InterPhil: CONF: Dogen's texts: Manifesting philosophy and/as/of religion?
__ Conference Announcement Theme: Dōgen's texts Subtitle: Manifesting philosophy and/as/of religion? Type: International Online Workshop Institution: Hildesheim University Location: Online Date: 21.–23.1.2021 __ From Ralf Müller International Online Workshop with Prof. Steve Heine (Florida International University) Organizer: Dr. Ralf Müller (Hildesheim University) We meet online Jan 21-23 2021, 2pm-5pm Berlin Time via Zoom. Please register: ralf.muel...@uni-hildesheim.de Thursday 14:00-14:40 Steven Heine: “When Mountains Can No Longer Be Seen”: A Critical History of Interpretations of an Ambiguous Shōbōgenzō Sentence 14:45-15:25 Steven Heine: Reality and Mentality. On Perceiving the World of Sentient and Insentient Beings. 15:35-16:15 Steven Heine: A Mystical Path Stemming from Eiheiji. The Significance of Text and Author. 16:20-17:00 Andre van der Braak: Engaging Dōgen’s Zen. Friday 14:00-14:40 Aldo Tollini: Dōgen and the Buddhist Way 14:45-15:20 Marta Sanvido: Forging the Founder’s Secret. Dōgen’s Apocrypha in Premodern Zen Kirigami and Monsan. 15:25-15:40 Étienne A. F. Staehelin: The changing image of Dōgen Zenji and his disciples Sen’e and Kyōgō in post-war Sōtō Zen denominational discourse 15:45-16:20 George Wrisley: Dōgen as Philosopher, Dōgen’s Philosophical Zen. 16:25-17:00 Raji Steineck: From Uji to Being-time (and Back): Translating Dōgen into Philosophy Saturday 14:00-14:25 Zuzanne Kubovčáková: Uji: Analysis of Dōgen’s Language Style as the Formation Ground for his Philosophy 14:30-14:55 Eitan Bolokan: Interpretive Sensibilities in Do̅gen's “Genjo̅ko̅an”. Negotiating the Path Between Textual Authority and Creativeness 15:00-15:25 Ralf Müller: Kyoto School Expounding the Texts of Zen Master Dōgen as Religious Commentary or Philosophical Interpretation? 15:35-16:00 Russell Guilbault: Dōgen as Philosopher, Metaphysician, and Metaethicist. 16:05-16:30 Laurentiu Andrei: The Practice of Time and the Time of Practice. Dōgen and Marcus-Aurelius on Impermanence and Self 16:35-17:00 He Teng: A brief introduction to Biyanlu and Chan/Zen Dōgen’s texts: Manifesting philosophy and/as/of religion? The Zen Buddhist Dōgen remains the most widely read pre-modern Japanese author in modern day philosophy since Meiji period. However, at the same time, his philosophical reception is most fiercely criticized by his denomination, i.e. by scholars of the Sōtō Zen community. The dispute was caused by the pretensions of non-denominational intellectuals to pave the way for an authentic apprenticeship independent of the practice of “sitting-only” (j. shikan taza) which was taught by the Sōtō school as the core of Dōgen’s Zen. However, the predominance of a “practical” interpretation of Dōgen covers up the linguistic complexities of Dōgen’s writings. In fact, the Shōbōgenzō’s emergence as a philosophical text exhibits, more than any other example, the history of Japanese philosophy in the making in modern age while competing with the premodern denominational approach. For this reason, Dōgen studies in Meiji Japan can be understood as a passage way in which the image projected on Dōgen underwent severe changes and multiplied. What exactly happened to Dōgen during that time still awaits to be spelled out both historically and systematically. And so do the account and discussion of its pre-Meiji conditions and post-Meiji results. The workshop aims at the core issue that became critical during Meiji period in which the philosophical appropriation of Dōgen worked as a catalyst to tackle the question both inside and outside the monastery: How are we to handle Dōgen’s texts? This issue is not limited to the apparent oppositions of premodern denominational authority vs. modern academic discourse, religion vs. philosophy, or commentary vs. critique. The emergence of a modern Shūgaku based on self criticism of practitioners or the convergence of philosophic discourse on Dōgen with denominational commentary literature are examples that undermine the apparent oppositions and show that the issue is more complex. Regarding present day Dōgen studies, most intricacies go back to or are informed by a number of different factions among those who receive Dōgen before, in, or since Meiji Japan: the Zennist (j. zenjōka) emphasising practice, the Genzōnians (j. genzōka) shifting the attention to the reading of Dōgen’s texts, the laity movement opening up both the texts and the practice to people in modern society, and the Genzō researchers (j. genzō kenkyūka) searching for the authenticity and truth of Dōgen’s writings. The workshop aims to clarify, undermine and/or revise the common images of Dōgen in the monastery, in the denominational studies, or modern academic philosophy. The objective is to bring into play the various discourses on Dōgen and to discuss their relation across times and factions in modern an
InterPhil: PUB: Social Identity between Racisms and Hybridizations
__ Call for Publications Theme: Social Identity between Racisms and Hybridizations Publication: P.O.I – Points of Interest Date: Issue No. 2/2021 Deadline: 30.6.2021 __ The biannual journal P.O.I – Points of Interest invites submissions from scholars in philosophy and related disciplines for its forthcoming II/2021 issue. Contributions should address the theme of the issue, on the basis of one or more of the proposed topics, and should conform to the criteria and terms indicated below. The issue of the relations between different identity groups is, without doubt, one of the central questions in philosophical reflection on politics and morality in the modern and contemporary world. One could ask, first of all, whether a shared social identity – one based on precise elements of cultural homogeneity – is, in effect, a necessary precondition for modern political regimes, as the famous nation/state hendiadys suggests, and as many other constitutions still today suggest; and, secondly, what, then, is the nature of this “precondition”: a pre-existing resource, produced by history, or rather a performative effect of specific acts of political legitimation? The first hypothesis finds support in the frequent failures of “assimilationist” policies and in the spread of political languages based on the corporealization of social identity. At the moment in which “difference” is visually revealed through the colour of the skin, religious rituals, forms of dress, and food customs, political games of discrimination are triggered. But is it an issue to be framed psycho-anthropologically, or rather one to be interpreted in relation to the crisis-processes of political representation and the state-society mediation? The outcomes of the “ethnic cleansing” of the twentieth Century and of the early-2000s, the complex dynamics of the emergence from colonialism, and the failure of cultural struggles against racial prejudice in Western countries suggest that there is a very complex underlying problem involving both the model of the nation-state with its originary limits (and hence the impossibility of universalism), and, at the same time, the objective difficulties of replacing this model with a more-than-merely-abstract bond. What kind of social identity could be proposed, then, to go beyond that of the “nation” and the “people,” finally reconciling the imperatives of coexistence and hybridization between different groups with the multiplicity of underlying traditions? We welcome submissions on all topics related to the theme. The following is a list of possible topics that could be explored: - Forms of collective identity in the modern age and their ambivalences: what creates a “people” and a common or shared destiny? - The issue of race and the relation between the concepts of “race,” “people,” “nation”: structurally diverse concepts or variants of one same model? - The issue of collective identity in post-imperial and post-colonial political contexts - The phenomenon of migrations and the crisis of the nation-state - Reflections on hybridization processes and the related moral implications Guidelines and terms for submission: - Submissions should be preceded by an abstract (approximately 2000-characters, including spaces; approximately 350-400 words), which will be pre-evaluated by the editorial staff for relevance to the Call for Papers. - The deadline for receipt of abstracts is June 30th, 2021. Communication of decisions regarding the outcome of submissions will take place after that date. Authors of accepted abstracts will then have until September 30th, 2021 to submit the full version of their paper (20,000-60,000-characters, including spaces; approximately 3,500-10,500 words). - Contributions must be of original, unpublished work, and must not be under consideration by other journals. - Submissions in the following languages are accepted and will be considered: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish. - The journal employs a double-blind peer review process. Accordingly, the author’s name and any affiliation must appear only once in the paper, under the article’s title. The full version of the paper should include an abstract in English (max. 1500 characters, including spaces; approximately 250 words), and 5 keywords in English. Editorial guidelines can be found at the following link: http://poireview.com/en/editorial-guidelines/ Submissions should be sent to the following e-mail address: redazi...@poireview.com Journal website: http://poireview.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Honorary Whiteness
__ Call for Publications Theme: Honorary Whiteness Subtitle: Delusions of Racial Hierarchy Publication: Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions Date: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022) Deadline: 30.4.2021 __ The presumption of racial differences among human species is socially constructed to meet the aspirations of race realists. Under this category of social construction is a variety of nuances, which makes race relations/conflicts more complex. A sub-class of this variety is honorary whiteness, which is a blend of interracial and intraracial issues. Honorary whiteness is the pursuit of European identities through mastery of foreign languages, religions, cultures, etc., based on the false premise of European superiority; it dissects the urge of high-melanated individuals’ desire to identify with low-melanated peoples, while belonging to high melanated group/communities. It promotes class structure through the emphasis on racial disparities. The identification with low-melanated groups spans through different aspects of human interactions and comes to us in both subtle and brutal forms that may sometimes be hard to detect. It is expected that scholars who desire to write on this broad, but specialised theme consider honorary whiteness in scholarship, entertainment industry, politics, religion, economics, and so on. The overriding objective is to know how honorific whiteness operates, the implications for victims/perpetrators and bring people to an appreciation of various identities by proffering innovative solutions to the crises of racial identities while unpacking the hoax of one superior colour over another. To this end, this special issue interrogates affiliations of people and the benefits/conflicts such affiliations bring to oppressed groups. Sub-themes to be considered include but not limited to: - The concept of race/racialism - The colours of difference - Colour politics - Colour branding - Identity formation in racial classification - Does skin colour confer essence on an individual? - Differences in melanin formation - Illusions (cognitive, physical, physiological) in racial discourse - How race perpetuates class - Honorary whiteness in economics - Honorary whiteness in the entertainment industry - Issues in language and race - Bridging racial divide Important Information Interested authors are invited to submit a short abstract (200 words max), by April 30, 2021. Full manuscripts (6000 words max) should be submitted in two files: one should be complete with the author’s details, while the other should be anonymised for double-blind review. All articles to be considered for review must be submitted not later than October 31, 2021. Manuscripts should also conform to the journal’s house style, that is, The CSP Style Guide downloadable here: https://cspafrica.org/information/ Authors should indicate that their submissions are for the August 2022 Special Issue. All submissions for this issue are to be mailed as word attachments to: filosofiatheoret...@unical.edu.ng Mode of Delivery: Filosofia Theoretica strictly encourages innovative problem-solving ideas delivered in a conversational style. Authors should aim to introduce new ideas and concepts that speak to African situations. Guest Editor: Dr Isaiah Negedu University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and the Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria Email: nege...@ukzn.ac.za Journal website: https://cspafrica.org/issues/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Philosophy in/on Translation
__ Call for Papers Theme: Philosophy in/on Translation Type: Online Symposium Institution: Zentrum für Translationswissenschaft, Universität Wien School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia British Centre for Literary Translation Location: Online Date: 9.–10.9.2021 Deadline: 12.3.2021 __ There is increasing interest in the links between philosophy and translation. What sort of problems arise when translating philosophy from one language to another? What have philosophers said about translation? What are they saying about it today? How can translation scholars join the debate? Can there be a philosophy of translation? What is the state of the untranslatability debate? Keynote speakers: Duncan Large Professor of European Literature and Translation, University of East Anglia, UK Academic Director, British Centre for Literary Translation Helena Franco Martins Associate Professor of Literary and Translation Studies, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil CNPq researcher We invite abstracts for presentations on any topic about philosophy in/on translation. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 12 March 2021. Only registered participants will be granted access to the symposium. Register here by Friday 30 April 2021: https://transphil.univie.ac.at/register/ The symposium is organised by Alice Leal (University of Vienna, Austria) and Philip Wilson (University of East Anglia, UK). If you have any queries, please write to: transphil2...@univie.ac.at For further information, please visit our website: https://transphil.univie.ac.at __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Rethinking Through Art
__ Call for Publications Theme: Rethinking Through Art Subtitle: East and West Publication: Rivista di Estetica Date: Issue No. 1/2022 Deadline: 28.2.2021 __ Over the centuries, art has been a prominent form of cultural exchange between the East and the West. This role has become even more prominent in the last three hundred years. Western painting and music introduced by European missionaries shaped the tastes of the Chinese imperial courts since the 17th century. The “Chinoiserie” style inspired by Chinese aesthetics contributed a great deal to the dynamics of the 18th-century European art-world. Japanese Ukiyo-e – the art of the “floating world” – was believed to have a significant impact on the Impressionists. It becomes evident that contemporary artists from the East and the West have formed a collaborative community of creativity. While more and more art historians are shifting part of their research interest to the Eastern art traditions, looking into them in their own right, or investigating art history in a greater trans-cultural context, many philosophers of art still remain relatively reluctant to either philosophize about art from a cross-cultural perspective, or try to conceptualize its central issues by drawing on diverse cultural experiences and studies of the non-Western histories of art. In the last several decades, the field of philosophy of art and aesthetics in the West has seen many great theoretical achievements, which enable us to think about and create art in a profoundly meaningful way, bringing art more than ever closer to “pure” philosophy. But, when we look closely at these influential philosophical inquiries into art, we find they are, by and large, exclusively inspired and dominated by the European art tradition and engages research materials from very specific origins, often shunning potential challenges from non-Western art as well as the historical facts of artistic interaction and the on-going confluence of artistic practice in our age. This issue aims to reopen a ground for rethinking some fundamental philosophical questions about art within a cross-cultural context. We encourage reflection on any important topic in the philosophy of art on the basis of Eastern-Western comparison or synthesis. We especially prefer submissions addressing the following issues: the definition of art, ontology of art, art and creativity, art and self-cultivation. Articles must be written in English or Italian, and should not exceed 40.000 characters, notes and blank-spaces included. Advisory Editors: Xiao Ouyang (Wuhan University, China) Tiziana Andina (Università di Torino, Italy) Submission: ouyang.x...@whu.edu.cn and rivista.estet...@gmail.com Deadline for submission: Feb 28th, 2021 Rivista di Estetica publishes thematic issues about philosophical topics. It is one of the oldest philosophical journals in Italy, established in 1956 as a quarterly journal about aesthetics and more general philosophical themes. Rivista di Estetica practices double-blind refereeing and publishes both in Italian and English. The editor of Rivista di Estetica is Tiziana Andina, Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy. The managing editor is Carola Barbero, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, who follows the day-to-day functioning of Rivista di Estetica, as well as the contacts with authors and referees. All editorial correspondence should also be addressed to: carola.barb...@unito.it The open-access digital edition is now available on Revues.org The journal is indexed by: SCOPUS, Web of Science Core Index AHCI, The Philosopher’s Index, Répertoire bibliographique de la philosophie, ERIH, Articoli italiani di periodici accademici (AIDA), Catalogo italiano dei periodici (ACNP), Google Scholar. Contact: Xiao Ouyang & Tiziana Andina Rivista di Estetica ouyang.x...@whu.edu.cn and rivista.estet...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Dissertation Writing-up Fellowship on Diversity
__ Call for Applications Theme: Dealing with diversity in the life and sustainability sciences Type: KLI Dissertation Writing-up Fellowship Institution: Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) Location: Klosterneuburg (Austria) Deadline: 15.2.2021 __ From Lynn Chiu The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) in Klosterneuburg (Austria) announces 5 Writing-Up Fellowships for late-stage PhD students working on topics related to “Dealing with diversity in the life and sustainability sciences”. This call aims to support an interdisciplinary cohort of late-stage PhD students whose work deals with diversity in the life and sustainability sciences. The 5 KLI Writing-up Fellowships are not restricted to specific topics or approaches. However, as A Home to Theory that Matters, the KLI will support projects that engage with theoretical and conceptual work in the life and sustainability sciences as well as philosophical, historical, and sociological work related to these fields. Though not exclusively, we look forward to receiving applications especially in the following research areas: (1) Theories and concepts to explain the evolution of human diversity, (2) Theories and concepts to understand and foster diversity of life forms, (3) Theories and concepts about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the life and sustainability sciences. Who is encouraged to apply? The fellowships aim to support doctoral students in the final stage of their PhD research. Writing-up fellowships are individual fellowships awarded to work independently on the applicant’s research project supervised by their advisor in the home university. The 5 fellowships are especially well-suited for two categories of PhD students: (1) Those who have completed empirical research and wish to use the Writing-up fellowship to elaborate on the (conceptual, epistemological, and methodological) underpinnings and implications of their work. (2) Those whose research deals with the historical, philosophical, and conceptual foundations of research in the disciplines mentioned above in relation to diversity. To learn more about the details of the fellowship, the benefits of working at the KLI, and the application and selection process, please consult our website: https://www.kli.ac.at/content/en/fellowships/call_wu-fellowships2020 Deadline is Feb 15, 2021. We invite you to subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates about our events and latest fellowships. Contact: Dr. Lynn Chiu, Communications Officer KLI Klosterneuburg Martinstraße 12 3400 Klosterneuburg Austria Phone: +43 2243 302740 Email: co...@kli.ac.at Twitter: @kliaustria Web: http://kli.ac.at __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Norms and Values in Institutions, Societies and Migration
__ Call for Papers Theme: Norms and Values in Institutions, Societies and Migration Type: IMISCOE PhD Lead Workshop Institution: International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe Research Network (IMISCOE) Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), Malmö University Location: Online Date: 28.–29.4.2021 Deadline: 25.1.2021 __ This is a PhD lead workshop on Norms and Values hosted by the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), held online via Zoom on April 28th-29th. Owing to societal transformations at an increasingly high pace, norms and values have taken centre stage in many contemporary political debates and social subjectivities. As society transforms, so does the diffusion, transmission, and education of norms and values. Many social science disciplines have explicitly and implicitly engaged in these debates and done profound work to inform our understanding of these transformations. However, definitions and usages of these salient analytical concepts vary across the social sciences and can become conflated or vague. Keeping analytical diversity in mind, the workshop aims to gather individuals from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to discuss the study of norms and values within their work. The current call for abstracts extends an invitation to academics across the globe who work with norms and/or values. Below you can find the panels that will be featured in the workshop: - Absence of language, reproduction of discourse and value transmission around racialized identities - Answering to the roll call: challenges and good practices for the integration of immigrants’ children at school - COVID-19 and People on the Move – Prospects for Reshaping the Norms of Human Mobility in the European Union’s Migration Management - Critical Gender Perspectives to Family Reunification Regulations and Administrative Practice - Equality for Immigrants in Theory and Practice - In the Name of Liberalism? The Role of (Liberal) Values in Integration Policy and Practice - Norms and Values in Asylum and Migration Bureaucracy - Norms and values in EU migration, asylum and integration policy - Polarization: Finding our way through the maze of theories, measurements and conclusions - The capacity of institutions to promote values of equality and good relations between ethnic groups - The European Union as a Value Promoter in times of Value Crisis Key dates - Abstracts submission deadline: January 25th 2021 - Notification sent to participants: February 1st 2021 - Final submission of papers: April 15th 2021 - Workshops held on zoom: April 28th -29th 2021 This workshop is organised by the IMISCOE funded research initiative on norms and values in migration and integration (NOVAMI) in collaboration with the H2020 project NoVaMigra (Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis) as well as the research schools of Global Politics and International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) at Malmö University. The workshop organising committee consists of: Caroline Adolfsson Johan Ekstedt If you have any questions regarding the workshop or potential panel topics, please contact the workshop organizers at: caroline.adolfs...@mau.se or johan.ekst...@mau.se Website of the Workshop: https://mau.se/en/calendar/imiscoe-phd-lead-workshop-on-norms-and-values/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
__ Call for Papers Theme: Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development Type: International Webinar Institution: International Institute for Peace and Religions (IIPR) Location: Online Date: 21.5.2021 Deadline: 31.3.2021 __ The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development is a United Nations-sanctioned international holiday for the promotion of diversity issues. We welcome you to the International Webinar of “World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development”. Papers are welcomed following bellow related topics: 1. Dialogue and Strategic Communication in Development 2. Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue 3. Dialogue on leadership development 4. Community Development and Dialogue 5. Group/Team development dialogues 6. Personal Development Dialogue 7. National Dialogues and Development 8. Policy Dialogue in practice 9. Social dialogue for sustainable development 10. Globalization mixed with localization (Glocalization) 11. Evaluation of Policy Dialogue as an Instrument 12. Peace and Dialogue 13. World Religions Peace and Dialogue Declarations and other related topics Please send your abstracts to: i...@iipr.ir Deadline for abstract submission: 31st March 2021 The registration fee for online presentation: 85 Euros Certificate of attendance and lecturing will be issued. This fee includes publishing the selected articles in the Scientific Journal of Peace Studies of Religions: http://iipr.ir/journal/ Contact: Dr. Taher Amini Golestani & Dr. Muhammad Fayaz International Institute for Peace and Religions (IIPR) Qom, Iran Whatsapp: +989125520570 Email: i...@iipr.ir Web: http://iipr.ir/events-conferences/webinar-conference-2021/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Intercultural Dialogue and Human Freedom
__ Call for Papers Theme: Intercultural Dialogue and Human Freedom Type: XXII Seminar of the Three Cultures Institution: Research Group Philosophy of Culture, University of Seville Location: Córdoba (Spain) Date: 17.–19.5.2021 Deadline: 26.3.2021 __ (Versión española abajo | Versione italiana sotto) Cultural and religious pluralism is one of the most important phenomena of the contemporary world, and therefore it affects philosophical and religious reflection directly. The issue of pluralism is felt in a particularly intense way today due to various phenomena typical of our time: among these, the emergence of great migratory movements and the enormous increase in communications and exchanges at a planetary level. Consequently, pluralism must be placed within the broader context of globalization. On the one hand, globalization accelerates communication between different parts of the world and helps to make them homogeneous. On the other hand, this trend towards standardization arouses strong reactions, aimed at affirming national and local traditions and identities; hence the spread of nationalism and sovereignty, which is a very strong obstacle to the development of a constructive dialogue between cultures and religions. Furthermore, the question of pluralism is also linked to the legacy of past centuries, which saw long processes of colonial and violent expansions of the West, and the conflicts that ensued. The experience of pluralism has had a very positive influence in the contemporary world, because it has stimulated a vast series of reflections and research that have deepened the dialogue between cultures and religions, and have shown that this dimension is now an unavoidable component of contemporary thought. Intercultural dialogue is therefore a precious opportunity for our reflection, but it must be conducted with the awareness of the problems that even today threaten relations between cultures. Among the salient themes that affect intercultural dialogue, the first one is the reflection on our common humanity, which is present in everyone, but is interpreted in different ways by different cultures, which also offer different perspectives on the relationship between the human being and nature. The question of the subject is connected to the above because the dialogue concerns above all the comparison between the path of Western philosophy, which first exalted and then subjected this notion to criticism, and the Buddhist critique of the subject. The discussion on individualism, which has established itself in the theory and practice of the modern West, also falls within this sphere: the criticism of this orientation is shared not only by Buddhism, but also by other traditions, from Confucianism to African thought; after all, Western philosophy also offers an important critical point here, with reflection on the theme of recognition and intersubjective relationships. The debate also develops in the field of economics, where the liberal theory of homo oeconomicus is confronted with broader views. Another central issue is the reflection on ethics and the possibility of founding a core of ethical principles valid for all cultures; this project, according to some authors such as Hans Küng, can have a sure foundation only in the religious sphere, while according to others, such as Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, it can well be developed within a secular framework. The ethical discussion is centered around the themes of human dignity, freedom and responsibility, which remain central to any reflection of an intercultural nature. The conference welcomes contributions on these themes or other similar ones, addressed in an intercultural perspective or at least taking into account cultural and religious pluralism as a horizon of research. Deadline for submitting proposals: March 26, 2021 Submit your abstract here: https://forms.gle/AGXM5aYcSHWhf53F8 Website of the Seminar: http://congreso.us.es/tresculturas/SeminarioTC/CalfForPapers.html __ Diálogo intercultural y libertad humana El pluralismo cultural y religioso es uno de los fenómenos más importantes del mundo contemporáneo, por lo que afecta directamente a la reflexión filosófica y religiosa. El tema del pluralismo se siente hoy de manera particularmente intensa, debido a diversos fenómenos propios de nuestro tiempo: entre ellos, el surgimiento de grandes movimientos migratorios y, el enorme aumento de las comunicaciones e intercambios a nivel planetario. Por tanto, el pluralismo debe insertarse en el contexto más amplio de la globalización. Por un lado, la globalización acelera la comunicación entre diferentes partes del mundo y ayuda a homogeneizarlas. Por otro lado, esta tendencia a la estandarización suscita fuertes reacciones, encaminadas a afirmar las tradiciones e identidades nacionale
InterPhil: CFP: Somewhere in Between: Borders and Borderlands
__ Call for Papers Theme: Somewhere in Between Subtitle: Borders and Borderlands Type: International Conference Institution: London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research Location: London (United Kingdom) – Online Date: 24.–25.4.2021 Deadline: 31.1.2021 __ 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 31 January 2021 to: bord...@lcir.co.uk Please download Paper proposal form: https://borders.lcir.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Paper-proposal-form.doc Registration fee: 90 GBP Conference website: https://borders.lcir.co.uk __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Decolonising Archives, Rethinking Canons
__ Call for Papers Theme: Decolonising Archives, Rethinking Canons Subtitle: Writing Intellectual Histories of Global Entanglements Type: International Workshop Institution: Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Location: Online Date: 26.–27.3.2021 Deadline: 5.2.2021 __ Intellectual history and political thought in recent times has taken a ‘global’ turn, in an attempt to move beyond the dominance of ‘nation’ and ‘modern’ in historical analysis. The most significant intellectual contribution of these works have been to question the ‘globality’ of intellectual history traditions, and in turn urge scholars to introduce spaces beyond the Anglophone world, within the realm of intellectual history, as fertile grounds of ideations. This has also brought to light the need to nuance several methodological tendencies in the historiography of intellectual history, which we intend to provide a platform for, in this conference. These new interventions in the field of intellectual history has unveiled questions on the role of linguistic geo-politics in the writing of intellectual history. How can we write intellectual histories and histories of political thought from non-Anglophone life worlds? In what ways can we reimagine the ‘archive’ in an attempt to decolonise the discipline of intellectual history? Do we rely entirely on English sources for larger intelligibility, or should we attempt to rewrite the vocabularies of intellectual history writing using vernacular registers? What role would canonical ideas play in these vernacular intellectual histories? How do we prevent intellectual history from becoming an exclusively elite exercise and incorporate the voices and presence of actors from the margins of history? Our larger aim in this conference is hinged on two primary concerns. One is of bringing to the fore works in intellectual history and political thought, framed by both context specificity and vernacular sources. The second important goal is to question the equivocal process of canonization and bring together scholars working on non-canonical intellectual traditions, texts, and figures. Therefore, we welcome submissions which will question the ways in which the postcolonial afterlives of the empire, have shaped practices of intellectual history writing. We welcome abstracts for individual presentation of not more than 350 words and panel proposals of not more than 1200 words, which may focus on the following themes, but not limited to: - Resituating and decolonising the archive in the intellectual histories of the non-Anglophone world: textual, ethnographic, and oral histories? - Juxtaposing political thought with political action in the writing of intellectual histories - Ideas and historical actors in context: Positionality informing choice of sources and canon formation? - Deconstructing the vernacular: Politics of language, translation, and linguistic communities - Rethinking the region, redefining the ‘global’ — debating categories like trans-national, trans-cultural, global, colonial, and global south - Trans-temporality as a method for intellectual histories of ‘modernity’ and ‘Empire’ - Reincorporating contested borders and contact zones as fertile grounds of intellection - Intersectional histories of identity and the politics of history writing: class, caste, race, ethnicity, and gender - Reconceptualising analytical categories in historiography: political, social, economic, and cultural Submissions should be sent to cantabconfere...@gmail.com no later than the 5th of February, 2021. The two-day conference will be hosted online, tentatively on the 26-27 March, 2021, between 9-6 PM GMT. We would like to thank the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, for its generous support of this venture. For queries, feel free to write to Shuvatri Dasgupta (sd...@cam.ac.uk) or Rohit Dutta Roy (rd...@cam.ac.uk), Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Contact: Workshop Committee Decolonising Archives, Rethinking Canons Email: cantabconfere...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Buddhism and Language
__ Call for Papers Theme: Buddhism and Language Subtitle: A Twofold Perspective: The Role of Language in Buddhist Teachings and the Role of Buddhist Sources in Linguistic Research Type: International Workshop Institution: Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies, University of Munich Location: Munich (Germany) Date: 22.–23.10.2021 Deadline: 20.3.2021 __ Buddhism has a peculiar relationship with language: the transmission of the doctrines throughout the centuries, starting from Śākyamuni’s original predication to today’s digital dimension of the spreading of the dharma has been inevitably dependent on language, either in its oral or textual form. At the same time, however, language has often been seen in Buddhist traditions as an insufficient tool to adequately transmit the truth and, sometimes, even as a direct obstacle on the path towards awakening. Thousands of texts were produced and translated in a myriad of languages in order to propagate the Buddhist teachings. A variety of ancient sū tras, commentaries, treatises and so forth have been discovered in a wide geographical area going from Afghanistan to Japan. The analysis of these Buddhist texts from a linguistic perspective has thus been crucial for the study of a multitude of ancient languages, which in many cases are attested solely in writings of a Buddhist content. On the other hand, language has also been used in Buddhist sectarian circumstances as a tool to fold and unfold diverse meanings of the same text or to give prominence to certain doctrinal interpretations over others. In this context, the dynamics of intertextuality can reveal how a given religious system promoted certain beliefs and how its supporters shaped and re-shaped its authoritative texts. This workshop is designed to cast a light on language-related issues in the Buddhist context. We welcome contributions on any of the following topics (the list is not exhaustive): philosophical and doctrinal implications of the problem of “language” within Buddhist traditions, the use of Buddhist texts as a source for linguistic investigation and the category of “intertextuality” as a tool for the analysis of the development of Buddhist doctrines. This workshop will additionally facilitate fruitful exchanges between scholars of Buddhist Studies working on language-related issues in historical, linguistic, and regional manifestations. We encourage abstract submission from early career scholars, especially PhD students, but also from established scholars. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Prof. Dr. Christoph Anderl (University of Ghent) and Prof. Dr. Steffen Döll (University of Hamburg). Abstract submission deadline: March 20, 2021 Please send a 400-word maximum abstract and a brief C.V. Send both as Word & PDF files to the e-mail address below. Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2021 Final paper submission deadline: September 1, 2021 This workshop will be conducted in English. Due to the dynamic situation of the pandemic, the workshop will probably be held in hybrid format (in presence and online). A partial reimbursement of travel costs will only be available for a very limited number of participants. Priority will be given to students. E-mail address for abstract submissions and inquiries: buddhist-studies-works...@lrz.uni-muenchen.de Website of the Workshop: https://www.en.buddhismus-studien.uni-muenchen.de/currentissues/cfp_workshop2021/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Human Dignity and Human Rights
__ Call for Papers Theme: Human Dignity and Human Rights Subtitle: Rethinking the Connection Type: International Workshop Institution: Department of Philosophy, Monash University Location: Online Date: 5.–9.7.2021 Deadline: 1.2.2021 __ Human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration presuppose a tight connection between possessing dignity and having human rights. Philosophical accounts frequently echo this presupposition, taking dignity to name the inherent quality that serves as a foundation for human rights. The aim of this workshop is to challenge this presumed connection between human dignity and human rights, and provide a forum to explore alternatives. We invite abstracts exploring the relationship between dignity and human rights, including but not limited to: - Can dignity provide a truly universal foundation for human rights? - Are there alternative conceptions of dignity that do not presuppose specific cognitive capacities, and if so what relationship do these alternatives bear to human rights? - What is the relationship between being human and having dignity? - How else might we justify human rights, if not through the concept of human dignity? If you would like to present at the online workshop, please email a 750-1000 word abstract (anonymized for review) to suzanne.killmis...@monash.edu by February 1, 2021. Notification of acceptance will be provided by February 26. Please note that talks will be scheduled according to the speaker’s time zone, and will be recorded (with the speaker’s permission). Confirmed speakers: Anne Phillips (London School of Economics) Andrea Sangiovanni (King’s College London/European University Institute) David Livingstone Smith (University of New England) Organizer: Suzy Killmister Monash University Email: suzanne.killmis...@monash.edu __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: The Political Dimension of Nature
__ Call for Papers Theme: The Political Dimension of Nature Subtitle: An Intercultural Critique Type: Annual Conference Institution: Society for Intercultural Philosophy University of Tübingen Location: Tübingen (Germany) Date: 4.–6.6.2021 Deadline: 15.3.2021 __ (Deutsche Version unten) The serious impacts of climate change have urgently put the notion of human interaction with nature on the political agenda. This reflects the realization that humans are in the process of destroying their own livelihoods. While politics, however, is primarily concerned with obstructing the destruction, current European philosophy of nature, amongst other lines of endeavor following on from German Idealism, seeks to trace back the notion of reason in nature. Meanwhile, in the area of environmental and animal ethics, thought is being given to a fundamentally different approach to the engagement with nature. In addition, particularly in the field of sociology of knowledge, attention has recently been drawn to the profound shock of the current climate crisis on the understanding of human's self-image in modern times. What the various answers to this shock have in common is that they want to re- assess the relationship between people and their environment, things, nature and technology. Such a re-measurement goes beyond political action as it is evident, that in the history of European-Occidental philosophy the sphere of the political itself from ancient times has been understood as distinct from nature. The Aristotelian understanding of man as a zoon politikon is based on the fact that man is capable of legislating himself his own laws while the scope of such autonomy cannot reach the heteronomously determined laws of nature. This approach can still be found in the 20th century, for example, in Hannah Arendt’ political philosophy. Therefore, the demand for the re-measurement of the relationship between man and nature is not only a question of political action, rather above all it is a question of ‘the Political’ in contrast to ‘the Natural’. Precisely for this reason, merely ascribing an agency of its own to nature and things, will still fall short as it only increases the circle of those who participate in the sphere of political action. The inquiry about ‘the Political’ and ‘the Natural’ goes deeper and concerns philosophical thinking in the European-Occidental tradition in its foundations. This is where the intercultural criticism has to commence the current struggle as call for renewal of the understanding of nature with respect to the thinking of non-European cultures and epochs. In recent years, corresponding works have been created primarily with respect to Buddhism and in recognition of the Latin American experience. The conference would like to build on this work, but also invites the contributions of other natural experiences of other philosophical traditions. Moreover, the importance of an intercultural experience of nature will be explored. If it is the case that the relationship between human beings and nature presents itself differently in the various approaches, then this plurality is more than just a matter of different conceptualizations of nature; then the human reality as a whole is affected and thus the question of the relation of the different approaches to each other will be emerged. Responding to such inquiries directly concerns the political dimension of nature. Abstracts are invited for the following six sections: - Nature in Non-Western Philosophical Traditions - Decolonial Perspectives on Nature - Politics of Nature - Religion and Nature - Phenomenology of Nature - Gender and Nature: Positions of Feminist Philosophy Please send an abstract of 500 words max. to abbed.kan...@ciis.uni-tuebingen.de. Deadline is March 15th 2021. Please indicate in which section you would prefer to speak. Please also send a short bio. Successful applicants will be notified by early April. Languages: English and German The conference is planned as a face-to-face event, but will also be held as a hybrid event depending on the current Covid-19 pandemic situation. Contact: Dr. Niels Weidtmann & Dr. Abbed Kanoor Society for Intercultural Philosophy University of Tübingen Email: abbed.kan...@ciis.uni-tuebingen.de Web: http://www.int-gip.de __ Die Politische Dimension der Natur: Eine interkulturelle Kritik Die schwerwiegenden Auswirkungen des Klimawandels haben den Umgang des Menschen mit der Natur mit einiger Dringlichkeit auf die Tagesordnung der Politik gesetzt. Darin spiegelt sich die Einsicht wider, dass der Mensch dabei ist, seine eigenen Lebensgrundlagen zu zerstören. Während die Politik allerdings vorrangig darum bemüht ist, die Zerstörung aufzuhalten, sucht die gegenwärtige europäische Naturphilosophie, unter anderem im Anschluss an den Deutschen Ideal
InterPhil: PRIZE: Rethinking the Logic Foundation of African Philosophy
__ Prize Competition Theme: Rethinking the Logic Foundation of African Philosophy Type: 2021 Chris Ijiomah Essay Prize Award Institution: Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP) Deadline: 12.2.2021 __ Following the demise of a great African philosopher, Professor Chris Ijiomah, the Conversational Society of Philosophy has instituted The Chris Ijiomah Essay Prize Award (CHIEPA) in honour of Prof Ijiomah and his philosophical legacy. We are, therefore, pleased to announce details of the award for 2021 as follows: Theme: “Rethinking the Logic Foundation of African Philosophy”. The deadline for submission of entries is 12 midnight (West African Time) February 12, 2021. The winning entry will be announced on the CSP website on March 19 2021. We intend to review and publish the winning essay in the first issue of Filosofia Theoretica in 2021. All submissions to be sent to awa...@cspafrica.org with the subject title written as: SURNAME-2021 CHIEPA ENTRY. Include a separate file containing a 200-word short bio. For all inquiries or request for some of Ijiomah’s articles, contact the Committee on: awa...@cspafrica.org For more information on the award amount, eligibility criteria, details regarding the theme for 2021, etc., please visit: https://cspafrica.org/prizes/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: From Logos to Person
__ Call for Papers Theme: From Logos to Person Type: 5th Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: Polis - The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities Johns Hopkins University University of Hamburg Location: Jerusalem (Israel) Date: 5.–7.10.2021 Deadline: 19.3.2021 __ Aristotle defined man as a rational animal. The early modern definition of human being as res cogitans (Descartes) cut human beings off from their animal dimension and the physical world, while a deeply modern philosophical school such as phenomenology stressed the role of the body in the constitution of the human person. More recently, John Deely proposed a definition of man as a semiotic animal. This definition underlines a missing link in the history of philosophy, as it showcases man’s communicative nature, which is intrinsic to his social ethos. Modern and contemporary personalist philosophies have also pointed in this direction. Derrida’s deconstructionism, a philosophical development that has permeated much of the contemporary mindset, argues instead that language and extra-mental reality are cut off from each other. Whether language is perceived as an instrument of communication or as a human activity devoid of real meaning, the acquisition and ongoing use of speech shapes our identity and our attitude towards individuals and human communities, communicating key attitudes such as self-acceptance and openness to others, tolerance and intolerance, belief and skepticism. Language is central to shaping man’s position in the world and in society. Human being’s communicative ability can be particularly illustrated by the rich history of the Greek notions of λόγος and πρόσωπον, and of the traditional (according to context) Latin versions verbum and persona. Early Christian writers used both terms when discussing the revelation of a Trinity of Persons in God. Arabic translators chose the words كلمة and أقنوم to translate the Greek original The Hebrew Bible uses the words דבר and פנים to refer to God’s act of creation and when interacting with human beings. The Bible portrays a personal God who speaks and who dialogues with his creatures. The Interdisciplinary Conference "From Logos to Person" aims at gathering scholars from the fields of philosophy, linguistics, philology, literature, anthropology and theology to examine the notions of logos and person and their rich interactions throughout history. Contributions emphasizing the place and role of each or any of the four linguistic traditions mentioned in forging this notion will be particularly welcome. Topics of Interest 1. From logos to person: The intellectual history of these notions from antiquity to nowadays, particularly (though not exclusively) in the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Latin traditions. 2. Languages and personal identity: Learning to speak as a key element in personal development. To what extent shapes a specific language the way of thinking? 3. Self-identity and inter-relations. Memory and verbal expression as a key factor in shaping individual and collective identity. Does learning a new language have a bearing on an adult as a person? 4. Are words vehicles of thoughts? Does being a person imply being-in-relation? Are there non-human persons? Is personal growth possible? 5. The Word of God. The role of words in the act of creation. Person & Sacred Scripture: Implies divine Revelation a personal God? Prayer as monologue, formula, invocation, or dialogue in the three monotheistic traditions. Timeline February 15th, 2021: Registration opens March 19th, 2021: Deadline for submission of abstracts (250 words) June 30th, 2021: Deadline for registration for in-person participants and audience September 30th, 2021: Deadline for registration for the online audience October 5th-7th, 2021: Conference dates (3 full days) January 15th, 2022: Deadline for final article submission For any enquires, please contact: logos-confere...@polisjerusalem.org Conference website: https://www.polisjerusalem.org/research/conference-2021/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan
__ Call for Publications Theme: Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan Publication: Radical History Review Date: Issue no. 144 (October 2022) Deadline: 1.2.2021 __ Radical History Review seeks contributions that examine the idea of the Afropolitan, derived from the prefix Afro, for African, and polis, the Greek word for “citizen.” Achille Mbembe’s 2007 essay describes Afropolitanism as an ability “to domesticate the unfamiliar, to work with what seem to be opposites” while explicitly refusing “victim identity.” Though Mbembe emphasizes heterogeneity in Africa, most scholarship focuses on the flow of Africans and African cultures between global megacities. In popular media, the term appears in magazine titles, art exhibits, and albums, highlighting fashion, consumer culture, and networks of capital. A powerful visual aesthetic accompanies this focus on urban landscapes, the arts, and gendered bodies. Yet, studies of the Afropolitan have not engaged with the deep history of mobility within and beyond Africa. Nor have historians contextualized fully the expansive global African diaspora. A 1599 painting titled, “Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas” (The Three Black Gentlemen of Esmeraldas) can serve as a departure point. Painted by Indigenous artist Andrés Sánchez Gallque in Quito, Ecuador, it demonstrates how people of African descent always countered European representations of blackness. The figures in the painting, Don Francisco de Arobe and his sons were of African and Indigenous descent and combined Spanish dress with Chinese silks, gold, and local adornments. The artwork was a gift to the Spanish king to celebrate the conquest of Esmeraldas, yet the region was famous for its maroon settlements and the self-fashioning of the three men suggested more than simple submission or subjugation. Thus, this painting evokes several themes related to the Afropolitan such as performance, histories of slavery and colonialism, and transcending borders. Still, some themes remain elusive. The painting barely hints at the Indigenous mother of the two sons or the importance of women in maintaining maroon communities. Indeed, the role of women, children, femininity, and trans identities in defining the Afropolitan is a theme we seek to explore in this volume. In broadening the time and geography of the Afropolitan to include the global history of empire and gender and sexuality, we seek to deepen and problematize the understandings of the Afropolitan with the stories of historical actors who have been “domesticating the unfamiliar” for a long time. Today’s Afropolitans build upon that space others before them created. We expect to focus on the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, but invite submissions from earlier periods. The Atlantic World is a primary site of the Afropolitan and we seek proposals treating all Atlantic regions, including the Caribbean and Latin America. We also are eager for projects on the Indian Ocean or Mediterranean Worlds, for example, that may decenter an Atlantic emphasis. Possible topics include: - Politics of performance, broadly, including citizenship, dandyism, sports, hip hop culture - Femininities, Masculinities and Trans Identities - Networks and affective ties during enslavement - New narratives of emancipation - Policing of borders (physical and cultural) - Debating beauty and body aesthetics - Visualizing intersectionality and mobility - Contextualizing Afrofuturism Procedures for submission of articles: The RHR publishes material in a variety of forms. We welcome submissions that use images as well as text. In addition to articles based on archival research, we encourage submissions to our various departments, such as Historians at Work; Teaching Radical History; Public History; Interviews; and (Re)Views. By February 1, 2021, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing your potential article as an attachment to contact...@gmail.com with “Issue 144 Abstract Submission” in the subject line. By March 15, 2021 authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. Completed articles will be due on July 1. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 144 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in October 2022. Issue Editors: Rosa Carrasquillo, Melina Pappademos, and Lorelle Semley Email: contact...@gmail.com Journal website: https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: PhD Scholarship on Sufi Poetry in Wolof
__ Call for Applications Type: PhD Scholarship on Sufi Poetry in Wolof Institution: School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Warwick University Location: Coventry (United Kingdom) Date: from September 2021 Deadline: 28.2.2021 __ From Alena Rettova The School of Modern Languages and Cultures (‘Translation and Transcultural Studies’) at Warwick University invites applications for doctoral study commencing in September 2021. An ERC-funded scholarship will be available on a competitive basis for an exceptional candidate meeting our requirements. The successful candidate will join a team of researchers working on the ERC project Philosophy and Genre (PhiGe): Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy, led by Professor Alena Rettová (University of Bayreuth) and Professor Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick). PhiGe interrogates the role of textual genre in the expression of philosophical meanings. It consists of eight Research Streams, covering a variety of textual genres in eight languages from several regions in Africa. The successful candidate will work on Wolof Sufi poetry within Research Stream 4 of the project, which delivers a comparative study of Sufi poetry in Swahili and Wolof. On top of working on his/her doctoral thesis, the candidate will be expected to make contributions to the collaborative activities of the team, give conference presentations, and help to organize team activities in Senegal and Gambia. Beyond the School of Modern Languages, PhD students are supported by CADRE (the Centre for Arts Doctoral Research Excellence), the Doctoral College, and dedicated spaces and subject support offered by Warwick University Library. Supervisory arrangements: The successful candidate will be based at the University of Warwick. S/he will be supervised jointly by Professor Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick) and Professor Alena Rettová (University of Bayreuth). Funding: The funding will cover the fees (full-time study) for 3.5 years at home level and a stipend at UKRC rates. The candidate will be expected to spend the second year of his/her doctoral programme in West Africa; the fieldwork expenses will also be partly covered from the project. The annual renewal of the funding will be subject to satisfactory progress. Requirements: Native or near-native competence in the West African language Wolof; competence in Arabic and French, or in additional West African languages, will be an advantage; a B.A. (2.1 or equivalent) and preferably a Master’s in a related subject (See: PhD in Translation and Transcultural Studies (warwick.ac.uk) such as philosophy, literature, language and culture, religious studies, or area studies with a focus on Africa; knowledge of Sufi Islam. The application for the PhD scholarship should consist of a CV clearly detailing the candidate's academic trajectory; a personal statement; a research proposal demonstrating how the candidate's envisaged doctoral research matches the requirements of the project; and the names and contact details of two referees. Please send these materials as attachments in Word or pdf format to pglangua...@warwick.ac.uk (as below) and ask your referees to send in their references to the same email address and by the same deadline. Applicants should simultaneously apply for a place of study on the PhD programme in Translation and Transcultural Studies (course code: P-Q3PG ) on the University of Warwick’s online application system, following the link from: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/research/submit_application, entering personal and study details as required. You may upload the same research proposal and personal statement as for the scholarship application. Deadline: The closing date for applications is 28 February 2021, with interviews to be conducted online on 23 March 2021. The candidate will be expected to start his/her doctoral programme in September 2021. The scholarship application materials and references should be sent to pglangua...@warwick.ac.uk with ‘ERC PhD scholarship: Sufi poetry in Wolof’ in the subject heading. For further details please see: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/postgraduate/translationphd/erc_scholarship_warwick_sufi_poetry_translationtranscultural_programme_17_dec_2020_1.docx __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Reading Retreat on Migration, Refugees, and Rights
__ Call for Applications Theme: Migration, Refugees, and Rights Subtitle: The Ethics of War and Peace Type: 6th Annual Graduate and Early Career Reading Retreat Institution: Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, Stockholm University Location: Online Date: 11.–12.5.2021 Deadline: 15.2.2021 __ The Stockholm Centre is pleased to announce its 6th Annual Reading Retreat. We invite submissions from current and recent graduate students (within two years of receiving their PhD). Papers should address philosophical issues relating to the ethics of war and peace, broadly construed. This includes, for example, papers on causation, responsibility, authority, partiality, scarcity of resources, collective action, punishment, and self-defence. At this time, the Stockholm Centre has a particular interest in papers on migration, refugees, and rights. Each successful applicant will be allocated a faculty respondent, who will provide written comments on the paper and serve as a commentator at the retreat. In order to find the most suitable respondents, faculty will be invited after papers have been selected. Past respondents have included Helen Beebee, Yitzak Benbaji, Garret Cullity, Christopher Finlay, Helen Frowe, Adil Haque, Holly Lawford-Smith, Seth Lazar, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Kieran Oberman, Massimo Renzo, David Rodin, and Laura Valentini. Papers should be no longer than 8000 words, including notes, and prepared for blind review. Papers should not be under review prior to the retreat. Submissions from graduate students should include a letter from their department confirming their year of study. Submissions from early career researchers should include confirmation that they are within two years of receiving their PhD (e.g. letter from examiner or supervisor, or a copy of their PhD certificate). Deadline for submissions: 15 February, 2021 Location: Zoom Submissions and enquiries should be sent to: romy.esk...@philosophy.su.se __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Cultural Awareness and Social Justice
__ Call for Papers Theme: Cultural Awareness and Social Justice Type: 32nd Annual Conference Institution: Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (AAPLAC) College of Education, University of Arizona Location: Online Date: 18.–19.2.2021 Deadline: 20.1.2021 __ The Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean announces its 32nd annual conference taking place in two parts and two places, developed in collaboration with the University of Arizona College of Education. Part 1. Cultural Awareness and Social Justice (Prelude to Tucson) February's virtual conference will feature two expert roundtable discussions: Transnational and Migrant Educational Journeys, and Diversity, Interculturality, and Social Identities Across the Americas; a gallery of selected 5-7 minute videos and images; synchronous discussion and networking, and an introduction to the cultural complexity of Tucson and the innovation, expertise and challenges characteristic of agencies and educators in the region. Video and Image gallery: The gallery of selected 5-7 minute videos and images (up to five) will enable asynchronous viewing and response via video or text; it will also be the focus of a synchronous discussion and social circle on the second day of the conference, February 19. We welcome any innovative use of the video medium. The opportunity is perfect for all categories of participants: artists, practitioners, researchers, NGOs, and students. We are soliciting submissions from around the Americas, in Spanish or English, on a range of topics: 1. Art in Any Medium, Addressing a Topic Below 2. Racial Repression, Resistance and Education for Social Justice 3. Indigenous and Native Nation Initiatives 4. Covid-19 Challenges and Opportunities 5. Experiential/Immersion/Service-Learning and Student Exchange 6. Borders and their Function in a National Security Economy 7. Broad-based Assessment: Outcomes Assessment Videos and images can be conceptualized in innovative or traditional ways: as a fully thought out academic or artistic submission (poster or presentation), as an inventive means to rethink academic and artistic communication using the medium to decolonize the conference format, or an opportunity to network or workshop an idea for Part 2, Cultural Awareness and Social Justice, Tucson, the larger in-person annual conference will take place in Tucson, Arizona, USA in late October 2021. Deadline: January 20, 2021 For more information contact Stephanie Athey: aaplaci...@gmail.com Further information, submission formats and details are available at https://www.aaplac.org/conference/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Jan Patocka and French Philosophy
__ Call for Publications Theme: Jan Patočka and French Philosophy Publication: Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy Date: Special Issue Deadline: 15.8.2021 __ Jan Patočka (1907-1977) is widely recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the post-war Europe and as a philosophical figure of the Central European reform movements which helped to bring an end to European communist regimes. While he is principally known for his participation in the authorship of Charta 77 documents, which cost him his life, and for his lifelong concern with the crisis of European societies, Patočka’s original and provocative contributions are not limited to the political field. They extend to a variety of scholarly areas, including phenomenology, linguistics, cultural theory, and historical studies. In addition to the influence of Husserl, Heidegger, and Fink, Patočka’s work engages with many 20th century French intellectual movements, including phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, structuralism, critical theory, and deconstruction. However, it is surprising that there has not been a journal issue or book dedicated entirely to the relation between Patočka’s thought and French philosophy thus far. This special issue of The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy (www.jffp.org) invites contributions that explore Patočka’s engagement with and relevance to contemporary French philosophy. The aim of this issue is to explore a range of questions concerning the potential connections and differences between the Czech thinker and French intellectual movements and thinkers. For example, does Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology stand in line with hermeneutic phenomenology and existential phenomenology, which are oriented to the lived meaning of experience and the study of concrete human existence? How can Patočka’s phenomenological description of the connection between the appearance of things and the lived body be analyzed in the light of the French phenomenological tradition? How can Patočka’s political philosophy offer resources to re-think and reevaluate the challenge to the cohesion of the European community in today’s time of crisis? This call also invites papers that engage in an in-depth analysis of Patočka’s thought in relation to prominent figures including Ricœur, Henry, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Foucault, and Barbaras, among others. Any questions concerning this special issue should be directed to the guest editor, Maria Cristina Vendra: mcristina.ven...@gmail.com Completed papers must be submitted to the journal’s website by August 15, 2021. All submissions will undergo the journal’s peer-review process. The journal publishes articles written in English or French. Papers should not exceed 10,000 words in length (abstract and notes are excluded), and all citations should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. For additional stylistic instructions, please consult the writing guidelines on the journal’s website. Journal website: http://www.jffp.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: French Thought in Dialogue
__ Call for Publications Theme: French Thought in Dialogue Publication: Culture and Dialogue Date: Vol. 9.2 (2021) Deadline: 1.5.2021 __ Culture and Dialogue (ISSN -3282) is an international peer reviewed print and electronic journal of cross-cultural philosophy and humanities. It provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. For each issue, the Journal seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator. Our second 2021 Issue (Vol. 9.2) will focus on the theme of French Thought in Dialogue. This Issue welcomes contributions from any areas of French philosophy or theory of culture that explore in one way or another one of the following topics: - Dialogical or intercultural experience - French thought and otherness, which may relate to one or more particular cultural perspectives (Eastern, African, Western, Indian etc.) - Philosophical reflection on specific aspects of French thought (anthropological, social, religious, political, psychological, scientific etc.) - Critique of the idea of French thought from across the traditions of interpretive and analytic philosophies Essays from a variety of cultural perspectives or philosophical traditions are particularly welcome. We will consider essays in English, French, or bilingual translations. Deadline: 1 May 2021 Submissions to: ad...@culture-dialogue.net Notes for Authors: http://www.culture-dialogue.net/notes-for-authors Journal website: http://www.culture-dialogue.net __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: JOB: Lecturer in Political Theory (Race and Ethnicity)
__ Job Announcement Type: Lecturer in Political Theory (Race and Ethnicity) Institution: Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London Location: Egham (United Kingdom) Date: from September 2021 Deadline: 25.1.2021 __ The Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Political Theory (Race and Ethnicity). The successful applicant would be expected to start in September 2021. About the Department The Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy is part of the School of Law and Social Sciences. It is a research-intensive unit that offers teaching which both challenges and enriches students. We provide a full range of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes. We carry out research across the different disciplines, but we place special emphasis on our research centres and clusters: the Contemporary Political Theory Research Group, the Centre for International Security, the Democracy and Elections Centre, the Global Politics and Development Centre, and the New Political Communication Unit. About the role We are looking for someone with the potential to make distinctive research contributions in the field of political theory broadly defined. We are interested in hearing from applicants working in a range of different subfields related to but not limited to race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, immigration, decolonial and non-western political thought. We are also looking for someone who can shape our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. As a department that practices research-led teaching, we’ll also expect you to offer a third-year module defined by your research interests. About the characteristics we value Alongside research and teaching, we are looking for individuals who can build intellectual communities, are collegial, and value collaborative working. This is a full time and permanent post. Salary in range of £41,526 - £49,553 per annum. London Allowance of £2,134 will be payable in addition to salary. The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the College is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London. For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Oliver Heath, Head of Department on: oliver.he...@rhul.ac.uk For queries on the application process the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: recruitm...@rhul.ac.uk Please quote the reference: 1220-260 Closing Date: Midnight, Monday 25 January 2021 To view further details of this post and to apply please visit: https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CONF: The Future of Global Cooperation
__ Conference Announcement Theme: The Future of Global Cooperation Subtitle: Ethics and Governance Type: Global Negotiation Conference Institution: Department of Philosophy and Europa Institute, University of Zurich Location: Online Date: 22.–23.1.2021 __ The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated both the necessity of and challenges to global cooperation. This conference will reflect on the role that diplomacy can play as a tool to overcome some of the most pressing issues facing the world. Organized by the Global Negotiation Conference in collaboration with the Chair of Political Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics at the University of Zurich, the goal of the conference is to link young professionals and students with senior professionals and academics to discuss contemporary topics in the field of diplomacy and negotiation. To this end, the virtual conference will comprise of one keynote speech, and three expert-led panel discussions centered on the overarching theme of the “The Future of Global Cooperation: Ethics and Governance.” Keynote Address "Reflections on the Future of Global Cooperation" Angela Kane, Vice President, International Institute for Peace; Senior Fellow, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation; Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Panel Discussions - Panel 1: "Challenges to Global Cooperation" The panel considers the growing popular scepticism on international treaties and organisations, and explores possibilities for a way forward for international cooperation. Expert: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walter, Director of the Center for Comparative and International Studies, University of Zurich - Panel 2: "Regulating the Digital Sphere?" The panel presents an example of a novel area of international cooperation and discusses the role of both the nation state and international institutions in the regulation of the digital sphere. Expert: Anriette Esterhuysen, Chair, United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group - Panel 3: "For a New Global Social Contract" The panel focuses on the role of diplomacy in establishing and implementing global governance rules for the provision of the (global) public good. Expert: Prof. Dr. Adil Najam, Inaugural Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Main Discussant: Jerome Bellion-Jourdan, Senior Fellow in Residence, Global Governance Centre, The Graduate Institute Geneva. Registration Registration is open to all those who are interested, while graduate students can also apply to take part in one of the panels. For more information on the program and how to register please visit the conference website: https://www.global-negotiation.org/the-future-of-global-cooperation __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Social Justice and Morality
__ Call for Papers Theme: Social Justice and Morality Type: International and Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion (SIPR) Jawaharlal Nehru University Location: New Delhi (India) Date: 5.–7.1.2022 Deadline: 31.7.2021 __ Subtopics: Social Justice as a Moral Imperative, Principles of Social Justice, Rights and Justice Ethics, A global View of Ethics and Social Justice, Role of Moral Principles, Deontic Justice, Distributive Justice, Justice and Fair Trials, Environmental and Economic Justice, UN Sustainable Development Goals, Social Justice and Moral Imagination, Social Justice and Human Rights, Equality, Gender and Race, Feminism and Ethics of Care, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Poverty and Social Justice, Immigration Ethics, Ethics and Politics, Social Justice and Amnesty, Justice in a Pandemic, Social Justice, Popular Sovereignty and Disinformation, Mass- Media Campaigns, Morality in Worldwide Crisis, Child Labor, Human Trafficking, etc. The conference will have plenary sessions and also round table discussions on topics below. Plenary sessions will include scholars from: Sociology, Anthropology, Politics, History, Criminal Studies, Law, and Philosophy. Round Table discussion: 1. Social Justice and Morality as represented in Media: Distinguished international and local Journalists will be engaged in an interactive dialogue 2. International Summit of Poets and artists: How different literary works talk about Social Justice 3. Social Justice and Morality as portrayed in Film: Distinguished Hollywood and Bollywood movie directors will be invited 4. How distinguished corporate world and personnel deal with issues related to Social Justice morality Due date for abstract (150 words) July 31st, 2021. Send to: chandanac...@gmail.com Advisory Board Members: Gordon Haist( USA), J. Fritzman(USA), Randy Groves(USA), George Leaman (USA), Yolanda Espina (Portugal), Panos Eliopoulos (Greece), Isaac Nevo (Israel), He Chuan (China), Ming Shao (China), Susan Wu (Taiwan), Rizwanur Rahman( India), Dibyendu Talapatra (India), Debkumar Mukherjee (India). Conference Directors: Chandana Chakrabarti and Kisor Chakrbari (USA) Contact: Chandana Chakrabarti, Executive Director Institute for Cross Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange PO Box 79 Elon, NC 27244 USA Phone: +1 336 417-1153 Email: chandanac...@gmail.com Web: https://sites.google.com/a/lclark.edu/sipr/delhi __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Climate Change and Global Distributive Justice
__ Call for Publications Theme: Climate Change and Global Distributive Justice Publication: Edited Book published by E-International Relations Deadline: 28.2.2021 __ We are looking for contributors for a book on Climate Change and Global Distributive Justice. With this volume we intend to collect contributions that help to systematise and analyse the set of normative principles that indicate how the costs and benefits of climate change should be shared, both between states and between different generations. The book will be edited by Fausto Corvino and Tiziana Andina, and published by E-International Relations in online open access and in print formats: https://www.e-ir.info/publications/ The issues we are interested in and we would be happy to discuss with potential contributors are the following: - Grandfathering (moderate vs. strong versions) - Polluter Pays Principle (historical emissions; excusable ignorance objection; non-identity problem; dissolved states; outcome responsibility; Brasilian proposal; what do we do with non-anthropogenic climate change?) - Beneficiary pays principle (with a clear distinction between consumption-based and production-based emissions) - Emissions egalitarianism (including also Contraction and Convergence) - Ability to Pay Principle (absolute wealth vs effective wealth; how do we deal with wealthy but environmentally responsible states?) - Subsistence principle (the poorest should not be asked to take part in climate change mitigation) - Hybrid accounts (theories that mix two or more of the aforementioned principles) - Climate distributive justice and transgenerationality (many of the activities that cause emissions have a transgenrational nature, i.e. they require future generations to carry them out, what does this imply in terms of emissions distribution?) - Climate distributive justice and the moral gap (how do we cope with the fact that although the majority of people recognise the danger of climate change, many of them do not feel motivated to change lifestyle and habits?) - Climate distributive justice and indirect cooperation between different generations (why should we act responsibly toward future generations if they cannot do anything for us, and they can only act responsibly towards their own descendants?) - Climate distributive justice and non-human nature (what moral duties do we have toward the non-human “victims” of climate change?) - A brief history of climate change diplomacy, from Rio to Paris (with a focus on the distributive principles that have been proposed, criticised and adopted) - Climate justice from theory to practice: what mechanisms can be put in place to ensure an economically and socially sustainable transition, once emission permits have been allocated according to justice? (e.g. cap and trade, emission trading systems, etc.). - Climate justice from a non-Western perspective (we are particularly interested in how Eastern philosophy addresses and perceives the issues of distributive justice related to climate change) - Climate justice and law (through which instruments can international or national law contribute to a fair allocation of emissions between and within single countries?) We will accept contributions that address the issues listed above from two main perspectives: i) a theoretical examination of the normative justifications that subtend each principle: highlighting reasons in favour of any principle, possible criticisms and recalling the main references and debated in the literature. ii) a political and historical investigation on the role that each principle has played in international negotiations and an analysis of the social and economic implications that each principle would have with respect to specific countries or groups of countries (e.g. which countries would be allocated the biggest burden from a distribution of emissions based on the beneficiary pays principle? Or which among the beneficiary pays principle and the polluter pays principle would help the developing countries most? Or what would emission egalitarianism mean for the most developed countries?) We welcome contributions that adopt both or only one of the two perspectives, and we are also happy to discuss additional topics, that are not on the list, with potential contributors. Those interested in participating can write to Fausto Corvino (fausto.corv...@unito.it) and Tiziana Andina (tiziana.and...@unito.it), attaching a 200–300 word abstract of the chapter they would like to write. Alternatively, they can also contact the editors, at the same addresses, to discuss the inclusion of a specific topic in the book. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 28 February 2021. Full texts, if commissioned, must then be sent by the end of August 2021. Every accepted chapter will be between 4500–6000 words
InterPhil: CFA: Online Workshop on Human Dignity and Human Rights
__ Call for Application Theme: Human Dignity and Human Rights Subtitle: Rethinking the Connection Type: Online Workshop Institution: Department of Philosophy, Monash University Location: Online Date: 5.–9.7.2021 Deadline: 1.2.2021 __ Human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration presuppose a tight connection between possessing dignity and having human rights. Philosophical accounts frequently echo this presupposition, taking dignity to name the inherent quality that serves as a foundation for human rights. The aim of this workshop is to challenge this presumed connection between human dignity and human rights, and provide a forum to explore alternatives. We invite abstracts exploring the relationship between dignity and human rights, including but not limited to: - Can dignity provide a truly universal foundation for human rights? - Are there alternative conceptions of dignity that do not presuppose specific cognitive capacities, and if so what relationship do these alternatives bear to human rights? - What is the relationship between being human and having dignity? - How else might we justify human rights, if not through the concept of human dignity? If you would like to present at the online workshop, please email a 750-1000 word abstract (anonymized for review) to suzanne.killmis...@monash.edu by February 1, 2021. Notification of acceptance will be provided by February 26. Please note that talks will be scheduled according to the speaker’s time zone, and will be recorded (with the speaker’s permission). Confirmed speakers: - Anne Phillips (London School of Economics) - Andrea Sangiovanni (King’s College London/European University Institute) - David Livingstone Smith (University of New England) Organizer: Suzy Killmister (Monash University) This workshop is organized as part of the “Conferring Dignity in Human Rights and Healthcare” project, funded by the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Project scheme. Contact: Suzy Killmister Department of Philosophy, Monash University Email: suzanne.killmis...@monash.edu __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Doctoral Scholarship on Global Priorities Research
__ Call for Applications Type: Doctoral Scholarship on Global Priorities Research Institution: Global Priorities Institute (GPI), University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 2021-2023 Deadline: 8.1.2021 __ The Parfit Scholarship* The Global Priorities Institute is pleased to announce the availability of Parfit Scholarships for students commencing a DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford in the 2021/22 academic year. These scholarships are intended to support students who are working on topics relevant to global priorities research. The scholarships will provide a stipend of £19,000 p.a. and cover applicable tuition/continuation fees for up to two years. It is also suitable for those who will also be offered funding from elsewhere to cover the first two years of their DPhil programme. In such cases, the financial benefits of the Parfit Scholarship will commence after the scholar's other funding ceases, such that the scholar is able to fully fund their DPhil for four years. Full details can be found at https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/parfit-scholarship/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Annual Seminar on Nations, States and the Transformation of Boundaries
__ Call for Applications Theme: Nations, States and the Transformation of Boundaries Type: RVP Annual Seminar Institution: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) Location: Washington, DC (USA) Date: 16.8.–17.9.2021 Deadline: 1.4.2021 __ Thematic Description We may say that there are two fundamental histories of nationalism. One is the history of peoples struggling to be free from the domination of a stronger neighbor, a colonial power to achieve their self-governing and sovereign status as nations in their own right. The other is the history of many instances in which nationalism is expressed in terms of tribal and civil conflicts, such as the two major European Civil Wars in 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. After World War II, ethnic conflicts have been tragically present in the Balkans and in Cyprus, between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Israel and Palestine, Iran and Iraq, India and Pakistan, Nigeria or Syria, just to mention a few. History also registers events such as the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Vienna Congress of 1815, the creation of the Society of Nations after World War I and the founding of the United Nations immediately after World War II. The annals of the world have witnessed the processes of the establishment of the European Union, the creation of the Organization of African Unity, the intergovernmental forum of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, etc., some of the major international organizations express their attempts to overcome the principle of unlimited state sovereignty. Limited sovereignty is indeed in the order of the day, even when the idea of the world government might be dismissed as either utopian or undesirable. Peoples and nations are called to embrace systems of governance that go beyond unlimited sovereignty. A peaceful world demands states that are not just well-governed but also constitutionally recognize the limits of their strict autonomy; as well as states that are willing to engage in peaceful cooperation with others. Since the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for example, the world is well aware of the need to bring nations into acceptance of policing structures and an effective enforcement of justice among nations. Indeed, a major imperative of our time remains the avoidance of a nuclear war, and consequently the need to implement systems of governance capable of containing the indiscriminate proliferation of arms of mass-destruction. The goal of the seminar is, thus, to promote a sustained research on political realities, such as nations and state, ethnicity and identity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. In line with some of Charles Taylor’s intuitions, the seminar will pursue a better and more effective understanding of those “imagined communities” that are at the origin of the modern nation-states. Issues concerning power and political cohesion, law of the state and the people, the meaning of borders and the conditions for international cooperation will be at the center of the proceedings. The seminar will also analyze what Taylor describes as the “shift from hierarchical, mediated-access societies to horizontal, direct-access societies,” but also illuminate some of the mechanisms that determine the life of the citizen within the modern state. In the pre-modern stage citizens tended to operate as embedded in “translocal entities” and in dependence of some higher power; while a citizen in the modern state is to live integrated in a common space defined by “action in secular time” (Taylor). The investigation will focus on both the formation and consolidation of the nation-state and how new forms of state-building and international governance might transform the system of political order based on the idea of sovereign nations into something more adequate to the (ethical) demands of our global era. The seminar thematic can be categorized as the following: State and Nation: State and Constitution; State and Civil Society; The Sovereignty of State and People; State and the Rule of Law; State and Violence; The Democratic State; Political Cultures and the Formation of Nations; The Totalitarian State; Christianity and the State; Islam and the State; Judaism and Zionism; State and Nation in German Idealism. Nationalism: Nationalism and Ethnicity; Nationalism and the power of Ideologies; Nationalism and the Role of Religion; Nationalism(s) and Democracy; Romantic Nationalism; Marxism and Nationalist Questions. Laws and Justice: International Public Law; Boundaries and Natural Law; Civil and Political Justice; Just and un-just Wars; War and Peace; National Conflict and Global Solidarity. Cultures: Ethnos and Polis; Cultural Perspectives on Ethnicities and Nations; Humanitarian Intervention; Races, Cultures and State-Formation; Trans-National Political Formations; Confucianism and Issues of Governance and the Role of Boundaries. Methodology This an
InterPhil: CFP: Encuentros y dialogos descoloniales en diversidad de tiempos y espacios
__ Convocatoria de contribuciones Theme: Encuentros y diálogos descoloniales en diversidad de tiempos y espacios Subtitle: En homenaje a Aníbal Quijano Type: III Encuentro Taller: Descolonialidad del Poder Institution: Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas (IIEc), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Location: Online / México, CDMX (México) Date: 24.–27.8.2021 Deadline: 11.1.2021 __ Este Encuentro-taller tiene como objetivo promover diálogos y sentipensamientos orientados hacia la descolonialidad del poder y los Buenos Vivires a partir de las propuestas realizadas por autorxs como Guamán Poma de Ayala, Ottobah Cugoano, Tony Morrison, Hanna Arendt, José Carlos Mariátegui, José María Arguedas, Franz Fanon, Walter Benjamin, Angela Davis, María Lugones, Immanuel Wallerstein, Silvia Federici, Judith Butler, Antonio Gramsci y Foucault, entre otrxs, quienes desde sus distintos espacios/tiempos desarrollaron sentipensamientos y prácticas orientadas a reflexionar críticamente sobre el actual patrón de poder moderno-colonial capitalista, desde sus propias visiones y proponer alternativas que contribuyen a sentipensar la liberación humana, la solidaridad con la Madre tierra y la interculturalidad. Nos parece necesario que algunos autorxs se puedan leer desde este espacio-tiempo latinoamericano, con el fin de implosionar los miradores eurocéntricos desde los cuales se les rescata. De este modo, por ejemplo, Benjamin o Gramsci podrían sentipensarse desde Mariátegui. Vivimos tiempos que se caracterizan por una marcada tendencia a la destrucción de las condiciones de vida en el planeta, a consecuencia de la voracidad del actual patrón de poder moderno-colonial capitalista dominado estructuralmente por la fracción financiera del capital. Por tanto, es importante propiciar sentipensamientos y prácticas descoloniales que nos permitan avanzar hacia nuevos horizontes de sentido histórico, para explicar y comprender la situación actual de América Latina y el Caribe y, además, ampliar teórica y colectivamente las aportaciones de Aníbal Quijano, a partir de contribuciones que hasta ahora no han sido puestas en diálogo. Esto con la finalidad de identificar coincidencias que permitan ir fortaleciendo nuestra capacidad de comprensión de la realidad actual, de sus tendencias y de las posibilidades de transformación societal. Asimismo, el Encuentro convoca a presentar propuestas de ponencias orientadas desde sentipensamientos y prácticas que contribuyan a enriquecer, criticar, ampliar y profundizar la teoría de la descolonialidad del poder, discutiendo qué es el poder y problematizando en términos teóricos y prácticos su incidencia en los cinco ámbitos de la existencia social (trabajo, autoridad colectiva, relaciones sexo-género, “naturaleza”, subjetividad). Igualmente, se alienta la presentación de propuestas referidas a la emergencia de un nuevo horizonte de sentido histórico, nombrado de modo genérico como Buenos vivires, que está conformado por una pluriversidad de cosmovisiones enraizadas en culturas y territorios específicos. Finalmente, se convoca, a presentar ponencias en relación a aspectos metodológicos, entre ellos, el diálogo de saberes, la co-investigación, la Investigación Acción Participante (IAP), la co-labor, metodologías no extractivistas, entre otros. Sentipensamos que todos estos diálogos son necesarios para trazar rutas sobre las cuales podamos avanzar en la lucha contra un sistema que niega con violencia las posibilidades de otras maneras de experimentar la vida. Por estas razones, convocamos a todxs aquellos que de diversas maneras resisten al actual patrón de poder, para presentar propuestas de ponencias que, preferentemente, discutan, de modo riguroso y exigente, los posibles aportes descoloniales de lxs autores mencionados, y/o que planteen diálogos entre ellos sobre las siguientes temáticas: 1. Diálogos descoloniales entre autorxs de diversos espacios-tiempos 2. Crítica al patrón de poder moderno-colonial capitalista y discusión sobre sus tendencias de desarrollo 3. Liberación humana, Solidaridad con la Madre tierra, Interculturalidad Sentipensamientos y prácticas descoloniales 4. Metodologías alternativas (diálogo de saberes, co-investigación, IAP, etc.) 5. La colonialidad del poder y la cuestión del poder en los cinco ámbitos de la existencia social, con especial énfasis en lo “económico” y los aspectos de sexo-género-sexualidad 6. Buenos Vivires y otras expresiones comunitarias Lugar y fecha Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México México 24-27 de agosto de 2021) (De modo presencial y/o virtual) Criterios para las propuestas de ponencias Recepción de resúmenes: hasta el 11 de enero de 2021 Enviar al correo: encuentro.descoloniali...@gmail.com Aviso de aceptación de ponencias: 11 febrero de 2021. Envío de ponencias comple
InterPhil: JOB: Full-time Position in Philosophy of Culture
__ Job Announcement Type: Full-time Position in Philosophy of Culture Institution: Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven Location: Leuven (Belgium) Date: from October 2021 Deadline: 18.1.2021 __ The Institute of Philosophy invites applications for a full-time tenured/tenure-track position in Philosophy of Culture. Candidates offer both a critical and historically informed perspective on contemporary society, with specific expertise in research-topics such as religion, modernity, diversity, historicity, and/or interculturality. Starting date: October 1, 2021. The Institute of Philosophy offers bachelor, master and advanced master programs both in Dutch and in English. More than 100 PhD students from all over the world are enrolled in its PhD program. The Faculty has an elaborate national and international network and enjoys an excellent library: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/en Duties * Research The successful candidate is required to perform the following tasks: - Produce high-quality publications - Contribute substantially to the research community at the Institute of Philosophy and, in particular, at the Centre for Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Culture, e.g., by participating in and organizing research and/or didactic events - Prepare competitive applications for relevant external funding * Education The successful candidate is required to teach small seminars as well as large lecture courses, both at the Institute of Philosophy and other KU Leuven faculties, and supervise theses in the relevant fields (in English and, within 5 years, in Dutch). Service The successful candidate is expected to contribute to public debates in Philosophy of Culture. Profile Successful candidates are expected: - To hold a PhD in philosophy - To have demonstrated the capacity to carry out high-level research in one or more of the areas of specialization mentioned above - To be able to teach on a wide range of philosophical topics at undergraduate and graduate level - To be fluent in English (already existing skills in Dutch are a plus) The official administrative language used at KU Leuven is Dutch. If you do not master the Dutch language at CEFR level B2 at the start of employment, KU Leuven will provide language training to enable you to take part in administrative meetings. To teach courses in Dutch or English, you will need to master the relevant language of instruction at CEFR level C1. If you do not meet this condition, you will be given the opportunity to learn Dutch, respectively English to the required standard within five years of being appointed. Offer We are offering full-time employment and a competitive salary and benefits package. The position is tenured or tenure-track, depending on qualifications and experience of the candidates. Details are available upon request. KU Leuven is well set to welcome foreign professors and their family and provides practical support with regard to immigration and administration, housing, childcare, learning Dutch, partner career coaching. To facilitate their integration in the academic community and accelerate research in the first phase a starting grant of 100.000 euro is offered to new professors without substantial other funding, appointed for at least 50%. For full consideration, applications must be received by January 18, 2021. Interviews will be held as soon as possible after the closing date for applications. Applicants should submit a full curriculum vitae (including bibliography and evidence for requisite skills and qualifications) with a cover letter outlining specific interests in the position. Interested? Please direct all enquiries concerning this position to Prof. dr. Gerd Van Riel, Dean of the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Institute of Philosophy, Kardinaal Mercierplein 2, B-3000 Leuven: gerd.vanr...@kuleuven.be Or to Prof. dr. Stefaan Cuypers, Chair of the Appointment Committee, KU Leuven, Institute of Philosophy, Kardinaal Mercierplein 2, B-3000 Leuven: stefaan.cuyp...@kuleuven.be For problems with online applying, please contact: sollicite...@kuleuven.be. You can apply for this job no later than January 18, 2021 via the online application tool: http://www.kuleuven.be/eapplyingforjobs/55984061 KU Leuven seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us at: diversiteit...@kuleuven.be __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Positions on Practicing Place
__ Call for Applications Theme: Practicing Place Subtitle: Sociocultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations Type: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Positions Institution: Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) Location: Eichstätt (Germany) Date: from April 2021 Deadline: 10.12.2020 __ The newly approved DFG-funded research training group “Practicing Place: Sociocultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations“ invites applications for 10 part-time positions (75%) as research associate (doctoral candidate) (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/-in (m/w/d)) to be filled by April 1, 2021, for a limited period of 3 years and 1 full-time position (100%) as research associate (postdoc) (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/-in (m/w/d)) to be filled by April 1, 2021, initially for a period of 3 years. The place of work shall be Eichstätt. Provided that the requirements are met, remuneration in the private-law employment relationship will be according to the pay grade E 13 TV-L. The proposed research training group aims at a critical reflection of the concepts of ‚place’ and ‘placing’ from a decidedly interdisciplinary perspective. Place and processes of (re-)placing have become central to a discussion of complex global interrelations, precisely at a time of growing transnational interdependencies and seemingly borderless communication networks. According to our guiding research idea, we suggest to think of place dynamically, as practicing place. Hence, we will consider specific practices of placing and their concomitant epistemic configurations (such as comprehending, mapping, locating, imagining, writing, experiencing, and redefining places) as well as the situatedness and specific locality of any practice. The call for applications is generally open to all disciplines that can make a substantial contribution to the overarching interdisciplinary questions of the research training group. More information: https://www.ku.de/en/the-ku/job-advertisements-and-vacancies https://www.ku.de/fileadmin/1903/Stellenausschreibungen/Englische_Anzeigen/wissMA_Graduiertenkolleg_Postdoc_final_EN_US_.pdf https://www.ku.de/fileadmin/1903/Stellenausschreibungen/Englische_Anzeigen/wissMA_Graduiertenkolleg_final_EN_US_.pdf __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CONF: Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence, and Speculative
__ Conference Announcement Theme: Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence, and Speculative Type: Online Symposium Institution: Critical Computation Bureau Location: Online Date: 1.–12.12.2020 __ The Critical Computation Bureau is pleased to invite you to the online symposium Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence, and Speculative Computation, which will take place between the 1st and the 12th of December, 2020. The event is funded by the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences (Duke University) in partnership with Social Policy and Practice (University of Pennsylvania) and the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale). RCAISC2020 aims to provide interventions in the technopolitics of racial capitalism and its recursive regeneration, mixing together critical and creative practices and borrowing models and methods from philosophy of technology, black studies, political theory, computer science and information theory, media aesthetics, cultural and digital media theories. The event will include dialogues, panel discussions, screenings and soundz, featuring (among others) Denise Ferreira da Silva, Jasbir Puar, Ravi Sundaram, Ramon Amaro, Iain Chambers, Steve Goodman / Kode9, Francois Knoetze, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy and many more. - The full program is available at: https://recursivecolonialism.com/ - All events are free of charge. - Dialogues and Panel Discussions will be hosted on Zoom. Please register here for one or more events and you will be provided with Zoom links before the event: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-critical-computation-bureau-31805622717 - Music events will premiere on RCAISC YouTube channel. Feel free to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsi5DAT2sORey3lPjDFwrjg/about - Links to screenings will be shared on our website and through our social media profiles. Feel free to follow RCAISC on Facebook and Instagram and check out for the latest updates: https://www.facebook.com/recursivecolonialism/ https://www.instagram.com/recursivecolonialism/ - The official facebook event is available here: https://www.facebook.com/events/721958742062376/ We look forward to welcoming you at RCAISC 2020! The Critical Computation Bureau (Luciana Parisi, Ezekiel Dixon-Romàn, Tiziana Terranova, Oana Parvan, Brian D’Aquino) Website of the Symposium: https://recursivecolonialism.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Philosophies of African Languages
__ Call for Papers Theme: Philosophies of African Languages Type: UCLA Philosophies of African Languages Conference Institution: African Studies Center, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Location: Online Date: 18.–19.2.2021 Deadline: 7.12.2020 __ Why do African languages matter to philosophy, and to the human and social sciences more generally? In pursuing this question apropos specific African languages, we invite explorations of indigenous ideas about discourse, grammar, meaning, agency, invocation, incantation and language use. From multiple disciplinary perspectives including linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, art history, literature, religious studies, cultural studies and education, our conference addresses explicit ideas about speech and illocutionary force often associated with ritual power and secrecy in Africa. We will also engage implicit notions of time, number, place, person, gender, thinghood, narrative, and poetic/pragmatic function embedded in grammars broadly construed. Motivating our collective effort are the linked convictions that African philosophies of language are rich intellectual and cultural resources from which we have much to learn; that they have been systematically marginalized and overlooked by the western academy; and that meaningful inquiry into their reflexive frameworks requires a renewed commitment to the pedagogy of African languages. Keynote Speakers: - Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a Professor in the Departments of French and Philosophy and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. - Olufemi Taiwo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Guidelines to submit: Please submit a 150-250 word abstract by December 7, 2020 to: afr...@international.ucla.edu Please use (upper case) “APL CONFERENCE” in the subject heading and include your name, email, position and institutional affiliation. Conference organized by: - Andrew Apter is a Professor in the Departments of History and Anthropology and Interim Director of the African Studies Center at UCLA. - Harold Torrence is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA. This conference will be available via Zoom webinars. Contact: Sheila Breeding UCLA African Studies Center Phone: +1 323 335-9965 Email: sbreed...@international.ucla.edu Web: https://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/14487 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Cultural Divides
__ Call for Papers Theme: Cultural Divides Subtitle: Bridging Gaps and Making Connections Type: 1st Virtual Conference Institution: Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA) Location: Online Date: 4.–6.3.2021 Deadline: 25.1.2021 __ The Humanities encompasses a vast story comprised of many stories. From the classics through the present day, from ancient times to the contemporary, the humanities as a discipline speaks through time, as a voice for many cultures, addressing many peoples. HERA invites research, papers, panels, and presentations embracing inclusivity in all aspects of the human conditions – including, but not limited to, race, class, gender, sexuality, age, veteran status, ability, power, ecology, sustainability. We encourage a wide and extensive representation of disciplines and interdisciplinary projects. Every field in the humanities, liberal & creative arts, and social sciences is appropriate. Our goal is to foster the sharing and expressing of the humanities as an urgently important human enterprise – helping to clarify the crucial immediacy of the humanities and why they should be encouraged, supported, and sustained. Submissions are encouraged from educators at all levels as well as all those with an interest in the arts and humanities. Proposals for papers, panels, or workshops (150-200 words) must be submitted through the conference submission portal on HERA’s new website: http://heraconference.org HERA's Undergraduate Humanities Prize A prize of $500 will be awarded to the best undergraduate conference paper that addresses race, ethnicity, gender, or sexuality. Creative presentations, readings, and exhibitions are also welcomed. Undergraduate students applying for the prize, must indicate this on their submission abstract. HERA Undergraduate Research Prize A prize of $1,000 will be awarded to the best undergraduate conference paper (or divided among a panel of papers), sponsored by an attending professor (with a $500 prize awarded to the professor). See HERA’s website for more details. Creative presentations, readings, and exhibitions are also welcomed. Undergraduate students may apply for only one of the two undergraduate prizes. Presentation time for individual papers is limited to 15-20 minutes. Deadline for submission: no later than January 25, 2021. Questions may be directed to the conference organizer, Marcia Green: mgr...@sfsu.edu __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: TOC: Global Justice and Populism
__ Table of Contents Theme: Global Justice and Populism Publication: Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric (TPR) Date: Vol 12, No 02 (2019) __ New Special Issue of "Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric" (TPR) on "Global Justice and Populism": https://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/index.php/gjn/issue/view/18 Introduction Miriam Ronzoni, Tiziana Torres ii-iv SPECIAL ISSUE Populism and Global Justice: A Sibling Rivalry? Benjamin McKean 1-26 Transnational Populism, Democracy, and Representation: Pitfalls and Potentialities Jonathan Kuyper, Benjamin Moffitt 27-49 Why Populists Do Well on Social Networks Kai Spiekermann 50-71 Populist Appeals and Populist Conversations Corrado Fumagalli 72-93 Populism, Cosmopolitanism, or Democratic Realism? Christopher Meckstroth 94-116 Partisan Complicity in Democratic Backsliding Fabio Wolkenstein 117-140 Containing Populism at the Cost of Democracy? Political vs. Economic Responses to Democratic Backsliding in the EU Tom Theuns 141-160 EU immigration, Welfare Rights and Populism: A Normative Appraisal of Welfare Populism Dimitrios E. Efthymiou 161-188 Failing Solidarity: Justified or Excused? Assessing EU Member States’ Arguments in Defence of the Failure to Share Responsibility for Refugee Protection Eleonora Milazzo 189-218 Counteracting Populist Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: Is Government’s Action Legitimate? Laura Santi Amantini 219-244 "Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric" (TPR) is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal which publishes original research in international political theory, with special emphasis on global justice. We are particularly interested in bridging the gap between political theory, empirical research, and the study of political practices and communication. Journal website: https://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/index.php/gjn/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Value Incommensurability
__ Call for Papers Theme: Value Incommensurability Type: International Workshop Institution: Lund University Location: Lund (Sweden) Date: 9.–10.6.2021 Deadline: 8.1.2021 __ On the 9th and 10th of June 2021 a workshop on value incommensurability will take place at Lund University, Sweden. The workshop will focus on accounts of value incommensurability, its implications for ethical theory and decision theory. How are we to account for cases in which we find it hard to compare objects and options (e.g., parity or vagueness)? What can these hard cases tell us about topics in ethical theory (e.g., population axiology)? And how can a rational choice be made if choice alternatives are not related in a conventional way (e.g., completeness as a rational constraint)? We welcome contributions from all fields of philosophy that relate in some manner to the above. The two-day workshop will feature keynote presentations by Wlodek Rabinowicz and Chrisoula Andreou. The workshop will take place the days before the Swedish Congress of Philosophy and the participants can consider to also visit the congress. Submission can take the form of full papers but submissions containing only an extended abstract will also be considered. Proposals are due January 8, 2021. The workshop is organised by Anders Herlitz and Henrik Andersson. Attendance is free of charge. If it is impossible to arrange the conference due to covid regulations the conference will be postponed. For more info on how to submit a proposal see: https://easychair.org/cfp/VI21 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: JOB: Assistant Professors on Antiracist and Decolonial Futures
__ Job Announcement Type: Assistant Professors on Antiracist and Decolonial Futures Institution: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut Location: Storrs, CT (USA) Date: from August 2021 Deadline: 15.12.2020 __ The University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications for four tenure-track Assistant Professors whose work will contribute to the Catalyzing Antiracist and Decolonial Futures (CARDF) cluster. This four-position CARDF cluster is part of a larger seven-position anti-racism/anti-bias hiring initiative. CARDF applicants will be hired in each of four home departments: English, Literatures Cultures & Languages, Philosophy, and Political Science, though candidates with cross-disciplinary interests may be considered for more than one of these positions. Each applicant will also be jointly appointed with one of the participating Centers, Institutes, or Programs: Africana Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies, or Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Please spread the word widely and consider applying or urging your recent graduate students to do so! Preference will be given to those who apply by December 15, 2020; however, screening of applicants will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. If you have any questions before January 1st, please write to Jason Chang (jason.o.ch...@uconn.edu) or to Jane Anna Gordon (jane.gor...@uconn.edu). After January 1st, please write to Sandy Grande (sandy.gra...@uconn.edu) or to Jane Anna Gordon. The full ad, with more detailed information, is here: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/17559 Contact: Jane Anna Gordon Department of Political Science University of Connecticut Oak Hall 414 365 Fairfield Way, Unit 1024 Storrs, CT 06269 USA Fax: +1 860 486-3347 Email: jane.gor...@uconn.edu __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Demarginalizing Futures
__ Call for Papers Theme: Demarginalizing Futures Subtitle: Rethinking embodiment, community and culture Type: WiGiP/GiP Conference on Intercultural Philosophy Institution: Wiener Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Philosophie (WiGiP) Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Philosophie (GiP) Location: Online Date: 19.–20.2.2021 Deadline: 31.12.2020 __ Abstract Techno-utopias, dystopias, climatic eschatologies, and various other representations of possible futures entangle themselves together in the different imaginaries surrounding us generated by politics, media, or philosophy. Such narratives about the future are more than often centred on European concepts of technological progress and ignore representations of future stemming from marginalized political or societal actors. We therefore wish to promote an increase of philosophical and multidisciplinary attention to the above marginalized narratives of the future. To this scope, we invite proposals from a broad horizon of backgrounds that touch on the main topic of ways to represent future societies in a demarginalizing way. We will refer to all such mechanisms as ‘futurisms’ thus aligning ourselves with postcolonial trends in aesthetics that reframe the ‘eurocentric’ term futurism in a demarginalizing, decolonial way. The term ‘futurism’ is usually used in post-colonial contexts to refer to certain sets of aesthetic practices that aim to re-appropriate the discourses of science fiction and technology from the point of view of those who were historically excluded from the narratives of civilizational progress (see Dillon 2012; Newman Fricke 2019). Examples of such movements are ‘afro-futurism’, ‘chicanx-futurism’, ‘Asia-futurism’ (including the so-called ‘sino- futurism’), ‘gulf-futurism’, etc. Hence, although the term ‘futurism’ in all its variants has been employed mostly in the field of cultural studies, we think that philosophy should also take this opportunity to reflect on the way in which the narratives of future and progress can be re-thought from other perspectives. Indeed, our representations of the future are usually accompanied by certain notions of technological growth, political participation and cultural internationalization. Our imaginaries are populated with AI-human interactions, cybernetic gadgets, experiences of augmented reality, but also environmental catastrophes, mass-surveillance anxieties and new forms of migration and ethnical persecution, among others. We find ourselves therefore in front of an overwhelming representation of the future that renders the challenge of critically evaluating and re-appropriating these imaginaries to be pressing. Subaltern cultures have been systematically excluded from the ‘future’, portrayed as technologically and socially underdeveloped. Something similar happens with their philosophies, that usually appear as taxonomical oddities classified as ‘wisdom’, ‘sageness’ , ‘thought’, ‘popular culture’ or ‘religion’ and often play a marginal role in the mainstream representation of future societies. This seems paradoxical since it is precisely places like the global south, where we find political initiatives that try to marry ecological sustainability with political and economic solidarity in creative and innovative ways. For this reason, we would like to address these problems from the expanded perspective of these marginalized futurisms, but also engage in a critical assessment of futurism and all representations of future - does it do justice to subaltern voices or does it promote a dichotomy-laden politics of identity? Given that we understand futurism in an expanded way that includes a large variety of thinking about the future, we invite proposals that investigate and highlight the diversity of thinking and representing future societies. As a guide for possible topics please refer to the following list: Topic suggestions - Non-western representations of the future - Embodiment and subjectivity (the future of the body) - Political imagination (utopias, dystopias, etc.) - Social economy, popular emancipatory initiatives for the future - Art and design for future - Post-colonial pop and urban culture - Cosmotechnics, new media and technology - Ecological thinking, Anthropocene - Indigenous worldviews and science - The future of intercultural philosophy and intercultural aesthetics - Animism, panpsychism, shamanism as tools for visions about the future, etc. Applications We invite all those interested - especially young scholars - to submit their talk proposals touching on the topics described above until 31.12.2020 at the following e-mail address: eve...@int-gip.de Submissions should include: - An abstract between 300 and 500 words - A short academic profile including contact information and institutional affiliation - All talks and discussions will be in English While the conference is focu
InterPhil: CFA: Postdoc Position on Transforming Solidarities
__ Call for Applications Theme: Transforming Solidarities Type: 3-year Postdoc Position Institution: Department of Philosophy, Free University Berlin Location: Berlin (Germany) Deadline: 23.11.2020 __ The full-time position is part of the interdisciplinary research project ‘Transforming Solidarities’ and will be based at the Chair of Social Philosophy at FU and the Center for Humanities and Social Change. The overarching aim of the research project is to examine the conditions and dynamics of solidarity in contemporary societies that are characterized by migration and diversity. We are especially interested in how solidarity is subject to processes of transformation, as it is shaped by changing social practices, infrastructures and institutions, and how, at the same time, it is itself a force that transforms society. Responsibilities: The postdoc is expected to contribute to a better understanding of solidarity from the perspective of social philosophy and theory in dialogue with the empirically oriented parts of the project and an interdisciplinary team of senior and junior scholars. The tasks also include helping to build and operate the research network in cooperation with other members of the consortium and partner institutions, to plan and organize events both for an academic and a broader public, to contribute to academic debates by way of high-quality publications, and to prepare applications for additional funding.Free University Berlin Qualifications and skills required: The successful candidate will hold a doctoral level degree in social philosophy or social theory and have demonstrable research expertise relevant to the research project. We also expect very good German and English language skills; familiarity with current academic debates on the topic of solidarity; a record of publications in internationally recognised journals; and an interest in interdisciplinary discussions as well as strong communication and teamwork skills. Deadline: November 23, 2020 For further information (in German) please see: https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/wiss/16_fb-philosophie-und-geisteswissenschaften/PG-Postdoc_100__Celikates_BUA.html Contact: Prof. Dr. Robin Celikates Department of Philosophy Free University Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 30 14195 Berlin Germany Email: robin.celika...@fu-berlin.de __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Interactions between analytic and Islamic philosophy/theology
__ Call for Publications Theme: Interactions between analytic and Islamic philosophy/theology Publication: European Journal of Analytic Philosophy (EuJAP) Date: Special Issue Deadline: 30.7.2021 __ We are inviting papers for the special issue of EuJAP, guest edited by Abbas Ahsan (University of Birmingham). The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy (EuJAP) is open to a broad spectrum of philosophical issues. One of the main aims of this journal is to provide a forum for philosophical exchange among philosophers from diverse fields within the analytic tradition broadly conceived. Considering this, EuJAP is hosting a special issue tentatively entitled ‘Interactions between analytic and Islamic philosophy/theology’. EuJAP is inviting contributions to this special issue. The aim of this special issue is to motivate an exploration of possible interactions between analytic philosophy, Islamic philosophy/theology, and relevant aspects of Christian philosophy/theology. The idea is to stimulate a scholarly exchange between both fields of analytic philosophy and Islamic philosophy/theology. This is anticipated to generate novel contributions in either both or one of these fields. Such an exploration would be inclusive of the following questions (this is not an exhaustive list): - Amidst the existing methodological disparity, would analytic philosophy serve as an adequate (theoretical) device in solving Islamic philosophical and/or theological problems? - Would the application of any particular analytic method actually prove admissible to a given problem in Islamic philosophy and/or theology? - If any particular analytic method does prove admissible to a given problem in Islamic philosophy and/or theology, does it do so at a cost to the Islamic faith? - Are there historical and/or contemporary instances of Islamic philosophy/theology that (may) have complemented the development of analytic philosophy? - Can contemporary modes of thought in Islamic philosophy/theology potentially assist analytic philosophy to evolve? - Are historical and/or contemporary modes of thought in Islamic philosophy/theology able to offer any promising solutions to particular Christian philosophical and/or theological problems? - Given a common appeal to analytic methods by both Christian and Muslim theologians, where do the differences and similarities lie in resorting to such philosophical methods between both religious traditions? - The interaction between Christian theology and analytic philosophy has recently given rise to what is called ‘analytic Christian theology’. In this regard, could there be a similar interaction between Islamic theology and analytic philosophy which gives rise to what we might call ‘analytic Islamic theology’? Contributions to this special issue need not be confined to these questions. The overarching theme of this special issue can most certainly be extended to include specific matters that are situated in the broader themes of: Metaphysics, Logic/Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Natural Sciences, Ethics, and Meta-philosophy. All prospective authors who wish to contribute to this special issue should send their completed papers to the guest editor by the stated deadline. The deadline for submissions is Friday 30th July 2021. For further information, please contact the guest editor, Abbas Ahsan (University of Birmingham), via the following email address: abbasah...@hotmail.co.uk Submissions should also be sent the guest editor, Abbas Ahsan (University of Birmingham), via the following email address: abbasah...@hotmail.co.uk Instructions for authors: https://eujap.uniri.hr/author-guidelines/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Heritage Without National Boundaries
__ Call for Publications Theme: Heritage Without National Boundaries Publication: Edited Volume Deadline: 15.3.2021 __ Cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), their origins, and practices, are often confined to boundaries of a nation-state. But various heritage aspects are connected via common themes, regional climate zones or cultures, and spatial movement, and not by superimposed national borders. Borders also change over time and space, and cultural heritage is also appropriated by states differently. Nonetheless, some shared heritage practices, materials, ideas, and ideals are interpretated, "used," or presented in different ways, such as in landscapes. In some cases, heritage, such as shipwrecks, do not even have a national owner, and places like the bottom of the sea and Antarctica are stateless. Things such as motor vehicles can also move in, out of, and between jurisdictions as “moveable heritage”. Therefore, heritage without boundaries suggests a discussion unbounded by national concepts and theories. To add to this, over the last decades research, evaluation, interpretation, management, and presentation of heritage has become an ongoing international discourse. Organizations such as UNESCO, ICOMOS, the World Monuments Fund, the EU, and Europa-Nostra continue to discuss at large many common issues on heritage, create collective theoretical frameworks, and prepare practical commonly-shared manuals. Within their own borders, settler states such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States also work with aboriginal communities through formalized government-to-government relations to address heritage management challenges that transcend western-indigenous boundaries. These multinational and multicultural frameworks attempt to reclaim all fields of heritage as global experiences and universal projects. They are based on understanding that aspects of cultural heritage are interconnected, including ties with natural heritage. This means that instead of dealing with a particular heritage issue of a given nation, experts in the field of heritage are encouraged to engage in international debates and discussions that address understanding heritage and its management in a diversity of ways. These international frameworks focus on built and tangible heritage, as well as intangible and living heritage from across the globe and beyond (considering such things as the Space Race). The objective of this volume is to discuss these issues, through case studies and original research from around the world, and from various cultural and geographic settings. We welcome articles from academics, professionals, and advanced graduate students based upon a broad range of spatial and topical heritage approaches. Topics should relate (but not only) to one of the following topics: - Heritage without or which transcends or is outside of boundaries (e.g. built heritage in stateless places, vehicles that are moveable and not tied to place…) - Common Heritage, and different interpretations (e.g. practice & living heritage…) - To whom does this heritage belong? (e.g. trails, ancient shipwrecks, transportation, indigenous, language …) - The impact of international frameworks on heritage - Address complex issues of restitution, compensation, and responsibility in the trade, traffic, targeting for destruction, and marketing of material culture, past and present (examples are from the Elgin Marbles and Egyptian grave goods, to stolen art from the Holocaust, black market in indigenous artifacts, and the destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas). Interested contributors should submit a 250-500 word proposal abstract along with a short CV (2 pages max) by March 15, 2021 to Shelley-Anne Peleg (shelleype...@gmail.com) and Barry L. Stiefel (stief...@cofc.edu) with the subject line “Heritage Without National Boundaries.” Decisions on paper proposals will be made by April 15, 2021. Full papers (including Chicago style citations – endnotes and bibliography) should be between 7,000 to 10,000 words in length using American spelling, grammar, and punctuation conventions of English. Non-native English speakers should have their papers reviewed and edited by an English speaker prior to submission. Final paper drafts are due October 1, 2021. Contact: Shelley-Anne Peleg University of Haifa, Israel Email: shelleype...@gmail.com Barry L. Stiefel College of Charleston, USA Email: stief...@cofc.edu __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: ANN: Vortragsreihe 'Marxismus im Gespräch'
__ Ankündigung Theme: Marxismus im Gespräch Subtitle: Interkulturelle Perspektiven und Entwicklungen Type: Vortragsreihe des Arbeitskreises Interkulturelles Philosophieren: Theorie und Praxis Institution: Wiener Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Philosophie (WiGiP) Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst Universität Wien Location: Wien (Österreich) / Online Date: Wintersemester 2020/21 __ Im Jahr 2018 wurde der 200. Geburtstag des bedeutenden Philosophen Karl Marx gefeiert. Seine Philosophie hat die Entwicklung des Denkens in der ganzen Welt beeinflusst und sie in neue Bahnen gelenkt, wobei die Ansätze nicht nur theoretisch rezipiert und weitergeführt, sondern auch praktisch angewandt wurden. Doch was ist nun - so viele Jahre nach den ersten Versuchen - aus der Utopie, aber auch aus der Wirklichkeit der marxistischen Philosophie geworden? Wie wurde sie in Lateinamerika, in Asien, Afrika und Europa rezipiert und weiterentwickelt? Welche kritischen Theorien und Aspekte wurden in letzter Zeit vorgestellt? Was können wir von Karl Marx, von seinen Analysen und Ideen, aber auch von den in den verschiedenen Ländern der Welt eingetretenen gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen in philosophischer Hinsicht lernen? Und vor allem: Was ist aus der Praxis des marxistischen Philosophierens geworden? In dieser Vortragsreihe wird versucht, jenseits eines rein historischen Horizonts zu gelangen, um die Kontextualisierung der marxistischen Theorien in kulturell anderen Formen des Lebens und des Denkens zu erarbeiten und zu verstehen. Der kulturellen Einbettung sowie den neuen kritischen Aspekten in der Weiterentwicklung marxistischer Ansätze wird besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt, um diese neuen Denkstränge herauszuarbeiten und weiterzuverfolgen. Dabei wird die Wirkung marxistischer Auffassungen als Instrument der realen Veränderung der Welt vorgestellt. Koordination: Dr. Ľubomír Dunaj Assistent am Institut für Philosophie an der Universität Wien, Mitglied der WiGiP Dr. Bianca Boteva-Richter ext. Lektorin am Institut für Philosophie an der Universität Wien, stv. Redaktionsleiterin der Zeitschrift Polylog, Vorstandsmitglied der WiGiP Vortragende und Termine: Do., 29.10.2020, 18.30 Uhr: Amy Allen (USA): Decolonization of the Critical Theory Do., 12.11.2020, 18.30 Uhr: Dennis Schilling (China/Deutschland): Widersprüche und Harmonie - Kritische Fragen an eine chinesische Dialektik Do., 26.11.2020, 18.30 Uhr: František Novosád (Slovakia): Slovakian Marxism: An Archeological Report Marxism without Marx Do., 03.12.2020, 18.30 Uhr: Ivan Landa (Czechia): Dialogue between Marxism and Christianity in Prague of 1960s Do., 14.01.2021, 18.30 Uhr: Albert Kasanda (Czechia/UK): Marxist Theory and Its Critics in Africa Today Do., 21.01.2021, 18.30 Uhr: Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (Deutschland): Zur Komplexität der Lateinamerikanisierung Karl Marx Die Vorträge finden, nach Möglichkeit, als Präsenzveranstaltung an der Universität Wien statt: Hörsaal 3B NIG 3.Stock, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien Zugleich ist eine Teilnahme via 'zoom' möglich – bitte um Anmeldung unter: bianca.boteva-rich...@univie.ac.at Details zu Vortragenden und Themen unter: http://wigip.org/arbeitskreis/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: The Philosophy of Human Rights Obligations and Omissions
__ Call for Publications Theme: The Philosophy of Human Rights Obligations and Omissions Publication: Philosophies Date: Special Issue Deadline: 30.6.2021 __ The main topic of this Special Issue is human rights omissions. States as the primary human rights duty bearers are found wanting more often than not, failing to respect, protect and fulfill human rights according to the commitments made. Such omissions are hinged on the existence of obligations; thus, the two should be discussed in relation to each other. We welcome papers from a wide variety of philosophical and multi-disciplinary perspectives (philosophy, law, political science, economy, theology, etc.) that address these topics and the relationships between them. Despite the many formal political achievements in the form of declarations, bills and treaties, actual human rights implementation remains illusionary to the majority of humans. The reasons are manyfold and include (1) deliberately vague terminology in legal documents, (2) a lack of national codification, (3) weak and failing states, (4) the inherently voluntary nature of commitments made by sovereign states and (5) the unclear responsibility of dominant and obtrusive actors such as large multinational corporations. Problems such as these are known to states and grassroots activist alike, yet the common conclusion seems to be to proceed with caution. A possible explanation for this could be that the feasibility of new reforms is unclear to all, while the risks in terms of a possible loss of gains made in such a would-be renegotiation is equally clear. A careful maintenance of the status quo focusing on ceremonial implementation was hardly the aim of any actor but has still become a reasonable description of the current situation. To promote progress in the field of human rights, academically as well as in society, it is crucial that the human rights discourse focuses more on known yet highly volatile issues such as these. The aim of this Special Issue is to contribute to a substantive discussion on human rights obligations and omissions by, among other things, formulating a concrete and functional critique of the understandings, assumptions and mechanisms for human rights protection and implementation. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website: https://www.mdpi.com/user/register/ Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be 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 single-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/philosophies/instructions Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287) is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 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: 30 June 2021 Keywords - Human rights claims - Structural violations - Philosophy of obligations and omissions - Non-state actors - State sovereignty - Just satisfaction Special Issue Editors Dr. Cathrine Felix, Guest Editor Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Department of Philosophy, Lund University Interests: human rights and philosophy Web: https://www.fil.lu.se/en/person/CathrineFelix/ Dr. Olof Beckman, Guest Editor Division of Human Rights, Department of History, Lund University Interests: human rights obligations; legal system theory; law of responsibility Web: https://www.mrs.lu.se/en/person/OlofBeckman/ Journal website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Mathias Risse and Gabriel Wollner's On Trade Justice
__ Call for Publications Theme: Mathias Risse and Gabriel Wollner's On Trade Justice Publication: Moral Philosophy and Politics Date: Special Issue Deadline: 31.1.2021 __ International trade has become one of the focal points among the different subfields of global justice in recent years. While it is obvious that trade has important ramifications for both the relative positions of states and for the levels of individual welfare attainable in these states, our perspective on the normative dimensions of trade depends on how we frame the issues. Mathias Risse and Gabriel Wollner’s 2019 book “On Trade Justice – A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal” represents an important contribution to this ongoing and highly relevant debate. Their analysis of trade as one “ground” of justice employs an account of exploitation to identify unjust trade practices as well as to formulate a series of principles and obligations of trade justice. The duty-bearers of trade justice, they argue, include both states and corporations. Moral Philosophy and Politics invites contributions on trade justice that pick up themes from Risse and Wollner’s book. These themes include, but are by no means limited to the following questions: - What is the relationship between a theory of trade justice and an overall theory of global justice and its other dimensions? - Do instances of exploitation exhaust the injustices in the context of trade? - How does an account of trade justice centred on a concept of exploitation relate to an account that focuses on the distribution of the gains from trade? Are the two mutually exclusive, in tension, compatible? - What role for humanist versus associativist principles of justice in a theory of trade justice? - Who are the duty bearers of trade justice? - If the duty bearers of trade justice include both states and corporations, how do their respective duties relate to one another? - How does the current world trade regime of the World Trade Organization fare when analysed through the prism of trade justice? How could and should it be reformed? - What are the obligations of states to compensate the losers of trade injustice? - When, why, and for whom can relocation decisions of multinational corporations be considered unjust? - What, if any, specific issues arise in trading with authoritarian states, and how should one respond to them? - Is the absence of exploitation sufficient to guarantee a level-playing field in international trade? Papers should be submitted before January 31, 2021 and should be between 3000 and 8000 words in length. All submissions will undergo MOPP’s double-blind refereeing process. Please note that this process is not organized by the guest editor but by the journal’s founding editors who will also have the final word on publication decisions. The journal’s manuscript submission site can be accessed here: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mopp Guest editors: Peter Dietsch (Université de Montréal) Frank J. Garcia (Boston College Law School) Journal website: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mopp __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: The World in the Village
__ Call for Papers Theme: The World in the Village Subtitle: 18th-century Encounters with the 'Strange', 'Foreign' and 'Exotic' Beyond the Centres of Globalization Type: 2021 Annual Conference Institution: German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Location: Wolfenbüttel (Germany) Date: 9.–10.9.2021 Deadline: 18.12.2020 __ The 2021 Annual Conference of the German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts, DGEJ) in Wolfenbüttel addresses the question, if and to what extent a growing presence of ideas, things and people considered ‘foreign’, ‘strange’ or ‘exotic’ define the eighteenth century as a period. Instead of focussing on the centres of early globalization, such as port cities, courts or trading companies, which are already quite well-researched, the annual meeting turns to the presence of the ‘strange’, ‘foreign’ and ‘exotic’ in seemingly peripheral areas between established “centres of calculation” (Latour) and large urban hubs such as Amsterdam, London or Rome. ‘The village’, thus, features less as a specific geographical unit. It is treated as a cipher for the secondary and tertiary spaces in which globalization was received. The conference’s approach will broaden horizons beyond traditional loci of global exchange. With this thematic focus, the conference intends to follow the pathways of distribution of the ‘foreign’ (1), the local forms of its appropriation (2), as well as the often unintended consequences of its presence (3) with a focus on those regions of central Europe, which are otherwise often considered backwaters of globalization. What, specifically, denotes or merits the term ‘backwater’ or ‘hinterland’ and how its contacts with ‘centers’ took shape, should and can be specified in the individual contributions. The organizers hope that infrastructures of distribution, the specific contexts in which people, objects, and ideas reached a local context, each with their specific rhythms, delays, and disruptions are going to become visible. Moreover, we wish to ask if the presence of ‘the world’ did not, in turn, lead to a more intimate consideration of one’s own surroundings: Some years ago, Alix Cooper introduced the hypothesis of an “invention of the indigenous” denoting a growing turn to the local. If and to what extent this ‘turn’ resulted in a deeper integration of secondary spaces of reception into the unfolding globalization has rarely been analysed, however. Overall the meeting aims to extend research into the global integration of Europe beyond its ‘hot’ centres and to raise the question about the reach of global integration. All disciplines dealing with the long 18th century are invited to contribute. Even though we put special emphasis on the Holy Roman Empire and its adjacent regions, we also welcome proposals concerning other regions. The conference will take place Sep 9-10, 2021 at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. Pending decision on external funding, the organizers cover expenses for travel and accomodations. From a set of question, the following may serve as examples: - By what avenues did ‘exotica’ reach the periphery? What forms of secondary, tertiary, pp. appropriation existed? - What role did ‘exotica’ play in popular Enlightenment and reform movements? - By what means and media did knowledge about the ‘foreign’ circulate? - How did people come to terms with the presence of the unknown that were not confronted with it on a daily basis? What traces did ‘exotica’ leave that were only passing through? Please adress all additional questions about the conference and submit abstracts of potential presentations (c. 500 words) and a short CV by 18 Dec, 2020 to Prof. Markus Friedrich. Contact: Prof. Markus Friedrich Hamburg University Email: markus.friedr...@uni-hamburg.de __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Globalization and New Terrains of Consciousness
__ Call for Papers Theme: Globalization and New Terrains of Consciousness Subtitle: Phenomenologies of the Global/ Local/ Glocal Type: International Conference Institution: Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia Department of English and American Studies, University of Würzburg Location: Online Date: 9.–10.2.2021 Deadline: 1.12.2020 __ Phenomenological modes of analysis offer perspectives on sense-making practices, wherein we tend to ask questions as to what appeals to a particular community, or makes its presence felt in cultural practices, or even lends to hybridization. We live in sensory environments and glocalisation allows for a critical reflection on the making and remaking of these through assemblages and coming-together. A consideration of humans and our earth- others in building a new form of “planetary imaginary” (Spivak, Death of a Discipline, 2003) is crucial. And, varied sensoriums allow for multiplicity of expressions and relationalities to emerge. In response to these developments and demands, we propose to develop a multilogical phenomenology of globalization that will enable “an analysis of those experiences that human beings are undergoing as a result of the new socio-economic-cultural and political processes of ‘globalization’, which in turn condition the horizon of all possible expectations an interpretations against which new experiences are possible and intelligible” (Mendieta, "Invisible Cities”, 2001). Our entry point for such a phenomenology of globalization will be the examination of sensory cultures and of their medial articulation. How are local cultures of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch as well as the related routines of spatiality and somaticity impacted by global discourses and media (such as television, popular music, digital media, ‘cosmopolitan’ or ‘global literature’)? Vice versa, how and in how far are specific local practices, strategies and legacies of worldmaking represented in and projected into the sphere of global negotiation? How are local and global practices of sensory, spatial and conceptual worldmaking interwoven and negotiated in capitals or megacities like Delhi, Beijing, London and Berlin? The urban sensorium of the smart city contrasts well with the sentient ecological drive in environmental Humanities in the face of mass extinction and global climate change. Thus, this call for papers is interested in an exploration of sensory environments and cultures of knowledge produced and examined in a process of globalized world-making. We invite you to think about the synesthesia of senses and sense-making, the affective accumulation of images across literary, cultural and programmatized texts that both build and seek a splintering “actuality” which is by virtue of its accumulative articulation an “artifactuality” (Derrida, Echographies of Television, 1996). The local articulations of global experiences of the networked assemblages of the times and terrains of consciousness, open spaces of contemplation about the molecular actualising, or even activating of the desiring and sensory intensities of its parts are ever evolving. It becomes interesting to follow language and its ordering and development of a sense of varied sensory environments, of narrative, of story, of plot, of the epochal and the trivial, bringing us back to thought and sensation through the literary, the cultural and the experiential that eventually dwell on what it means to be human and what it means to overcome the centrality of that thought. We invite abstracts on the following themes, but are not limited to these: - Hyperaesthetic Culture - Hyperculture - Local Cultures and Global Discourses - Sensory Adaptation and Sense-Making - Transnational Linkages - Agency: Material and otherwise - Multimodal sensory experiences - Machinic Assemblages - Molar/Molecular Becoming/Unbecoming - Sensory, Parasensory and Extrasensory - Spatial discourses - Urbanity, Artifactuality and Time - Routines of spatiality and somaticity - Technics and the Megacity - Worldmaking in popular culture - Heterotopic Negotiations - Posthuman/ Other-than human sensory explorations Important Dates Submission of Abstracts: 1st December, 2020 Intimation of Accepted Abstracts: 15th December, 2020 Submission of Full-Length Papers: 15th January, 2021. Guidelines for Abstract and Paper Submission We invite abstracts of about 300 words along with a short bio-note of 100 words to be sent via email to sparcjm...@gmail.com on or before 1st December, 2020. Full-length papers of accepted abstracts, of 6000-8000 words, in citation style MLA 8th Edition, should reach the same on or before 15th January, 2021. Selected papers will be published in a collection of conference proceedings with a leading international publisher. For further queries and submissions, kindly write to us at sparcjm...@gmail.com. Patron:
InterPhil: CFA: Summer School on Philosophy in Times of Crisis
__ Call for Applications Theme: Philosophy in Times of Crisis Subtitle: Theoretical Perspectives East and West Type: International Summer School Institution: University of Tübingen Location: Tübingen (Germany) Date: 9.–14.8.2021 Deadline: 1.1.2021 __ From Jan Hauke Behrendt The summer school aims to bring together leading experts and junior scholars from the fields of social and political theory as well as Chinese philosophy. Our starting point is the frequently proclaimed crisis of liberalism which is often taken to affect the very heart of Western political values and identity. At the same time, public debate frequently points to Chinese Philosophy as a rival approach in political theorizing. It is our goal to move away from such an antagonistic framing. Rather, we aim to explore what resources thinkers from east and west have to offer in times of crisis. We will conduct the discussion in three sessions, each of them devoted to a different level of analysis. In the first section, we will focus on macro-level social phenomena. Central questions we want to discuss are: What is the understanding of central terms such as “political stability” and “legitimacy” in Confucianism and liberal political theory? How can political stability be combined with social progress? What is the role of political crises in Western and Eastern thinking and what can learn from this? The second section is devoted to meso-level phenomena, with a special focus on social and ethical roles, since roles are not only a central theme in Confucian thinking but also in Western reflection on political responsibility and civic education. Here, we want to understand what position we can accord to roles in political theory. In what ways can they be central to a “good” or stable society? How can we reform roles that seem outdated and what does this mean for social progress? The third session will be devoted to individual-level phenomena. Questions we want to discuss include: How can roles be habituated? What are the mental resources that allow for this? How does the concept of habitualized roles relate to the idea of individual freedom? The keynote speakers for this event are: Joseph Chan, Thomas Fröhlich, Sally Haslanger, Rahel Jaeggi, Sungmoon Kim, Bernd Ladwig, Karyn Lai, Sor Hoon Tan, Tadeuz Zawidzki We invite applications from doctoral and post-doctoral students for participation in the event. A small number of slots is available for participants to present their own work on issues related to the overall theme of the summer school. Limited funding is available to (partially) cover travel and accommodation costs. To apply please send the following materials to summersch...@izew.uni-tuebingen.de: - A curriculum vitae (including list of publications) - A brief letter of motivation (1-2 pages) - If you want to apply for a presentation: An abstract (500 words) on the conferences’ topics with information on the thematic focus (macro, meso or micro). The deadline for applications: January 1st, 2021 Organizing team: Anja Berninger (University of Stuttgart), Hauke Behrendt (University of Stuttgart), Wulf Loh (University of Tübingen), Tobias Störzinger (University of Göttingen) __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: JOB: Assistant Professor in Global Humanities
__ Job Announcement Type: Assistant Professor in Global Humanities Institution: Humanities Department, San Jose State University (SJSU) Location: San José, CA (USA) Date: from Fall 2021 Deadline: 1.12.2020 __ The Humanities Department at San José State University seeks an Assistant Professor for a full-time, tenure-track position in Global Humanities with primary teaching and coordinating responsibilities in the Humanities Honors Program. The position is part of an Ethnic Studies Education cluster hire. We highly encourage applicants with interdisciplinary training and specializations in any of the following areas to apply: ethnic studies, visual/cultural studies, and world cultures/human rights. Rank negotiable for more experienced candidates. The Humanities Department is a prominent center for creative, interdisciplinary study and research on campus. It offers three B.A. Programs: a Liberal Studies Teacher Preparation B.A.; a Creative Arts B.A.; and a Humanities B.A., in which students pursue a concentration in American Studies, Liberal Arts, or Comparative Religious Studies. The Department is also home to two team-taught, multiple-semester General Education Programs: the lower-division American Cultures GE sequence and the Humanities Honors Program, which has both lower and upper-division Humanities Honors GE course sequences. This position is an excellent opportunity for scholars interested in launching a career at a teaching-centered institution that is a national leader in graduating historically underserved students. SJSU has achieved both HSI (Hispanic Serving Institution) and AANAPISI (Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution) status. Moreover, 40% of our student population are first-generation college students and 38% are Pell-qualified. As a result, we rank #3 nationally in increasing student upward mobility. Learn more about our department at our website: https://www.sjsu.edu/hum/ To apply, please visit: https://jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/497890/assistant-professor-of-global-humanities-department-of-humanities Applications close: December 1, 2020 Equal Employment Statement: SJSU is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action employer. We consider qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or disability. It is the policy of SJSU to provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities who self disclose. __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: ANN: Online Lectures on Intercultural Philosophy
__ Announcement Type: GIP Online Lectures on Intercultural Philosophy Institution: Location: Online Date: 5.11.2020 __ GIP-Lectures Online The Society for Intercultural Philosophy (Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie – GIP) is launching a new lecture series. Given the serious situation of Covid-19 pandemic we would like to take advantage of the general necessity to communicate digitally. A digital lecture format allows members from all over the world to participate; also this gives us the chance to invite speakers from around the globe more easily. We very much invite all of you to join the monthly lectures and make this a forum for lively discussion! Our next session: Thursday, November 5th, 19:00 (CET) Prof. Dr. Tariq Modood School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK: "Can Interculturalism complement Multiculturalism?" Abstract European/UNESCO interculturalism (IC) emerged as a critique of multiculturalism (MC) (complicated by the fact that there is an alternative Quebecer interculturalism, not discussed in this lecture). I suggest that this relationship has gone through three phases. Phase one begins in the 1990s with a general dissatisfaction with MC from many political and intellectual sources. Phase two, roughly from about the middle of the last decade, is when IC scholars, mainly sociologists, though also in cultural studies, policy studies, migration studies, geography as well as education emerge in significant numbers. The engagement with multiculturalism is superficial and serves the purpose of clearing the ground in order to get on with a new research or policy. Phase three is the political theory justification of IC. I argue that these three phases have not established a pro-diversity ‘ism’ which can replace MC. While I hope we may move on to a phase four, where MC and IC are seen to be complementary, I here re-state what I think are the key concepts of MC. I hope it will be evident that firstly, that these concepts are not out of date or redundant; and secondly, therefore, that IC is wrong to abandon them. http://www.tariqmodood.com Our last lecture of the year will be given Tuesday, December 15th: Dr. John Lamola, University of Pretoria Malesela John Lamola is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Pretoria where he researches and teaches on African Social Philosophy and the Philosophy of Technology. In addition, he holds Senior Research Associate appointment at the Institute of Intelligent Systems of the University of Johannesburg. He obtained his PhD degree from Edinburgh University and an MBA degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His research interests are in Political Philosophy in the context of the emergence of African Modernity, and on the intersection between technology and an Africanist social theory and practice. He publishes on Marxian epistemology, applications of Sartrean existential anti-colonial philosophy to contemporary African socio-ontological inquiries, and on the representation of Africans in the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution. Dr Lamola is a professional member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ (IEEE) Society on Social Implications of Technology, an active member of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, the South African Center of Phenomenology, and is the founder the Research Group on Africa, Philosophy and Digital Technologies (APDiT). http://ufh.ac.za/faculties/social-sciences/departments/philosophy/staff/john-lamola To participate please send a short notice, before the day of the lecture, to: niels.weidtm...@ciis.uni-tuebingen.de The lecture will be given via zoom. A zoom-link will be sent to all those who registered. GIP-Lectures: http://www.int-gip.de/gip-lectures/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: JOB: Assistant Professor in Buddhist Studies
__ Job Announcement Type: Assistant Professor in Buddhist Studies Institution: Department of Religious Studies, New York University Location: New York, NY (USA) Date: from September 2021 Deadline: 15.12.2020 __ The Department of Religious Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University invites applications for an appointment as an Assistant Professor on the tenure track for the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation New Professorship in Buddhist Studies. The appointment will begin September 1, 2021. We seek applicants whose area of empirical research lies in East Asian Buddhisms: Chinese, Japanese, Korean and/or Tibetan. The ideal candidate will combine a grasp of the classical textual tradition with a serious engagement of the theoretical study of religion. Interest in intersections of religion with post-coloniality, race, gender, sexuality, or national identity is especially welcome. The candidate should be prepared to teach Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion, as well as three other courses per year, the nature of which will in part depend upon their specialty. Candidates must have a strong commitment to teaching and to participating in the Department's scholarly activities. To learn more about the Department of Religious Studies please visit our website at: http://religiousstudies.as.nyu.edu Application deadline is December 15, 2020. Candidates should prepare a cover letter, cv, teaching, research and diversity statements, along with the names and addresses of three references. Additional information on diversity statement requirements can be found here: http://as.nyu.edu/departments/facultydiversity/recruitment/diversity-statements.html To apply, visit the Interfolio site: http://apply.interfolio.com/79703 The Faculty of Arts and Science at NYU is at the heart of a leading research university that spans the globe. We seek scholars of the highest caliber, who embody the diversity of the United States as well as the global society in which we live. We strongly encourage applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, and other individuals who are underrepresented in the profession, across color, creed, race, ethnic and national origin, physical ability, gender and sexual identity, or any other legally protected basis. NYU affirms the value of differing perspectives on the world as we strive to build the strongest possible university with the widest reach. To learn more about the FAS commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, please read: http://as.nyu.edu/departments/facultydiversity.html __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Narrating Violence
__ Call for Papers Theme: Narrating Violence Subtitle: Making Race, Making Difference Type: Winter Symposium Institution: Study Circle 'Narrative and Violence', Nordic Summer University University of Turku George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention, American University of Paris Location: Turku (Finland) / Paris (France) / Online Date: 15.–17.3.2021 / 29.–31.3.2021 Deadline: 1.12.2020 __ In collaboration with The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris, we invite scholars, students, practitioners, and activists from all fields to take part in the Winter Symposium of the Nordic Summer University Study Circle Narrative and Violence. 15–17 March 2021 in Turku 29–31 March 2021 in Paris This symposium will explore questions on the production, practice, and instrumentalization of violent narratives about racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual, and political minorities and groups. While multiple theoretical perspectives will be included in both locations, the symposium will have a broader international focus at the American University of Paris and will facilitate discussions primarily pertaining to the Nordic and Baltic sphere at the University of Turku. We are interested in bringing together international scholars from multiple disciplines in order to investigate the role of narratives as a resource for motivating, justifying, and rationalizing structural violence, discrimination, and even mass violence or genocide. How and why are such narratives produced and disseminated? Are there common themes or patterns across cultures and cases? How do they derive their power? Why do persons and social groups subscribe to them? Are certain groups or persons more predisposed to appropriating these narratives? Are there ways to dissemble them? In order to explore these questions, we welcome papers that examine the language of stigmatisation, pollution, and discrimination from broad historical and geographical perspectives. We encourage papers that address the influence of fictional and non-fictional representations, oral histories and legal proceedings as well as the work of activist movements that attempt to counter violent narratives and reflect on how to shape possible, multicultural, inclusive futures. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): - The social processes whereby violent depictions of race and otherness are constructed and sustained. - The relationship between figurative or symbolic violence and physical violence. - The recycling and reuse of violent narratives across different historical events, cultures, and social contexts. - The role of fictional and non-fictional accounts and other genres in the construction of violent narratives. - The distribution, circulation, and appropriation of conspiracy theories. - Strategies for dissembling violent narratives. - The memory and persistence of violent narratives over time. - Issues of language, identity, and culture in narrating both new and old minoritization. - The role of different media (film, text, music, social media) in the construction of violent narratives. - The role of comics as a medium in the construction of violent narratives. (This topic will be in collaboration with Study Circle 9, Comics and Society: Research, Art, and Cultural Politics’ seminar ‘Racialised Violence and Comics in the Nordic Region and Beyond’). The symposium is planned as a hybrid event (with both online and face-to-face participation, depending on the sanitary situation). Please send proposals for papers, workshops, roundtables, and performances (max. 300 words) with a title and a short biographical statement (100 words) by 1st December 2020, indicating your preferred mode of participation: narrativeandviole...@gmail.com and schaeffercen...@aup.edu If you wish to attend without presenting, please get in touch with us and send us a short biographical note. PhD and MA students are eligible for up to five ECTS points for participation and presentation of a paper. The preliminary programme will be announced in January 2021. For more information about the Nordic Summer University (NSU) and the Study Circles, or to sign up for the newsletter, go to: http://nordic.university Membership: To participate in the symposium, you need to become a member of the Nordic Summer University. The annual membership fee facilitates the existence of NSU, which is a volunteer-based organisation. As a member you can sign up for all events organised by NSU, take part in the democratic decision-making process on which NSU is based, and become part of the extensive network of NSU. There are two rates: a standard fee of €25 and a discounted membership of €10 for students, self-financed/freelance/independent scholar
InterPhil: CFA: Postdoc Positions on Global Priorities Research
__ Call for Applications Type: Postdoc Positions on Global Priorities Research Institution: Global Priorities Institute (GPI), University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 2021-2025 Deadline: 11.11.2020 __ The Global Priorities Institute (GPI) at the University of Oxford – part of the Faculty of Philosophy – is currently advertising four-year postdoc positions (Postdoctoral and Senior Research Fellowships in Philosophy). The central focus of GPI is what we call ‘global priorities research’, which centres on the question “What should we do with a given unit of resources if our aim is to do the most good?” We are particularly interested in hiring specialists in moral philosophy and/or decision theory. More information and example research questions can be found in GPI’s research agenda: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/research-agenda For current graduate students, postdocs at GPI are a great way to launch an academic career. Team-based and individual research on global priorities topics is combined with substantial freedom to pursue one’s own unrelated projects (e.g. working on publications related to a recent PhD dissertation), there is plenty of funding for infrastructure and travel, and the Institute takes support for career development very seriously. GPI is as yet too young to have an established placement record, but we confidently expect GPI postdocs to go on to tenure-track positions in the very best research universities. More generally, GPI is a vibrant and supportive research environment, with plenty of opportunities for informal discussion as well as multiple structured research events each week. Applications close on 11 November (midday UK time). More details on the posts can be found at the Postdoctoral and Senior Research Fellow position pages on the GPI website: Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Philosophy: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/vacancies-postdoctoral-research-fellows-in-philosophy/ Senior Research Fellows in Philosophy: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/vacancies-senior-research-fellow-in-philosophy/ We particularly encourage applications from women, black and ethnic minority candidates, as these groups are underrepresented in philosophy. Please contact gpi-off...@philosophy.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions or would like to explore further – we look forward to hearing from you. Contact: Hilary Greaves, Director Global Priorities Institute University of Oxford Email: gpi-off...@philosophy.ox.ac.uk Web: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Grants on Global Philosophy of Religion
__ Call for Applications Type: Grants on Global Philosophy of Religion Institution: Global Philosophy of Religion Project, University of Birmingham Location: Birmingham (United Kingdom) Deadline: 31.3.2021 __ The Global Philosophy of Religion Project is a major initiative that aims to make the philosophy of religion a truly global field. It is led by Professor Yujin Nagasawa and hosted by the Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion in the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. We offer many grants to support research involving philosophers of religion from all religious traditions and geographical locations, especially from underrepresented regions and religious traditions. - Small Project Grants: We will offer 5–20 grants (totalling £400,000) to projects that address one or more of our themes from global perspectives. We expect to provide between £20,000 and £80,000 each to most projects. Deadline: 30th April 2021 - Translation Grants: We will offer 5–20 grants (totalling £50,000) to scholars who will translate books or papers in the philosophy of religion from English to a non-English language or vice versa. Deadline: 31st March 2021 - English Language Support Grants: We will offer approximately 20 grants totalling £20,000 to support non-native English speakers who wish to publish their philosophy of religion papers on the project themes in the English language. Deadline: 31st March 2021 Please visit our website for the details: https://www.global-philosophy.org/grants Contact: Yujin Nagasawa, Project Leader School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom Email: global-philoso...@contacts.bham.ac.uk Web: https://www.global-philosophy.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Ethics, Religion and Philosophy
__ Call for Papers Theme: Ethics, Religion and Philosophy Type: 11th Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy (ACERP2021) Institution: International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Location: Tokyo (Japan) / Online Date: 28.–31.3.2021 Deadline: 15.1.2021 __ The Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy (ACERP) celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2020. It has proven to be a great opportunity for engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue, speaking to scholars, and learning from other experts from around the world and from a variety of academic disciplines. The interdisciplinary and international focus of the conference draws world-class speakers and keeps people coming back year after year. For this year’s conference, the Organising Committee has opted to leave the theme more open than in past years. There will be a number of streams and special sessions within the fields of ethics, religion and philosophy, but presenters will not be limited by any one, specific theme. It is hoped that this open format will encourage a broad range of submissions on a variety of related topics and encourage discussions across disciplines. Submission Streams The ACERP Organising Committee welcomes papers from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives, and submissions are organised into the streams and substreams listed below: Ethics: - Medical Ethics - Business and Management Ethics - Ethics in Education - Ethics, Law, and Justice - Ethics and Globalisation - Ethics and Science - Comparative Ethics - Linguistics, Language and Ethics Religion: - Theism and Atheism - Feminism and Religious Traditions - Religion and Education - Religion and Peace Studies - Mysticism, Faith, and Scientific Culture - Interfaith Dialogue - Comparative Religion - Linguistics, Language and Religion - Interdisciplinary – Conflict Resolution and Mediation Studies Philosophy: - Philosophy and Religion - Philosophy and the Arts - Philosophy and Public Policy - Philosophy and Technology - Philosophy and Culture - Philosophy and Education - Philosophy and Peace Studies - Comparative Philosophy - Linguistics, Language and Philosophy Presentation Formats - Oral Presentation (25 minutes) - Poster Presentation (60 minutes) - Virtual Presentation - Workshop Presentation (50 minutes) - Symposium Presentations (75 minutes) - Panel Presentations (75 minutes) IAFOR Hybrid Model The 11th Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy (ACERP) uses a hybrid conference model to ensure effective interaction between onsite and online participants. Click here to learn more about the ACERP Hybrid Model: https://acerp.iafor.org/hybrid-model-overview/ Key Information - Conference Dates: Sunday, March 28, 2021 to Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - Early Bird Abstract Submission Deadline: November 06, 2020 - Final Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2021 - Results of abstract review returned to authors: Generally within four weeks - Full conference registration fees due for all presenters: February 23, 2021 - Full conference paper submission (after the event): May 03, 2021 Conference website: https://acerp.iafor.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: WEB: Conference website on Solidarity at the Crossroads
__ Web Resource Theme: Solidarity at the Crossroads Subtitle: Concepts, Practices, and Prospects from an Interdisciplinary Perspective Type: Online Conference Maintainer: Rottendorf Research Project 'Global Solidarity', Munich School of Philosophy URL: https://solidarityatthecrossroads.org __ Solidarity has not only attracted considerable scholarly attention over the last decade or so. Even before Covid-19, it had become a popular term in many public debates, seemingly connecting to a broad range of topics. Such popularity seems to be a response to global social, political, cultural, and economic upheavals. Against the background of this globalised dynamic of change, different practices of solidarity have emerged in the recent past, in the contexts of which people develop collective forms of being, feeling, and acting cooperatively. This online conference presents various research paradigms, conceptualisations of, and different ways of reflecting, justifying and employing solidarity. Originally, it should have been held at the Munich School of Philosophy from October 7-9 but its format had to be changed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The conference is a cooperation between the interdisciplinary research project “Transnational Practices of Solidarity”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the Rottendorf-Project, funded by the Rottendorf Foundation. Conference web resource: https://solidarityatthecrossroads.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Understanding Land
__ Call for Papers Theme: Understanding Land Subtitle: Configuring Spaces, Making Identities Type: SNU Graduate Student Conference 2021 Institution: Department of History, Shiv Nadar University Location: Online Date: 29.–31.1.2021 Deadline: 31.10.2020 __ Land has been an important and perhaps an overarching category for us to understand how we perceive and make sense of the world. While on one hand it has often been seen as tabula rasa (a formless interval) in colonial thinking, a simple interrogation would reveal that land is often coterminous with a set of material and cultural practices that give it a distinct sense of identity and meaning over generations and for different societies. As both part and product of property relations, habitations and ecology, it therefore occupies an important place in thinking about arts, philosophy and history. Seen from this perspective, some of the contemporary issues of the world today whether it be of environment, urban development or of culture and belongingness behove us to think of land in a more emphatic and rigorous manner. Scholars today thus see land as produced with an accretion of ideas, sets of cultural practices and entanglements of meanings. Inspired by classical thinkers and yet not merely limited to speculations of mind, land could be thus understood at three different levels: a) of location (as it remains fixed on a particular geographical coordinate, its landscape), b) of socio-economic relations through which it is formed and given shape, and c) the phenomenological aspects of ‘belongingness’. While scholars contest if they should put more emphasis on one aspect or another, as we interact, engage or even think about land, we have to concede that these different levels not only inform each other but are imbricated into one another. With this consensus, land can be understood as a social space that is produced, represented and lived at the same time. This conglomeration, however, very often takes place in/with highly asymmetrical relations of power as dictated by colonialism, capitalism, gender and caste relations. In this connection, while on one hand it might indicate a conceptualization of power on the material and cultural terrains in terms of sovereignty, governmentality and politics; on the other hand, it can be seen as forming a kind of micro-politics that emphasizes differences among state functionaries, local organisations and different customary practices associated with land. The year 2020 has brought to the fore a deep ecological/life crisis. In addition to exposing the existing inequities of the world, it has forced us to acknowledge and interrogate our relations with both space and time. The image of the migrant workers defying all odds to go back to their respective states during the pandemic not only has brought on surface the anxieties about 'homeland', but has also laid bare the precarious urban machination of big cities. Our anthropocentric worldviews and policies are neither well directed, nor do they seem efficient enough in the face of this crisis. Against this difficulty and multifarious possibilities in the discourse, can we then move away from seeing land as a mere ideational construct and understand how it is spatially configured and historically constructed? In order to engage with these issues, the conference seeks to invite early career research scholars to use land as a dynamic act of placemaking and creating identities. We welcome contributions on the sub-themes including but not limited to: - Land and Belonging - Political Ecology of Land - Law, Land and Property - Ruination and Abandonment of Land - Conflict and Violence over Land - Land and Migration - Land and Urban Formations Submissions We invite MPhil and PhD scholars to send their abstracts (250-350 words), along with any other queries, to snugraduateconference2...@gmail.com by 31st October, 2020. Please also send a short bio-note within 150 words. Selected participants will be informed over email by 5th November, 2020. The selected papers (3500-5000 words) will have to be submitted by 31st December, 2020. The conference will be held online in January, 2021. The intended dates for the conference at present are 29th to 31st January, 2021. These are tentative dates. We will send out the final dates once we announce our participants and take their convenience into consideration. Contact: SNU Graduate Student Conference 2021 Department of History School of Humanities and Social Sciences Shiv Nadar University Email: snugraduateconference2...@gmail.com Web: https://snu.edu.in/node/15752 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Transnational Humanities
__ Call for Papers Theme: Transnational Humanities Subtitle: Concept and Praxis Type: UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference Institution: UCD Humanities Institute, University College Dublin Location: Dublin (Ireland) / Online Date: 19.2.2021 Deadline: 30.11.2020 __ In an ever-changing and increasingly transnationalized world, the multidirectional movement of people, ideas, and commodities, enhanced by advances in transportation, information, and communication technologies, have now become an integral aspect of our everyday lived-experience and identity formation. Born out of the awareness of the current condition, the analysis of the transnational network resonated with conversations in the humanities highlighting the interconnectivity of social, political, and cultural activities that cut across state boundaries. Transnationalism as a concept and praxis challenges the unexamined structural concepts that frame the world, people, knowledge, and objects into binary oppositions, i.e. their division into global/local, central/peripheral, western/non-western, or universal/particular camps and positions that reproduce a divisive and hierarchical form of society. In the context of this complex and potentially conflictual condition of multidimensional interconnectedness, the 2021 PhD Conference of the UCD Humanities Institute is seeking proposals from emerging scholars and artists (doctoral candidates or researchers who received their PhD within the last five years) who are engaging with the concept, practice, or actors of transnationalism. We invite proposals for individual papers of no more than 2,500 words (suitable for a 20-minute presentation), or 3-paper panel sessions addressing topics that include but not limited to the transnational aspects of: - flow experience, subjectivity, and identity - cultural diversity, social integration, and solidarity - community formation and emotional and affective relations - value crisis in intercultural encounters - socio-political agency and resistance - migration, diaspora, and international labour - human mobility and geography - space and place in a global context - borders and boundaries - creation and appreciation of music and fine arts - film and media studies - the inter-cultural movement and development of ideas and philosophy - the geo- and bio-politics of knowledge - literature and translatability - multilingual encounters and the process of hybridization, enrichment, and symbiosis Papers reflecting on the broad aspects of transnationalism are also welcome: - transnational philosophy, framework, and methodology - transnationalism’s relation to globalization and advancements in technology - transnationality and transculturality - transnationalized knowledges and experience Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a bio-note of around 200 words, on or before 30 November 2020 (Monday), 5:00 PM (Irish Standard Time), to: hiphdconference2...@gmail.com All proposals should include your name, email address and academic affiliation (if applicable). Please also include a main subject field plus secondary subject field in the application. The conference will be held in English. The conference is convened by Resident Scholars of the UCD Humanities Institute. Keynote Speaker: Dr Ailbhe Kenny Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick We currently hope that this conference can take place in person, but in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and also with anthropogenic climate change in mind, we will accommodate requests for remote participation in the conference. It is also the intention to publish online selected papers from the conference. For further information contact HI Resident Scholars Zhengfeng Wang, Bianca Rita Cataldi, Mike Norris, or Kelly Louise Rexzy Agra, at the conference email address: hiphdconference2...@gmail.com Call for Papers: https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/t4media/CFP%202021%20HI%20PhD%20Conference.pdf __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: JOB: Professor on Critical Race and Decolonisation
__ Job Announcement Theme: Critical Race and Decolonisation Type: Open Rank Professor Institution: Glendon College, York University Location: Toronto, ON (Canada) Date: from July 2021 Deadline: 18.12.2020 __ (Version française en bas) Glendon College of York University invites highly qualified candidates to apply for an open rank professorial stream tenure-track appointment in a discipline taught at Glendon, encompassing critical race and decolonisation scholarship, to commence July 1, 2021. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. All York University positions are subject to budgetary approval. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Department that best suits their research and teaching interests. This opportunity is open to qualified individuals who self-identify as Black peoples of African Descent (for example Africans and African heritage people from the Caribbean, Americas, Europe). Recognizing the underrepresentation of Black faculty, this opportunity is to support the University’s Affirmative Action program and has been developed based on the special program provisions of the Ontario Human Rights Code. The position is part of a cohort hire of fourteen new colleagues at York University, including hires across a number of faculties and a wide range of areas and fields. The successful candidate will be joining a vibrant scholarly community at York, where we aspire to achieve equity and diversity in all areas, including race equity. A completed PhD in a field taught at Glendon encompassing critical race and decolonization scholarship is required, with a demonstrated record of excellence or promise of excellence in research and in teaching. Applicants should have a clearly articulated program of research in critical race theory, colonisation, decolonisation and/or post-colonialism. The successful candidate will be expected to engage in outstanding, innovative, and, as appropriate, externally funded research at the highest level. Candidates must provide evidence of research excellence or promise of research excellence of a recognized international calibre as demonstrated in: the research statement; a record of publications (or forthcoming publications) with significant journals in the field; presentations at major conferences; awards and accolades; and strong recommendations from referees of high standing. The position may involve graduate teaching and supervision, as well as undergraduate teaching and the successful candidate must be suitable for prompt appointment to the Faculty of Graduate Studies . Qualified applicants must be fluent in English and French and be able to teach in both languages in a multicultural context. Evidence of excellence or promise of excellence in teaching will be provided through: the teaching statement; teaching accomplishments and pedagogical innovations including in high priority areas such as experiential education and technology enhanced learning; teaching evaluations; and strong letters of reference. York University’s bilingual Glendon Campus is home to Southern Ontario’s Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education. Glendon comprises about 2700 students on a scenic campus in the heart of the cosmopolitan city of Toronto. Glendon is committed to high-quality teaching in the tradition of the liberal arts and offers a unique undergraduate academic experience for students within one of Canada’s largest research universities. For information about Glendon and its programs, please consult the Faculty webpage at: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/ York University champions new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Through cross-disciplinary programming, innovative course design, diverse experiential learning and a supportive community environment, our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Located in Toronto, York is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 300,000 alumni. York University has a policy on Accommodation in Employment for Persons with Disabilities and is committed to working towards a barrier-free workplace and to expanding the accessibility of the workplace to persons with disabilities. Candidates who require accommodation during the selection process are invited to contact Professor Audrey Pyée, Associate Principal academics: a...@glendon.yorku.ca This selection will be limited to individuals who self-identify as Black. York University is an Affirmative Action (AA) employer and strongly values diversity, including gender and sexual diversity, within its community. York University encourages Black peoples to self-identify as a member of one or more of the four designated groups: women, members of visible minorit
InterPhil: JOB: Assistant Professor on Critical Race and Decolonisation
__ Job Announcement Theme: Critical Race and Decolonisation Type: Assistant Professor Institution: Glendon College, York University Location: Toronto, ON (Canada) Date: from July 2021 Deadline: 18.12.2020 __ (Version française en bas) Glendon College invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a professorial stream tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level in a discipline taught at Glendon, encompassing critical race and decolonisation scholarship, to commence July 1, 2021. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. All York University positions are subject to budgetary approval. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Department that best suits their research and teaching interests. This opportunity is open to qualified individuals who self-identify as Black peoples of African Descent (for example Africans and African heritage people from the Caribbean, Americas, Europe). Recognizing the underrepresentation of Black faculty, this opportunity is to support the University’s Affirmative Action program and has been developed based on the special program provisions of the Ontario Human Rights Code. The position is part of a cohort hire of fourteen new colleagues at York University, including hires across a number of faculties and a wide range of areas and fields. The successful candidate will be joining a vibrant scholarly community at York, where we aspire to achieve equity and diversity in all areas, including race equity. A PhD or a PhD near completion by the start date in a discipline encompassing scholarship on critical race and decolonisation is required, with a demonstrated record of excellence or promise of excellence in research and in teaching. Applicants should have a clearly articulated program of research and specialize in colonialism and post-colonialism in francophone and/or transnational literature or in globalisation and the global south. The successful candidate will be expected to engage in outstanding, innovative, and, as appropriate, externally funded research at the highest level. Candidates must provide evidence of research excellence or promise of research excellence of a recognized international calibre as demonstrated in: the research statement; a record of publications (or forthcoming publications) with significant journals in the field; presentations at major conferences; awards and accolades; and strong recommendations from referees of high standing. The position may involve graduate teaching and supervision, as well as undergraduate teaching and the successful candidate must be suitable for prompt appointment to the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Qualified applicants must be fluent in English and French and be able to teach in both languages in a multicultural context. Evidence of excellence or promise of excellence in teaching will be provided through: the teaching statement; teaching accomplishments and pedagogical innovations including in high priority areas such as experiential education and technology enhanced learning; teaching evaluations; and strong letters of reference. York University’s bilingual Glendon Campus is home to Southern Ontario’s Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education. Glendon comprises about 2700 students on a scenic campus in the heart of the cosmopolitan city of Toronto. Glendon is committed to high-quality teaching in the tradition of the liberal arts and offers a unique undergraduate academic experience for students within one of Canada’s largest research universities. For information about Glendon and its programs, please consult the Faculty webpage: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/ York University champions new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Through cross-disciplinary programming, innovative course design, diverse experiential learning and a supportive community environment, our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Located in Toronto, York is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 300,000 alumni. York University has a policy on Accommodation in Employment for Persons with Disabilities and is committed to working towards a barrier-free workplace and to expanding the accessibility of the workplace to persons with disabilities. Candidates who require accommodation during the selection process are invited to contact Audrey Pyée, Associate Principal academics: a...@glendon.yorku.ca This selection will be limited to individuals who self-identify as Black. York University is an Affirmative Action (AA) employer and strongly values diversity, including gender and sexual diversity, within its community. York University encourages Black peoples to self-identify as a member of one
InterPhil: JOB: Professor in Philosophy
__ Job Announcement Type: Professor in Philosophy Institution: Department of Philosophy, York University Location: Toronto, ON (Canada) Date: from July 2021 Deadline: 15.11.2020 __ The Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a professorial stream tenure-track appointment in Philosophy at the Assistant/Associate/Full Professor level, to commence July 1, 2021. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. All York University positions are subject to budgetary approval. This opportunity is open to qualified individuals who self-identify as Black peoples of African Descent (for example Africans and African heritage people from the Caribbean, Americas, Europe). Recognizing the underrepresentation of Black faculty, this opportunity is to support the University’s Affirmative Action program and has been developed based on the special program provisions of the Ontario Human Rights Code. The position is part of a cohort hire of fourteen new colleagues at York University, including hires across a number of faculties and a wide range of areas and fields. The successful candidate will be joining a vibrant scholarly community at York, where we aspire to achieve equity and diversity in all areas, including race equity. A PhD (or near completion by the start of the appointment) in Philosophy is required, with a demonstrated record of excellence or promise of excellence in teaching, scholarly research and publication, and service. Applicants should have a clearly articulated program of research, and while the area of specialization is open, the Department has particular teaching and research needs in critical race theory, philosophy of law, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of biology. The successful candidate will be expected to engage in outstanding, innovative, and, as appropriate, externally funded research at the highest level. Candidates must provide evidence of research excellence or promise of research excellence of a recognized international calibre as demonstrated in: the research statement; a record of publications (or forthcoming publications) with significant journals or presses in the field; presentations at major conferences; awards and accolades; and strong recommendations from referees of high standing. Evidence of excellence or promise of excellence in teaching will be provided through: the teaching statement; teaching accomplishments and pedagogical innovations including in high priority areas such as experiential education and technology-enhanced learning; teaching evaluations; and strong letters of reference. The position will involve graduate teaching and supervision, as well as undergraduate teaching, and the successful candidate must be suitable for prompt appointment to the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Candidates must also be well-positioned to engage with York’s diverse student body and to contribute to the vibrant intellectual life of the department. York University champions new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Through cross-disciplinary programming, innovative course design, diverse experiential learning and a supportive community environment, our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Located in Toronto, York is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 300,000 alumni. York University has a policy on Accommodation in Employment for Persons with Disabilities and is committed to working towards a barrier-free workplace and to expanding the accessibility of the workplace to persons with disabilities. Candidates who require accommodation during the selection process are invited to contact Alice MacLachlan, Chair of the Search Committee at ama...@yorku.ca. This selection will be limited to individuals who self-identify as Black. York University is an Affirmative Action (AA) employer and strongly values diversity, including gender and sexual diversity, within its community. York University encourages Black peoples to self-identify as a member of one or more of the four designated groups: women, members of visible minorities (racialized groups), Aboriginal (Indigenous) people and persons with disabilities. The Affirmative Action program can be found at www.yorku.ca/acadjobs or by calling the AA line at 416-736-5713. Applicants wishing to self-identify as part of York University’s Affirmative Action program can do so as part of the application process (https://apply.laps.yorku.ca). The form can also be found at: http://acadjobs.info.yorku.ca/affirmative-action/self-identification-form. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadi
InterPhil: CFP: Human Rights, Violence and Dictatorship
__ Call for Papers Theme: Human Rights, Violence and Dictatorship Type: International Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: InMind Support Location: Online Date: 20.–21.11.2020 Deadline: 31.10.2020 __ 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, graduate and undergraduate 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. 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 Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations, together with a short biographical note, by 31 October 2020 to: inconferenceoff...@gmail.com Notification of acceptance will be sent by 3 November 2020. Note: As our online conference will be international, we will consider different time zones of our Participants. Scientific Committee: Professor Wojciech Owczarski University of Gdańsk (Poland) Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Colombia) Contac: Conference Office Email: inconferenceoff...@gmail.com Web: https://www.inconference.info __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Winter School on African Philosophy in Global Times
__ Call for Applications Theme: African Philosophy in Global Times Subtitle: Knowledge and Culture Type: Winter School Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Location: Online Date: 11.–15.1.2020 Deadline: 1.11.2020 __ We live in a time of increasing contact between different cultures. The opportunities, as well as the problems this brings are traceable in all academic disciplines, but especially in the social sciences and in the humanities. This course aims to guide you to a deeper reflection on the historical conditions of intercultural encounters, the philosophical conditions of intercultural dialogue, and the framework of post-coloniality that determines the need to politically negotiate the conditions of such a dialogue - all from an African perspective. Course content While internationally the field of philosophy is still mostly dominated by Euro-American traditions of thought, diversification and intercultural dialogue are gaining steam rapidly. The voice of African philosophers is increasingly heard in global philosophical discussions, and this course will introduce you to some of their main texts and themes. African philosophy can be approached in many different ways – as a discussion on the nature of philosophy itself and what an African philosophy would be, and also as a focus on issues of global and current interests where historically and geographically African experiences will shed some light on the little-known facts in global philosophy. In this course, we will focus on the latter to better understand the world of today from an African perspective. As the present-day African states came into being less than a century ago, inheriting institutional structures and boundaries from a colonial age, African philosophers have spent much thought on questions of identity, culture, differences between knowledge systems, the relationships between language and understanding, and more issues that pertain to the postcolonial, multicultural and intercultural world we all live in. Their viewpoints and answers contain insights and points of reflection for all humankind. In the course, we will read texts from renowned philosophers such as Kwame Appiah, Paulin Hountondji, Henry Odera Oruka, and Kwasi Wiredu. Texts will focus on the relations between cultural identity and knowledge systems in the global post-colony. Written by and sometimes for Africans, the texts help to understand the dilemmas of the present times that are relevant to people from all over the world. This course is organised by the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, but the guest lecturers include African-based philosophers – from Cameroon and Senegal. The Dutch lecturers are affiliated to both Dutch universities and those on the African continent, in Nigeria and South Africa. Learning Objectives At the end of the course you will: - Have a firm grip on key texts in African philosophy regarding knowledge and culture in our globalizing age. - Have improved your capability to critically read the relevant texts. - Have learned about intercultural dialogue as practiced with your peers and lecturers. - Have written a short essay on your own philosophical question regarding the course matter. Course days: 11-15 January 2021 Course level: Master, PhD candidates and professionals from all disciplines Coordinating lecturer: Dr Angela Roothaan Other lecturers: Dr Hady Ba, Dr Oumar Dia (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), Dr Pius Mosima (University of Bamenda), Dr Louise Müller (Leiden University) Forms of tuition: Online interactive lectures, text-reading seminars and self-study assignments. All our courses are taught online this year. Application Submit your application through our online application form: https://www.vu.nl/en/programmes/short/winter-school/how-to-apply/ Our application deadline is 1 November. For any further information please contact the VU winter school organizing team at: graduatewintersch...@vu.nl Winter School website: https://www.vu.nl/en/programmes/short/winter-school/courses/african-philosophy.aspx __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Rethinking Postcolonial Europe
__ Call for Papers Theme: Rethinking Postcolonial Europe Subtitle: Moving Identities, Changing Subjectivities Type: 8th Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations Institution: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen Location: Online Date: 10.–12.2.2021 Deadline: 15.11.2020 __ Thinking ‘Europe’ as an idea, a geographical space, and a political force is inseparable from thinking about its history of imperialism, its postcolonial legacies, and its preoccupation with questions of in and outside, centre and periphery, the self and the other. Migration and the current so-called refugee crisis not only urge a changing perception of those power hierarchies that tend to divide the world between ‘the west’ and ‘the rest’ but also compel new discourses of national and cultural identity and belonging. The recent resurgence of populism and racism connected to the rise of right-wing parties in several European states serves as an uneasy reminder of the continuing influence of hegemonic ideas of European exceptionalism and cultural superiority. Global inequalities persist and the freedom of movement remains linked to where one comes from. At the same time, however, practices of resistance and emancipation in migrant/BPoC self-organisation reimagine Europe as an entangled space (Randeria 1999) that was and is home for different people. Received notions of nation and culture as well as identity and subjectivity have undergone a dramatic change, vividly reflected in the domains of art, literature, media, law, and politics. Investigating these current dynamics from a post-/decolonial perspective is thus crucial to understanding contemporary Europe as a contradictory space and a contested place. Exploring Europe from a post-/decolonial perspective, the conference lays emphasis on rethinking Europe and its borders to generate a discussion about ‘travelling cultures’ (Clifford 1992), diasporic and migrant communities, hybrid identities, changing subjectivities, cultural translations (Bachmann-Medick 2012), transnational and transcultural relations, neo/cosmopolitanism, or neo-nomadism (Dagnino 2013), to name but a few. In our world on the move, it becomes increasingly conspicuous that people, ideas, cultures, or resources cannot be understood in terms of traditional, binary models of centre and periphery, South and North or East and West as “cultural conditions today are largely characterized by mixes and permeation” (Welsch 1999: 197) in the wake of transnational relations. In the 21st century, post-/decolonial studies continue to deconstruct the myths around Europe by interrogating the histories and geographies of power associated with Europe and its (colonial) legacy around the globe. In light of the conference theme, the following questions can be addressed: How have practices of travel and mobility in the age of globalization altered traditional concepts of culture and identity? How can post/decolonial literatures, art, and practices imaginatively refigure (Gikandi 1991) Europe as a geographical space as well as an idea? Why is it important today to understand and acknowledge the role of marginalized communities in transforming the idea of Europe? How do past and present migration policies and other governmental practices shape the idea and geography of Europe, or rather of “multiple Europes” (Boatca 2013)? We welcome papers which engage with but are not limited to the following areas of interest and research: - New perspectives and approaches in post-/decolonial studies - Representations of Europe and its ‘Others’ in different media - Narratives of European identity in and beyond the EU - Legacies of European colonialism in the 21st century - Post-/decolonial/ Critical Migration Studies - Afro-European Studies - Critical Race Studies - Memory Studies - Narratives of Displacement - Diaspora Studies - Transnational and transcultural Studies - Queer and intersectional approaches - Political, legal, and human rights perspectives - World Literature / World Anglophone Studies - Tourism/Travel Media - Performing Arts There will also be an opportunity to present projects and work in progress in the form of a digital poster session. If you are interested in contributing, please send an abstract (300-500 words for a 15-minute presentation; 150-200 words for a poster presentation), a short biographical note and the topic of your current project, preferably as one pdf file, to postcolonialnarrati...@g-a-p-s.net no later than November 15, 2020. The postgraduate forum Postcolonial Narrations brings together young scholars (MA students, Doctoral candidates, Postdoctoral fellows) to foster an exchange of ideas in the field of postcolonial literatures and cultures. For more information, go to: https://postcolonial-narrations.net The present conference is organized as a digita
InterPhil: CFP: Migration, Adaptation and Memory
__ Call for Papers Theme: Migration, Adaptation and Memory Type: 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: InMind Support Location: Online Date: 5.–6.11.2020 Deadline: 15.10.2020 __ How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories. During the conference, we are going to turn our attention to processes that are integral to human experience: migration, adaptation, and memory. We are interested in all aspects of migration and adaptation, in their individual and collective dimensions, in the past and in the present-day world. We would like to examine the role of memory, the processes of migrating and adapting to various dynamic life circumstances, across time, space, culture, language, and discipline. Therefore, we strive to represent and discuss the crossroads of migration, adaptation, and memory in their multiple representations: psychological, social, historical, cultural, philosophical, religious, neurological, organizational, methodological, economic, political, and many others. We will also devote considerable attention to how these phenomena appear and transform in artistic practices: literature, film, theatre, and visual arts. This is why we invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: anthropology, history, psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, politics, philosophy, economics, law, literary studies, theatre studies, film studies, design, project management, memory studies, migration studies, consciousness studies, dream studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, medical sciences, cognitive sciences, and urban studies, to name a few. Different forms of presentations are encouraged, including case studies, theoretical inquiries, personal reflections, problem-oriented arguments, comparative analyses, and creative expressions. We will be happy to hear from experienced scholars and young academics, doctoral and graduate students, as well as professionals from various disciplines. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners, without giving a presentation. Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not limited to: I. Arts - Literature, poetry, film, theatre, etc. as adaptive mediums - Adaptation through artistic creation and destruction - Artistic imagination and adaptation - Migration as represented in arts - Art created during migration - Creative expression through memories II. History - Adaptation across history - Memory processes in writing history - Documenting history and memories in migration III. Political Sciences and Law - Policies related to migration and adaptation - Human rights and migration - Bureaucracy in relation to migration policies - Judiciary systems - Political agendas, memory and migration - Objective vs. subjective memory in politics - International politics and adaptation IV. Psychology and Psychiatry - Mental health and adaptation - Abnormal behaviors and adaptation - (Mal)adaptive memory processes - Social and transcultural psychiatry - Perception/cognition/attention - Personality - Psychoanalysis V. Medical sciences - Genetics/epigenetics in adaptation processes - Neurobiology and biochemistry of adaptation and memory - Evolutionary approaches to memory, adaptation and migration - Chronic diseases, memory, and adaptation VI. Humanitarian work, Governments and NGOs - Roles and responsibilities - Management of temporary and transitory spaces - Project management and evaluation - Best practices - Welcome contexts VII. Philosophy and Worldviews (Eastern, Western, Indigenous...) - Epistemology and metaphysics - Existential and postmodern adaptation - Ethics in migratory context - Philosophy of memory VIII. Sociology and Anthropology - Cultural determinants and adaptation - Race/ethnic identity and adaptation - Religion, adaptation and migratory experiences - Gender, adaptation and migratory experiences - Social networks and adaptation - Language of adaptation, memory and migration - Family relations and adaptation - Urban planning and adaptation - Diaspora and community development IX. Economics - Adaptation and job security - Private sponsorship and adaptation Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations or together with a short biographical note, by 15 October 2020 to: migrationconference2...@gmail.com Confirmation of acceptance will be sent by 18 October 2020. The conference language is English. Due to COVID-19 this year's edition of Migration Conference will be held
InterPhil: CONF: Dialogos interdisciplinarios entre culturas, democracias y ciudadanias
__ Anuncio de evento Theme: Diálogos interdisciplinarios entre culturas, democracias y ciudadanías Type: II Jornadas de Filosofía Intercultural Institution: Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de Buenos Aires Location: Online Date: 13.–16.10.2020 __ La Sección de Ética, Antropología Filosófica y Filosofía Intercultural “Prof. Carlos Astrada” y el grupo de investigación INTERCULTURALIA del Instituto de Filosofía “Alejandro Korn” de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, convoca a toda la comunidad filosófica y científica a participar en las II Jornadas de Filosofía Intercultural: “Diálogos Interdisciplinarios entre culturas, democracias y ciudadanías”. Con motivo de persistencia de la pandemia de Coronavirus se realizará una primera parte de las II Jornadas de Filosofía Intercultural de modo virtual (por Zoom) durante los días 13, 14, 15 y 16 de octubre de 2020 en el horario de 17 a 20 hs. Las Jornadas serán transmitidas simultáneamente por Youtube. Dada la restricción horaria, para la realización virtual de las Jornadas, la Comisión Organizadora ha previsto la realización de una segunda parte de las Jornadas en el mes de marzo. En este nuevo formato las Jornadas se organizan en torno a seis ejes temáticosintegrados por invitados especiales y una mesa redonda de cierre “Filosofía de la Liberación y Filosofía Intercultural. Homenaje a Juan Carlos Scannone S.I.”. Programa Martes 13: 17 hs. Apertura de las Jornadas Con participación de autoridades de la Facultad y Alcira Bonilla 17,15 – 18,30 hs. Simposio Interculturalidad y política Participantes: Emilce Cuda, Alejandro Medici, Francesco Callegaro (coordinador: Juan Pablo Patitucci) 18,35 - 20 hs. Simposio Interculturalidad y educación Participantes: María Luisa Rubinelli, Leonel Piovezana, Sofía Thisted (coordinador: Jorge Santos) Miércoles 14: 17 – 18,25 hs. Simposio Interculturalidad y ética Participantes: Diego Fonti, Carlos Cullen, Gabriela Dranovsky con Pablo Ríos Flores (coordinador: Matías Zielinski) 18,30 -20 hs. Simposio Interculturalidad y ambiente Participantes: Diana Viñoles, Walter Pengue, Florencia Tola y Juan Carlos Restrepo (coordinador: Daniel Gutiérrez) Jueves 15: 17 – 18,25 hs. Simposio Interculturalidad y género Participantes: Marta Vassallo, Patricia La Porta y Laura Galazzi (coordinadora: Daniela Godoy) 18,30 -20 hs. Simposio Interculturalidad y arte Participantes: Lola Proaño Gómez, Adrián Cangi y Martín Bolaños (coordinador: Martín Bolaños) Viernes 16: 17 hs. Inicio de la sesión de cierre de las Jornadas Con participación de autoridades de la Facultad y Alcira Bonilla 17,15 hs.- 20 hs. Mesa redonda: Filosofía de la Liberación y Filosofía Intercultural. Homenaje a Juan Carlos Scannone. S.I. Participantes: Mario Casalla, Carlos Cullen, Luciano Maddonni, Matías Zielinski, Yamandú Acosta y Alcira Bonilla (coordinador: Daniel Berisso) Enlace al canal de You Tube principal de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires: https://www.youtube.com/c/FILOUBAcanal Dirección electrónica de contacto para consultas: jornadafilosofiaintercultu...@gmail.com Contacto: Dra. Alcira Beatriz Bonilla Instituto de Filosofía Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Buenos Aires Email: jornadafilosofiaintercultu...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
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InterPhil: PUB: Problems of Anti-Colonialism
__ Call for Publications Theme: Problems of Anti-Colonialism Publication: Lexington Books Series Deadline: Ongoing __ Anti-colonialism emerged in the late 19th century as a critique of European empires and colonial administrations throughout the Third World. The attack on European imperialism grew into a post-World War II program of decolonization that transformed global politics. A narrative of celebratory decolonization spawned a broader program of change in domestic and international politics. Anti-colonial, decolonizing, and post-colonial narratives insisted on negative portrayals of Western colonialism, amnesia about non-Western colonialism, Western guilt about colonial pasts, rapturous accounts of decolonization, and Utopian claims of post-colonial futures. The baleful empirical consequences of these ideas for human welfare have been either ignored, denied, or merely assumed away. Today, anti-colonial attitudes continue to constrain policy choices in the former colonial world. Governments in former colonial powers (mainly Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy) as well as in Anglo-settlement colonies (the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) face movements seeking to “decolonize” their modern institutions and policies, and to debase their historical records. Problems of Anti-Colonialism aims to reignite debate through a critical examination of the anti-colonial, decolonizing, and post-colonial projects. It embraces contributions in fields as wide as history, area studies, international relations, political science, social science methods, public policy, comparative development, economics, education, culture, communications, sociology, anthropology, ethics, moral philosophy, and theology. By raising questions about the normative and empirical validity of anti-colonialism in all its forms, Problems of Anti-Colonialism Book Series seeks to stimulate debate on issues, topics, and movements that have moved forward in the absence of critical and scientific inquiry. In so doing, it invites fresh research into Western colonialism itself — past, present, and future. The Series seeks manuscript submissions from new, emerging, and established scholars with a passionate interest in scholarly analysis and critique of the anti-colonial, post-colonial, and decolonizing intellectual projects that have shaped scholarship on colonialism for half a century. The editors seek both densely-researched books on specific anti-colonial issues as well as broad, thematic works on “rewriting” anti-colonialism, including “rewriting back to the center.” Consistent with the mission statement, we seek proposals from many disciplines. As per Lexington Books submission guidelines, each submission should include: - The working title of your project. - A short description that succinctly states the argument of the book. - A detailed description of the book and what makes it unique. - A Table of Contents. - A description of your target audience and list of competing books. - A list of courses in which your book might be used as a text or supplementary text. - The length of the manuscript in words, including notes and bibliography. - The names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of four to seven respected scholars in your field with whom you have no personal or professional relationship who could potentially serve as a peer reviewer. - One or two sample chapters (preferred). - Your curriculum vitae Series Editors: Dr. Bruce Gilley (Portland State University) Dr. Eric Louw (University of Queensland) Contact: Bruce Gilley and Eric Louw Email: gill...@pdx.edu and e.l...@uq.edu.au Web: http://www.problemsofanticolonialism.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Racial Justice and Peace History
__ Call for Publications Theme: Racial Justice and Peace History Subtitle: Is it 'Different' This Time? Publication: Peace & Change. A Journal of Peace Research Date: Special Issue (2021) Deadline: 31.1.2021 __ John Lewis and C.T. Vivian, two icons of the racial justice movement known for their courageous nonviolent challenges to segregation and inequality, died in Atlanta on June 17, 2020. They were laid to rest amid a storm of rising COVID-19 case numbers and deaths disproportionately affecting communities of color; of widespread, persistent protests against police murders of Black people; of federal Homeland Security agents descending on Portland, Oregon, and other cities to confront peaceful protesters and whisk some away in unmarked vans; and of rising concerns about voter disenfranchisement for the November election. The recent killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, among others, along with the record-breaking protests have led many organizations to issue statements about their commitment to racial justice and at least some to follow up on those statements with action. Many participants and observers have noted the opportunity for change, saying that it feels “different” this time around. This proposed special issue of Peace & Change represents one way the Peace History Society can contribute to our understanding of the present moment, encouraging and highlighting new scholarship on the relationship between peace and racial justice. What are the animating visions that have driven movements for peace and justice and who participated in them? What connections have activists made between these two causes, and what have they accomplished? How have definitions of peace and racial justice changed over time, and who has had the power to define them? Peace historians and educators are accustomed to thinking about peace as the presence of justice, but these connections beg for further interrogation. How have theoretical connections between peace and justice played out in practice? What have been the challenges and successes in bringing causes of peace and justice together? This issue will go beyond the well-known stories of how African Americans contributed to bringing nonviolent methods into social movements and address more complex connections between peace and racial justice in theory and practice. We are interested in transnational, interdisciplinary, and innovative approaches to themes such as the following: - Peace and racial justice in music, literature, graphic and performing arts - Movements that prioritized both peace and racial justice - The meaning(s) of violence and nonviolence - The history of policing and prisons and proposals for alternatives - Structural/Systemic/Slow violence and Peace Studies - Peace education and racial justice - Antiwar/peace movements and racial justice - Race, class, and nonviolence - Gender, race, and peace activism - Law, racial justice, and peace - Environmental justice and peace issues - War, militarism, and communities of color - Patriotism and racial justice - Queer theory, peace, and justice - The language and culture of movements for peace and justice Essays of up to 10,000 words are due January 31, 2021. Authors must address the guest editor Robbie Lieberman at rlieb...@kennesaw.edu and clearly indicate in a cover letter that the submission is intended for the 2021 special issue. Contact: Robbie Lieberman Peace & Change. A Journal of Peace Research Email: rlieb...@kennesaw.edu Web: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14680130/homepage/forauthors.html __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Epistemic Injustice
__ Call for Publications Theme: Epistemic Injustice Publication: Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Philosophy Date: Number 19 (July-December 2021) Deadline: 15.12.2020 __ Philosophical interest in the concept of epistemic injustice has kept growing since the publication of Miranda Fricker´s Epistemic Injustice: Power & the Ethics of Knowing (2007), where it is characterized as a phenomenon by which individuals are wronged in their capacity as knowers. Although the relationship between practices of knowing and oppression had been examined before by many others (notably within critical race, feminist epistemologies or decolonial philosophy), the publication of Fricker’s book initiates a series of productive discussions around issues concerning authority, credibility, justice, power, trust or testimony, bringing together different philosophical traditions such as epistemology, ethics and political theory. As it is known, one of the core issues is the distinction Fricker draws between testimonial and hermeneutical injustice. Both of them are dependent on socially shared identity concepts, many of which involve unfair prejudices. Testimonial injustice is a credibility deficit that a speaker suffers as a consequence of the hearer having a prejudice against her social identity. On the other hand, hermeneutical injustice occurs when there is a lack of collective interpretative resources required for a group to understand significant aspects of their social experience. However, some authors, such as José Medina and Rebecca Mason, have distanced themselves from this conceptual framework, especially regarding the definition of hermeneutical injustice, since it ignores the alternative interpretations that marginalized communities have developed for understanding their experiences. Others (Gaile Pohlhaus and Kristie Dotson, for instance) have pointed out new kinds of epistemic injustices, oppressions and exclusions. At present, many lines of investigation are being opened. New critical analysis of exclusionary practices and forms of oppression such as silencing, subordination, objectification, misrecognition, insensitivity, or misrepresentation of marginalized groups are gaining importance inside philosophy, favouring fruitful dialogues between epistemology, political philosophy and ethics. We invite contributing authors to consider issues related to the concept of epistemic injustice, in relation to both its initial versions and its critical current accounts. In this issue, we call for papers dealing with the following questions, among others: - How is epistemic injustice understood? - What are the distinctively epistemic forms of injustice? In what sense are they epistemic? - How is epistemic injustice related to non-epistemic forms of oppression and discrimination? How does feminism or race theory contribute to the understanding of epistemic injustice? - How can the concept of epistemic injustice be extended to different domains? - How do issues concerning epistemic injustice relate to other relevant epistemological matters such as testimony, virtue epistemologies or disagreement? - How is white ignorance related to epistemic injustice? - What are the alternatives to counteract epistemic injustices? - How do epistemologies of resistance challenge hegemonic knowledges? Coordination: Cristina Bernabeu, Alba Moreno and Llanos Navarro Deadline: December 15, 2020 For more details please see here: http://www.lastorresdelucca.org/index.php/ojs/pages/view/dossier __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: JOB: Open Rank Position on Race in America
__ Job Announcement Type: Open Rank Position on Race in America Institution: Department of Philosophy, Stanford University Location: Stanford, CA (USA) Date: from January 2021 Deadline: 15.10.2020 __ The Philosophy Department at Stanford invites applications for an open rank, tenure track position for scholars who study race in American society. This search is part of a university-wide initiative in which Stanford seeks to hire as many as 10 strong researchers who study the significance of race in American society, including the nature and persistence of racial inequality and its consequences. Appointments may be made in the following schools and departments: Stanford Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Education, and the following departments within the School of Humanities and Sciences: Economics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, History, and Religious Studies. Rank is open, although a majority of the appointments are expected to be made at the assistant professor level. At the senior level, we are particularly interested in candidates with an active program of research in progress and outstanding records of achievement in developing or using innovative approaches in the broad areas of their discipline. A strong commitment to excellent teaching is essential. The Department of Philosophy seeks candidates from any area of philosophy whose work will illuminate issues related to race in America. Such areas include, but are not limited to, Philosophy of Race and Racism, Africana Philosophy, Latinx Philosophy, Indigenous Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law. Applicants will be expected to teach four courses per year at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and perform the usual non-teaching duties. PhD prior to the appointment start date of 9/1/2021 is required. Please direct questions to Allison Freshwaters at: afres...@stanford.edu Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2020 and will continue until all of the positions are filled. Senior candidates are invited to apply online via http://apply.interfolio.com/78736, with a cover letter describing academic background and teaching experience, a curriculum vitae, samples of recent scholarship and a research statement of no more than three pages. Junior candidates should apply online via http://apply.interfolio.com/78734 and arrange to have at least three letters of reference submitted directly online by October 15, 2020. Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Stanford welcomes applications from all who would bring additional dimensions to the University’s research, teaching and clinical missions. Qualifications Applicants will need to have the PhD in hand by the appointment start date of 9/1/2021. All application materials must be submitted via Interfolio at: http://apply.interfolio.com/78734 Application Instructions Please transmit your cover letter, curriculum vitae (including list of publications), statements of research and teaching interests (no more than three (3) pages), teaching portfolio (if applicable), a writing sample the length of a typical research article or book chapter, along with three letters of reference to the Race in America Search Committee via Interfolio by October 15th for full consideration. For your teaching portfolio and additional referee letters, you may upload them as “additional documents.” Inquiries (only) should be directed to Allison Freshwaters via email: afres...@stanford.edu __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Unheard Voices of Forgiveness
__ Call for Publications Theme: Unheard Voices of Forgiveness Subtitle: Exploring Underrepresented Perspectives and Confronting Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia Publication: Philosophy of Forgiveness Book Series by Vernon Press Date: 2021 Deadline: 25.11.2020 __ Vernon Press invites book chapter proposals to be included in a forthcoming scholarly volume on the philosophy of forgiveness. All proposals related to the title are welcome, but special consideration will be given to those that address specific issues related to racism, sexism, and xenophobia. All philosophically-based schools of thought are encouraged to submit, as are other disciplines, as long as the chapter contains a clear philosophical component. Also, proposals dealing with corollary issues like resentment, anger, mercy, and vengeance are welcome, as long as they are appropriately related to and clearly discussed in relation to forgiveness. Submission Details Proposals should be between 300-700 words and should clearly describe the author’s thesis and provide an overview of the proposed chapter’s structure. Completed chapters are also welcome. All proposals/chapters should be prepared for blind review, removing any reference to the author. As a separate document, authors should provide a short CV containing contact information and relevant publications, presentations, and/or research on forgiveness. Edited by Court D. Lewis. Please email questions and submissions to: cdlew...@pstcc.edu Deadlines Abstract/Chapter Due: 25 November 2020 Notification of Acceptance: (no later than) 10 January 2021 Finalized Draft Due: 30 May 2021 Finalized Paper: 30 June 2021 Vernon Press is an independent publisher of scholarly books in the social sciences and humanities. Our mission is to serve the community of academic and professional scholars by providing a visible, quality platform for the dissemination of emergent ideas. We work closely with authors, academic associations, distributors and library information specialists to identify and develop high quality, high impact titles. For more information, visit www.vernonpress.com. __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Human Rights
__ Call for Papers Theme: Human Rights Type: Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: Progressive Connexions Location: Vienna (Austria) Date: 18.–19.4.2021 Deadline: 2.10.2020 __ In just 30 Articles, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) outlines the core rights that are essential to maintaining the inherent dignity of human beings, their fundamental freedoms, equality among individuals and peaceful concord between nations. Indeed, the rights to life, liberty, the security of the person, equality before the law without discrimination, nationality, movement, to marry and have a family, free choice of employment, an adequate standard of living, education, participation in the political process, freedom of association, thought, conscience and belief, and freedom of participation in the social life of the community have been endorsed by most of the world’s nations since the UDHR was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. In the aftermath of the devastation created by the Holocaust, two world wars within the span of 30 years, and waves of economic depression, the articulation of inalienable rights conferred upon members of the human family simply because they are human provided a blueprint for building a fair and just global community. The challenges posed by COVID-19 and the ascendency of right-wing, populist regimes in countries around the world are among the many developments in the 21st Century that have contributed to a situation in which the protection of human rights is particularly crucial. Historically, the fight for human rights has taken a variety of forms, ranging from peaceful resistance to violent uprisings, and coalesced around leaders whose words and deeds provide a call to activism. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have resonated across countries, and activists from around the world are able to channel the power of social media and our interconnected lives to raise awareness of their campaigns – from Indigenous water defenders in Canada, to gay rights activists in Russia, to refugees trapped at the borders of Europe. Ultimately, the role of activism has been essential in the case of well-known figures – such as Ida B Wells, Martin Luther King Jr, Barbara Gittings, Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai and others – and the countless individuals whose names are not recorded in the annals of history, but whose efforts have created genuine, positive change. Yet pushback against human rights campaigns remains and human rights themselves are often subsumed by political and geopolitical considerations. Furthermore, historical, cultural, and geographical factors can be used to silence calls for human rights to be protected. 'Whataboutism' and comparisons to similar or worse oppression are deployed – whether through genuine ignorance or as a calculated move – to suggest that calls for equal application of human rights are unnecessary or unjustified. But when crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, arise and when resource supplies are suddenly burdened, the existing inequalities within society and the precariousness of human rights, particularly for those who are most vulnerable, come into stark relief. It is therefore an appropriate time to take stock of the state of human rights and develop strategies for realising the ideals of the UDHR. The global interdisciplinary Human Rights conference provides a platform for engagement among professionals and volunteer grassroots champions working in the human rights space. Key Topics Key topics, themes and issues for discussion may include, but are definitely not limited to: - Philosophies on the nature and implications of human rights - Past, present and future human rights movements/struggles - Comparative case studies across countries/cultures - Human rights and geopolitics - Legal aspects to human rights and the role of institutions such as the ICC - Barriers to recognition and protection of human rights (and how to address them) - Negotiating conflicts between different human rights - The case for limiting human rights - Studies of specific figures associated with human rights movements - Methods and strategies associated with human rights campaigns (including analyses of particular tools, such as boycotts) - Violence and human rights - Impact of COVID-19 (and other public health issues) on human rights - Strategies for developing policy and law that enshrine human rights - The rollback of human rights under populist governments - The impact of technologies (e.g. social media, digital networks etc.) on human rights movements - Art, literature and music as a tool of human rights movements - Inequality, intersectionality and marginality: issues of gender, sexuality, race, immigration status etc. within human rights movements/campaigns What To Send The aim of this interdisciplinar
InterPhil: CFP: Ethical Immigration Enforcement
__ Call for Papers Theme: Ethical Immigration Enforcement Type: International Workshop Institution: University of Essex Location: Online Date: 4.–5.2.2021 Deadline: 1.11.2020 __ There is widespread debate over whether states can permissibly exclude non-citizens, and which non-citizens they can permissibly exclude. There is less debate over which means of exclusion are permissible. For example, detaining an individual who has overstayed their visa may be unjust, even if the state has a general right to exclude this individual. Moreover, even if states act unjustly whenever excluding migrants, certain means of discouraging migration may be justified, such as providing aid to low-income states with the hope of discouraging migration from these states. This workshop will discuss these and other topics relating to immigration enforcement. Date: February 4-5th, 2021, 11:00am-2:00pm BST Location: Online Confirmed speakers include: Luara Ferracioli Matthew Lindauer Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò Kieran Oberman Mollie Gerver We are currently seeking two additional speakers. Please send a cover page and anonymous abstract of no more than 1,000 words by November 1st 2020 to: m.ger...@essex.ac.uk __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Migrating World
__ Call for Papers Theme: Migrating World Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Integration Type: International Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research Location: Online Date: 20.–21.2.2021 Deadline: 31.10.2020 __ Migration has been a constant feature of human history – “homo migrans” have existed ever since “homo sapiens”. Recently the themes of migration and integration have been especially topical in Europe and in other parts of the world due to massive and ever-growing movement of population. These spreading in-flows of immigrants have a strong impact on the social, economic and political climate of host countries, which are often highly challenged by the growing number of immigrants and, therefore, have to review their immigration and integration policies to adjust to the contemporary processes of globalization. Integration is becoming more and more important at the time when international migration is steadily growing and diversifying and when immigration is undergoing profound changes. Integration and its diverse components have therefore become a central aspect that must be analyzed, supported and facilitated in contemporary societies because only successful integration builds communities that are stronger economically and more inclusive socially and culturally. It is important to analyze all these processes of our migrating world applying various interdisciplinary approaches in order to better understand the current trends in international migration, to discuss and assess different aspects and changes in the fields of migration, integration and cultural diversity. The international interdisciplinary conference "Migrating World: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Integration" aims to bring together scholars from around the world to exchange and share their ideas and research findings in all relevant aspects of migration and integration. It will provide an effective interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of migration, integration and cultural diversity. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Asylum policy and treatment of refugees - Asylum seekers, refugees, migrants – understanding immigration systems - Border services and management - Comparative migration policies - Migration and migration history - The importance of the linguistic integration of immigrants - Citizenship and immigration - Social, cultural, economic integration of immigrants and refugees - Illegal migration and security threats - Family dynamics and inequalities in migration - Migration and human rights - Human trafficking and exploitative migration - Identity of immigrants - Labour market integration; refugee status; adaptation strategies of immigrants; retention of ethnic and older national identities - Migration and multiculturalism - Migration and social change: international and European perspectives - Policing ethnicity: between the rhetoric of inclusion and the practices and policies of exclusion - Political asylum and refugee status - Policy discussions that enhance the understanding of immigration, settlement and integration and that contribute to policy development - Promoting social imagination at the global level: a discussion about migration and intercultural integration - Sociology of migration: differences, inequalities and sociological imagination - (Successful) migrant integration: whose responsibility is it? - Cultural diversity and diversity management - The inequalities referring to the right to mobility in the context of globalization - Migration in Media and Arts - Migration in literature We invite proposals from various disciplines including political science, sociology, economics, history, law, philosophy, anthropology, public administration, demography, social geography, literature, linguistics, etc. Paper proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 31 October 2020 to: integrat...@lcir.co.uk Please download paper proposal form: http://integration.lcir.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Paper-proposal-form.doc Registration fee – 90 GBP Contact: London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research Email: integrat...@lcir.co.uk Web: https://integration.lcir.co.uk __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Adorno and Identity
__ Call for Papers Theme: Adorno and Identity Type: Virtual Workshop and Special Issue Institution: Department of History, Princeton University Adorno Studies Location: Online Date: December/January 2020/21 Deadline: 12.10.2020 __ A virtual workshop on “Adorno and Identity,” with papers intended for publication in a special issue of the journal Adorno Studies, is now accepting abstracts from potential contributors. Negative dialectics, Theodor Adorno wrote, “is suspicious of all identity.” Nevertheless, identity is one of the central concepts linking together Adorno’s wide-ranging corpus. This issue pursues a timely and interdisciplinary revisitation of the notions of identity, the nonidentical, and negative identity in Adorno, prompted by several recent studies: Eric Oberle’s “Theodor Adorno and the Century of Negative Identity,” Fumi Okiji’s “Jazz As Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited,” and Oshrat Silberbusch’s “Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical: Thinking as Resistance.” These works serve as a common point of departure for revisiting Adorno’s thought at a moment in which identity has become a central and hotly debated concept. The goal of this issue is twofold: to use Adorno’s work to develop more conceptually robust and nuanced notions of identity and nonidentity, and to advance critical theory by connecting Adorno’s work to broader conversations about identity in adjacent fields. Contributors will revisit Adorno’s writings on race, fascism, antisemitism, gender, and sexuality alongside his conception of subjectivity as a dialectic of identity and non-identity in his works of philosophy and writings on art, literature, and music. In particular, this issue offers an opportunity to restage missed encounters between Adorno and Black thought and music. Noting that “what [Adorno] fails to realize is that jazz emerges from a subject constituted by the holding of contradictory positions” — a subject that is not self-identical — Okiji’s work considers jazz as a form of critical self-reflection within Black life that “creates an unstable, ever constellating gathering of difference” and thereby approaches the “union of differentiation” and “difference without fear” that Adorno called for. Oberle’s study of “negative identity” highlights the contact Adorno made in exile with American sociology and racial violence and explores resonances with the rich legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois and his theorization of race as a “wound in the fabric of universality.” Silberbusch’s philosophical study recenters the nonidentical as a powerful tool for making visible and resisting social suffering. Contributors are invited to engage with these projects and expand upon Adorno’s conception of dialectics as “nonidentity through identity,” broadly and imaginatively conceived, and especially to consider underexplored connections between Adorno’s work and ethnic, gender, and sexuality studies. The editors of Adorno Studies have expressed their enthusiasm for this special issue, and the journal’s electronic format will allow the inclusion of audio-visual material such as music. Planned contributors, expanding on a previous workshop that took place at the German Studies Association annual conference in 2019 include: Asaf Angermann, Jonathon Catlin, Eric Oberle, Fumi Okiji, Oshrat Silberbusch, Martin Shuster, Sebastian Truskolaski, and Moira Weigel. Submission guidelines: Please submit abstracts of approximately 500 words and a short biographical note to Jonathon Catlin at jcat...@princeton.edu by Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. A virtual workshop for participants to exchange drafts and a virtual public roundtable event for broader discussion on the topic are planned for December 2020 or January 2021 at a date suitable for all invited participants. Contact: Jonathon Catlin, Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, Princeton University Email: jcat...@princeton.edu __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Music and Nationalism
__ Call for Papers Theme: Music and Nationalism Type: 3rd Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: Progressive Connexions Location: Vienna (Austria) Date: 16.–17.4.2021 Deadline: 25.9.2020 __ Music is commonly regarded as a universal language, and yet it is also through music that the fiercest of nationalistic sentiments and inspirations for protest and rebellion have been expressed. As a unifying force, music has frequently been used in the quest to establish a national identity as well as to emphasise social and political beliefs and promote particular agendas. But in doing so, music also establishes 'others' who do not belong to the collective. In light of political scientist and historian Benedict Anderson's characterisation of nationalism as an imagined community, it is hardly surprising that music, with its extraordinary power over the human imagination, should play such an integral part in the way nationalism is constructed and understood. The nineteenth century saw a development in the quest by many composers for a spirit of nationalism in their music, particularly those with an interest in folk song, and/or a passion for independent identities. The modern corollary is that national anthems are still sung at the beginning of mass public events, to recognise achievement in competitive sports, such as the Olympic Games, at important civic occasions, thereby signifying the inextricable bond between music and nationalism. But why does music have the capacity to direct the human imagination in this way? What does a nation sound like - or, to put it another way, why does a particular musical piece conjure up feelings of belonging to a particular nation? What aspects of the nation and its people are highlighted and what aspects are ignored by nationalistic music? How does nationalism influence the reception of music? Does being part of a particular national background shape an individual's sense of music? How is music used against nationalistic impulses, and for protests generally? How can music be used to provide education about identities, nations, and causes? In what way does music still support the construction of national identity even when it is not deliberately conceived for that purpose? What happens when the nationalistic meaning of music is contested and reworked? Does it still make sense to think in terms of music and nationalism in the age of globalism? What does the future hold for the connection between music and nationalism? The Music and Nationalism event provides a platform for exploring these questions through inter-disciplinary dialogue and interactive engagement. Key Topics Key topics, themes and issues for discussion may include, but are definitely not limited to: - Music and nationalism in a global context - Music, nationalism and New Europe - 'Rebel' /protest songs - National Anthems (composition, performance, context) - Music and propaganda - Folk Songs and nationalism - The Place of nationalism in the musical canon - Composers and performers who are associated with nationalism - Music theory perspectives - Representations of music and nationalism in written texts, encompassing song lyrics and beyond - National imagination and musical tastes, e.g. via the Eurovision Song Contest - Nationalism and the musical canon - Music, nationalism and diasporas - Nationalism and opera - The Folk Song repertoire - Music, nationalism and art - Popular music and nationalism, e.g. punk and New Wave - Physiological/psychological perspectives on connections between music and nationalism - Intellectual property and financial considerations associated with nationalist music - Pedagogy issues: teaching pupils the music of national identity What To Send The aim of this interdisciplinary conference and collaborative networking event is to bring people together and encourage creative conversations in the context of a variety of formats: papers, seminars, workshops, storytelling, performances, poster presentations, panels, q and a's, round-tables etc. 300 word proposals, presentations, abstracts and other forms of contribution and participation should be submitted by Friday 25th September 2020. Other forms of participation should be discussed in advance with the Organising Chair. All submissions will be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind) conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Development Team and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple reviewed. You will be notified of the panel's decision by Friday 9th October 2020. If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 12th February 2021. Abstracts and proposals may be in Word, PDF, RTF or Notepad formats with the
InterPhil: PUB: Philosophy of Untranslatability
__ Call for Publications Theme: Philosophy of Untranslatability Publication: Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA) Date: Special Issue Deadline: 30.10.2020 __ Submissions invited for the Special Issue of the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA) on the philosophy of untranslatability. This Special Issue aims to initiate a discussion on the various tenets of untranslatability: epistemological, semiotic and aesthetic concerns that shall enable us to understand translation, the process and its philosophy, in a nuanced and novel manner. Concept Note Translation is an activity that marks the differences which surface in cross-cultural encounters. It seeks to negotiate these inevitable differences to help us understand language-cultures that are (not) ours, or comprehend an ‘other’ who is (not) us. The non-negotiable differences then draw us to the titular question, “How does the pursuit of finding an equivalence fare in this process?”. It is in these gaps of translation that we encounter the untranslatable, that which cannot be comprehended or translated. Amidst the ongoing discussions around World Literature, that thrives on translation, untranslatability disrupts the presumed coherence in the very process and makes us aware of the irreducible differences latent within alternate ways of expression. This Special Issue aims to initiate a discussion on the various tenets of Untranslatability: epistemological, semiotic and aesthetic concerns that shall enable us to understand translation; the process and its philosophy in a nuanced and novel manner. Untranslatability, which has long been studied as an obstacle or a hurdle in the act of translation; needs to be approached from alternate trajectories that see it as a leeway enabling the indigenous and vernacular discourses to retain the exclusive differences that mark the identity of their language-cultures. Can we study this “right to untranslatability” as a way of resisting the Anglocentric, monolingual way of perceiving World Literature, by asking questions pertaining to what constitutes the world and the region, the global and the local? This raises further questions on how we understand and see the world, which is inescapably tied to the language-culture(s) we are a part of. The problems locating the ‘world’ in “World Literature” and the importance for ‘regions’ and vernacular discourses to mark their presence within the ‘world’ along with discussions around the trajectory and reception of regional and vernacular texts and genres as they travel across the world are welcome. What happens to the untranslated texts and the untranslatable ideas in the niche of World Literature is an aspect this issue seeks to engage with. The problem of a myopic view of World Literature, and the epistemic violence induced in the process of translation which is baked by a social and political power shall be addressed. It shall also focus on the formation of ‘untranslatable’ and initiate a semiotic study of language, its use, the process of meaning-making within a language and the signs and symbols particular to a language-culture. The importance of studying the notion of referentiality in language and its immense contribution in understanding the roots of untranslatability shall be another crucial line of inquiry. The special issue on Untranslatability invites research papers, articles and book reviews which focus on, but are not limited to the following sub-themes to justify the relevance and scope of the issue: 1. Translation as a Cross-Cultural Transaction 2. Negotiating Differences across Language-cultures 3. Self/Other in Translation 4. Problems in Translation 5. Formation of Untranslatable 6. Politics of Untranslatability 7. Language and Meaning Making 8. World Literature and Regional Literatures 9. Indigenous Narratives 10. Travelling Genres Across Frontiers 11. Epistemological Concerns of World Literature 12. Vernacularization of World Literature 13. ‘World’ in World Literature 14. ‘Region’ within the ‘World’ 15. Dialectics of Global and Local 16. Signs, Symbols and Referentiality 17. Aesthetic concerns of Untranslatability 18. Interminability of Translation Guest Editor: Deepshikha Behera, Department of English Literature (School of Literary Studies), The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad, India All papers must be sent to: jclain...@gmail.com beheradeepshi...@gmail.com Format/ Font: MS Word in Times New Roman 12 pt (4,000-6,000 words) Last date of submission: 30 October 2020 Final date of intimation: 10 November 2020 All papers must be original and unpublished. The cover letter should have the name of the author, institutional affiliation, brief bio, and a short declaration that the paper has not been published, presented or submitted elsewhere. About the Journal The Journal of Comparative Literatu
InterPhil: PUB: Race. Racism. Anti-Racism
__ Call for Publications Theme: Race. Racism. Anti-Racism Publication: The Thinker Date: Special Issue Deadline: 15.9.2020 __ The Thinker currently has a Call for Papers on the topics ‘Race. Racism. Anti-Racism.’ Submissions are due 15 September 2020. Submission guidelines can be found on our website: https://thethinker.co.za/contributors/ The Thinker is a Pan-African quarterly run by the Department of English at the University of Johannesburg. As a hybrid journal, The Thinker publishes both journalistic and academic articles. We welcome Africa-centred articles from diverse perspectives, in order to enrich both knowledge of the continent and of issues impacting the continent. For further enquiries, please contact the Editor, Prof. Ronit Frenkel. Contact: Prof. Ronit Frenkel, Editor The Thinker Department of English University of Johannesburg Kingsway Campus Auckland Park 2006 South Africa Email: thethin...@uj.ac.za Web: http://www.thethinker.co.za __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Poverty: Interpreting the World's Dividing Line
__ Call for Papers Theme: Poverty Subtitle: Interpreting the World's Dividing Line Type: International Conference Institution: Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship (GIRES) Location: Online Date: 24.10.2020 Deadline: 3.10.2020 __ Thematic Approach Our new conference wishes to explore world’s most complex and multifaceted enigma. From time, eternal poverty has been one of the most challenging and perplexing problems facing society. The new millennium abounds in examples of extreme poverty; it seems that in the most wealthy and technologically advanced era of mankind, poverty is vigorously growing and becoming ever more mainstream; the acceptability of poverty in society is a controversial issue in twenty-first century. It is race, religion, education, political opinion, nationality and sexual orientation that have traditionally been considered challenging and the root of social problems. However, poverty has been resilient against all social progress; it seems an impossible riddle to solve. Our new conference wishes to engage in the philosophical, political and economical debates about the causes and solutions to the problem of poverty. We will explore the ideologies that often dominate the discussion, research the real philosophical and historical assumptions buried beneath the rhetoric so we can start solving this controversial and highly complex global phenomenon. Why is poverty growing? What are the social policies and the future perspectives in this ever-changing globalized world? Our organization, dedicated to interdisciplinarity, invites scholars from various fields including but not limited to philosophy, religion, theology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, art, economics, geography, cultural and political studies along with representatives from think-tanks and organizations to contribute to the discussion and to debate issues. Proposed Topics - Poverty and politics - Globalization and poverty - Literature and poverty - Arts and the depiction of poverty - Social stratification and psychology - Poverty and commerce - Impoverished nations and expansionism - Cinema and the portrayal of poverty - Race and poverty: exploring the dividing lines - Poverty and economy Proposed Formats - Individually submitted papers (organized into panels by the GIRES committee) - Panels (3-4 individual papers) - Roundtable discussions (led by one of the presenters) - Posters Lingua franca: English Date of the Conference: 24 October 2020 Deadline for proposals: 3 October 2020 Acceptance notification: 5 October 2020 Registration fee: 80 Euros Our proposed topics and formats are not restrictive and we invite additional germane ideas. Due to the restrictions of Corona Crisis our event (for the time being) will take place virtually. Contact: Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship (GIRES) Amsterdam, Netherlands Email: i...@gires.org Web: https://www.gires.org/activities/conferences/poverty-interpreting-the-worlds-dividing-line/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CONF: Kyoto in Davos
__ Conference Announcement Theme: Kyoto in Davos Subtitle: The Question of the Human from a Cross Cultural Vantage Point Type: International Online Conference Institution: Institute of Philosophy, Hildesheim University Location: Online Date: 27.8.–9.9.2020 __ From Ralf Müller We invite you to listen to, discuss, and actively participate in a hybrid online conference on intercultural philosophy. - two weeks of asynchronous discussion based on uploaded video presentations of well-known specialists in the field of Japanese philosophy and philosophy of culture from 27th of August until the 9th of September 2020 - three days of 180 minutes live zoom sessions on the 10th, 11th, and 12th of September 2020 The international conference, “Kyoto in Davos,” returns to the well-known 1929 Davos disputation between Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) that focused on the central question of Kantian philosophy “Was ist der Mensch?” and considers what directions the debate might have taken had Nishida Kitarō (1870- 1945) – or any of the other members of the Kyoto School or thinker from Japan – been present. For the schedule and the updated program check out our website: www.kyotoindavos.de Please register by e-mail by August 31st, 2020: kyotoinda...@protonmail.ch Don’t hesitate to get in touch for questions: ralf.muel...@uni-hildesheim.de Your KiD’s team Domenico Schneider Tobias Endres Ralf Müller __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Exploring the Unexplored
__ Call for Papers Theme: Exploring the Unexplored Subtitle: Pioneering the Quest of Knowledge Type: International Conference Institution: Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship (GIRES) Location: Online Date: 21.11.2020 Deadline: 29.10.2020 __ Thematic Approach Our civilization thrives due to our overwhelming thirst for knowledge and advancement. In our quest to evolve, we explore the unknown, discover new paths to knowledge and implement new methods of learning and teaching. The international conference organized by GIRES, the Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, will explore the trajectory of knowledge, will try to understand its mechanisms and through that we will meet the pioneers. We will also explore their great ideas and the projects that have offered new perspectives to our civilization. We will delve into the unique personalities, the political and cultural needs, and the philosophical and economic circumstances that pushed our civilization forward. >From Aristotle and Hawking to Archimedes and Dostoyevski and from Mozart and DaVinci to Gandhi and Confucius our history teems with examples of personalities that defied limitations and paved new paths for the evolution of our civilization. Ideas and people from politics, literature, the sciences, music, art, and law are only some of the approaches we wish to explore in order to define our past and contemplate our future. Who are they and how well do we value their contribution? What is the role of education and how the libraries and archives help in the dissemination of knowledge? Which personalities, ideas and projects were lost to oblivion and how well do we value and utilize their contributions? How are they depicted in art and literature? We hope to generate conversation on this topic through the exploration of literature, science, law, history, music and philosophy and understand how the social, political and cultural circumstances either supported or diminished innovative and ideas and pioneering minds. Proposed Topics - Projects that changed world history - Pioneers in Literature, Science, Politics and Culture - Psychological and Philosophical approaches - Pioneering as political action - Geopolitics in the quest of knowledge - Preservation and dissemination of knowledge: perspectives, limitations and censorship - Theology: role and actions in the advancement of knowledge - Technology and methods of expanding knowledge Proposed Formats - Individually submitted papers (organized into panels by the GIRES committee) - Panels (3-4 individual papers) - Roundtable discussions (led by one of the presenters) - Workshops and Simulation Activities - Forms of art connected to the conference topic Lingua franca: English Date of the Conference: 21 November 2020 Deadline for proposals: 29 October 2020 Acceptance notification: 1 November 2020 Registration fee: 80 Euros Our proposed topics & formats are not restrictive and we invite additional germane ideas. Due to the restrictions of Corona Crisis our event (for the time being) will take place virtually. Contact: Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship (GIRES) Amsterdam, Netherlands Email: i...@gires.org Web: https://www.gires.org/activities/conferences/exploring-the-unexplored-pioneering-the-quest-of-knowledge/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: In Search of Zera Yacob
__ Call for Papers Theme: In Search of Zera Yacob Type: Graduate and Early Career Researchers Conference Institution: Worcester College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: Spring 2021 Deadline: 31.12.2020 __ We invite proposals for papers to be presented at an international conference entitled ‘In Search of Zera Yacob’, to take place at Worcester College, University of Oxford, in the Spring of 2021. The exact dates have yet to be confirmed, subject to Covid-19 pandemic developments. In Search of Zera Yacob will be the first international and interdisciplinary conference on two remarkable philosophical texts from Ethiopia and the ongoing debate over their authorship. These two texts, the Ḥatäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob and the Ḥatäta Walda Heywat, have been objects of suspicion and admiration since their discovery (or perhaps their forgery) in 1852 by the Capuchin monk Giusto d’Urbino, both for their intrinsic philosophical interest and apparent historical singularity in the Ethiopian and African contexts. The question is whether they have a genuine 17th century Ethiopian authorship, or whether the supposed ‘discoverer’ of the texts, the 19th century Capuchin monk Giusto d’Urbino, was in fact their secret author. This conference will serve first and foremost to put scholars from across the world, and across disciplinary boundaries, into dialogue with one another on the highly contested question of authorship. It aims, if not to conclusively resolve the authorship question, to at least stimulate a productive dialogue between scholars on the structure of the authenticity debate as it has played out over the last century. It would also serve, if a 17th century authorship is demonstrated, as a prolegomenon to any serious philosophical study of Zera Yacob’s work, and for thinking about his place in the global history of philosophy. Topics of Interest The central question this conference hopes to explore is whether the texts have a genuine 17th century Ethiopian authorship, or whether the supposed ‘discoverer’ of the texts, the 19th century Capuchin monk Giusto d’Urbino, was in fact their secret author. The conference works on the assumption that the texts are interesting either way: - If the works are authentic, there is plenty to do, both in terms of studying the philosophy and literary qualities of the works, but also in understanding what they mean for the history of philosophy (that modern philosophy was born almost simultaneously in Ethiopia as in Europe; that they are the oldest texts in the context of sub-Saharan African philosophy; that they open up interesting questions of influence, etc.), and in to thinking about why they were considered fakes for so long; - If they are not authentic, how are we to best understand them? Are they still interesting as works of philosophy? If not, why not? And how do they fare as literary creations? If they are fakes, how do they relate to other historical texts from Ethiopia and from the philosophical canon? We are interested in papers that approach either horn of the authenticity question from the perspectives of: global philosophy, Ge’ez literature and philology, orientalism and the academy, the history of forgeries, Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, the history of modern Ethiopia, the cultural politics of philosophy, etc. Eligibility: The CfP is exclusively open to graduate students and early career researchers within five years of completion of their PhD. Submission Guidelines We will be considering two types of submission: - A 500-word abstract suitable for a 20-minute presentation; - Or: A full paper (not exceeding 8000 words, including footnotes but not including references) in addition to a 300-word abstract, to be considered both for presentation at the conference and for publication in an edited volume (to be reviewed for acceptance as part of De Gruyter’s ‘New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy’ series). To submit an abstract or full paper, please send a .doc or .pdf file to yacobconfere...@gmail.com. Please write ‘Conference Submission’ in the subject line of your email and include your name, departmental affiliation, email address, and the title of your paper (as well as the year in which your PhD was awarded in the case of early career researchers) in your email. Abstracts (and papers, if relevant) should be prepared for blind review, so please ensure that your document is free from any identifying personal details. The submission deadline is 31 December 2020. Note that full paper submissions only will be considered for publication. We will notify authors of acceptance by 31 January 2021 at the latest. We hope to be able to contribute to travel and accommodation expenses for any speakers wishing to attend the conference, pending further funding applications and Covid-related complications. However, so as t
InterPhil: PUB: Body, Politics, and Nation
__ Call for Publications Theme: Body, Politics, and Nation Subtitle: Intersections of (Post) Modernity Publication: Volume edited by Vernon Press Deadline: 31.8.2020 __ As the global pandemic travels through and occupies a world experiencing intense forms of Balkanisation, blockade and nationalist violence, the intimate site of the body has rarely been more pertinent than it is today. Body, as a site of contestation, has occupied a central place in analysis, engagement, control, and resistance in the post-enlightenment social and political thought. Controlling and shaping bodies, and thereby individual subjectivities, was crucial in the transition of human societies from agrarian modes of organisation to the industrial/capitalist mode of organisation. Such transformations established some bodies – based on appearance, gender, colour, sexuality, age etc. – as normal, and bodies that did not conform to this norm or its associated behaviours were constructed as aberrations that ought to be rectified, or worse, annihilated. These questions of global concern further complicate the proverbial but arbitrary East-West divide, and which might signal the deepening, or mutating, fault-lines in national politics of tomorrow the world over. The work of Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault extensively documented how the body was entangled in the schemes of power as humanity embraced the ‘civilising processes’. Feminist scholars such as Sylvia Wynter, Kumari Jayawardena, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Tanika Sarkar, Sylvia Walby, Nira Yuval-Davis, Floya Anthias and Cynthia Enloe have furthered our understanding of the various iterations in which the body is instrumentalised in the name of nation, community, borders, and healthcare. Taking these canonical works as our point of departure, we invite submissions that take the ‘body’ as a unit of analysis to understand how national politics and politics in the name of the nation deploy a rhetoric that (re)constructs or perhaps resuscitates old dichotomies in the face of new challenges. Who is allowed to stay, where, under what conditions, and with whom, seems everywhere a pressing concern which brings together not simply the site of the subject-body and the nation(-state), but confronts a variegated politics of intersections: politics of a disciplinary, classed, sexual and gendered, racial and ethnic character. Taking the timely but historically-rooted entanglements between the three – body, politics and nation seriously, we are particularly interested in submissions that highlight how the state and capitalism in their neoliberal iterations seek to control, mould, and discipline the body along the axes of gender, caste, race, sexuality, income etc. in their pursuit of power and profit. The broad themes that we are interested in are as follows: - Constructions/destructions of the national with COVID-19 - Foucauldian disciplinary power and governmentality in the COVID-19 context - Crime, policing, and constructions of the nation - Gender and/or sexual politics of the nation - Race, racism, and body-politics - Healthcare, the body, and national politics of welfare - Statehood/statecraft and the classification of national populations How to Submit Your Proposal: Please submit all abstracts (400 words) by the 31st August 2020 to both Idreas Khandy (i.kha...@lancaster.ac.uk) and Dr. Muneeb Hafiz (m.ha...@lancaster.ac.uk) [Lancaster University, United Kingdom]. Contact: Idreas Khandy Email: i.kha...@lancaster.ac.uk Dr. Muneeb Hafiz Email: m.ha...@lancaster.ac.uk __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Philosophy of Dialogue in Russian, German, and Jewish Thought
__ Call for Publications Theme: Philosophy of Dialogue in Russian, German, and Jewish Thought Publication: Judaica Petropolitana Date: Special Issue (2020) Deadline: 31.10.2020 __ As we had to cancel our Conference "Philosophy of Dialogue in Russian, German, and Jewish Thought" which was planned for June due to the COVID-19 pandemy, we decided to keep and to continue the project in the special issue of the Judaica Petropolitana. Judaica Petropolitana invites submissions for the 2020 special issue on "Philosophy of Dialogue in Russian, German, and Jewish Thought". Judaica Petropolitana is edited by the Department of Jewish Culture, Saint-Petersburg State University in collaboration with the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The aim of the the special issue is to examine an essential issue of Jewish thought, meaningful throughout the entire history of Jewish philosophy - dialogism and dialogical approach. The topic of the issue provides an overview of the broadest spectrum of Jewish philosophical teachings, both in chronological and spatial terms, in internal and external connections. In the special issue we intend to address the dialogical philosophy (philosophy of dialogue) as a point of collaboration and interaction betweeen the Russian, German, German-Jewish, and Jewish intellectual traditions. Dialogism is deeply rooted in the Russian culture as attested by Dostoevskiy and Bakhtin. Dialogical thought in Germany includes extremely rich heritage of works and ideas of Ludwig Feuerbach, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Ferdinand Ebner, Martin Buber, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. In the Jewish thought the Bible and Talmud affirm the Dialogism and dialogical approach to core theological and philosophical issues. Jewish philosophy and mysticism continue the approach. Accordingly, studies on Dialogism allows to treat inter-cultural and inter-philosophical dialogues, exchanges, conflicts and interactions. The issue will address the following topics: 1. Dialogism in the Jewish thought of Biblical and Post-Biblical era. Dialogism of the Talmud and Midrash. Dialogism of the Medieval Jewish philosophy and mystical thought. 2. Sources and evolution of the philosophy of dialogue in Germany: Jacobi, Kant, Feuerbach, and Cohen. 3. Philosophy of dialogue in Germany and Austria at the turn of the XXth century: Franz Rosenzweig, Ferdinand Ebner, Martin Buber, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. 4. Dialogism in Russian and the Russian thought: Dostoevskiy, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Bakhtin, and Vladimir Bibler. 5. Philosophy of dialogue and phenomelogy: Levinas. 6. Philosophy of dialogue and the pedagogical thought. Philosophers of dialogue on novations in education. Dialogical pedagogy and theories of learning and education. Rosenzweig, Buber, Rosenstock-Huessy, Levinas, Vladimir Bibler и др. 7. Recent state-of-the art and perspectives of philosophy of dialogue (Russia, Israel, etc). Judaica Petropolitana has been published since 2015. The Judaica Petropolitana is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed open-access journal of Jewish Studies, dedicated to the exploration of the core issues in Jewish Culture, Philosophy, History, and Religion. It aims to respond both to the traditional disciplinary approaches in Jewish Studies and emerging new fields of research that goes beyond received historiographic categories and concepts. It publishes two issues per year and contains a thematic section, translations and archival publications, essays and reviews. The Judaica Petropolitana publishes high-quality research articles, essays, reviews reporting results of research in Jewish Studies, with a special interest in cross-disciplinary approaches. It furthermore aims to bring to the attention of the scholarly community many yet unexplored topics, primarily grown from complex and multifaceted history of Jewish life and culture under Russian Empire and Soviet Union. The main languages of the journal are Russian, English, Hebrew, although contributions are also accepted in French and German. The deadline for the submissions: October 31, 2020. The articles will be published after a double blind peer-review process. All articles should conform to our submission guidelines (the APA citation and referencing style, 6th edition; we kindly ask potential authors to request the detailed instruction via email or consult with the instruction at our webpage). All submissions, proposals and editorial inquiries should be addressed to: Igor Tantlevskiy (tanti...@bk.ru) and Igor Kaufman (kaufman.igo...@gmail.com) Contact: Igor Kaufman Judaica Petropolitana Email: kaufman.igo...@gmail.com Web: http://judaica-petropolitana.philosophy.spbu.ru __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: http
InterPhil: PUB: Africapitalism
__ Call for Publications Theme: Africapitalism Publication: Edited Book Deadline: 31.8.2020 __ We welcome scholarly and well-written articles from experts in the field of African political and economic leadership on any of the topics in the list of topics below. Authors can create their topics on Africapitalism. Topics - Africapitalism and capitalism delineated - Africapitalism and socialism redefined - Africapitalism and African socialism - Africapitalism and African communalism - Africapitalism and communitarianism - Africapitalism and Pan Africanism - Theoretical foundations of Africapitalism - Africapitalism as an African economic philosophy - The economic basis of Africapitalism - The philosophical foundations of Africapitalism - Africapitalism and philanthropy - Economic ethics and Africapitalism - Africapitalism and African sustainable development - Africapitalism and corporate social responsibility - Africapitalism and African leadership - Africapitalism and democracy - Is Africapitalism a capitalism Africanized? - Africapitalism and poverty alleviation in Africa - Africapitalism and foreign investment in Africa - Africapitalism in a corruption-laden Africa - Africapitalism and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Africapitalism and a deconstruction of capitalism - Africapitalism and humanitarian aid in Africa - Africapitalism and multinational enterprises in Africa - Africapitalism and Ubuntu philosophy - Africapitalism and economic diplomacy in Africa - Africapitalism and eco-politics in Africa - Africapitalism and technology in Africa - Africapitalism and education in Africa - Africapitalism: A curriculum for an African Business Philosophy - Africapitalism and foreign debts in Africa - Africapitalism and post Covid-19 Africa - Africapitalism and regional integration Submissions Papers must be written in English, having between 4000 and 5000 words, prepared for blind review. Use of the APA (7th edition) referencing style is recommended. Papers will be peer-reviewed for publication with a reputable UK academic publisher. Deadline for submission of abstracts (250 words maximum): August 31st, 2020 Deadline for submission of full papers: October 31st, 2020. Kindly send your abstracts by email to Ephraim-Stephen Essien, PhD: a...@politicalphilosophers.com ; p...@politicalphilosophers.com What is Africapitalism? Africapitalism is an economic philosophy that the African private sector has the power to transform the continent through long-term investments, creating both economic prosperity and social wealth. It involves the developmental impact of the entrepreneur on his immediate society. Africapitalism is the middle ground between business and philanthropy (Elumelu 2014). It is an economic philosophy that embodies the private sector’s commitment to the economic transformation of Africa through investments that generate both economic prosperity and social wealth (Amaeshi & Idemudia 2015). The basic features of Africapitalism include: - Transforming private investment into social wealth (Elumelu 2014). - Promoting entrepreneurship. - Elements of social enterprise. - Local value creation. This involves an explicit effort on the part of businesses and African policymakers to facilitate more value addition within African economies to ensure more of the benefits of the continent’s natural resources remain in Africa. Editors Ephraim-Stephen Essien, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria Kenneth Amaeshi, University of Edinburgh, UK Paul Nnodim, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA For further information please see: https://philevents.org/event/show/83738 Contact: Ephraim-Stephen Essien, PhD Department of Philosophy Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria Phone: +234 8062555776 Email: a...@politicalphilosophers.com ; p...@politicalphilosophers.com Web: https://www.politicalphilosophers.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship in African and Black Diaspora Studies
__ Call for Applications Theme: African and Black Diaspora Studies Type: Ida B. Wells-Barnett Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship Institution: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, DePaul University Location: Chicago, IL (USA) Date: 2020–2021 Deadline: 7.8.2020 __ Description The Ida B. Wells-Barnett Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship reflects the University's Vincentian mission, which includes a scholarly commitment to the areas of race, equality, social justice and advocacy for historically oppressed and underserved populations. The Vincentian mission is reinforced by the principles that informed Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s advocacy of civil and human rights for Black people. Almost four decades of her life and work were spent in Chicago, deeply impacting the political and social life of the city and its Black citizens. She stood on a platform of anti-racist social justice, using her pen and her voice to keep issues of injustice in public discourse as well as in the mass and popular media. The ideal candidate for this fellowship will meaningfully balance a clearly defined research agenda with a similar spirit of advocacy. Ida B. Wells-Barnett fellows are expected to teach three total courses over two 10-week quarters during Winter and Spring. Specific courses will be determined in consultation with the Department. All Fellows are expected to present their research to the DePaul community and participate meaningfully in the life of the Department of African and Black Diaspora Studies, its students, and the affiliated Center for Black Diaspora. Fellows will also engage students through recruitment, mentorship, and student-facing events. Qualifications The fellowship is housed in DePaul’s Department of African and Black Diaspora Studies. Eligibility is restricted to those who have received their PhD no earlier than 2016 and who will have the PhD in hand by the end of July 2020. Appointment of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett teaching fellow will be for the academic year 2020-2021. The fellowship may be extended for a second year, based on review and budget approval. DePaul University will provide the fellow with a competitive stipend, office space, and modest funds for travel and research. This is also a benefits-eligible position. DePaul University is a private, Catholic institution with a total enrollment of approximately 20,000 students. The department and the university sustain a strong commitment to undergraduate education and sensitivity to the educational goals of a culturally diverse student population. We seek candidates who will reflect and engage the diversity of the university and its urban community. We specifically solicit applications from people of color, women, and individuals from other historically underrepresented groups. DePaul University is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment. Application Instructions All applications must be completed online and should include a letter of interest, a current C.V., sample syllabi for two relevant and/or potential undergraduate courses (including an online course, if possible), a statement of teaching philosophy, contact information for three referees, and a writing sample. Teaching experience in a higher education setting is strongly preferred. Review of applications will begin August 7, 2020. All evaluations made in connection with applications received are confidential. Department website: http://abd.depaul.edu Interested candidates can find the application portal and a more detailed description at: http://apply.interfolio.com/77175 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Spirituality and Culture
__ Call for Papers Theme: Spirituality and Culture Type: 3rd Global Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: Progressive Connexions Location: Lisbon (Portugal) Date: 12.–13.3.2020 Deadline: 4.9.2020 __ Postponed from Lisbon 2020 due to COVID-19 Spirituality recognises that there is more to reality than just the material world. The intuition that our lives have meaning and are part of something bigger is a powerful motivator for us to cultivate our spiritual side. The mystical experiences and beliefs that arise from this engagement can stimulate our imagination in unexpected ways. Feelings of transcendence and awe have inspired creative people, artists, writers and composers throughout the ages, and continue to influence cultures around the world. Spirituality has certainly not gone away in a hyper-connected age, but finds new modes of expression and practice. Spirituality and culture are closely linked. How we treat other people, what and when we eat and drink, how we interact with – and transcend – the everyday world are all affected by our spiritual orientation. Our spiritual commitments may prompt us to seek social change, travel to sacred places, and follow particular rituals to put us in touch with something beyond everyday living. We might signal our identification with a particular spiritual group by our outward appearance, and hope that our conduct will improve the culture around us in some small way. In turn, the wider culture affects our spiritual life, so that it’s sometimes hard to know which aspects of our daily living are based on local customs and which are spiritual in origin. After the success of the first two Spirituality & … Culture conferences, we have pleasure in inviting you to the third. It is part of an exciting new series of inclusive interdisciplinary projects that focus on the significance of spirituality to human living, thinking and feeling in today’s world. This event will explore the interactions between spirituality, culture and social phenomena – with a view to forming an innovative interdisciplinary publication to encourage further collaboration and discussion. We hope that you can join us in these conversations. Key Topics We invite presentations from artists, caregivers, therapists, psychologists, social workers, thought leaders, spiritual practitioners, stake holders, medical professionals, entrepreneurs, designers, musicians, patients, activists, journalists, policy makers, developers, technologists, and academics from across any of the disciplines that respond to or innovatively (re-)frame any of the following additional core conference themes listed below: - Spirituality and Creativity e.g. painting and sculpture inspired by spirituality; popular culture; rappers [such as Kanye West]; literature; mass media; music; dance; theatre; opera; architecture; festivals [including Burning Man]; spirituality in cyberspace - Spirituality and Social Change e.g. social justice; pacifism; enlightenment; patriarchy; polygamy; fundamentalism; feminism; euthanasia; abortion; environmental awareness; poverty; racism; penal reform; new rites of passage; resilience of the sensus divinitatis; millennials filling spiritual vacuum; toleration of difference; spirituality and LGBTQ+ - Spirituality and Politics e.g. church and state; theocracies; Hindutva; religion in the private sphere and public square; religious affiliation as vote-winner; clash of secular and spiritual ideologies [such as ‘gay cake’ controversies in Northern Ireland and the USA, cow vigilantes in India]; Shariah compliant banking; anti-consumerism; fundamentalist atheism; claims of indigenous peoples to sacred geographies - Spirituality and Travel e.g. pilgrimages as spiritual living; spiritual tourism; retreats; sacred spaces; migration in a globalised economy; borderless spirituality; porous communities; how well do religions ‘travel’?; nomadic and worldwide religions vs localised beliefs; religious appropriation [including Western commodification of Eastern wisdom] - Spirituality, Liberation and Oppression e.g. transcendence as escape from misery; near-death experiences; human rights; religious tolerance; secular intolerance of religion; discrimination; extremism; fake prophets; misogyny; homophobia - Spirituality and Food e.g. fasting; Lent; Ramadan; feasting; dietary laws; kosher, halal, prohibitions; alcohol; transubstantiation; cannibalism; puja; monastic asceticism; vegetarianism; mindful eating; soul food - Spirituality and Education e.g. secular schools and spirituality; meditation in the classroom; mindfulness; attention and distraction; Steiner, Krishnamurti etc; schools with religious ethos; madrassa; religious education versus religious training - Spirituality and Interfaith Relations e.g. meditation as common ground between world religions; development of a global ethic; Dalai Lama/Hans Küng
InterPhil: CFP: Spaces and Places
__ Call for Papers Theme: Spaces and Places Type: 2nd Global Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: Progressive Connexions Location: Lisbon (Portugal) Date: 14.–15.3.2021 Deadline: 4.9.2020 __ Postponed from Lisbon 2020 due to COVID-19 Every day we move through spaces that have been constructed or delineated somehow to be significant. We recognise and - consciously or unconsciously - react to this significance on a daily or hourly basis, and we draw from a cultural well of knowledge in order to do so. While we may not be aware of this process, our lives are lived in constant negotiation with these meanings; it is therefore important to examine how we shape the space around us, and what the meanings are that we attach to inside and outside, here and there, mine and yours, and even function and form. Understanding that these meanings are time- and culturally-based broadens these questions, allowing for not only an examination of how they are understood today, but how they were perceived and deployed in the pastâ??and how they might be in the future. Our spaces and places not only confine us, they define us as well and they shape our behaviour, as our silence in a church, our movement in a particular direction through a museum, or our knowledge of where a bathroom might be in an office building illustrate. Or consider how our behaviour is mitigated by the presence of cameras, the laws of society, the unstated rules of propriety, the standards of dress, or the expectations of those around us. What about how the presence of lines on a piece of two-dimensional map can determine our movement through a city or our path across a mountain range; how does new knowledge about a place shape our movement through the space it inhabits? And what can we make of the places we discover in archaeological quests or anthropological pursuits? The basic questions common to all of the above are how do we designate place and delineate space, and what is the difference between the two? The short answers are that a place can be seen as space that has a meaning, and we shape places in a variety of ways that are culturally-, socially-, historically- and theoretically- bounded. The exciting and productive discussions at our previous meeting explored a number of key areas: shifting meanings of neighbourhoods through time | mobility between economic and political spaces | the effect of place on emotion and perception | procession and its manipulation of meaning in space | political control of space as a function of controlling protests | fiction and its creation of space | mapping and the deployment of power | Building on the success of these and other conversations, and the entirety of last year's conference, we aim to continue to examine the way space is bounded or expanded to create place. We will continue to explore how the concepts and practicalities that make up our understanding of what spaces and places mean are political, social, and specific to our culture(s), and how space and place dance with each other in the middle of it all. Key Topics Continuing with the same momentum established from the previous meeting, we invite proposals covering a number of approaches to the way processes of all kinds shape us and our world in the way they create, confine, shape and define the spaces and places we inhabit. The following non-exhaustive list is meant to be springboard as well as prompt; you may use these ideas or send us one of your own. - Life-spaces; life places. - How does our living space define us? - How do we define ourselves through space and place? - How does what we exclude define others? - Architectural movements and theories - Space and social control (panopticon, surveillance space, etc.) - Schools and prisons, Bentham - Dangerous places, places of power - No-go zones - Demilitarized zones - Impacts of war and territorial conflict on space and place - Mapping, naming and defining space and place - Urban planning - Heritage spaces and places - Conservation and usage of natural spaces, humanity's capacity to preserve space and place - Colonial spaces - Contact zones - Spaces and Places of the Future - Sustainability, viability; living spaces, living places. Detached homes, tower blocks, gated communities - Science fiction spaces and their cultural function - Class, space and place (gentrification, 'white flight', slums, ghettos, hostile architecture to prevent sleeping rough on benches, etc.) - Indigenous/First Peoples conceptualisations if space and place - Space, place and the influence of gender, sexuality, race: the shaping of lived experiences - Spaces and Places of Faith - Churches, temples, mosques, fairy circles, Stonehenge and other stone circles, cemeteries, monasteries, crypts, etc. - Mathematical and scientific conceptualisations of space - Legal aspects of space and place (ownership and p
InterPhil: PUB: What do we care about?
__ Call for Publications Theme: What do we care about? Subtitle: A Cross-Cultural Textbook for Undergraduate Students of Philosophical Ethics Publication: Edited Textbook published by OpenBook Publishers Deadline: 15.2.2021 __ Representing Philosophical Ethics from Asia, South America, and Australia as well as from underrepresented groups from North America and Europe Edited by: Dr. Björn Freter, Knoxville, USA Dr. Elvis Imafidon, Ekpoma, Nigeria Prof. Gunter Bombaerts, Eindhoven, Netherlands Prof. Benda Hofmeyr, Pretoria, South Africa Prof. Marie Eboh, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Published with: OpenBook Publishers Preliminary Remark The editorial board has already begun the work on this project and received a variety of contributions. Those contributions addressed philosophical approaches from Africa, the global West and Asia. This is why we are particularly interested in contributions on the non-represented locations, like Australia, South America and Asia (so far only India is represented). We are also highly interested in representing philosophies from underrepresented groups within the global West (Europe, North America, Australia). Please let us know if you would like to contribute to regions already represented, we will then check if we can incorporate your ideas! About the Book Texts in ethics designed primarily for students should have four main focal points: exposing students to normative moral theories, the history of ethics and ethicists, the nature and major contents of applied ethics, and exposing students to the analysis of moral terms and questions of moral validation in meta-ethics. However, what is currently available in this regard are texts that provide a one-sided and narrow narrative of these focal points: the Western narrative. As it is becoming more obvious in academic philosophy such hegemony of knowledge in any area of philosophy is not only a fraud and disservice to humanity – deliberately or non-deliberately – but also results in the poverty of knowledge. This book is a bold attempt to remedy this and provide a comprehensive and broad perspective of ethics to undergraduate students. The book will indeed provide information on the four focal points mentioned above, but it will also a. incorporate in a non-eurocentric, non-biased way traditions from Asia, Africa, North-America, South-America, Australia and Europe. And it will b. have a recurring section at the end of every chapter that will attempt to embed the respective ethical traditions into lived experience by asking (as reflected in the title): »What, exponent of tradition X, do you care about? What is an ethical issue dear to you? And what do you do to address it? What do you do to promote that which you care about?« An extensive general introduction and specific short introductions to each section will be provided by the editors explaining the approach of the book in detail. The introduction will also address why a project like this is necessary and address the inglorious history of philosophy as a means of oppression. About the Pedagogical Direction We want to ensure that all forms of superiorism (like sexism, white supremacy, eurocentrism) will be strictly avoided. The book shall illuminate differences and at the same time explicitly stress that material differences are normatively irrelevant: a mere difference between two things does not imply that one of these two things is better or worse than the other. The book will further refrain from the use of frivolous (but very common) eurocentric approaches which, for instance, claim the birth of philosophy itself happened in ancient Greece and only there. The editors want to ensure that both the contributors and the references for further reading include philosophers from underrepresented groups (we will adhere to the suggestions of the Diversity Reading List, see: https://diversityreadinglist.org/teach/). The text will be optimized for instruction by including bolding of key terms, chapter summaries, suggested further readings, and discussion questions. About the Style of the Contributions The chapters shall be written in an accessible, jargon-free style with chapters lengths of about 3000 to 5000 words. The editors will ensure that the book will be written in an inclusive manner, for instance we wish to utilize gender-neutral language, usage of cultural references with appropriate explanations (and avoid taking western culture as leading culture), avoid stereotyping (for instance in explanatory example situations multiple perspectives will be incorporated), etc. About the Publisher Open Book Publishers is an independent, non-profit and scholar-led Press for the free dissemination of high-quality research. With over 2 million readers the world over Open Book Publishers is the main Open Access book publisher in the United Kingdom and one
InterPhil: PUB: African Political and Economic Philosophy
__ Call for Publications Theme: African Political and Economic Philosophy Publication: Edited Book Deadline: 31.8.2020 __ Introduction The book, African Political and Economic Philosophy, aims to create African development philosophies suitable for black sub-Saharan African countries. As a relatively new academic discipline focused on thought informed by indigenous moral values among black peoples in the sub-Saharan region, African political philosophy involves philosophizing normatively about government by traditional black African people with a view to advancing a better African society. African political philosophy does not mean that its themes, views, concepts and approaches are exclusively African. It does not also mean that only thinkers in Africa could hold these concepts. It does not also mean that all African thinkers hold the same views. “African” is used in African political philosophy geographically to demarcate certain perspectives that are unique and peculiar in sub-Saharan African thought and practice that tend not to be the case elsewhere. An African political and economic philosophy should address the origin and method of political power; the guarantee of human and civil liberties; and how economic goods are generated and distributed in African societies. African socialism by Nkrumah, Senghor and Nyerere tried to do this but failed both politically and economically. Africapitalism as a new economic philosophy seems to obviate the inadequacies in Afrisocialism and offers an option for an African economic philosophy. But can a neo-Afrisocialism offer anything good for the African economy? And what political styles or models could you recommend or create for governing African countries? Background This 2020 makes it 135 years since Africa became a made-in-Germany product. This political business and manufacture took place in Berlin with Otto von Bismark as the CEO of the lucrative venture. It took Bismark just a pencil and a piece of white paper to draw boundaries of Africa and shared the portions to the powers of Europe for their economic consumption. The orderly sharing formula initiated by Bismarck could not be obtained in Southern Africa. In Southern Africa, it was a survival of the fittest for the Euro-American powers. The white imperialists fought and killed themselves, for example, in the Anglo-Boer Wars. The survivors could not take it lying low with the black population thereafter. The British had the Cape colony; the Dutch, the Transvaal and the Orange Free States. No black could go to school nor walk near a white-skinned demi-god. The consequence was always undesirable. The white knees were on the black necks. But the white knees had been stuck on the black necks since 400 years ago, before Bismark’s business summits in Berlin (1884-1885). Same European powers had, hitherto, committed crimes against humanity in human trafficking, buying Africans from their fellow Africans in exchange for alcohol and glittering mirrors for their African dealers to look at their faces and smile after consuming the gin to stupor. One of the results of that first business had been the making of America through Spain and Portugal. Another was the making of the capitals of Europe and their cathedrals through the sweats of African slaves in European factories. Encouraged by the gains in their first business venture during their trade in purchase of African persons, though, discouraged by the cunning abolition of slave trade by some of their paid folks, the powers of Europe devised another business strategy to enjoy Africa through colonization by dismembering, severing and splitting African ethno-cultural ties in the partition of Africa. They, however, came with the Bible from their cathedrals, to tell Africans to forgo their gods and culture and replace them with God. During the process of evangelization, European education was introduced to Africa. At least, this would help them to learn the Bible and propagate the message, still for the white man’s conquest of his culture over the blacks. From learning Catholic catechisms in their African homeland, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kwame Nkrumah, Leopold Senghor and Julius Nyerere later had the luck of receiving Western training in Europe and America. There, they experienced first class racism and racialism just like what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th, 2020; only few days ago. But they were more troubled by the need for African identity, which had been either lost or diminished through slavery, colonialism and racism. Having been schooled in European and American education, and having been influenced by Pan-African movements by Marcus Garvey and W.E.B.Dubois, these African princes deployed their training to their indigenous cultural values to see how that might serve as the social foundation of their societies as different from Europe and Am
InterPhil: PUB: Race, Racialization, and Antiracism
__ Call for Publications Theme: Race, Racialization, and Antiracism Subtitle: Reimagining the Study of Global Asias Publication: Verge: Studies in Global Asias Date: No. 8.1 A&Q (2022) Deadline: 31.7.2020 __ Following the resurgence of protests against racialized police violence since May 2020, citizens, activists, artists, and academic communities across the globe have renewed efforts to reflect on and respond to issues of race and racial discrimination. One such measure taken to address structural racism in academia has been an email petition generated by members of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to the board of directors, in which cosigners voice their support for black scholars of Asia and urge other AAS members to include panels and roundtables on race, ethnicity, and Africa-Asia Studies in future AAS conferences as one way to combat racial bias and anti-Blackness. To expand the epistemic potential of Asian Studies and Global Asia programs, we must center anti-racist pedagogies and review issues of race and culture beyond the existing paradigms of Asian diasporas and Asian migrants. In this context, we will be adding another A&Q Convergence feature to our forthcoming Verge special issue on “Indian Ocean Studies, Afro-Asian Affinities” in order to present multi-disciplinary and polyvocal perspectives on the current state of race and ethnicity in Asian Studies. We invite submissions of 1000-1500 words from scholars, graduate students, artists, and activists interested in responding to any of the following questions: - How might we decolonize existing vocabularies within Asian Studies while addressing the limitations of appropriating, transposing, and/or mistranslating Euro-American perspectives on racial formations? - What are the ethical challenges of working with marginalized racial communities and individuals in different parts of Asia and around the Indian Ocean? And what are the theoretical, methodological, and political concerns surrounding issues of representation (i.e. who can/should speak for whom)? Whose voices and experiences should be centered and how might we accomplish such recentering? - What are the explicit and implicit biases inherent to the conception and history of Asian Studies as a field? And how to address the gap between racialized experiences and scientific/scholarly/institutional discourses about racism, racial justice, and representation? How might we navigate constraints regarding mediation, allyship and/or advocacy on matters of race and racial discrimination? - How might we construct and strengthen transnational pedagogic frameworks on race and ethnicity that mobilize conversations within African and African American Studies so as to restore understanding of Creole cultures, African Descents, the Black Pacific, and Afro-Arabic communities in the study of Global Asias? - What research methods might transcend postcolonial frameworks and existing categories (e.g. Asian Americans, South Asian diaspora, etc.) to express more fluid positionalities and racial solidarities? What theories might open other dynamic categories such as the Indian Ocean and Africa-Asia interactions? If you would be interested in contributing a short essay response for this Convergence feature, please send an abstract (no more than 300 words) and a narrative bio (no more than 200 words) to vergeve...@psu.edu by Friday, July 31, 2020. Select applicants may be invited, based on their abstract submissions, to be part of a panel discussion on race and inclusivity in Asian Studies at the AAS Conference in 2021. If you would not be interested in being considered for inclusion on this panel, please note that in your materials. Editors: Emmanuel Bruno Jean-Francois (Penn State) Neelima Jeychandran (Penn State) If you would be interested in contributing a short essay response for this Convergence feature, please send an abstract (no more than 300 words) and a narrative bio (no more than 200 words) to vergeve...@psu.edu by Friday, July 31, 2020. Contact: Verge: Studies in Global Asias Email: vergeve...@psu.edu Web: https://sites.psu.edu/vergeglobalasias/files/2020/07/AQ_PDF.pdf __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Interreligious Dialogue
__ Call for Papers Theme: Interreligious Dialogue Type: 2020 International eConference Institution: Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR) Location: Online Date: 4.–6.12.2020 Deadline: 15.9.2020 __ The Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR) is hosting the 2020 International eConference on Interreligious Dialogue, which will bring together religion scholars, specialists, and practitioners of different faith traditions (from all over the world) to discuss the various complexities, problems, and solutions resulting from interreligious dialogue. The purpose of this multidisciplinary virtual conference is to advance the scientific, philosophical, theological, historical, and social understanding of how different religious belief systems have in the past and can in the future cooperate with each other to build a better world. This academic eConference will provide an interdisciplinary platform for scholars, educators, and practitioners to present creative and experimental methods of believing and behaving in order to foster mutual empathy and understanding among the different faith traditions. And because the conference is held online, scholars and students can attend from the comfort and safety of their own home at lower costs without having to worry about travel and lodging expenses. Call for Presenters Religious specialists and philosophers, as well as researchers, professors, graduate students, and other scholars are encouraged to submit abstract proposals (200-500 words) to present at this year’s international academic conference on interreligious dialogue. All research presentations will then be published in an upcoming supplemental issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal, Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry (SHERM). Presenters can also feature and promote their own publications during the conference for free! Abstract Proposal Deadline: September 15th, 2020 Presentation Guidelines Presentations can take any number of forms, including hosting a discussion panel, interviewing a specialist, presenting a research paper, teaching a classroom lesson, or leading a workshop. Presenters can even video record their presentation outside of the event, rather than host a live session, and then have GCRR show that video recording to conference attendees. Regardless of the format, we ask that presenters adhere to the following stipulations: - Time length for lectures, paper presentations, and classroom lessons: between 20-45 minutes - Time length for discussion panels, interviews, and workshops: between 20-90 minutes - All presentations (except for pre-recorded presentations) will require at least a 30-minute Q&A session at the end for attendees to engage the presenter - Presenters must be members of the GCRR Academic Society To submit your proposal, go to: https://www.gcrr.org/submit-proposals Contact: Darren M. Slade, PhD Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR) Email: dsl...@gcrr.org Web: https://www.gcrr.org/2020interreligiousdialogue __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Beyond Borders and Belonging
__ Call for Publications Theme: Beyond Borders and Belonging Subtitle: Reconceptualizing Legality, Mobility, and Inclusion in Global Context Publication: Journal to be announced Date: Special Issue Deadline: 27.7.2020 __ Description: For more than three decades, scholars across the social sciences have examined how the categories of exclusion encoded in state immigration laws shape im/migrant life. A robust body of literature examines the impact of illegality (ie. undocumented/unauthorized status) and liminal legality (ie. temporary statuses like guestworker visas) on im/migrant populations, and in turn, how immigrants and their families cope with, resist, negotiate, and even reshape the legal parameters that constrain their lives. In contrast, im/migration studies scholarship has placed relatively little focus on the forms of legal inclusion created by states. This special issue proposes to bring together innovative articles focused on underexplored populations including transnational and transborder citizens and “full” legal immigrants (ie. “lawful permanent resident” in the U.S., “carte de resident” in France, “visa de residencia permanente” in Mexico, etc.). Especially encouraged are contributions centered on the attainment of legality/citizenship as a form of strategic mobility (ie. socioeconomic, spatial, etc.), the meaning or reconceptualization of legality and citizenship across borders and in transnational contexts, and the relationship between legal inclusion and subjectivity among im/migrants and citizens. Questions of particular interest include: - What are the different forms of “full” legal status in international context? What are the pathways to legal inclusion and how do these distinct pathways shape im/migrant incorporation, identity, and belonging? - How do (im)migrants with legal status and/or citizens conceive of and negotiate legal inclusion in contexts of transnational/global mobility? How does legal inclusion influence identity, membership, and belonging? - How do legalities/legal statuses translate across borders? How does “legal” or “authorized” mobility across borders and boundaries intersect with notions of morality and belonging? - How does geographic mobility shape the rights and benefits of legal inclusion and/or citizenship? - What impact does legality have on the rights and wellbeing of im/migrant and transnationally mobile citizens? What protections does it afford and what vulnerabilities remain? (How) does legal status intersect with other identities (ie. race, class, gender), to magnify, transform, or mitigate intersecting forms of vulnerability? Taken together, the articles in this special issue will contribute to a more complete theorization and reconceptualization of im/migrant il/legality and chart an agenda for more robust exploration of legality in im/migration studies. Submissions: We are seeking 3-5 additional contributors to submit original pieces for this special issue. We plan to submit the selected contributions for consideration for publication in a special issue. Depending on the final list of selected authors, contributions may be requested as full article-length pieces (ie. 9-10,000 words) or as shorter pieces (5,000 words). We welcome contributions from scholars from all disciplines whose articles focus on the social, cultural, political, and historical dimensions of immigrant legality/legal inclusion. While we welcome a variety of methodological approaches, we prefer perspectives on im/migrant life that utilize ethnographic, in-depth, conceptual, interpretive, or theoretical approaches. Articles may address populations with legal im/migrant or citizenship status in any global context (including economic and forced migration, and domestic/internal migrations as well as international migrations). We are particularly interested in contributors writing about non-U.S./Mexico migration contexts. To be considered for the proposal for the special issue, please submit a 250-word (max) abstract with your name, current affiliation and title, and contact information by Monday, July 27th, to the editors at: e...@ucla.edu and jennifr.a.c...@gmail.com, with the following subject line: “Legality SI Abstract: [LAST NAME].” Participating contributors will be selected and notified by August 5th. In your email, please indicate the current status of the paper (ie. if it has been outlined or drafted). Please also indicate your primary discipline and methodological approach in either your abstract or email. Editors: Jennifer A. Cook, Southern Methodist University jennifr.a.c...@gmail.com Estefanía Castañeda Pérez, University of California, Los Angeles e...@ucla.edu Website: https://www.jennifercookanthropology.com/cfp-beyond-borders-and-belonging.html __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphi
InterPhil: CFP: Rethinking Humanities and its Entanglements
__ Call for Papers Theme: Rethinking Humanities and its Entanglements Type: International Web-Conference Institution: Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Amity University Kolkata Location: Online Date: 5.–7.8.2020 Deadline: 19.7.2020 __ The thinking of humanities has always been haunted by questions concerning its efficacy and specificity. The ambiguous constitution of science, as a discipline absolutely separate from the thinking of humanities, has already been challenged since many generations. The central focus, in such questioning, has been the common tendency to problematize and expose the epistemological politics at work, in the shaping of truth, through disciplinary preferences. With the passage of time, the ‘bio’ and ‘techno’-political concerns shaping the question of intelligibility, has drawn more critical attention, forcing one to rethink the anthropocentric understanding of epistemological efficacies. Thus, nonhuman spaces, machinic becomings, cyborgs, and questions of species-memory started reminding not only the limits of thinking epistemological specificities but also the urgency for newer conceptual interventions. The recent turns like posthumanism and new-materialisms (among others), though have attempted to critique the universalism of the ‘global’ humanist/humanities subject, yet such search of alterity too had been characterized by many internal contradictions. Thus, though Colebroke’s assertion on the necessity of turning towards a ‘posthuman humanities’ remain operative as such continuous necessity of searching for alterity, yet as an act any attempt at turning for ‘alterity’ remain always contingent. New-materialisms, for example, has therefore emphasized much on the concepts of ‘entanglement’ and refractive reading to emphasize on the irreducible interstices shaping our epistemological understandings always in partial perspectives. As such, while one may look for an exploration of an assimilatory (and not exclusionary) disciplinary approach gesturing towards what Spivak calls the condition of ‘planetarity’, the question that continues to haunt us is how to do that? The recent pandemic has reminded again of such limits and the unavoidable condition of mutual dependence as part of species chain, instead of holding on to the privileged onto-theological status of ‘mankind’. The urgency of understanding the ‘self’ from an-other’s perspective (to use Spivak’s phrase from The Death of a Discipline) has acquired more immediate and ambiguous non/positionalities, since the marginal nonhuman other has now emerged in the form an invisible microbiological species threatening the very existence of the most powerful and most visible species. At this juncture, can one continue to hold on to the anthropocentric ideas of humanities or can the disciplinary boundaries be maintained exactly without any threat of disruption? Questions of bio/techno-politics, identity construction and intelligibility had always been inextricably linked with the question of thinking humanities, the urgency now is to rethink those entanglements again, as we continue to witness the slow movements of (trans)disciplinary paradigm shifts. To explore such concerns and rethink the very ‘idea’ of what the doing of humanities stands for in such shifting times, some of the areas the conference proposes to engage with (however not limited to) are as follows: - Rethinking humanities, science and interdisciplinarity - Postcoloniality and the question of decolonial - Aesthetic Education, Globalization and the Question of Ethics - Subjectivity, Performance and Identity - Labour, Capital and Value - Gender, Desire, and Liminality - Anthropocene and posthuman philosophy - Environmental humanities and sustainable development - Digital humanities and technopolitics - Micropolitics of the Social If someone’s interest lies in literary studies, humanities, social sciences or if someone belongs to any discipline but interested in exploring the disciplinary entanglements, this conference aims at providing a platform to explore the thinking of disciplines in newer and more critical ways. The conference thus promises to provide everyone with not simply a platform where one can share their ideas with the academic experts but also one where one can engage with, inter-act and learn from some of the most celebrated academic names who had been contributing world-wide with their works for many years. Interested scholars are therefore requested to submit their proposals/abstracts (maximum 500 words) with name, institutional affiliation and contact address at aukengl...@gmail.com by July 19, 2020. Registration link: https://forms.gle/yxTjkVUCdVZEm8an9 Proceedings: Selected papers of outstanding quality will go through blind peer-review process and will be considered for publication in internationally reputed indexed journals. Registrat
InterPhil: PUB: Race. Racism. Anti-Racism
__ Call for Publications Theme: Race. Racism. Anti-Racism Publication: The Thinker. A Pan-African Quarterly for Thought Leaders Date: Special Issue Deadline: 15.9.2020 __ We currently have an open Call for Papers on the topics of 'Race. Racism. Anti-Racism'. Submissions are due 15 September 2020. Detailed guidelines for submissions can be found on our website: https://thethinker.co.za/contributors/ Any enquiries can be directed via email to the Editor, Ronit Frenkel: thethin...@uj.ac.za Over the last decade, The Thinker has gained a reputation as a journal that explores Pan-African issues across fields and times. Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. We welcome Africa-centred articles from diverse perspectives, in order to enrich both knowledge of the continent and of issues impacting the continent. Contact: Ronit Frenkel, Editor The Thinker Department of English University of Johannesburg Email: thethin...@uj.ac.za Web: https://thethinker.co.za __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Land Back: Indigenous Landscapes of Resurgence and Freedom
__ Call for Papers Theme: Land Back Subtitle: Indigenous Landscapes of Resurgence and Freedom Type: 2021 Symposium Institution: Dumbarton Oaks Location: Washington, DC (USA) Date: 30.4.–1.5.2021 Deadline: 1.8.2020 __ Relations to land are a fundamental component of Indigenous worldviews, politics, and identity. The violent disruption of land relations is a defining feature of colonialism and imperialism; colonial governments have territorialized Indigenous lands and bodies and undermined Indigenous political authority through gendered and racialized hierarchies of difference. Consequently, Indigenous resistance and visions for justice and liberation are bound up with land and land-body relationships that challenge colonial power. “Land back” has become a slogan for Indigenous land protectors. Relations to land are foundational to political transformations envisioned and mobilized through Indigenous resurgence praxes. In this symposium, we aim to highlight the many ways Indigenous peoples understand and practice land relations for political resurgence and freedom across the Americas, by refusing colonial territorializations of Indigenous land and life-making practices. Our intention is to place Indigenous practices of freedom within the particularities of Indigenous place-based laws, cosmologies, and diplomacies, while also taking a hemispheric approach to understanding how Indigeneity is shaped across colonial borders. We seek papers from both emerging and established scholars, artists, community organizers, and design and planning practitioners that highlight how Indigenous peoples are reconceptualizing land relations to renew Indigenous environmental knowledge. We welcome contributions focused on contemporary engagements with land as well as papers that foreground the historical conditions that inform resistance and resurgence today. We are particularly interested in papers working at the intersection of Indigenous studies and the fields associated with landscape studies, including geography, political ecology, landscape architecture, planning, art history, and archaeology. We invite contributions that center Indigenous resistance and resurgence across various topics: - Indigenous law and ecological knowledge, for instance as expressed through concepts such as sumak kawsay or mino-bimaadiziwin, and their relation to environmental justice - Approaches to landscape architecture, planning, or environmental design that foreground Indigenous knowledge or ecological practices, with potential focus on participatory design practice, community building through design, environmental justice, foodways, and climate change - Indigenous conceptualizations of gender and sexuality and relationships between land/water/bodies, or that center Indigenous women and queer, Two-Spirit, and trans bodies as political orders to explore how Indigenous landscape practices are connected to gender variance, queerness, and sex sovereignty, or how the erotic encourages decolonial resistance and futures - Collective struggles for land and space and shared visions of liberation and freedom activated by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) practices of resistance, abolition, resurgence, and freedom Submission Requirements - Submit a 500-word abstract and curriculum vitae as a single PDF to landsc...@doaks.org by August 1, 2020. Please use the file-naming convention: Last Name_CFP 2021 Symposium. Put “CFP 2021 Symposium” in the subject line. - Submissions by more than one author are welcome, but travel reimbursement and accommodations can only be offered to the principal author. - Invited speakers will be asked to commit to their participation in the GLS 2021 symposium and should plan to attend April 30–May 1, 2021. Symposiarchs: Michelle Daigle and Heather Dorries, faculty in the Department of Geography & Planning and Centre for Indigenous Studies, University of Toronto Website of the Symposium: https://www.doaks.org/research/garden-landscape/scholarly-activities/land-back Contact: Thaïsa Way, Program Director Garden & Landscape Studies Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1703 32nd Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 USA Tel: +1 202 3396461 Email: landsc...@doaks.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Culture, Society and Development in Nigeria
__ Call for Publications Theme: Culture, Society and Development in Nigeria Subtitle: Issues, Challenges and Prospects Publication: Book Project Deadline: 25.9.2020 __ Concept of the Book Project Studies have shown that culture is vital to nation building. An understanding or the knowledge of one’s culture is really the basis from which development springs. No development can occur without an acknowledgement of the society’s cultural values and heritage. Moreso, no meaningful development can ever take place without having positive attitude towards one’s cultural heritage. However, in the colonial era and following the attainment of independence, this vital aspect of our heritage has been subsumed by westernization, civilisation and modernisation thereby rendering African culture and pride as mere cosmetics and window dressing. It is quite disturbing that with all her rich and diverse culture, histories, traditional technology, knowledge as well as natural resources, Nigeria is yet to be among the top ten (10) developed nations of the world. Indeed, in her quest for development and rapid transformation after independence some aspects of Nigeria’s cultural heritage and values have been neglected or relegated to the background. It is against this backdrop that this book aims at establishing the relationship between culture and development in Nigeria. The book will look at utilization of culture as genuine mechanism for identity, progress and development in Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. The book seeks to further address the relevance of history and culture through vigorous intellectual interventions and interrogation of the existing cultural order. In spite of the plethora of literature on the different aspects of culture in Nigeria, a good number of them glossed over cultural dynamisms in modern Nigeria or fail to address the role of history and traditions in societal development. Others even misconstrued culture with fetishism and diabolism. The memory of the griots are receding just as their ranks are depleting and since the younger generations have shown little or no interest in preserving the existing tradition and culture, it has become imperative to document available evidences before they are buried deep with time and development. Culture influences the way one views problems or challenges of the society, the manner of doing things and the solutions to those challenges. Every societal problem has its own unique solution, which is enshrined in cultural heritage. For example, in Yorubaland, herbs and local concoctions are regarded as amazingly effective for the treatment of any kind of sickness, ailment, calamity, epidemics and even pandemics. In addition, barrenness, mental disorder, epilepsy and other serious sicknesses that have defied orthodox medicine are better treated in traditional ways. Evidence abounds that most of the developed nations of the world are those that appreciate, preserve, protect and promote their cultural heritage. This book attempts to bridge the missing links between culture and nation-building in Nigeria that early historians have neglected. It will discuss the factors that contribute to a fascinating understanding of culture in Nigeria; analyse the nature of cultural values; examine the role of culture in contemporary Nigeria; and assess the nature of relationship between cultural values and modernisation. Contributors are expected to use diligent collection and analysis of oral and ethnographic data. The sub-themes will explore various aspects of Nigerian culture over time and their implications for the development of contemporary Nigeria. The sub-themes of the book project include but are not limited to the following: - Theoretical, Methodological and Conceptual Issues - Culture, civilisation and development - Culture, science, and technological development - Culture and gender studies - Culture, law, and legal system - Culture and Security - Culture and economic development - Culture and politics - Culture, environment, and climate change - Culture, migration, and settlement patterns - Culture, religion, and festivals - Culture and Diaspora - Culture and tourism - Culture, social lifestyle, fashion, music, entertainment, and drama - Culture and conflict resolution in contemporary Nigeria - Culture, health, education, and other infrastructural development - Cultural diplomacy - Digitalisation of Nigerian art and craft, culture, and monuments Note: Contributors are at the liberty to structure their topics within the context of the themes, sub-themes or create related themes and sub-themes within the context of the book. Due to the important nature of culture to nation building and the topics involved the editors wish to produce the book in two (2) volumes. Guidelines and Important Information Each potential contributor should submit an abstract of betw
InterPhil: CFP: Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World
__ Call for Papers Theme: Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World Subtitle: 1945-Today Type: Two-Day Symposium Institution: Aarhus University Location: Aarhus (Denmark) Date: 10.–11.6.2021 Deadline: 31.8.2020 __ This two-day symposium is designed to investigate the global intellectual history of inequality. It will do so through a double global lens: How have intellectuals from around the world thought about inequality in the world? The aim of the symposium is to contribute with a new transnational intellectual history of inequality in different geographical and cultural contexts. The symposium will investigate links, differences and similarities between different intellectual traditions, as well as the circulation of inequality concepts and knowledge across countries. It aspires to facilitate a unique transcultural and multi-linguistic knowledge about inequality concepts, contributing to the fields of global conceptual and intellectual history. The symposium will aim at a special journal issue on the global intellectual history of inequality, exploring relationships between geographical anchoring (place) and thinking on inequality in history. We are delighted that the journal Global Intellectual History has kindly agreed to be the host of this special issue. Critics of global intellectual history have rightfully pointed out that few connections are actually truly global (planetary), but can much more adequately be described as transnational or transcultural (or ‘transcolonial’ or ‘transimperial’) connections. Taking this criticism into account, we are interested both in learning more about the intellectual histories of inequality in non-western countries, including in non-English, indigenous languages. Secondly, we are interested in learning more about intellectual and conceptual histories of transnational connections between various parts of the world, such as North-South and South-South connections and intellectual biographies of key thinkers on inequality whose histories are linked to several countries and continents. How did intellectuals across the globe address inequalities in a post-world war II age of ‘development’, promises of universal human rights, new data on inequalities, and of the crucial historical dynamics of the Cold War and decolonization? Background Global inequality is one of the major challenges facing the world community. In 2015, the United Nations adopted a new set of world goals, including bringing down inequality (both within and between nations). Studies of ‘global inequality’ have surged in the social sciences and the humanities in the last couple of decades. More broadly, inequality is more than just the simple negation of equality. Dating back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and up until Thomas Piketty among others, writings on inequality have constituted a separate field of inquiry. In intellectual history, studies on inequality have tended to focus on canonical works or a nation state setting. We do not yet have a global intellectual history of (global) inequality. There is a genuine need for a transnational and transcontinental perspective which not only compares different geographical spaces, but also studies the connectivity in important exchanges of ideas and concepts within the South (as in the history of the Non-Aligned Movement), and between North and South. Themes: Space, Temporality, Legitimization We are especially interested in contributions on the intellectual histories of inequality from ‘non-Western’ areas, cultures and languages, and in contributions that map out transnational and transcultural connections in the intellectual histories of inequality. The latter could be — but is not limited to — for example: - South-North or South-South connections - Intellectual biographies of (émigré) scholars - International organizations as a transnational intellectual ‘inequality space’ - Knowledge asymmetries between Northern and Southern concepts of inequality - Geographical experiences shaping the thoughts of key development economists or other prominent intellectuals on inequality - How particular traditions of thinking on inequality — from dependency theory to modernization theory, from neoclassical trade theory to world systems theory — crossed continents and borders - The role of indigenous concepts and political and natural languages on inequality - Lesser known (marginal, women, indigenous) voices in the global intellectual history of inequality - While this symposium is mainly devoted to the era from 1945 until the present day, we very much welcome proposals which go further back in history Inequality is a multidimensional phenomenon, and many different terminologies exist, distinguishing between, for example, national, international and global inequality; inequalities of class, gender and race/ethnicity; horizontal vs.
InterPhil: CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowships on Migration
__ Call for Applications Theme: Migration Type: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities Institution: Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania Location: Philadelphia, PA (USA) Date: 2021–2022 Deadline: 15.10.2020 __ Five Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities are available for the 2021-2022 academic year on the general topic of Migration. The Wolf Humanities Center's Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to junior scholars in the humanities who are no more than five years out of their doctorate. Preference will be given to candidates not yet in tenure track positions, whose proposals are interdisciplinary, who have not previously enjoyed use of the resources of the University of Pennsylvania, and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to Penn's intellectual life. The programs of the Wolf Humanities Center are conceived through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. For the 2021-2022 academic year, our topic will be Migration. The Fellowship carries a stipend of $59,300 plus a $3000 research fund and single-coverage health insurance (fellows are responsible for coverage for any dependents). Fellows teach one undergraduate course in addition to conducting their research. We are keen to support projects that contribute to the dismantling of racism as it exists within the humanities. We know that such efforts can take an infinite variety of forms, and we encourage you to include in the course of your application an explanation of how your scholarship contributes to this effort if it does. 2021-2022 Topic: Migration Application Deadline: October 15, 2020 - The PhD (and its international equivalent, such as the DPhil) is the only eligible terminal degree, and applicants must be humanists or those in such allied fields as anthropology or history of science. Ineligible categories include an MFA or any other doctorate such as EdD, social scientists, scholars in educational curriculum building, and performing artists (note: scholars of performance are eligible). - Scholars who received or will receive their PhD between December 1, 2015 and December 1, 2020 are eligible to apply. You must have your degree in hand, or have passed your defense, no later than December 1, 2020 to be eligible. Your application will not be considered unless this condition is met (i.e., you are ineligible to apply if you will defend or otherwise submit your dissertation anytime in 2021). You are eligible to apply if you pass your defense by December 1, 2020, but will not graduate until May 2020. - Scholars are required to spend the year (August–May) in residence at Penn. - During their year in residence, Fellows pursue their proposed research, are required to teach one course during the year, and must also participate in the Center's weekly Mellon Research Seminar (Tuesdays, 12:00–1:50), presenting their research at one of those seminars. - The fellowship is open to all scholars, national and international, who meet eligibility requirements. Visa eligibility: International scholars outside of North America are appointed under a J-1 visa (Research Scholar status). Scholars seeking to hold an H-1B visa during the fellowship year at Penn are ineligible (no exceptions can be made). The Wolf Humanities Center reserves the right to cancel awards if the recipient is unable to meet this condition. Applicants should consult the international programs office at their current university to confirm eligibility before applying for this fellowship. If awarded a fellowship, international scholars are required to be in residence August 1, 2021–May 31, 2022. More information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/andrew-w-mellon-postdoctoral-fellowship-humanities __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
