that facilitated the
  physical and intellectual exchanges between Black sojourners and
  Eurasia.
- Queer/feminist perspectives on the intellectual and political
  histories of Black/Eurasian exchanges and what they may bring to
  contemporary struggles.
- How histories of interactions between Black and Eurasian
  communities may contribute to the archive of anti-colonial
  resistance.

Participants are welcome to make their final contributions in
multiple languages if needed, but please note that the working
language for the workshop is English. Scholarly papers, analytical
essays, first-person reflections, and other creative submissions and
expressions (poetry, spoken word, etc.) can be up to 2,500 words.

Use the following application form to subm

InterPhil: CFP: Sinicizing the Early Modern World

2022-12-11 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Sinicizing the Early Modern World
Subtitle: Histories and Interpretations Beyond Euro-Diffusionism
Type: International Conference
Institution: University of Tübingen
Location: Tübingen (Germany)
Date: 15.–17.6.2023
Deadline: 31.1.2023

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Scholars have deeply researched Europe’s historical impacts upon
China. A distinguished and decades-old - but still rather limited -
field has undertaken research in the other direction, noting that
China has also influenced its neighbors, Europe, and the wider world
in turn. Nonetheless, this perspective remains dispersed, eclectic,
and little-theorized. This gathering’s questions will extend in two
directions: the historicization and theorization of what one might
call ‘early modern Sinicization.’

Unearthing the many types of ‘reverse diffusionism’ in which Chinese
practices spread to the world has rich explanatory promise, and may
even be essential in achieving a more balanced understanding of
causation in global history.

On the one hand, this conference invites scholarship which explores
how regions close and far from China transformed, adapted to, and
struggled against Sinicization in the so-called early modern period,
very roughly defined here as 1400-1800.

On the other hand, this conference also invites reflections on how to
characterize ‘Sinicization’ itself. We also invite scholarship which
poses major methodological, sociological, and even ethical questions
about Sinicization, including:

- Which sociological categories should we use to describe these many
  tendencies and processes (‘creolization,’ ‘interculturation,’
  ‘hybridization,’ ‘entanglement,’ ‘impact- response,’ ‘hegemony,’
  ‘co-colonization,’ the ‘China-centered approach,’ etc.)?

- How to navigate the pratfalls of accidental Eurocentrism,
  uncritical Sinophilia, and essentialization of European and East
  Asian societies?

- How to include the stories of smaller polities, indigenous peoples,
  dynamic and creative individuals, and others caught between
  Europeanization, Sinicization, and other powerful social currents?

Language of presentations: English

Dates: 15-17 June, 2023
Application deadline: January 31, 2023

This will be a hybrid event (in-person and online).
Scholars from all stages are invited to apply.
Funding is available for travel and accommodations.

Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr, PD Dr. Philip Hahn, Dr. Adrian Masters


Contact:

Dr. Adrian Masters
University of Trier, Germany
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InterPhil: CFA: Philosophy Dissertation Fellowship

2022-12-05 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Type: Philosophy Dissertation Fellowship
Institution: APRA Foundation Berlin
Location: Berlin (Germany)
Date: 2023–2025
Deadline: Ongoing

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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 below 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.

There is no fixed annual deadline for applications. These are
considered on a rolling basis.

For further information, please visit:
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InterPhil: PUB: Decolonizing the Study of Memory

2022-12-05 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Decolonizing the Study of Memory
Publication: Memory Studies
Date: Special Issue
Deadline: 10.1.2023

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The field of memory studies, like many academic disciplines and
fields, is facing calls to decolonize, deimperialize, and
provincialize European-imposed and inspired knowledges. Scholars and
critics such as Audre Lorde, Frantz Fanon, Gloria Anzaldua, Ngũgĩ wa
Thiong’o, Steve Biko, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith emphasize the
importance of acknowledging, repairing, and transcending the lasting
impact of European slavery, genocidal settler colonialism, and
imperial nostalgia that have ravaged human societies and the Earth,
our ground of Being. Numerous postcolonial, decolonial, and
indigenous scholars as well as critics continue to shine a bright
light on the enduring legacy of white supremacy in academia and
beyond, calling for reparatory justice.

Ongoing debates concerning provincializing, de-Westernizing,
decolonizing, and other interventions, highlight the reality that
Western knowledge regimes’ dominance has yet to be fully recognized,
overcome, and dismantled (Quijano 1992; Chakrabarty 2000;
Maldonado-Torres 2006; Chen 2010; Kimmerer 2014). Accordingly, we
would like to ask whether ethnic, national, cosmopolitan,
multidirectional, transcultural, and planetary memories or the
‘floating gap’ are indeed as transhistorical, universal or natural as
sometimes suggested? These questions highlight the reality that the
field of memory studies is, in many ways, still dominated by
approaches, concepts, and methods designed in the Global North
creating an undeniable “Euro/Anglo centrism” (Olick et al 2017).
Furthermore, we would like to question: Do cultural memories confirm
or contradict seemingly hard and fast distinctions between history
and memory, male and female, modern and traditional, culture and
nature, sacred and profane or life and death? How do cultural
memories in specific local, regional, and transnational
constellations force us to rethink seemingly universal concepts? How
do we think and do history and memory?

For Memory Studies, therefore, the present moment bears at least
three crucial challenges: First, to highlight the limitations of
currently dominant approaches, concepts, and methods; second, to
introduce to memory studies the plethora of memory concepts hitherto
ignored but debated in other fields, such as postcolonial studies,
decolonial thought, indigenous studies, and the natural sciences; and
lastly, to encourage the practice of “epistemological disobedience”
(Mignolo 2011) in order to move beyond the current cultural memory
frameworks that undergird the field. This, in turn, expands and
creates new intellectual spaces such as those pioneered by feminist,
decolonial, and queer critics including M. Jacqui Alexander, Hilary
Beckles, Saidiya Hartman, bell hooks, and Sylvia Wynter, to name a
few.

To the foregoing end, this special issue invites the rich, dynamic,
and diverse cultural memories and scholarship currently outside the
framework of Memory Studies to think through decolonial and
indigenous lenses, and thus fundamentally challenge the field. Our
aim is to substantially extend interdisciplinary debates to look
beyond European, Western, and White memory cultures and scholarship
that substantially define knowledge production on the study of
history and memory to date.

This special issue responds to the urgent calls to both decolonize
and reconceptualize the study of memory and Memory Studies in three
ways:

- We invite current memory studies scholars to investigate the role
  of decolonization and provincialization to existing approaches,
  theories and methods.
- We explicitly invite scholars from disciplines less represented in
  Memory Studies to contribute to the decolonization of socio-cultural
  memory studies.
- We also invite reviews of existing work, with a particular interest
  in those not in the English language, on the subject of decolonizing
  and provincializing memory studies or indigenous ways of knowing
  that have hitherto been marginalized.

In a word, the collected essays seek to open the doors beyond the
field’s institutional framework, taking seriously the fundamental
challenge and rich potential of not only decolonizing and
provincializing the study of memory and Memory Studies, but
re-envisioning the field.

Some questions that may be addressed in this special issue include,
but are not limited to:

- What is the role of language in creating memory and memory
  practices and how does multilingualism or translation intervene in
  creation or dissemination?
- How do oral, visual, and/or sound cultures contribute to memory
  practices?
- How can non-written based epistemologies enrich our knowledge base
  in memory studies?
- How does an analysis of Anthropocene memory complicate our
  understanding of global systems?
- What memory p

InterPhil: CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowship on the Rights of Vulnerable Groups

2022-12-05 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Type: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on the Rights of Vulnerable
Groups
Institution: Blavatnik School of Government, University of
Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom)
Date: from August 2023
Deadline: 9.1.2023

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The Blavatnik School of Government is seeking to recruit a
Postdoctoral Fellow to contribute to the Alfred Landecker programme,
under the direction of Professor Jonathan Wolff, Alfred Landecker
Professor of Values and Public Policy, and in collaboration with
other academics in the School and beyond.

The Alfred Landecker Foundation has provided funds to support a
programme of activity at the Blavatnik School of Government to
research threats to the rights, freedom, dignity and well-being of
vulnerable groups in Europe. The particular focus of the research
will be the threats to vulnerable people emerging from contemporary
politics and society, together with the institutions of government,
law and civil society that could help protect against such threats.

The Postdoctoral Fellow will conduct and publish their own research,
provide a review of related research and public activity and
investigate possible partnerships with academic and civil society
groups. They will help manage workshops, conferences and working
groups, help produce group working papers and assist in the academic
and public development of the programme. They will present papers at
conferences or public meetings and represent the research group at
external meetings/seminars. They will also carry out collaborative
projects with colleagues in partner institutions and research groups,
and undertake a small amount of teaching duties.

The successful candidate will hold, or be close to completion of, a
PhD in a topic in contemporary political philosophy, political
theory, comparative politics, legal theory, or another relevant
field. They will have the ability to organise conferences, workshops,
working groups, partnerships and associated activity, work
collaboratively across disciplines, manage their own research and
associated activities, and contribute ideas for new research
projects. Previous experience of contributing to
publications/presentations and excellent communication skills are
also essential.

This post is fixed-term for three years. The successful candidate
will be expected to start in August 2023.

The deadline for applications is 12.00 noon (UK time) on Monday 9
January 2023.


Further information:
https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/job-alfred-landecker-postdoctoral-fellow

Alfred Landecker Programme:
https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-programmes/alfred-landecker-programme

 
Contact: 

Jonathan Wolff
Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy
Blavatnik School of Government
University of Oxford
Email: jonathan.wo...@bsg.ox.ac.uk

 




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InterPhil: CFP: Somewhere in Between

2022-12-04 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Somewhere in Between
Subtitle: Borders and Borderlands
Type: International Conference
Institution: London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
   Birkbeck, University of London
Location: London (United Kingdom) – Online
Date: 29.–30.4.2023
Deadline: 15.2.2023

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In an ever changing world the problems of setting boundaries as well
as the need to create meanings and establish understanding of diverse
phenomena have always been of the utmost importance for humanity.
Borders, boundaries, frontiers, and borderlands, naturally formed or
man made, are grounded in various ethical traditions, and have always
been associated with limits and restrictions. The ongoing process of
globalisation is changing the role and stereotypes of borders, so
that they are often seen as opportunities rather than constraints.
However, in some cases they are still being militarized and
conflicted.

The conference will seek to identify and analyse the processes of
border-making and border permeability in contemporary societies
through aesthetic forms. We seek to explore the historical origins of
borders, their role in today’s global environment and define the
notion of borders, which includes not only territorial, geographical,
and political borders, but also cultural and metaphorical borders,
imagined spaces where interests and ideologies overlap and compete.

Conference panels will be related, but not limited, to:

- border poetics
- border-crossing
- security versus openness of borders
- cultural hybridization
- cross‐border co‐operation
- processes of de‐bordering
- borders and refugees
- social, cultural or language differences between communities

We invite proposals from various disciplines including political
sciences, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, architecture,
literature, linguistics, etc.

Paper proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should
be sent by 15 February 2023 to:
bord...@lcir.co.uk

Please download Paper proposal form:
https://borders.lcir.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Paper-proposal-form.doc

Registration:
Registration fee (online participation) – 90 GBP
Registration fee (physical participation) – 150 GBP

Provisional venue:
Birkbeck, University of London

Selected papers will be published in a post-conference volume with
ISBN.


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InterPhil: CFP: The "global south" and liberal values in the historiography of human rights

2022-12-04 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: The "global south" and liberal values in the historiography of
human rights
Type: International Workshop
Institution: Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Free
University of Berlin
Location: Berlin (Germany)
Date: 4.–5.5.2023
Deadline: 6.1.2023

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As a fundamental component of the liberal script, human rights are a
favored terrain of inquiry across the social sciences. Over the last
few years, in particular, the subject's historiography has become
increasingly contested. This historiographical trend offers fertile
ground for examining the place of liberal values in 20th-century
contestations over human rights. For this purpose, we are organizing
a workshop to be held in Berlin on 4-5 May 2023.

The workshop is intended as a first step towards a joint publication,
which will take the form of an edited volume with a leading
university press or a special issue in an academic journal.

Accordingly, we invite original abstracts touching on either of (or
both) these two interrelated issues:

- What have been the contributions of states and non-state actors in
and of the "global south" to the development of international human
rights? Specifically, to what extent did those contributions embrace
(and perhaps affect the content of) liberal values, including the
rule of law, democracy, and the protection of individual entitlements?

- What kinds of contestations to human rights norms and practice
emerged from the "global south" over the 20th century? Were those
contestations informed by normative scripts antithetical to
liberalism, and do any alternative visions of human rights form part
of those scripts? Does any of these challenges resonate in
contemporary disputes, for example concerning the relationship
between human rights and material inequality, global health, or the
environment?

By focusing on the relevance and ambiguity of liberal values, the
project aims to investigate whether international debates on human
rights were motivated by competing normative scripts, leading to
potentially different norms and institutions than the ones that
crystallized in existing international instruments. We are especially
interested in empirical studies grounded in hitherto unexplored
archives. We also welcome contributions relating the above-mentioned
issues to questions of historiographical method as they have emerged
in subfields like the digital humanities, practice theory, and
network analysis.

We invite scholars working in the social sciences – including but not
limited to historians, political scientist, international relations
and legal scholars – to submit a 300/500-word abstract and a short
bio as a single file by 6 January 2023 to Prof. Tobias Berger:
tobias.ber...@fu-berlin.de

Please contact Prof. Berger for any queries about the call.
Successful applicants will be informed by 31 January 2023. Travel and
accommodation costs for attending the workshops will be covered by
the organization.

The project is part of the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of
the Liberal Script" (SCRIPTS) and is directed by Tobias Berger (Freie
Universität Berlin), Anna Holzscheiter (Technische Universität
Dresden), and Thomas Risse (Freie Universität Berlin).


Contact:

Prof. Dr. Tobias Berger
Juniorprofessor Transnationale Politik des Globalen Südens
Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Freie Universität Berlin
Email: tobias.ber...@fu-berlin.de

Project website:
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InterPhil: CFP: Challenges of Hate in the 21st Century

2022-12-01 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Challenges of Hate in the 21st Century
Type: 7th International Conference on Hate Studies
Institution: Center for the Study of Hate, Gonzaga University
   Community Colleges of Spokane
Location: Spokane, WA (USA) – Online
Date: 20.–22.4.2023
Deadline: 4.1.2023

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In this time of political divisiveness, racial inequity, extremism,
and climate injustice, the importance of understanding how the
processes of dehumanization and othering harm communities and the
world in which we live is as critical as ever.

The Gonzaga Center for the Study of Hate invites you to consider
opportunities to share your research, educational work, community
work, creative expression, or other work related to hate and submit a
proposal to present at the Seventh International Conference on Hate
Studies. The multidisciplinary field of hate studies brings us
together for new understandings to address hate in any one or more of
its manifestations (e.g. racism, Anti-Semitism, homophobia, religious
intolerance, extremism, anti-immigration animus, ableism, white
supremacy, etc.).

The International Conference on Hate Studies is one of the leading
interdisciplinary academic forums on hate and related social
problems. The lessons learned and plans which emerge will help
educators, researchers, advocates, and others better analyze and
combat hatred in its various manifestations to lead to communities
being committed to peace, human rights, and justice.

Proposal Submission:
https://www.gonzaga.edu/academics/centers-institutes/institute-for-hate-studies/international-conference-on-hate-studies/submission-instructions

Featured speakers include:

Zoé Samudzi is an Assistant Professor in Photography at the Rhode
Island School of Design, a Research Associate at the Center for the
Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg,
and a member of the Race, Medicine, and Social Justice research
cluster at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown
University. She is also an art writer, an associate editor with
Parapraxis Magazine, and a contributing writer for Jewish Currents.

Rae Jereza is a Research Assistant Professor and a Senior Researcher
at the Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL) at
American University. They are currently researching gun violence and
how hate speech and free speech are constructed in the US.

Arjun Singh Sethi is a community activist, human rights lawyer, and
author based in Washington, DC. He works closely with Muslim, Arab,
South Asian, and Sikh communities and is the editor of 'American
Hate: Survivors Speak Out', an NPR Best Book of 2018. He holds
faculty appointments at Georgetown University Law Center and
Vanderbilt University Law School, and co-chairs the American Bar
Association's National Committee on Homeland Security, Terrorism, and
Treatment of Enemy Combatants.

Nicole Nguyen is associate professor of criminology, law, and justice
and educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. Her most recent research explores abolitionist responses to
political violence. She is author of 'A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland
Security in US Public Schools' and 'Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim
Racism and the Domestic War on Terror'.

David Neiwert is an investigative journalist and author based in
Seattle, and a senior staff writer for Daily Kos. He is the author of
numerous books, including the upcoming 'The Age of Insurrection: The
Radical Right's Ongoing War on Democracy', scheduled for June release
from Melville; and 'Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the
Age of Trump' (Verso, 2017). Neiwert has won numerous awards for his
work, including a National Press Club Award for Distinguished Online
Journalism, and an International Latino Book Award for Non-Fiction.

Enquiries:

Dr. Ryan Turcott, Proposal Chair
Email: turc...@gonzaga.edu

Dr. James Mohr, Conference Co-Chair
Email: james.m...@ccs.spokane.edu


Conference website:
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InterPhil: CFP: On Globalization: Society, Culture and Ethics

2022-12-01 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: On Globalization
Subtitle: Society, Culture and Ethics
Type: International and Interdisciplinary Conference
Institution: Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
   Institute of Cross Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange
   University of Vaasa
Location: Vaasa (Finland)
Date: 17.–18.8.2023

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Conference theme:

On Globalization: Society, Culture and Ethics

and

Ethical Implications of the Impact of Globalization on Educational
Policy and National Curricula in India, China, Taiwan, Indonesia and
Finland

Directed by the Institute of Cross Cultural Studies and Academic
Exchange, and the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, Elon,
NC, USA.

Submit title and abstract to:
Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti at:
chandanac...@gmail.com

Also send a copy to:
iccsaexcha...@gmail.com

Acceptance of proposal will be mailed within 2 weeks or earlier to
participants.

Scholars from different corners of the world join our conferences.

Conference Directors:
Chandana Chakrabarti (USA) and Kisor Chakrabarti (USA)

Advisory Board:
Yolanda Espina (Portugal), Tommi Lehtonen (Finland), Deven Patel
(USA), Nina Petek (Slovenia), Rizwan Rahman (India), Ming Shao
(China), Richard Vulich (USA), Su Chen Wu (Taiwan), Yanling Xu (China)

Publication:
The Cambridge Scholars Press has published seven books co-edited by
members of our advisory board from selected papers from our last
conferences. We also publish papers in our Journal of Indian
Philosophy and Religion if the theme of the paper is in the area of
publication of the Journal.

Conference website:
https://sites.google.com/a/lclark.edu/sipr/vaasa






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InterPhil: CFA: Research Fellowships in Philosophy

2022-11-30 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Type: Research Fellowships in Philosophy
Institution: Global Priorities Institute (GPI), University of Oxford
Location: Oxford (United Kingdom)
Date: 2023–2027

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The Global Priorities Institute (GPI) offers openings for both
Postdoctoral Research Fellows (Oxford's academic grade 7) and Senior
Research Fellows (Oxford's academic grades 8 and 9). Applicants to
each role will be considered for all available philosophy Fellowship
roles, so you need only apply to one position.

Successful applicants will conduct advanced research in philosophy.
At least 50% of your time will be spent on topics directly relevant
to the Global Priorities Institute’s research agenda, which you will
help to set. The role requires no teaching load and only minor
supervision responsibilities, although teaching may be arranged if
the fellow would like to do so. The Global Priorities Institute is an
interdisciplinary research centre, which aims to develop and promote
rigorous, scientific approaches to the question of how appropriately
motivated actors can do good more effectively. GPI formally sits
within the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (grade 7) applicants are required to
either have, or be close to finishing, a PhD either in philosophy or
in a closely related discipline and combined with equivalent
experience and expertise in philosophy. Senior Research Fellow
(grades 8 and 9) applicants are expected to have more research
experience and a stronger  track record of producing research
suitable for publication in top philosophy journals.  Also essential
for all posts is  outstanding academic ability and an interest in
global priorities research.

All positions are full-time with the University of Oxford. We welcome
applications from researchers who might prefer to complete a one- or
two-year position at GPI before starting a new job elsewhere or
returning to an existing position.. Visa support is also available
for successful applicants from overseas. We particularly encourage
applications from women, black and ethnic minority candidates, as
these groups are underrepresented in philosophy.


Details

Contract type: 4 years fixed term (with a possibility for extension)

Start date: September 2023 (flexible)

The posts are visa eligible - candidates of all nationalities are
encouraged to apply.

- Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy:
  Salary: £34,308 - 42,155 p.a, depending on experience (Grade 7)

- Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy (Grade 8):
  Salary: £43,414 - 51,805 p.a., depending on experience

- Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy (Grade 9):
  Salary: £50,300 - 58,284 p.a., depending on experience


Application

Applications are to be made online, where detailed job descriptions
are available - we will post links to these applications once the
positions open. Referees will be asked for letters of recommendation
for candidates that are longlisted.

Longlisted candidates will be asked to complete a questionnaire.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to the last stage of the
application process, which will include submission of a research
proposal, a work trial and an interview (which will be conducted
online).

If you have any questions about this role, please contact:
gpi-off...@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

(Do not send your application material to this email address,
applications can only be submitted via the University of Oxford
application portal.)


Further information:
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InterPhil: CFP: Human Community and Common Values in the 21st Century

2022-11-30 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Human Community and Common Values in the 21st Century
Type: International Conference
Institution: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP)
   Fujen Catholic Univeristy
Location: Taipei (Taiwan)
Date: 5.–6.7.2023
Deadline: 20.1.2023

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Thematic Description

A human community is obviously and inevitably about human beings who
live together in time and space and share something in common, e.g.,
cultures, traditions, religions, etc. Although human communities vary
in sizes, locations, formations…, they are all based on certain
principles. Gradually human civilizations emerged through historical
processes. Civilizations engage sets of cultures which are founded on
major religions. This indicates that cultures and cultural traditions
consist of sets of values and virtues developed by people of
communities regarding how to cultivate their life in their particular
geographical and historical circumstances. Such sets of values and
virtues are developed through long-term experiences and struggles
according to which each people have their own preferences.

A community can be as small as a group of people or as large as the
entire humanity. But people in each community undertakes their own
history and lifeworld unfolded in different kinds of relationships.
All communities are formed by their members who are interconnected
yet different from one another. What bring them all together are
shared common values. The word "common" itself presupposes the
connotation of a community in which a vision of shared common values
are produced by its members. However, each community has its own
value preferences due to each one’s own circumstances. Today in our
complex and pluralist 21st century, in order to live together
peacefully among different cultural traditions, civilizations,
religions and to construct a human community in its best form, it
seems rather urgent and necessary to look for common values that can
be shared by all. Is this possible?

This conference will focus the following issues:

- Is it possible to pursue common values among diverse communities?
- What are the common values that can be shared by all?
- How to achieve diversity in unity or unity in diversity?
- What are fundamental principles for forming human communities?
- How to achieve mutual recognition among different communities?
- How to implement cross-cultural and cross-religious dialogues and
  communications in order to find consensus?
- What are traditional value systems? Can they still function in the
  21st century?
- What are new values that should be produced in the new challenging
  world?

Logistics

Conference participants will cover the costs of their own travel, the
conference organizer will provide room and board during the
conference. Detailed abstract should be sent to kati...@hotmail.com
and cua-...@cua.edu by January 20, 2023 and full paper by June 20,
2023. The conference will be conducted in English.


Contact:

Katia Lenehan
Fujen Catholic University
Email: kati...@hotmail.com
Web: http://www.crvp.org/conferences/2023/Taipei.html






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InterPhil: PUB: Transcendental Africanity

2022-11-30 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Transcendental Africanity
Subtitle: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa
Publication: Edited Book
Deadline: 31.1.2023

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The scope of this book project is fourfold:

1. It explores the conceptual, historical, and contemporary
meaning(s) of Africanity and transcendental Africanity as an
identitary paradigm. 

2. It scrutinizes Afrophobia, a contemporary outcome of the ages-old
racialistic biases leveled at Africans and Afro-descendants.

3. It identifies and analyzes critical reasons why transcendental
Africanity is the key to defeating Afrophobia in the 21st century and
how this key can and must be leveraged to that end.

4. The book argues that (a) Global Africa, that is, the worldwide
collectivity of Africans and Afro-descendants generically referred to
in the foreign-generated narrative as “Black people”, must be
steadfast in re/building itself and empowering its constituents from
within in order to defeat Afrophobia and advance together toward the
bright horizons it ambitions to reach.

Hence, the book is envisioned as an interdisciplinary,
multiperspectival study of what, in primordial and quintessential
terms, makes Africans and Afro-descendants who they are and what they
are as a global collectivity, beyond all the nuances and differences
that the peripeties of history, geography, and culture have created
among and between the multiple communities in which they exist.

The book delves into transcendental Africanity, which is posited as
that which underlies the identitary nexus that makes all Africans and
Afro-descendants worldwide one primordial collectivity and triggers
an instinctive drive for intra- and inter-communal bonding, whether
conscious or subconscious, whenever core components of the shared
identity are under assault anywhere in the world. The
self-invigorating responses of Africans and Afro-descendants of the
Western world to the birth of Pan-Africanism in the 19th century and
its growth into a transcontinental movement in the early 20th century
is a case in point. Another is the fraternal pride and support that
far-away communities such as Africans in the continent and
Afro-descendants in India (locally referred to “Untouchables” or
“Dalits” and relegated to the dehumanizing bottom of India’s
caste-based stratification) responded to the Civil Rights Movement in
the 1950s and 1960s in the United States of America. A third and more
recent case in point is the spontaneous solidarity that Global Africa
lent to the African American community’s Black Lives Matter movement
that erupted across the United States following the murder of George
Floyd in 2020.

Furthermore, the book is an equally interdisciplinary and
multiperspectival study of the multifaceted racialism that Global
Africa has endured from various “non-Black” forces over the centuries
and that has culminated into the phenomenon that we call here
Afrophobia. Afrophobia is understood in this study as an admixture of
hate, resentment and, quite significantly, fear toward Global Africa
whose challenges to racism and slow but assertive breaking of glass
ceilings toward meaningful progress and steady collective
self-empowerment alarm those for whom “Black people” are only good
for enslavement, colonization, neo-colonization and now,
meta-colonization.

Among the core hypotheses made in this book is that unless and until
Africa attains the degree of self-empowerment, development, and
respectability it needs and deserves on the world stage by virtue of
its immense human and natural resources, the freedom, dignity, and
well-being of every person of African descent around the world will
remain vulnerable to the worldwide recrudescence of Afrophobia.
Another dialectically related hypothesis is that Global Africa is the
only genuine and legitimate force that can and should help the
African continent free itself from meta-colonialism and become the
true base from which the worldwide collectivity of Afro-descendants
will launch their offensive for complete liberation and steady
advancement.

Scholars interested in contributing to this book project are invited
to submit chapter proposals along with their short bios to Professor
Mohamed Saliou Camara by January 31, 2023:
mohamed.cam...@howard.edu

Each proposal is expected to include the following:
1. A clear statement of what the author plans to study in the chapter;
2. The hypothesis or assumption upon which the study will be based;
3. The theoretical framework of the study;
4. The central questions to be addressed;
5. The research methodology to be used.

Proposers will be notified of acceptance or decline within a month of
submission. Those whose proposals are accepted will receive detailed
author guidelines to follow while writing their chapters. Also, they
will have until July 31, 2023, to submit the completed chapters. The
maximum len

InterPhil: CONF: Comenius' Angelus Pacis im Kontext der Frühmoderne und dessen Beitrag zur heutigen Friedensethik

2022-11-29 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Konferenzankündigung

Theme: Comenius' Angelus Pacis im Kontext der Frühmoderne und dessen
Beitrag zur heutigen Friedensethik
Type: Internationaler Online-Workshop
Institution: Professur für Philosophie, Universität Vechta
Location: Online
Date: 10.12.2022

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Anders als seine Pädagogik ist Johann Amos Comenius’ Angelus Pacis
(Opera Omnia, Bd. 12) sehr wenig rezipiert worden. Dies liegt
teilweise daran, dass ein Ausdruck dieses Werkes zwar zunächst als
Memorandum für die englisch-niederländischen Friedensverhandlungen
des Jahres 1667 den Verhandlungspartnern von Comenius persönlich
übergeben und im 18. Jhd. mehrfach erwähnt, jedoch erst 1935
wiederentdeckt und veröffentlicht wurde, und dass außerdem andere
Bereiche wie die Didaktik die Comenius-Forschung dominieren.

Dieser Workshop will dieses Werk in einer philosophischen Perspektive
darstellen, die das Werk sowohl in der Tradition der
frühneuzeitlichen Theorien des gerechten Krieges einordnet als auch
systematisch analysiert. Denn die Erschließung dieses Werkes kann aus
den folgenden Gründen zur heutigen Debatte der Friedensethik einen
wichtigen Beitrag leisten. 

Es stehen aber im Mittelpunkt der Geschichte der frühmodernen
Friedensethik sowie der heutigen Debatten der Friedensethik zwei
Paradigmen bzw. Traditionen, die die Komplexität dieser kurzen
Schrift in den Schatten stellen: 1. die naturrechtliche Tradition der
Theorien des gerechten Krieges, die die Kriterien für die Beurteilung
der Gerechtigkeit bzw. der Ungerechtigkeit der drei Phasen einzelner
Kriege liefert (das ius ad bellum, das ius in bello und das ius post
bellum) und 2. das von Immanuel Kants Zum ewigen Frieden initiierte
Modell eines ewigen Friedens, das die immer wiederkehrenden Kriege
endgültig beenden würde und das auch den geschichtsteleologischen
Plan der notwendigen Verwirklichung eines solchen Friedens enthält.
Auch Comenius’ Friedensschrift strebt einen ewigen Frieden an. Die
naturrechtliche Tradition der Theorien des gerechten Krieges und
Kants Friedensidee haben aber eine Gemeinsamkeit, die sie von
Comenius unterscheidet: Sie sehen den Frieden als eine rechtliche
Angelegenheit, zu der die Parteien durch ihre rational verstandenen
Interessen allein motiviert werden können. Dagegen kann nach Comenius
der ewige Friednach Comenius weder rein rechtlich sein noch auf
egoistischen Interessen allein basieren, sondern er kann nur auf der
aufrechten Motivation beruhen.

Daher bedarf die Interpretation von Angelus Pacis Kenntnisse zwar
unter anderem der christlichen Anthropologie, der Heilgeschichte, der
Trinitätslehre und der Angelologie, was allerdings den Zugang für die
heutige Friedensethik erschwert.

Angelus Pacis beschränkt sich jedoch nicht auf die genannte These
noch darf sich ihre Lektüre auf eine theologisch orientierte
Interpretation beschränken, sondern dieses Werk integriert die
rechtliche, die rational-motivationale und die
teleologisch-geschichtliche Dimensionen des Friedensprozesses auf
detaillierte Weise, weshalb es nicht nur aus religiöser Perspektive
interessant, sondern auch für eine Auseinandersetzung mit den
genannten weiterhin vorherrschenden rechtsphilosophischen bzw.
friedensethischen Theorien anschlussfähig ist.


Programm

9:00-9:10
Grußwort

Teil I:
Comenius‘ Angelus Pacis verstehen

9:10-9:50
Prof. Dr. Andreas Lischewski (Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und
Gesellschaft):
Die Logik des Krieges. Über die anthropologischen und
heilsgeschichtlichen Grundlagen der comenianischen Friedensbemühungen

9:50-10:20
Diskussion

10:20-11:00
Dr. Jiří Beneš (Czech Academy of Sciences):
Friedensstrategien von Comenius mit Rückgriff auf die allgemeine
christliche Tradition

11:00-11:30
Diskussion

11:30-11:50
Kaffeepause

11:50-12:30
Dr. Petr Pavlas (Czech Academy of Sciences):
Gott und Frieden. Die biblische Sprache des Friedensengels im
weiteren Kontext der Heiligen Schrift

12:30-13:00
Diskussion

13:00-14:00
Mittagspause


Teil II:
Von Comenius‘ Angelus Pacis für die Friedensethik lernen

14:00-14:40
Dr. Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig (Universität Vechta):
Dulden oder Umkehr – was ist der beste Weg zum Frieden? Johann Amos
Comenius und Johannes Crellius im Vergleich

14:40-15:10
Diskussion

15:10-15:50
Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Merle (Universität Vechta):
Comenius‘ Friedensethik und die religionsphilosophische und die
moralische Dimension der kantischen Friedensethik

15:50-16:20
Diskussion

16:20-16:40
Kaffeepause

16:40-17:20
PD Dr. Simone Neuber (Universität Tübingen):
Vergeben und Vergessen

17:20-17:50
Diskussion

17:50-18:00
Schlusswort


Koordination:
Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Merle und Dr. Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig
(Universität Vechta)

Freie Teilnahme, Voranmeldung erforderlich:
jean-christophe.me...@uni-vechta.de  –  anna.szyrwin...@uni-vechta.de


Website des Workshops:
https://philosophie-vechta.org/veranstaltungen/aktuell/






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InterPhil: CFP: Many Worlds of AI

2022-11-29 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Many Worlds of AI
Subtitle: Intercultural Approaches to the Ethics of Artificial
Intelligence
Type: International Conference
Institution: Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI),
University of Cambridge
   Centre for Science and Thought (CST), University of Bonn
Location: Cambridge (United Kingdom) – Online
Date: 26.–28.4.2023
Deadline: 31.12.2022

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Conference theme overview

The aim of this conference is to interrogate how an intercultural
approach to ethics can inform the processes of conceiving, designing,
and regulating artificial intelligence (AI).

Many guidelines and policy frameworks on responsible AI foreground
values such as transparency, fairness, and justice, giving an
appearance of consensus. However, this apparent consensus hides wide
disagreements about the meanings of these concepts and may be
omitting values that are central to cultures that have been less
involved in developing these frameworks. For this reason, scholars
and policymakers have increasingly started to voice the need to
acknowledge these disagreements, foreground the plurality of visions
for technological futures, and centre previously overlooked visions –
as the necessary first steps in establishing shared ethical and
regulatory frameworks for responsible AI.

While planetary-scale challenges demand international cooperation in
search of new solutions – including those that rely on AI – to
address the crises ahead of us, feminist, Indigenous, and decolonial
scholars, among others, have pointed to potential problems arising
from the techno-solutionism and techno- optimism implied by the
universalising ‘AI for Good’ paradigm. They recognise that some
groups of humans have been multiply burdened under the current,
dominant system of technology production, and that this system – if
unchanged – is unlikely to bring about positive transformation. To
ensure that new technologies are developed and deployed responsibly,
we must, therefore, acknowledge and draw on ontological,
epistemological and axiological differences, in ways that do not
privilege a particular worldview. Yet in doing so, we must also work
to avoid essentialising other nations or peoples, erasing extractive
colonial histories, diversity washing, and cultural appropriation.

By foregrounding the many worlds of AI, we aim to create a space for
dialogue between different worldviews without reifying the notion of
discrete and unchanging cultural approaches to AI. Through
centralising terms like ‘diaspora’, we aim to examine the complex
(and often violent) histories of cultural exchange and the global
movement of people and ideas which rarely take centre stage in
conversations on intercultural AI ethics.

The question central to Many Worlds of AI is therefore: How can we
acknowledge these complexities to facilitate intercultural dialogue
in the field of AI ethics, and better respond to the opportunities
and challenges posed by AI?

Many Worlds of AI is the inaugural conference in a series of biennial
events organised as part of the ‘Desirable Digitalisation: Rethinking
AI for Just and Sustainable Futures’ research programme. The
‘Desirable Digitalisation’ programme is a collaboration between the
Universities of Cambridge and Bonn funded by Stiftung Mercator. The
primary aim of the programme is to explore how to design AI and other
digital technologies in a responsible way, prioritising the questions
of social justice and environmental sustainability.


Call for Papers

We are interested in a wide variety of approaches to the ethics of AI
that interrogate 1) how intercultural dialogue and conflict is
reflected in existing AI regulatory frameworks (the ‘Intercultural
AI’ theme); 2) how the use and development of AI can build on local
and situated knowledges and imaginaries (the ‘Scale(ability) of AI’
theme); 3) the perspectives of diasporic and dislocated communities
on ‘AI ethics’ and regulation (the ‘AI across borders’ theme).

While we encourage applicants to suggest papers that speak to one or
more of these themes, we will consider proposals that take on the
idea of intercultural ethics of AI from other angles. We accept
proposals for traditional academic presentations, as well as
project/product demonstrations and artistic interventions. An
individual contribution should be 15 minutes long; we also accept
proposals for group presentations, panels, or workshops. We are
looking for contributions from established academics, early- career
researchers, technologists, policy specialists, civil society
organisations, as well as communicators and artists.

Themes:

1) Intercultural AI: Exchange, dialogue and conflict

- How do different ethical traditions inform technology development
  and regulation?
- How can we meaningfully speak to differences in approaches to
  ethical AI among different groups?
- How can different groups lear

InterPhil: JOB: Lecturer in Global and Comparative Philosophy

2022-11-29 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Job Announcement

Type: Lecturer in Global and Comparative Philosophy
Institution: Institute of Philosophy, Leiden University
Location: Leiden (Netherlands)
Date: from August 2023
Deadline: 1.12.2022

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The Institute of Philosophy is seeking further to strengthen its
research and teaching activities in Global and Comparative
philosophy, with a specialized focus in Korean and/or Japanese
philosophical traditions. We are especially seeking to strengthen our
research and teaching capacity in Buddhist and Confucian
philosophical heritages in classical and modern Korea and Japan, as
well as other philosophical movements in these cultures. Broad
capacity to teach courses in the history of philosophy would also be
a plus. We offer a full-time (1.0 fte, 38 hours per week), fixed-term
post, with an appointment start-date of August 1st, 2023, for an
initial period of one and a half years, with the possibility of a
permanent contract to follow.

Vacancy number 22-620 12641


Key responsibilities

The successful candidate will take on the following responsibilities
commensurate with career stage:

- Original research in Korean and/or Japanese philosophy;
- Teaching philosophy courses in our BA and MA programmes in
  Philosophy and in other Leiden University degree programmes as
  required, and supervision of BA and MA theses;
- Teaching in Dutch in due course
- Supervision of PhD research;
- Acquisition of research funding from outside sources;
- Representation of the field to external audiences and media;
- Active participation in the running of the institution.


Selection criteria

- PhD degree in philosophy or in closely related fields, with
  specialized focus in philosophical traditions;
- Specialization in Korean and/or Japanese philosophy. Research
  specialisations in Buddhist and Confucian traditions in Korea and/or
  Japan will be considered an advantage;
- Research and publication record commensurate with career stage;
- Assumed proficiency in relevant source languages which enable the
  hire to do original research in their fields of specialization.
- Broad teaching competencies in philosophy and commitment to
  high-quality teaching practice. Experience in teaching broadly in
  the history of philosophy will be considered an advantage;
- Excellent command of English;
- Non-Dutch-speaking candidates will be required to acquire
  proficiency in Dutch to level B1 within two years of taking up the
  appointment. The candidate must demonstrate sufficient progress
  toward attaining this level of Dutch acquisition by the time of the
  probationary review. The institute facilitates Dutch-language
  learning with reimbursement of costs and teaching relief for an
  approved training programme;
- Upon appointment, depending on experience and formal
  qualifications, the successful applicant is required to obtain a
  nationally recognised University Teaching Qualification (BKO); the
  candidate must demonstrate sufficient progress toward the attainment
  of the BKO by the time of probationary review.
- Openness to other philosophical traditions and to interdisciplinary
  cooperation;
- Team player, but also able to carry out independent research and
  teaching;
- Flexible, enterprising, and enthusiastic.


Our Faculty/Institute

The Faculty of Humanities is rich in expertise in fields including
philosophy, religious studies, history, art history, literature,
linguistics, and area studies covering nearly every region of the
world. With a staff of around 1,000, the faculty provides 25 BA and
27 MA programmes for over 7,000 students.

The Institute of Philosophy conducts research and offers teaching in
the standard areas of philosophy in Analytic and Continental
traditions and in Intercultural Philosophy as well as their
histories. With around 40 employees and 600 students, the institute
offers an innovative, collegial, and international working
environment. For more information, see:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/institute-for-philosophy


Terms and conditions

We offer a full-time (1.0 FTE, 38 hours per week), fixed-term post
for the period of one and a half years, with the possibility of a
permanent contract conditional on performance and funding. Salary
range, depending on training and experience, is from € 3557 to € 5439
(pay scale 10 to 11 in accordance with the Collective Labour
Agreement for Dutch Universities) before tax per month, based on a
full-time appointment.

Leiden University offers an attractive benefits package with
additional holiday (8%) and end-of-year bonuses (8.3%), training and
career development, and sabbatical leave. Our individual choices
model offers some freedom to assemble a personalised set of terms and
conditions. Candidates from outside the Netherlands may be eligible
for a substantial tax break. There is a Dual Career Programme for
international spouses; for furth

InterPhil: CONF: Knowledge, Participation and Power of Discourse

2022-11-28 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Conference Announcement

Theme: Knowledge, Participation and Power of Discourse
Subtitle: The Meaning of Epistemic Injustice in Philosophy
Type: Workshop und Round Table
Institution: Munich School of Philosophy
Location: Munich (Germany)
Date: 1.–2.12.2022

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Practical and intercultural Philosophy as well as transformative
research offer approaches to questioning universalisms and disclosing
practices of othering. Media ethics provides understanding on how
master and base narratives shape the perception of knowledge and
science. The question is: In what way are these critical approaches
epistemically unjust themselves, obstructing the vision of
participation and increasing social justice? Exclusive access, rigid
boundaries between (scientific) disciplines and traditional personnel
policy are just a few examples for the structures of power philosophy
is entangled in.

The event consists of workshop units and a round table in the
evening. We wish to open a space for joint learning. Mutual
appreciation and inspiration are important to us.

For participation, please apply via:
https://eveeno.com/epistemisch
 
Languages/Sprachen

The Workshop will be held in English language.
Most speakers speak German, too.


Program

Thursday, 1.12.2022, Morning

9:30 a.m.
Welcome
Lena Schützle (Munich School of Philosophy)
What Role Do Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Violence Play in
Philosophy?

10:00 a.m.
Epistemic Injustice and the Nature of Philosophical Inquiry
Lieke Asma (Munich School of Philosophy)

10:20 a.m.
Discussion

10:40 a.m.
Small Break & Poster Session

11:00 a.m.
Aligning Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Violence through Charles
Mills’ ‚White Ignorance‘
Nicki K. Weber (University of Augsburg)

11:20 a.m.
Discussion

11:35 a.m.
Epistemic violence through universality? Ethical considerations from
a decolonial perspective
Christos Simis (Ruhr University Bochum, Ludwig Maximilian University)

11:55 a.m.
Mathematik, Rationalität und Humanismus: Paradigmen epistemischer
Praxis
Cara-Julie Kather (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)

12:15 p.m.
Discussion

12:45-2:20 p.m.
Lunch Break & Poster Session


Thursday, 1.12.2022, Afternoon

2:30 p.m.
Bodymapping interaktiv
Charlotta Sophie Sippel (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)

Examples of Epistemic Injustice

2:30 p.m.
Philosophy’s Logocentrism as Instance of Epistemic Injustice
Regina Schidel (Goethe-University of Frankfurt)

2:50 p.m.
The Problem of Not Speaking for Others: Contributory Epistemic
Injustice in Philosophy
Karen Poetzgen, Stephanie Deig (University of Lucerne/University of
Bern)

3:30 p.m.
Discussion

4:30 p.m.
Discussion (both threads)

5:30-7:00 p.m.
Dinner Break & Poster Session


Thursday, 1.12.2022, Evening

7:00-9:00 p.m.
Round Table

Welcome
Claudia Paganini, Barbara Schellhammer, Hilkje Hänel

Discussion
Jacques Zannou, Anke Graneß, Karin Hutflötz


Friday, 02.12.2022

9:30 a.m.
Poster Session

Questioning the Universality of Western Philosophy

10:00 a.m.
Indian and Western Approaches to Epistemic Liberation: A Comparative
Study
Baiju P. Anthony, Anupam Yadav (BITS Pilani, India)

10:20 a.m.
On the Very Idea of Philosophy: The “Double Bind” of Philosophy and
its Epistemic Consequences
Franz Hernández (Central European University, Vienna)

10:40 a.m.
Discussion

Tools to Dismantle and Transform Violent Epistemic Practices

11:10 a.m.
Critical Fabulation and Political Storytelling
Miranda Coxe Young (New School for Social Research, New York)

11:30 a.m.
Making Partial Connections: Reframing Philosophy in Ecologies of
Knowledges
Lydia Baan Hofman (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

11:50 a.m.
Discussion

12:20-1:00 p.m.
Lunch Break

1:00 p.m.
The Philosophical Canon as a Means of Access and Exclusion
Katharina Schulz (Georg August University of Göttingen)

1:20 p.m.
Discussion

1:35-2:00 p.m.
Final Reflection


Chair and Moderation

Lena Schützle, Jochanah Mahnke and Stefan Kosak
Email: lena.schuet...@hfph.de


Venue

Munich School of Philosophy
Kaulbachstraße 35, 80539 Munich
Germany


Website of the workshop:
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InterPhil: CFA: Summer School on Endangered Theories

2022-11-17 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Theme: Endangered Theories
Subtitle: Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultraviolence
Type: CES Summer School
Institution: Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra
Location: Coimbra (Portugal)
Date: 26.–30.6.2022
Deadline: 15.1.2023

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As the concerted ideological campaign against Critical Race Theory
continues to gain momentum, the summer school Endangered Theories.
Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultraviolence strives
to provide participants with the space and tools necessary to reflect
upon the current proliferation of anti-anti racism stances across
dramatically different national contexts in conjunction with state
failure to halt police violence, migrant criminalisation,
imprisonment of racialized minorities and Indigenous people, and the
assault against LGBTQI+ rights. The summer school, thus, introduces
participants to the following anti-racist theoretical paradigms:
anti-colonialism, racial capitalism, abolitionism, intersectionality,
and queer settler colonial studies. Besides reflecting the expertise
of invited guest speakers, these paradigms will afford prospective
participants the opportunity to approach standing debates with new
theoretical lenses. Neither abolitionism and queer settler colonial
studies, for instance, have yet been employed to examine Fortress
Europe and the rapid diffusion of anti-gender sentiments in the
aftermath of homonationalism. Nor racial capitalism has been applied
to explain the intersectional extraction of value in the age of
humanitarian and environmental catastrophes. Lastly, the school will
provide participants with a wide array of case-studies (e.g.
Portugal, Italy, US, Brasil, UK, Dominican Republic, and Palestine),
enriching their understanding of colonial, settler colonial and
postcolonial  matrices of power.

School Format:
Face to face, in accordance with Covid-19 restrictions. Guest
lecturers will adopt an interactive teaching style, facilitating
transversal knowledge exchange between prospective participants and
themselves. Guest lecturers will employ the same style for the
workshops run in the afternoon to build upon the research experience
of prospective participants and help them with the theoretical,
methodological, and practical challenges that researchers usually
encounter when undertaking anti- racist research work. In the
afternoon sessions, guest lecturers will moreover provide feedback on
the research work submitted to their attention and presented during
the summer school by prospective participants. In the evening
sessions, guest lecturers and prospective participants will be given
the opportunity to socialise outside the classroom and network with
the researchers and post-graduate students of CES.

Target participants:
Post-graduate students in the social sciences and humanities,
political activists and members of NGOs in the field of anti-racism
and human rights, school teachers in the fields of sociology, history
and geography, journalists, social workers and policymakers.

Selection process:
Is competitive. Participants will be selected by the School’s
co-organisers on the basis of: 1) their application; 2) relevance of
their research work; and 3) activism. During the selection of
participants, a waiting list will be concurrently created.
Prospective participants who want to present either their research or
their work have to first apply to the summer school and then contact
the organisers to express their interests. In the email, please
attach a brief abstract (maximum 250 words), short bio (maximum 150
words), and full name of the speakers and/or artists you would like
to engage with your work. On the basis of this information, the
organisers will schedule participant presentations and inform them
accordingly.

Deadlines:
Application: January 15, 2023.
Communication of Selection Results: February 21, 2023.
Submission of Abstracts: May 15, 2023.
Submission of full papers: June 14, 2023.

Registration:
Early Bird Registration (March 30, 2023)
Paid staff members: 180 euros.
Self-financed/students: 150 euros.

Regular Registration (May 15, 2023)
Paid staff members: 210 euros.
Self-financed/students: 180 euros.

The registration fee includes participation in seminars, workshops,
keynotes, art talks, and  social events, reading materials,
coffee-breaks and School’s dinner. The organisers endeavoured to keep
the school as accessible as possible. Invited guest lecturers do not
receive honoraria. PhD students are encouraged to apply for funding
at their institution and present their work at the school. We also
encourage prospective participants to apply for the European Network
Against Racism (ENAR) Scholarship - People of African Descent to
cover their registration and travel expenses (application deadline
November 20, 2022).

Fee waiver: three registration fee waivers will be gra

InterPhil: PUB: Kant, Race, and Racism

2022-11-16 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Kant, Race, and Racism
Subtitle: Understanding and Reckoning
Publication: Rivista di estetica
Date: Issue 3/2024
Deadline: 30.6.2023

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This special issue is scheduled to appear in 2024, the 300th
anniversary of Kant’s birth. We believe that it is important to
continue to address Kant’s account of race and his racist remarks
even during this important celebration year.

The issue of race appears at various points in Kant’s writing.
Famously, he dedicated three texts to developing a theory of human
races in 1775, 1785 and 1788. But it also surfaces in many other
texts, both published and unpublished during his life. In many of
these writings, Kant clearly accepts a hierarchical ordering of the
races, where white Europeans go on top. This ordering is further
backed by racist remarks on people of color that are scattered
throughout his corpus.

Kant’s remarks on race have been a subject of scholarly debate for a
long time. Recently, the issue gained broader attention, especially
in Germany, in the aftermath of the renewed “Black Lives Matter”
movement that emerged after the killing of George Floyd. In the past,
scholars tended to address the problem by taking one of two opposed
sides. One was to call into question Kant's moral and political
theories in light of his racist views (Charles Mills, for instance,
called for a radical revision of those theories). The other was to
register those views as reprehensible but set them aside as mere
personal prejudices that do not affect Kant's core philosophy at all.
However, it is not enough simply to acknowledge that Kant held racist
views. Nor is it clear that there is any non-question-begging way to
insulate the supposed "core" of Kant's philosophy from those views.
We need to explore all the ways in which Kant’s views on race may be
integral to his entire philosophical system.  Furthermore, if it
turns out that “race” is more central to Kant’s thought than
previously assumed, we need answers to the question of how to reckon
with the effects of his race thinking.

We welcome submissions that discuss Kant's theory of race and his
racist views along those lines.

Submissions should be written in English and prepared for blind
review. They must not exceed 45,000 characters (approx. 7,000 words),
including notes, bibliography and blank spaces. The evaluation will
follow a triple blind process. Neither the reviewers nor the advisory
editors will be informed about the identity of the authors.

In order to submit your paper, please register and login to:
http://labont.it/estetica/index.php/rivistadiestetica/login
 
Please note: when asked “What kind of file is this”, select the
relevant CFP.

Deadline:
June 30, 2023

Advisory Editors:
Gabriele Gava (University of Turin)
Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown University)
Achim Vesper (Goethe University Frankfurt)
 
Mail to:
redazionerivistadiestet...@gmail.com


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InterPhil: PUB: Race, Gender and Identity

2022-11-16 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Race, Gender and Identity
Publication: Perspectives: UCD Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy
Date: Vol. 10 (2022)
Deadline: 15.1.2023

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The Perspectives Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy is an annual
blind peer-reviewed journal of philosophy edited and published by
postgraduate students in the School of Philosophy, University College
Dublin, Ireland. Since 2008, Perspectives has featured articles,
symposium and conference papers, book reviews, and interviews on a
broad range of topics and approaches in philosophy and related
disciplines. The journal is published open access online, with
printed copies available at little cost. Past issues of Perspectives
can be found here:
https://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/research/perspectives/pastissues/

The 2022 editorial board of Perspectives is seeking submissions for
its 10th issue on the topic of Race, Gender and Identity, in
association with the Annual Conference of the British and Irish
Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BIPPA) which will be held in
November 2022 at University College Dublin. The issue will feature an
interview with keynote speaker Prof. Tommy J. Curry (Edinburgh).

We welcome high-quality original contributions in the form of
articles and book reviews relevant to the issue’s theme. Articles
will undergo double blind peer review, based on initial editor
screening and anonymized refereeing by two anonymous referees.

Submission deadline: 15 January, 2023

The format of your article submission should follow these criteria:
- Word limit for articles: 5,000-8,000 including notes and references
- Abstract around 200 words, followed by 5 key words
- Times New Roman font in size 12 with double-line spacing
- Chicago reference style: The Chicago Manual of Style

To maintain a fair review process, please submit your paper as a Word
Document with all author information removed from text and metadata.
In your submission email, make sure you include a separate page with
your name, institutional affiliation, contact details, title of your
paper and preferred pronouns. 

Submission Guidelines for Book Reviews:

Book reviews should be no longer than 2,000 words. The book must be
related to the area of Race, Gender and Identity and must have been
published within the last five years. If you have a book that you
would like to review, please send a brief statement of interest (no
more than 300 words) on the relevance and appropriateness of the book
to the theme of this issue.

Please email the editors in relation to submissions or any other
queries:
perspecti...@ucd.ie

Journal website:
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InterPhil: JOB: Lecturer of Philosophy

2022-11-08 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Job Announcement

Type: Lecturer of Philosophy
Institution: Department of History and Philosophy, Kennesaw State
University
Location: Kennesaw, GA (USA)
Date: from August 2023
Deadline: 15.12.2022

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Kennesaw State University is accepting applications for a nine-month,
non-tenure track Lecturer of Philosophy faculty position in the
Department of History and Philosophy with broad expertise in Western
and non-Western Philosophies, that begins August 2023.

A commitment to excellence in teaching and engagement is expected of
all faculty members in the Radow College of Humanities and Social
Sciences at KSU.

Responsibilities Include:

- teach survey courses in Philosophy
- serve the department, college, university, and/or professional
  community
- ensure and gauge student success
- teach courses in various modalities, i.e., face-to-face, hybrid,
  and online
- current teaching load is nine courses per year

Teaching assignments will be based on earned degrees and SACSCOC
Faculty Credentials Guidelines.

An earned Ph.D., or the foreign equivalent, in Philosophy or a
closely related field is required by August 1, 2023.

Preferred Qualifications Include:

- A record of effective university teaching in online, face-to-face,
  and/or hybrid environments
- Evidence of teaching and working with a culturally and an
  ethnically diverse community

For a full description of this position, application deadlines, and
application procedures, visit:
https://hr.kennesaw.edu/careers.php
Search for Job ID 250819.

For full consideration please submit applications by December 15,
2022.


Contact:

Dr. Bryan McGovern, Chair
Department of History and Philosophy
Kennesaw State University
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InterPhil: CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy

2022-11-08 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Type: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy
Institution: Department of Philosophy, Carleton College
Location: Northfield, MN (USA)
Date: 2023 – 2025
Deadline: 16.2.2023

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Carleton College, Department of Philosophy, invites applications for
a two-year Cowling postdoc starting on September 1, 2023. The
position involves half-time research and writing and half-time
teaching for a total of five courses over a two-year, six-term period
(2-3 courses per year) as well as helping to organize a workshop on
the candidate’s topic of choice in their research area that would
take place at Carleton during the second year of their residence here.

The candidate must have a Ph.D. in hand (received less than five
years ago) by the start date of the position.

AOS – One or more of the following: Philosophy of Race, Africana
Philosophy, Indigenous Philosophy, Latinx Philosophy, or other
non-Western Philosophical traditions.

AOC – Open, but we have needs in courses in Decolonial Studies,
Decolonial Feminism, Philosophy of Technology, Aesthetics or at the
intersection of these fields. 

We are particularly interested in candidates committed to teaching a
diverse student body. Carleton College does not discriminate on the
basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex, national
origin, marital status, veteran status, actual or perceived sexual
orientation, gender identity and expression, status with regard to
public assistance, disability, or age in providing employment or
access to its educational facilities and activities. Carleton is
committed to developing its faculty to better reflect the diversity
of our student body and American society.  Women and members of
underrepresented minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Carleton is a highly selective liberal arts college with a student
body of approximately 2,000. Located in the thriving two-college town
of Northfield, Minnesota, it is forty-five miles from the Twin Cities
of Minneapolis and St. Paul, in easy reach of a vibrant metropolitan
area that is home to three million people and rich cultural resources.

To apply, please visit careers.carleton.edu and submit an online
application that includes a cover letter, c.v., two to three sample
syllabi, a statement about teaching students from diverse backgrounds
in an undergraduate, residential liberal arts environment, a writing
sample, a research statement, and names and contact information of
three references, at least one of which should address your teaching.
We will contact your letter-writers directly to request their
electronic submissions. Please send inquiries to Anna Moltchanova
(amolt...@carleton.edu), Chair, Department of Philosophy, Carleton
College, Northfield, MN. Review of applications will begin February
16, 2023.


Information:
https://careers.carleton.edu/en-us/job/492930/carleton-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-philosophy


Contact:

Anna Moltchanova, Chair
Department of Philosophy, Carleton College
Northfield, MN, USA
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InterPhil: PUB: Epistemic Violence and Intercultural Philosophy

2022-11-05 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Epistemic Violence and Intercultural Philosophy
Publication: polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren
Date: No. 50 (December 2023)
Deadline: 31.3.2023

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(Deutsche Version unten)


The extent to which structures of knowledge generation and
communication are in themselves violent is a question that has been
and continues to be at the centre of postcolonial theory. The
analyses of theorists such as Gayatri Spivak, who coined the term
"epistemic violence", show that this form of violence is "inherent in
knowledge itself, in its genesis, formation, organisation and
effectiveness" (Brunner 2015, 39; see Spivak 1988, 1998, Brunner
2020). Today, the problem of epistemic violence is also discussed in
decolonial, feminist discourses and critical discourses on racism.

Philosophy as a discipline rarely asks itself questions about its own
entanglement in power structures and its contribution to the
reproduction of power structures in knowledge production, but at the
same time it is one of the disciplines in which exclusion mechanisms
still have the strongest impact today. While in disciplines such as
history and literary studies no one would claim any more that there
are "peoples without history" or that there is no "literature" in any
written language, in European and US-American philosophy many still
claim that "philosophy" was originally only to be found in Europe
(Denecke 2021, 485).

Philosophy in intercultural orientation has long drawn attention to
the exclusion of philosophical traditions from other regions of the
world, yet van Norden still concludes in 2017 that the subject of
philosophy in Europe and North America has considerably more to catch
up compared to transformation processes in other humanities (Van
Norden 2017). Demands for a "decolonisation of knowledge" (Mignolo
2006) or the "decolonisation of philosophical concepts" (Wiredu
1995), for an analysis of the entanglement of philosophical theories
and concepts in racist and sexist structures, as well as for a reform
of the curricula in the sense of a global opening and increased
attention to women philosophers are, however, increasingly urgent for
philosophy. This means that not only the organisational and
production conditions of philosophical knowledge are increasingly
becoming the focus of criticism, but also the epistemic framework of
philosophising and the basic terms and concepts transported in it
itself.

The concept of epistemic violence (as an element of an expanded
understanding of violence as well as an aspect of epistemology) is
thus not only of theoretical philosophical interest, but concerns the
future shape of philosophy as a discipline itself.

The planned Polylog number on the topic of "Epistemic Violence" sets
itself the task of illuminating this concept from different
perspectives. In doing so, the theoretical foundations, such as the
concept of epistemes, knowledge orders or the conditions of knowledge
production, will be examined more closely, as will the different
dimensions of epistemic violence. Adjacent concepts, such as the
concept of "epistemic injustice" originating from feminist philosophy
(Fricker 2007) or the concept of "cognitive justice" originating from
decolonial theory (Santos 2007) will be examined in the context of
the discipline of philosophy.

We invite contributions especially on the following topics:

- How the debates on epistemic violence and epistemic or cognitive
injustice, which originate in post- and decolonial theory but have
now already become a mainstream research direction in the Global
North, are perceived and taken up in the philosophical discourses of
Africa, Asia or Latin America.

- What effect does the concept have there? How are the conditions of
knowledge production experienced here? How can ideas of communal
philosophies be reconciled with demands for epistemic justice?

- In addition, approaches to overcoming epistemic violence need to be
developed. A decolonisation of philosophical knowledge - how can this
be done? What consequences would this have for academic practice and
curricula? What approaches to thinking would not be violent or
contribute to "undoing epistemic violence" (Brunner)?

- Do we need to expand the philosophical canon? And if so, how? (How)
Can a decolonisation of thought succeed? What ethical rules are
needed for dealing with philosophical traditions from formerly
colonised regions of the world? Or also: What are the dangers of an
epistemic opening? Does intercultural philosophy itself exercise
epistemic violence?

- How can concepts of epistemes, knowledge orders or the conditions
of knowledge production,examined more closely in relation to violence
or justice. How are debates on epistemic violence linked to concepts
such as "epistemic injustice" and "cognitive justice"?

We kindly ask you to send contributions of max. 4

InterPhil: CFP: From "Fuzzy" to "Eclectic" and Everything in Between

2022-11-03 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: From "Fuzzy" to "Eclectic" and Everything in Between
Subtitle: Intercultural Encounters in the Pre-Modern World
Type: Graduate Conference
Institution: Pre/Early Modern Forum, Yale University
Location: New Haven, CT (USA)
Date: 14.–15.4.2023
Deadline: 2.1.2023

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The pre-modern world was shaped by encounters and engagements that
spanned geographical, cultural, political, and temporal boundaries.
Scholars have employed a variety of terms to describe such moments of
convergence, including “hybridity,” “creolization,” “syncretism,”
“eclecticism,” and even “fuzziness.”

In 2009, historians Sünne Juterczenka and Gesa Mackenthun used the
mathematical concept of “fuzzy logic” as a framework for examining
the entanglements, ambiguities, and mutual impacts resulting from
interactions between multiple cultures. “Fuzzy logic” argues for the
presence of multiple truth values on a spectrum from absolute truth
to falsehood. It allows for the exploration of blurred boundaries and
the diffusion of practices. More recently, art historian Holly
Schafer employs the term “eclecticism” to describe intercultural
objects whose disparate elements retain their independence while
creating a new form. Broadly defined as a practice inspired by a
multiplicity of cultural, artistic, and stylistic sources,
eclecticism provides a way of thinking about the intercultural nature
of the pre-modern world. 

Building on these concepts, the Pre/Early Modern Forum invites
graduate students working in the humanities to explore all things
“eclectic” and “fuzzy” that complicate cultural and geographical
boundaries in the pre-1800 world. We encourage submissions from all
geographical distinctions, especially those that explore topics
related to East Asia. Interrogating the ways in which intercultural
encounters blur and maintain boundaries, the conference aims to
foster creative and innovative dialogue across cultures, regions,
time periods, and disciplines. 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- Contact zones, intersectionality, and peripheries
- Movement of objects, people, and ideas across boundaries 
- Authorship and ownership
- Translation and transcription
- Religious proselytization and conversion
- Micro-histories addressing specific instances of encounter
- Gift exchange, diplomacy, and trade
- Technology and methodology
- Patronage and collecting
- Power dynamics within systems of colonialism 
- Identity formation and articulation 

Interested participants are invited to submit an abstract of no more
than 300 words, along with a short biography, by Monday, January 2,
2023, to: yalep...@gmail.com

Accepted participants will be notified in late-January.
Accommodation will be provided for all participants.
At this time, we are planning for an in-person symposium but will
adapt to a virtual format if Covid-19 conditions and University
policies change.

Keynote Speaker:
Holly Shaffer
Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Brown
University


Contact:

The Pre/Early Modern Forum
Yale University
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InterPhil: CFP: Ethics of Reconciliation

2022-10-30 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Ethics of Reconciliation
Subtitle: European Perspectives
Type: 59th Annual Conference 2023
Institution: Societas Ethica
Location: Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date: 24.–27.8.2023
Deadline: 20.12.2022

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The concept of reconciliation, in a social context, refers to the
potential of restoring broken trust and relationships, and the need
for a community and persons to recover from damages caused by
conflicts and wars. Reconciliation has been studied by theorists as
well as discussed by practitioners from a variety of perspectives
among which ethics of reconciliation is one of the most important.
The relationship between reconciliation and justice is, naturally,
one main issue of ethical concern. However, this relationship is
marked by significant differences in experience of conflicts, demand
for justice, and limits of reconciliation.

Current developments in Europe – such as Russia’s aggression against
Ukraine, several conflicts marked by escalating violence towards
minorities, militarization of many European countries, and increasing
scepticism towards pluralistic models of democracy – urge for a
deeper scrutiny of philosophical, legal, and theological approaches
to reconciliation. Societas Ethica invites ethicists to its annual
conference in Sarajevo 2023 that will be devoted to ethics of
reconciliation with particular attention paid to European experiences
of and perspectives on social, political, and religious conflict.
What are resources and obstacles to reconciliation if assessed from a
perspective of ethics? How should we understand the relationship
between reconciliation and transitional justice? When and how might
the longing for reconciliation promote or devaluate social justice?
What resources for a more nuanced and critical approach to
reconciliation are there in different religious traditions?

Societas Ethica promotes scholarly dialogue between philosophers,
theologians, and theorists working within applied ethics.

Papers can be submitted addressing the following thematic fields in
this regard:

- the concept of reconciliation as related to different contexts
- moral dimensions of reconciliation, conflict resolution, and
  transitional justice
- reconciliation and social justice
- reconciliation, justice, and truth
- limitations of reconciliation and limited reconciliation
- theological contributions to ethics of reconciliation
- critical philosophical and empirical approaches to reconciliation
- critical approaches to the paradigm of transition
- dealing with the past and reconciliation
- European minorities and future(s) of pluralistic democracy
- hermeneutics of conflicts, narrative identity and reconciliation
- reconciliation and emotions
- reconciliation and recognition
- rebuilding damaged relationships after violent conflict with a
  focus on Europe
- ethics of reconciliation, memory, and forgetting
- open channel

Papers could be presented in the conference languages of English or
German.


Submissions

- Paper proposals will be collected till December 20th, 2022.
- Paper proposals should include a significant title (please,
  indicate the thematic field) and not exceed 800 words in length
  (excluding bibliography).
- The proposals should clearly present a moral question or argument.
- Manuscripts should be prepared for blind review:
   - Document 1: Your name, first name, email address, institutional
 address, the title of your abstract, the thematic field(s) under
 which your paper proposal falls, and, if eligible, your
 application to participate in the Young Scholars’ Award
 competition (see information below).
   - Document 2: Your paper proposal including bibliography (max. 10
 references), keywords, and title with all identifying references
 removed. Please, use Times New Roman 12 pt for body, references
 and keywords, and Ariel (bold) 16 pt for headline.
   - The two documents should be sent as Word attachments to Martin
 Langby at martin.lan...@teol.uu.se, using the subject line
 “Societas Ethica 2023 Conference.”
- All submissions will be subjected to rigorous blind peer review.
- Further questions about thematic issues as well as any technical or
financial question, can be addressed to the Quaester of Societas
Ethica Dr. Johanna Ohlsson at johanna.ohls...@teol.uu.se

While registrations to the conference will open in February 2023,
important dates for proposal submissions are as follows:

- Deadline for Abstract Submissions: December 20th, 2022
- Notification of Accepted Papers: By February 23th, 2023
- Deadline for Registration: May 19th, 2023
- Deadline for payment: June 16th, 2023
- Conference Date: August 24-27th, 2023

If the paper is accepted by the board members, you are kindly asked
to register for the conference. Conference costs cover accommodation
in a conference hotel (including breakfast), most 

InterPhil: PUB: Towards a new "aesthetics of war"?

2022-10-29 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Towards a new "aesthetics of war"?
Subtitle: Is Polemos still father of all things?
Publication: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Date: Special Issue (June/July 2023)
Deadline: 30.4.2023

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Aisthesis, the Italian-based international journal of aesthetics, is
pleased to spread the news about the following call for paper.

Nearly 77 years of peace, so long was the truce granted by history to
our continent, and, actually: this is not even true. Suffice it to
think of the war in the former Yugoslavia. It is undeniable, however,
that for more than half a century, Europe was lulled into the
illusion that armed confrontation had been relegated to certain areas
of the planet, or in any case was to be understood as a sort of
“in-vitro experiment” having been reduced to a circumscribed
phenomenon contained within safety cordons.

On the contrary, the conflict erupted again. Even a century ago,
moreover, it might have been reasonable to distinguish between a
world war and a strictly local war, while today it does not even make
sense: our degree of interconnection inevitably turns every conflict
into a war that involves us all. The clash of weapons is perhaps the
most intense event in light of which a whole series of elements seem
to align differently, and the pieces of our present in an instant
take on a new configuration: what emerges is precisely «the now of a
certain knowability», to quote Benjamin.

The focus will consider the following topics:

- War also brings with it a reconfiguration between different
disciplines, altering their relative relationships: which
relationships have undergone the greatest transformations? What are
the underlying dynamics, at the level of the deep interweaving that
characterizes the various forms of knowledge, that war has helped to
bring to the surface?

- In the course of a war, such steady demarcations as the boundaries
between one state and another are subjected to great pressure and
constant fluctuations. The armed confrontation seems to prompt – also
on a philosophical level – new reflections on the role of the
“border”, partly evoking also the Kantian polarity between Grenze and
Schranke.

- In light of this fluctuation of the geopolitical notion of boundary
at the core of which lies the Russian Federation’s aggression against
Ukraine, could we argue that the very borders between the conceptual
domains of ethics and politics, as well as those between politics and
aesthetics, have become fluctuant?

- War is also a war of propaganda: “war images” today play such a
strategic role in communication that they can strengthen or undermine
the very figure and reputation of the parties involved. It is a
question here of a genuine redefinition and in particular a decisive
broadening of the semantic field referred to by the term “aesthetics
of war”.

- To what extent does the current aestheticization of war, which cuts
across the very ethical-political distinction between aggressor and
aggressed, mark a caesura with respect to the aestheticization of
modern or post-modern politics? Or is it still a continuity to be
thought of in a more radical way? That continuity which presupposes,
as Benjamin definitively grasped, that humanity – in the silence of
the ancient gods – has made a spectacle of itself. 


Deadline: April 30th 2023

Expected release: June/July 2023

Advisory Editors:

Francesco Valagussa
Email: valagussa.france...@hsr.it

Fabrizio Desideri
Email: fabrizio.desid...@unifi.it


Submissions should be made through the usual mask at:
https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/about/submissions

Contributions must be submitted in English or French and must
strictly adhere to the Aisthesis Guidelines. Only contributions
compliant with Author Guidelines will be admitted to peer review. The
Author Guidelines can be downloaded here:
https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/36


Journal website:
https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/






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InterPhil: CONF: Epistemic Wrongs and Epistemic Reparations

2022-10-29 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Conference Announcement

Theme: Epistemic Wrongs and Epistemic Reparations
Type: International Conference
Institution: African Centre for Epistemology of Philosophy of Science
(ACEPS), University of Johannesburg
Location: Johannesburg (South Africa)
Date: 3.–4.11.2022

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We live in a world riddled with epistemic wrongs, from the incidental
put down of a marginal voice to the systematic extinction of whole
knowledge systems and the continued epistemic disempowerment of whole
populations through colonialism and racism. This workshop theorises
our obligations to make epistemic reparations for such distinctively
epistemic wrongs, where epistemic reparations can be understood as
“intentionally reparative actions in the form of epistemic goods
given to those epistemically wronged by parties who acknowledge these
wrongs and whose reparative actions are intended to redress
them” (Lackey forthcoming, Proceedings and Addresses of the American
Philosophical Association).  

One example of epistemic reparations is when a space — such as a
museum — is dedicated to telling the story of the victims of these
wrongs. This workshop will, hence, take place partly at Constitution
Hill, a site of epistemic reparations, in the hope to be itself an
instance of making amends.

This is the first event of a three-year collaboration on Epistemic
Wrongs, Blame, and Reparations between Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern
University), Cameron Boult (Brandon University), and Veli Mitova
(University of Johannesburg). The second event — Epistemic Blame and
Epistemic Reparations — will take place at another site of epistemic
reparations, in Manitoba, Canada. The final event (site TBA) will
feature research on future directions for epistemic reparations, some
of which will be published in a special issue of Episteme.


Keynotes:
Cameron Boult (Brandon)
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern)
Bernard Matolino (Pretoria)
Mongane Serote (Johannesburg)

Speakers:
Eric Bayruns García (Harvard)
Fiona Jenkins (ANU)
Dimpho Maponya (Johannesburg)
Keo Mbebe (Pretoria)
Melanie Samson (Johannesburg)
Abraham Tobi (Johannesburg)
Sarah Wright (Georgia)

Venue:
Live in Johannesburg at Constitution Hill and ACEPS

Organisers:
Caitlin Rybko, David Scholtz, Abraham Tobi, Veli Mitova


Programme and Recordings:
https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/departments-2/philosophy/philosophy-centres/african-centre-for-epistemology-and-philosophy-of-science/conferences-dates/epistemic-wrongs-and-epistemic-reparations/






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InterPhil: CONF: Ethics and War

2022-10-29 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Conference Announcement

Theme: Ethics and War
Type: International Conference
Institution: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile)
Location: Santiago de Chile (Chile)
Date: 2.–4.11.2022

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Program

Wednesday, November 2
Auditorio de Filosofía, Campus San Joaquín

10:30
Discussion Panel 1: International relations and security

Nicole Jenne (Institute of Political Science, UC Chile):
The offensive use of force in UN peace operations: the normative
underpinnings of a contested practice

11:30
Coffee-break

11:50 Discussion Panel 2: AI & Big Data Ethics

Gabriela Arriagada Bruneau (Institute of Applied Ethics, UC Chile):
AI, Big Data Ethics and War

Launch-break

15:30
Open Dialogue
Russia-Ukraine War. How are the principles of just war theory applied?


Thursday, November 3
(with simultaneous translation)
Salón de Honor, Casa Central

10:00
Address from the President of UC Chile, Ignacio Sánchez

10:10
Address from the organization, Prof. Fernando Arancibia (Institute of
Applied Ethics, UC Chile)

10:15
Keynote address
Prof. James Pattison (The University of Manchester, UK):
On the Alternatives to War

10:55
Dialogue 

11:15
Coffee-break 

11:35
Keynote address

Prof. Helen Frowe (Stockholm University, Sweden):
The ethics of protecting heritage in war

12:15
Dialogue 

12:35
End

 
Friday, November 4
Auditorio de Letras, Campus San Joaquín

10:30
Discussion Panel 3: International law and human rights

Gonzalo Candia (Faculty of Law, UC Chile):
International Law, Human Rights and War

11:30
Coffee-break

11:50
Discussion Panel 4: Economic Sanctions

Fernando Arancibia (Institute of Applied Ethics, UC Chile):
Economic sanctions: is there a duty to trade?

Launch-break

15:30
Open Dialogue
Research in Ethics of War and Peace


Hosts:

Institute of Applied Ethics
Institute of Political Science
Center of International Studies (CEIUC)

Organization:

Fernando Arancibia
Institute of Applied Ethics, UC Chile
Email: fnaranci...@uc.cl

Umut Aydin
Institute of Political Science, UC Chile
Email: uay...@uc.cl






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InterPhil: PUB: Cultural Ways of Knowing in West African Teaching and Learning

2022-10-28 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Cultural Ways of Knowing in West African Teaching and Learning
Publication: West Africa Review
Date: Special Issue
Deadline: 16.12.2022

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West African cultural ways of knowing have impacted teaching and
learning both on the continent and in the diaspora. These
epistemologies can maintain culture and also serve as a tool for
better academic and social outcomes, as well as liberation. Education
as a practice of freedom has been well documented on the continent
and throughout the diaspora.

As globalization rapidly spreads, homogenization becomes the norm and
cultural ways of knowing can diminish. Therefore, educators are at
the forefront of keeping culture. How do educators draw on cultural
practices to foster learning? How do educators construct learning
experiences that promote liberation? How does the diaspora
incorporate West African cultural ways of knowing in teaching and
learning?

This special issue of West Africa Review is devoted to the analysis
of the ways in which cultural ways of knowing facilitate teaching and
learning in West Africa. We are particularly interested in articles
that explore unique pedagogies and cultural practices, as well as
similar or shared practices across cultural contexts that promote
liberation from preschool through university, in both traditional and
non-traditional educational settings. Preference for primary research
that draws on qualitative methods to give us insight into 21st
century teaching and learning that draws on cultural ways of knowing.

Submit abstract and paper directly to Dr. Laureen Adams:
laureenad...@gmail.com

Submission guidelines:
http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/war/about/submissions

Deadline for submissions:
December 16, 2022


West Africa Review (WAR) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed
journal, devoted to research on the countries, societies, and peoples
from Cape Verde to Cameroun. It provides a much-needed forum for
original work and works of synthesis being done by scholars of West
Africa in and outside of the region. West Africa Review facilitates
productive exchanges among scholars of the region wherever they may
be.

ISSN: 1525-4488


Journal website:
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InterPhil: CONF: Frieden zwischen den Religionen?

2022-10-28 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Konferenzankündigung

Theme: Frieden zwischen den Religionen?
Type: Gemeinsame Online-Tagung
Institution: Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie (GIP)
   Association Internationale des Professeurs de Philosophie (AIPPh)
Location: Online
Date: 19.11.2022

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Einladung zur gemeinsamen ZOOM-Tagung von AIPPh und GIP, die
interkulturelle Religionsphilosophie betreffend, anlässlich des
Welttags der Philosophie 2022


Moderation:
Dr. Gabriele Münnix, Präsidentin der AIPPh
Dr. Niels Weidtmann, Präsident der GIP


Program

9:00-10:00:
Prof. Johann Schelkshorn, Wien:
Dialog inmitten extremer Gewalt. Zu christlichen Debatte über die
Eroberung amerindischer Völker

10:00-11:00:
NN (Perspektive des Judentums, angefragt Prof. Yemima Hada, Leipzig)

11:00-12:00:
Prof. Mohamed Turki , Tunis/Recklinghausen:
Zur aktuellen Debatte um Fundamentalismus und Säkularismus in der
islamischen Welt

14:00-15:00:
Prof. Ram Adhar Mall, Bonn:
Wie ist man auf dem indischen Subkontinent mit dem Gedanken der
Pluralität fertig geworden?

15:00-16:00:
PD Dr. Markus Wirtz, Köln:
Störenfried oder Friedensstifterin? Zur Rolle der säkularen
Philosophie in interreligiösen Auseinandersetzungen

16:00-17:00:
Dr. Gabriele Münnix, Düsseldorf:
Zusammenfall der Gegensätze? Wahrheit und Toleranz in der
Friedensschrift des Cusanus

Nach jeweils halbstündigen Vorträgen wollen wir mit Ihnen diskutieren
und freuen uns über Ihre Teilnahme.


Anmeldung bis 15.11.22 bei:
niels.weidtm...@cof.uni-tübingen.de






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InterPhil: JOB: Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Race or Ethnicity

2022-10-27 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Job Announcement

Type: Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Race or Ethnicity
Institution: Philosophy Department, California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona
Location: Pomona, CA (USA)
Date: from 2023
Deadline: 1.11.2022

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Seeking Assistant Professor, tenure-track, for an appointment
beginning in the 2023-2024 academic year. Teaching load of 3/3 in the
first two years and 4/4 in the years following, with course-reduction
opportunities for research, service, and teaching initiatives.

AOS: Philosophy of race or ethnicity, with preference for a focus in
Africana or African American philosophy, Asian American philosophy,
Chicana/o or Latina/o/x American philosophy, OR Native American
philosophy, OR philosophy rooted in the experience and activism of
other racialized groups in the US context. We are seeking candidates
whose scholarship and teaching will center on the experiences and
advocacy of one of these racialized groups, exemplify the critical
and intersectional methodologies of Ethnic Studies, and complement
departmental strengths in critical philosophy of race, feminist
philosophy, philosophy of disability, and social and political
philosophy.

Minimum qualifications include a PhD in Philosophy with a
specialization in philosophy of race or ethnicity (Degree must be
conferred by the start date of the position.); A commitment and a
record of contributions to student success through the applicant’s
teaching, scholarship, or service; Evidence of potential for
excellence in undergraduate teaching; Evidence of scholarly potential
encompassing philosophy of race or ethnicity.

AOC: Open, but we have critical teaching needs in philosophy of law,
comparative philosophy, philosophical/religious traditions in India,
China, and Japan, African philosophy, Latin American philosophy, and
history of philosophy.  We have additional teaching needs, although
less critical, in applied ethics, philosophy of language, and
philosophy of science broadly construed, including questions at the
intersection of science and ethics. Teaching duties include
lower-division general education courses.

In line with our university’s learn-by-doing pedagogy, we prefer
candidates who demonstrate an interest in developing new high-impact
courses related to their area of specialization, or participating in
our existing high-impact educational practices, e.g. our Clinical
Ethics Practicum, Ethics Bowl, the Senior Project for our program in
Science, Technology, and Society (STS), or the annual seminar taught
in connection with the California Center for Ethics and Policy (for
more information on the CCEP visit:
https://www.cpp.edu/~class/ethics-and-policy-center/index.shtml).
(For information on high-impact educational practices see:
https://www.aacu.org/resources/high-impact-practices.)

Salary competitive. Faculty evaluation process is developed to be
highly transparent. Faculty represented by the California Faculty
Association. Cal Poly Pomona is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative
Action Employer. Cal Poly Pomona is among the most diverse campuses
in the United States (it is number 10 in the Best College Reviews’ 50
top ethnically diverse colleges in America:
https://www.bestcollegereviews.org/features/top-ethnically-diverse-colleges/
It is a federally recognized Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). We
also serve a large percentage of Asian and Asian-American students as
well as first-generation students. We welcome candidates who share
and can speak to Cal Poly Pomona’s commitment to promoting student
success in diverse populations.

Applications must include:
(1) A cover letter (of no more than two pages single-spaced), which
describes the candidate’s teaching and research interests and
addresses the minimum and preferred qualifications (see full position
description for a complete list of minimum and preferred
qualifications);

(2) a Student Success Statement of no more than 2 pages,
single-spaced about your teaching or other experiences, successes,
and challenges in working with a diverse student population, and
which addresses at least two of the inclusive excellence criteria
listed in the full position description;

(3) a curriculum vitae including the contact information for at least
five individuals who can speak to the candidate’s potential for
success in this position;

(4) three recent (dated within the past two years) letters of
reference, at least one of which (at least in part) addresses
teaching qualifications;

(5) an unofficial transcript showing highest degree earned (an
official transcript will be required of finalists);

(6) a writing sample of no more than 30 double-spaced pages;

(7) a teaching portfolio including sample syllabi, and evaluations
from the most recent two years of teaching (if applicable).

The position is open until filled. First consideration will be given
to completed applications received no lat

InterPhil: ANN: Lecture Series on Encountering Madness

2022-10-27 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Announcement

Theme: Encountering Madness
Subtitle: Intercultural and Decolonial Approaches to the Phenomenon
of Mental Illness
Type: Lecture Series
Institution: Working Group 'Intercultural Philosophizing: Theory and
Practice', Vienna Society for Intercultural Philosophy
Location: Vienna (Austria) – Online
Date: October 2022 – January 2023

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It was particularly the paradigm of a body-soul dichotomy that shaped
thinking about illness in the modern West. With more recent
developments in the natural and especially the neurosciences,
increasingly close, causally conceived connections were made between
measurable bodily functions and mental states. The accompanying image
of an individualized human being whose mental suffering must have an
objectifiable cause continues to shape Euro-American mainstream
discourse to this day. This is reflected not least in the rise of
psychiatry but also in the objectifying varieties of psychotherapy,
which first dominated the Euro-American area and finally went and
still go around the world with modernity, (neo-)colonialism and
(cultural) imperialism. While Western discourse continues to present
itself as universal truth, intercultural and decolonial orientations
expose precisely its provinciality by not only criticizing the
cultural conditionality of its epistemic presuppositions, but also
pointing to alternative approaches in understanding psychological
suffering. Thus, in diverse life practices and life-worlds around the
globe, different philosophical approaches can be found that withdraw
the experienced suffering from both the standard psychiatric nosology
and the binarity of body and soul, health and illness, sanity and
madness.

In this sense, the concern of this lecture series is understood as an
attempt to interrogate the mainstream understanding of "mental
illness" and to give voice to positions that have been repressed in
the global context. Questions we will consider include: What was the
role of psychiatry and psychotherapy in societies shaped by
neo-colonialisms? To what extent would they need to be transformed or
even deconstructed today from an intercultural and/or decolonial
perspective? What approaches to an alternative ontology of the
"psyche" or the experience of "illness" do non-European philosophies
offer us? Finally, amidst the various crises and effects of global
capitalism, what old and new ways can we find to think holistically
about suffering, care, and healing?

Coordination:
Cristina Chițu, Manu Sharma & Murat Ates

Please register under:
off...@wigip.org
 

28.10., 18:30 (6:30 pm CET)
Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Berggasse 17, 1090 Vienna)

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kirsten Rüther (Universität Wien, Austria):
Verhinderte Professionalisierung bei izangoma (traditionellen
Heilern) und izinyanga in Südafrika

Die Heilmethoden traditioneller Heilerinnen und Heiler in einem Land
wie Südafrika – man mag im ersten Moment denken, dass sie einfach
existieren. Um sich mit ihnen zu befassen, fragt man nach Prinzipien
dieser Heilungsformen, Akteuren und institutionellen Einbindungen.
Doch so einfach ist es häufig nicht, und es lohnt, an einem anderen
Punkt des Heilungsgeschehens mit dem Fragen einzusetzen.

In Südafrika hat die Professionalisierung afrikanischer Heilerinnen
und Heiler eine lange Geschichte der Verhinderung. Gerade in den
wachsenden Städten bemühten sich izangoma, izinyanga und andere
Spezialisten gegenüber einem kolonialen Regime um offizielle
Anerkennung durch die Behörden, die diese ihnen jedoch kontinuierlich
versagten. Im Nationalarchiv werden zahlreiche Schreiben, selbst
erstellte Lizenzen und Jahresberichte nicht anerkannter
Heilerverbände aufbewahrt, die deren Selbstverständnis in den 1930er
und 1940er Jahren dokumentieren, aber auch die Bereitschaft, sich den
Behörden und geltenden Hierarchien im Sinne der Erhaltung von Ordnen
geradezu „anzubiedern“.

Als „traditionell“ bezeichneten sich diese Heilungsexpertinnen und
-experten allerdings nicht. Auch die Behörden griffen auf diese
Etikettierung nicht zurück. Sie war aber relevant in den
Professionalisierungsbestreben nach dem Ende der Apartheid. Das
Etikett des „Traditionellen“ (ebenso wie die Verurteilung als
„Hexerei“, die in den 2000er Jahren die Diskussion um
Professionalisierung erschwerte) verdeckt tendenziell die
Historizität dieser Heilungsakteure und ihrer Praktiken. Der Blick
ins Archiv und weitere Abbildungsorte (z.B. populäre Medien) stellen
wichtige Schritte dar, den Blick auf izangoma, izinyanga und andere
Heilende komplexer zu gestalten. Er regt zudem an, über die
Geschichte des Politischen, Sozialen und Gesundheitlichen neu
nachzudenken.

 
11.11., 18.30 (6:30 pm CET)
Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Berggasse 17, 1090 Vienna)

Dr. Mitha Karim (University of Edinburgh, UK):
Mental Health and Muslim Communities 

Within any culture, there are paradigmatic views of per

InterPhil: PUB: Culture and Dialogue

2022-10-27 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Culture and Dialogue
Publication: Culture and Dialogue
Date: Issue 11.1/2 (2023)
Deadline: 1.2.2023

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Culture and Dialogue is an international peer reviewed print and
electronic journal of cross-cultural philosophy and humanities and
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.

The journal publishes one volume of two issues each year. The first
issue welcomes manuscripts that consider the arts and cultures of the
dialogue, namely the broad theme of “Culture and Dialogue” in all its
forms, from all perspectives, and through all methods. The second
issue seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator
such as “Philosophy and the Dialogue,” “Art in Conversation,”
“Comparing Cultures,” or “Dialogical Ethics.” We welcome manuscripts
that address any aspects of the arts and cultures of the dialogue
from any academic fields, cultural perspectives, or philosophical
traditions.

Submissions to:
ir...@mail.com

Notes for Authors:
https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/CAD.pdf

Deadline for Vol. 11, Issue No.1:
1st February 2023

Culture and Dialogue is endorsed by the UNESCO Chair in Comparative
Studies of Spiritual Traditions, Their Specific Cultures and
Interreligious Dialogue.

ISSN: -3282


Journal website:
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InterPhil: CFA: Winter School on Violence and Nonviolence

2022-10-07 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Theme: Violence and Nonviolence
Subtitle: Nationbuilding in the Age of Postcolonialism
Type: VU Graduate Winter School
Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
Location: Online
Date: 9.–20.1.2023
Deadline: 1.12.2022

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In January 2023, the online graduate Wintercourse 'Violence and
Nonviolence - Nationbuilding in the Age of Postcolonialism' will take
place as part of the VU Graduate Winterschool at Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam.

This course will address the issue of non-violence in postcolonial
nation-building through the lens of leaders and thinkers such as
King, Helder Camara, Mandela and Kaunda, as well as reflections by
Mbembe, Derrida and Fanon.

Aside from analysing classic and forgotten readings on (non)violence,
the course will provide engaging group discussions as well as and
expert guest lectures, among whom will be Dr Tommy J Curry
(University of Edinburgh) and Dr Pius Mosima (University of
Bamenda/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

The course is open to Master students, PhD students and professionals
from all disciplines who have an interest in the topic.

Credits: 3 ECTS - Contact hours: 25 hours

For those who enroll before 15 October 2022 there is an early bird
discount.


Coordinating lecturer:

Dr. Angela Roothaan
Email: a.c.m.rooth...@vu.nl

For more information:
https://vu.nl/en/education/professionals/courses-programmes/violence-and-nonviolence-nation-building-in-the-age-of-postcolonialism






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InterPhil: JOB: Assistant Professor in Understanding (Non)Citizenships

2022-10-07 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Job Announcement

Type: Assistant Professor in Understanding (Non)Citizenships
Institution: Department of Philosophy, University of California,
Berkeley
Location: Berkeley, CA (USA)
Date: from July 2023
Deadline: 28.10.2022

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The Department of Philosophy at the University of California,
Berkeley seeks applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure track)
position, with an expected start date of July 1, 2023. Job
responsibilities include teaching 4 courses/year at the graduate and
undergraduate levels, and conducting thesis supervision.

This appointment in philosophy is made in the context of a new
interdisciplinary initiative at the University of California,
Berkeley whose goal is Understanding (Non)Citizenships. Although
applicants to this position will be appointed in philosophy, we seek
candidates whose research speaks to and advances the goals of the
“Understanding (Non)Citizenship” initiative at the University of
California, Berkeley, which aims to hire an interdisciplinary cluster
of faculty on this topic over two years.

The cluster tackles three overarching themes: issues of justice,
fairness and equality as related to (non)citizenship; the
determinants and content of (non)citizenship; and the consequences of
(non)citizenship. The cluster considers citizenship broadly, as a
legal, social and cultural status that combines civil, political and
social rights with a sense of identity, encompassing those who lack
formal citizenship but also those who experience “second-class”
citizenship through differential rights and treatment. Fully
understanding (non)citizenship requires an interdisciplinary
approach: claims for citizenship and equality are invariably
normative, while the consequences and drivers of (non)citizenship
must be studied empirically to understand change and effects.

For this reason, this innovative cluster of faculty hiring will bring
together diverse units in the social sciences, humanities and
professional schools across UC-Berkeley. Faculty hired through the
Understanding (Non)Citizenship cluster will hold positions in
Philosophy, Political Science, Public Policy, Sociology and Law. In
2022-23, the University seeks applicants for an Assistant Professor
position in Philosophy and a tenured (Associate or Full Professor)
position in Political Science.

Minimum Basic Qualifications:
PhD (or equivalent international degree), or enrolled in PhD or
equivalent international degree-granting program at the time of
application.

Preferred Qualifications:
PhD (or equivalent international degree) by the start date of the
position.

Applications must be received by October 28, 2022.

Please direct inquiries to:
philsearch+p...@berkeley.edu.

For more information:
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InterPhil: CFP: Human Rights, Violence and Dictatorship

2022-10-07 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Human Rights, Violence and Dictatorship
Type: 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference
Institution: InMind Support
Location: Online
Date: 17.–18.11.2022
Deadline: 28.10.2022

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In the time when human rights are violated on a regular basis,
violence triumphs, and feeble democracies ever more often back down
before authoritarian rule, there obviously arises the need to reflect
on the possible ways of counteracting such phenomena. Our
interdisciplinary conference is intended as a fitting opportunity for
this reflection. We would like to look at various manifestations of
dictatorship, violence and human rights violation, whether historical
or current. We will describe them in political, social,
psychological, cultural and many other terms. We also want to devote
considerable attention to how the situation of human rights and
dictatorship is represented in artistic practices: in literature,
film, theatre or visual arts.

We invite researchers representing various academic disciplines:
history, politics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy,
literary studies, theatre studies, film studies, fine arts, design,
memory studies, migration studies, consciousness studies, dream
studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, medical sciences,
psychiatry, psychoanalysis, cognitive sciences, economics, law and
other.

Different forms of presentations are encouraged, including case
studies, theoretical investigations, problem-oriented arguments, and
comparative analyses.

We will be happy to hear from both experienced scholars and young
academics at the start of their careers: doctoral students. We also
invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as
listeners, without giving a presentation.

We hope that due to its interdisciplinary nature, the conference will
bring many interesting observations on and discussions about the role
of human rights and dictatorship in the past and in the present-day
world.


Topics

Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not restricted to:

I. Societies

- Genocides
- Slavery
- Nationalism
- Chauvinism
- Xenophobia
- Ethnic cleansings
- Religious dictatorships
- The Holocaust
- Apartheid
- (Neo)Nazism

II. Individuals

- Domestic violence
- Mobbing
- Bullying in school
- Bullying in the army
- Sexual abuse
- Sado-masochism
- Symbolic violence
- Economic discrimination
- Ageism

III. Defense of Human Rights

- Human rights organizations
- Humanitarian missions
- Resistance movement
- The ethos of a freedom fighter
- Conspiracies, protests, revolts
- Racial equality
- Performative race
- Women's rights
- Sexual minority rights
- Disability rights
- Human rights and animal rights

IV. Fallen Dictatorships

- Democracy in transition
- Post-communist countries
- Amnesties
- The revenge of the oppressed
- Criminal courts/ courts of justice
- Escape from freedom
- Nostalgia for the regime
- Dictator's psychological portrait

V. Violence and Subjectivity

- Politics of trauma
- Fear, despair and utopia
- Violence and language
- Dictatorship as a social symptom
- Dictatorship, remembrance and forgetfulness

VI. Violence in the (Post)Modern World

- Cultural conditioning of violence
- Dictatorship of the young
- Dictatorship of the old
- Dictatorship and conformism
- The regime of political correctness
- Democracy and the dictatorship of the majority
- Democracy and liberalism
- Human rights and the free market
- Violence in the media

VII. Literature and the Arts

- Literature and art about human rights violation
- Literature and art about violence
- Literature and art engaged in human rights defense
- Literature and art violating human rights


Submissions

Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed
20-minute presentation, together with a short biographical note, by
28 October 2022 to:
inconferenceoff...@gmail.com 

or by registration form:
https://forms.gle/vE2YTquC6smrZqzH7

Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31 October 2022

The conference language is English.

Note: As our online conference will be international, we will
consider the different time zones of our Participants. The conference
will be held virtually via Zoom. Different forms of presentations
(also panel sessions, posters) are available.


Scientific Committee

Professor Wojciech Owczarski
University of Gdańsk, Poland

Professor Paulo Endo
University of São Paulo, Brazil


Contact:

InMind Support, Conference Office
Email: inconferenceoff...@gmail.com
Web: https://www.inmindsupport.com/human-rights-conference






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InterPhil: CONF: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding

2022-10-05 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Conference Announcement

Theme: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding
Type: Final GPP Conference 2022
Institution: Geography of Philosophy Project (GPP)
   University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (USA) – Online
Date: 13.–15.10.2022

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The Geography of Philosophy Project (GPP) is celebrating the
conclusion of its investigation into the themes of Knowledge, Wisdom,
and Understanding with a final conference on October 13-15, 2022.

The GPP researchers have been studying the diversity of people’s
conceptions of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding around the world
and aimed at promoting cross-cultural research in cognitive science.
Since the project began in 2018, the talented research teams have
collected data from multiple sites and populations across Canada,
China, Eastern Europe, Ecuador, Germany, India, Japan, Morocco, Peru,
South Africa, South Korea, and the United States. The Final
Conference will include presentations and discussions of early
findings.


Program

Thursday, October 13

5:30pm - 7:00pm
Welcome Reception

7:00pm - 8:15pm
Keynote Lecture

Tanya Luhrmann:
The real-making of gods and spirits

8:30pm - 10:00pm
Blitz Presentations of GPP Results

- Knowledge and luck across cultures
- Lying across cultures
- What does “knowing” mean?
- Factivity of “knowing” across languages


Friday, October 14

9:00am - 10:20am
Blitz Presentations of GPP Results

- Strict liability across cultures
- Understanding across cultures
- The dimensions of wisdom
- Wise decision making

10:30am - 11:45am
Keynote Lecture

Igor Grossmann:
Seeking wisdom in an uncertain and polarized world

11:45am - 12:15pm
Commentary by GPP member

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Keynote Lecture

Tania Lombrozo:
The Folk Ethics of Belief

3:15 - 3:45pm
Commentary by Kelli Barr

7:45pm - 9:00pm
Keynote Lecture

Harry Walker:
Wilding Experiments and Taming Ethnography: Enquiring into an
Amazonian Concept of Responsibility


Saturday, October 15

9:00am - 10:15am
Keynote Lecture

Asifa Majid:
A cross-linguistic perspective on perception and knowledge

10:15am - 10:45am
Commentary by Rukmini Bhaya Nair

11:00am -12:30pm
Online Presentations by Veli Mitova and Pablo Quintanilla

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Keynote Lecture

Cristine Legare:
The development and diversity of cumulative culture learning

3:15pm - 3:45pm
Commentary by Alejandro Erut

4:15pm - 5:15pm
Round Table Discussion

Members of the Geography of Philosophy Project, speakers, and invitees


Participation

The GPP Final Conference takes place at the University of Pittsburgh
from Thursday, October 13 to Saturday, October 15, 2022.

The conference can be attended in-person or online.
Please register to receive a Zoom link to the attend the conference
online. You can register to attend online here:
https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcofuyqrz4vGNNWio7Usef7NR2tFRacYQkc


More information about the GPP Final Conference, including a complete
program, can be found on our conference website:
https://www.geographyofphilosophy.com/final-conference-2022






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InterPhil: PUB: Nihilism Seen Through the Lens of Post-Continental Philosophy

2022-10-05 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Nihilism Seen Through the Lens of Post-Continental Philosophy
Publication: Open Philosophy
Date: Topical Issue
Deadline: 30.11.2022

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Open Philosophy (ISSN 2543-8875) invites submissions for the topical
issue “Nihilism Seen Through the Lens of Post-Continental
Philosophy”, edited by Halit Evrim Bayındır (Royal Holloway,
University of London).

The Nietzsche-inspired overcoming of nihilism has arguably been the
preeminent project of continental philosophy, at once uniting and
differentiating various strands of phenomenology and
post-structuralism. The power of the project lies in the way it
integrates and grounds a variety of objectives such as the
destruction of metaphysics, representational modes of thought, power
relations, anthropocentrism, and academic philosophy. It is through
thinking and living in a non-nihilistic manner that these objectives
can be accomplished. However, it is questionable today if this
anti-nihilistic orientation in thought still has the status of an
ambitious project as found in the cases of Heidegger and Deleuze. On
the contrary, nihilism tends to become an antiquated problem and the
philosophical relevance of its overcoming seems to be increasingly
downgraded.

This is especially the case in what has been called “post-continental”
currents such as non-philosophy, speculative realism, object-oriented
ontology, accelerationism, afro-pessimism, and neo-rationalism,
which, despite inheriting these objectives, either remained silent
against the anti-nihilist core of continental philosophy or opposed
it with provocative appropriations of nihilism. We might thereby say
that nihilism is one of the important and relatively less discussed
factors that determined the rupture beyond continental thought.

Building on this indeterminate situation, this issue aims to
reproblematise nihilism with the perspectives offered by these new
intellectual developments. With this in mind, it is also an
opportunity to have a fresh look not only at the continental
philosophy and post-continental currents but also at the whole
unfolding of nihilism in western and non-western intellectual and
cultural history. The papers can cover topics as diverse as the
origins of nihilism in German idealism, Russian literature, Eastern
spiritual traditions, analytic and pragmatist philosophy, philosophy
of science, radical political theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, and
queer theory.


How to submit

Submissions will be collected from October 1 to November 30, 2022.
There are no specific length limitations.

To submit an article for this topical issue, authors are asked to
access the online submission system at:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/opphil/

Please choose as article type: Nihilism

Before submission the authors should carefully read over the
Instruction for Authors, available at:
https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/OPPHIL/downloadAsset/OPPHIL_Instruction%20for%20Authors.pdf

All contributions will undergo critical review before being accepted
for publication.

Because Open Philosophy is published under the Open Access model, as
a rule, publication costs should be covered by so called Article
Publishing Charges (APC), paid by authors, their affiliated
institutions, funders or sponsors.

Authors without access to publishing funds are encouraged to discuss
potential discounts or waivers with Managing Editor of the journal
Katarzyna Tempczyk before submitting their manuscripts.

Further questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Halit
Evrim Bayındır:
evrim.bayindir.2...@live.rhul.ac.uk

In case of technical or financial questions, please contact Managing
Editor of the journal, Katarzyna Tempczyk:
katarzyna.tempc...@degruyter.com


Journal website:
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InterPhil: PUB: Epistemic Violence and Intercultural Philosophy

2022-10-04 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Epistemic Violence and Intercultural Philosophy
Publication: polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren
Date: Issue Nr. 50 (December 2023)
Deadline: 31.3.2023

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(Versión española abajo  |  Deutsche Version unten)


From Nausikaa Schirilla 


The extent to which structures of knowledge generation and
communication are in themselves violent is a question that has been
and continues to be at the centre of postcolonial theory. The
analyses of theorists such as Gayatri Spivak, who coined the term
"epistemic violence", show that this form of violence is "inherent in
knowledge itself, in its genesis, formation, organisation and
effectiveness" (Brunner 2015, 39; see Spivak 1988, 1998, Brunner
2020). Today, the problem of epistemic violence is also discussed in
decolonial, feminist discourses and critical discourses on racism.

Philosophy as a discipline rarely asks itself questions about its own
entanglement in power structures and its contribution to the
reproduction of power structures in knowledge production, but at the
same time it is one of the disciplines in which exclusion mechanisms
still have the strongest impact today. While in disciplines such as
history and literary studies no one would claim any more that there
are "peoples without history" or that there is no "literature" in any
written language, in European and US-American philosophy many still
claim that "philosophy" was originally only to be found in Europe
(Denecke 2021, 485).

Philosophy in intercultural orientation has long drawn attention to
the exclusion of philosophical traditions from other regions of the
world, yet van Norden still concludes in 2017 that the subject of
philosophy in Europe and North America has considerably more to catch
up compared to transformation processes in other humanities (Van
Norden 2017). Demands for a "decolonisation of knowledge" (Mignolo
2006) or the "decolonisation of philosophical concepts" (Wiredu
1995), for an analysis of the entanglement of philosophical theories
and concepts in racist and sexist structures, as well as for a reform
of the curricula in the sense of a global opening and increased
attention to women philosophers are, however, increasingly urgent for
philosophy. This means that not only the organisational and
production conditions of philosophical knowledge are increasingly
becoming the focus of criticism, but also the epistemic framework of
philosophising and the basic terms and concepts transported in it
itself.

The concept of epistemic violence (as an element of an expanded
understanding of violence as well as an aspect of epistemology) is
thus not only of theoretical philosophical interest, but concerns the
future shape of philosophy as a discipline itself.

The planned Polylog number on the topic of "Epistemic Violence" sets
itself the task of illuminating this concept from different
perspectives. In doing so, the theoretical foundations, such as the
concept of epistemes, knowledge orders or the conditions of knowledge
production, will be examined more closely, as will the different
dimensions of epistemic violence. Adjacent concepts, such as the
concept of "epistemic injustice" originating from feminist philosophy
(Fricker 2007) or the concept of "cognitive justice" originating from
decolonial theory (Santos 2007) will be examined in the context of
the discipline of philosophy.

We invite contributions especially on the following topics:

- How the debates on epistemic violence and epistemic or cognitive
injustice, which originate in post- and decolonial theory but have
now already become a mainstream research direction in the Global
North, are perceived and taken up in the philosophical discourses of
Africa, Asia or Latin America.

- What effect does the concept have there? How are the conditions of
knowledge production experienced here? How can ideas of communal
philosophies be reconciled with demands for epistemic justice?

- In addition, approaches to overcoming epistemic violence need to be
developed. A decolonisation of philosophical knowledge - how can this
be done? What consequences would this have for academic practice and
curricula? What approaches to thinking would not be violent or
contribute to "undoing epistemic violence" (Brunner)?

- Do we need to expand the philosophical canon? And if so, how? (How)
Can a decolonisation of thought succeed? What ethical rules are
needed for dealing with philosophical traditions from formerly
colonised regions of the world? Or also: What are the dangers of an
epistemic opening? Does intercultural philosophy itself exercise
epistemic violence?

- How can concepts of epistemes, knowledge orders or the conditions
of knowledge production, be examined more closely in relation to
violence or justice. How are debates on epistemic violence linked to
concepts such as "epistemic injustice" and "cognit

InterPhil: CFP: Pacifism and Nonviolence

2022-09-29 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Pacifism and Nonviolence
Type: International Workshop
Institution: Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence (JPN)
   Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University
Location: Online
Date: 19.–21.4.2023
Deadline: 16.11.2022

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Research on pacifism and nonviolence has been buoyant since the turn
of the twenty-first century. It also raises numerous further
questions for further research. The Journal of Pacifism and
Nonviolence (JPN) intends to nurture and coordinate such research, as
indicated by its multidisciplinary remit:
https://brill.com/view/journals/jpn/jpn-overview.xml

To help strengthen and inspire potential publications covered by that
remit, and building on the successful workshop organised online in
April 2022 at the European Consortium of Political Research’s Joint
Sessions of Workshops, the JPN team are organising a free online
workshop in April 2023 emulating the same highly rewarding model.

That is, every paper will be assigned a full hour for (brief)
presentation and (extensive and constructive) discussion; all papers
must be submitted at least two weeks in advance; and all participants
are expected to read all papers and participate in the entirety of
the workshop. This format has a track record of being widely
appreciated by researchers precisely for its productive and
community-strengthening qualities.

The workshop will be held on 19, 20 and 21 April 2023. It will be
entirely online (using Zoom), hosted by Loughborough University’s
Institute of Advanced Studies (building on a successful series of 6
seminars in 2022). There will be no registration fee.

The intention is that papers presented at the workshop would
eventually be submitted for potential publication in JPN. The main
criteria for participation at the workshop are rigour, originality,
and broad fit within JPN’s indicative research remit. It might be
worth noting that JPN is committed to methodological plurality and to
multidisciplinary. Also, the editorial team is particularly keen to
consider papers on feminism/gender and on/from the Global South.

The deadline for abstracts is 16 November 2022. Notifications of
acceptance will be sent by 30 November 2022. The deadline for
accepted papers to be submitted to the workshop organisers for
distribution across participants will be 29 March 2023.

Abstracts of up to 150 words along with author information (names and
affiliation) should be sent to the Editorial Team at:
jpn...@gmail.com

Any questions should be sent to that address too.

Please feel free to forward this call to any researchers and networks
that might be interested.


Website of the workshop:
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/programmes/pastspotlightseries/pacifismandnonviolence/pacifismandnonviolenceworkshop






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InterPhil: CFP: Nature, Spirituality and Place

2022-09-29 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Nature, Spirituality and Place
Subtitle: Comparative Studies between American transcendentalism and
Chinese philosophy
Type: Online Workshop
Institution: Department of Philosophy, Soochow University
   Religions Journal
Location: Online
Date: 24.10.2022
Deadline: 7.10.2022

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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the online workshop
titled "Nature, Spirituality and Place: Comparative Studies between
American transcendentalism and Chinese philosophy”. Deeply influenced
by five thousand years of agricultural civilization, Chinese culture,
which is greatly shaped by Confucianism, Daoism and Zen Buddhism, has
formed a unique feature that spirituality is formed through living in
harmony with nature. However, with the fast process of urbanization,
and creation of national park system, more and more people have to
move into cities or towns. The change of physical living place causes
serious spiritual crises, since spirituality in Chinese culture is
deeply related to the land. Given this situation, it is very
important to examine why American transcendentalism and Chinese
religions both find spirituality in nature and how this pursuit has
influenced people’s aesthetic appreciation of different types of
physical nature and self-identity. This examination will have a
tremendous influence on various ecological practices, which include
urban design, environmental restoration, agricultural heritage and
wilderness conservation.

This workshop aims at examining why American transcendentalism and
Chinese religions such as Confucianism, Daoism and Zen Buddhism all
find spirituality in nature, and how their interpretation of nature
generates great difference on people’s aesthetic perception of
agricultural land, gardens and wilderness.

Original research articles are welcome. Research areas may include
(but not limited to) the following:

1. Comparison between Emerson and Zhuang Zi in their different
   interpretation of nature and its influence on aesthetic
   appreciation of different types of physical nature (wilderness,
   farmland, and gardens) and place attachment;

2. Comparative study between Chinese religions and transcendentalism
   in metaphysics and its influence on nature interpretation;

3. Spirituality in Confucianism and aesthetic appreciation of nature;

4. Daoism’s revolution and reinterpretation of the concept of nature;

5. Wilderness and its relationship with Daoism’s spiritual
   cultivation;

6. Emerson’s religious revolution and pursuit of spirituality in
   returning to nature;

7. Spirituality in Zen Buddhism and its influence on Suzhou Garden
   design and aesthetic perception of Suzhou Gardens;

8. Spirituality in Zen Buddhism and its influence on agricultural
   practices;

9. Nature Aesthetics in Emerson and Zhuang Zi.

If you are interested in the workshop, please send your 500 words of
abstract to Shan Gao before October 7th:
s...@suda.edu.cn

Notification of the acceptance of the abstract will be sent by
October 15th.

Accepted abstracts and papers will be recommended to the special
issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). The website for this special
issue is:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/XOCHHPL3HM


Contact:

Shan Gao, Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Soochow University
Email: s...@suda.edu






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InterPhil: CONF: Cultures of Continuity

2022-09-29 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Conference Announcement

Theme: Cultures of Continuity
Subtitle: Jewish-Muslim Conversations on a Contested Ideal
Type: Forum for Jewish-Muslim Theology and Thought
Institution: Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie, Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin
   Virginia Center for the Study of Religion, University of Virginia
Location: Berlin (Germany)
Date: 24.–26.10.2022

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The inaugural Forum for Jewish-Muslim Theology and Thought will take
place this October in Berlin and will be on the theme of "Cultures of
Continuity." All discussions will be held in English.


Monday, October 24

9:00 – 10:00
Introduction
Asher Biemann (University of Virginia) & Ufuk Topkara (Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin)

10:15 – 11:45
Panel I

Elias Sacks (University of Colorado, Boulder):
The Limits of Continuity: Nachman Krochmal and the Case for Philosophy

Armina Omerika (Goethe Universität Frankfurt):
Jewish-Muslim Positions on Religion and Rationality at the Turn of
the 20th Century

12:00 – 13:30
Lunch

13:30 – 15:00
Panel II

Daniel Weiss (Cambridge University):
Moses Mendelssohn's surprising continuity with pre-modern Jewish law
and its challenge to narratives of cultural "integration"

Sara Omar (Georgetown University):
A Shared Narrative: Muslim Qaṣaṣ and the Aggada

15:00 – 17:30
Guided tour of historic Berlin

18:00 – 19:30
Keynote

Celene Ibrahim (Groton School/Boston Islamic Seminary):
Women's Midrash and Tafsir: Twenty-First Century Exegetical
Continuities and Ruptures Reception & Music: Nur Ben Shalom Ensemble


Tuesday, October 25

9:00 – 10:30
Panel III

George Kohler (Bar Ilan University):
Abraham Geiger on Jewish Texts in the Koran

Tuğrul Kurt (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin):
The Interdependency of Jews and Muslims in Medieval Intellectual
History: Muslim Impact on Saadia Gaon (d. 942) and the Reception of
his Thoughts

10:45 – 12:15
Panel IV

Nimet Şeker (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin):
From late antique Medina to (post-)modern Europe: Muslim women’s veil
in the Qur’an and in today’s context. A Qur’anic perspective

Oludamini Ogunnaike (University of Virginia):
A New Creation: Continuity and Change in Sufi Cosmologies

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch

14:30 – 16:00
Panel V

Shira Billet (Yale University):
The "Principle of Continuity" in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy of
(Jewish) History: Between Conservation, Annihilation, and
Transformation

Elad Lapidot (University of Lille):
Continuity as Recontinuation. The Figure of Return in 20th Century
German and French Jewish Thought

16:30 – 18:00
Panel VI

Esra Almas (Bilkent University) & Jack Kugelmass (University of
Florida): Joining the Club: Jews, Muslims and Others in an Istanbul
Cabaret

19:00
Dinner


Wednesday, October 26

9:00 – 10:30
Panel VII

Elisabeth Topkara (Universität Heidelberg):
Theorising Otherness: The Continuities and Ruptures of Strangerhood
in German Jewish Thought

Yaniv Feller (University of Florida):
The Ellipse of Jewish History: Leo Baeck and the Spanish Golden Age

11:00 – 12:30
Panel VIII

Yael Atia (Universität Potsdam):
Between Continuity and Rupture: The Case of Albert Memmi

Samia Hathroubi (Universität Heidelberg):
Albert Memmi an “Arab Jew” in the 20th century

12:30 – 14:30
Lunch

14:30 – 16:00
Text Study & Presentation

Cedric Cohen-Skalli (University of Haifa/Bucerius Institute):
The Revival of Philosophy in the 19th and early 20th Century Middle
East: An Untold Story

16:00 – 17:00
Concluding Discussion

18:00 – 19:30
Keynote

Ephraim Meir (Bar Ilan University):
Interreligious theology and its relevance for Jewish-Muslim relations


Location

Senatssaal, Main Campus, 1st floor
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin


Registration

There is no fee to attend and registration is only required for the
keynote sessions.

Participants should register by October 21 by contacting Maeve Mc
Grath:
maeve.mcgr...@hu-berlin.de


Further information:
https://hu.berlin/JMForum






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InterPhil: ANN: Online Workshop Series on Justice in Global Health

2022-09-21 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Announcement

Theme: Justice in Global Health
Type: Online Workshop Series
Institution: University of York
   Leeds Beckett University
Location: Online
Date: October 2022

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You are warmly invited to the Justice in Global Health Workshop
Series, a workshop series composed of five online workshops that form
the basis for a forthcoming edited volume. The series showcases
interdisciplinary contributions on a range of topics within global
health justice and will be of particular interest to moral and
political philosophers.


Programme

Workshop 1 (October 6th)

14:00 – 14:45
Daniel Weissglass (Duke Kunshan)
Resilient justice in global health governance: How overcoming fragile
health governance will help us achieve greater justice )

15:00 – 15:45
Man-to Tang (City U. Hong Kong)
Beyond the Right to Health: A Confucian Approach to Justice in Global
Health


Workshop 2 (October 7th)

14:00 – 14:45
Keerty Nakray (Jindal Global Law School)
Reproductive Justice and Ethics of Consent in Assisted Living for
Disabled People: A Critical Reflections for Socio-Legal Policies in
India

15:00pm – 15:45
Luciano Bottini Filho (Sheffield Hallam)
Title TBC


Workshop 3 (October 13th)

14:00 – 14:45
Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg)
The Capability Approach and the Sexual Rights of Children and
Adolescents

15:00 – 15:45
Ioana Cismas (York)
What's in a Frame? A Human Rights Approach to Neglected Tropical
Diseases

16:00 – 16:45
Xuanpu Zhuang (Bowling Green)
World Citizenship and Global Health


Workshop 4 (October 20th)

15:00 – 15:45
Ryoa Chung (Montréal)
The Ethical Issues Raised by the Securitization of Health

16:00 – 16:45
Erika Blacksher (Center for Practical Bioethics/Kansas/ Washington)
Resources, Relations, and Outcomes: A Conceptual Test for Global
Health Justice

17:00 – 17:45
Himani Bhakuni (York) & Lucas Miotto (Leeds Beckett)
Transitional Health Justice


Workshop 5 (October 28th)

16:00 – 16:45
Hendrik Kempt (RWTH Aachen) & Nils Freyer (RWTH Aachen/FH Aachen)
Medical AI’s Power over Vulnerable Collectives

17:00 – 17:45
Sridhar Venkatapuram (KCL)
What do we want from a theory of global health justice?


Practical Information

The workshops have a pre-read format. Authors will give a short
presentation (up to 10 minutes) which will be followed by an open
discussion with the participants. Participants will have access to
the papers at least 7 days ahead of the event. The workshops are free
of cost and open to all.

We kindly ask you to register only if you intend to join the event.
After you successfully register for the event, a link to a Zoom
meeting will be sent to you along with the confirmation of your
registration.


Organisers

Himani Bhakuni (York)
Lucas Miotto (Leeds Beckett)


More information:
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/justice-in-global-health-workshop-series-662619






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InterPhil: CFP: Freedom of Expression, Hate Speech, and Religious Freedom

2022-09-21 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Freedom of Expression, Hate Speech, and Religious Freedom
Subtitle: A Human Rights Perspective
Type: International Conference
Institution: Unequal World Research Center
   Institute for Peace Studies in Eastern Christianity (IPSEC),
Harvard University
   UN Liaison Office, International Religious Liberty Association
(IRLA) and Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA)
Location: Online
Date: 8.–9.12.2022
Deadline: 21.11.2022

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We are pleased to invite you to attend the online conference titled
Freedom of Expression, Hate Speech, and Religious Freedom: A Human
Rights Perspective. The event will be held on December 8–9, 2022, and
will be organized by the UNEQUAL World Research Center, IPSEC, and UN
Liaison Office for IRLA and SDA. The conference’s first edition is
scheduled to take place around World Genocide Commemoration Day and
will bring together representatives from various fields with a
significant influence on their societies.

Hate speech is an ongoing problem in all societies, both online and
offline. As history has shown, atrocity crimes are sparked by hate
speech. A growing trend of hatred and intolerance toward people who
are perceived as different increases the potential to incite violence
and severe human rights violations. Ethnic and religious minorities,
migrants, refugees, and others who are perceived as unwelcome are
often targets of hate speech and discrimination.

The main purpose of this conference is to discuss the impact of hate
speech on vulnerable groups and the significance of freedom of
expression and religious freedom as fundamental components in
building peaceful and respectful communities. The conference aims to
bring together top researchers, religious leaders, speakers from
international organizations, and academics from diverse cultural,
religious, and political backgrounds from all around the world to
share their experiences and exchange their research results on these
current topics that impact our society.


Conference Topics

Freedom of Expression, Religious Freedom, Hate Speech, Human Rights,
Social Justice, Human Development, Pluralist Society, Faith and
Development, Legal Studies, Diversity and Equality Studies, Migration
and Refugee, Ethnicity, Racial Justice, History, Diplomacy Studies,
Politics and Mass Media, Information and Communication Technologies,
Multiculturalism, Education, Forms of Government, Legal Studies,
Social Media and Internet Communication, Demography, Peace and
Conflict Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Globalism, Sustainability
Science, Education, Cultural and Spiritual Development,
Multiculturalism, and any other topic related to hate speech,
religious freedom and freedom of expression.


Virtual Presentation

The conference will be hosted online. All virtual presentations will
be given live, via Zoom.

This conference is free of charge.


Important Dates

Abstract deadline:
November 21, 2022

Notification of acceptance/rejection:
1 week after submission

Conference Days:
December 8–9, 2022


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InterPhil: CONF: Weakening Strategies

2022-09-15 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Conference Announcement

Theme: Weakening Strategies
Subtitle: Vattimo and Chinese Thought
Type: International Symposium
Institution: Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
   Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
   Vattimo Archive and Center, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Location: Barcelona (Spain) – Online
Date: 30.9.2022 

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The Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, in
partnership with Duke Kunshan University’s Humanities Research Center
and the Vattimo Archive and Center at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF),
is pleased to invite you to the one-day symposium “Weakening
Strategies: Vattimo and Chinese Thought.” The Symposium aims to
advance comparative understanding of the concept of weakness, in
conversation with the Vattimo’s philosophy and Chinese thought.

Gianni Vattimo (1936–) is one of Europe’s foremost contemporary
philosophers, whose work has had a lasting influence on a broad range
of fields including sexuality, theology, art and politics. He is
known chiefly for the idea of “weak thought” (pensiero debole), which
aims to weaken the strong narration of Western metaphysics and the
violence of dogmatic positions. From such “weakening strategies”
develop an ethic and political philosophy that opposes
totalitarianism and fascism, a project that Vattimo undertook
personally as a Member of the European Parliament. In his later work,
Vattimo also connected weak thought to themes of kenosis
(self-emptying), sacrifice, and secularization in religious and
theological studies. In an era that emphasizes might, power, and
strength, now is precisely the time to pay attention to weakness as a
philosophical concept and ethical value, and to do so in a
globalized, even multipolar context.

In this regard Chinese thought, and especially Daoist philosophy, can
become a rich interlocutor with Vattimo’s philosophy. The Daode jing
道德經 emphasizes virtues of softness and passivity, stating that
“The soft and weak overcome the hard and strong (柔弱勝剛強).” The
classical Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi, moreover, is known for his
emphasis on perspectivalism, understanding the limits of knowledge,
and critiquing those who claim to have a complete understanding of
truth. Daoism and other forms of Chinese philosophy have an important
role to play in investigating the concept of weakness, in
conversation with Vattimo’s philosophical and ethical project.


Programme

10:00-10:30
Opening Ceremony and Welcome from Tony Luna, Vice-Rector of UPF

10:30-12:00
Panel 1

Robin Wang – Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University
Max Lacertosa – Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of
Warwick
Graham Parkes – Professorial Research Fellow, University of Vienna

12:30-14:00
Panel 2

Liangjian Liu – Professor of Philosophy, East China Normal University
Erica Onnis – Research Fellow, RWTH Aachen University, and University
of Turin
Mario Wenning – Associate Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University
Andalusia

16:00-18:00
Panel 3

Xie Ming – Professor of English, University of Toronto
Leonardo Caffo – Professor of Philosophy of Art, Media, Fashion and
Design at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) 
James Miller – Professor of Humanities, Duke Kunshan University

18:00-19:00
Closing Ceremony


Participation

The event will take place in the auditorium of the Mercè Rodoreda
building of the Ciutadella Campus of Pompeu Fabra University, located
at Ramon Fargas 25-27, 08005 Barcelona, and online on MS Teams,
Friday, September 30, 2022 from 10:00 to 19:00 (Barcelona time).

To participate online, please follow this link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/vc-6Ce9HZUSSZTVG8ur2vA,GeTwb3L_NEi_4syaaxrahg,7U8xkHD6rUGxD3DZnHSmQg,zGbZ5g-oDEGMwVoqJxNtBw,CTDfSFsSjECs9mq84yyivQ,nD4o1v1FXUC76vTqGauf5A?mode=read&tenantId=09bacfbd-47ef-4465-9265-3546f2eaf6bc

For inquiries contact Max Lacertosa:
massimiliano.lacert...@warwick.ac.uk


Website of the symposium:
https://sites.duke.edu/dkuhumanities/weakening-strategies-vattimo-and-chinese-thought/






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InterPhil: PUB: Critical Debates on Human Rights

2022-09-15 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Critical Debates on Human Rights
Subtitle: Vulnerability, Marginality and Politics of Dispossession
Publication: Laws
Date: Special Issue
Deadline: 15.1.2023

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The question of access to justice figures prominently in human rights
research. Lamenting the proposition that marginalized populations are
often powerless in the struggle for their human rights, this Special
Issue proposes to showcase and galvanize the fight for the protection
of the human rights of those who are seemingly at the periphery of
society, whose lives are frequently in danger and defined by
precarity. It is incumbent upon researchers and advocates not only to
make excluded populations aware of their human rights, but also to
assist them in the quest to have these rights brought to fruition
through policy making and institution building. The human rights of
the marginalized other feed from the long tradition of philosophical
debates present in the work of Emanuel Levinas, Gayatri Spivak, Julia
Kristeva, Judith Butler and Enrique Dussel, among others.

Overall, this Special Issue invites contributors to emphasize three
justice-oriented touchstones. The first touchstone is the recognition
of human dignity as a form of radical universalism. The second
touchstone is the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as
well as the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to
National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities. The last
touchstone is the approach that acknowledges human rights as
political struggles rather than new legal constructs. Given that
indigenous peoples, minority populations and migrants have been
historically excluded from putatively universal human rights
frameworks, this collection adopts a critical stance vis à vis
Eurocentric and teleological understandings of human rights, and
invites the authors to use decolonizing methodologies in their work.

Human rights, defined as the civil and political, economic and
social, cultural and environmental entitlements of rights-bearing
subjects, have unfolded unevenly and incompletely across historical
time and geographic space, finding different articulations in various
political structures and cultural contexts. The contributors are thus
strongly encouraged to engage with an interdisciplinary field that
draws on postcolonial theory, subaltern studies, world systems
analysis, neo-Marxism, feminist political economy, green political
economy, Third World Approaches to International Law and other
critical theoretical tendencies in challenging mainstream human
rights discourses.


Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at:
https://www.mdpi.com

All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted
papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as
accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website.
Research articles, review articles as well as short communications
are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about
100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on
this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor
be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference
proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through
a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other
relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on
the Instructions for Authors page:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/laws/instructions

The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open
access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be
well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English
editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Deadline for manuscript submissions:
15 January 2023

Laws is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly
journal published by MDPI.

ISSN: 2075-471X


Guest Editor

Dr. Nergis Canefe
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
York University
Toronto, ON, Canada


Contact:

Dr. Nergis Canefe, Guest Editor
Email: l...@mdpi.com
Web:
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InterPhil: PUB: Dao Companion to the Book of Changes

2022-09-14 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Dao Companion to the Book of Changes
Publication: Edited Book
Date: 2024
Deadline: Ongoing

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Among Chinese classics, the Book of Changes (易经 or I Ching, Yijing)
has been immensely popular among Western readers because of its
graphic images, its method of divination, and its philosophy of
change. But the Book of Changes is notoriously difficult to read due
to its complex textual body and its competing commentarial
traditions. The problem is further compounded by differing renditions
of the text in Western languages, causing a confusion as to how to
approach this fascinating text.

For the first time in English, Dao Companion to the Book of Changes
will provide the full scope of current scholarship on the Book of
Changes. Scheduled to be published by Springer in 2024, this volume
will address three fundamental issues:

- How do we make sense of the original text?
- How do we come to grips with its commentarial traditions?
- What do we learn from the Western interpretations of the texts?

As the editor of the volume, I have invited scholars to contribute
articles. But there are still missing chapters. I would like to take
this opportunity to invite those who have special interest in the
Book of Changes to contact me. I am particularly looking for authors
who can write chapters about recent archaeological findings related
to the Book of Changes, the Buddhist and Daoist interpretations of
the text, and the uses of the text in medicine and alchemy.

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InterPhil: CFP: Rewriting the History of Political Thought From the Margins

2022-09-13 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Rewriting the History of Political Thought From the Margins
Type: International Workshop
Institution: Chair of Political Theory, Humboldt University Berlin
Location: Berlin (Germany)
Date: 8.–9.6.2023
Deadline: 17.10.2022

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From Liesbeth Schoonheim 


The history of political thought is usually narrated as a sequence of
canonical authors reflecting on a limited set of perennial problems,
such as justice, freedom, domination, tyranny, and the just regime.
However, feminist and decolonial approaches have long contested this
narrative. By tracing diverse lineages in the history of political
thought, they seek to rectify problematic omissions while elucidating
contemporary issues. In recent years, scholars working in the history
of political thought have increasingly showed an interest in
re-centering marginalized bodies of thought. This conference aims to
set up a dialogue between these different approaches to shed light on
the thematic, methodological, and political dimensions of rewriting
the history of political thought. How can we place authors,
traditions, and concepts center-stage that are typically relegated to
the margins of the dominant historical narrative? Particular
attention will be paid to marginalized concepts (slavery,
foreignness, infidelity), non-Western and women political thinkers
who have been excluded, and political events that have been dismissed
as falling outside of the scope of political thought (for example the
“woman question” or the Haitian revolution).

In this workshop, we wish to contribute to the current discussion by
addressing case studies, methodological questions, and strategies
that aim to diffuse Western, male-centered history of political
thought. Covering the period from the late Middle Ages to the
present, this conference follows three closely interwoven threads:

1. Key concepts and themes

By diversifying lineages in the history of political theory, we can
redefine key concepts and themes. By focusing on forgotten radical
experiments, traditions of political thought and activism, and
neglected authors, some concepts in the history of political thought
(such as the state, sovereignty, authority) might lose their
centrality, while others (such as freedom, citizenship, property
rights) might have various conflicting and alternative meanings. Such
a “history of political concepts from below” (Bogues and Laudani)
starts from the use of concepts within political struggles, rather
than their theorization in canonical texts. Furthermore, if we do
start from canonical texts, we will likely find theoretical
reflections on politics scattered both in treaties on metaphysics and
ethics (e.g. Ibn Sina, Ibn Tufayl, Ibn-Rushd, John of Jandun, Elijah
Del Medigo) as well as through the works with a more forthright
political intention (e.g. Giles of Rome, Ptolemy of Lucca, Marsilius
of Padua, Leonardo Bruni, Donato Giannotti, the treatise of the
Monarchomachs, Henry Parker, Ibn Khaldun etc.). How can we relate
their reflections on politics to those in other fields, such as
ontology and metaphysics, and what does this teach us about the
various theorizations of social and political relations? Finally, the
very periodization of political thought is the object of critique:
how is exclusion and marginalization affected by the much-criticized
notion of modernity? How does de-centering hegemonic texts and events
(e.g. Machiavelli’s /The Prince/, the French Revolution) and the
re-centering of other texts or events (e.g. the treaties in North
America and the Haitian Revolution) alter our periodization and the
key concepts associated with each era?

2. Methodological issues

Rewriting the history of political thought brings up a number of
methodological issues. Political thought is typically based on texts,
while the transmission of texts is itself biased in favor of those
political and theoretical groups that have been dominant. As a
consequence, unorthodox positions as well as the position of
marginalized authors such as women and non-Western thinkers have been
lost, handed over to us by means of texts written by others, or
transmitted orally. Furthermore, if we do have texts, these might not
be widely available as they might not be translated or digitally
accessible, and they might also be of another nature than the texts
that dominate the canon – they might, for instance, be letters and
diaries rather than lectures and monographs. How can we remedy these
lacunas – what reading strategies can we develop to recuperate their
thought? Moreover, what is the best way to write about authors and
intellectual-political debates, especially when there is a dearth of
textual sources? In the absence of texts written in their own voice,
could we engage in fiction to conjure up the lost authors of the
history of political thought – and to what extent would such a
romanticized v

InterPhil: JOB: Assistant Professor in Modern Islam and Race

2022-09-13 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Job Announcement

Type: Assistant Professor in Modern Islam and Race
Institution: Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
Date: from September 2023
Deadline: 24.10.2022

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The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in Modern Islam
and Race, pending budgetary approval. The renewable, three-year
appointment runs from September 1, 2023, through April 30, 2026, and
Fall term classes begin August 28, 2023. Geographic specialization(s)
open. We welcome applicants from all disciplinary backgrounds with a
demonstrated commitment to the study of religion. The teaching
requirement is two courses per semester, and teaching includes
introductory and upper-level courses on Islam and courses in the area
of specialization of the successful candidate. We offer new
colleagues considerable scope for designing new courses and
integrating them into our curriculum.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Ph.D. in Religious Studies or an allied discipline is expected by
  the time of appointment. ABD candidates must be scheduled to defend
  their dissertations by August 1, 2023.
- Research focuses on Islamic Studies in the modern world.
- A research and teaching agenda are featuring dynamic and innovative
  approaches to the intersections of Islam in the modern world with
  issues of race, ethnicity, and other forms of identity including
  gender and sexuality; diaspora, colonialism, and post-colonialism;
  and minoritized perspectives.
- Ability to teach courses in Religious Studies to a diverse student
  body in a public research university setting.

Preference will be given to candidates whose work complements or
expands existing areas of strength and thematic clusters in the
department and in other departments, programs, centers, and schools
at the university.

The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the University of
Pittsburgh are also engaged in cluster-hiring in “Race,
Representation, and Anti-Black and Systemic Racism” and “Race and
Social Determinants of Equity and Wellbeing.” This position is not
formally part of the cluster hire initiative, but we actively
encourage applications from candidates whose interests relate to this
area. The University of Pittsburgh has embarked on significant
initiatives to diversify its faculty, student body, and curriculum.
We encourage applications from scholars eager to contribute to this
mission.

To apply, please submit the following materials

- A letter of application describing current and future teaching and
  research directions. This letter should also discuss how your work
  engages existing areas of teaching and research in the department
  and in the Dietrich School.
- A statement discussing how your past, planned, or potential
  contributions or experiences relating to diversity, equity, and
  inclusion will advance the University of Pittsburgh’s commitment to
  inclusive excellence;
- A full C.V.;
- An article-length scholarly writing sample (a journal article or a
  dissertation or book chapter);
- Two sample syllabi for courses;
- Names and email addresses of at least three individuals who can
  provide recommendations;
- Finalists will be asked to submit evidence of teaching
  effectiveness, such as student or peer evaluations.

In order to ensure full consideration, applications should be
received by October 24, 2022. Apply at Talent Center: Work at Pitt,
requisition # 22007545:
https://cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/pitt_faculty_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=22007545

For administrative questions, contact Allison Thompson at:
allisonthomp...@pitt.edu

For questions about the position, contact Adam Shear at:
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InterPhil: CFP: Gender Dimensions of African Philosophy

2022-09-12 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Gender Dimensions of African Philosophy
Type: 5th Biennial African Philosophy World Conference (APWC)
Institution: African Philosophy Society (APS)
   Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Gulu University
Location: Gulu (Uganda)
Date: 18.–20.9.2023
Deadline: 30.10.2022

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Gender issues have become a global concern. While confusion still
abounds on what gender is, it is still another question as to what
has brought about the widespread discrimination against the female
gender in contrast to the male gender in almost all aspects of human
life - such as education, health, sports, politics, culture,
religion, and livelihoods.

In the area of philosophy in general and African philosophy in
particular, there is conspicuous domination by the male gender. This
makes one wonder as to why this trend, which seems to be deeply
embedded in human history of thought, should still prevail in the
modern world, where every individual is claimed to be equal to each
other. On the other hand, African philosophy should as well concern
itself with other questions of identity, social structures, power,
and change that are ongoing in wider gender debates.

We welcome submissions that broadly explore the concept and other
dimensions of gender in African philosophy. These submissions should
help to reflect on some, and not exclusive, of the following
subthemes:

Gender dimensions of African philosophy as traditional, modern and
future thoughts; gender and wars; gender and politics; education and
gender; environment and gender; religion and gender; science and
gender; technology and gender; arts and gender; gender in music,
dance and drama; wealth and gender; society and gender; human rights
and gender; gender and identity; gender and social structures; power
and gender; and change that are ongoing in wider gender debates.

In addition to these themes and issues, abstract submissions could,
from the perspectives of African philosophy, engage with the
following sub-themes:

Gender and Ubuntu philosophy; gender and African socialism; gender
and African negritude; ethnophilosophy and gender; philosophic
sagacity and gender; hermeneutical philosophy and gender;
artistic/literary philosophy and gender; national ideological
philosophy and gender; professional philosophy and gender; African
philosophy and gender issues in African brides wealth practices;
inheritance in African philosophy and gender; democracy and gender in
African philosophy; gender emancipation in African philosophy


Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts

Your submission should (a) not exceed 500 words; (b) contain a title,
author’s name, author’s institutional affiliation, and author’s email
address/telephone/fax.

Send your abstract to:
africanphilosophyproj...@gmail.com


Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline:
30th October, 2022

Notification of Acceptance:
30th November, 2022

Conference Registration Deadline:
15th August, 2023

Conference:
18th - 20th September, 2023


Proposed Keynote/Plenary Speakers

- Prof. Taban Lo Liyong
- Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong’o


Conference website:
https://africanphilosophysociety.org/2022/07/29/2022-workshop/






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InterPhil: CONF: Der alte und der neue Ueberweg

2022-09-12 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Konferenzankündigung

Theme: Der alte und der neue Ueberweg
Subtitle: Neue Perspektiven einer Historiographie der Philosophie für
das 21. Jahrhundert
Type: Internationale Konferenz
Institution: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
   Université de Genève
Location: Wuppertal (Deutschland)
Date: 21.–23.9.2022

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Das an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal verankerte Forschungs-
und Editionsprojekt "Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie" ist
untrennbar mit dem Namen seines ersten Bearbeiters und Autors
verbunden: Friedrich Ueberweg (1826-1871). Zum Anlass seines 150.
Todestags im Juni 2021 geht die (aufgrund der Pandemie mehrfach
verschobene) Tagung neuen Perspektiven einer Historiographie der
Philosophie für das 21. Jahrhundert nach.


Tagungsprogramm

Mittwoch, 21. September 2022

14:00 Uhr
Begrüßung und Einführung
Gerald Hartung (Wuppertal) und Laurent Cesalli (Genf)
Begrüßung durch die Rektorin der BUW Birgitta Wolf

15:00 – 17:00 Uhr
Panel I: Kanonbildung und Netzwerke

Catherine König-Pralong (Paris):
Philosophiegeschichts­schreibung und die Philosophie Europas im 18.
und 19. Jahrhundert

Hamid Taieb (Berlin):
For a Network History of Philosophy

17:30 Uhr
Präsentation des Neuen Ueberweg
Christian Barth (Schwabe Verlag, Basel)

18:30 Uhr
Abendvortrag

Gerald Hartung (Wuppertal):
Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung und Kanonbildung – kritische
Reflexionen


Donnerstag, 22. September 2022

9:30 – 13:00 Uhr
Panel II: Den Kanon erweitern – neue Netzwerke knüpfen, ­an alte
anknüpfen

Ulrich Rudolph (Zürich):
Zur Historiographie der Philosophie in der Islamischen Welt

Rolf Elberfeld (Hildesheim):
Modelle der Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung in globaler Perspektive

Ruth Hagengruber (Paderborn):
Die geraubte Geschichte. Die Philosophiegeschichte der Philosophinnen
und ihre methodischen Implikationen

14:30 – 16:30 Uhr
Raji Steineck (Zürich):
Historiographie der Philosophie – im Blick auf Japan

Martin Lehnert (München):
Aspekte der Klassifizierung und ­historischen Darstellung
chinesischer Philosophie – am Beispiel der Arbeit von Alfred Forke
(1867–1944)

17:00 – 18:30 Uhr
Diskussionsrunde

Impliziter und expliziter ­Rassismus in der
Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung
Mit Rolf Elberfeld, Anke Graneß, Gerald Hartung und Catherine
König-Pralong


Freitag, 23. September 2022

9:30 – 13:00 Uhr
Panel III: Medien, Praktiken, Methoden

Petra Gehring (Darmstadt):
Buch und Archiv – Was leistet die Diskursanalyse für die
Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung?

Melanie Sehgal (Wuppertal):
Schnittstellen zwischen Philosophie- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
oder: lässt sich die Philosophiegeschichte als Geschichte
philosophischer Praktiken erzählen?

Anke Graneß (Hildesheim):
Praxisformen der Philosophie am Beispiel Afrikas

14:30 – 18:00 Uhr
Patrick Sahle (Wuppertal):
Philosophie – Geschichte – Digital Humanities. Was dürfen wir hoffen?

Kevin Mulligan (Genf):
Geschichte und Zukunft der analytischen Philosophie und der
Phänomenologie

Carsten Dutt (Heidelberg):
Begriffsgeschichte als Instrument der Philosophiehistorie

18:00 Uhr
Abschlussvortrag

Laurent Cesalli (Genf):
Die Zukunft der Historiographie der Philosophie


Veranstaltungsort

Senatssaal, Gebäude K, Raum K.11.07
Bergische Universität Wuppertal


Anmeldung

Bitte melden Sie sich bis zum 14.9.2022 bei Sarah Kraft per E-Mail
oder telefonisch an. E-Mail: skr...@uni-wuppertal.de
Tel: +49 202 4393927


Website der Konferenz:
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InterPhil: CFP: Negotiating Boundaries in Buddhism and Buddhist Studies

2022-09-08 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Negotiating Boundaries in Buddhism and Buddhist Studies
Type: UKABS 2023 Conference
Institution: UK Association for Buddhist Studies (UKABS)
   University of St Andrews
Location: St Andrews, Scotland (UK)
Date: 21.–23.6.2023
Deadline: 5.1.2023

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The UK Association for Buddhist Studies is pleased to announce that
our annual conference for 2023 will take place at the University of
St Andrews, Scotland, 21-23 June 2023. The conference is supported by
the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology.

Negotiating Boundaries in Buddhism and Buddhist Studies

Constructed boundaries divide one religion from another, one ethnic
group from another, and define gender identities. Further, boundaries
exist within many arenas of secular, social and professional life.
Within academia, such firm boundaries exist between academics in
different disciplines that two people working in the same field at
the same institution can be completely unaware of one another. To a
casual or uninvested observer, such boundaries can appear clear and
solid; on closer inspection they are revealed as porous, complex,
contested. For instance, there appears to be a clear boundary between
lay and ordained Buddhists across different Buddhist traditions, but
temporary ordination is common in some cultures, as is the taking of
extra precepts by laity during retreat or on certain days of the
month, and Vajrayāna yogis and yoginīs blur this distinction further.
As well, cultural practices such as festivals can cut across
boundaries between Buddhist and non-Buddhist groups in a society, and
plural and hybrid identities problematise the very category of
‘Buddhist’. Converts to Buddhism face negotiating their new identity
and adapting habits and behaviours. Theoretically, the concept of
anatta challenges gender or sexuality as fixed categories, but
inclusivity might not be played out in the lived experience of
Buddhists. From student to professor, scholar-practitioners in
Buddhist Studies continually hop across a boundary between critically
distant academic and sympathetic insider. Furthermore, Buddhist
Studies itself is not a limited good existing solely for its own
sake, but has come to inform and be informed by a range of academic
disciplines including law, business studies, neuroscience, peace
studies, politics, and philosophy amongst others. In fact, Buddhist
studies has previously imposed its own boundaries on various aspects
of Buddhist tradition by the habit of taxonomy in its critical study:
for example, the perceived divides between meditation and text, or
text and ritual, and those imagined between artefact and embodied
presence. Methodological and categorical insights from various
disciplines may well contribute to the construction of new lines of
demarcation, or facilitate the disruption of others.

For the conference, our aim is to explore a variety of boundaries
including, but not limited to:

- Perceived boundaries between religious ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’
- Constructed boundaries between academic disciplines
- Contested boundaries between one religion and another
- Erected boundaries between those inside the academy and those
  outside

This conference welcomes papers that explore these boundaries. We
would particularly welcome papers from academics who do not affiliate
to Buddhist Studies but whose work is informed by Buddhist Studies.

The call for panels and proposals opens on 6 September and closes on
5 January 2023.

Types of submission:

- Short panel: Panel organisers are asked to submit a title and
  300-word abstract on the panel and a list of potential panellists.
  Short panels are one hour long and should consist of three
  panellists who will each present 15 minute papers. 
- Long panel: Panel organisers are asked to submit a title and
  300-word abstract on the panel and a list of potential panellists.
  Long panels are two hours long and should consist of four panellists
  who will each present 20 minute papers.
- Paper submission: Individuals are invited to submit a title and
  300-word abstract on a research paper. If accepted, the conference
  committee will organise these into panels. 

Please send your submissions to:
negotiatingboundar...@gmail.com

The call for panels and proposals is open to all academics, students
and interested parties. The UK Association for Buddhist Studies also
has a proud tradition of showcasing the work of up-and-coming
research students, and a separate call for postgraduate panels will
be advertised in due course.

Conference registration will open on 31 October 2022 and be available
via the University of St Andrews website.

The conference will take place in St Salvator’s, one of the oldest
remaining parts of the university, which is situated a few minutes
walk from our well-known West Sands beach.

The conference organising committee is:
Dr Elizabeth Harris (Universi

InterPhil: PUB: Reading Tocqueville from Beijing to Buenos Aires

2022-09-08 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Reading Tocqueville from Beijing to Buenos Aires
Publication: Suite française. Rivista di cultura e politica
Date: Issue No. 6/2023
Deadline: 31.12.2022

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(Versione italiana sotto  |  Version française en bas)


What is the picture of contemporary reality if we look at it through
Tocqueville’s eyes? What could we discover if we borrow Tocqueville’s
topics and categories to understand China, the Middle East, Russia,
Africa or South America? We invite you to assume Tocqueville’s
perspective to reflect on two key points:

- how does Tocqueville’s thought help us grasp the political and
  social changes in these areas and their cultures and lifestyles?
- to what extent should Tocqueville’s concepts be actualized to
  account for the complexity of the present?

The articles we plan to publish should concentrate on a specific
country, political regime or society and should rely on what we might
define as the «Tocqueville’s gaze». Indeed, the list of topics and
subjects to be explored is quite extensive: equality/inequality,
freedom/despotism, centralization/federalism, individual/mass, civil
society, social state/political order, public opinion, religion and
politics, nationalism and patriotism, passions, family, women’s place
in society, production and dissemination of culture, new forms of
despotism, homogenization of the way of life, the role of the state.


Arrangements for the submission

The proposals, not exceeding 2.000 characters, accompanied by a
temporary title and a brief biographical note, must be sent to
redazi...@suitefrancaise.it no later than December 31, 2022.

The selection will be announced by January 31, 2023.

The final papers, between 20.000 and 50.000 characters long, with an
abstract and five keywords, will be drafted according to the
journal’s editorial rules. We recommend sending the papers by May 31,
2023, to meet with the double-blind peer review agenda. The issue is
scheduled for the autumn: «Suite française» 6/2023.


Contact:

Michela Nacci, Co-director
Suite française. Rivista di cultura e politica
Email: redazi...@suitefrancaise.it
Web:
https://suitefrancaise.labcd.unipi.it/call-for-papers-suite-francaise-6-2023/




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Leggere Tocqueville da Pechino a Buenos Aires

Qual è l’immagine della realtà contemporanea se la si guarda con gli
occhi di Tocqueville, se, per comprendere dalla Cina all’Africa, dal
Vicino Oriente all’America del Sud, passando per la Russia, si
utilizzano i suoi stessi temi e le sue stesse categorie? Proponiamo
di partire dal pensiero di Tocqueville e invitiamo a riflettere su
due punti:

- in che modo il pensiero tocquevilliano può aiutarci a cogliere i
  cambiamenti politici e sociali di questi mondi, delle loro culture e
  modi di vita?
- in che misura i concetti di Tocqueville devono essere attualizzati
  oggi per rendere conto della complessità del presente?

I saggi che pubblicheremo dovranno concentrarsi su un solo paese, un
regime politico o una società, utilizzando quello che si può chiamare
«lo sguardo Tocqueville». L’elenco dei soggetti da esplorare è vasto:
uguaglianza/disuguaglianza, libertà/dispotismo,
centralizzazione/federalismo, individuo/massa, società civile, stato
sociale/ordine politico, opinione pubblica, religione e politica,
nazionalismo e patriottismo, passioni, famiglia, posto delle donne
nella società, produzione e diffusione della cultura, nuove forme di
dispotismo, standardizzazione del modo di vita, ruolo dello stato.


Modalità di presentazione

Le proposte, di non oltre 2.000 battute, corredate da un titolo
provvisorio e da una brevissima nota biografica, saranno inviate a
redazi...@suitefrancaise.it entro il 31 dicembre 2022.

L’esito della selezione sarà comunicato entro il 31 gennaio 2023.

I contributi definitivi, di lunghezza compresa tra 20.000 e 40.000
battute note e spazi compresi, accompagnati da un abstract e cinque
parole chiave in inglese, saranno redatti conformemente alle regole
editoriali della rivista. Dovranno giungere entro il 31 maggio 2023 e
saranno sottoposti a processo di revisione con doppia lettura cieca.

L’uscita del numero è prevista per l’autunno: Suite française 6/2023.


Contatto:

Michela Nacci, Codirettora
Suite française. Rivista di cultura e politica
E-mail: redazi...@suitefrancaise.it
Web:
https://suitefrancaise.labcd.unipi.it/call-for-papers-suite-francaise-6-2023/




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Lire Tocqueville de Pékin à Buenos Aires

Quelle est l’image de la réalité contemporaine si on la regarde avec
les yeux de Tocqueville, si, pour comprendre de la Chine à l’Afrique,
du Proche Orient à l’Amérique du Sud, en passant par la Russie, on
utilise ses mêmes thèmes et ses mêmes catégories? Nous proposons de
partir de la pensée de Tocqueville et invitons à réfléchir en
particulier su

InterPhil: CFP: History of Logic in the Islamic World

2022-09-08 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: History of Logic in the Islamic World
Type: International Conference
Institution: Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP)
   Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Fundamental Sciences
(IRFS)
Location: Tehran (Iran) – Online
Date: 6.–8.3.2023
Deadline: 31.10.2022

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The Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP) in collaboration with the
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Fundamental Sciences
(IRFS) in Iran is organizing an international conference on the
history of logic in the Islamic world The event will be held in a
hybrid format between March 6-8, 2023. Depending on their choice,
some speakers will talk virtually and others will attend in person at
the Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP) in Tehran.

We kindly invite all researchers in logic, history, and philosophy to
contribute to the conference with papers on the topics listed below.

Conference Scope:

A. Pre-Avicennan Logic

- The development of Aristotelian logic in the Islamic world
- The effects of Aristotle’s commentators on Islamic logicians
- Aristotle’s Muslim commentators

B. Avicenna’s Logic

- Avicenna’s reception of Aristotle
- The effects of Aristotle’s commentators on Avicenna
- Avicenna’s logical novelties
- The commentators and the critics of Avicenna’s logic

C. Post-Avicennan Logic

- The development of logic after Avicenna
- The profound logicians after Avicenna
- The logical schools and circles after Avicenna
- Avicennan logic in the contemporary Islamic world
- Avicennan logic in the geographic regions of the Islamic world

D. Comparative logic

- Comparison of the Muslims’ logical points of view
- Comparison of logic in the Islamic world and Mediaeval Europe
- Comparison of logic in the Islamic world and the Islamic sciences
- Comparison of logic in the Islamic world and the linguistic sciences
- Comparison of logic in the Islamic world and Mathematics and Physics
- Comparison of logic in the Islamic world and the modern logic


Practical Information

- In order to contribute to the conference, submit the abstract of
your article via our paper submission system by October 31, 2022.
Follow our formatting and submission guidelines available on the
corresponding pages for further instructions.

- The conference will be held in a hybrid format where some speakers
will talk virtually and others will attend in person at the Iranian
Institute of Philosophy (IRIP) in Tehran.

- A proceeding of the papers presented at this conference will be
published.

- The articles will be indexed in the Islamic World Science Citation
Center (ISC).


Keynote Speakers

Asad Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Mohammad Ardeshir, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Saloua Chatti, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Khaled El-Rouayheb, Harvard University, USA
Wilfrid Hodges, British Academy, UK
Ahmet Kayacik, Erciyes University, Turkiye
Ismail Latif Hacinebioglu, Istanbul University, Turkiye
Necmeddin Pehlivan, Ankara University, Turkiye
Shahid Rahman, University of Lille, France
Seyyed Nasrollah Mousavian, Loyola University, USA
Zia Movahed, Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Iran
Tony Street, University of Cambridge, UK


Organizers

Asadollah Fallahi, Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP)
Alireza Darabi, Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP)
Ali Sadegh Daghighi, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in
Fundamental Sciences (IRFS)


Should you have any questions or run into any problem submitting your
article via our website, feel free to write to us via:
logicconf2...@gmail.com

Or text me via +989111437062 on Whatsapp.

Conference website:
http://logic.irip.ac.ir






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InterPhil: CFP: The Ethics of Business, Trade and Global Governance

2022-09-08 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: The Ethics of Business, Trade and Global Governance
Type: 4th Annual Conference
Institution: Center for Ethics in Society, Saint Anselm College
   Department of Finance, University of Vienna
   Centre for Responsible Banking & Finance, University of St. Andrews
Location: Wentworth-by-the-Sea, NH (USA)
Date: 2.–3.12.2022
Deadline: 15.9.2022

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The Saint Anselm College Center for Ethics in Society, in cooperation
with the Department of Finance—University of Vienna and the
University of St. Andrews Centre for Responsible Banking & Finance,
announces a call for proposals for a conference on the economics,
ethics, and governance of global commerce.

We have seen significant economic and political shifts in the last 2+
years with both the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine
war continuing to change the global economic and political order.
This time of disruption and shifting economic power is an opportunity
to reassess debates about, international trade, capital flows and
global economic governance. This interdisciplinary conference brings
together ethicists, economists, political scientists, international
relations scholars, policy experts, and business leaders to examine
the political and economic impact of the events of the last two
years. Our central goal is to discuss how economic cooperation,
international trade and investment can be conducted more ethically,
as we move from crisis to a new global order.


Suggested topics or questions that a proposal could address include:

International Commerce:

- How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected trade and global supply
  chains?
- What has the Russia-Ukraine conflict revealed about the
  vulnerability of the global economy (e.g. dependence on oil and
  natural gas)? 
- What changes ought to be made in light of the Russia-Ukraine war
  (e.g. redristribution of oil and natural gas flows)?
- Who is benefiting economically from trade in this period of war?
- Economic and trade rebalancing - The rise of China and other
  emerging countries are shifting economic activity. How will this
  affect trade and commerce?
- Acceleration of new technologies - New and disruptive technologies
  are advancing faster than the ability to manage and harness them.
  Digital platforms and automation are affecting production, trade,
  and workstyles: do they necessitate new business models/frameworks?
- Uncertainty - Political and market instability create economic
  hardship, nationalism, and extremism, increasing risk and
  uncertainty. What are the effects on international trade and
  commerce?
- Demographic Shifts - Emerging and developing economies have younger
  populations than developed economies. How will these demographic
  shifts change trade?
- Do the benefits of portfolio liberalization, in terms of financial
  deepening, counteract its systemic risks?
- What are the “externalities” of trade or foreign direct investment
  for democracy, human rights, civil peace, and state autonomy?
- How has the global low interest rate environment affected the
  viability of exchange rate management?
- How will rising interest rates affect global trade?
- How will big-data affect decision making about trade policy?

Ethics:

- Are economic sanctions an ethical way to protest belligerent
  countries in military conflicts? 
- What ethical norms ought to govern trading with aggressors in a
  war? 
- What are the ethical ramifications of trading weapons?  What are
  the proper limits in trading weapons to countries engaged in war?
- Are economic sanctions an ethical way to protest belligerent
  countries in military conflicts? 
- Are nations right to prioritize their own interests in the global
  economy, whether in trade or vaccine distribution?
- Is globalization beneficial or detrimental to political
  communities?   
- What are the rights and responsibilities of economic actors
  engaging in the global economy?
- Does free trade demand the free movement of peoples?
- Do participants in international trade have a responsibility to
  ensure a more equitable distribution of benefits?
- Should there be a shared responsibility to ensure that trading
  practices enable sustainable development and the recognition of
  human rights?
- What responsibilities do multinational firms have to the
  communities where they do business?
- Is offshoring morally problematic?  Is offshoring necessarily part
  of a free trade system?
- Should nations ensure that they produce essential goods within
  their own borders?
- Are economic sanctions against nations and/or individual citizens
  ethically problematic?  What are some ethical guidelines that should
  govern state actors when imposing sanctions?

Global Governance:

- What changes need to be made to global governance systems in light
  of the Russia-Ukraine war?
- What are the social and political challenges to gov

InterPhil: PUB: The Politics of Knowledge and Cognition

2022-09-08 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: The Politics of Knowledge and Cognition
Subtitle: African Perspectives
Publication: Edited Volume
Deadline: 30.11.2022

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A flourishing area in applied epistemology today is the exploration
of the intersection between epistemology and politics. Emerging from
this discourse in recent years is the field of political epistemology
which examines and analyses the bearing and impact of the analytic
and conceptual tools and theories of epistemology on political
theory, practice, and philosophy. Michael Hannon and Jeroen de
Ridder’s The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology (2021),
Elizabeth Edenberg and Michael Hannon’s Political Epistemology
(2021), and Pietro Daniel Omodeo’s Political Epistemology: The
Problem of Ideology in Science Studies (2019) are examples of key
publications in this field. However, less attention has been paid to
a study and discourse of the reverse relationship of the intersection
of politics and epistemology: examining analyzing the bearing that
political theories, philosophies, and practices in different horizons
and places have on the processes and theories of knowing and
cognizing. More so, the publications mentioned above do not touch at
all on the African experience and perspectives of the intersection
between epistemology and politics, neither in the sense in which it
explores such a relationship or intersection nor in the reverse sense
just mentioned.

The Politics of Knowledge and Cognition: African Perspectives aims to
provide an in-depth analysis of the impact of African political
experiences both lived and historical, on knowledge and cognition
processes in African places. It aims to provide thought-provoking
essays on the historical, hermeneutical, phenomenological, and
broadly speaking, philosophical perspectives on how power, violence,
resource control, and other political factors in precolonial,
colonial, and postcolonial periods have persistently impacted the
knowing and cognizing processes in African communities. It also
examines the implications of this for knowledge discovery and
retrieval, and for theorizing decolonial approaches to development,
episteme and existence.

We are therefore inviting original and well-written chapters on these
and related thematic areas:

- Conceptualising the politics of knowledge and cognition
- African epistemology
- The politics of knowledge production
- Epistemic injustice
- Knowledge and decolonization
- The politics of epistemic decolonization
- Post-colonialism, politics, and misinformation
- Social media and the hermeneutics of knowledge in Africa
- Historicizing the politics of knowledge: pre-colonial, colonial,
  and post-colonial realities
- Political institutions and epistemic responsibilities
- African politics and virtue epistemology
- The politics and epistemology of ignorance
- Noocracy, gerontocracy, and epistocracy
- The epistemology of deliberative democracy
- The politics of African feminist epistemology
- The politics and epistemology of human rights and justice
- The politics and epistemology of conspiracy
- Trust and political participation
- Knowledge and propaganda
- The epistemology of protest, mass movements and populism

Notes for Contributors

Submission of chapters on any of these and related areas are invited.
At this stage, only abstracts or chapter proposals should be
submitted. The abstract should contain the title of the proposed
chapter, the author’s names and affiliation, and email address, and a
brief summary of the proposed contents of the chapter no more than
250 words. The abstract should be sent, on or before November 30,
2022, to:
polkafr...@gmail.com

Decision on acceptance/rejection of submitted abstracts will be made
no later than December 30, 2022. Authors of accepted abstracts will
receive further information on important deadlines. Rest assured,
there will be adequate time given to develop complete chapters.

Editors

Prof Isaac E. Ukpokolo, University of Ibadan
Dr Elvis Imafidon, SOAS University of London
Dr Peter A. Ikhane, University of Ibadan


Contact:

Dr Elvis Imafidon
Department of Religions and Philosophies
SOAS, University of London
Email: elvisimafi...@gmail.com






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InterPhil: CFA: University Expert in Interculturality, Justice and Global Change

2022-09-07 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Applications

Theme: Interculturality, Justice and Global Change
Type: University Expert Course
Institution: Department of Philosophy, University of Oviedo
Location: Online – Oviedo (Spain)
Date: 1.2.–31.3.2023
Deadline: Ongoing

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Employing various theoretical perspectives on interculturality this
University Expert course seeks to train professionals to identify and
analyse in depth major contemporary phenomena and challenges related
to cultural globalization processes. Students will acquire tools to
design intercultural social, geographical, political, linguistic,
pedagogical, existential and development projects, promoting the
decolonisation of knowledge. This course also intends to act as a
meeting point between different cultures, and a forum for reflection
and debate for graduates from different disciplines. We encourage
students from all socioeconomic backgrounds to apply.


Modules

- Global justice. Migration, poverty and development
- Geographical dimension of interculturality and global change:
  cultures and heritage, territories and human development
- Comparative philosophy
- Intercultural theories and projects


Conditions

Teaching Languages:
Spanish, English and French
(active knowledge of at least one of the three languages)

Spaces available:
50

Workload:
23 ECTS

Registration fee:
€ 300

Modality:
All sessions will be streamed online (through virtual campus)

Date:
1 February 2023 to 31 March 2023

Timetable:
3:30pm to 7:30pm (Madrid time zone)

Admission requirements:
University degree, master’s degree, or professional certification


Enrollment grants

Various organizations and lecturers are collaborating to reduce
tuition fees and there is also the opportunity to apply for one of
the 10 enrolment grants:
eintercultural...@gmail.com


Information:
http://interculturality.org




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Título Propio de Experta/o Universitaria/o en Interculturalidad
Justicia y Cambio Global

En este título propio se propone formar profesionales capaces de
identificar y analizar en profundidad los principales fenómenos y
retos actuales vinculados a los procesos de globalización cultural,
desde diversas aproximaciones teóricas del ámbito de la
interculturalidad. El alumnado adquirirá recursos para diseñar
proyectos interculturales sociales, geográficos, políticos,
lingüísticos, educativos, existenciales y de desarrollo, fomentando
la de-colonización del conocimiento. Este título propio se ha
constituido como un punto de encuentro entre diferentes culturas, un
foro de reflexión y debate para personas graduadas de diferentes
disciplinas, sin que sus condicionantes socioecónomicos impidan su
acceso.


Módulos

- Justicia global. Migración, pobreza y desarrollo
- La dimensión geográfica de la interculturalidad y el cambio global:
  culturas y patrimonio, territorios y desarrollo humano
- Filosofía comparada
- Teorías y proyectos interculturales


Condiciones

Idiomas en los que se imparte:
Español, inglés y francés
(se debe dominar, al menos, uno de los tres idiomas)

No. Plazas:
50

Carga lectiva:
23 créditos ECTS

Tasas:
300 €

Modalidad:
Sesiones retransmitidas por videoconferencia

Fechas de realización:
De lunes a viernes desde el 1 de febrero de 2023 al 31 de marzo de
2023

Horario:
De 15:30 a 19:30 (hora de Madrid)

Requisitos de admisión:
Título universitario de grado/máster o acreditación profesional


Becas de matrícula

La colaboración de varias entidades y del profesorado permiten el
bajo precio de este título y la posibilidad de optar por una de las
10 becas de matrícula:
eintercultural...@gmail.com.

Información:
http://interculturality.org




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Diplôme Universitaire d’Expert(e) en Interculturalité, Justice et
Changement Global

L’objectif de ce diplôme universitaire est de former des
professionnels capables d’identifier et d’analyser en profondeur les
principaux phénomènes et enjeux actuels liés aux processus de la
mondialisation culturelle, selon diverses approches théoriques du
domaine de l’interculturalité. Les étudiants acquerront ressources
pour concevoir des projets interculturels sociaux, géographiques,
politiques, linguistiques, éducatifs, existentiels et de
développement, en promouvant la décolonisation de la connaissance. Ce
diplôme est né avec l’idée d’être un lieu de rencontre entre
différentes cultures, un forum de réflexion et de discussion pour
professionnels de diverses disciplines, sans que les déterminants
socioéconomiques constituent un obstacle d’accès au programme.


Modules

- Justice globale. Migration, pauvreté et développement
- La dimension géographique de l’interculturalité et le changement
  mondial : cultures et patrimoine, territoires et développement
- Philosophie comparée
- Théories et projets

InterPhil: ANN: Online Lectures on Tianxia

2022-09-07 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Announcement

Type: SIP Online Lecture Series on Tianxia
Institution: Society for Intercultural Philosophy (SIP)
Location: Online
Date: September – December 2022

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The Society for Intercultural Philosophy (Gesellschaft für
Interkulturelle Philosophie) invites to the next sessions of their
lecture series in intercultural philosophy issues.

The next four lectures will deal with the concept of Tianxia, which
Zhao Tingyang has recently proposed as a possible new world order
based on various strands of Chinese tradition as well as some ideas
from liberal political theory. Zhao Tingyang will first present his
ideas and then three speakers will critically comment on them. Please
note that due to the time difference, these lectures will all take
place at 2 pm CE(S)T.


22 September, 2 pm CEST = UTC+2:
Zhao Tingyang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing):
“The maze of Tianxia – all-under-heaven”

20 October, 2 pm CEST = UTC+2:
Stephen Angle (Wesleyan university, Middletown, CT):
“The Limits of Tianxia”

17 November, 2 pm CET = UTC+1:
Georg Stenger (University of Vienna):
tba

15 December, 2 pm CET = UTC+1:
Aurélie Névot (EHESS, Paris):
“From Tianxia to Tianxia-ism“


Description

Tianxia is a central concept in classical Chinese philosophy.
Literally translated, it means "everything under heaven". Among other
aspects, it denotes the political ideal of a world order. ZHAO
Tingyang has taken up this aspect of tianxia in a book published in
2016 and since translated into numerous languages, with the aim of
"realistically presenting the idealistic concept of tianxia" to make
it interesting for the present. Zhao places particular emphasis on
the fact that tianxia is an integrative order that encompasses the
entire world and "knows no outside". Unlike the political philosophy
of the West, which in his view resorts to nation-state concepts and
must therefore always seek to balance different interests, tianxia is
able to ensure peace and security for all simply by starting from the
world. According to Zhao, the concept of tianxia emerged in the 11th
and 10th centuries before our time, driven primarily by the Duke of
Zhou. The philosophy of tianxia incorporates elements of Daoism,
Moism, Guan-zi, Confucius, and Xun-zi. Zhao complements them with
individual moments of liberal political philosophy.

In the four-lecture sequence of the SIP-lectures, the concept of
Tianxia and in particular Zhao's adaptation of this concept to modern
political philosophy will be appreciated and critically discussed.


Participation

Participation is free. You are kindly invited to join these lectures.

ZOOM-link for all four of these SIP-lectures:
https://zoom.us/j/93910204436?pwd=TVJ0R2pzZUlCdzNlMkNkWDZFbjRZQT09

Meeting-ID: 939 1020 4436
Code: 737347

For more information please visit our website:
http://www.int-gip.de/gip-lectures/


Contact:

Dr. Niels Weidtmann, President
Society for Intercultural Philosophy
Email: niels.weidtm...@cof.uni-tuebingen.de






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InterPhil: PUB: Reparations for Historical Injustice

2022-09-07 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Reparations for Historical Injustice
Subtitle: What is Owed to the Victims of Injustices?
Publication: Ethical Perspectives
Date: Special Issue (September 2023)
Deadline: 28.2.2023

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Description:

Are there reasons to redress historical injustices? If the answer is
affirmative, how strong are those reasons? Any cursory examination of
current public institutions or present holdings quickly reveals that
many of them are partially the result of past injustices. Several
modern states were founded on the enslavement and killing of
indigenous and other populations, as well as the theft of their lands
and property. Further, it was not until well into the 20th century
that many of these same states granted women the right to vote and
participate in politics. Although states may be able to render good
conditions of life for a significant number of their residents, their
institutions may be profoundly tainted, and many past injustices
continue to affect currently living people. In the light of these
considerations, redressing the past remains an important problem.
However, on what grounds, if any, should justice be concerned about
past injustice?

Ethical Perspectives invites contributions that engage with ideas and
arguments that critically analyze and respond to the wide range of
themes and perspectives on how to respond to historical injustices.
Some questions that papers could focus on are:

- ​​Does it matter if an existing disadvantage was caused by a past
  injustice?
- What do contemporary actors owe to the victims of historical
  injustices? What can they be realistically expected to owe victims
  of past injustices?
- If a group or individual was damaged through a past injustice but
  is now well-off, should justice be concerned with redressing the
  past injustice, or should justice only be concerned  with correcting
  the present disadvantage?
- To what extent should justice be concerned with the structure of
  the relationship between parties and aims in reconciliation?
- Is it morally relevant how victims respond to past injustices?
- Do claims based on “historical injustice” give rise to strong
  claims today? Or is the language of “historical injustice” too
  backward-looking?
- Does the fact that an injustice occurred in the past have
  independent normative relevance, or does it only have normative
  relevance if its legacies persist today?
- Does the mere fact of having been benefited or enriched from
  historical injustices give rise to duties of reparation?
- Are the duties of the beneficiary of past injustices limited to the
  disgorgement of the benefit unjustly acquired?
- How could the supersession thesis be critically reconstructed,
  applied to empirical cases, and further criticized?
- Do indigenous perspectives, ways of thinking and customs require us
  to approach the issue of justice in fundamentally different ways?
- Is there any relationship between historical injustices and
  irregular migration?
- Does the past impose limits upon current public institutions? Do
  historical injustices limit how public institutions should be
  designed?

Papers that address other, although similar, research questions are
also welcomed.

Invited contributors include: David Miller, Linda Bosniak, David
Heyd, Cara Nine, Daniel Loewe, and Margaret Moore and Michael Luoma.

Papers should be submitted by February 28, 2023, and should be
between 6.000 and 9.000 words in length. Manuscripts must be adjusted
to the Ethical Perspectives house style.

Expected date of publication: September 2023

Manuscripts are to be submitted by e-mail to:
santiago.truccone-borgo...@uni-graz.at and santiagotrucc...@gmail.com

All submissions will undergo a double-blind refereeing process.
Please note that the journal’s Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor
will have the final word on publication decisions.

Guest Editor:
Santiago Truccone-Borgogno
Institute of Philosophy, University of Graz
Email: santiagotrucc...@gmail.com






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InterPhil: CONF: World Philosophies and Traditions of Knowledge-Making

2022-08-31 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Conference Announcement

Theme: World Philosophies and Traditions of Knowledge-Making
Subtitle: Why Now? Why Here?
Type: Hybrid Workshop
Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam (Netherlands) – Online
Date: 19.–21.9.2022

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Traditionally, scholarship on world philosophies has been
predominantly tacked onto the nation-states that populate the world
discourse today. Although such a framing might suit the needs of the
current academic setup in philosophy in North America and Europe, it
is in need of an urgent overhaul. For one, the migration of ideas
that have impacted world-philosophical traditions cannot be studied
adequately when they are read as if they were derivative of the
national context in which they are located today. For another,
positions associated with these traditions are not mere historical
relics. Critical interventions that took place within them continue
to inform the present in many ways.

World Philosophies and Traditions of Knowledge-Making will bring
together scholars who challenge contemporary ways of studying
world-philosophical traditions that juxtapose them against each other
and/or depict them as bygone relics of a hoary past. It endeavors to
foreground deviant ways of doing this work, both in research and
teaching and provide a forum to exchange thoughts about how to carry
forward this work into the future.

The workshop will take place hybrid.


Program
(in CET)

19th September 2022
(Room: Forum 2)

10:00-11:00
Helen Verran, Charles Darwin University (zoom)
Conceptualizing Concepts as Praxial in Institutionally Working
Disparate Epistemic Traditions

11:00-12:00
Lilith W. Lee, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Merdeka in Ideas: (Re)constructing a Straits Chinese Philosophy

12:00-13:00
Mariëtte Willemsen, Amsterdam University College
Teaching ‘Comparative Philosophy’: Pitfalls and Antidotes

14:30-16:30
Carlo Ierna, Guno Jones, Norah Karrouche, Marije Martijn (all Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam)
Panel: Teaching the Canon

17:00-19:00
Amy Donahue, Kennesaw State University
Workshop: Using Sanskrit Logic to Invigorate Democracy and Resist
Epistemic Chaos


20th September 2022
(Room: Agora 4)

9:00-10:00
Emma Irwin, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Tba

10:00-11:00
Jayan Nayar, University of Warwick (zoom)
On ‘Europe’ and the ‘Postcolony’: An Anti-Colonial Repudiation

11:00-12:00
Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Knowledge Making Through Art under Conditions of Coloniality: The
Tagorean Vision

12:00-13:00
Richard King, SOAS, University of London
“Religion” and Cognitive Imperialism: India and the Parochialization
of “Non-Western Philosophy”

14:30-15:30
Stephen Harris, University Leiden
Can We Understand Bodhisattva Ethics as Eudaimonistic?

16:00-17:30
Mickaella Perina, University of Massachusetts
Keynote: Authority, Expertise and Coloniality: Reflections on World
Philosophy 


21th September 2022
(Room: Agora 4)

10:00-12:30
Panel: Working with World Philosophies for Doctoral Dissertations 

Martine Berenpas, Leiden University
Finding The Pivot of Dào as a Method for Global Philosophy

Saheed Bello, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/SOAS, University of London
Òrúnmìlà, Orality and Philosophy

Staci-Marie Dehaney, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Military Objects and Colonial Thinking

Li-Fan Lee, Leiden University
What Are We Doing Exactly? Self-Conceptions of Intercultural
Philosophy and a “Hermeneutic” Model

Arnold Yasin Mol, University Leiden
The Kalāmic Anthropology of Al-Māturīdī (d. 944 CE)

12:45-13:30
Chiara Robbiano, University College Utrecht
World Philosophies from Concepts to Practice — the Researcher as
Educator and Citizen
(includes concluding discussion)


Location

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building
De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam

To register for online participation, use:

Webinar ID: 910 3074 7862
Passcode: 359514


Organizer

Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Email: monika.kirlos...@vu.nl


Website of the workshop:
https://vu.nl/en/events/2022/world-philosophies-and-traditions-of-knowledge-making






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InterPhil: CFP: Interkulturelle Philosophie und Dekoloniales Denken

2022-08-25 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Aufruf zu Beiträgen

Theme: Interkulturelle Philosophie und Dekoloniales Denken
Type: Internationaler Workshop
Institution: Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès
   Universität Tübingen
Location: Tübingen (Deutschland)
Date: 27.–28.10.2022
Deadline: 30.9.2022

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Das von der Deutsch-Französische Hochschule (DFH) geförderte
Promotionsprogramm „Neue kritische Theorien und dezentralizierte
Epistemologien / Nouvelles théories critiques et epistémologies
décentrées“ (2022-2026) ist eine Kooperationsinitiative der
Universitäten Tübingen und Toulouse (Jean Jaurès), die darauf
abzielt, die europäische philosophische Erkenntnistheorie mit neueren
Strömungen der kritischen Welttheorie, wie z.B. postkoloniale und
dekoloniale Studien, interkulturelle Philosophie, Gender Studies,
Cultural Studies, Kulturphilosophie und ökologische Studien, zu
konfrontieren. Die Anforderungen, die sich aus dem ständigen
Zusammentreffen verschiedener Traditionen und Denkformen in unserer
Zeit ergeben, erfordern eine grundsätzliche Offenheit gegenüber
nicht-westlichen Philosophien. Eine solche Perspektive impliziert
eine breite Öffnung der akademischen Forschung für das Wissen von
Minderheiten und für nichtakademische Wissensproduzenten, die nicht
mehr als Objekte des Wissens, sondern als vollwertige Partner in der
Produktion von kritischem akademischem Wissen betrachtet werden.
Diese Perspektive impliziert auch eine Öffnung für die Denkweisen
außereuropäischer Kulturen und für die Herausforderungen der gelebten
Erfahrung, die sich aus neuen interkulturellen Situationen ergeben.

Im Rahmen dieses Kollegs findet am 27./28. Oktober 2022 ein Workshop
zu „Interkultureller Philosophie und dekolonialem Denken“ statt.

Der Workshop möchte die Beziehung zwischen Interkultureller
Philosophie und dekolonialem Denken beleuchten und den Austausch
zwischen diesen beiden Forschungsrichtungen fördern. Der Schwerpunkt
interkultureller Philosophie liegt auf der Offenheit einer Vielfalt
von Erfahrungswelten gegenüber, die jede Form eines
essentialistischen Kulturverständnisses übersteigt. Das erfordert
einen Rückgang auf die „Grunderfahrungen“, die in den verschiedenen
Erfahrungswelten zur Entfaltung kommen. Auch das Staunen, von dem
Platon und Aristoteles sagen, dass es am Anfang der Philosophie
steht, gehört zu solchen kulturstiftenden „Grunderfahrungen“ und kann
in der interkulturellen Begegnung nicht als allgemein verbindlich
vorausgesetzt werden. Dem dekolonialen Denken geht es dagegen
zunächst darum, die konkreten Bedingungen aufzuklären, unter denen
der Andere als „Anderer“ begegnet. Dabei zeigt sich, dass der
„Andere“ nicht in einer gleichberechtigten Position auftritt und wir
deshalb auch nicht einfach in einen Dialog mit ihm treten können.
Daher fordert das dekoloniale Denken, dass zunächst der
historisch-politische Hintergrund und die Machtverhältnisse erläutert
werden, die den Nichteuropäer als „anders“ klassifizieren und ihn in
die „Position“ der Unterlegenheit und Minderheit versetzen. Das
primäre Ziel der bevorstehenden Konferenz ist es, diese Unterschiede
zu thematisieren und gleichzeitig ein Forum zu schaffen, in dem sich
die beiden Strömungen wechselseitig inspirieren können.

Die Konferenzsprachen sind Deutsch und Französisch, aber es ist auch
möglich, auf Englisch zu präsentieren.

Bitte senden Sie Ihr Abstract (max. 500 Worte) sowie einen
tabellarischen CV (max. 2 Seiten) bis zum 30. September an die
folgende Adresse:
abbed.kan...@ciis.uni-tuebingen.de






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InterPhil: CFP: Epistemic Wrongs and Epistemic Reparations

2022-08-20 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Epistemic Wrongs and Epistemic Reparations
Type: International Conference
Institution: African Centre for Epistemology of Philosophy of Science
(ACEPS), University of Johannesburg
Location: Johannesburg (South Africa)
Date: 3.–4.11.2022
Deadline: 15.9.2022

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We live in a world riddled with epistemic wrongs, from the incidental
put down of a marginal voice to the systematic extinction of whole
knowledge systems and the continued epistemic disempowerment of whole
populations through colonialism and racism. This workshop theorises
our obligations to make epistemic reparations for such distinctively
epistemic wrongs, where epistemic reparations can be understood as
“intentionally reparative actions in the form of epistemic goods
given to those epistemically wronged by parties who acknowledge these
wrongs and whose reparative actions are intended to redress
them” (Lackey forthcoming, Proceedings and Addresses of the American
Philosophical Association).  

One example of epistemic reparations is when a space — such as a
museum — is dedicated to telling the story of the victims of these
wrongs. This workshop will, hence, take place partly at Constitution
Hill, a site of epistemic reparations, in the hope to be itself an
instance of making amends. We would like to particularly foreground
African philosophical voices in this project.

This is the first event of a three-year collaboration on Epistemic
Wrongs, Blame, and Reparations between Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern
University), Cameron Boult (Brandon University), and Veli Mitova
(University of Johannesburg). The second event — Epistemic Blame and
Epistemic Reparations — will take place at another site of epistemic
reparations, in Manitoba, Canada. The final event (site TBA) will
feature research on future directions for epistemic reparations, some
of which will be published in a special issue of Episteme.

Abstracts length: max 500 words
Submission deadline: 15 September 2022
Email to: aceps.confere...@gmail.com

Conference website:
https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/departments-2/philosophy/philosophy-centres/african-centre-for-epistemology-and-philosophy-of-science/conferences-dates/epistemic-wrongs-and-epistemic-reparations/




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InterPhil: PUB: Liminal Identities and Epistemic Injustice

2022-08-20 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Liminal Identities and Epistemic Injustice
Publication: Social Epistemology
Date: Special Issue (2024)
Deadline: 30.6.2023

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Research on epistemic injustice investigates the epistemic harms and
wrongs that people belonging to marginalized groups suffer because of
stereotypes and prejudices connected to their social identity
(Fricker 2007). The concept of identity is central in it. Yet, its
presuppositions and implications have perhaps not received full
consideration. For instance, the role of belonging in relation to
identity is still undertheorized. With this special issue of Social
Epistemology, we would like to promote a deeper investigation of
epistemic injustice, by addressing in particular liminal, mixed,
non-binary, interstitial, and complex identities (we will use
“liminal identities” as an umbrella term). Sometimes, indeed, it is
not the membership within a social group, but the denial of
belonging, the refusal to belong, or multiple and complex ways of
belonging, that generate prejudice, silencing, violence, and
oppression, coming from multiple directions. Examples include
children with parents of different races or ethnicities, who are not
accepted as “real” members in either social groups; second-generation
immigrants who are not welcomed and do not feel to belong in either
the country in which they are born, or the country of origin of their
families; intersex and trans individuals who challenge the binarism
and/or the immutability of the classification of women and men;
persons with bisexual and pansexual orientation who question the neat
separation between gay and straight, often facing invisibility and
erasure in both the straight and gay communities.

To be sure, the theme of identity, including liminal identities, is
not a new topic in several areas of research, such as feminist
philosophy, social epistemology and ontology, philosophy of race and
critical race theory, gender studies, and queer epistemologies (as
well as in fiction, literary theory, and other academic fields).
Feminists for instance have at the same time reasserted and
problematized the identity of women. While reasserting it against the
alleged sexless and genderless “subject” of much scientific and
philosophical research and the implicit oppression and silence that
come with it, they (or at least some of them) have also problematized
both the idea that sex and gender are binary, and the very
availability of a concept that is not already also imbued with other
traits such as race, ethnicity, age, class, and so forth. In fact,
the employment of a seemingly unproblematic concept of “women” in
feminist perspectives has been contested at least since Butler’s
Gender Trouble (1990), which has led to a deep rethinking of the
nature of feminism itself. Similarly, non-white feminists and Black
Feminist Thought have unmasked the predominance of white thinkers in
mainstream feminism and shown how it largely reflected the
experiences and interests of white, middle/upper class women (Davis
1981, hooks 1981, Moraga and Anzaldúa 1981, Collins 1990). The
concept of intersectionality (Crenshaw 1989) also broadened the
agenda and put to the fore the necessity of looking at multilayered
and complex identities, in which Black women’s oppression is
reinforced precisely because it comes from different directions.

Additionally, notions such as the “outsider-within”, border-dwelling,
mestizaje, hybridity, liminality, but also mimicry and passing, all
point toward the same conceptual territory, revealing the
insufficiency of monolithic notions of identity and belonging for
understanding the concrete and multifarious experiences and
narratives of individuals and social groups, as well as the specific
forms of oppression they suffer (see for instance Collins 1986,
Anzaldúa 1987, Alcoff 2006, Lugones 2006). The Foucauldian and
post-structuralist heritage, likewise, has promoted a deep rethinking
of the traditional categories of sexuality, showing their roots in
the medicalization of sex and pathologization of sexual “deviance”,
and more generally their dependency on a heteronormative and binary
framework; this, together with LGBTQ activism, paved the way for
queer and non-binary perspectives (Foucault 1976, Hacking 1985,
Sedgwick 1990).

Therefore, in broad terms, research on identities has already been
present in the philosophical debate for quite some time. However, in
our view, its relevance, especially with reference to liminal
identities and the complexities of belonging, still has to be fully
taken into account in social epistemology, and in the area of
epistemic injustice in particular. This special issue of Social
Epistemology wants to be a contribution in this direction, by making
the problematization of identities matter in contemporary research.
Although Fricker and others have occasionally taken into
con

InterPhil: PUB: Reparations for Historical Injustice

2022-08-19 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Reparations for Historical Injustice
Subtitle: What is Owed to the Victims of Injustices?
Publication: Ethical Perspectives
Date: Special Issue (September 2023)
Deadline: 28.2.2023

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Are there reasons to redress historical injustices? If the answer is
affirmative, how strong are those reasons? Any cursory examination of
current public institutions or present holdings quickly reveals that
many of them are partially the result of past injustices. Several
modern states were founded on the enslavement and killing of
indigenous and other populations, as well as the theft of their lands
and property. Further, it was not until well into the 20th century
that many of these same states granted women the right to vote and
participate in politics. Although states may be able to render good
conditions of life for a significant number of their residents, their
institutions may be profoundly tainted, and many past injustices
continue to affect currently living people. In the light of these
considerations, redressing the past remains an important problem.
However, on what grounds, if any, should justice be concerned about
past injustice?

Ethical Perspectives invites contributions that engage with ideas and
arguments that critically analyze and respond to the wide range of
themes and perspectives on how to respond to historical injustices.
Some questions that papers could focus on are:

- ​​Does it matter if an existing disadvantage was caused by a past
  injustice?
- What do contemporary actors owe to the victims of historical
  injustices? What can they be realistically expected to owe victims
  of past injustices?
- If a group or individual was damaged through a past injustice but
  is now well-off, should justice be concerned with redressing the
  past injustice, or should justice only be concerned  with correcting
  the present disadvantage?
- To what extent should justice be concerned with the structure of
  the relationship between parties and aims in reconciliation?
- Is it morally relevant how victims respond to past injustices?
- Do claims based on “historical injustice” give rise to strong
  claims today? Or is the language of “historical injustice” too
  backward-looking?
- Does the fact that an injustice occurred in the past have
  independent normative relevance, or does it only have normative
  relevance if its legacies persist today?
- Does the mere fact of having been benefited or enriched from
  historical injustices give rise to duties of reparation?
- Are the duties of the beneficiary of past injustices limited to the
  disgorgement of the benefit unjustly acquired?
- How could the supersession thesis be critically reconstructed,
  applied to empirical cases, and further criticized?
- Do indigenous perspectives, ways of thinking and customs require us
  to approach the issue of justice in fundamentally different ways?
- Is there any relationship between historical injustices and
  irregular migration?
- Does the past impose limits upon current public institutions? Do
  historical injustices limit how public institutions should be
  designed?

Papers that address other, although similar, research questions are
also welcomed.

Invited contributors include:
David Miller, Linda Bosniak, David Heyd, Cara Nine, Daniel Loewe, and
Margaret Moore and Michael Luoma.

Papers should be submitted by February 28, 2023, and should be
between 6.000 and 9.000 words in length. Manuscripts must be adjusted
to the Ethical Perspectives house style.

Expected date of publication: September 2023

Manuscripts are to be submitted by e-mail to:
santiago.truccone-borgo...@uni-graz.at and santiagotrucc...@gmail.com

All submissions will undergo a double-blind refereeing process.
Please note that the journal’s Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor
will have the final word on publication decisions.

Guest Editor:
Santiago Truccone-Borgogno (University of Graz)


Contact:

Santiago Truccone-Borgogno, ÖAW Post-DocTrack Fellow
Institute of Philosophy
University of Graz
Email: santiagotrucc...@gmail.com




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InterPhil: CFP: Inter-Asian Legalities

2022-08-19 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Inter-Asian Legalities
Type: International Workshop
Institution: National University of Singapore
Location: Singapore
Date: 12.–14.1.2023
Deadline: 31.8.2022

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This workshop will consider the contemporary realities and historical
foundations that legal systems and cultures are built upon in Asia.
It responds to a conundrum that entails the reconceptualization of
Asia as a set of interconnected processes: as borders are being
crossed more easily than ever before, abetted by technological
advancements in digital infrastructure, local legal regimes and
actors continue to maintain their socio-political and territorial
resonance. We time this workshop at the moment when the globe is
bouncing back from a health pandemic and restrictions on travel has
shaken the assumptions of a globalized world. It is thus a useful
juncture to pause and reflect upon transnational legalities and
governance structures, which have been disrupted, but remain in
effect across the Asian region (see, for example, Ho, 2017; Kingsley,
2021).

The workshop contributes to social-legal studies, area studies and
urban studies by foregrounding “Inter-Asia” as a mode of
interdisciplinary work that privileges mobility, relationality and
porosity (Chua, Ken, Ho, Ho, Rigg & Yeoh, 2019). First, it highlights
how transnational legalities operating at different scales across
Asia are underpinned by a fabric of governance that weaves state and
non-state actors. Both state and non-state actors work through
different institutions and regulatory frameworks that challenge
traditional notions of jurisdiction and applicable substantive law
while illuminating existing schisms (Kingsley, 2018). Recognizing the
heterogeneous nature of governance is critical as there has been an
acceleration of infrastructures – physical, digital and social – of
multi-scalar connections over the last two decades (for a discussion
of social infrastructures, see Elyachar, 2010). The sphere and
construction of law is being redrawn, blending non-state local rules,
domestic state laws, international law, and privatised transnational
law (based on contractual relationships). By showing how such
processes are often carried out in plural legal environments, we
identify and analyze the necessary work carried out by legal
intermediaries (von Benda-Beckman, 2021). It is these legal
intermediaries that create new, and heterogeneous, fabrics of
governance.

Second, the workshop brings history to bear on the present. The
fabric of governance that has emerged today has deep historical roots
(Duara, 2010; Hussin, 2002). For sure, businesses – engaged in both
legal and illegal activities – are being transformed and the
challenges from climate change to pandemics require new kinds of
legal response and modes of practice. However, to interpret
contemporary Asian circumstances we need to recognise our legal
realities are built on historical foundations and long-standing
ideational, and systemic, foundations (Laffan, 2011; Yahaya, 2020).
Acknowledging these historical foundations reorient the frames of
reference that are often taken for granted (such as Western models of
liberal jurisprudence) as well as bring to surface the geographies of
development that appear to have faded away in the present. For
example, maritime trade networks from the Arabian Gulf through the
Bay of Bengal to the great ports of Southeast Asia and beyond, have
created a sea of documented, and relational, legal connections and
these are replicated on the maritime and inland trade routes today
(Bishara, 2017). Colonial law and juridical principles continue to
haunt the contemporary, revealing the uneven trajectories and
strategic use of law in different Asian polities.

Finally, the workshop recognises that the infrastructures of legal
connectivity end up in urban centres that connect and disconnect
different parts of the world. As scholars of global cities
(Appadurai, 1990; Sassen, 2001) have shown, the international
division of labour and the concentration of global corporate power
has produced urban centres where the actual work of globalization is
done. The fabric of governance that involve state and non-state
actors as described above find specific expression in these centres –
headquarters of international organizations and law firms, meeting
grounds for legal mediation and networking, and “liveable” cities for
the social reproduction of global elites. Yet, at the same time,
global cities are not totally disembedded from local jurisdictions,
which have strong territorial fixity and whose specific laws may or
may not conform with what these experts prescribe for others.

It is into this porous socio-political and governance environment
that we have today’s grand challenges, whether they be environmental,
health or mercantile. Asia’s legal and governance interconnections
are, therefore, pragmati

InterPhil: CFA: Research Fellowships in Intercultural Studies

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Call for Applications

Type: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Intercultural Studies
Institution: College of Fellows – Center for Interdisciplinary and
Intercultural Studies, University of Tübingen
Location: Tübingen (Germany)
Date: 2022–2023
Deadline: Ongoing

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The College of Fellows – Center for Interdisciplinary and
Intercultural Studies (CoF – CIIS) of the University of Tübingen is
currently inviting applications for International Research
Fellowships for a period of up to 12 months in the field of
Intercultural Studies. The College of Fellows-CIIS is Tübingen
University's institute for advanced studies promoting
interdisciplinary research. This is reflected in the College's
various focus groups which bring together scholars of different
disciplines dedicated to specific topics. One of these focus groups
is on interculturality, in which successful applicants will
participate.

The call is open only to scholars who have been working academically
outside of Germany for at least two years at the time of application.
Applicants must have successfully completed their PhD, initial
postdoctoral research experience is welcome. Applicants are expected
to pursue their own research project in the field of intercultural
and global studies, dealing with fundamental questions regarding the
awareness of the coexistence of different cultures in the global
world.

Within the scholarship program, the main interest lies on following
exemplary issues: What is cultural belonging, and can one speak of
such a notion at all? What impact does globalization have on
conceptions of such cultural belonging? In which ways do global
cultural entanglements effect the self-understanding of societies,
and how can hidden power structures and ascriptions of identity be
uncovered? Can the diversity of intellectual and lived traditions be
represented in the global reality of contemporary societies, and how?
Do globalized cultural entanglements change our relationship to
nature? And what does this mean for the humanities and even the
sciences?

Successful applicants are expected to organize a workshop in
collaboration with CoF – CIIS, and to participate in weekly research
colloquia. Fellows are required to take residence in Tübingen; very
good German and/or English language skills are mandatory. The
research project must be conducted in one of these two languages.

The University of Tübingen provides a monthly stipend of 2.350,- EUR,
working space will be available. The scholarship can start earliest 1
October 2022.

Applications (research proposal, CV, letter of recommendation) are
welcome at any time (via e-mail):

Dr. Niels Weidtmann, Director
College of Fellows – Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural
Studies
University of Tübingen
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz
72074 Tübingen
Germany
Email: niels.weidtm...@cof.uni-tuebingen.de

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InterPhil: CFP: Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy

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Call for Papers

Theme: Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy
Subtitle: On the Desirability of Speaking with Others
Type: Interdisciplinary Conference
Institution: Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities,
Bard College
Location: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (USA)
Date: 2.–3.3.2023
Deadline: 15.10.2022

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Description

One of the latest features of the crisis of democratic culture is the
problematization of free speech. The dysfunction of public discourse
in democratic societies has sparked skepticism about the validity of
the principle itself and concerns about its evident impracticability.
This line of interrogation has targeted the grounds and scope of this
putatively desirable freedom. For example, does Louis Brandeis’s idea
that with “more speech… the truth will out” have any actual empirical
validity? Or does the weaponizability of free speech in the age of
the internet not call for modifying or restricting its legal
protection? This conference aims to expand the parameters of the
current conversation by taking a step back from the desirability of
unrestricted ‘freedom’ of expression and shifting critical attention
to the desirability of ‘talking to others.’ For any case to be made
in support or against free speech is, more fundamentally, a statement
about whether the good of talking to others demands the protections
that make it possible, be that demand conceived in moral,
instrumental, or prudential terms.

We propose to launch the conversation by foregrounding the
contributions of two figures who have explicitly and substantively
defended the necessity of speaking to others who differ from and with
us: Immanuel Kant, who first elaborated philosophical grounds for the
idea, and Hannah Arendt, who critically revived the Kantian framework
in the middle of the 20th century — at a historical juncture where
she considered the defense of pluralism to be at risk. In his
Critique of Judgment (1790), Kant famously puts forward the maxim to
“think in the position of everybody else,” and characterizes
judgments of taste as requiring that one “reflect on [their] own
judgment from a universal standpoint” which entails “putting
[one]self into the standpoint of others.” In fact, Kant further warns
in his Anthropology (1798) of the dangers of “isolating ourselves
with our own understanding and judging publicly with our private
representations.” In her well-known Kant Lectures (Fall 1970), Arendt
draws out the implications of Kant’s claim that to “restrain our
understanding by the understanding of others” is, in fact, a
“subjectively necessary touchstone of the correctness of our
judgments generally.” Building on this, Arendt puts forward the
related notions of ‘representative thinking’ and ‘enlarged
mentality,’ which involve not only the idea that it is good to think
from the standpoint of others and take their thoughts into account,
but that “thinking...depends on others to be possible at all.”
Whatever her differences with Kant, Arendt is to be credited for
highlighting the radical force of Kant’s “belie[f] that the very
faculty of thinking depends on its public use” because it was “not
made ‘to isolate itself but to get into community with others’.”

The aim of this conference is to curate an interdisciplinary
conversation between scholars in the humanities and humanistic social
sciences who are interested in critically exploring historical or
theoretical accounts of the practice of talking to others in
philosophy, political science, cultural studies, history,
linguistics, or any related humanistic discipline. We welcome
contributions that may be informed by notions of alterity and ‘the
Other’ (which commonly appear as technical terms in 20th century
European philosophy) — however, our interest lies in contexts where
‘the other’ is related to as an interlocutory partner of some kind,
where engaging ‘another’ or ‘others’ is ascribed a function or value
in some domain of thought, and especially, where modes of talking to
others are deemed consequential not merely for our thoughts and
opinions, but for our capacity for thinking and making judgments.
Papers may be archival, theoretical, historical, conceptual,
descriptive, normative, or any combination thereof.

We offer a cluster of key terms and topics, though the following list
is by no means exhaustive:

- Thinking Alone vs. Thinking with Others
- Publicity; Community
- Pluralism/Plurality; Relationality; Autonomy
- Identity and Difference
- Affects, Feelings, & Emotions; the Imagination
- The role or function of others in:
  * ethics and moral psychology (e.g., love, friendship, forgiveness)
  * politics (e.g., human rights, polarization, disagreement,
persuasion)
  * aesthetics (e.g., the sociality of taste; narrativity; the
fictional other)
- Limits of philosophical concepts of ‘the Other’ and/or possible
  tensions with practical or political accoun

InterPhil: CFP: Nationalism and Multiculturalism

2022-08-10 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Nationalism and Multiculturalism
Type: 32nd Annual Conference
Institution: Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
(ASEN)
   Loughborough University Nationalism Network (LUNN)
Location: Loughborough (United Kingdom)
Date: 3.–5.4.2023
Deadline: 7.11.2022

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The 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of
Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) will take place on 3-5 April 2023.
This year’s theme will be Nationalism and Multiculturalism. The
Annual Conference will take place in Loughborough and is organised in
cooperation with the Loughborough University Nationalism Network
(LUNN).

The Ernest Gellner Lecture will take place on 2 April 2023 followed
by a reception.


Rationale

About ten years ago, key European leaders like Angela Merkel, David
Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy pronounced the death of multiculturalism
arguing it had failed to incorporate migrants and their children into
European societies. A decade on, we now live in times of rampant
nationalisms, frequently imbued with anti-immigration if not overtly
xenophobic positions. Yet, if multiculturalism as political rhetoric
is dead, it is certainly alive and thriving as a demographic fact,
through a range of cultural practices and even as a model of policy
interventions in many contemporary societies.

The conference explores the tensions between nationalism and
multiculturalism in order to reflect on demographic change in
increasingly diverse societies.

By exploring how the nation changes when its population changes
multiculturalism is not only understood in normative terms, as a
political principle for integrating a diverse population, but also as
a descriptor of the ‘transition to diversity’ (Richard Alba) which
characterises many contemporary societies.

Thus, along questions which speak more closely to multiculturalism as
a normative principle and a policy paradigm (we are also interested
in questions which interrogate the relationship between nation and
diversity in its everyday aspects.

The conference is intended to cover cases from all parts of the world
and welcomes papers based on different theoretical perspectives and
methodological approaches. We also invite contributions from
different disciplines and fields, such as sociology, geography,
anthropology, psychology, political science, political theory,
demography, migration studies, cultural studies, media and
communication studies, critical racial studies, philosophy, history,
and law.

Themes may include, but are not limited to:

- Nationalism and diversity
- Race and nation – racism and nationalism
- Nationalism and belonging
- Religious diversity and national societies
- Multiethnicity in post-colonial states
- Competing nationalisms in multinational states
- Critical perspectives on ethnicity and race
- Nationalism, acculturation and assimilation
- Liberal nationalism and group differentiated rights
- Nationalism, multiculturalism and interculturalism
- Multicultural citizenship
- Empires and multiculturalism
- Evaluating the ‘politics of recognition’
- Migration, multiculturalism and minority rights
- Nationalism and demographic change 
- Nationalism, transnationalism and diaspora 
- Everyday multiculturalism and everyday nationalism
- Nations between multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism
- Multiculturalism and intersectionality –
  (gender/sexuality/class/age/ethnicity/race)
- Media, diversity and everyday nationalism
- Media and the imagination of diverse, plural nation
- Global media and multiculturalism


Submissions

Please submit your abstract through the conference website by 7
November 2022. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and they
must include a working title and the position and affiliation of the
author. You should expect to speak for no more than 15 minutes.
Please ensure that you highlight how your paper relates to the
conference theme and its central questions.

Co-authored papers must be submitted by only one of the authors, with
additional authors indicated in the comments section of the form.

We welcome proposals for panels of three to four papers. Please
follow the link on the abstract page to submit your proposal. Please
note that reviewers will take into consideration the proposal;
however, papers are evaluated on an individual basis and panel paper
submissions may be split up.


Enquiries

For any enquiries in relation to the conference, please email:
confere...@asen.ac.uk


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InterPhil: CFP: Globalization, Educational Policy and Ethics

2022-08-06 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Globalization, Educational Policy and Ethics
Type: International and Interdisciplinary Conference
Institution: Institute of Cross Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange
   Jawaharlal Nehru University
Location: New Delhi (India)
Date: 29.–30.12.2022
Deadline: 15.9.2022

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Subtopics

Globalization and Cultural Evolution, Globalization and its Effect on
School Curriculum, Globalization and Educational Policy,
Globalization and Primary Level Education in China, Globalization and
Primary level Education in Taiwan, Globalization and Primary level
Education in Bangladesh, Globalization and Primary level Education in
Indonesia, Globalization and Ethical Impact on Society, Culture and
Education, Round table discussion on systems of Education in
different Asian Countries, Ethical Implications of Globalization in
Primary School Curriculum in India, Globalization and Consumerism etc.

Deadline to send abstract:
September 15, 2022

Submit title and abstract to Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti at:
chandanac...@gmail.com

Advisory Board

Yolanda Espina (Portugal), Abigail Klassen (Canada), Tommi Lehtonen
(Finland), Debkumar Mukhopadhyya (India), Deven Patel (USA), Nina
Petek (Slovenia), Rizwanur Rahman (India), Ming Shao (China), Richard
Vulich (USA), Su Chen Wu (Taiwan), Yanling Xu (China)

Scholars from different corners of the world join our conferences.

The Cambridge Scholars Press has published seven books co-edited by
members of our advisory board from selected papers from our last
conferences. We also publish papers in our Journal of Indian
Philosophy & Religion if the theme of the paper is in the area of
publication of the Journal. We will also edit an anthology out of
selected papers presented at the conference.


Contact:

Chandana Chakrabarti, Ph.D., Executive Director
Institute for Cross Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange
PO Box 79
Elon, NC 27244
USA
Phone: +1 336 417-1153
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InterPhil: CONF: Hegel, slavery and abolition

2022-08-06 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Conference Announcement

Theme: Hegel, slavery and abolition
Type: 5th Workshop Hegel (anti)kolonial & Guest Lecture
Institution: Humboldt University Berlin
Location: Berlin (Germany) – Online
Date: 29.–30.8.2022

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The 5th edition of Hegel (anti)kolonial addresses Hegel’s
philosophical stance on slavery, especially in the context of
colonialism. While Hegel’s famous dialectic of lordship and bondage
in the Phenomenology of Spirit has often been read as emancipatory
critique of oppressive relations such as slavery, and his theory of
freedom praises the notion that all human beings are entitled to
freedom as an insight that is pivotal to modernity, there are various
places in Hegel’s oeuvre where he takes a deeply ambivalent position
when it comes to slavery. Thus, in lectures from his Berlin period,
he revisits the dialectic of lordship and bondage in order to present
colonial slavery as a necessary precondition for liberation that
serves to educate and discipline enslaved people, and he claims that
transatlantic chattle slavery marks a progress vis-à-vis the
cruelties that characterize, in his account, traditional forms of
life in Africa. And in a long remark following section 57 in his
Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel constructs the
contemporary debate on slavery as an “antinomy” in which both sides
grasp a partial truth: those who reject slavery are right insofar as
slavery is ultimately unjust; yet at the same time, those who defend
slavery are right insofar as humans are initially “natural beings”
that have to go through a process of education in order to become
free—a process in which slavery has a legitimate place. This
ambivalent assessment of slavery is matched by remarks that Hegel
makes in his Lectures on the Philosophy of History about abolition,
one of the biggest moral and political issues in his lifetime: Hegel
favours gradual abolition, rejecting demands for an immediate
abolition of slavery on the grounds that enslaved people have to be
sufficiently educated before they are capable of a life in freedom. 

How can we exactly understand Hegel’s pronouncements on slavery, and
what are their underlying philosophical motivations? How do they
connect to other parts of his system, such as his views on property
and personality, and his theories of race and of history? How can we
understand Hegel’s place in 19th century debates on slavery and
abolition, and how do these issues relate to more recent
philosophical engagements with Hegel? These are some of the questions
that we are going to discuss at our workshop.


Program
(Berlin times)

Monday, August 29th, 2022
Guest lecture

18:15
Robert Bernasconi:
Philosophical histories as sites of racism

Abstract:
https://hegelantikolonial.wordpress.com/guest-lecture-by-robert-bernasconi-philosophical-histories-as-sites-of-racism/


Tuesday, August 30th, 2022
Workshop

10:30
Daniel James (Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf), Franz Knappik
(University of Bergen):
Welcome and Introduction: Hegel on Slavery – Texts and Contexts

11:00
Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University):
Hegel and the Alleged Necessity of African Slavery

11:30
David James (University of Warwick):
Does Hegel’s Theory of the Relationship Between Personality and
Property Justify Colonial Oppression?

12:00
Discussion

13:15
Lunch break

14:30
Lydia Moland (Colby College):
The Failed European: Images, Narrative, and Racist Hierarchy in
Hegel’s Philosophy of History

15:00
Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (University of Warwick):
Hegel and Heyrick

15:30
Discussion

16:45
Coffee break

17:15
Josias Tembo (Radboud University):
Hegel’s African Subject and the Lord-Bondsman Dialectic: Thoughts on
Fanon’s and Mbembe’s Renditions

17:45
Discussion

18:30
End

Abstracts:
https://hegelantikolonial.wordpress.com/hegel-slavery-and-abolition-abstracts/


Venue / Zoom

Humboldt University Berlin, Main Building
Unter den Linden 6, Room 2070A

Streamed via Zoom.
Online participants are welcome to take part in the discussion. To
register, click here:
https://uib.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ipf-6vqj8oH9NCpWkc-HaHfOVDk3WcPs-D


Organizers

This workshop is organized by Daniel James and Franz Knappik, with
the support of Tobias Rosefeldt (HU Berlin).

Daniel James
Email: daniel.ja...@uni-duesseldorf.de

Franz Knappik
Email: franz.knap...@uib.no


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InterPhil: CFP: Territorial rights and rights to movement and subsistence

2022-08-06 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Territorial rights and rights to movement and subsistence
Type: International Workshop
Institution: Department of Philosophy, University of Genoa
Location: Genoa (Italy)
Date: 12.–13.12.2022
Deadline: 30.9.2022

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We find ourselves in a world where wars, poverty and environmental
crises are increasingly forcing people out of their countries,
regions, places of settlement and so on. These, indeed, are all
urgent challenges that states are facing and that call for more
normative work aimed at providing states with fine theoretical tools
to orient their immigration and borders-control policies.

The main normative problems lie on different possible ways to
interpret and justify states’ territorial rights and, particularly,
states’ right to control their borders and massive flows of people
across them. We would like to tackle fundamental questions such as
whether migrants’ exclusion violates their rights to movement and
subsistence with a specific focus on what states’ territorial rights
entail.

You are therefore invited to submit an abstract (max 300 words in
Engish) on any of the following sub-themes:

- Territorial rights and human rights
- Territorial rights, displacement, and migration
- Territorial rights and eviction
- Territorial rights, states, groups, and individuals

If the abstract is accepted, you will be asked to submit a short
paper that will be made available to participants in advance and
discussed during the workshop. Each speaker is allocated 60 minutes:
paper presentation (20 minutes), questions from the discussant and
reply (15 minutes), open discussion (25 minutes).

Young researchers are especially welcomed to send their contributions
to Rita Ezugwu, Camilla Barbieri, or Chiara Molinero.

Deadline: 30 September 2022

Keynote speakers:

Sarah Fine (University of Cambridge),
David Miller (Nuffield College, Oxford)

Organisers:

Rita Ogochukwu Ezugwu
Email: ritaogochukwu.ezu...@edu.unige.it

Camilla Barbieri
Email: camillabarbier...@gmail.com

Chiara Molinero
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InterPhil: CFP: Colonized Manuscripts

2022-08-03 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Colonized Manuscripts
Subtitle: Appropriation, Dislocation and (Post-)Colonial Epistemics
since the Age of Empire
Type: International Conference
Institution: Research Centre "Hamburgs (post-)colonial legacy /
Hamburg and early globalization", University of Hamburg
Location: Hamburg (Germany)
Date: 6.–7.2.2023
Deadline: 25.9.2022

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Whilst the debate on colonial art in European museums has been in the
limelight, and restitution is seriously considered, written artefacts
have strangely been absent from the discussion. However as with
artistic objects a significant part of manuscripts and early prints
from outside of Europe in libraries, archives and museums of the
Global North were appropriated within colonial contexts. They were
acquired in unequal transactions, seized by colonial administrations,
looted in military campaigns or bought by collectors with backing
from the colonial powers.

To date, the vast number of manuscripts from former colonies in
European libraries and museums has not remotely received the same
degree of attention as have colonial art and objects. Despite
high-profile cases of contested manuscripts from Ethiopia or Mexico
and even successful restitutions to South Korea and Namibia, written
artifacts seem to be considered too frequently as mere texts whose
contents can be replicated, and whose physical location is therefore
of secondary importance. However, this ignores the materiality of
manuscripts, their cultural relevance and the epistemic consequences
of their appropriation and dislocation.

The focus of manuscripts as text only disregards the epistemic
aspects of the dislocation of manuscripts. Colonialism was not only a
form of domination and a social practice, but also constituted a form
of hegemonic epistemology, which was reinforced by the appropriation
and dislocation of knowledge repositories such as manuscripts and
early prints. While the ensuing availability of written artefacts in
Europe has shaped scholarship, difficulties of access in their
countries of origin have prevented the transmission of and engagement
with written artefacts. This imbalance helped to shape colonial
ideology, imperial systems of knowledge and ultimately informed
colonial rule.

Analyzing the biographies of manuscripts, from their colonial
appropriation to the present, requires new methodological approaches
and international cooperation. The conference is envisioned as a
networking event, initiating a much needed and long overdue debate on
colonized manuscripts in a field yet to be fully established.

We therefore invite academics at all points in their career as well
as professionals from related fields to present their research and
thoughts. Contributions from all relevant disciplines are welcome,
such as history, sociology, literary and cultural studies. We invite
applications on written artefacts in a broad sense, including
inscriptions, rare prints and libraries from colonial contexts.

Possible contributions might include but are not limited to the role
of manuscripts in:
- Case studies on loot, displacement and destruction of written
  artefacts;
- Case studies on actors (e.g. scientists, colonial administrators,
  missionaries) and institutions (e.g. museums, archives, libraries)
  as collectors of written artefacts;
- Role and agency of “local” actors in the European procurement of
  and engagement with written artefacts;
- Impact of the dislocation of written artifacts on the respective
  communities;
- Impact of the dislocation of written artifacts on European
  epistemic systems;
- Studies on the use of manuscript for the production of colonial
  knowledge and exercise of colonial power;
- Impact the collection of and engagement with manuscripts had on
  European ideological frameworks like universalism, racism and
  eurocentrism;
- Transimperial movement and circulation of manuscripts;
- Debates on their restitution.

The event will be held at the research center “Hamburg’s
(post-)colonial legacy / Hamburg and early globalization” at the
University of Hamburg. Some bursaries will be available to help with
travel costs and accommodation for accepted papers.

Please send an abstract of about 300 words and a short CV, by 25
September 2022, to:
kolonialis...@uni-hamburg.de

Authors of approved papers will be notified and invited by November
2022.

For further Information please visit:
https://kolonialismus.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/2022/07/12/call-for-proposals-colonized-manuscripts/


Contact:

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer
Research Centre "Hamburgs (post-)colonial legacy / Hamburg and early
globalization"
University of Hamburg
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InterPhil: JOB: Research Associate for Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts

2022-08-03 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Job Announcement

Type: Research Associate for Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts
Institution: Institute of Jewish Philosophy and Religion, University
of Hamburg
Location: Hamburg (Germany)
Date: from October 2022
Deadline: 16.8.2022

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We are looking for a research associate for the ERC project HEPMASITE
(Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts as Sites of Engagement) at the
University of Hamburg. This is a fixed-term contract for a period of
24 month.

Responsibilities

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research
associates may also pursue independent research and further academic
qualifications.

Specific Duties

The successful candidate will focus their research on a topic
relevant to HEPMASITE’s project goals. In addition to research, the
successful candidate will coordinate the project’s database. The
position requires participation in HEPMASITE events and an active
engagement in its activities.

Requirements

A university degree in a relevant field plus doctorate.

A degree in Philosophy or Jewish Studies is preferred, with focus on
medieval thought. Their research should be directly connected to
HEPMASITE's research focus. The ideal candidate should have:

- excellent profiency in English
- strong knowledge of Hebrew 
- knowledge of Latin or Arabic is desirable

Instructions for applying

Send us your complete application documents (cover letter including
the applicant’s research goals, curriculum vitae, copies of degree
certificate(s), two names and contact details of referees, a sample
of academic writing [up to 15 pages] and if necessary ID attesting to
your disability or proof of equivalent status) via the online
application form only.

Reference number: 296

Application deadline: 16.8.2022

For details please see here:
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=870e9a811c7aaac0e250d2ed892d3b63d36a9208

For more information on the HEPMASITE project, see here:
https://www.philosophie.uni-hamburg.de/en/hepmasite/about.html


Contact

Dr. Yoav Meyrav
Institute of Jewish Philosophy and Religion
University of Hamburg
Jungiusstraße 11
20355 Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49 40 42838-9835
Email: yoav.mey...@uni-hamburg.de






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InterPhil: CFP: Morality, Spirituality, Culture and Society

2022-08-03 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Morality, Spirituality, Culture and Society
Subtitle: East and West
Type: International and Interdisciplinary Conference
Institution: Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion (SIPR)
   Adamas University
Location: Kolkata (India)
Date: 2.–3.1.2023

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Scholars from different corners of the world join our conferences.

The conference will have plenary sessions, group sessions and round
table sessions.

The conferences will also have Garden Session which will allow the
presenter to speak on a particular area of their own research.

Scholars from different fields are cordially invited to send their
abstracts (150 words).

Submit title and abstract to Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti at:
chandanac...@gmail.com

Also send a copy to:
iccsaexcha...@gmail.com

Conference Directors:

Chandana Chakrabarti (USA)
Kisor Chakrabarti (USA)

Advisory Board:

Yolanda Espina (Portugal), Tommi Lehtonen (Finland), Deven Patel
(USA), Nina Petek (Slovenia), Rizwan Rahman (India), Ming Shao
(China), Richard Vulich (USA), Su Chen Wu (Taiwan), Yanling Xu (China)

The Cambridge Scholars Press has published seven books co-edited by
members of our advisory board from selected (after editorial review)
papers from our last conferences. We also publish papers in our
Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion if the theme of the paper
is in the area of publication of the Journal.

Conference website:
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InterPhil: CFP: Global Environmental Justice and Its Limits

2022-08-02 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Global Environmental Justice and Its Limits
Subtitle: Complexities of Time and Space
Type: 2nd Annual Conference
Institution: Network for Global Justice and the Environmental
Humanities
   Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University
Location: Aarhus (Denmark) – Online
Date: 3.–5.11.2022
Deadline: 22.8.2022

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The 2nd Annual Conference of the Network for Global Justice and the
Environmental Humanities will take place at the Centre for
Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University, 3–5 November 2022.

We warmly welcome proposals from diverse participants including
junior and senior researchers, environmental activists, artists,
journalists as well as other civil society actors who wish to engage
in a dialogue about concepts, practices, and multiple understandings
of global justice in a moment of mounting environmental urgencies.

With this year's conference, we intend to bring together scholarly
and activist experiences that speak from different backgrounds or
that crisscross the boundaries of North and South. The conference
will feature keynote lectures by scholars and activists reflecting
multiple approaches to questions of justice linked to their situated
and specific contexts. It will further include traditional panel and
round-table formats alongside more experimental forms of
participation such as walks and transformative design challenges. We
thus encourage proposals for innovative formats, interactive events,
and multimedia presentations, alongside more traditional academic
genres, such as talks, papers, and roundtable discussions. Overall,
we solicit diverse kinds of contributions that address the
conference’s themes and topics as they also promote cross-boundary
scholarly and societal engagement.


Conference Theme

We intend to spark discussions about plural understandings of justice
by exploring how scholars, activists and other civil society actors
relate with the concept, and how they negotiate justice claims
through space and time. We explicitly seek to address the temporal
and spatial dimensions of global environmental justice by considering
how colonial/postcolonial trajectories inform mobilization and
communication strategies in ongoing conflicts over resources,
territories and the distribution of risks. Crucial to speaking back
to and denouncing global environmental injustices are questions of
how to give shape to stories of global justice. How do we tell
"terrible" stories that are still motivating, empowering and hopeful
– if these are the stories to tell?

In particular, we intend to discuss how the different temporalities
and histories inherent to different notions of global justice play
out in environmental justice movements and how imperial/colonial
pathways of extraction shape environmental justice claims and
practices of transformative future-making. Furthermore, we intend to
explore how to give form to (through narration, storytelling,
performance, theories, video, writing) such histories and how stories
– or other forms – can be assistive in breaking the course of
environmental injustice.

Environmental justice practices often include strong engagements with
histories, including via the documentation of histories of pollution,
expulsions from homelands, alienating forms of urban planning, and
the more-than-human lifeworlds damaged by industrial agriculture or
buried beneath concrete. Justice movements work with histories not
only to trace practices of harm, but also to identify inspiration for
ongoing struggles in examples of past resistances. Importantly, they
often experiment with other modes of narrating pasts – including
histories that challenge logics of growth and denaturalize state
claims. Thus, when we seek to focus on "histories" within the context
of this conference, we are not interested merely in the work of
historians or in mainstream histories. Instead, we are broadly
interested in everyday ways of invoking the past within practices of
activism and in relation to wide-ranging questions about justice,
ecologies, and environments.


Guiding Questions

- How do histories matter to current (global) environmental justice
  practices?
- How can a historical understanding of imperial modes of living and
  material histories of modernization inform transformative practices
  today?
- How do we identify and work with the (hi)stories that need to be
  told, and in what ways do the mode of telling them matter?
- What past modes of resistance/resilience can and do inform
  environmental justice practices?
- What temporalities enliven diverse practices of conserving,
  restoring and caring?
- What is the relationship between histories of colonialism and
  current debates and practices around conservation and environmental
  stewardship?
- How have notions of global environmental justice evolved
  historically?
- How can we account for historica

InterPhil: PUB: New Perspectives in African Philosophy

2022-08-02 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: New Perspectives in African Philosophy
Publication: Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics
Date: Vol. 46, No. 2 (Summer 2023)
Deadline: 1.11.2022

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For over three decades, from the middle of the 20th century onward,
reflection about African philosophy revolved around the question of
its existence or non-existence (following that of the capacity of
Africans and Blacks to philosophize), or the other question of its
nature (i.e., its characteristics, especially in relation to European
philosophy). To a certain extent, African philosophy is still
concerned with these questions today.

For the most part, this treatment of African philosophy has a
colonial background and bears a colonial flavor. As Marcien Towa
noted, the question of whether African philosophy exists, which is
another way of asking if Africans (especially Blacks) are capable of
philosophizing, did not emerge from the inner development of African
cultures and societies. Rather, this question was asked by European
imperialists and colonizers in order to justify (more or less
directly) their attitude toward these people, cultures and societies.
Even the claim of an authentic African philosophy does not escape
this context, as what would be latter labelled the “quarrel about
‘African philosophy’” originally arose from the publication of the
book Bantu Philosophy (1945) by a Belgian missionary named Placide
Tempels. Today, the major challenge of African philosophy seems to be
that of decoloniality in order to invent, as Emmanuel Eze has argued,
a “postcolonial future.”

This special issue focuses on the new perspectives opened up by this
new challenge concerning African philosophy, leaving aside the
original and overly discussed questions concerning its existence or
non-existence, and the other question of its nature. The aim is to
shed new light on current approaches to African philosophy,
specifically investigating new trends, themes and aspects.
Contributions in this vein that seek to enhance the current
understanding of African philosophy are welcome. Authors are
encouraged to discuss a specific theme, topic, or issue, or to engage
with particular aspects, opinions and views related to specific
authors, with a broad academic audience in mind.


Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be properly typed out in MS Word (Times New Roman,
12 Font), not exceeding 8,000 words and not below 4,000, complete
with an abstract of 100 words alongside 4 or 5 keywords, incorporated
within the essay itself.

All essays shall be peer-reviewed (refereed) and those abounding in
solecisms, catachresis, or insufficiently argued shall be returned
unread. “Works Cited” and “Notes” must preferably follow the MLA 8th
convention without exception.

Each essay submitted must carry a declaration that it has not been
published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The least suspicion
of plagiarism will result in an outright rejection of the article.

The cover letter should include a brief author’s bio with no
revelation of the author’s identity in the paper itself. An
acknowledgement shall be sent upon receipt. A further communication
shall be made only after the editor considers the paper worthy of
publication.

Please email your abstracts to:
jebit...@gmail.com

With a copy to:
jclain...@gmail.com

Revisions must be returned in three weeks without further delay.
Authors are implored to wait at least two months before withdrawing
their article, in case no communication has been made. Simultaneous
submissions are not allowed.

Guest Editor:
Adoulou N. Bitang (Tel Aviv University, Israel)


Important Dates

Submission deadline:
November 31, 2022

Decision of acceptance:
December 15, 2023

Submission of entire manuscripts:
April 31, 2023

Publication of the issue:
Summer 2023 (Vol. 46, No. 2)


Journal website:
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InterPhil: JOB: Professor in Religion and Human Rights

2022-08-02 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Job Announcement

Type: Associate or Full Professor in Religion and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Religion and Center for the Advancement of
Human Rights, Florida State University
Location: Tallahassee, FL (USA)
Date: from August 2023
Deadline: 30.9.2022

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Florida State University's Department of Religion and Center for the
Advancement of Human Rights invite applications for a full-time
9-month tenured (associate or full) Professor working in Religion and
Human Rights to begin on August 8, 2023. Methodology and
sub-specialization are open. The department and center expect to hire
a scholar who is fully conversant with the corpus of international
human-rights norms and who has a strong record of publications and
teaching in the history, theory, and praxis of the modern human
rights field. We will prioritize a scholar who shows interest in
supporting the curriculum of the department's new interdisciplinary
major in Human Rights and Social Justice, and who is open to
cross-disciplinary teaching and research.

Applications are especially welcome from women, members of
underrepresented groups, and scholars committed to antiracist
pedagogies and forms of analysis that address race, gender, and
social location. This position requires successful completion of a
criminal history background check. The background check will be
conducted as authorized and in compliance with University Policy
4-OP-C-7-B11.

For full consideration, applicants should submit a vita (including
names of three scholars willing to write letters of recommendation on
applicants' behalf), a representative essay, and sample syllabi for
one undergraduate and one graduate class — all as one pdf at:
http://jobs.fsu.edu (job ad 52522)

The application deadline is September 30, 2022.

Questions may be sent to:
rel-cahr-sea...@fsu.edu


Contact:

Department of Religion
Florida State University
641 University Way
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1520
USA
Email: rel-cahr-sea...@fsu.edu
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InterPhil: TOC: Journal of World Philosophies

2022-07-28 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Table of Contents

Publication: Journal of World Philosophies
Date: Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022)

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The summer issue of the Journal of World Philosophies can be
accessed here:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/issue/view/130


Articles

Rajesh Sampath
Derrida’s Jewish Question

Katie Howard  and Cash Kelly
Ill Will: Or, Mental Illness and Resistant Subjectivity in Ahmed and
Lugones

Dennis Stromback
A Dialogue on the Good and Evil Bivalence in the Study of Ethics: On
François Flahault and Nishida Kitarō

Dean Anthony Brink
Post-Anthropocentric Implications of “World-expression” in Nishida’s
“Life”

Antoine Panaïoti
Skill-in-means, Fusion Philosophy, and the Requirements of
Cosmopolitanism

Michael David Kaulana Ing
Ka Hulikanaka a me Ka Hoʻokūʻonoʻono: Davida Malo and Richard
Armstrong on Being Human and Living Well


Symposium

Carl Mika, Carwyn Jones, W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Ocean Ripeka
Mercier, and Helen Verran Why Give Up the Unknown? And How?


Intellectual Journeys

Talia Mae Bettcher
How I Became a Trans Philosopher

Mary Tiles
Out of the Box


Book Reviews

Hsiao-Lan Hu
A Review on Exploring the Heart Sutra

Emmanuel Ofuasia
Some Comments on Ada Agada's Philosophy of Consolation

Katarína Dženisa Rajtíková
Pyrrhonian Buddhism as a Unique Synthesis of Indian and Greek
Philosophy

Cheryl Suzack
Celebrating the Diachronic Storytelling Traditions within Anishinaabe
Life and Letters


In Memoriam

Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Dear Jorge
A Letter to My Mentor

Carolyn M. Jones Medine
bell hooks, Black Feminist Thought, and Black Buddhism: A Tribute


Journal website:
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InterPhil: PUB: Revaluating the School of Salamanca in Transatlantic and Global Perspective

2022-07-28 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Revaluating the School of Salamanca in Transatlantic and Global
Perspective
Publication: Estudios Filosóficos
Date: Special Issue
Deadline: 1.2.2023

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The Society for Lascasian Studies, in collaboration with Estudios
Filosoficos, invites submission of papers for a collaborative special
journal edition, “Revaluating the School of Salamanca in
Transatlantic and Global perspective.” As Iberia’s overseas
jurisdictions and economic activities expanded, the web of complex
interactions forged through the many centuries of reconquista
required radical reinvention. The novelty of the encounter with new
peoples and unknown lands challenged jurists, economists, natural
scientists, theologians, philosophers, poets, writers, artists,
architects, artists, linguists, architects, musicians, and historians
to reformulate various traditions in creative and unexpected ways.

The School of Salamanca Project out of the Goethe University of
Frankfurt has recently brought a new textual basis and reflection
upon this uniquely fertile constellation of actors. Other recent
collections have included the Salamancan school in treatments of the
law of nations, time, and economic liberty, among others. We hope
that this special collaborative edition will continue these important
explorations and add to our understanding of this intellectual
movement.

We welcome reevaluations of the established themes of sovereignty and
jurisdiction, such as explored by Francisco de Vitoria's 'De Indis',
as well as hope for papers that seek to capture the breadth of foment
engendered by the encounter between previously mutually-unknown
worlds. Possible topics include but are not limited to: ius gentium,
the nature of the state, political and social communities, humanism,
price and usury, economic doctrine, free trade, religious reform,
indigenous self-understanding and fashioning, literary and artistic
expressions, Thomas Aquinas, late scholasticism, scientific
knowledge, etc.

We especially appreciate papers that touch upon the life, labor, and
legacy of Bartolomé de Las Casas as well as the Dominican
intellectual milieu that shaped his multilayered Indian advocacy.

Please submit papers in accordance with the Estudios Filosóficos
guidelines, with "Estudios Filosoficos" as the subject line, to:
lascasasconference2...@gmail.com

Exceptionally for this issue, English contributions will also be
accepted.
The deadline is February 1, 2023.


Editors:
David Orique, Providence College
Rady Roldan-Figueroa, Boston University
Andrew Wilson, Japan Lutheran College

Email: lascasasconference2...@gmail.com
Web: http://lascasianstudies.org


Journal website:
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InterPhil: PUB: Arthur Applbaum's Legitimacy

2022-07-28 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Publications

Theme: Arthur Applbaum's Legitimacy
Subtitle: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World and Legitimacy beyond
the State
Publication: Moral Philosophy and Politics (MOPP)
Date: Special Issue
Deadline: 1.9.2022

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Philosophical debates about political legitimacy have significantly
expanded over the last decade. One important contribution is Arthur
Applbaum’s recent book Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton
World. On his account, power can only be exercised permissibly when
we are governed by a free group agent. In developing this view,
Applbaum also touches on many other important philosophical issues,
like the concept of legitimacy, the conditions for legitimate foreign
intervention, and the role of constitutional constraints and
democratic processes in justifying power. The book also provides a
novel critique of “wanton” government, which Applbaum diagnoses as a
government which fails to constitute a coherent agent who is
responsive to the reasons which apply to them.

Moral Philosophy and Politics invites contributions that engage with
ideas and arguments from Applbaum’s book. Beyond his book, we are
also interested in attempts to expand theorising about legitimacy
beyond the state to global issues and institutions. We are especially
interested in accounts of the legitimacy of international
institutions, like the UN, WTO or ICJ, and how the right to rule
should be assigned in a world which faces global existential
challenges like climate change. Contributions which tackle these
wider issues are encouraged, but not required, to engage with
Applbaum’s work.

There is a wide range of themes in Applbaum’s book. Some of the
contributions that papers could focus on are the following:

- Applbaum’s power-liability account of the concept of legitimacy
- The group agency account of legitimacy
- Freedom and the foundations of a theory of legitimacy
- Kantian and Republican accounts of legitimacy (in Applbaum and
  others)
- Legitimate foreign intervention
- The role of democratic procedures and substantive outcomes in
  justifying power
- “Wanton” government and other failures of agency
- Applications of Applbaum’s arguments to contemporary issues

For the topic of legitimacy beyond the state we invite contributions
that tackle the following issues:

- Conceptually understanding legitimacy beyond the state
- Group agency and legitimacy beyond the state
- The legitimacy of international organisations, especially
  international courts
- The political legitimacy of responses to climate change
- Existential threats to humanity and political legitimacy

The deadline has been extended to September 1, 2022.
Submissions should be between 3.000 and 10.000 words in length.

All submissions will undergo MOPP’s double-blind refereeing process.
Please note that this process is not organized by the guest editors
but by the journal’s founding editors who will also have the final
word on publication decisions.

Guest Editors:
Matthias Brinkmann (PluriCourts, University of Oslo)
Anthony Taylor (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

The journal’s manuscript submission site can be accessed at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mopp


Journal website:
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InterPhil: CFP: A Hidden Treasure

2022-07-27 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: A Hidden Treasure
Subtitle: Editorial, Historical, and Philosophical Issues in
Avicenna’s “Minor” Works (rasāʾil)
Type: 4th International Meeting
Institution: Avicenna Study Group
   Département d'études moyen-orientales, Université d’Aix-Marseille
Location: Aix-en-Provence (France)
Date: 13.–15.9.2023
Deadline: 18.9.2022

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This conference will continue the successful format of the Avicenna
Study Group (three meetings in 2001, 2002, and 2021 with two volumes
of proceedings in 2003 and 2004 and a third volume forthcoming) and
will turn to another pivotal topic in the study of Avicenna and his
philosophy: the papers will explore the corpus of Avicenna’s widely
neglected so-called “minor” works and investigate their relevance for
understanding Avicenna’s thought and influence, both on the Eastern
and the Western intellectual tradition.

The corpus of smaller treatises, tales, and letters on various topics
attributed to Avicenna poses particular challenges both in terms of
philosophical and philological analysis. In 2014, Dimitri Gutas
(Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition, 2nd ed.) provided a revised
list of works that included, alongside the well-known summae, also
the lesser-known shorter writings. While the authenticity of some of
these rasāʾil remains questionable, it is clear that they all shaped
in different degrees the perception on Avicenna throughout the
centuries and, thus, deserve more attention from scholars to bring to
light their variegated history of transmission and reception as well
as their value for understanding Avicenna.

Many of these smaller texts remain unedited and discuss topics that
are rarely studied or appear otherwise difficult to integrate into
the systematic framework of Avicenna’s philosophy. They may enrich or
surely substantiate our own view of Avicenna, while inauthentic
treatises could provide important insight into Avicennian circles and
later forgeries may have been sources of misconceptions and erroneous
or otherwise peculiar readings among interpreters in history.

Against this background, the fourth meeting of the Avicenna Study
Group aspires to set a new standard in dealing with the important
corpus of Avicenna’s “minor” works and welcomes rigorous and
innovative contributions that could feature, for example:

- editions,
- translations,
- manuscript studies,
- historical reconstructions,
- philosophical analyses,
- new hitherto unknown or unlisted treatises,
- comparisons with other “minor” works as well as
- comparisons with the “major” works.

As with the first three meetings of the Avicenna Study Group, the
proceedings of the conference will be published. All contributors are
expected to prepare their papers after the conference for inclusion
in the volume prior to the subsequent – fifth – meeting of the
Avicenna Study Group scheduled for 2025.

The conference will probably have fifteen slots available for
presentations, of which five are open to the call for papers. Each
presentation will run for 45 minutes plus 30 minutes of discussion.
Presentations can be held in either French or English.

Early career submissions and submissions from members of
underrepresented groups within the study of (the history of)
philosophy are particularly encouraged.

The following scholars have already confirmed their contribution:

- Jean-Baptiste Brenet (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- Cristina Cerami (CNRS, UMR 7219 Sphère, Paris)
- Mohammad Javad Esmaeili (Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran)
- Dimitri Gutas (Yale University, New Haven)
- Jawdath Jabbour (CNRS, centre Paul Albert Février, Aix-en-Provence)
- Damien Janos (A.v. Humboldt Stiftung/LMU Munich)
- Jules Janssens (De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Leuven)
- Meryem Sebti (CNRS, UMR 8230 Centre Jean Pépin, Paris)
- Tony Street (University of Cambridge)
- Nadjet Zouggar (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Iremam)

Please submit your application via email, by 18 September 2022, to:
andreas.lam...@ru.nl and olga.lizz...@univ-amu.fr

Your email should indicate “ASG IV” in the subject line and your
submission should include (as an attached file, Word or PDF) a short
abstract of 300–500 words about your planned presentation and a CV
indicating your name and preferred email address, your institutional
affiliation, and your career stage.

Selected participants will be informed by 3 October 2022.
Costs for travel and accommodation will be covered.

Organisers

Olga L. Lizzini
Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS-Iremam
Email: olga.lizz...@univ-amu.fr

Andreas Lammer
Radboud University Nijmegen/CHPS)
Email: andreas.lam...@ru.nl






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InterPhil: CFP: Are migrants entitled to vote?

2022-07-27 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Are migrants entitled to vote?
Subtitle: On migrants' political inclusion through electoral rights
Type: International Workshop
Institution: Justice and Migration Research Group, KU Leuven
Location: Leuven (Belgium)
Date: 8.–9.12.2022
Deadline: 28.8.2022

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Migration poses a challenge within democratic frameworks, in academia
as in state practice. One reason why scholars struggle with
justifying democratic inclusion (or exclusion) of migrants is the
longeval tradition of conceptualizing the state as an independent
unit whose citizens’ political views and conceptions of the good
overlap and are discretely distinct from those that develop
elsewhere. Much of the normative debates stems from the
politico-philosophical tradition that would conceptualize migration
and democratic inclusion as two independent areas of study. However,
migration constitutes an ethically pressing, tangible example of what
the fundamental question of democratic inclusion is about.

This workshop seeks to gather and discuss possible approaches to the
intersection of justice in migration and democratic theory. The
theoretical challenges mentioned above have a number of practical
implications. We are interested in questions that range from tackling
those theoretical premises as well as their real world implications.

We look for papers on the following or related topics:

- Which tools does democratic theory provide to fruitfully approach
  questions of migratory justice?
- How does the problem of the definition of the demos affect our
  understanding of territorial sovereignty and border controls?
- Should electoral rights be approached through the prism of
  procedural or substantive democratic standards? How do different
  accounts of democratic legitimacy frame the permissibility of
  electoral rights differentiation between citizens and denizens?
- Does the democratic culture of a country have legitimate
  consequences for migrants' inclusion? (e.g. do countries with
  mandatory voting have a stronger duty to include migrants? Should
  countries with a stronger tradition of public debate have higher
  language requirements?)
- Should arguments from the perspective of migration justice be
  prioritized over democratic concerns? How does migration justice
  impact questions of democratic theory?
- What if any should be the requirements (e.g. citizenship,
  residence, language proficiency) for political participation?
- Should requirements for political participation change at different
  jurisdictional levels? (e.g. should such requirements be less strict
  at more local levels?)
- What is the right place and form of political agency that temporary
  migrants are entitled to? For example, should they be able to
  participate in elections in their sending or host country? Or should
  they be steered towards other forms of political agency?
- Should migrants with multiple citizenship be able vote (or run for
  office) in more than one country?
- Are there categories of migrants that should have prompter access
  to electoral rights? Can this be the case, for instance, for
  political refugees? Or within frameworks such as the Commonwealth
  citizenship?

This list is non-exhaustive, and submissions on related topics are
welcome.


Confirmed speakers

- Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)
- David Owen (University of Southampton)
- Emanuela Ceva (University of Geneva)
- Alex Sager (Portland State University)
- Eva Erman (Stockholm University)


Submissions

We have space for three more external speakers on our program. If you
are interested in participating in this expert workshop, please
submit an anonymized abstract of no more than 500 words, along with
an email including your name, title, and affiliation to:
eleonora.dannib...@kuleuven.be

The format of this particular panel is pre-read. Abstracts should
therefore be developed into a full paper. Participants will be asked
to give a brief (5-10 min) presentation of their paper as part of the
1-hour discussion session of their work. The deadline for submission
is August 28th, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be provided by
September 5th.


Key dates

Abstracts submission deadline:
August 28th, 2022

Notification sent to participants:
September 5th, 2022

Final submission of papers:
December 1st, 2022

Workshop:
December 8th-9th, 2022


Organizers

Eleonora d’Annibale
Helder De Schutter

If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact the
organizer, Eleonora d'Annibale, at:
eleonora.dannib...@kuleuven.be

This workshop is organized as part of the “Justice & Migration”
project, RIPPLE, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven:
https://hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/justice-and-migration






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InterPhil: CFP: Food, Consumption and Climate Change

2022-07-27 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Food, Consumption and Climate Change
Type: Fall 2022 Graduate Conference
Institution: Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of
North Texas
Location: Denton, TX (USA)
Date: 8.–9.10.2022
Deadline: 12.8.2022

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The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North
Texas invites submissions for its 2022 fall graduate conference.

The conference theme is “Food, Consumption and Climate Change.” The
inability of governments and private citizens alike to address the
climate crisis demonstrates a need for new approaches to and
conceptions of the complexity that is climate chaos. The old
approaches are clearly not working; the stale debate between state
and federal sovereignty captures the imagination of millions as the
federal government of the United States loses regulatory power over
emissions of private institutions. The language that informs the
public of climate induced chaos continues to maintain a naïve
optimism and irresponsibility. Hundreds of millions in the global
north absolve themselves of any response-ability in their diets and
the suffering that such decisions are predicated upon.

This conference is asking for new ways of conceiving, imagining,
theorizing, and implementing change to overcome the decomposing
(putrefying?) debates of progressive neoliberal politics. This
conference invites new and creative ways to conceive of and imagine
food, consumption, and climate change at their intersections. As
such, this conference is intended to be interdisciplinary, inviting
numerous voices and disciplines to think on the complexities that
these ongoing crises continue to announce themselves as.

The keynote speaker will be Nathalia Hernández Vidal. She holds a
Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago and is currently a Visiting
Scholar in the Philosophy and Religion Department at UNT.  Her work
focuses on food sovereignty and climate change through the lens of
environmental justice, feminist political ecology, and critical
indigenous studies. Dr. Hernández Vidal is also an active member of
the seed sovereignty movement in Latin America.

The conference will also include a workshop by Samani Dr. Chaitanya
Pragya, Visiting Professor at Florida International University, USA
and Professor at Jain Vishva Bharati Institute, India. Her lecture
and workshop is titled “Living Lightly on the Planet: Jain Philosophy
and Practices for Reducing Accumulation, Moderating Consumption, and
Letting Go of What Weighs Us Down.”

Possible submission topics include:

- Food Studies
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Animal Studies
- Philosophy of Water
- Decolonial Thought and Practice
- Indigenous Thought and Practice
- Consumption of commodities/pollution/media
- Cultural Criticism
- Environmental Ethics
- Environmental Aesthetics
- Technology
- Ecofeminism
- Ecotheology & Green Religion

Submissions of 500-word abstracts should be prepared for anonymous
review. Accepted students will give a 20-minute presentation with a
10-minute Q&A. Submissions should be emailed, with the following
information, by August 12th 2022:
prgraduateconference...@gmail.com

- Name
- University affiliation
- Current level of graduate studies

Accepted presenters will be notified by late August. This conference
will be held in-person and presenters are expected to present
in-person. Any questions should be directed to:
prgraduateconference...@gmail.com






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InterPhil: CFP: Public Spaces, Private Places

2022-07-27 Thread Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil
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Call for Papers

Theme: Public Spaces, Private Places
Subtitle: Constructing Race and Liberation
Type: Interdisciplinary Conference on Race
Institution: Monmouth University
Location: Online
Date: 4.–5.11.2022
Deadline: 20.8.2022

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This conference aims to bring together scholars from multiple
disciplinary perspectives to broadly explore the past, present, and
future of space and place and their intersections with race and
liberation. Contemporary social, political, and geographical
discourses demonstrate the continued need to re-evaluate the
differing ways in which race and identity impact our interpretation
and use of place and space. What remains constant is the critical
need to invest in strategies that will foster the development of just
spaces and places that promote wide-scale liberation, which is
essential for our collective futures.

Therefore, it is crucial to examine questions such as: how do our
constructed physical environments affect perception and emotion,
resulting in various layers of meaning? In what ways do sociocultural
meanings and contexts, as well as the overlapping boundaries of space
and place, shift over time? How do various cultural, historic,
economic, educational, and theoretical perspectives shape the current
climate on these topics? How have communities and movements crafted
spaces and agendas of freedom, accountability, and liberation?

The Monmouth University race conference was founded in 2008 by Dr.
Julius Adekunle and Dr. Hettie V. Williams. This conference has
brought together scholars from more than fifteen U.S. states, four
continents, and twelve nations. Robin D.G. Kelley, Tera Hunter,
Jonathan Holloway, and William Sturkey have all previously served as
keynote speakers for this event. This year, marquee speakers will
include: Amy  Banks and Isaac Knapper, authors of Fighting Time, and
Darnell Moore, thought leader and author of No Ashes in the Fire.

The Interdisciplinary Conference on Race program committee eagerly
invites proposals from students, scholars, researchers, community
organizers, artists, and teachers around the world on topics related
to the scholarly and/or pedagogical aspects of the conference’s
themes. Some examples of topics one could pursue under the conference
theme include, but are not limited to:

Public Spaces, Private Places:
- Collective, public, and personal spaces
- Mobilization/Displacement
- Monuments, memorials, markers, museums
- Social remembrance
- Body/Embodiment
- Intersectionality: sexism, cissexism, heterosexism, ableism,
  classism
- Surveillance and policing
- Gentrification, mapping, urban/rural planning
- Preservation/Conservation
- Schooling and segregation
- Emotional labor
- Heritage sites and sacred places
- Digital/Virtual space and futurism
- Climate justice
- Generational trauma

Constructing Race and Liberation:
- Reparations
- Engagement/Empowerment
- Identity: constructed and lived experiences
- Belonging/Inclusion/Exclusion
- Ritual, rites of passage, celebrations
- Social justice, activism, resistance and protest
- Ethnic, cultural, or national identity
- Liberation pedagogy
- Authenticity, acculturation, appropriation
- Multiple and layered identities: gender, sexuality, ethnicity,
  class, disability, religion
- Creative practices: art, artifacts, comics, sequential art, visual
  culture, murals, street art, healing
- Transnationalism, migration and diaspora
- Indigenous ways of knowing and sovereignty
- Neo/post colonialism
- Movement building


Formats

- Organized Panels (3 to 4 panelists, one chair, and optionally, one
  discussant) – Individual papers, maximum of 20 minutes in length
  (panels of 4 have a maximum of 15 minutes in length per paper)
- Single papers (not part of an Organized Panel)
- Roundtables (between 4 to 6 participants) – 5-minute opening
  statements from participants and then conversational dialogue with
  one another and/or the audience
- Workshops on specific teaching techniques or practices. (If you are
  interested in offering your workshop for continuing education
  credit, please indicate this on your proposal submission.)
- Proposals for artistic poster displays and scholarly presentations

To submit a proposal, click on the link below and complete the form.
You will need to include the following: a maximum 250 word abstract,
with title, for each paper, a panel title for organized panels, and a
brief bio (250 words or less) for each participant:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchL8y2nxNK7VxpW2cdhk6rK_RqGF4EQOax0YydLM1KbKVonQ/viewform

Closing date: August 8, 2022


Conference conveners

Brooke Nappi
Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology
Department of History and Anthropology
Monmouth University
Email: bna...@monmouth.edu

Hillary DelPrete
Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology
Department of History and Anthropology
Monmouth University
Email: hdelp...@monmouth.edu


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