InterPhil: JOB: Assistant Professor in Asian Philosophy
__ Job Announcement Type: Assistant Professor in Asian Philosophy Institution: Underwood International College (UIC), Yonsei University Location: Songdo (Korea) Date: from March 2021 Deadline: 14.9.2020 __ Underwood International College (UIC) of Yonsei University invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the UIC Common Curriculum at the Yonsei International Campus in Songdo, located within the greater Seoul metropolitan region. Area of specialization is Asian philosophy, with a focus on East Asia. An ability and willingness to teach Critical Reasoning, as well as a course on 'Eastern Civilization', is required. Candidates should have a firm commitment to undergraduate liberal arts education. Teaching responsibilities are 6 credit-hours (2 classes) per semester. The starting date is March 1, 2021. As part of Yonsei University’s continuing effort to increase faculty diversity, we are only accepting applications from non-Korean citizens. Yonsei University’s Underwood International College is a highly selective program at South Korea’s most prestigious private university, and combines the intimate atmosphere and low student-faculty ratio of a liberal arts college with the resources of a major research university. All instruction is in English, and the student body represents over 70 different countries. We offer competitive compensation to all employees commensurate with their experience. Our benefit package includes: an excellent retirement plan, reimbursement for moving expenses, housing support for up to three years and more. Interested applicants should apply online at: http://uic.yonsei.ac.kr/professorship/application.asp and submit by mail hard copies of the required documents listed in the job announcement on this website by Sept 14, 2020. Prospective applicants are encouraged to look at our website at: http://uic.yonsei.ac.kr Short-listed candidates will be asked to schedule a video-conferencing interview. For further questions about the position, please contact Prof. Natalja Deng: nataljad...@yonsei.ac.kr __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Ethical Discourses: East and West
__ Call for Papers Theme: Ethical Discourses Subtitle: East and West Type: Eastern Division Meeting Institution: American Philosophical Association Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion Location: New York, NY (USA) Date: 4.–8.1.2021 Deadline: 20.6.2020 __ From Chandana Chakrabarti Subtopics: Deontological Ethics, Consequentialism, Divine Command Theory, Problem of Evil, Fatalism and Destiny, Justice and Compassionate God, Motivation and obligation, Virtue Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Karma, Fate and Justice, Freedom of Will and Karma Theory, Ethics and Society, Morality and Politics, Ethical Issues in a Pandemic, Morality and Politics, Dharma Ethics, Nyaya Ethics, Ethics of Non-Violence, Moral Dilemma in Great Epics, Self Defense and Just War, Conflict Resolution through dialogue, etc. The list is suggestive and not exhaustive. Please send your abstract to: chandanac...@gmail.com Abstract (150 words) due date: June 20, 2020 Final papers may be submitted for editorial review for publication in the Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion (If the theme of the paper deals with topics relevant to the Journal). The Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion organizes national and international conferences in USA and overseas. Presenters may join those conferences if they like to do that. Contact: Chandana Chakrabarti Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion 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/eastern __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Freedom and Authenticity
__ Call for Papers Theme: Freedom and Authenticity Type: 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: InMind Support Location: Online Date: 9.–10.7.2020 Deadline: 25.6.2020 __ Since the postmodern movements such as Pop and hyperrealist art or literary genres ̶ New Journalism and creative non-fiction questioned the status of the real and the imitated, the concept of authenticity has called for a constant reevaluation. Walter Benjamin’s 1935 assumption that “the presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity” has been called into question with the corporate and advertising practice continually rebranding the concept of authenticity to suit mass consumers’ needs. Why is it then that within the contemporary culture, with modes of expressions such as irony, cynicism and sarcasm strongly present, the notions of authenticity and freedom are still heavily linked with spiritual awakening and happiness? To what extent do authenticity, individuality and freedom function as mere commercial products and advertising slogans? Have they over time become shallow romantic ideals or do they still hold the substance to be discovered and implemented into one’s line of thinking and living? What makes freedom and authenticity creatively attractive to artists, thinkers and spiritual teachers? Can authenticity be defined, measured, conceptualized in the contemporary context of relativism? What are the main dynamics between freedom and authenticity? During the conference, we strive to discuss the contemporary status of authenticity and freedom, their interrelationship and their association with concepts such as sincerity, individuality, vulnerability, creativity and many others. We invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: art, film studies, literature, theatre studies, media studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, politics, cognitive 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. I. Sociology, Anthropology, History - Global and local authenticity - Quest for authenticity in the context of social and historical crisis - Freedom and coronavirus pandemic II. Psychology and Psychiatry - Authenticity and self-growth - Authenticity and emotional armory – perfectionism, numbing, etc. - Authenticity and shame - Authenticity and vulnerability - Authenticity and self-image - Authenticity and individuality: self-absorption versus self-confrontation III. Literature, Film, Theatre, Visual Arts - Realism, hyperrealism, naturalism - Authenticity and intertextuality: concepts such as original artwork, reproduction, printed representation, copy, etc. - Ghostwriting - Authenticity and autofiction - Authenticity and creativity - Authenticity and adaptation - Online theatre performances during COVID-19 IV. Media Studies - Fake news - Social media marketing and authenticity - Freedom of speech V. Philosophy and Worldviews - Freedom and authenticity as philosophical concepts - Authenticity and ethics - Authenticity and freedom as the highest humanistic values - Existential, postmodern and contemporary view on authenticity Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations, together with a short biographical note by 25 June 2020 to: conferencefree...@gmail.com Notification of acceptance will be sent by by 28 June 2020. The conference language is English. Due to COVID-19 this year's edition of Freedom and Authenticity Conference will be held virtually. Contact: InMind Support, Conference Office Email: conferencefree...@gmail.com Web: http://www.freedom-conference.pl __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Africa in Search of Democracy
__ Call for Publications Theme: Africa in Search of Democracy Subtitle: Sub-Saharan and North African Perspectives Publication: Edited Volume Deadline: 1.7.2020 __ In the analysis of some African thinkers, Africa’s problems with democracy can be traceable to the form or type of democracy that it inherited from the colonial powers after independence, and that a more authentic and suitable form of democracy for Africa is one that is both rooted in the indigenous political practices of pre-colonial African societies and fashioned according to African political values and ideals. These African thinkers (Wiredu 2001, 2011; Wamala 2004; Teffo 2004; Ajei 2016) have argued against liberal democracy and multi-party democratic systems as practiced in Africa and have proposed instead consensual democracy as the best form of governance for African states. These proponents of consensual democracy base their arguments partly on the indigenous nature of this form of governance in traditional African societies. Consensual democracy is characterized as a political system in which there are no identified political parties and decisions are primarily reached by consensus. The viability of consensual democracy for contemporary African societies has been debated extensively in the literature (Eze 2000; Ani 2014, 2019; Matolino 2016, 2018; Ani & Etiyiebo 2020). The indigenous African societies often cited for practicing consensual democracy include the governance systems of the Akans of Ghana, the Bugandans of Uganda and the Zulu of South Africa. Hence, the proposal for consensual democracy and the subsequent discussions it has generated has centred primarily on Sub-Saharan African societies. There has not been an engagement with, and conversations on, the possibility of democracy as consensus for North African societies. In the aftermath of the ‘Arab spring’, North African societies are still in search not only for a model of democratization but also a model of democratic consolidation. Similarly, North African conceptions and perspectives on democracy have not been brought to the fore for the acceptance of Sub-Saharan societies. The lack of conversations between North and Sub-Saharan African perspectives on a democracy for all Africa, and the silence on extending the project of consensual democracy to all African societies, is partly due to the supposed differences between the cultures and political structures of North and Sub-Saharan societies. To address this conversational deficit, this edited volume seeks to engage scholarly discussions on whether there can be a democratic model that is distinctively of African origin, by African people, and for the African continent as a whole. It seeks to bridge the conversational gap between North and Sub-Sahara Africa by inquiring among others: - Is democracy by consensus a viable and effective democratic model for North African societies? That is, could consensual democracy be extended beyond Sub-Saharan African societies to all African societies? - Could North African perspectives on democracy provide a feasible alternative to consensual democracy for Sub-Saharan African states? - Should Africa look to its indigenous socio-political institutions and practices in carving a system of democracy for its future? - Are there political ideas and practices common to both Sub-Saharan and North African societies that are essential for democratic theorizing and consolidation in Africa? - Is the search for a continental form of democracy merely an illusion considering Africa’s diverse histories, identities, political values, and socio-economic practices? These questions are meant to stimulate discussions on a continental search for a viable and suitable form of democracy from Sub-Saharan and North African perspectives. Contributors to the volume include: Bernard Matolino, University of Kwazulu-Natal Helen Lauer, University of Dar es Salaam Emmanuel Ani, University of Ghana Martin Ajei, University of Ghana Hisham Wahby, The American University in Cairo Mark Deets, The American University in Cairo Amr Adly, The American University in Cairo Amal Hamada, Cairo University Call for Abstracts: Contributors are invited to submit abstracts (max: 500 words) of papers that either engages with the issues above or that are relevant to the theme of the volume by 1st July 2020 to: rkw...@ug.edu.gh and rkw...@aucegypt.edu Contributors whose abstracts are accepted will be encouraged to submit full papers by 31st October 2020 for the review process. Further Inquiries can be directed to: Richmond Kwesi, PhD Research Fellow, The American University in Cairo Lecturer, University of Ghana Email: rkw...@ug.edu.gh __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive:
InterPhil: CFP: Migration, Force and Violence
__ Call for Papers Theme: Migration, Force and Violence Type: International Workshop Institution: University of Pompeu Fabra Location: Barcelona (Spain) Date: 20.–21.5.2021 Deadline: 1.9.2020 __ Migration ethics is a fast emerging field within political philosophy. Within the last decade, in particular, a number of valuable books and articles have been written assessing the strength of arguments for and against immigration restrictions. Nevertheless, the discussion has been frequently characterized by a degree of idealization. Philosophers have asked whether open borders would be required in an ideal world and whether restrictions are justified in principle. In this workshop, we aim to strip away these idealizations and consider the ethics of migration in light of some stark realities. Principal among them: the fact that migration is frequently marked by force and violence. Many migrants are forced to leave their home countries due to violence or other hardships. In transit, they may be prey to criminals and armed groups. At borders, migrants are subjected to further force and violence as states use razor wire, guards, dogs, tear gas and sometimes live rounds to keep them out. To evade these measures, migrants will often venture out into seas, deserts and other dangerous terrain. The result is that thousands of migrants die every year trying to cross borders. In this context, a number of important questions arise including: - Are border restrictions worth their human costs in terms of suffering and loss of life? - What is forced migration? What is voluntary migration? - When people are forced to leave, do they have a right to return? - Who is responsible for migrant deaths? - What can be done to keep migrants safe? - Do states have a duty to rescue migrants imperilled at their borders? - Which border control measures, if any, can be justified? - What is the ethical status of third country agreements such as those between the EU and Libya or the US and Mexico? - Is there anything to be learnt from the study of force and violence in other fields, such as just war theory, that could prove relevant to migration? We invite submissions on these or any other question related to the theme. Please send a 300-500 word abstract as an anonymised pdf with the email subject line "Submission" to: migrationeth...@gmail.com Submission deadline: September 1, 2020. Invited Speakers: Paul Bou-Habib, Essex University Sarah Fine, King's College London Helen Frowe, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace Mollie Gerver, Essex University Adam Hosein, Northeastern University Victor Tadros, Warwick University Have questions? Please email: migrationeth...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Xenophobia, Nativism and Pan-Africanism in 21st Century Africa
__ Call for Publications Theme: Xenophobia, Nativism and Pan-Africanism in 21st Century Africa Publication: Edited Book Deadline: 30.6.2020 __ Editors: Sabella Abidde and Emmanuel Matambo The purpose of this project is to examine the mounting incidence of xenophobia and nativism across the African continent. Second, it seeks to examine how invidious and self-immolating xenophobia and nativism negate the noble intent of Pan-Africanism. Finally, it aims to examine the implications of the resentments, the physical and mental attacks, and the incessant killings on the psyche, solidarity, and development of the Black World. According to Michael W. Williams, Pan-Africanism is the cooperative movement among peoples of African origin to unite their efforts in the struggle to liberate Africa and its scattered and suffering people; to liberate them from the oppression and exploitation associated with Western hegemony and the international expansionism of the capitalist system. Xenophobia, on the other hand, is the loathing or fear of foreigners with a violent component in the form of periodic attacks and extrajudicial killings committed mostly by native-born citizens. Nativism is the policy and or laws designed to protect the interests of native-born citizens or established residents. The project intends to argue that xenophobia and nativism negate the intent, aspiration, and spirit of Pan-Africanism as expressed by early proponents such as Edward Blyden, W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, George Padmore, Léopold Senghor, Jomo Kenyatta, Aimé Césaire, and Kwame Nkrumah. In South Africa, for instance, periodic violence against fellow Africans from within and outside of the southern African region is prompted by fears of African immigrants usurping the economic space of previously disadvantaged South Africans and flouting domestic laws of their host country. But isn’t criminality and illegal migration to be attended to by the government and its agencies? Other African countries have laws and legislations that target Others and outsiders who are mostly Africans. In these countries, there are immigration-restriction measures to thwart settlement or full participation in the economic, political, and social affairs of the country. One of the ironies of these measures is that non-Africans foreign nationals enjoy more civil liberties and human rights than Africans. In South Africa, when Africans are being killed and brutalized, the non-Africans have nothing to fear from the marauding assailants. This phenomenon has opened the narrative that what is often characterized as xenophobia in Africa is, in fact, “Afrophobia:” disdain for Africans by fellow Africans. From this backdrop, what are the prospects of Pan-Africanism in 21st century Africa? Do Africans still appreciate the need for Pan-Africanism? The scope of the issues to be addressed is expansive as the suggested list below shows. The 21st century is currently gripped in new international dynamics characterized by the rise of some powers of the developing world, the popularity of insular politics in the West, and immigration. For this reason, contributors are welcome to address the issue of xenophobia and nativism between Africans and non-African residing in the African continent. We encourage scholars, activists, and members of the Civil Society to submit chapters that address some of the issues we have raised or address some of the suggested topics that are listed below. Prospective contributors may also suggest and write on topics that are not listed if the said topic falls within the overall theme of this project: - Xenophobia and Emerging Theories - Nativism and Emerging Theories - The Early History of Xenophobia and Nativism in Africa - Pan-Africanism, Nativism, and Xenophobia - Domestic Legislations and Nativism - The Safety and Security of Citizens of Former Colonial Powers - The Chinese, Indian, Lebanese Communities - Xenophobia, Nativism, and Nationalism - Ubuntu, Pan-Africanism, and the Xenophobes - The Psychology and Psychosis of Xenophobes and Nativists - Xenophobia in South Africa, 2008-2020 - Explaining and analyzing Attacks Against Other Blacks - Nativism and Xenophobia in North Africa - Nativism and Xenophobia in West and Central Africa - The Role of the Media - The Politics of Race and Color in Southern Africa - Assimilation and Acculturation of Recent Immigrants in South Africa - How Relevant is Pan-Africanism in Twenty-first Century Africa? - The Human and Economic Cost of Xenophobia and Nativism - Xenophobia and the legacy of apartheid - Afrophobia: Paradigms and Narratives Submission Instructions: - Please submit a 300-350-word abstract plus a 150-250-word biography (About the Author) along with your official contact information by 30 June 2020 to sabi...@gmail.com and please Cc the co-editor at emata...@yahoo.com - You will be notified of
InterPhil: PUB: Glocalization and Everyday Life
__ Call for Publications Theme: Glocalization and Everyday Life Subtitle: Constraints and Incentives Publication: Glocalism. Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation Date: No. 2020, 3 (November 2020) Deadline: 30.9.2020 __ From Elia Zaru “Glocalism”, a peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. We welcome studies in any field, with or without comparative approach, that address both practical effects and theoretical import. The topic of this issue: Glocalization and Everyday Life: Constraints and Incentives Why are some foreign foods more easily found in one local culinary culture than another? How is it possible that a generalized sensitivity for the environment is being introduced in various religious cultures? What factors or assumptions (implicit or explicit) make something like the spread of the phenomenon of legal hybridization possible? What are the ever-changing features that allow for the adaptation of specific television formats to national viewers? In addition to their obvious banality, these examples indicate one of the most significant dimensions of glocalization as a place of the interaction for processes, objects, practices and discourses through which the local is continuously perceived, represented and modified within everyday life. In this issue of “Glocalism”, we will focus on the factors that feed this daily production of the local in order to understand what (in an alternative way and depending on various circumstances) facilitates, hinders, makes possible or prevents the forms of glocalization in the various spheres of social life. In particular, it may be interesting to reflect on these aspects using a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective in order to underline and analyze the psychological, symbolic and political dimensions of the glocalization process from different angles. Through a deep analysis of these complex and subtle dynamics it may also be possible to give more substance to the idea that glocalization – instead of being something impalpable – often regards very common and concrete aspects in our everyday life. Articles can be in any language and length chosen by the author (abstract and keywords in English). Deadline: September 30, 2020. This issue (2020, 3) is scheduled to appear at end-November 2020. Edited by: U. Dessì (Cardiff University) F. Sedda (University of Cagliari) All papers should be sent to: davide.cade...@unimi.it Journal website: https://glocalismjournal.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Summer School on Open Borders, Closed Borders
__ Call for Applications Theme: Open Borders, Closed Borders Subtitle: Europe, Toleration and Immigration Type: 11th Summer School in Political Philosophy and Public Policy Institution: Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, University of Minho Location: Braga (Portugal) Date: 6.–9.7.2020 Deadline: 23.6.2020 __ Description Immigration is a reality of life: people are born in a country and sometimes they decide - or are forced - to emigrate. In the modern era, we witnessed religiously motivated migration to the New Continent, and then economically motivated migration to “The Frontier”. If the question of how open or closed borders should be is not an entirely new one, it remains that the political context of the question has changed. The world today is divided into territories under the jurisdiction of different states, in a fragile balance, and the preferred destinations of emigrants are liberal democracies with a social state. Diplomats and statesmen often explain border control by resorting to the idea of state sovereignty – also forged in modern times. There is an ongoing debate between those who uphold more open borders and those who deem it justifiable to close them. This is now, however, no longer a theoretical debate but a reality in plain sight all over the world. A key reason for maintaining border controls is explained by the associative nature of liberal democracies: the right of self-determination, which authorizes citizens to accept some migrants and not others, because citizens have a say in the type of society they want to live in. Europe, however, that until recently celebrated the free movement of people, has closed many of its internal borders, and jealously maintains its external borders. There are reasons to think that, beyond the present situation, immigration may have an unprecedented impact in the future. This is a serious possibility that raises even more questions of public policies concerning how to face religious tolerance, even freedom of religion, and in general, the issues germane to the sharing of the burdens and benefits of life in common. Questions to Address The kind of questions that this Summer School wants to address are issues of international politics, or political philosophy from an ethical perspective. What role should nations play? What role and justification do borders have? How do we manage border conflicts without generating an escalation towards war? Should Western democracies encourage immigrants to join them? Should Europe try to keep them in their countries? What should Europeans do? Can some immigrants be accepted while refusing entry to others, or does everyone have a basic right to enter? What can be demanded of immigrants who arrived? Should they be expected to integrate or should we respect their differences? These issues are especially relevant today because in many countries voters place the issue very high on their priorities. States and Europe as a whole are making great efforts to prevent the entry of immigrants, making already dangerous travel more difficult, and sometimes even fatal. Despite this, many enter. Liberal democracies, which take pride in their record on human rights, sometimes end up violating people’s most basic rights. But almost nobody advocates the complete opening of borders, both for pragmatic reasons and for the need to respect for the right of peoples to determine their public life. The West has a long history of religious tolerance and freedom of religion, which can help us to think about the question. Format The course features four invited speakers, who will deliver one to three lectures each. We invite the participation of students in the majors of Philosophy, Politics, and International relations, Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, as well as established researchers to join us in the discussion and present their ongoing work on these topics or any related theme. Some online presentations from those who cannot travel are welcome. Abstract Submission The call for papers is now open. The abstracts should be submitted before June 23, 2020, with a maximum of 300 words and 4 keywords. Participation The participation fee for major students of the Universities of Minho, Warsaw and Notre Dame is 10 Euros (+5 if they require a copy of the proceedings). The participation fee for Ph.D. students and senior scholars is 100 Euros. Detailed information about registration and payment procedures can be found here: https://11thsummerschoolbraga.weebly.com/registration--fees.html The deadline for registration is June 30, 2020. Lectures: Acílio Estanqueiro Rocha, Universidade do Minho e Academia das Ciências Agnieskza Nogal, University of Warsaw J. A. Colen, Universidade do Minho Michael Zuckert, Notre Dame University Convenors: J. A. Colen, Páar Tamas For other queries, contact:
InterPhil: PRIZE: Award for dissertation in the field of human rights
__ Prize Competition Theme: Human Rights Type: Lynne Rienner Publishers Award for Best Dissertation Institution: Human Rights Section, International Studies Association Deadline: 31.7.2020 __ The purpose of this award is recognize the best dissertation in the field of human rights defended within two years of the award nomination deadline. Dissertations that ask timely and important questions and deploy innovative methods to answer those questions, as well as dissertations that engage directly with ongoing debates within the human rights field are particularly invited for consideration. Eligibility and Award Criteria Dissertations in the field of human rights that are successfully defended during the two-year period prior to the nomination deadline are eligible for nomination. (For example, for nominations received in June 2020, the dissertation must have been defended between July 2018 and June 2020.) Self-nominations are welcome but all nominations must be accompanied by a letter from a member of the dissertation committee, preferably the dissertation advisor. Prize The award is accompanied by $500 and a plaque. Selection Process All nominations, including dissertation files themselves, should be submitted by July 31st through a nomination form, available here: https://goo.gl/forms/Q6T9syZ7Gcdd9lyv2 Please do NOT send dissertations or nomination information directly to the committee members. For more information please see: https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Awards/HR-Best-Dissertation-Award __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Multicultural Citizenship 25 years later
__ Call for Papers Theme: Multicultural Citizenship 25 years later Type: International Conference Institution: Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne Location: Paris (France) Date: 19.–20.11.2020 Deadline: 30.6.2020 __ (Version française en bas) 25 years ago, Will Kymlicka published 'Multicultural Citizenship. A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights' (Oxford University Press, 1995). In his first book, 'Liberalism, Community and Culture,' Kymlicka had already argued that it was possible to overcome the liberal/communitarian divide by explaining how and why liberals ought to view cultural membership as an important good. In 'Multicultural Citizenship,' he developed this philosophical insight into a political theory justifying granting group-differentiated rights to the members of ethnocultural minority groups, arguing for the recognition of self-government rights for national minorities and fair terms of integration for polyethnic groups resulting from immigration. In addition to developing a framework to understand the different kinds of group-differentiated rights involved in the politics of multiculturalism, Kymlicka sought to better understand the foundations of liberalism, to clarify the relation between individual and collective rights, to explain how minority rights derive from autonomy-based and equality-based considerations, to conceptualize political representation for ethnocultural groups, to delineate the limits of toleration and reimagine the conditions of unity in culturally diverse societies. 'Multicultural Citizenship' has been widely discussed and translated. Two decades and a half later, after an important migration crisis in Europe and well over a decade of alleged backlash against multiculturalism, this conference aims at discussing the legacy and future of liberal multiculturalism. We are especially keen on receiving proposals addressing five areas of inquiry: 1. New multicultural challenges and alternatives to multiculturalism What are the new challenges faced by multicultural societies? In this new era of populism and nationalism, many question the viability of liberal multiculturalism. Is the social democratic model of the welfare state compatible with the presence of a large number of migrants and with the recognition of their rights? Can the functions of welfare state be devolved to national minorities seeking greater autonomy? In a liberal and diverse society, what place is left for the identity affirmation of national majorities? Given the importance of religious accommodation in claims of multicultural recognition, how should we understand the relation between multiculturalism and secularism? Over the recent years, certain models of citizenship have emerged as alternative responses to those challenges. How should we think of the fate of multiculturalism in wake of competing models such as civic integration and interculturalism? 2. Multiculturalism and nationalism Multiculturalism and nationalism are often pitted against one another. Multiculturalism is attacked by nationalists for undermining social cohesion, for requiring the obliteration of historical cultural majorities and dismantling the basis of national identity. One the other hand, multiculturalists often equate nationalism with xenophobia and bigotry and with the will to impose restrictive migration policies and assimilationist measures. However, it is noteworthy that Kymlicka embraces both a liberal form of nationalism and (also a liberal form of) multiculturalism. While he criticizes the blindness of liberals who are often reluctant to take stock of the pervasiveness of nation-building practices in all liberal democratic states, he does not embrace the idea that national identity can or should be abandoned or reformed to be purely civic and voided of references to language, culture and ethnicity. In that respect, in contrast with strong cosmopolitans, his position acknowledges the moral value of membership in national cultures. One can therefore view his liberal multiculturalism as a form of multicultural nationalism: while some ‘establishment’ of the majority’s culture is permissible and unavoidable, it must be compensated by a reciprocal support and recognition of minority cultures. Is this a vain attempt to square the circle? Can multiculturalism and nationalism be reconciled? Can multicultural nationalism offer remedies to the exclusive tendencies of civic universalism and illiberal ethnonationalism. 3. The International Diffusion of Multiculturalism With its emphasis on national minorities and immigrant groups, Kymlicka’s model of multiculturalism has often been criticized for being too closely tied to the Canadian context and for reflecting the ethnocultural makeup of that country. We are thus interested in proposals discussing the relevance (or inapplicability) of liberal multiculturalism to other
InterPhil: PUB: Health Rights: Individual, Collective and 'National'
__ Call for Publications Theme: Health Rights Subtitle: Individual, Collective and 'National' Publication: Bioethics Date: Special Issue Deadline: 1.9.2020 __ Recognition of rights to health or health care is increasingly common. International human rights law recognizes a right to health. Most world constitutions recognize rights to health care. Philosophical defenses of these and other socio-economic rights continue to gain traction. Yet even plausible theoretical defenses of these ‘health rights’ raise a classic question: How does one weigh individual rights against competing ‘collective’ rights and/or non-rights-based values? This question commonly arises in the health care setting where (i) states are often understood to hold the correlative duties to recognized health rights and (ii) national health care systems and policies can be useful means of fulfilling those duties, and yet (iii) providing the state with strong authority in the health care setting can undermine plausible collective rights, including collective rights to make health care decisions for the collective and/or use collective health care goods, and (iv) many existing legal regimes recognize these collective rights. The sub-issues are pressing in the health care setting since their resolution can have serious consequences in the health of human beings. Indeed, regardless of whether one recognizes collective rights, there will be conflicts between individual health rights and other broader collective goods, such as the values of subsidiary, diversity, national self-determination, and cultural protections. These goods could provide limits on individual health rights, if not grounds for collective rights, including national self-determination rights. Whether and how to weigh these competing claims has important implications for our understanding of rights and for practical questions about how to respond to rights claims in law and politics. This special issue seeks to resolve these tensions by examining the relationship between different health rights claims and its practical and theoretical implications. Topics that may be addressed by submissions include: - What should one do when individual rights to specific health care goods conflict with collective rights? - What about conflicts between individual rights and greater non-rights-based community values? - Do sub-state units like nations-within-nations possess collective health rights? If so, what makes these units special – either generally or in the health care setting – such that they possess health rights? - Can the good that makes them special outweigh individual goods? Individual rights? The force of individual rights? - What would these kinds of rights entail as a matter of political morality? Of law? - What would the implications of recognition be for the design of health care systems? - Do these issues impact how we resolve cases (e.g., Indigenous self-governance in health care, conflicts between the value of maximizing individual health outcomes and the value of traditional medicine)? The editors invite contributions from scholars in bioethics, philosophy, law, public policy, and other relevant areas to answer these and related questions. Consistent with Bioethics’ norms, we will, all-else-being-equal, prefer theoretical works with practical suggestions and practical works that engage theory. The editors welcome early discussion of brief proposals and/or abstracts by email to: michael.dasi...@mcgill.ca Manuscripts should be submitted to Bioethics online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/biot Please ensure that you select the manuscript type ‘Special Issue’and state that your contribution is for the “Health Rights” Special Issue when prompted. Submit through regular processes for Bioethics, paying attention to their normal standards for publication. Full details are also available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/14678519/BIOE%20-%20Health%20Rights%20CFP.pdf Journal website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678519 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Fascism and the Radical Right
__ Call for Papers Theme: Fascism and the Radical Right Subtitle: Comparison and Entanglements Type: 3rd Convention of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (ComFas) Institution: Central European University PU Location: Online Date: 25.–27.9.2020 Deadline: 31.5.2020 __ Ever since their emergence on the political scene, fascism and the radical right had an intricate tangled relationship, marked by close cooperation but also conflict. Yet, despite the ideological affinities and socio-political ties between fascist and radical right movements and parties, a majority of works in the field approach these phenomena in isolation, ignoring their multifaceted historical interactions. The ComFas Convention aims at stimulating synchronic and diachronic comparative perspectives on fascism and the radical right at the level of ideology and political practice in order to contribute to a better understanding of both phenomena. Participants are encouraged to reflect on the historical trajectory and political metamorphoses of these political phenomena, on their similarities and differences, and on their multiple interactions and entanglements. We invite comparative as well as single case-study contributions to the study of fascism and the radical right, coming from various social science disciplines including history, political science, sociology, international relations, anthropology, etc. Conference papers should preferably (but not exclusively) address the following topics: - History of fascism and the radical right from the 1920s to the present - Fascism and the contemporary populist radical right - Continuities and breaks between interwar and postwar fascisms - Populism in the radical right and Fascist ideology - Fascism, the radical right, and media representations - Fascism, the radical right and the internet / social media - Gender in fascist and radical right movements - Right Wing Political violence and Terrorism - Fascist and radical right transnational networks - Fascism, the radical right, and the history of emotions - Fascism and the radical right beyond Europe and North America - Cultures of fascism and the radical right (music, sport, clothing, etc.) - The construction of the Other in fascism and the radical right (e.g antisemitism and anti-Muslim attitudes) - Metapolitics of post-1945 fascism and the radical right - The political language of post-1945 fascisms and the radical right Given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, COMFAS has taken the decision to hold this year’s conference as a virtual/online event. This is not the format we had originally anticipated but it is one that we think offers new and exciting opportunities for broader participation and dialogue. Scholars interested in attending or contributing to the conference should send a mail with an abstract (max. 250 words), short bio and contact information to comfasconvention2...@comfas.org no later than 31 May 2020. We welcome individual papers as well as panel proposals. Acceptance decisions will be communicated on 15 June 2020. Participants are expected to send their pre-recorded presentation (voice over slides) by August 31; and to be available to attend the panels live in order to answer questions about their contribution and take part in the discussions. Technical instructions about the preparation of the virtual contributions and details about the way in which the convention will be broadcast will be sent to participants over the summer. There is no conference participation fee but all participants are required to register as COMFAS members (see our Membership Policy at http://comfas.org/Membership/). A panel will invite the authors of selected papers to submit revised and fully written up versions of their papers for publication in an edited volume or in the on-line journal Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. Guidance to authors and examples of previously published articles are available at https://brill.com/view/journals/fasc/fasc-overview.xml. The online event is hosted by the Central European University PU, Vienna. Conveners are Constantin Iordachi (CEU), Paul Jackson (Northampton University), and Aristotle Kallis (Keele University). Contact details: com...@comfas.org The International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies is a nonprofit and nonpolitical scholarly organization dedicated to the comparative and transnational study of fascism. The Association is open to graduate students, researchers, and professors at whatever stage of their career. Its aim is to promote new multi-disciplinary research approaches to this field, in a joint effort of scholars from various disciplines and historiographical traditions. COMFAS is based at Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies, at the Central European University, Budapest. The Association’s main publication outlet is the
InterPhil: PUB: Ethics in Asian Philosophical Traditions
__ Call for Publications Theme: Ethics in Asian Philosophical Traditions Publication: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Date: Special Issue Deadline: 1.10.2020 __ Ethical Theory and Moral Practice invites proposals for a special issue on topics interfacing contemporary ethics and Asian philosophies/comparative philosophy involving Asian traditions. This dedicated issue forms part of the journal’s ongoing efforts to expand the repertoire of traditions, ideas and approaches typically considered in mainstream ethical philosophy, and to foster dialogue and engagement across cultures and methodologies. More specifically, we aim to: - introduce important ethical topics in Asian and comparative traditions to mainstream philosophical audiences in a way that is clear and accessible, and enable dialogue among scholars working on similar issues in different traditions, - advance inquiry into the foundations and methodology of the study of ethics through engagements with traditions in which philosophizing takes significantly different forms, - produce new conceptual resources for doing philosophy, - identify promising topics and new lines of inquiry that might meaningfully be brought into contemporary philosophical debates. The topical range and format remain open, but the special issue should be in line with the general concerns and orientations of the journal and seek to make the content accessible to its general readership. In particular, please note that given the journal’s profile we cannot consider submissions which are exclusively of a historical or exegetical character. Some possible approaches include: - a focus on a specific theme that is significant in both a particular Asian tradition/set of traditions and in current philosophical discussion, and that meaningfully engages both, - collaborations involving scholars with expertise in a particular Asian tradition/set of traditions and in contemporary ethics, - explorations of methodological issues and problems involved in the cross-cultural of ethics. Deadline for the first round of applications: October 1, 2020 Guidelines Special Issues are a collection of 6-9 original papers, accompanied by an introduction usually written by the guest editors. Proposals have a maximum word count of 2.000 words and provide information about - the guest editor(s) - the topic and rationale of the collection envisaged - the authors - the planned contributions (via short abstracts) They should also include an explanation of the importance of the topic and the selection of authors and themes. Please send proposals to the Editors-in-Chief Marcus Düwell (m.duw...@uu.nl) and Thomas Schramme (t.schra...@liverpool.ac.uk). For more information about the journal, please visit: https://www.springer.com/journal/10677 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: ANN: Postponement of the Emerging Ideas on Conversational Thinking Conference
Dear Colleagues, This is to inform the academic community that the International Conference on the theme Thinking Africa: Glocal Solutions to Glocal Problems originally scheduled for August 26-28. 2020 at the University of Pretoria, South Africa has been postponed to a future date due to the coronavirus pandemic. We will announce a new date as soon as the present global situation changes. Please, stay safe! Thank you. Yours in conversation, JO Chimakonam -- Original Message -- Date: 20.02.2020, 15:26 +0100 From: Bertold Bernreuter via InterPhil To: InterPhil Subject: InterPhil: CFP: Thinking Africa: Glocal Solutions to Glocal Problems __ Call for Papers Theme: Thinking Africa Subtitle: Glocal Solutions to Glocal Problems Type: 1st CSP Emerging Ideas on Conversational Thinking Conference (EICT) Institution: Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP) Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria Location: Pretoria (South Africa) Date: 26.–28.8.2020 Deadline: 28.2.2020 __ From Jonathan Chimakonam The Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP), in collaboration with Thinking Africa (Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria), invites scholars to submit abstracts (200 words max) for consideration. Priority will be given to submissions that comply with the eight postulates of the conversational method. Conversational Philosophy (CP) is a philosophic tradition that promotes conversational thinking. It aims at questioning orthodoxy, unveiling new concepts, opening new vistas for thought and promoting the global expansion of thought. Papers to be presented on the theme and sub-themes of the 1st edition of EICT-2020 must propose new ideas, reflectling an African perspective to knowledge, in line with the eight postulates of CP. We encourage submissions on any of the following sub-themes: Inequality; poverty; migration; Afrophobia; femicide; rape; infanticide; climate change; suicide; Othering; racism; borders, disability; gender; epistemic marginalisation/injustice; philosophical counselling; ignorance; Afro-communitarianism; personhood; decoloniality; decolonial curriculum studies; Albinism; theory of the human minimum; relational ethics; Ezumezu logic; harmonious monism; Ibuanyidanda philosophy/logic; consolationism; Ubuntu Ontology; Uwa ontology; deliberative epistemology; theories of truth in a post-truth world; complementary epistemology; explanatory models in African philosophy of science; intercultural exchanges; AI and the future of Africa. Submissions: Submit your abstract to: confere...@cspafrica.org Timeline: Submission Deadline: February 28, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2020 Publication of proceedings: - One special issue in an accredited journal would be dedicated to selected papers. - In addition, two edited anthologies will be published under the Thinking Africa imprint (UKZN Press). Conference Registration Fees: - Africa-based students $50; - outside Africa-based students $100. - Africa-based academics $100; - outside Africa-based academics $150; Keynote Speakers: - Prof. Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. - Prof. Robert Bernasconi, The Pennsylvania State University, USA. - Prof. Obioma Nnaemeka, Indiana University, USA. - Dist. Prof. Thaddeus Metz, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Plenaries: The conference will be a plenary event in that all presentations will take place in one hall. Acceptance to present a paper at the conference is conditioned on attendance of all sessisons and that a final, reworked paper will be submitted for publication considerations. There will not be parallel sessions. We are also pleased to announce the creation of a number of Awards: 1. Ground-breaking work in African Philosophy and Studies (monographs) 2. Outstanding female African Thinker award (monographs and articles) 3. Outstanding research on Africa’s intellectual history (monographs) 4. Outstanding research on African logic and critical thinking (articles and monographs) 5. Radical idea in African philosophy (articles) These awards will be presented every two years to recognise and celebrate research excellence in African philosophy and studies. The first round of awards will consider peer-reviewed research published between January 2018 and December 2019. Submissions should be made to awa...@cspafrica.org by simply emailing the pdf of your work on or before midnight, April 30, 2020. Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered by the award panel. Authors may submit to multiple categories. Submission email must have a subject, affiliation/address, email and phone contacts of the author. Cultural Event: A cultural event will be organised for the 29th of August 2020. It would most likely be a trip to Marupeng or City tours. Details will be made available closer to the time
InterPhil: CFP: Ethical Governance of Surveillance Technologies in Times of Crisis
__ Call for Papers Theme: Ethical Governance of Surveillance Technologies in Times of Crisis Subtitle: Global Challenges and Divergent Perspectives Type: A Multi-Session and Online Conference Institution: Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges, Utrecht University Location: Online Date: 30.10./5.11.2020 Deadline: 15.7.2020 __ The Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges invites submissions for this interdisciplinary online workshop examining how crises and crisis-narratives interact with the ongoing transformation in the governance of surveillance technologies in different parts of the world. This event is organised by the research platform on Disrupting Technological Innovation? Towards an Ethical and Legal Framework within Utrecht University’s Centre for Global Challenges: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/centre-for-global-challenges Background The increasing sophistication and globalisation of surveillance technologies has intensified concerns about whether existing governance structures and human rights principles provide adequate protections for individuals. At the same time, the urgent need for effective coordination of responses to global crises has strengthened calls for solutions that rely heavily on surveillance technologies. Faced with these conflicting concerns, many states are increasingly invoking ‘extraordinary circumstances’ to legitimate the heightened surveillance of individuals. But there are profound differences between and within countries in how much weight is given to appeals to crises. The Covid–19 pandemic provides a particularly compelling illustration of this constellation of issues raised at the intersection of surveillance technology, divergent perspectives, and crisis narratives. Taking the Covid–19 pandemic as a point of departure, the workshop will emphasise a comparative approach to this intersection of issues – including comparisons with the role of surveillance technologies in other global crises – with special emphasis on divergent perspectives from across the globe. One of the defining characteristics of the Covid–19 pandemic has been the heightened awareness of the extent to which one’s behaviour can have dramatic effects on others. In order to change behaviour and monitor threats, governments around the world are taking a number of ‘emergency’ measures within, or even outside, existing legal frameworks. Contact tracing via smartphones is one prominent example of surveillance technology being used either to produce behaviour change or monitor compliance or both. Typically, these measures are presented as temporary. Yet it is widely known that some of the governmental responses to previous crises have been normalised and perpetuated. A similar concern arises with governmental responses to the Covid–19 pandemic and other global crises. But the ethical governance surveillance technology is merely a matter of protecting the individual actors from government interference with privacy. Private actors also need to be held accountable. As the UN’s Special Rapporteur David Kaye articulated in his report entitled ‘Surveillance and Human Rights,’ in the development and use of digital surveillance tools, public and private sectors are close collaborators. Such public-private collaboration regarding digital surveillance can be even intensified during the times of crisis. While the Covid–19 pandemic is a global crisis, governments differ in terms of how they intend to track individuals’ movement and data. This variance gives rise to a further question of the varied acceptability of digital surveillance among different societies. As the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation acknowledged its June 2019 report, concepts and expectations of privacy ‘differ across cultures and societies,’ Different justifications can be readily put forward in balancing individuals’ privacy against other interests during the times of crisis. The workshop will examine various national and regional initiatives taken in response to Covid–19 pandemic in order to collect, store, analyse, and transfer individuals’ data. The workshop will take a comparative approach, so that we can compare some of the responses to the pandemic to those of previous so-called crises. The Workshop Format In order to facilitate participation from a wide range of global perspectives, the workshop will take place online during two sessions: Friday 30 October (9:00 – noon, Central European Time) and Thursday 5 November 2020 (14:30–17:30, CET). Each interactive session will include presentations, discussions in breakout groups, and plenary panel discussion, integrating input from the breakout sessions. Workshop Themes We welcome papers that address one (or more) of the following thematic perspectives: - Politics and science: What are the roles of expertise and scientific narrative in changing the use
InterPhil: CFP: Controversy and Consensus
__ Call for Papers Theme: Controversy and Consensus Subtitle: Shifting Places, Patterns, and Perspectives Type: International Graduate Historical Studies Conference (IGHSC) Institution: Central Michigan University Location: Mt. Pleasant, MI (USA) Date: 16.–17.4.2021 Deadline: 9.1.2021 __ The International Graduate Historical Studies Conference will host “Controversy and Consensus: Shifting Places, Patterns, and Perspectives” at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, April 16 and 17, 2021. We invite graduate and advanced undergraduate students from across the social sciences and the humanities to submit proposals for papers or panels that adopt an interdisciplinary or transnational approach, but we are also seeking papers or panels that approach historical topics in more traditional ways. All submissions must be based on original research. In keeping with the theme of the conference, individual papers will be organized into individually chaired panels that cross spatial, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. The IGHSC will present prizes for the best papers in several categories. Send abstract (250-350 words) and a short curriculum vitae as an attachment to: histc...@cmich.edu Preference will be given to papers and panels received during the early submission period which ends January 9, 2021. The final deadline for abstracts is February 20, 2021. Full papers are due March 13, 2021. For more information visit us at: http://www.ighsc.info Keynote Speaker: Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University Note: Emails received during June, July, and August will not be responded to until September when the IGHSC Committee convenes. Thank you in advance for your patience. Contact: International Graduatate Historical Studies Conference Committee Email: histc...@cmich.edu Web: http://www.ighsc.info __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Genealogies of Memory
__ Call for Papers Theme: Genealogies of Memory Subtitle: The Holocaust between Global and Local Perspectives Type: 10th Genealogies of Memory Conference Institution: European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin Location: Warsaw (Poland) Date: 25.–27.11.2020 Deadline: 31.5.2020 __ We are welcoming submissions for the 10th conference within the Genealogies of Memory series: The Holocaust between Local and Global Perspectives, which will take place in Warsaw, 25-27 November 2020. The aim of the conference is to assess the current state of Holocaust memory research. The context for this is, on the one hand, the globalisation and universalisation of the meaning of the Holocaust and, on the other, the more recently postulated empirical turn in Holocaust (memory) studies, towards primary texts and sources as well as local spaces and materialities (e.g. forensic studies, environmental Holocaust studies), or the use of a grounded research perspective with regard to Holocaust memory and education. We want to discuss the interplay between the universal (global, transnational) scale of Holocaust memory and that anchored in the endemic space and culture of historical experience (local, ethnic, national). We are interested in the influences between the diverse mnemonic scales, including both mutual inspiration and conceptual misuses: thus the question of the ontological and ethical limits of mnemonic universalisation, on the one hand, and of micro contextualisation of memories on the other. We invite scholars of various disciplines to reflect on these issues based on their research of social and cultural memories in various dimensions: from linguistic and textual, through institutional, political, psychological, up to material, spatial and technological. We propose the following blocks of discussion, but other proposals are welcome as well: - Theoretical concepts and approaches: Interconnections between national, transnational and global frameworks of Holocaust memory studies; a critical history focusing on the globalisation process of Holocaust Memory Studies, e.g. reconciliation and conflict in memory politics, global values and local sites of genocide; - Local historiographies and global challenges: National and local traditions of history writing, their narrative and thematic structures, and methodologies applied; the impact of international knowledge transfer; the phenomenon of Holocaust denial in contemporary societies; - Languages: Significance of endemic languages of Holocaust victims (also in the context of contemporary Holocaust Studies methodology), language stratification according to various social backgrounds of language practitioners; different genres of sources, including testimony, and the challenge of, or misuse by, globalisation; - Memory landscapes: National and local (non-)sites of traumatic memory and their discursive environments; socio-spatial forms and practices of remembering and oblivion; troubled histories and competitive victimhoods in local memory landscapes; - Materialities of memory: Localisation of the Holocaust, including ghettos, by studying material remains, the (im)possibility of globalisation of local material legacies; local collections – practices of archiving and musealisation aiming at preserving and presenting the artefacts of the Holocaust; - New media and technologies: Their role in documenting, archiving and commemorating local histories related to the Holocaust; transmission of knowledge about local legacies to global communities; - Memory institutions and agents: The global meets the local transnational institutions in conjunction with local initiatives; local communities’ reception of, and involvement into, transnational actions; the impact of international institutional memory policies at national level; - Tourism: The ethics and aesthetics of dark tourism and heritage routes; Organisational information We encourage applicants to send abstracts at a maximum of 350 words, together with a brief biographical statement and the scan of signed “Consent Clause of the conference abstract provider” by 31 May 2020: genealog...@enrs.eu The results will be announced by 30 June 2020. Written draft papers (2,000- 2,500 words) should be submitted by 15 October 2020. The conference is planned to be held in Warsaw, on 25-27 November 2020. We assume that it will be possible to organise the conference at this date and venue. However, taking into account the changing circumstances, we are also aware of the fact that it may be affected by the current coronavirus pandemic. For these reasons, please follow our ENRS website (enrs.eu) and Facebook profile, where we will inform you of any new decisions regarding the situation. The
InterPhil: TOC: Human Rights and Economic Inequality
__ Table of Contents Theme: Human Rights and Economic Inequality Publication: Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development Date: Volume 10, Number 3 (Winter 2019) __ Following is the Table of Contents for the latest issue of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Current Issue with a dossier on Human Rights and Economic Inequality: http://humanityjournal.org/current-issue/ Mark Bray Beyond and Against the State: Anarchist Contributions to Human Rights History and Theory https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746826 Vibhuti Ramachandran Saving the Slaving Child: Domestic Work, Labor Trafficking, and the Politics of Rescue in India https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746835 Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, Karen Engle Introduction: Human Rights and Economic Inequality https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746827 Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Sergio Chaparro Hernández Inequality, Human Rights, and Social Rights: Tensions and Complementarities https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746836 Radhika Balakrishnan, James Heintz Human Rights in an Unequal World: Structural Inequalities and the Imperative for Global Cooperation https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746825 Richard Falk Global Inequality and Human Rights: An Odd Couple https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746831 Jason Hickel The Imperative of Redistribution in an Age of Ecological Overshoot: Human Rights and Global Inequality https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746833 Antony Anghie Inequality, Human Rights, and the New International Economic Order https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746824 Julia Dehm Righting Inequality: Human Rights Responses to Economic Inequality in the United Nations https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746830 James Galbraith Inequality, Debt, and Human Rights: What Can We Learn from the Data? https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746832 Dennis M. Davis Taxation and Equality: The Implications for Redressing Inequality and the Promotion of Human Rights https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746829 Neville Hoad “I Don’t Want to Live in a World Where People Die Every Day Simply Because They Are Poor”: From the Treatment Action Campaign to Equal Education, from Stories of Human Rights to the Poetics of Inequality https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746834 About Humanity All issues of Humanity are free on Project MUSE through June 30. Humanity is a triannual publication dedicated to publishing original research and reflection on human rights, humanitarianism, and development in the modern and contemporary world. An interdisciplinary enterprise, Humanity draws from a variety of fields, including anthropology, law, literature, history, philosophy, politics, and examines the intersections between and among them. Journal website: https://hum.pennpress.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: TOC: Provincializing 'Western Education'
__ Table of Contents Theme: Provincializing 'Western Education' Publication: on_education: Journal for Research and Debate Date: No. 7 (April 2020) __ We are delighted to announce that the 7th issue of on_education is now online: https://www.oneducation.net This issue deals with `post- and decolonial´ approaches to educational theory and practice. Starting from historian Dipesh Chakrabarty’s call for ‘provincializing Europe‘, this issue presents a lively debate about the necessity and possibility, the prospects and pitfalls of decolonizing and provincializing ‘Western Education’ in a globalized world. Drawing on different theoretical frameworks and traditions, the authors engage in a much-needed and vigorous debate by offering both well-argued critiques and defenses of ‘Western’ conceptions of education. Sharon Stein, Vanessa Andreotti, Rene Suša, Cash Ahenakew & Lynn Mario de Souza take up the thorny issue of `Decoloniality and its discontents´ by engaging in a critical conversation with a recent article by Edward Vickers (2019) on postcolonial critique in comparative education. Julian Culp interrogates various possibilities of provincializing ‘the west’ and warns against the dangers of essentializing ‘the east’. Poonam Batra discusses Indian education reform from the perspective of continuing ‘coloniality‘ and the failures of ‘epistemic justice‘. Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach dwells upon “bodies and publics“ in decolonization critiques as discursively deployed in two spatiotemporal contexts (US-American and post-Holocaust Germany). Drawing on the German tradition of the history of education, Phillip Knobloch asks what exactly is to be overcome when debating the problem of Eurocentric perspectives. Kai Horsthemke discusses `the provincialization of epistemology´ itself and questions some of the assertions of ‘(de)colonization’ of knowledge in education. Instead, he makes a case for `an applied epistemology for the real world´ in `the age of the postcolony´. Alka Sehgal Cuthbert draws attention to decolonising discourses in education as symptoms of theoretical and political impasse. William Gaudelli insightfully ponders over the “trouble of Western education“, including the paradox of how to appropriate its own critique. Finally, Miri Yemini draws on the case of a Jewish religious school in Israel to discuss `the religion, globalisation and education triangle´ in the provincialization of contemporary educational discourse. All contributions provide rich food for thought in these challenging times and we are inviting you, as always, to engage in this lively debate. In case you are interested you may write a critical reply to one of the articles. Replies will be processed like invited contributions. This means they will be assessed according to standard criteria of quality, relevance, and civility. Journal website: https://www.oneducation.net __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: African Studies
__ Call for Publications Theme: African Studies Publication: Edited Volumes Deadline: 5.6.2020 __ Each of the following call for papers for edited volumes are meant to raise the African Studies profile of the University of Mauritius. They will be published by globally renowned publishing outlets at times in collaboration with the University of Mauritius Press. Each edited volume project includes one international virtual papers sharing global seminar and in two cases, face to face global conferences if possible. I am also looking for co-editors for each volume so please feel free to volunteer. The papers for each volume should be no more than 30 double spaced pages in length including references. 12 font. APA citation/ reference style. Paper abstracts with brief bios are due June 5, 2020 and final paper drafts are due as indicated. This internal call for papers is as well, being distributed nationally and globally. For those of you who have already submitted abstracts, bios, and papers please resubmit. 1. What is the Virtuous African Democracy? Theme: If the Westerners can ask such philosophical questions why can' t we of African and African Diasporic descent? So this is a think piece oriented writing project-- idealistic and futuristic..wishful thinking about a particular topic such as governance, civil society, climate control, medicine and health, rule of law, media, economy, human rights, food security, education, academia, sciences, technology, faith, peace, built environments, anti-corruption, etc. Virtual Seminar: September 14, 2021. Final papers are due on November 19, 2021. 2. Best Practices for Justice and Peace In Africa and African Diasporas Theme: No justice no peace! faith, interfaith, and secular best practices justice and peace concepts, applications, and case studies in African nations and nations outside Africa with significant African Diasporas populations. Final papers due April 1, 2021. Papers supplement papers presented in an April 5-7, 2021 Justice and Peace in Africa and in African Diasporas Conference. 3. African and African Diasporas Indigenous Roots of Scientific Knowledge (Behavioral, Physical, Social) Theme: African Heritage epistemological, ethical, theoretical, methodological, and applications roots of sciences broadly defined as knowledges and logics of inquires originating in the East, West, and in Africa. Final papers due November 16, 2021 with a virtual seminar. 4. 2015-2020: National Elections and Civil Societies in Africa - Case Studies Theme: Using relevant non-western and western perspectives to explore the most recent cases of national elections and the emerging roles of civil societies in inducing regime changes or close calls. Virtual Seminar: January 20, 2021. Final papers due March 12, 2021. 5. Best Practices in Preventing Sexual Violence Against Girls and Women in Africa and in African Diasporas. Theme: Papers for an edited volume recommending best practices to prevent sexual violence against girls and women for high government and civil society bodies in Africa and in African Diasporas nations. Edited volume generating virtual/face to face conference in November, date to be determined. Final papers due January 29, 2021. 6. Rethinking African Sustainable Development Theme: What REALLY IS African Sustainable Development? How often is this phrase a political myth or ideology or based upon mismeasurements and other Eastern/Western biases or lingering colonial and Social Darwinist presumptions, and what are more relevant and empowering ways to conceptualize what African Sustainable Development is. Virtual Seminar: October 12, 2021. Final papers due on January 28, 2022. 7. Who Is An African? Theme: Not only but certainly including Mauritius, the question of Who Is An African is a hot button issue across the continent and around the world. It is an exacerbated paradoxical issue of individual and collective identity too often politicalized or on the other extreme, taboo topic in need of much more cool-headed impartial analysis. Virtual Seminar in October 2021. Final papers due January 25, 2022. 8. New Studies of Race and Racism in Africa and Asia Theme: Conceptions and narratives of race and racism in Africa and Asia with special attention being paid to the Indian Ocean Region, China, India, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Virtual Seminar: January 26, 2021. Final papers due April 9, 2021. 9. Comparative Post-Slavery/Indenturehood Studies Theme: What happens when African Slavery/Asian Indenturehood legally ends regarding the human rights, human rights violations (such as discriminatory employment and housing policies, lynchings, massacres, mass incarceration), and quality of life prospects, problems, improvements through human rights movements lead by legally freed people and their allies? In what ways does slavery/indenturehood
InterPhil: CFP: Development in Times of Conflict
__ Call for Papers Theme: Development in Times of Conflict Subtitle: Ethical Pathways towards Peace and Justice Type: 12th IDEA Congress Institution: International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) Red para la formación ética y ciudadana (REDETICA) Universidad Autónoma LatinoAmericana (UNAULA) Universidad de Ibagué (UnIbagué) Location: Medellín (Colombia) Date: 1.–3.2.2021 Deadline: 15.6.2020 __ (Versión española abajo / Versão portuguesa abaixo) Red para la formación ética y ciudadana (REDETICA), The Universidad Autónoma LatinoAmericana (UNAULA), the Universidad de Ibagué (UnIbagué) and International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) invite scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and other interested parties to submit proposals for presentations at a conference on the theme: Development in Times of Conflict: Ethical Pathways towards Peace and Justice Conference Theme For decades, Colombia has lived through one of the most complex armed conflicts in South America. More than fifty years of armed conflict has deteriorated institutional foundations, torn at the basic social fabric, created distrust in the figure of the State and hindered the building of a common national project. These facts and ongoing exclusion reflect a failure of development, which is as much a focus for concern in conflict, and in the generation of conflict as it is in a more orderly society. In some regions, violence, naturalized as a means of resolving conflict, has come to constitute an ethos in which resentment and revenge are habitual expressions, and the taking up of arms is frequently seen as the only option to resolve the disputes, while ongoing exclusion and recurring acts of injustice make up Colombia’s national reality. The signing of the peace agreement between the Colombian State and the FARC guerrillas has given rise to a crucial moment in the country’s development. In this new post-agreement period, words such as truth, justice, reparation, non-repetition, forgiveness, reconciliation, among others, signal the possibility of political and moral pathways to conflict resolution. They open spaces for dialogue, reflection and action in which an education in ethics must occupy a central place; otherwise the construction of a pluralistic and democratic society is impossible. The present context demands proposals to maintain the peace, as well as the critical assumption of new paradigms framed in a special jurisdiction for the peace process and the realization of transitional justice. It is of great importance for this region specifically, and for the national and Latin American context in general, to promote spaces for dialogue and research on the peace agreement, transitional justice, the post-agreement environment, and community-building, among other topics. Thus, conference organizers particularly encourage submissions on the following themes as they apply to ethical development: - Conflict, transitional justice and reconciliation - Experiences of organizations and collective action in transforming territories for peace - Peacebuilding and peacekeeping: the challenges - Sharing and comparing experiences of peacebuilding from other regions of the world - Internal and international displacement by conflict: immigration and refugees - Pathways to peace: development, post-development, decolonial approaches, buen vivir and other aspirational ideas for dialogue - Limits of the liberal peace paradigm - Hybrid conceptions of peacebuilding The congresses of the International Development Ethics Association are open to proposals concerning all aspects of ethics in the context of development; other foci include but are not limited to: - Urban planning/displacement by development - Development ethics in times of climate change - Complexity, uncertainty, and sustainable development - Social and grassroots innovation for transformative change - Whose knowledge? Epistemic justice and ecology of knowledges Presentations are encouraged from practitioners and scholars; they may examine these issues from diverse practical, theoretical and conceptual perspectives including philosophical arguments, empirical analysis, observers’ and participants’ accounts, examinations of policy, and action strategies. The conference will engage scholars and practitioners from around the world, and from a wide variety of disciplines and activities (including philosophy and other humanities, social sciences, policy studies, development, social work, NGOs, local and global agencies and organizations, government officials and policy makers). IDEA particularly welcomes submissions from scholars and practitioners in the global south. Conference timeline and sessions The main conference takes place from 1st to 3rd February 2021. The 4-5th of February will consist of an IDEA retreat and a field visit. In addition to keynote
InterPhil: PUB: The Semiotics of Nationhood
__ Call for Publications Theme: The Semiotics of Nationhood Publication: Global Humanities Date: Vol. 8 (Fall 2020) Deadline: 15.5.2020 __ After a two year online-only period, the biannual journal Global Humanities (ISSN: 2199-3939) eventually found a new home at Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, the publishing house of the Museo Internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino, Italy. It will continue to be published in print and open access for back issues. The journal continues its attempt to strengthen interdisciplinary research in all fields of the humanities in relation to its topical issues. For the fall 2020, volume 8 is planned to deal with the Semiotics of Nationhood in the broadest sense. We therefore ask scholars at any step of their academic career to submit paper proposals for this issue that could deal with, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Semiotics and national narratives - Semiotics of nationalism - The semiotic creation of the nation - National remembrance and its semiotic expressions - Semiotic nations With regard to time period and theoretical approach, this call for papers is totally open. Please send your paper propoals (max. 300 words and a short biographical note) to Frank Jacob (frank.ja...@nord.no) and Francesco Mangiapane (frances...@gmail.com) by May 15, 2020. Papers are due by June 30, 2020 and should have a lenght of 6,000-8,000 words. Style sheets will be provided together with a decision about the proposals by May 25. Contact: Frank Jacob Faculty of Social Science Nord Universitet Norway Email: frank.ja...@nord.no __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Racism, Nationalism and Xenophobia
__ Call for Papers Theme: Racism, Nationalism and Xenophobia Type: 3rd International Interdisciplinaty Conference Institution: InMind Support Location: Online Date: 8.–9.6.2020 Deadline: 10.5.2020 __ It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts. Our first conference on racism, nationalism and xenophobia took place in March 2016. The second adition was held in June 2018. We hosted over 80 scholars representing universities and research institutions from all over the world. We invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: history, politics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, economics, law, history of literature, 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 et al. 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, as well as doctoral students. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners, without giving a presentation. We hope that due to its interdisciplinary nature, the conference will bring many interesting observations on and discussions about the role of racism, nationalism and xenophobia in the past and in the present-day world. Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not restricted to: I. Politics and History - colonialism/ postcolonialism - anti-semitism: past and present - islamophobia and terrorism - orientalism - imperialism - crimes against humanity - violations of human rights - racism, nationalism and political correctness - nationalism and patriotism - xenophobia and cosmopolitism - racism, nationalism and religion II. Anthropology and Philosophy - ideologies of racism - nationalism and “will of power” - cultural determinants of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia - nationalist nations - xenophobic societies - racist generations III. Psychology - stereotypes and prejudices - racist myths and phantasms - racism and scapegoat mechanism - xenophobia and sense of guilt - nationalism and narcissism - projection and repression - individual and social proneness to hate ideology - therapy for victims of discrimination IV. Memory and Protection of Human Rights - organization of human rights protection - education against racism, nationalism and xenophobia - memory in the service of education - memorial places - solidarity with victims of violence - empathy with the Other V. Literature and Arts - racism, nationalism and xenophobia in literature - racism, nationalism and xenophobia in film - racism, nationalism and xenophobia in theatre - literature and art against hate ideology - racist artists Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations, together with a short biographical note, by 10 May 2020 to: racismnational...@gmail.com Notification of acceptance will be sent by 14 May 2020. The conference language is English. Scientific Committee: Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk Professor Paulo Endo - University of São Paulo, Brazil Conference website: http://racism-conference.pl __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: ANN: Rescheduled: Religious Experience and the Crisis of Secular Reason
Dear Colleagues and Friends, I very much hope this note finds all of you well. The Congress of the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, planned for September 16-18, 2020 in Vienna, is postponed till September 2021. The precise dates will be fixed soon. The amended CFP is below. In the meantime, we will organize a supplemental research webinar "(Ir)rationality and Religiosity During Pandemics: Phenomenologizing the Connections" for September 16-18, 2020, the dates the congress was originally scheduled for. More information coming soon. On behalf of the organizers Olga Louchakova-Schwartz -- Original Message -- __ Call for Papers Theme: Religious Experience and the Crisis of Secular Reason Type: 2nd Plenary Congress Institution: Society for Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SOPHERE) Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna Location: Vienna (Austria) Date: 16.–18.9.2020 Deadline: 30.5.2020 __ In recent years we have witnessed the loss of hope for neutral, secular ‘reason’ as the backbone for social and political engagement and transformation. In the wake of globalization, ‘ideological secularism’ and its propagation of a disengaged brand of reason rather has created its own set of discontents and crises. Related social trends in both Europe and North America demonstrate that people are increasingly divided and sectarian, pulled into their respective echo chambers and left unsure how to even talk with those trapped on ‘the other side.’ The traditional idea of using neutral ‘reason’ to cross this divide clearly has been swept aside by the power of social criticism. In its attempt at unveiling the bias, structural oppression, and political correctness that seems to be part and parcel of our self-righteous conceptions of reason (be it discursive, communicative or procedural), the domain of reason is no longer seen as value free. Rather its aspirations have been exposed to parade as purported neutrality, and hence it is increasingly viewed as a weapon wielded in ideological warfare, rather than a means of creating social cohesion. Introducing religion into these conversations is not usually seen as the best way to reconcile people from opposite ends of the spectrum. Many in fact rather blame religion for the erosion, breakdown, and crisis of secular reason we are witnessing today. However, there is also reason to think and believe otherwise. Recent advances in the study of religion have shifted our understanding of religion away from cognitive beliefs and doctrines and toward more material and affective engagements. Could such a focus on embodiment, practice, and experience (rather than reason or mere belief assertion) provide a model for social and political engagement that also might contribute to restoring our unfulfilled hopes in secular reason? Or would such a model rather lead us toward a different, ‘experiential reason’ irreducible to perspectivism and individualism, or away from a social or communal reason as the basis of human interaction? And what role might distinctly religious experience play in helping us understand and clarify social and epistemological interaction? Or, in terms of a general proviso, may we really understand the ‘return of religion’ as the missing catalyst that will help us to overcome the “disarray of the current crisis” (Husserl) in order to finally restitute its “primal institution” (Urstiftung)? And, if the last cohort, “generation Z,” claims to be the least religious generation in (at least Western) history, what does “return of religion” mean in the zeitgeist—a quest for personal meaning, a spiritual society, or an experiential metaphysics? In light of these more general considerations, this conference invites phenomenological explorations of the vexed relationships between reason and the various forms of religious intuition and experience. Does religious experience invite irrationality, or on the contrary, does it contribute a missing piece which can heal contemporary irrationality in all spheres of life? Do the semantics and pragmatic potentials of religious experience simply testify to an outdated model of social order that is by definition prone to violence and intolerance? Or do they rather offer a counterweight to a modernity disconcertingly spinning out of control? Are there ways to conceive of religion in light of the apparent crisis of secular reason beyond the old yet still functional dichotomy of myth and Enlightenment, given that the latter has itself resulted in a series of neo-myths that work hard to stigmatize religion as its very other? What are the relationships between religious experience and knowledge, and does religion enhance or stifle the possibilities of arriving at a “fuller consciousness” of our present? Can the failures of secularized reason in axiomatic, pragmatic, and evaluative
InterPhil: CFP: The Other in Chinese History and Thought
__ Call for Papers Theme: The Other in Chinese History and Thought Subtitle: Territory, Race, Culture, Philosophy, Religion Type: International Workshop Institution: Ghent University Location: Ghent (Belgium) Date: 8.–9.2.2021 Deadline: 15.5.2020 __ The figure of the “other” (or “Other”) looms large in contemporary philosophy as well as across a broad range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In very general terms, poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches have arguably been quite successful in arguing that social, cultural, and national identity is always shaped by specific relations of power and cannot be approached as an unproblematic or self-evident given. Even on a discursive level, “self” and “other” are now usually seen as fundamentally relational terms, the particular content of which has to be understood in the context of historically determinate circumstances and conditions. As such, the “other” is not simply a blanket designation for the opposite side of a supposedly pregiven and self-transparent territory of sameness. On the contrary, conceptions of otherness are always already involved in the constitution of particular forms of identity. To give a more specific example, within the field of Chinese philosophy, it has become almost commonplace to assert that traditional forms of thought such as Confucianism (which is often used as a stand-in for “Chinese culture” as such) departed from a relational view of personal identity (think of Henry Rosemont and Roger Ames’s Confucian “role ethics”). Within this line of reasoning, the “self” does not pre-exist its relations with the other, more precisely with those particular others (family members, friends, teachers, colleagues, …) it calls its own. At the same time, the question as to exactly who counts as what Jonathan Z. Smith has called the “proximate other” (as opposed to the wholly other, or the other in general) in the context of Chinese (intellectual) history has thus far received considerably less attention. As is well known however, the other of and in Chinese history was not simply a nondescript conceptual counterpart to an equally abstract notion of the subject or self, but rather was often located on the other side of Chinese civilization (huaxia 華夏) or even of humanity as such. China as “All-under-Heaven” (tianxia 天下) could only claim an all-inclusive position by, in one way or another, engaging with its others and with what lies beyond the “nine regions” (jiuzhou 九州), even if by way of exclusion. When we think of the “Other” of China, a long and diverse list such as the following could come to mind: “barbarian”, Xiongnu, Khitan, Jurchen, Mongol, Manchu, Christian, Westerner, Japanese, Taiwanese, Tibetan, Uyghur, non-Han, Muslim, migrant worker, Hong Kongese…Distinguishing between what and who qualifies as Chinese and non-Chinese involved and still involves very real and tangible practices of distinction, exclusion, and othering and thus continues to be closely related to complex questions of territorial, racial, religious, cultural, political, and religious identity in present-day China. If we follow the famous historian Ge Zhaoguang 葛兆光in posing the question “What is China?”, it is obvious that if we always have to ask, as Ge himself does, “What isn’t China/Chinese?” at the same time. The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars working in the field of (intellectual) history, philosophy and religion to reflect on the topic of otherness in Chinese history and thought from within their own area of expertise. The convenors welcome contributions with an empirical focus as well as more conceptually oriented discussions related to the theme of the workshop. Possible topics for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following: how did the Chinese empire/state conceive of and deal with specific groups of “non-Chinese” others during certain periods in history? Was otherness conceived of primarily in spatial, temporal, civilizational, or other terms? How were representations of otherness discursively legitimized and actualized in practices of categorization and governance? What sort of relations can we discern between religious, ethnic, and cultural identity in the Chinese context? Do terms and concepts such as “empire”, “racism”, “colonialism”, or even “culture” and “alterity”, help us gain a better understanding of specific instances of otherness in Chinese (intellectual) history, or are they complicit in perpetuating a Eurocentric understanding of the non-West? And last but not 3 least, all of the above questions always require us to consider who the “we” is that is asking them. Practical information Abstract submission: Please submit a title and abstract of your proposed presentation of no more than 300 words and provide us with the following details: name, affiliation, email address. The deadline
InterPhil: PUB: The Philosophy and Theology of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
__ Call for Publications Theme: The Philosophy and Theology of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause Publication: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion (EJPR) Date: Special Issue Deadline: 30.4.2021 __ DESCRIPTION Up to date many Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin-American philosophers esteem Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832) as the progenitor of a socially progressive cosmopolitanism with important lessons for today. Expanding and combining the Kantian project of a self-critical philosophy of freedom and a Spinozistic monistic metaphysics, Krause arrived at an inclusive and liberal panentheistic system of philosophy, which not only combines classical theism and pantheism, but, due to the divinity of the whole of reality, is directed to any and all persons. From this angle, Krause already considers – at the outset of the 19th century – issues such as the legal representation of unborn children, minors, the disabled, disenfranchised peoples, and future generations. Moreover, based on his panentheism, Krause argued also for applying the concept of personhood and certain concomitant rights to animals. Last, not least, concerning plants and inorganic matter, Krause advocated for policies of ecological sustainability that were to safeguard an intact environment not only for present but also for future generations. Despite this impressive array of positions and apart from the acknowledged fact that Krause introduced the term “panentheism”, Krause’s philosophy and theology is met with neglect in the Anglophone world. But even in his homeland, Germany, his philosophy is often set aside, although to both Immanuel Hermann Fichte and Nicolai Hartmann it was evident that Krause’s work belonged to the highlights of classical German philosophy. Since Krause, who directly influenced Arthur Schopenhauer and developed a Begriffsschrift long before Gottlob Frege did (and one very similar to it), is still understudied in the German and English speaking world, this special issue aims to reengage with his thinking through systematic and historic reflections on the validity and genesis of the philosophy and theology of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause. SUBMISSION We invite the submission of papers focusing on Krause’s philosophy of religion and systematic theology but not restricted to topics such as: - Panentheism: Krause developed the first explicitly panentheistic system of philosophy based on transcendental reflection. - Krause and Classical German Philosophy: Krause provided insightful critiques of the theological works of Schelling, Fichte, Hegel, Jacobi, Schleiermacher etc. - Interreligious Thinking: Krause mediates between agnostic/atheistic schools of thought and theistic/pantheistic world views with his own panentheistic metaphysics. - Transculturality: Krause's philosophy is based on intercultural and religious studies (e.g. on the wisdom traditions and religious writings of India and China) and migrated from Germany to the Iberophone world, where it shaped constitutional law, economic policy and social systems from about 1860 until today, especially in Argentina and Uruguay. - Cosmopolitanism: Based on his theological panentheism, Krause advocated a theory of world citizenship rights, which he concretized formally (through model constitutions for a European Union and a League of Nations) as well as materially (compensation for colonial injustice and common ownership of the earth, etc.). - Methodological Innovation: Krause advocated a "constructive" combination of descriptive and normative methods in science, and in philosophy of religion in particular. His approach is also participative-dialogical and integrative towards marginalized interests. - Theology and Ethics of Diversity: Methodological inclusion led to substantial inclusiveness. As early as 1803, Krause fought for the rights of women and children, of unborn life, of senile persons and people with disabilities, of future generations and, not least, for animal rights. PRELIMINARY TIMETABLE Deadline for submission: April 30, 2021 Deadline for paper reviews: June 30, 2021 Deadline for submission of revised papers: August 30, 2021 Notice of acceptance/rejection: November 30, 2021 SUBMISSION PROCESS All papers will be subject to double-blind peer-review, following international standard practices. Manuscripts should be submitted exclusively through EJPR’s online submission system in the category “articles”. Articles must be in English with a maximum word count of 8.000, including title, abstract and references. The author must then select the special article type: "Karl Christian Friedrich Krause” from the selection provided in the submission process. This is needed in order to assign the submissions to the Guest Editors. All relevant information regarding the registration and submission process and the author guidelines are to be
InterPhil: PUB: Human Rights Protection in Epidemic Situation
__ Call for Publications Theme: Human Rights Protection in Epidemic Situation Publication: Cross-cultural Human Rights Review (CCHRR) Date: Special Theme Issue (2020) Deadline: 30.6.2020 __ Background Over the past decade, the world has experienced health emergencies that surface in the form of epidemics. In this regard, countries such as Zimbabwe and Haiti faced the epidemic of acute diarrhea syndrome and cholera. Several parts of the world were also impacted by the Avian influenza A(H7N9), a subtype of influenza viruses that have been detected in birds in the past. In the same vein, West Africa was devastated by the deadly Ebola virus in 2014 and beyond. Now the world is confronted with the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. In all these epidemic situations the states are expected to provide appropriate responses. It is against this backdrop that the CCHRR issues a call for papers to examine the protection of human rights in epidemic and possibly pandemic situations. Although epidemic situations, at first glance, seemingly refer to the right to health, the experiences of past health emergencies have shown that the interdependence and interconnectedness of human rights means that many human rights are at stake. The diversity of necessary measures taken by a state to prevent and control an epidemic situation, especially when a large-scale epidemic occurs, will impose certain restrictions on individual and community rights. Consequently, in the process of epidemic prevention and control, it is crucial to understand the various ways in which human rights protection is directly or indirectly restricted. Therefore, in this same process, how to prevent the violation of human rights and protect all human rights in a balanced and reasonable way is a particularly worthy academic issue. Human rights protection in epidemic situations involves a series of rights, including but not limited to the right to know the epidemic situation, the right to transmit epidemic information, the right to obtain public health services for epidemic prevention, the right to medical treatment, the right to basic living standards during isolation, the right of residents in epidemic areas not to be discriminated against, the right to privacy of the infected, the personal freedom of the confirmed and suspected infected, and the property rights of the expropriated, citizens’ right to know, participate and supervise the epidemic prevention and control, etc. In the context of the COVID-19 virus, questions of ‘new’ rights may arise concerning misinformation or prevention of fear/scaremongering. A summary and reflection of the protection of human rights in the process of Anti-COVID-19 in 2019 to 2020 will help to improve the relevant legal system, emergency management and human rights protection in epidemic prevention and control. Submission Guidelines The CCHRR invites submission of papers for its 2020 Special Theme Issue. Submissions must be sent by 30th June 2020. - If you would like to submit, read more information about our Submissions process: http://www.cchrreview.org/submissions - All submissions must be in Word .DOC format. - The subject line should state: “CCHRR Paper Submission Special Call”. Submissions should be addressed to “Managing editor” and sent by email to cchrr@vu.nl Contact: Vivian Aiyedogbon, Managing Editor Cross-cultural Human Rights Review Email: cchrr@vu.nl Web: http://www.cchrreview.org/specialissue-epidemic __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Contributions to African Phenomenology
__ Call for Publications Theme: Contributions to African Phenomenology Publication: Edited Collection Date: 2021 Deadline: 31.5.2020 __ There is a growing appreciation of phenomenology as a subfield within African and Africana philosophy. However, the term “African phenomenology” is not used as widely, nor has it been as systematically elaborated as its counterpart, Africana phenomenology. A recent international colloquium convened on the theme Contributions to African Phenomenology in Chintsa, South Africa (University of Fort Hare) devoted itself to addressing this lacuna by seeking to seminally establish the theoretical contours of African phenomenology. Proceeding from this colloquium, an edited collection of chapters that reflect on the method, history, domain, themes, examples and prospects of African phenomenology is envisaged. This collection will be based on peer-reviewed presentations that were delivered at this colloquium, newly commissioned papers, and contributions from the wider philosophical community following on this call. Themes The collection is to be framed around the themes emanating from the four keynote papers presented by Lewis Gordon, Paulin Hountondji, Rozena Maart and Achille Mbembe. These themes are: - Methodology and scope - Subjectivity and language - Intentionality and meaning - Experience and embodiment - Methods and contemporary challenges Contributors are invited to submit abstracts under the abovementioned thematic sections. Editors Abraham Olivier (University of Fort Hare), M. John Lamola (University of Pretoria), Justin Sands (North-West University). An agreement with an international institutional publisher deemed appropriate for this historic collection is in progress. Submission procedure Abstracts of the intended chapter(s) contribution not exceeding 500 words, with a proposed title as well as a brief 200-word biographical statement must be received by the editors on or before 31 May 2020. The editors will select the suitability of the projected chapter based on the abstracts submitted. Formal acceptance of the abstract, with publication details and possibly editorial guidance, will be communicated by 30 July 2020. All manuscripts must be submitted on or before 31 October 2020, and must be ready for a double-blind peer review with a turnaround time of 90 days. The organisers plan to make a final submission of the complete manuscript to the publisher during the first semester of 2021. Kindly address the submission of abstracts, paper submissions and all correspondence to: afriphe...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Philosophy and Landscape East and West
__ Call for Publications Theme: Philosophy and Landscape East and West Publication: Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Date: Vol. 7, No. 2 (2020) Deadline: 31.5.2020 __ The landscapes we live within play a vital role in all aspects of human life and have become an important locus of phenomenological analysis. Often, landscapes are venerated for their beauty, sublimity, or their sacred status. Others, those too close to notice, the mundane landscapes of our everyday lives, hide themselves and in so doing are no less (or perhaps more) important for determining how we are as human beings, how we move, perceive, imagine, and think, perhaps even how we philosophize. We find ourselves as earthbound beings among the landscapes of the sacred and the mundane, the elevated and the everyday, the visible and the invisible. Inquiring between and beyond these binaries, the Fall 2020 volume of the Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology will explore the various thinkers and artists East and West who have disclosed the rich potential of landscape for philosophy. Submissions are welcome from all philosophical approaches and traditions exploring any number of issues or debates relating to and expanding the philosophies and phenomenological analysis of aesthetic issues relating to landscape; including, landscape art, painting, sculpture, landscape gardens, representations in cinema, virtual landscapes, topics relating to landscape and territory, migration, pilgrimage, religion, boundaries/borders, geophilosophy, the environment, as well as philosophies of place, environmental aesthetics, and issues arising from intercultural dialogue on landscape art and aesthetics. We welcome in particular submissions that are grounded in the phenomenological tradition. Of course, relevant papers grounded in other philosophical traditions are welcome, although we ask that authors show sensitivity to the journal’s philosophical orientation. The editors invite articles on these and other topics related to Landscape East and West. Submissions will go through a blind review process and four of them will be selected for publication by the guest editor. The maximum length of the article is 8,000 words. Please follow the journal’s style guidelines: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rfap20=instructions Guest Editor: Adam Loughnane (University College Cork) Submission Deadline: 31 May 2020 Send submissions to: adam.loughn...@ucc.ie Contact: Adam Loughnane University College Cork Email: adam.loughn...@ucc.ie Web: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfap20/current __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Postcolonial Bauman
__ Call for Papers Theme: Postcolonial Bauman Type: 10th Anniversary Conference Institution: University of Leeds Location: Leeds (United Kingdom) Date: 3.–4.9.2020 Deadline: 11.5.2020 __ One of the most prominent and influential intellectuals of our times, Zygmunt Bauman envisaged and practiced sociology as a dialogical activity. Jointly held by the Bauman Institute – celebrating its 10th anniversary – and the Postcolonial Intellectuals and their European Publics Network (PIN), this transdisciplinary conference proceeds in this spirit by inviting a dialogue between Bauman and postcolonial studies. Though he is better remembered for being a postmodern than a postcolonial figure, the conference seeks to turn the tables by asking what Bauman might have to offer postcolonial studies, and by corollary what postcolonial critics, who have only rarely engaged with Bauman, might have to say about his work. The conference is organised around four overlapping strands, each of which reflects on the composite figure of ‘postcolonial Bauman’: 1) Postcolonialism and Postcommunism We invite papers that engage with Bauman’s relatively neglected discussions of European colonial expansion and decolonisation; that assess his socio-political writings on communism and its aftermath in central and eastern Europe (especially Poland); and that use both of these bodies of critical work to consider the relationship between postcolonialism and postcommunism in the dual context of the dissolution of the Soviet empire and the rise of ‘new imperialisms’ in Russia and other parts of the contemporary globalised world. 2) Postcolonial Europe We invite papers that consider Bauman’s wide-ranging reflections on Europe from a postcolonial perspective. Topics here might include: the historical and contemporary status of European migrants and refugees; the idea of Europe and the ideology of Eurocentrism; the camp as a phenomenon of global modernity; the perils and pitfalls of European and other nationalist populisms; and the multiple connections between western (European) modernity and western (European) colonialism, seen as both modernity’s frequently imagined opponent and its often unacknowledged collaborator, its ‘dark side’. 3) The Intellectual as Outsider We invite papers that situate Bauman as part of a generation of central and eastern European Jewish intellectuals exiled by Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism; but also as part of a global cadre of twentieth-century émigré intellectuals, many of them with profound experience of the ‘imperial present’ as well as the colonial past. Other topics to consider here might include: ‘otherness’ and genocide; the mutuality of colonial and other racisms; and the gendering of the postcolonial intellectual, whose authority is often implicitly – sometimes explicitly – coded as ‘male’. Papers are also invited here that compare Bauman to other twentieth- and twenty-first century intellectuals, both within and beyond Europe. 4) The Intellectual as seen from the Outside We invite papers here that reflect on the intellectual, either as a threatening oppositional figure or as a would-be accomplice in ongoing attempts to fight for equality and freedom in a deeply divided world. This strand potentially includes the reception of Bauman’s work outside of Europe, in countries with as varied histories as Australia, Brazil, and China, as well as the application and adaptation of Bauman’s ideas and theories to disciplines other than his own. Taken together, these strands aim to stimulate new reflections on Bauman’s work, but also to produce a suitably nuanced reconsideration of the function of postcolonial intellectuals at a time when the idea of intellectual labour is increasingly democratised but democracy itself – not least in Europe – is increasingly seen as being at threat. Submission of Abstracts The Bauman Institute and the Postcolonial Intellectuals and their European Publics Network (PIN) now invite abstracts of no more than 150 words for this conference. Abstracts should be clearly linked to one of the four strands outline above and emailed to the conference organising Committee via Sarah McLaughlin: s.mclaughl...@leeds.ac.uk Abstracts may be received until 12.00 noon (BST) on Monday 11th May 2020. Decisions on abstracts will be communicated to authors not later than Friday 15th May 2020. Keynotes Etienne Balibar Carlo Bordoni David Lyon (others TBC) Given the current global uncertainty concerning the health risks of travel (as well as possible restrictions on movement, perhaps into September) – and to make our event as inclusive as possible by assisting the participation of academic and non-academic colleagues from all parts of the world – we are currently planning for the possibility of this 10th Anniversary Conference being held entirely online. Further details forthcoming. Conference
InterPhil: JOB: Fellow in Philosophy
__ Job Announcement Type: Fellowship in Philosophy Institution: Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Location: London (United Kingdom) Date: 2020–2021 Deadline: 15.4.2020 __ LSE Fellow in Philosophy at London School of Economics and Political Science www.jobs.ac.uk The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method seeks applications for a one-year LSE Fellowship in Philosophy. Salary from £36,647 to £44,140 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £47,456 pa inclusive of London allowance. This is a fixed term appointment for 12 months. Candidates should be well prepared to teach an introduction to philosophy for first-year undergraduates and a Masters-level course on "Philosophy of Gender and Race". Candidates should have - A completed or be close to completing a PhD in Philosophy or another relevant discipline by the post start date. - A developing, high quality research record in Philosophy - Excellent communication and presentation skills - The ability to work in close partnership with fellow teachers, including on a one-on-one basis and in small groups, and to provide effective support to students, as necessary. We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities. For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification. To apply for this post, please go to: https://info.lse.ac.uk/LSE-jobs If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email: philosophy-d...@lse.ac.uk The closing date for receipt of applications is Wednesday 15 April 2020 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications. __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: TOC: Global Justice and Education
__ Table of Contents Theme: Global Justice and Education Publication: Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric Date: Vol 12 No 1 (2019) __ Introduction Special Issue on Global Justice and Education Julian Culp Articles Epistemic Capabilities and Epistemic Injustice: What is the Role of Higher Education in Fostering Epistemic Contributions of Marginalized Knowledge Producers? Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco Global Citizenship Education, Global Educational Injustice and the Postcolonial Critique Johannes Drerup Low-Fee Private Schools in Developing Nations: Some Cautionary Remarks Juan Espindola International Educational Justice: Educational Resources for Students Living Abroad Lindsey Schwartz Autonomy Education Beyond Borders Danielle Zwarthoed Reviews The Troubling Modesty of Human Rights Theodore Lai Capitalism, Human Rights, and Critical Theory Cain Shelley Journal website: https://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/index.php/gjn/issue/view/16 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Ethical Pluralism and Intercultural Information Ethics in Asian Contexts
__ Call for Publications Theme: Ethical Pluralism and Intercultural Information Ethics in Asian Contexts Publication: Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JCEA) Date: Vol 20, No 1 (Summer 2021) Deadline: 1.9.2020 __ The early 1990s and the Internet’s rise as an engine of globalization forced a central task upon emerging Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE): how to conceptualize and implement a global information and computing ethics conjoining (quasi-) universal ethical norms and principles with a robust defense of local, culturally variable identities and practices? Discourses pitting a homogenous imposition of Western values and norms against resistance to such homogenization for defending local cultural identities, but at the cost of potential fragmentation and isolation, first forced these issues. Increasing recognition of “computer-mediated colonization” – as Western-centric cultural norms and communicative preferences, embedded in ICT design, were imposed upon “target” cultures – made these concerns still more urgent. In response, ethical pluralisms (EPs), as conceptualizing connections (such as shared norms) preserving irreducible local differences, were developed and successfully implemented in both Western and non-Western contexts. But Western-based EPs remain open to critique. In Asia, EP is integral to conceptions of resonance and harmony in Daoist, Confucian, Buddhist, and Islamic traditions. Furthermore, Chinese and Indian technological innovation hubs have also emerged, grounding further exploration of Asian-rooted conceptions of EP, resonance, and harmony, which remain central to an IIE opposing colonizing adaptation of Western values and norms in Non-western cultures. These are especially critical vis-à-vis the ongoing encroachment of advanced ICTs, e.g. AI, Big Data, the IoT, “surveillance capitalism” and the Chinese Social Credit System, as increasingly defining our cultural lives. Our primary questions: what sorts of EP and similar notions of resonance or harmony might help resolve these central problems in the contemporary developments of (East) Asia? And: do earlier IIE traditions and evaluation of “radical” technologies fruitfully respond to even “more radical” emerging ICT challenges evoked by contemporary, far more powerful ICTs? This special issue of the JCEA invites papers that deal with theoretical and practical dimensions of EP, notions of harmony and resonance in contemporary Asian contexts, and/or traditional/recent resonances of ICT-related challenges. We are particularly interested in but not limited to: - Critical evaluations and possible expansions of contemporary EP, especially as oriented towards / grounded in (East) Asian contexts - Concrete examples of EP in praxis – whether successful or not in sustaining shared norms and irreducible local differences in (East) Asian contexts - Theoretical and practical explorations of (East) Asian relatives of Western-centric pluralisms from Confucian, Buddhist, and other local traditions – e.g., of resonance, harmony, etc. – that might offer advantages over EP on both theoretical and practical grounds. Please submit your 500-word abstract (maximum) in English to c.m@media.uio.no by September 1, 2020 (subject line should include “JCEA Special Issue”). Deadlines Abstract Submission: September 1, 2020 Abstract Notification: October 1, 2020 Article Submission: December 31, 2020 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 15, 2021 Final submission of revised papers: June 1, 2021 Invited editor: Charles M. Ess, University of Oslo c.m@media.uio.no For more information about the JCEA, refer to: https://jceasia.org/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Constructing Islam
__ Call for Publications Theme: Constructing Islam Subtitle: Politization of Muslim Identity in Contemporary World Publication: Islamology. Journal for Studies of Islam and Muslim Societies Date: Special Issue (2020) Deadline: 1.6.2020 __ Journal Islamology invites you to participate in special issue in 2020 which will be devoted to constructing of Muslim identity. “A practice is Islamic because it is authorized by the discursive traditions of Islam, and is so taught to Muslims—whether by an ‘alim, a khatib, a Sufi shaykh, or an untutored parent”, writes Talal Asad drawing attention on heterogeneity of the Islamic tradition. But what if, in contemporary public space, this pluralism is reduced to simple and seemingly understandable markers of ‘European’ or ‘radical’ Islam? The actors of public discourse employ the rhetoric of ‘social integration’, defined on the basis of political and cultural categorization of ‘our’ moderate Muslims and ‘not-our’/’alien’ extremist Muslims. Such actors also utilize the ideas of ‘formatting Islam’ (K. Stöckl), whereby a pluralistic Islamic tradition is replaced by the discussions about themes, such as ‘how a European Islam is compatible with the values of Western democracy’. First, this leads to what Olivier Roy calls the ‘essentialization of Islam’, or ‘an attempt to explain everything through Islam, thus forming a negative attitude towards the “Muslim community”’. Second, this also results in politicization of the very Muslim identity, as pointed out by Rogers Brubaker while describing the category of 'groupism' in his identity theory. How do various actors ‘format’ Islam in the public space? How do established discourses politicize and transform the Muslim identity? Finally, how does the Muslim community respond to requests to unify/standardize its representation, and what effect does this exert on pluralism within the Muslim community? What new meanings emerge from such interaction? In this issue we invite authors to examine in-depth the phenomenon of politicization of Muslim identity: on the one hand, what image is being shaped in different sectors of public space? and, on the other hand, how does the Muslim community react to the set frames? In what cases and why does a certain community position itself as ‘Muslim’? As a rule, even if these questions are examined in both Russian and Western historiography, the selection of cases does not allow to observe a comparative perspective. For example, ‘Euro-Islam’ is analyzed separately, as is the phenomenon of the Russian "traditional Islam" and the ‘soft Islam’ of Indonesia. The aim of this issue is to consider various models of constructing Islam in public space using broad (first of all, from the geographical point of view) empirical material, which enables their comparative analysis. Authors are welcome to focus on the following questions and topics, but not limited to them: - What does it mean to be a Muslim? Identity theories and their applicability to Muslim communities; - What are the mechanisms for constructing Muslim identity in public space? Securitization and domestication of Islam; narratives of the ‘clash of civilizations’; neo-imperial discourse and the categories of ‘tradition’ and ‘history’ in the construction of Islam; - ‘Formatting’ of Islam and politicization of Muslim identity: images of Islam constructed in various segments of public space (mass media, political parties, academic research, etc.); - ‘European’, ‘Russian’, ‘British’, ‘French’ Islam: transformation and sources of national Islamic discourses; - The problems of terrorism, extremism, migration, security, citizenship in the discourse of various Muslim communities. The authors are welcome to submit their proposals as abstracts with a title (not more than 500 words) to guest editor Sofya Ragozina (sofyaragoz...@gmail.com) by June 1, 2020. If proposal is accepted, the full text of the article should be submitted by September 1, 2020. The languages of the journal are Russian and English; you can send abstracts and articles in either of those languages. We remind you that articles in the journal are produced using the sixth edition of the APA Styleguide (APA 6th ed.). For more details on the rules, click here: http://islamology.in/journal/about/submissions In case of positive reviews, the authors will have to reformat their texts in accordance with our requirements, if the original form of the article did not adhere to them. Contact: Sofya Ragozina Email: sofyaragoz...@gmail.com or pa...@islamology.in Web: http://islamology.in __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and AI
__ Call for Publications Theme: Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and AI Publication: Edited Collection Deadline: 30.3.2020 __ Modern philosophers such as Rene Descartes, William Amo, and Patricia Churchland, have all sought to unravel the mind-body dilemma in many ways. What is immediately noticeable is the fact that the salient perspectives of modern African philosophers like Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye and Jonathan Chimakonam – are rarely engaged. Furthermore, the 21st century has seen the rise in the development of artificial intelligence systems and their effects on several aspects of human life. Again, the salient contributions of African scholars have not fully made their foray into philosophical questions concerning the epistemology and ethics of AI. To bridge these gaps, we invite full paper submissions for an edited collection titled: Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and AI. This project is in keeping with the ongoing efforts to build the African philosophy literature in different areas not only for research but for classroom discussions. Contributions from scholars outside the African philosophical tradition which engages or unveils the African perspective to the associated issues of mind, consciousness and AI are also welcome. Topics of relevance include (but are not limited to): 1. Panpsychism and vitalism as theories of theory of mind 2. African approaches to the mind-body debate 3. African ethics of AI 4. Western models of the mind vs African models of the mind 5. Robots and personhood 6. African approaches to the hard problem of consciousness 7. Epistemology, rationality and mind 8. Is Africa ready for the fourth industrial revolution? 9. Transhumanism, singularity and the meaning of life 10. Being human in a techno-laden world 11. Robots and African communalism 12. African conceptions of the self and personal identity Please submit an abstract (200 words max) along with a short bio to (aribiahdavidat...@gmail.com) on or before the 30th of March 2020. We are looking to publish this book with Springer Nature Publishers. Important dates: Submission of bio/abstracts: 30 March 2020 Notification of accepted abstracts: 30 April 2020 Submission of full papers: 15 October 2020 Editors: Aribiah D. Attoe csp, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Segun T. Samuel csp, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Victor Nweke csp, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany John-Bosco Umezurike csp, Nigeria Maritime University, Nigeria Contact: Aribiah D. Attoe The Conversational School of Philosophy Email: aribiahdavidat...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: PhD Scholarships in Philosophy
__ Call for Applications Type: PhD Scholarships in Philosophy Institution: Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice Location: Pardubice (Czech Republic) Date: 2020–2024 Deadline: 31.5.2020 __ Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value invites graduates in philosophy and neighbouring disciplines to apply for an internationally open PhD scholarship. Alongside conducting research in ethics and political philosophy, a key part of the Centre’s aim is to foster the development of the next generation of academics. To its PhD students, it offers an inspiring environment of a friendly community of researchers and doctoral students, a regular PhD seminar, and the opportunity to engage in the philosophical life of the Centre, including participation in conferences, workshops and seminars. The students can use a well-furnished PhD room and a common room, as well as the Centre‘s library and study. Full-time PhD students receive a monthly stipend and have ample funding opportunities for travel. Supported by a major multi-year EU-funded grant, the Centre for Ethics brings together a group of international researchers in ethics and political philosophy to work on issues surrounding the distinctive value of human life. Alongside the study of general ethical and political problems, the Centre favours a ground-up approach to timely topics, such as attitudes towards marginalised groups and topics including populism, nationalism, religious conflict, and climate change. The Centre has working links with partner institutions including King’s College London, University of Melbourne, University of Uppsala, Åbo Akademi and University of Genoa. (More information here: https://centreforethics.upce.cz/en) Examples of possible research projects - The value of humanity, love and hatred, sources of disregarded human value - Racism, sexism, xenophobia, social exclusion, poverty, affliction - Political emotions; postfactism, populism and demagoguery - Patriotism, nationalism and liberal universalism - Disagreement, difference and (in)tolerance in political discourse - Good and evil, remorse, punishment, forgiveness - Topics in moral psychology and theory of action - Ethical and political questions related to the climate crisis; animal ethics - Ethics and technology, AI, new media - Morality in philosophy and art, questions of philosophical method Research projects of our current PhD students - Iris Murdoch’s Distinction between Philosophy and Literature - The Ethics of Public Space - Rethinking Moral Creativity: The Transformation of Moral Standards in the Everyday - The Challenge Creative Computers Present to the Good Life - The Role of Shame and Guilt in the Moral Development of Children - Otherwise than Anthropocentrism: Levinas Face-to-Face with the Animal - The Moral Power of Literature Practical information Applicants are encouraged to consult a prospective supervisor in our Centre in advance. Possible supervisors include: Christopher Cordner, Niklas Forsberg, Nora Hämäläinen, Hugo Strandberg, Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon. (The research team of the Centre: https://centreforethics.upce.cz/en/team) The standard length of study is 4 years in the full-time study mode. Full-time, resident students admitted to the PhD programme receive a monthly stipend (currently 11,250 CZK) to defray living expenses. The working language of the PhD programme and of the Centre is English and applicants should have a good grasp of academic English. No knowledge of Czech is required. The University of Pardubice is located within walking distance from the historical centre of Pardubice, a charming city in the heart of Europe. Pardubice is well connected by train to several major European cities, including Prague (1 hour) and Vienna (3 hours). Application deadline: May 31st, 2020* Interviews: mid June 2020* Decision: by the end of June 2020* Starting date: October 1st, 2020* (*These deadlines may change in consequence of the current Corona virus situation. Please follow the Centre website or e-mail for updates.) Information about admission requirements and procedure: https://centreforethics.upce.cz/en/how-apply Contact for inquiries: Doc. Niklas Forsberg (niklas.forsb...@upce.cz) Dr. Ondřej Beran (ondrej.be...@upce.cz) Contact: Ondřej Beran, Ph.D. Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value Department of Philosophy University of Pardubice Studentská 95 (correspondence address)/Stavařov 97 (contact address) 532 10 Pardubice Czech Republic Email: ondrej.be...@upce.cz Web: https://centreforethics.upce.cz/en __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: ANN: 2020 HDCA Conference to be held online
__ Announcement Theme: New Horizons Subtitle: Sustainability and Justice Type: 2020 HDCA Conference Institution: Human Development & Capability Association (HDCA) College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University Location: Online Date: 30.6.–2.7.2020 __ Due to the recent outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), it is no longer possible to run the 2020 HDCA Conference in its original format. The duty of care of both the event organisers at Massey University and the HDCA is not compatible with the idea of large groups of speakers and audience, many coming from different regions across the globe, travelling to Auckland and congregating in large numbers. What is more, on 14 March the New Zealand Prime Minister announced that any person from any country, excluding the Pacific islands, is now required to self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival to New Zealand. Other countries are implementing similar measures. At this stage, it is impossible to reliably predict the course of this pandemic. However, it appears highly unlikely that unhindered international movement (that does not put the health of travellers and their communities at risk) will be reinstated by June 2020. Consequently, after consultation with the HDCA Executive Council, we, the organisers of the 2020 HDCA Conference, have decided to change the set-up of the event to a pure online format. Fortunately, we had been planning to run a Video-Conferencing Pilot all along, so we are well-prepared for this change. In effect, we are now increasing the scale of the online element. Anyone who previously submitted a proposal for contributions will be given the following options: - Change their submission to an application for a live video-conferencing slot - Change their submission to an application for a virtual poster-presentation or pre-recorded video slot - Withdraw their submission We will contact everyone who previously made a submission in the coming days, and we hope that as many of them as possible choose options one and two. We similarly encourage everyone who previously planned to join our conference as part of the audience in Auckland to participate in the online event. Please check the conference website regularly for information and further updates: http://www.2020hdca.com Due to the change of format, the conference registration fees have been adjusted. Conference registration will open soon. Important dates change as follows: - March 21, 2020: Announcement of acceptance/rejection - April 4, 2020: Deadline for scholarship applications - April 17, 2020: Announcement of scholarship recipients - May 16, 2020: Deadline for conference registration at early-bird rates - June 6, 2020: Final deadline for conference registration at standard rates - June 15, 2020: Submission of posters/videos With our best wishes for your health and general well-being, The 2020 HDCA Conference Organisers For questions, you can reach us at: 2020h...@massey.ac.nz Conference website: http://www.2020hdca.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Summer School on Philosophies of Technology in Intercultural Perspective
__ Call for Applications Theme: Philosophies of Technology in Intercultural Perspective Type: A summer school beyond disciplinary boundaries Institution: Forum Scientiarum, University of Tübingen Society for Intercultural Philosophy (GIP) Location: Tübingen (Germany) Date: 27.–31.7.2020 Deadline: 15.4.2020 __ From Fernando GIP The University of Tübingen in collaboration with the Society for Intercultural Philosophy (GIP: http://www.int-gip.de/home/) is organizing an international summer school on Philosophies of Technologies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. The summer school is open to doctoral students in philosophy, sociology, social anthropology, history, art history, literature, but also technical studies and other related subjects. Applications are welcome from all over the world. Topic “Philosophies of Technology in Intercultural Perspective” In Western philosophy, technology is understood in such a way that humans make use of the laws of nature for creating cultural artefacts, i.e. that humans copy the functionality of nature. In this way, humans have gained a set of instruments that enables them to decouple their cultural development from biological evolution. At the same time, this has led to an instrumental understanding of nature that has recently come under increasing criticism. There has been a trend within different disciplines like anthropology, ethnology and archeology that acknowledges this point and seeks to rehabilitate non-Western cosmologies. Authors worth mentioning here are Bernard Stiegler, Philippe Descola, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro. One author who particularly works in this direction is Yuk Hui. In his book The Question Concerning Technology in China (2017), he proposes to break with the functional Western concept of technology using the idea of ‘cosmotechnics’, which he preliminary outlines as “the unification between the cosmic order and the moral order through technical activities” (2017, 19). Is it possible to think of a notion of technology able to overcome the discontinuities between nature and culture? Departing from the aforementioned definition, Hui points out that in Chinese philosophy (at least until the 19th century), the notion of a ‘technical object’ (qi, 器) is always subordinate to the cosmological and moral order of Dao (道). In this way Chinese thought understands nature as being primarily moral. By carefully reconstructing Chinese sources and its different schools Hui is able to deliver an alternative genealogy of technology and, in doing so, an alternative concept for it. Far from arguing in favour of cultural particularism, this strategy rather encourages further research about the discursive practices through which problems regarding technology become manifest. In this sense, as Hui writes, “cosmotechnics proposes that we reapproach the question of modernity by reinventing the self and technology at the same time, giving priority to the moral and the ethical” (2017, 290). This should not mean that there are no cosmotechnics in the West at all. On the contrary, what this concept implies is that the Western understanding of technology should be seized as one of multiple cosmotechnics and that we should rehabilitate the moral dimension of ontology. Therefore, Hui’s goal does not consist in returning to ancient and more authentic forms of mediation, but to destigmatize the role of cultural pluralism within philosophical debates. His focus on technology seems to provide fruitful ground for an intercultural dialogue. Organization The purpose of this summer school adheres to the above and promotes a dialogue among PhD candidates interested in the task of thinking philosophies of technology beyond the Western tradition, transgressing and problematizing at the same time the categories of nature and culture themselves. In doing so, this summer school will explore new theoretical and practical approaches to address challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Morning sessions will be given by Professor Dr. Yuk Hui. Participants must present a 15-minute paper during afternoon sessions that critically discusses one of the themes and/or questions of the summer school. Engagement with current research questions and issues are particularly welcome as well as connections with current PhD projects. There will be additional keynotes at the evening. Organizer: Dr. Niels Weidtmann, University of Tübingen, Germany Application This summer school is open to doctoral students from all disciplines (applications of master students will be considered in exceptional cases). Applicants should supply the following documents: - Application form (available here: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/148503) - CV (2 pages max) - 300-word expression of interest - paper title and 300-word abstract Applications should be sent until April 15th the
InterPhil: ANN: Dialogos interdisciplinarios entre culturas, democracias y ciudadanias (Postergacion de fechas)
__ Anuncio Theme: Diálogos interdisciplinarios entre culturas, democracias y ciudadanías Type: II Jornadas Internacionales de Filosofía Intercultural Institution: Instituto de Filosofía 'Dr. Alejandro Korn', Universidad de Buenos Aires Location: Buenos Aires (Argentina) Date: 14.–16.10.2020 Deadline: Por definir __ From: Alcira Beatriz Bonilla Como se anunció en las Circulares anteriores, 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, convocó 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 la pandemia de Coronavirus, tanto atendiendo a que había invitados especiales provenientes de países de riesgo como a las medidas de prevención decretadas por el gobierno argentino, se posterga la fecha de su realización para los días 14, 15 y 16 de octubre de 2020 en la sede de la Facultad (Puán 480, C.A.B.A.). Las Jornadas se organizarán igualmente en torno a los seis ejes temáticos ya determinados: 1. Interculturalidad y ética; 2. Interculturalidad y género; 3. Interculturalidad y política; 4. Interculturalidad y educación; 5. Interculturalidad y ambiente; 6. Interculturalidad y arte. Para el desarrollo de estos ejes temáticos, se mantiene la estructura de seis simposios integrados por invitados especiales, de sesiones de ponencias libres y de dos sesiones plenarias. Se solicita a las personas que hayan enviado resúmenes y recibido su aprobación, en fecha que se indicará en una próxima circular, confirmen su presentación o se retiren de las Jornadas. También se fijarán fechas para la presentación de nuevas ponencias. Dirección electrónica de contacto para consultas: jornadafilosofiaintercultu...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: PhD Course on the Ethics of War
__ Call for Applications Type: PhD Course on the Ethics of War Institution: University of Oslo Location: Oslo (Norway) Date: 26.–29.5.2020 Deadline: 30.3.2020 __ Description This course will provide a general introduction to the main approaches within just war theory and explore in detail several contested issues under debate, such as: Under what circumstances is it permissible to initiate a war? How should we understand the notion of proportionality? What is the role of blame to liability to defensive harm? What is the ethical impact of new military technologies, especially AI? Do combatants on either side of the war have the same moral status? Who incurs a duty of compensation to the victims of war, and what does it consist in? Is it permissible to impose collateral damage to save important cultural heritage? Are non-combatants always illegitimate targets in war? What is the role of ‘legitimate authority’ in political violence? In what ways does terrorism differ from war? The course is organised at the Univeristy of Oslo, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, in collaboration with the Research School on Peace and Conflict. Instructors will be Professor Jeff McMahan (Oxford), Lars Christie (Oxford, Oslo), Greg Reichberg (PRIO). Requirements No prior knowledge of just war theory will be assumed, but participants will be expected to do the set reading in advance. The course will be delivered by a combination of interactive lectures and reading group-style seminars, based on readings circulated before the start of the course. Upon full participation and the satisfactory completion of a course essay, the course equals 5 ECTS according to the standards of the University of Oslo. Participants must get an overview of the readings, participate actively in the lectures and submit a course essay that is marked as "pass". Appliciation deadline: 30th March 2020 Please send your application (statement of interest and CV) to Maria Seim: maria.s...@ifikk.uio.no Contact: Maria Seim Doctoral Research Fellow in Practical Philosophy Department of Philosophy, IFIKK, University of Oslo Email: maria.s...@ifikk.uio.no __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: International Justice Delegation
__ Call for Applications Type: International Justice Delegation Institution: Global Youth Connect Location: The Hague (Netherlands) Date: 30.6.–11.7.2020 Deadline: 15.4.2020 __ Global Youth Connect is pleased to announce the inaugural "International Justice in The Hague, Netherlands" summer professional development experience for undergraduate and graduate students and young professionals interested in gaining knowledge and practical experience in the fields of international justice, law, human rights, and peace. The International Justice Delegation brings together young people from around the world for a unique and intensive 12-day program exploring international justice, human rights, peace, and international law. Rather than study these subjects only through textbooks, participants experience real-life cases of international justice coming to life in The Hague, Netherlands, also known as the international capital of peace and justice. Guided by a seasoned legal practitioner and professor, delegates have a unique opportunity to experience in person and first-hand the international courts, institutions confronting global challenges, and interact with an international judge, courtroom practitioners, advocates, and senior officials, and engage in interactive dialogues. The Hague hosts, among others, the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, and a long list of international bodies and courts, including the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (now succeeded by its residual mechanism, the "IRMCT"), and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Participants in the International Justice Delegation delve intensely into international justice, human rights, peace, and international law, in preparation for daily visits to these leading institutions. A field trip to a former Nazi concentration camp punctuates the first week, and illustrates the cascade of international criminal justice since Nuremberg. Delegates see first-hand the movement of the wheels of international justice, and come to understand the politics and mechanics behind the scenes. They meet with key actors. Participation in the International Justice Delegation also serves as an excellent primer for graduate or other further study in international relations/law/justice, human rights, politics or peace studies. Students and young professionals gain, in a very short time span, unique insight into international justice, human rights, peace, and international law. Summer 2020 Application Deadline: April 15, 2020 About the instructor: Gregory Townsend, JD, MA started his legal career as a deputy public defender in Los Angeles. In 1998, he joined the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and clerked for a Slovenian supreme court judge before joining the prosecution, spending more than seven years working on Rwandan genocide cases. He later became a prosecutor for both the UN peacekeeping mission in Kosovo and the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He then served as Head of Office for the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague on the trial of Liberian President Charles Taylor. He joined the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in 2010 as chief legal advisor to the Prosecutor. From 2014 to 2018, he was chief of the Registry’s Court Services Section at the ICTY and UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, where he oversaw witness protection, legal aid and court operations. He has been based in The Hague since 2007 and presently works as a lecturer in law. He is on the list of counsel to represent victims before several international criminal courts, and was elected in 2019 to a three-year term on the ICC’s Advisory Committee on Legal Texts. Contact: Dechen Albero, Executive Director Global Youth Connect Email: dec...@globalyouthconnect.org Web: http://www.globalyouthconnect.org/netherlands __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Intercultural Studies
__ Call for Applications Type: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Intercultural Studies Institution: Forum Scientiarum, University of Tübingen Location: Tübingen (Germany) Date: 2020 Deadline: Ongoing __ The Forum Scientiarum of the University of Tübingen announces two International Research Fellowships for a period of 6-12 months in the field of Intercultural Studies. Applicants must have successfully completed their dissertation and, if possible, already have some initial postdoctoral research experience. The Forum Scientiarum is an interdisciplinary oriented institute of the University of Tübingen. One of the main areas of research is interculturality. The Forum Scientiarum offers its own courses for students of all subjects. It is supported in its work by a scientific advisory board, in which representatives of all faculties meet. The Forum Scientiarum is supported by the Udo Keller Foundation Forum Humanum. Applicants are expected to pursue their own research project in the field of intercultural and global studies. The focus is on fundamental questions regarding the awareness of the coexistence of different cultures in the global world. Should the diversity of intellectual and lived traditions be represented in the global reality of contemporary societies? How can hidden power structures and ascriptions of identity be uncovered? What does cultural belonging mean at all? What is the impact of globalization on the individual cultural belonging? What impact does the global interlacement of cultures have on the self-understanding of Western societies? Does the interlacement of cultures change our relationship to nature? What does it mean for the humanities and even the sciences? Successful applicants should contribute their research to a workshop on "Belonging - the meaning of a fundamental structure of the human being in the 21st century". In addition, the willingness to teach one course per semester is expected. Fellows are required to take residence in Tübingen; very good German and/or English language skills are required. The research project must be conducted in one of these two languages. The University of Tübingen can offer you a monthly stipend of at least 1.750,- EUR with a child allowance depending on the number of children (400,- EUR + 100,- EUR for each additional child). A working space will be provided. The scholarship can start in January 2020 or later. Applications (research proposal, CV, letter of recommendation) are welcome immediately: Dr. Niels Weidtmann, Director Forum Scientiarum University of Tübingen Doblerstr. 33 72074 Tübingen Germany Email: niels.weidtm...@fsci.uni-tuebingen.de For further information please visit our homepage: https://www.forum-scientiarum.uni-tuebingen.de __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Philosophy of Race
__ Call for Applications Theme: Critical Philosophy of Race Type: Short-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship Institution: Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen Location: Nijmegen (Netherlands) Date: July – December 2020 Deadline: 31.3.2020 __ We are looking for scholars to further develop the research line started by Dr Anya Topolski on the race-religion constellation (www.racereligionresearch.org). The goal of this research is to develop a European critical philosophy of race by focusing on the intersection of race and religion manifest in terms of antisemitism, islamophobia and antiziganism. We welcome applications for a research fellowship in the interdisciplinary field of critical philosophy of race for the first semester of the next academic year. You will be provided with a salary, an office, and access to university libraries. In return, you will be expected to participate in the group's activities, apply for an NWO VENI postdoctoral fellowship (3 years full-time or 4 years part-time. For more information see www.nwo.nl) to be submitted in December 2020. The NWO application also requires preparing a pre-proposal due late August/early September. We also expect you to present your research in a seminar, assist in applying for other related grants, and lead a seminar/workshop on issues of gender/race for the staff of the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies. Requirements: - A PhD in a relevant discipline (or a defense date set for prior to August 1 2020). - Eligible to apply for the NWO Veni (please check their website for details) or another equivalent grant. - Several publications. - A background in a field related to race/racism/racialization (i.e. critical philosophy of race, critical legal theory, critical race studies). - A good command of written and spoken English. We offer - Employment: 20 - 40 hours per week. - A maximum gross monthly salary of € 4.978 based on a 38-hour working week (salary scale 11). - The exact salary depends on the candidate's qualifications and amount of relevant professional experience. - In addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus. - Duration of the contract: The appointment will be for 3 months (40 hours), 4 months (30 hours) or 6 months (20 hours) and can be taken up between July and December 2020. - You will be able to make use of our Dual Career Service: our Dual Career Officer will assist with family-related support, such as child care, and help your partner prepare for the local labour market and with finding an occupation. - Are you interested in our excellent employment conditions? Would you like more information? For more information about this vacancy, please contact: Dr. Anya Topolski Associate Professor Ethics and Political Philosophy Email: a.topol...@ftr.ru.nl Website: https://www.ru.nl/english/working-at/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1094507=%2Fenglish=embed=uk=IwAR3jqxNLY1W9vGN_VKrGrLO-0sZ6sP11Ig7gReJrGbu-St6clFl80D4UxhI Apply directly Please address your application to Dr. Anya Topolski and submit it, using the application button, no later than 31 March 2020, 23:59 Amsterdam Time Zone. Your application should include the following attachments: - Letter of motivation. - CV. - A link to a published article. - A brief outline of the intended research topic (1 page max.). The interviews will take place on 20 April 2020. Skype is possible. Contact: Dr. Anya Topolski Associate Professor Ethics and Political Philosophy Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Erasmusplein 1, Office 16.22 6525 HT Nijmegen Phone +32 479641764 Email: a.topol...@ftr.ru.nl __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Justice, Legitimacy and Secession
__ Call for Publications Theme: Justice, Legitimacy and Secession Publication: Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Philosophy Date: Number 18 (January-June 2021) Deadline: 24.4.2020 __ Politics is about managing conflict, about how we should live together. Many traditions of thought and political thinkers have nonetheless taken this shared space of conflict, this ‘we the people’, as a given. ‘The people’ is just considered as a necessary precondition for politics. What happens when a part of this ‘we’ disagrees with that? When some consider this shared community should not be taken as given and claim for their right to secede and build their own independent political community. Such claims have bearings on the fundamental questions ‘who is the demos? And who are the people entitled to self-government?’ Political philosophers have reflected on this issue widely. Some have defended the morality of groups to secede if they have a democratic majority. Others have argued that secession is justified only when it is a remedy against an evil – for example, when a minority group is persecuted by a state controlled by a majority group. This kind of conflict constitutes a pressing issue in contemporary democratic societies. It thus calls for further philosophical reflection. How should political institutions deal with secession? Are democratic procedures a normatively appealing solution? Pro-independence supporters argue the affirmative on the basis of a right to self-determination. From a philosophical point of view, however, things are not obvious. Which majority are we talking about? A majority state-wide, or only within the minority group claiming for independence? Going further, what does self-determination mean and imply in democratic terms? Does it imply the creation of a nation-state or should internal self-government suffice? Is self-determination territorially conditioned? What would happen with dispersed minorities? Besides, is a democratic procedure enough to justify a decision regardless of its content? What is the place of justice when discussing on secession issues? How should we balance justice claims and democratic procedures when dealing with secession? All these questions seem fundamental philosophically speaking, but secession is also a relevant issue in our contemporary societies. It is part of, but not limited to, the Spanish constitutional crisis derived from the political claims of Catalan pro-independence parties and institutions, perhaps the greatest political turmoil since the beginning of Spanish democracy in 1978 (in addition to the recognition demands of other territories such as the Basque Country). It was also a pressing issue for the Quebec and Scottish referendums on independence in 1995 and 2014 respectively, New Caledonia’s agreement with France regarding its political status, the Kurdish unilateral referendum on independence in Iraq in 2017, or the political status of Taiwan. These are a few examples of how relevant are pro-independence claims nowadays. What can the different theories of democracy and theories of justice have to say about the pressing issue of secession? This dossier invites scholars working on political philosophy to contribute to these and other related questions. Online Submissions: http://www.lastorresdelucca.org/index.php/ojs/about/submissions Deadline: April 24, 2020 Coordination: Sergi Morales-Gálvez The scientific scope of Las Torres de Lucca (International Journal of Political Philosophy) will be to comprehend the characteristics of political philosophy, in line with the interdisciplinary character that has operated in this field during the last several years. We welcome contributions from the areas traditionally linked directly to political philosophy (moral philosophy, philosophy of law, political theory), as well as from those that have been incorporated up to the present day (political economy, philosophy of history, psychology, neurophysiology and, to a lesser extent, other sciences) as long as their scope is focused on the treatment of public affairs and sheds light on contemporary political reflections. In the same way, the reference to classic problems should be brought to bear on contemporary questions. The journal publishes original articles in English and Spanish. Journal website: http://www.lastorresdelucca.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: In the Wake of Red Power Movements
__ Call for Papers Theme: In the Wake of Red Power Movements Subtitle: New Perspectives on Indigenous Intellectual and Narrative Traditions Type: International Symposium Institution: Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick Location: Coventry (United Kingdom) Date: 15.–16.5.2020 Deadline: 15.3.2020 __ This symposium explores North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions that were recovered, reclaimed, or (re-)invented in the wake of Red Power movements that emerged in the 1960s in the settler colonial societies of Canada and the USA. It asks: which new perspectives and visions have been developed over the last 50 years within Indigenous studies and related fields when looking at Indigenous land and land rights, Indigenous political and social sovereignty, extractivism and environmental destruction, oppressive sex/gender systems, and for describing the repercussions of settler colonialism in North America, especially in narrative representations? The symposium is guided by the idea that North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions developed and recovered since the 1960s offer new and reclaimed ways of being, organizing, and thinking in the face of destruction, dispossession, and oppression; Indigenous ways of writing and righting are connected to ongoing social struggles for land rights, access to clean water, and intellectual and socio-political sovereignty; they are, as Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill (2013) have pointed out, “a gift” from which most academic disciplines can benefit greatly. In the face of ongoing exploitations of Indigenous knowledges and resources, it is paramount that researchers who focus on Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions, especially those who come from settler-colonial backgrounds, carefully examine their implications in settler-colonial ways of dispossession. It is in this context that the symposium encourages self-reflectivity and invites participants from all positionalities to include reflections on how to act, think, and write in a non-appropriative manner about the intellectual achievements of Indigenous academics, activists, artists from North America. What kind of challenges does an engagement with Indigenous intellectual and narrative achievements from North America pose, and how do these achievements enable their audience to think differently and to develop visions that go beyond settler colonial hegemonies that make themselves felt in customs, laws, property-relations, or gender roles? Possible topics include: - North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions that emerged or were rediscovered over the last 50 years; - Indigenous representations of land and water, community-building, the other-than-human world; - connections and frictions among and within different Indigenous traditions and/or settler societies in North America; - Indigenous understandings of sex/gender; - methodologies for reading across ethnic divides, alliance-building tools in academia and activism. Keynote speakers: Dr. Mishuana Goeman Associate Professor of Gender Studies, UCLA Dr. Robert Warrior Distinguished Professor of American Literature & Culture, University of Kansas Please send your proposals (max. 300 words) plus a short bio (max. 150 words) by March 15, 2020 to: in_the_w...@outlook.com You will be notified by March 29, 2020, if your paper is accepted. For any questions, please refer to the organizer Dr. Doro Wiese, IAS, University of Warwick. Contact: Dr. Doro Wiese Institute of Advanced Study University of Warwick Zeeman Building Lord Bhattacharyya Way Coventry CV4 7AL United Kingdom Email: in_the_w...@outlook.com Web: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/calendar/in-the-wake/ __ 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? Online Submissions: http://www.lastorresdelucca.org/index.php/ojs/about/submissions Deadline: December 15, 2020 Coordination: Cristina Bernabeu, Alba Moreno y Llanos Navarro The scientific scope of Las Torres de Lucca (International Journal of Political Philosophy) will be to comprehend the characteristics of political philosophy, in line with the interdisciplinary character that has operated in this field during the last several years. We welcome contributions from the areas traditionally linked directly to political philosophy (moral philosophy, philosophy of law, political theory), as well as from those that have been incorporated up to the present day (political economy, philosophy of history, psychology, neurophysiology and, to a lesser extent, other sciences) as long as their scope is focused on the treatment of public affairs and sheds light on contemporary political reflections. In the same way, the reference to classic problems should be brought to bear on contemporary questions. The journal publishes original articles in English and Spanish. Journal website: http://www.lastorresdelucca.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: PhD and Postdoc Positions in Global Epistemologies and Ontologies
__ Call for Applications Theme: Global Epistemologies and Ontologies Type: PhD and Postdoc Positions Institution: Wageningen University Location: Wageningen (Netherlands) Date: 2020–2023/24 Deadline: 31.3.2020 __ Do you want to contribute to the research and learning in the field of philosophy, socio-environmental challenges and livelihoods in global perspective? We have an interesting job opportunity in an inspiring academic environment! 3 PhD and 2 postdoc positions are available in the research cluster "Global Epistemologies and Ontologies of Science" (GEOS), which is embedded in the "Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation" (KTI) Group of Wageningen University. GEOS links philosophy with socio-environmental challenges and livelihoods in global perspective. GEOS develops an empirical, action-oriented, and participatory approach to philosophy. - Empirical philosophy: We address epistemological and ontological questions in collaboration with natural and social scientists and reflect on the empirical complexity of socio-environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss, food sovereignty, and public health. - Philosophy as action research: We address epistemological and ontological questions not as abstract philosophical puzzles but contribute to real-life interventions that respond to the concerns of local communities in areas such as biocultural heritage, intercultural education, research governance, and social activism. - Participatory philosophy: We do research with (rather than merely about) local communities and we aim to learn from epistemologies and ontologies of the Global South. The PhDs and postdocs will be employed in the the project "Ethnoontologies. Relating Metaphysics and Practice of Knowledge Diversity" funded by a VIDI grant of the Dutch NWO and the project "Local Ecologies of Knowledge: towards a Philosophy of Ethnobiology" funded by an ERC Starting Grant. The ERC project focuses on epistemological questions of knowledge diversity and local expertise about biodiversity. For more information on this project, see the following project excerpt: http://david-ludwig.com/excerpt-erc-david-ludwig The VIDI project focuses on ontological questions about different ways of thinking about the structure of the biological world and their relations to local livelihoods. For more information on this project, see the following project excerpt: http://david-ludwig.com/excerpt-from-vidi-david-ludwig For further information regarding the PhD positions: https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/Three-PhD-Positions-in-Global-Epistemologies-and-Ontologies-.htm For further information regarding the postdoc positions: https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/Two-Postdoc-positions-in-Global-Epistemologies-and-Ontologies-.htm Contact: David Ludwig Wageningen University Hollandseweg 1 6706 KN Wageningen Netherlands Email: david.lud...@wur.nl __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Migration, Adaptation and Memory
__ Call for Papers Theme: Migration, Adaptation and Memory Type: 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: University of Gdańsk Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana InMind Support Location: Gdańsk (Poland) Date: 18.–19.6.2020 Deadline: 31.3.2020 __ 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 31 March 2020 to: migrationconference2...@gmail.com Confirmation of acceptance will be sent by 5 April 2020. The conference language is English.
InterPhil: CFA: Dissertation Fellowship in Cross-cultural Philosophy
__ Call for Applications Type: Philosophy Dissertation Fellowship Institution: APRA Foundation Berlin Location: Berlin (Germany) Date: 2020–2023 Deadline: Ongoing __ The purpose of the APRA Foundation Berlin Philosophy Dissertation Fellowship is to motivate pursuit of a well-rounded education in philosophy that prepares the applicant to flourish in a variety of professional environments – whether academic or otherwise – that demand cross-cultural knowledge, logical reasoning, and recognition of the extent to which Western culture is rooted in the more ancient cultures of the Near and Far East. To this end, it requires of the applicant prior completion of a background program of philosophical study that extends beyond the scope of most undergraduate and graduate degree requirements, in its inclusion of required coursework in logic, Eastern philosophy, and the Arabic and Jewish thinkers in Medieval philosophy. In this way, the Fellowship Applicant Credentials establish a foundation for advanced philosophical study that cultivates both familiarity with philosophical approaches from a variety of non-Western traditions, and also the shared tools of consistent reasoning and analysis through which to reintegrate them into meaningful relation with the Western tradition. This will serve all Fellowship applicants well whether they actually win the Fellowship or not. The successful applicant will receive a grant of € 12,000.00/year, divided into 12 sequential monthly payments of € 1,000.00 each, for a period of 36 sequential months, running from September of the first year through August of the third sequential year. The Fellowship is portable to any accredited philosophy dissertation program in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, or North America. It is the responsibility of the Fellow to gain admission to such a doctoral program at an accredited institution, to obtain a dissertation advisor, and to discharge the academic and administrative requirements described above. The Fellow agrees to teach no more than one course per semester at the most, in addition to researching and writing the dissertation, during the Fellowship period. For further information, please visit: http://adrianpiper.com/foundation/PhDFellowshipMenu.shtml Cotact: APRA Foundation Berlin Postfach 288 52 10131 Berlin Germany Tel./Fax: +49 30 4403-9244 Email: cont...@adrianpiper.com Web: http://www.adrianpiper.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Social Development of Humanity from the Perspective of Multiculturalism
__ Call for Papers Theme: Social Development of Humanity from the Perspective of Multiculturalism Type: International Conference Institution: Nanchang University Location: Nanchang (China) Date: 25.–26.7.2020 Deadline: 15.4.2020 __ Theme Since the birth of culture in the world of human existence, there have always been many types of classifications, and differences between one culture and another. Even in the same historical era, different cultural types emerged in different geographical areas. Multiculturalism is important for different cultural carriers to characterize their own people, country or nation. Although different cultural types have their own characteristics, there have been always cultural exchange and cooperation in the process of cultural development. No culture can be isolated from other cultures, because diverse cultures are interacting and cooperating within a large system of the world culture. The process of cultural development is open and dynamic, without communication and cooperation with external cultures, it is impossible to achieve one’s own growth. The history of the development of world culture is the history of exchanges among different and diverse cultures. With the acceleration and deepening of economic globalization, the popularization and utilization of modern science and technology has enabled cultural exchanges to be much broader and more frequent. The rapid development of the Internet has made peoples around the world either passively or actively engage in the process of globalization in various aspects. There exists not only a communication between traditional and advanced cultures, but also the conflict between local and foreign cultures. We are facing many challenges in such a process, especially in the human social development. There might be conflicts when cultures and peoples encounter one another partly due to their differences. However, this could be also a learning process to understand each other better. Thus it is necessary to examine the issue of human social development from a multicultural perspective. The conference will focus the following sub-themes: 1. Cultural exchanges and construction of a community of shared human destiny 2. Justice and human social development 3. Non-traditional security and international cooperation 4. Global ecological crisis and responses and strategies 5. Multiculturalism and globalization 6. China's poverty reduction and world anti-poverty Abstract Please send 300 words and a brief CV to Deng Yangqi [d...@ncu.edu.cn], Li Ren [li...@ncu.edu.cn] and [cua-...@cua.edu] by April 15, 2020. Full paper will be due on June 1, 2020. Well-developed papers will be considered to be published by the RVP in its publication series "Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change." Logistics There is no registration fee. Participants will cover their own travel costs and the local organizers will provide accommodations. Contact Deng Yangqi and Li Ren School of Marxism Nanchang University Nanchang China Email: d...@ncu.edu.cn and li...@ncu.edu.cn Conference website: http://www.crvp.org/conferences/2020/Nanchang.html __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Grand Inquisitors
__ Call for Papers Theme: Grand Inquisitors Subtitle: Dostoevsky and Tarkovsky and the Western Philosophical Tradition Type: Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: Russian Cultural Centre Location: London (United Kingdom) Date: 21.–22.9.2020 Deadline: 8.5.2020 __ The philosophical genius of both Fyodor Dostoevsky and Andrei Tarkovsky was immediately apparent. Of Dostoevsky’s first novel, Poor Folk (1846), renowned literary critic Vissarion Belinsky proclaimed to the young novelist: “To you, an artist, the truth has been revealed and proclaimed; it has come to you as a gift. So cherish your gift, remain faithful to it, and be a great writer”. Similarly, of Tarkovsky’s debut film, Ivan’s Childhood (1962), Ingmar Bergman wrote: “My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease”. Despite turbulent careers compounded by often deleterious relationships with the Russian state, both Dostoevsky and Tarkovsky are considered grandmasters of their respective arts. This conference considers the strong philosophical consonance between Dostoevsky and Tarkovsky, their engagement and confrontation with the modern Western philosophical tradition, and the nature of the religious existentialism that grounds their most significant works. Tarkovsky’s philosophical indebtedness to Dostoevsky is summarily epitomised in a diary entry dated to April 30th, 1970: “Dostoevsky could become the whole point of what I want to do in cinema”. Dostoevsky’s own artistic purpose was fundamentally defined by a spiritual epiphany he experienced during his imprisonment in Siberia. The transformation of Dostoevsky’s literature upon his return to European Russia occurred in part due to his new-found spiritualism and in part owing to his new philosophical bearings. On February 22nd, 1854, while imprisoned in Siberia, Dostoevsky wrote to his brother requesting books by Vico and Ranke, as well as “the Koran, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and…without fail…Hegel, especially Hegel’s History of Philosophy. My whole future is bound up with that”. Hegelianism had permeated the Russian intelligentsia since the 1840s. The spread of German Idealism, borne itself through Cartesian subjectivity and Kantian transcendental logic, contaminated Russian high society with ideals of atheism and nihilism. It was such ideals that Dostoevsky’s major novels, upon his return to writing, aimed at overthrowing. Dostoevsky developed, across his literature and political writings, a religious existentialism that would have a profound influence on major subsequent philosophers, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus. Through his characters, Dostoevsky subverts the modern dictates of science and reason in order to comport his readers toward an understanding of human authenticity, that is, toward self-mastery and self-control, itself grounded in the religious experience. Faith and spirituality were predominant themes in Dostoevsky’s major novels of the 1860s and 70s and in Tarkovsky’s films from 1966 to 1986. Echoes of Dostoevskyan religious existentialism reverberate throughout Tarkovsky’s oeuvre, while the fundamental aspects of the human condition explored in such works as The Idiot, Demons, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov resonate with Tarkovsky’s own character studies in Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, and The Sacrifice. Like Dostoevsky, Tarkovsky stood against the tides of rationalism and idealism, proclaiming that “knowledge distracts us from our main purpose in life. The more we know, the less we know. Getting deeper, our horizon becomes narrower. Art enriches man's own spiritual capabilities, and he can then rise above himself, to use what we call 'free will’”. Like Dostoevsky, Tarkovsky sought to emancipate the human condition from its material and epistemological bonds and turn it towards a mode of spiritual authenticity. This conference aims at exploring not only the resonance of the philosophies of Dostoevsky and Tarkovsky but also considers the broader philosophical tradition within which both artists stand. That is to say, how are we to understand the literature of Dostoevsky and the cinema of Tarkovsky within the broader canon of the history of philosophy? If, for instance, Dostoevsky himself effected through his writings manifest shifts in contemporary philosophical thought, particularly in the realm of existentialism, to what extent is Tarkovsky engaging with such developments in his own time? This leads to an inevitable comparison of Dostoevsky and Tarkovsky’s treatment of the ‘West’ and its impact of its principles on the Russian state. For Dostoevsky, this meant the encroachment
InterPhil: CFA: Summer Course on The Diversity of Human Rights
__ Call for Applications Theme: The Diversity of Human Rights Subtitle: Human Rights Between Morality, Law, and Politics Type: Summer Course Institution: Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik Location: Dubrovnik (Croatia) Date: 31.8.–4.9.2020 Deadline: 15.4.2020 __ Course Description "Human rights are universal, egalitarian, and categorical and refer to fundamental interests of individual human beings. They are historical responses to particularly grave experiences of injustice and threats; they are declared by political actors and institutionalized in legal orders. Regarding their normative implications, they are morally justifiable. Hence, they entail political, legal, and moral dimensions which stand in complex relations towards each other yet cannot be reduced to one of them" (Georg Lohmann). Georg Lohmann is the founding figure of our course "The Diversity of Human Rights" and its spiritus rector since almost twenty years. As the title he gave to the course already indicates, Lohmann rejects any reductionist approach of human rights not only concerning their content but also with regard to the different disciplinary perspectives we need to study them appropriately. He is convinced that the different types or generations of human rights - civil, political, social and cultural rights - also reflect their complex nature as morally justified, politically interpreted and legally enforced claims of individuals. With this year's topic we directly address Lohmann's central research topic and thus want to honor our colleague and friend as a distinguished human rights scholar. Based on the conviction that recognition in science and philosophy shall take the form of argumentative exchange, we invite human rights scholars from different disciplines and schools of thought to contribute to this conference and to present papers on the complex relations between morality, law, and politics. Welcome are contributions which either discuss Lohmann's research directly or take a different stance on the fundamental issues regarding our topic. Examples of relevant questions could be: Is a naturalistic theory, according to which we have human rights simply in virtue of being human, appropriate to capture the nature of human rights? Or should we favor some political or practice-dependent conception instead? Are human rights claims hold exclusively against states of state-like political institutions, or are other agents also bound by human rights obligations? Is a state-centered approach of human rights still the prevailing opinion in International Law? Is the constitutionalization of international law still a realist utopia despite the recent backlash against globalization and multilateral forms of cooperation? Do human rights necessarily include a right to democratic governance? Can Habermas' thesis of a co-originality of human rights and democracy be defended against liberal and republican alternatives? Is there a way to reconcile the universality of human rights with the particularity of rights to citizenship and of the specific experiences that give rise to concrete human rights claims? The annual course "The Diversity of Human Rights" addresses different problems within the human rights discourse. The participants come from various countries and bring in different disciplinary competences relevant for human rights theory and practice. The course aims at an interdisciplinary debate, especially between philosophy, jurisprudence, and political science. Furthermore, the course intends to establish a dialogue between academic researchers and human rights activists from the region. The organizers invite researchers as well as human rights activists coming from all fields and disciplines, to send in abstracts that deal with some of the problems and tensions indicated above. From the abstract, the relation to the course's topic should emerge clearly. The course will give room for the presentation of papers and will include workshops especially designed for students and young researchers to present their work in progress. Each director will invite excellent students to participate in the course. The course language is English. The course fee paid to the Inter-University Centre will be around 50,- Euro. Deadline: April 15, 2020 Email: arnd.pollm...@berlin.de or bernd.lad...@fu-berlin.de Organizers Prof. Dr. Elvio Baccarini, University of Rijeka Prof. Dr. Bernd Ladwig, Free University Berlin Prof. a.D. Dr. Georg Lohmann, University of Magdeburg Dr. Ana Matan, University of Zagreb Prof. Dr. Corinna Mieth, University of Bochum Prof. Dr. Christian Neuhäuser, University of Dortmund Prof. Dr. Arnd Pollmann, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin Contact: Prof. Dr. Arnd Pollmann Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin Email: arnd.pollm...@berlin.de Prof. Dr. Bernd Ladwig Free University Berlin Email: bernd.lad...@fu-berlin.de
InterPhil: CONF: Contributions to African Phenomenology
__ Conference Announcement Theme: Contributions to African Phenomenology Type: International Colloquium Institution: University of Fort Hare University of Pretoria North-West University Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa (CPSA) Location: Chintsa (South Africa) Date: 5.–6.3.2020 __ African phenomenology is an emerging subfield within the broader domain of African and Africana philosophy. The phenomenological method, with its various approaches to studying the meaning of human experience, has been a cornerstone in the thought of African Philosophers such as Paulin Hountondji, Tsenay Serequeberhan and D.A. Masolo, and proponents of Africana Philosophy such as Frantz Fanon, Lucius Outlaw and Lewis Gordon. While this philosophical approach has most evidently informed such thinkers, their contributions are often ‘siloed’, separated from, or neglected in the larger discursive terrain of African/Africana philosophy, postcolonialism/decolonisation, and the global phenomenology movement. The purpose of this colloquium is to explore contributions of African phenomenology to African/Africana philosophy, postcolonial/decolonial discourse, and deliberations within the international phenomenological community. The event will be centred around four keynote speakers, speaking individually, and with response papers tailored to their specific papers. Keynote speakers: Lewis Gordon (University of Connecticut) Paulin Hountondji (Université Nationale du Bénin) Rozena Maart (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Achille Mbembe (Wits University) Respondents: Chris Allsobrook (University of Fort Hare); Thabang Dladla (University of Limpopo); Louise Du Toit (Stellenbosch University); Patrick Eldridge (University of New Brunswick); Schalk Gerber (Stellenbosch University); Albert Kasanda (Czech Academy of Sciences); M. John Lamola (University of Pretoria); Rianna Oelofsen (University of Fort Hare); Bernard Matolino (University of KwaZulu-Natal); Keo Mbebe (University of Pretoria); Uchenna Okeja (Rhodes University); Abraham Olivier (University of Fort Hare); Alena Rettova (University of London); Justin Sands (North West University); Pedro Tabensky (Rhodes University). Venue: Crawford Beach Lodge in Chintsa, South Africa Organisers: Abraham Olivier (UFH), Justin Sands (NWU), Malesela J. Lamola (UP), Keo Mbebe (UP) Program frame: Day 1: 14:00-14:15 Opening 14:15-16:15 Session one: Achille Mbembe 17:00-19:00 Session two: Rozena Maart Day 2 9:30-11:30: Session three: Paulin Hountondji 13:00-15:00 Session four: Lewis Gordon 15:30-16:30 Session five: Panel discussion with keynotes and summative response by Mogobe Ramose 16:30 Close Contact: Abraham Olivier Department of Philosophy University of Fort Hare Chris Hani Building East London South Africa Email: aoliv...@ufh.ac.za __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Hate Speech in Asia
__ Call for Papers Theme: Hate Speech in Asia Subtitle: Challenges and Solutions Type: International Conference Institution: Asia Centre Location: Bangkok (Thailand) Date: 8.–10.7.2020 Deadline: 29.2.2020 __ Overview Across Asia hate speech based on fake news has led to an increase of violent incidents as disinformation divides communities during periods of political and communal tensions. With rising internet penetration and use of mobile devices, abusive and threatening remarks both in speech and writing are going viral over social media. Often such content expresses intense prejudice against individuals or particular groups, on the basis of disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, political ideology, race, religion or sexual orientation which can rise up to a frenzy leading to violent outcomes. Governments have enacted laws to preserve public order as well as to protect human dignity. They have also sponsored and assembled inter-faith dialogues and embarked on social cohesion efforts. Other stakeholders such the UN, international organisations, civil society and faith-based groups are also doing their part to combat hate speech. In the search for solutions to these challenges, there is also a need for an evidence-based discussion to critically examine the phenomenon of hate speech and its impact on democracy, the rule of law and human rights. This conference seeks to address the issue of hate speech from an evidence-based and a solution grounded approach while upholding freedom of expression. Themes The key issues that will be examined are as follows: - Blasphemy, hate speech, “harmony” (national, social, religious) laws and bills - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) - Human rights mechanisms (UN [UPR/Special Procedures], AICHR, NHRIs) - Non-legal interfaith dialogues and social cohesion or social harmony initiatives - Perspectives from religion, race, ethnicity and nationalities - Political and nationality-based discrimination and hate - Social protection of gender and LGBTIQ stakeholders - Role of media, social media and technology - Impact on democracy, freedom of expression, human rights and the rule of law - Any other relevant or related themes Objectives The conference aims to achieve the following objectives: - Convene interested individuals and organisations researching hate speech - Exchange information and trends around legislation to prevent hate speech - Examine non-legal measures to promote social cohesion and harmony - Evaluate hate speech’s impact on democracy, freedom of expression, human rights and the rule of law Conference Structure The conference will consist of short remarks, keynote speeches and plenary and breakout sessions made of thematic panels and country-specific discussions. Conference Participants Registration is open to all presenters and participants from academic institutions, businesses, national and regional civil society organisations, international NGOs, political parties and intergovernmental organisations to facilitate knowledge sharing and networking. Due to the stability of internet connection available, Asia Centre is not able to accommodate online presentations and participation. Conference Fee This is a self-funded conference, hence a flat fee of USD $300 that will be charged to all keynote, paper and poster presenters, participants and drop-in visitors. This will go towards covering the cost of the venue, equipment and logistics, coffee breaks on all days, certificates for participants, conference communications and staff. Submission Guidelines - Paper Presentations and Speeches Researchers and practitioners wishing to present papers or share their experiences are invited to submit a title, an abstract in English of 300-350 words along with a biographical paragraph of 100 words here: http://bit.ly/2y0GcEb For those submitting papers, full papers should be 5000 words. - Poster presentations Limited space is available for 4 to 5 poster presentations. Your presentation may be submitted in word / pdf format to the Asia Centre for consideration. A 60×80 cm poster will be printed and displayed during the conference. Full conference fees apply. Key Dates - Accepting abstracts now (deadline 29 Feb 2020) - Payment due following acceptance of paper - Full papers (deadline 15 June 2020) Contact: Dr. James Gomez, Convener Asia Centre 128/183 Phayathai Plaza Building (17th Floor) Phayathai Road Thung-Phayathai Rachatewi Bangkok 10400 Thailand Email: resea...@asiacentre.org Conference website: https://asiacentre.org/event/hate-speech-in-asia-challenges-and-solutions/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/
InterPhil: CFP: Centralizing African Philosophy for African Development
__ Call for Papers Theme: Centralizing African Philosophy for African Development Type: African Philosophy Conference Institution: Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan Pan African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG) Location: Ibadan (Nigeria) Date: 8.–11.7.2020 Deadline: 30.4.2020 __ Background Once upon a time, African Philosophy struggled under the yoke of ontological, epistemological, axiological and logical denial. Eurocentrism and racism combined to consign the ancestral homeland of human intellectual, scientific, religious, axiological heritage to the oblivion of primitivity and barbarity; this consignment was a product of rank greed, ignorance and perversion which affected both the humanity of Africans as well as of Europeans – after all, a sa koko, ati koko e, awon mejeeji jo maa gbe ni. Since we passed the stage of philosophical exclusion, numerous strides have been made, and tomes have been published celebrating the fecundity and depth of African Philosophy globally. And numerous symposia, conferences and colloquia have convoked in various parts of Africa. These have been good developments. However, the challenge has been unmasking and transcending the paradigms and topographies ordained by EuroAmerican restrictive and often puerile trajectories of engaging reality seen from Nordic perspectives. This particular challenge has manifested in what Claude Ake ably described in 'Social Science as Imperialism'; Olufemi Taiwo in 'How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa'; Franz Fanon in 'Black Skin, White Mask'; Orlando Patterson in 'Slavery and Social Death'; John Bewaji in 'Narratives of Struggle'; it is the facticity which has made Africa and its Diaspora mendicants, dependent on crumbs from the largesse taken from Africa through brain, brown and resource extraction over 700 years of interface with Asia Minor and Europe (USA/ China). African Philosophy, like all aspects of African Academy, requires creative engagement in all its dimensions. Following the West in its doomed blustering with reality, encapsulated in Trumpism, Brexit and Macronism will only exacerbate the decadence and depreciation of Global African humanity. Investigating, researching, documenting, teaching and propagating African Philosophy require totally both traditional and new, orthodox/unorthodox and creative methodologies. Narratives which emanate from the core of African experiences must guide this process. The received knowledge which has made our leadership no more than messengers to global denudation of African matrimony and patrimony require challenge by our seasoned and upcoming researchers. Tropes of globalization, information communications technologies, educational and religious paradigms which continue to enslave our imaginative spirits and impoverish our spaces and places in the comity of humanity require urgent and immediate attention. Business as usual will not cut it. Africa does not have the luxury of waiting, nor can Africa continue to totter on the precipice of another colonization, thereby making her people fools who are thirsty in the abundance of waters (Bob Marley). This unique Conference on African Philosophy being hosted by the Department of Philosophy, in collaboration with PANAFSTRAG, is the first of many initiatives aimed at giving a foundational bases for the principles and practices by which our existence are guided, determined and managed. To this end, we invite students, scholars, researchers and policy makers from all the disciplines and walks of African life – Humanities, Social Sciences, Technologies, Medicines, Agricultures, Business, Finance, Governance, Voluntary NGOs, etc. – to examine the African intellectual foundations of their methodologies, theories, pedagogies and practices and bring forward reflective papers, panels and roundtables as contributions to this effort. We wish to note that the University of Ibadan is in the process of institutionalizing in a novel, unprecedented, deliberate and future oriented way the necessary structures to continue investigating and disseminating the issues which are core to this Conference. As an ongoing effort, our partners, collaborators, researchers and scholars will continue to be engaged within the continent and without. The Main Theme for this Conference is: Centralizing African Philosophy for African Development The Decade of the Peoples of African Descent (2014-2024) ends in four short years, with very little to show for it. But the challenges of global Africa has only escalated with the introversion and nationalistic tendencies of erstwhile hegemons. Critical to the survival of Africa (continentally and globally) is Philosophy. Religion, Business, Social Existence, Culture, Technology, Politics, International Relations and everything, conceivable and otherwise, derive their foundations from Philosophy writ
InterPhil: PUB: Music, Culture and Dialogue
__ Call for Publications Theme: Music, Culture and Dialogue Publication: Culture and Dialogue Date: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2021) Deadline: 1.10.2020 __ Culture and Dialogue is an international peer-reviewed journal of cross-cultural philosophy and humanities that is published semi-annually both in print and electronically. Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. For each issue, the Journal seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator. ISSN -3282 Our first 2021 issue (Vol. 9.1) will focus on the theme of Music, Culture and Dialogue. This Issue welcomes contributions from any areas of interdisciplinary philosophy of music, which include: - Music as dialogue, its role and significance as intercultural experience - Comparative philosophy of music, which may analyse one or more particular cultural perspectives (Eastern, African, Western, Indian etc.) - Philosophical reflection on modes of understanding the nature of music (anthropological, social, religious, political, psychological, scientific etc.) - Inquiry into the cultural dimensions of music from across the traditions of interpretive and analytic philosophies We welcome essays that address any of these topics from different cultural perspectives or philosophical traditions. Submissions to: ad...@culture-dialogue.net Notes for Authors: www.culture-dialogue.net/notes-for-authors Deadline: 1st October 2020 Contact: Erika Mandarino, Manuscript Editor Culture and Dialogue Email: mandarinoer...@gmail.com Web: http://www.culture-dialogue.net __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Solidarity and Community
__ Call for Papers Theme: Solidarity and Community Type: 15th Annual NALS Conference Institution: North American Levinas Society (NALS) St. Michael's College Location: Colchester, VT (USA) Date: 21.–24.7.2020 Deadline: 10.3.2020 __ The 15th annual conference of the North American Levinas Society will be held July 21st to 24th, 2020, at St. Michael’s College, in Colchester, Vermont – just a 5 minute drive from Burlington. The theme for the upcoming conference is "Solidarity and Community.” NALS welcomes submissions on all topics relevant to the work of Emmanuel Levinas, but we especially encourage topics that address the conference theme, including but not limited to: - Solidarity, service, and/or social justice - Religion and community - Levinas in dialogue with Christianity and/or Catholic social teaching - Talmudic teaching, solidarity, and community - Righteousness and human rights - Non-violence, restorative justice, and/or peace - Equality, equity, and justice - Immigration, solidarity, and community - Climate justice and our shared environment - Intersectionality, justice, and solidarity movements - Race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability in community - Generational solidarity & community All proposals are due march 10th, 2020. Please prepare materials for blind review and send them via email attachment by March 10th, 2020, to the conference host, Katie Kirby, with the subject “NALS 2020 Proposal": kki...@smcvt.edu All submissions will be acknowledged, and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by March 31st, 2020, along with information on conference registration. - Individual Paper Proposals should be 200–300 words for a 15–20 minute presentation. - Panel Proposals should be 400 words for 75–90 minute panel sessions. Please include on separate cover the session title and name of organizer or panel chair, along with participants’ names, institutional affiliations, disciplines or departments. Please direct all inquiries concerning the conference to the conference host, Katie Kirby: kki...@smcvt.edu General questions regarding the Society should be directed to: Erik Garrett, NALS President: garre...@duq.edu or Dara Hill, NALS Executive Secretary: levinassoci...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Anthropology and Ontological Symmetry
__ Call for Publications Theme: Anthropology and Ontological Symmetry Publication: Symmetry Date: Special Issue Deadline: 31.8.2020 __ Symmetry is perhaps one of the notions that is circulating most in contemporary anthropology, but it has not avoided misunderstandings and criticisms. Bruno Latour argued for “symmetrical anthropology” between modern and non-modern, or once-called primitive, people, which is an anthropology of ourselves in symmetry with the classical anthropology of others (Latour, 1991). Over the course of recent decades, science and technology studies have established some principles of symmetry to avoid asymmetrical studies that treat science differently from other ontologies. An anthropology based on these principles of symmetry promises to overcome not only the modern western idea of nature and society as two distinct spheres, but also the divide between modern and primitive (pre-modern) societies by framing them as collectives that integrate a different number of human and non-human beings and which construct their cosmologies around them. In addition, the idea of symmetry demands that we seriously consider the notions of dialogue and reflexivity. An ontological reinvention of the discipline seems to be occurring through the triple problem generated by symmetrical, reverse, and reflexive anthropology. Bruno Latour, along with Roy Wagner, Marilyn Strathern, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Philippe Descola, and a host of their students have been at the forefront of what has been called the “ontological turn” in anthropology in the last few years (Holbraad and Pedersen, 2017). Following the proposal of symmetrical anthropology, which was intended to “expand the range of actors” to include the “nonhuman” (Latour, 2005), the anthropologist should assume a unique “system of distribution of properties”, where the modern ontology of naturalism must be placed on the same symmetrical level as animism, totemism, and analogism (Descola, 2005). In this project, anthropology is recast to include more than the Anthropos in its scope. It would no longer be the science of humankind, but will be based on the symmetrical similarity or difference of the interiorities of “existants”, living beings, things, and spirits. The articles gathered in this Special Issue of the Journal of Symmetry intend to answer an open-ended set of questions: What happened to the project of symmetrical anthropology after the recent efforts at an ontological turn? What difference does it make to consider a multiplicity of cultures over the background of a unified nature, or a multiplicity of natures in addition to a multiplicity of cultures? How does it open up another type of scientific anthropology, no longer based on comparison but on ontological symmetry? With the proposal of a symmetrical anthropology, do the very rejection of the old dualisms of moderns and others or nature and culture run the opposite risk of reifying them anew and throwing us back into the entrenched belief in the old ontological dualities as if they really were separate wholes? By stepping aside notions of culture and meaning, and by simply replacing culture with ontology, do we risk falling back into old traps, for example, seeing other ontologies as given substances, like other cultures may once have been, instead of relational processes generated in historical events? Starting with Boas and Lévi-Strauss, most theorization in anthropology points toward the notion that all cultures are formed in relation to external events rather than mirroring or symmetry. Lévi-Strauss once explained in his Mythologiques why myths cannot be transposed into something else, but are only “translatable into each other” (Lévi-Strauss 1971:577 [Eng.646]). Actually, they are translations or transpositions of each other at the point of boundary articulation of one culture with other cultures. The point is that neither cultures nor ontologies are separate, but they are already historically interconnected and mutually constitutive; they are, in many, ways already in common as symmetrical translations and transformations of each other. Far from a pseudo-mathematical mystification, as receivedmany Anglo-American anthropologists, Lévi-Strauss’s notion of symmetrical transformation originated in mathematics and has been well received by modern scholars seeking to study culture and society by formal means. After the theoretical regress of anthropology in the 1980s, the question is whether re-employing the structural method of symmetrical transformations could pave the way to a new symmetrical approach in anthropology. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form: https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=symmetry
InterPhil: CFP: 'Unknowing' Institutions
__ Call for Papers Theme: 'Unknowing' Institutions Subtitle: Decolonisation and Critical Intersectional Practice Type: AWGSA Biannual Conference 2020 Institution: Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA) Flinders University Location: Adelaide, SA (Australia) Date: 30.11.–3.12.2020 Deadline: 15.6.2020 __ This conference asks: what does it mean to undertake feminist, queer and related critical work within and in relation to institutions that privilege certain ways of ‘knowing’. Indigenous scholars, queer and feminist scholars, and those using intersectional theories, have long critiqued the politics and practices of knowledge production, along with the related inequalities which emerge across race, disability, class, gender, sexuality and age. In an era of neo-liberal instrumentalism, western epistemologies continue to sit at the heart of institutions which structure our work and/or form its point of reference – these highly particular ‘ways of knowing’ continue to determine what counts as legitimate knowledge, how knowledge is ‘built’, processed and obtained, and what counts as valuable knowledge ‘outputs’. They also contribute to material inequalities in a labour market which is increasingly casualised, precarious, inaccessible, and focused on narrow definitions of worth. These practices of ‘knowing’ emerge from and reinforce the colonising project that structures dominant institutions. They also continue to centre the normative Australian citizen, and knowledge producer, as non-Indigenous, white, able-bodied, middle class, cis-male and heterosexual. Significantly, despite the assumed ‘neutrality’ of the neo-liberal individual, institutions continue to rest on patriarchal, colonising, abelist logics – and recently, corporate logics which seek to maximise ‘productivity’ have had very real effects on identities and forms of knowledge that are marginalised. Through this conference, we emphasise two frames to think about what it might mean to ‘unknow’ the institutions that shape our work, or through which we are positioned as subjects, or from which we seek employment. Theories of decolonisation present a challenge to feminist, queer and related critical practice to reflect on what counts as legitimate knowledge, and by extension, how identities and subjectivities can be held accountable. They also present a challenge to take the radical goals of decolonisation seriously. While intersectionality has been critiqued as an approach that is at risk of ‘tick-boxing’ categories (with the power to determine those categories in the hands of the researcher) it remains a vital frame for thinking through privilege and marginality across race, class, disability, gender, sexuality and age. The 2020 AWGSA conference will bring together activists, academics, students, community leaders, artists, researchers, and policymakers to think through the idea of ‘unknowing’ in a multitude of ways, drawing on one or both of the two key frames outlined below. Conference topics - Positionality and place: How we are positioned as subjects in the various institutions in which our work sits? Which identities are privileged and marginalised? What might it mean to decolonise and ‘unknow’ the privileged knowledges and subjectivities that inform the institutions in which our work is situated or from which it is excluded? What does it mean to unknow what we have come to know, and to know in different ways? - Working with and about institutions: How do institutions open up or close down the work we can undertake – what we can say, how we can we express it, how we are privileged or exploited? What are the different practices of knowledge production, in different kinds of institutions? And who is the ‘we’ of institutions? - Resistance and transformation: How, and can, we decolonise the spaces in which we work? How, and can, we decolonise our own work? How can we undertake critical intersectional work in ways that avoid ‘tick-boxing’? What is possible? What might this look like in different institutions and institutional settings? Is it possible, and if so, what would a decolonising ethics of practice look like across diverse institutional contexts? - Knowledge ‘outputs’ and ‘products’: What presently or currently constitutes legitimate knowledge products and outcomes in the spaces in which we work? How can we strategise to make room for a broad range of knowledge outputs – from ‘traditional’ academic publications, to art, theatre, spoken work, fiction and community and political activism? Key Dates Abstracts due 15th June 2020 - Individual papers: Abstract 300 word maximum - Roundtable discussion, panel, workshop, creative intervention-performance: 400 words maximum. Acceptance announced 30th July 2020 Please send abstracts to: awgsaconference2...@flinders.edu.au Conference website:
InterPhil: CFA: Summer School on Linguistic and Religious Diversity
__ Call for Applications Theme: Linguistic and Religious Diversity Type: 2020 Summer School on Human Rights, Minorities and Diversity Governance Institution: Eurac Research Location: Bolzano (Italy) Date: 22.6.–3.7.2020 Deadline: 15.3.2020 __ Content and Objective Eurac Research’s Summer School on Human Rights, Minorities and Diversity Governance is an interdisciplinary, two-week program for all those interested in minority rights and diversity governance. The 2020 edition explores the theme of “Linguistic and Religious Diversity” by examining the challenge and opportunities of diversity through theoretical and empirical perspectives from Europe, Asia and Americas. In seminars and workshops led by international experts, participants will critically engage with topics including religion and gender, radicalization, multilingualism, language and intercultural competences, and minority protection mechanisms in Europe and beyond. Field trips in South Tyrol will provide opportunities to gain first-hand experiences of local approaches to minority protection and diversity governance. Selection of Lecturers - Timofey Agarin (Queen’s University Belfast/Eurac Research) - Eva Brems (University of Ghent) - Joshua Castellino (Minority Rights Group International) - Sergiu Constantin (Eurac Research) - Fernand de Varennes (United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues) - Alessandro Ferrari (University of Insubria) - Georg Grote (Eurac Research) - Emma Lantschner (University of Graz) - Tina Magazzini (European University Institute) - Joseph Marko (Eurac Research/University of Graz) - Roberta Medda-Windischer (Eurac Research) - Tariq Modood (University of Bristol) - Francesco Palermo (Eurac Research/University of Verona) - Verena Platzgummer (Eurac Research) - Julia Mourao Permoser (University of Innsbruck) - Maria Stopfner (Eurac Research) - Alexandra Tomaselli (Eurac Research) - Camil Ungureanu (Pompeu Fabra University) - Kerstin Wonisch (Eurac Research/University of Graz) Date and Venue The 2020 Summer School takes place from 22 June – 3 July 2020 at Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen (South Tyrol, Italy). Application To apply for the Summer School, candidates have to submit a completed online application form: https://opinio.eurac.edu/s?s=6588 In the application form you will be asked to submit: - personal data - relevant academic and professional education - work experience (if applicable) - statement of motivation Only complete application forms will be taken into consideration. No additional documents are required. Start of the application process: 15 February 2020. Application deadline: 15 March 2020. Fees & Scholarships Tuition fee: The tuition fee for the two-week Summer School is € 400. This fee covers: course materials, guided tours in Bolzano/Bozen, access to the library of Eurac Research, internet access, weekday lunches (Mon-Fri). The fee does not cover: accommodation, meals (except weekday lunches), travel costs and other expenses not listed above. Scholarships: We offer full scholarships (tuition fee waiver and free accommodation in a 4 bed-room at the Youth Hostel in Bolzano/Bozen) and partial scholarships (no tuition fee). Selection is based on merit and need. Eurac Research Eurac Research is an innovative private centre for research and training based in South Tyrol (Italy). It focuses on three major themes: regions fit for living in, diversity as a life-enhancing feature, a healthy society. The Institute for Minority Rights pursues basic and applied research on the protection of minorities as well as cultural and territorial diversity governance. Besides its academic expertise, the institute offers consultancy and training activities in Europe and worldwide. Contact: Eurac Research Institute for Minority Rights Viale Druso 1 39100 Bolzano Italy Phone: +39 0471 055 200 Email: summersch...@eurac.edu Web: http://summerschool.eurac.edu __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Which Identity? Tribalism and Humanism
__ Call for Papers Theme: Which Identity? Subtitle: Tribalism and Humanism Type: Interdisciplinary Spring Symposium Institution: Psychoanalysis and Politics Conference Series Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) Location: London (United Kingdom) Date: 29.–31.5.2020 Deadline: 22.2.2020 __ “I knew that I had experienced the dream, but I do not know who wrote it. I wanted desparately to be introduced to the writer who could write those lines”, declared James Grotstein (1981). The statement points towards a questioning of personal identity, opening up to experiences at once alien and familiar. Relating to the essay The Uncanny and the self-reference it contains, Mark Fisher (2016) noted, “Freud’s unheimlich is about the strange within the familiar, the strangely familiar, the familiar as strange – about the way in which the domestic world does not coincide with itself. […] Psychoanalysis itself is an unheimlich genre; it is haunted by an outside which it circles around but can never fully acknowledge or affirm”. In The Ego and the Id, we encounter the traces of this outside as an inside in the description of introjection as a setting up of the object inside the I, perhaps “the sole condition under which” the it can give up its objects. This account leads to a characterisation of the I as “a precipate of abandoned object-cathexes” which furthermore contains those object-choices’ history. The same text offers another definition in stating that the I is first and foremost a bodily I, and adding in a footnote that it “is ultimately derived from bodily sensations, chiefly from those springing from the surface of the body” (26). Thus, aside from the body as an object, an objective entity, there is the idea of the body as that through which the rest is experienced, as a sensing subject. The inner object or objects represent another duality, as core parts of the I, yet originally other. We might think of Erik Erikson’s (1950) framing of identity development in terms of a series of stages with the potential for crises, distinguishing personal and social or cultural identity. Drawing on D. W. Winnicott (1951), Farhad Dalal (2002) emphasises how groups come together on the basis of illusory experiences, transitional phenomena. “In other words, group identity is always an abstraction, a reification, its basis being the shared ‘similarity of illusory experiences’. And it is precisely because of its illusory nature that it needs to be defended so vigorously.” “As children we realized that we were different from boys and that we were treated different—for example, when we were told in the same breath to be quiet both for the sake of being ‘ladylike’ and to make us less objectionable in the eyes of white people. In the process of consciousness-raising, actually life-sharing, we began to recognize the commonality of our experiences and, from the sharing and growing consciousness, to build a politics that will change our lives and inevitably end our oppression”, wrote anti-racist feminist Zillah R. Eisenstein (1978). Identity politics are closely connected to the ascription that some social groups are oppressed (such as women, ethnic minorities, and sexual minorities), the claim that people who belong to those groups are, by virtue of their social identities, more vulnerable to forms of oppression such as cultural imperialism, violence, exploitation of labour, marginalization, or powerlessness. Identity politics can be right-wing as well as left-wing, with white supremacist and fascist movements exemplifying the former. Different forms of identity politics and debates about them are prominent in today’s political landscape, as do questions of how to define it, and of forms of identity politics that are unrecognized and unacknowledged. “When “identity politics” is practiced in such a way that it allows a small group to access and maintain power, it gets labeled as “norms” and treated as simply the way the world works,” wrote Helaine Olen (2019). Identity politics might for instance be based on religion, social class, culture, language, disability, education, race or ethnicity, language, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Ethical and political questions include – Who is allowed to challenge someone’s professed identity? – Who gets to play with a social identity? The word “tribe” can be defined as an extended kin group or clan with a common ancestor, or it can be described as a group with shared interests, lifestyles and habits. While tribal societies have been pushed to the edges of the Western world, tribalism, in the second sense, – in the sense of the tendency to identify, associate wih and support people who are seen to resemble oneself – is arguably undiminished. One sense of the word ‘humanism’ describes an opposite tendency to that of ‘tribalism’, signifying a recognition and benevolence towards all human
InterPhil: CFP: Thinking Africa: Glocal Solutions to Glocal Problems
__ Call for Papers Theme: Thinking Africa Subtitle: Glocal Solutions to Glocal Problems Type: 1st CSP Emerging Ideas on Conversational Thinking Conference (EICT) Institution: Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP) Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria Location: Pretoria (South Africa) Date: 26.–28.8.2020 Deadline: 28.2.2020 __ From Jonathan Chimakonam The Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP), in collaboration with Thinking Africa (Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria), invites scholars to submit abstracts (200 words max) for consideration. Priority will be given to submissions that comply with the eight postulates of the conversational method. Conversational Philosophy (CP) is a philosophic tradition that promotes conversational thinking. It aims at questioning orthodoxy, unveiling new concepts, opening new vistas for thought and promoting the global expansion of thought. Papers to be presented on the theme and sub-themes of the 1st edition of EICT-2020 must propose new ideas, reflectling an African perspective to knowledge, in line with the eight postulates of CP. We encourage submissions on any of the following sub-themes: Inequality; poverty; migration; Afrophobia; femicide; rape; infanticide; climate change; suicide; Othering; racism; borders, disability; gender; epistemic marginalisation/injustice; philosophical counselling; ignorance; Afro-communitarianism; personhood; decoloniality; decolonial curriculum studies; Albinism; theory of the human minimum; relational ethics; Ezumezu logic; harmonious monism; Ibuanyidanda philosophy/logic; consolationism; Ubuntu Ontology; Uwa ontology; deliberative epistemology; theories of truth in a post-truth world; complementary epistemology; explanatory models in African philosophy of science; intercultural exchanges; AI and the future of Africa. Submissions: Submit your abstract to: confere...@cspafrica.org Timeline: Submission Deadline: February 28, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2020 Publication of proceedings: - One special issue in an accredited journal would be dedicated to selected papers. - In addition, two edited anthologies will be published under the Thinking Africa imprint (UKZN Press). Conference Registration Fees: - Africa-based students $50; - outside Africa-based students $100. - Africa-based academics $100; - outside Africa-based academics $150; Keynote Speakers: - Prof. Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. - Prof. Robert Bernasconi, The Pennsylvania State University, USA. - Prof. Obioma Nnaemeka, Indiana University, USA. - Dist. Prof. Thaddeus Metz, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Plenaries: The conference will be a plenary event in that all presentations will take place in one hall. Acceptance to present a paper at the conference is conditioned on attendance of all sessisons and that a final, reworked paper will be submitted for publication considerations. There will not be parallel sessions. We are also pleased to announce the creation of a number of Awards: 1. Ground-breaking work in African Philosophy and Studies (monographs) 2. Outstanding female African Thinker award (monographs and articles) 3. Outstanding research on Africa’s intellectual history (monographs) 4. Outstanding research on African logic and critical thinking (articles and monographs) 5. Radical idea in African philosophy (articles) These awards will be presented every two years to recognise and celebrate research excellence in African philosophy and studies. The first round of awards will consider peer-reviewed research published between January 2018 and December 2019. Submissions should be made to awa...@cspafrica.org by simply emailing the pdf of your work on or before midnight, April 30, 2020. Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered by the award panel. Authors may submit to multiple categories. Submission email must have a subject, affiliation/address, email and phone contacts of the author. Cultural Event: A cultural event will be organised for the 29th of August 2020. It would most likely be a trip to Marupeng or City tours. Details will be made available closer to the time. For more information on the Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP) visit: https://cspafrica.org For more information on the Thinking Africa imprint visit: https://www.up.ac.za/philosophy/article/2542674/thinking-africa-series Contact: Dr. Jonathan O. Chimakonam, President Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP) Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria Email: ad...@cspafrica.org Web: https://cspafrica.org __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/
InterPhil: CFP: Dialogos interdisciplinarios entre culturas, democracias y ciudadanias
__ Convocatoria de contribuciones Theme: Diálogos interdisciplinarios entre culturas, democracias y ciudadanías Type: II Jornadas Internacionales de Filosofía Intercultural Institution: Instituto de Filosofía 'Dr. Alejandro Korn', Universidad de Buenos Aires Location: Buenos Aires (Argentina) Date: 26.–28.3.2020 Deadline: 29.2.2020 __ From: Alcira Beatriz Bonilla 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, convocan a toda la comunidad filosófica y científica a participar en las II Jornadas de Filosofía Intercultural: “Diálogos Interdisciplinarios entre culturas, democracias y ciudadanías” a realizarse los días 26, 27 y 28 de Marzo de 2020 en la sede de la Facultad (Puán 480, C.A.B.A.). Las Jornadas están organizadas en torno a seis ejes temáticos. Para el desarrollo de estos ejes temáticos, están previstos seis simposios integrados por invitados especiales y sesiones de ponencias libres. Eje 1: Interculturalidad y ética (coordinadores: Pablo Ríos Flores y Matías Zielinski): Interculturalidad y condiciones del diálogo entre culturas. Interculturalidad y problemas de reconocimiento. Interculturalidad y figuras de la alteridad. Interculturalidad y pretensión de universalidad de las normas prácticas. Interculturalidad y derechos humanos. Interculturalidad y modalidades de la violencia (racismos, fundamentalismos, etc.). Interculturalidad y calidad de vida. Interculturalidad y aspectos de bioética. Eje 2: Interculturalidad y género (coordinadoras: Daniela Godoy y Patricia La Porta): Interculturalidad y perspectiva de género: tensiones y omisiones. La categoría de interseccionalidad y su empleo en el enfoque intercultural. Polílogos interculturales entre feminismos (indígenas, afrodescendientes, académicos). Descolonización del género y el encuentro intercultural pendiente. Perspectiva de género y discursos contra-hegemónicos. Tradiciones truncas: el repetido silenciamiento de los feminismos latinoamericanos. Eje 3: Interculturalidad y política (coordinadores: Juan Pablo Patitucci y Martín Rubio): Procesos de subjetividad y subjetivación política en la diversidad cultural. Hegemonía, consenso y traducción intercultural. Desafíos de la democracia intercultural. Ciudadanía intercultural y ciudadanías incompletas. Descolonización del Estado y plurinacionalidad. Diversidad cultural y autonomías. Nuevo constitucionalismo latinoamericano y pluralismo jurídico. Eje 4: Interculturalidad y educación (coordinadores: Daniel Berisso y Jorge Santos): La enseñanza en la diversidad: experiencias en el aula y la extensión al territorio. La interculturalidad como desafío en la formación docente. La educación ante los saberes ancestrales de pueblos y comunidades. La pedagógica de la liberación y el desafío de-colonial frente a las propuestas neopositivistas y neoliberales en materia de educación. Zonas de traducción y transposición didáctica: un desafío epistemológico del campo educativo. Eje 5: Interculturalidad y ambiente (coordinadores: Daniel Gutiérrez y Juan Martín Della Villa): Dimensiones socioculturales de los procesos ambientales. Diálogos entre disciplinas y culturas. Derechos al ambiente y/o derechos del ambiente. Diversidad cultural, bienes comunes y biodiversidad. Soberanía alimentaria y saberes populares. Antropocentrismo, biocentrismo y geocentrismo ético en las culturas. Modos de habitar y ambientalización de las culturas. Colonialismo y dependencia ambiental. Eje 6: Interculturalidad y arte (coordinadores: Bárbara Aguer y Martín Bolaños): Poéticas, Estésicas y Est-éticas de Nuestra América. Nuevos sujetos de enunciación. Redefinición taxonómica y categorial de lo que se entiende por Arte, Artista, Obra, Poética, Espacio de exhibición, etc. desde una lectura intercultural. El impacto de las tecnologías en los modos de hacer poéticos. Problemas en torno a las industrias culturales y sus influencias en el modelado de un imaginario hibrido cultural al servicio de la explotación global de “contenidos” artísticos. Para las dos sesiones plenarias está prevista la realización de dos mesas redondas integradas por invitados especiales: “Filosofía de la Liberación y Filosofía Intercultural. Homenaje a Juan Carlos Scannone S.I.” y “Filosofía Intercultural y Ciencias Humanas y Sociales”. Comité Académico: Yamandú Acosta (UDELAR, Ur.), Aldo Ameigeiras (UNGS-CONICET), Daniel C. Berisso (UBA), Alcira B. Bonilla (UBA-CONICET), Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (UN. Bremen, Al.- EIFI, Barcelona, Esp.), Lucía Golluscio (UBA-CONICET), Patricia La Porta (UNLu), Magali Mendes de Menezes (UFRS, Br.), Leonel Piovezana (UNOCHAPECÓ, Br.), María Cristina Reigadas (UBA), Pablo Ríos Flores (UBA-CONICET), Ricardo Salas Astraín
InterPhil: CFP: Global Priorities
__ Call for Papers Theme: Global Priorities Type: EAGxAustralia 2020 Workshop Institution: Australian National University Location: Canberra, ACT (Australia) Date: 26.–27.9.2020 Deadline: 9.4.2020 __ We are delighted to announce that, in 2020, we will be running the first EAGxAustralia Workshop on Global Priorities. This two-day interdisciplinary workshop will be held at the Australian National University from the 26th to 27th of September, in conjunction with the EAGxAustralia conference. The aim of this workshop is to bring attention to academic work within the fields of economics and philosophy that falls under the banner of global priorities research: an emerging field which looks at issues which arise in response to the question, ‘What should we do with a given amount of limited resources if our aim is to do the most good (impartially construed)?’ Agents seeking to use their resources to do the most good – for instance, many in the effective altruism community – must prioritise among many different global problems, and many means of tackling them. This priority-setting requires answers to thorny questions, both normative and descriptive, and both philosophical and applied. It is these questions which the workshop (and global priorities research more broadly) seeks to answer. Here are some examples of such questions. From economics: - How does the variation of the cost-effectiveness of interventions within social causes compare to the variation of cost-effectiveness among causes? - When faced with the opportunity to purchase small probabilities of astronomical welfare payoffs, can altruistic actors rationally depart from expected utility maximization? - Given the ethical implications of discounting across generations, and the empirical difficulties of estimating time preference in the absence of long-term investments, how should we discount costs and benefits that occur in the distant future? - How can economic tools most rigorously be used to estimate policy and intervention impacts on animal welfare (as distinct from human preferences regarding animal welfare)? - How, concretely, should we adapt (endogenous) growth models to weigh the benefits that growth may pose for the long term against the catastrophic risks that may come with technological development? - How can mainstream cost-benefit analysis methodology most fruitfully be generalized so as to account for policies’ impacts on future populations’ identities and sizes, under various views in population ethics? - How can institutional mechanisms be designed so as to incorporate the interests of future generations? - What forecasting methods, if any, are well-suited to long-term prediction? - What characteristics of individuals and choice-contexts predict ‘pure’ vs. ‘warm glow’ altruistic behaviour? - How can results from the mechanism design literature help altruistic individuals and organisations to coordinate in a more effective manner? - What is the best feasible voting system from the perspective of impartial welfarism? From philosophy: - Are we both rationally and morally required to maximise expected moral value, even when doing so involves producing extremely low probabilities of extremely high payoffs? - What form/s of welfare should altruists promote (and what does this imply in practice)? - Should we accept longtermism: the view that the primary determinant of the differences in moral value of the actions we take today is the effect of those actions on the very long-term future? And, in practice, what actions should a longtermist take? - How should we compare benefits to humans and to non-human animals? - How can we measure the welfare of non-human animals (and what do these methods imply in practice)? - Do we have moral reasons to bring future persons into existence, and how do these compare to our reasons to benefit present (or necessary) persons? - How might other duties (e.g., those arising from issues of justice) interfere with duties of beneficence? - How should altruists respond to uncertainty over which moral theories are correct? - To what extent should a government take actions that are better for the world even if they conflict with the interests of their own citizens? - How should we respond to different forms of evidence about how effective different actions are in promoting value? For further examples, see the research agenda of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/research-agenda-web-version-2 Call for Abstracts Attendance is open to academics from all fields and interested members of the public. Submissions may be on any topic relevant to global priority-setting, whether featured above or not. They may be from any area of philosophy or economics, as well as other relevant disciplines (although we expect that the majority
InterPhil: CONF: World-scale Justice
__ Conference Announcement Theme: World-scale Justice Subtitle: Beyond Global North & Global South? Type: 5th International Philosophy Politics and Economics Conference Institution: Witten/Herdecke University Location: Witten (Germany) Date: 17.–19.4.2020 __ To what extent is the Global South dependent on the Global North and vice-versa? Who is going to carry the burden of climate change? Is the Global North – Global South concept still relevant and does it explain inequalities in our modern world? These and other questions will be tackled at the 5th International PPE Conference bearing the title: "World-scale Justice: Beyond Global North & Global South?” which will take place from the 17th to 19th April 2020 at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. What is the International PPE Conference? Every year, the International Philosophy Politics and Economics Conference brings together a body of international scholars and students of various backgrounds and academic levels. The main purpose of this student-organized conference is to prompt the reflection around a thought-provoking theme at the crossroads of the fields of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. This is achieved in the course of an immersive 3-days event featuring seminars, workshops, discussion arenas, interactive panel discussions, presentations of student papers and networking moments. What is the conference about? The 5th International PPE Conference will focus on issues of global justice and responsibilities by looking closer at the so-called Global North-Global South socioeconomic divide. Our learning goal is to help participants master the fundamentals of the debate around world-scale inequalities, development, climate change and migrations, as well as to provide you with all the critical tools to raise further questions about this topic. Who will speak at the conference? Keynote speaker Dr. Nina Schneider is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen and author of ‘Between Promise and Scepticism: the “Global South” and our Role as Engaged Intellectuals’. Prof. Darren Moellendorf is professor for International Political Theory and Philosophy at the excellence cluster for normative order at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Jun.-Prof. Dr. Magdalene Silberberger holds the professorship for Development Economics at the Witten/Herdecke University and focuses her research on the empirical evaluation of trade policies, environmental regulations and the role of international institutions. Dr. Kai Koddenbrock holds the professorship for International Relations at the Witten/Herdecke University and researches in the fields of global inequalities and global power relations. Workshops Kristina Klecko Global trade & consumer responsibility Andrea Hollington Language & knowledge production Pascal Vuichard Simulating the UNFCCC – climate change & the roles of stakeholders Markus Overdiek, Daniela Arregui Coka Industrial politics of China, the EU and the USA Lasse Paetz and Anne Lill Climate change & migration Panel discussion “Global Public Goods – the provision, distribution and financing of Peace & Security” Who is responsible for providing Global Public Goods? What are the roles of nations and of international organizations? Are those who benefit also the ones that have to bear the costs? Where can I register for the International PPE Conference? Please click here to get one of the limited group tickets for 35€ or individual tickets for 50€: https://www.ppe-conference.org/conference2020/registration Further questions? More detailed information concerning the program, travel and accommodation in Witten etc. can be found on our website. If you have any remaining questions, please feel free to contact the participant support via: participantsupp...@ppe-conference.org Check out our social media channels to stay up-to date about the most important announcements and spread the news: Website: www.ppe-conference.org Instagram: @ppeconferenceuwh Facebook: @internationalppeconference __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Human rights
__ Call for Publications Theme: Human rights Publication: Implications Philosophiques Date: Special Issue Deadline: 15.4.2020 __ Since the mid-twentieth century, human rights seem to have evolved. They have multiplied and been increasingly diversified. New “generations” of rights, different from the original civil and political rights, have flourished. In that process, human rights seem to have separated more and more from the individualistic conception to which they were closely related at the beginning. Nowadays, human rights seem to relate to a larger – but perhaps more ambiguous – conception of humanity linked to the idea of an equal concern and respect due to every human being. Because of their humanity, humans do not only have fundamental liberties; they also have legitimate aspirations – which may be individual or collective – that must be satisfied. It is those more recent evolutions which we would like to account for. In order to provide some guidance to the contributors, we have determined six possible approaches which are exposed below. However, the contributors are not required to choose one of those. Since the subject is very wide and complex, there are certainly other perspectives which would be of great interest. Moreover, for each possible approach we identified, a few references are given. However, those references are only examples. The contributors are not required to use them. 1. Human rights as subjective rights When talking about human rights, one of the most difficult questions is: what do we mean with the word “right”? Indeed, in that context, that word seems very ambivalent for two reasons. First, traditionally, human rights were not viewed as legal rights, that is, rights susceptible to be invoked before tribunals to support legal claims. This has only begun to change since the mid-twentieth century. From that point, more and more human rights have been “legalized” but not all of them. There are still a lot of rights which, for professional judges, have no value other than symbolic (for example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is not legally binding). For those non-legal human rights, it is therefore unclear what the word “right” means (are they moral rights, political rights? And what does that mean?). Second, even in the case of “legalized” human rights, the meaning of the word “right” remains unclear as it cannot be understood in its traditional sense, as the positive aspect of a specific debt or obligation (for example, what can be the precise content of the obligation corresponding to a “housing right”?). This also invites us to a broader reflection around the notions of subjective rights and natural rights. 2. Human rights as historical constructions Human rights have much evolved over time. Their history dates back to the antiquity when the first doctrines of natural law appeared. Therefore, it is certainly very useful to study that historical development in order to properly explain what they are. Besides, it might also be interesting to study the way human rights influenced the work of the main legal and political philosophers over time. In particular, studying the role that could be assigned to human rights in certain political and moral currents (such as utilitarism, libertarism, liberal-egalitarism, etc.) could be of great interest. 3. Human rights, law and morals Human rights seem to be at the crossroads of law and morals. Therefore, their study may benefit from an examination of the existing connections between law and morals, as well as the distinction between those two notions (which remains one of the most controversial problems of the contemporary legal philosophy). 4. Human rights, democracy and the separation of powers With the development of human rights, a new problem has emerged: that of their conciliation with the political ideas of democracy and separation of powers. Some jurists have argued that the existence of multiple human rights the content of which is sometimes difficult to identify and which, moreover, frequently conflict with each other, provide the judges with the illegitimate power (in a democratic regime) to contradict the will expressed by the people’s representatives. Besides, the French philosopher Marcel Gauchet defended the idea that, because our contemporary democracies have made human rights a central component of politics, they have lost the ability to transform such rights into a real collective political power, leading to the paradoxical situation where, in returning to its original roots, democracy has become its own enemy. Those criticisms show that the coexistence of human rights, democracy and the separation of powers is more problematic than it seems at first sight. 5. Practical aspects of human rights It may also be interesting to question the role of human rights in political or altruist
InterPhil: PUB: An Introduction to Philosophy
__ Call for Publications Theme: An Introduction to Philosophy Subtitle: A Handbook for African Students Publication: Edited Textbook Date: 2020 Deadline: 28.2.2020 __ Rationale A number of students are admitted into the Philosophy programme in higher institutions by choice or by accident to study philosophy for three or four years. Many are more often than not perplexed as to what philosophy is and what it is not. It is akin to being dropped at the middle of the deep blue sea. Only a few of the many soon find out that this vast territory of uncharted ideas and possibilities is a repository of knowledge and wisdom and an interesting field of study. But many remain perplexed throughout their years of study. More so, many are unable to understand how philosophy as a discipline can be contextualised in an African space beyond its universal indices. Thus, this Handbook is specially designed for student to achieve two major objectives: a. Present in each chapter clear, concise, cursory and apt information on core area, and sub-discipline of philosophy; and b. Provide clearly information on the African conceptualisation of core areas and other branches of philosophy. The target for this Handbook are fresh men and women in Philosophy. The goal is to make available in one volume the most vital information for these students in the most clear and unambiguous way to help them sail peacefully through their programme and gain the very best out of it. Key Sections and Expected Chapters The following are the proposed key sections and chapters for the Handbook: Introductory Section 1. An Introduction to Western Philosophy 2. An Introduction to African Philosophy 3. An Introduction to Asian Philosophy Section One: Core Areas 4. Western Metaphysics 5. African Metaphysics 6. Western Epistemology 7. African Epistemology 8. Western Ethics 9. African Ethics Section Two: History of Philosophy 10. A Short History of Western Philosophy 11. A Short History of African Philosophy Section Three: Tools of Philosophy 12. Logic 13. Philosophical Methods 14. Philosophical Research and Writing Section Four: Philosophy of X 15. Philosophy of Culture 16. Social and Political Philosophy 17. Philosophy of Literature 18. Gender Philosophy 19. Professional Ethics 20. Philosophy of Development 21. Contemporary Issues in Ethics 22. Philosophy of History 23. Philosophy of Science 24. Philosophy of Social Sciences 25. Philosophy of Religion 26. Existentialism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 27. Marxism 28. Philosophy of Language 29. Philosophy of Law 30. Philosophy of Mind 31. Analytic Philosophy 32. Islamic Philosophy Compulsory Chapter Structure For neatness and accuracy and for the contents of the Handbook to be easily understood by the targeted audience, it is essential that all chapters have roughly speaking, a specific structure of presentation. Hence it is mandatory that a chapter is structured the following way for it to be accepted for publication in the Handbook: Introduction The Meaning and Focus of ... Key Themes of ... Key Theories in ... Key Problems in ... African ... [except for chapters in Sections One and Two] Summary Glossary of Key Terms Study Questions References For example, Chapter 25, ‘Philosophy of Religion Introduction The Meaning and Focus of Philosophy of Religion Key Themes in Philosophy of Religion The Conception of God Arguments for the Existence of God Science and Religion Key Theories in Philosophy of Religion The Sociological Theory of Religion The Psychological Theory of Religion Key Problems in the Philosophy of Religion The Problem of Evil The Problem of Foreknowledge The Problem of Immortality of the Soul African Philosophy of Religion Summary Glossary of Key Terms Study Questions References Submission Information and Important Deadlines We invite well-written submissions for each of these chapters. Each chapter should not be more than 10,000 words and must be prepared for blind peer review. All chapters should use the Turabian/Chicago referencing style. Chapters should be sent in MSWord format only to: p...@aauekpoma.edu.ng Kindly note the following deadlines: Submission of chapter proposal (Abstracts): February 28, 2020 Notification of acceptance of proposed chapter: March 10, 2020 Submission of complete chapter: June 10, 2020 Notification of acceptance of complete chapter: July 10, 2020 Proposed publication date: August 30, 2020 Editors: Christopher E. Ukhun Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria Jack A. Aigbodioh Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria Dr Justina O. Ehiakhamen Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria Mathew A. Izibili Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department
InterPhil: CFP: East Asian Buddhism
__ Call for Papers Theme: Enduring Discoveries of the Cosmopolitan, Multicultural, Expansive and Relative Orthodoxies in the Study of East Asian Buddhism, History, Manuscripts, Archaeology, Literature, Art, and East-West Exchanges Subtitle: In Memoriam Antonino Forte (1940–2006) Type: International Three-session Conference Institution: Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies FROGBEAR Project, University of British Columbia Princeton University Geumgang University Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" Location: Princeton (USA) / Nonsan (South Korea) / Naples (Italy) Date: 4.–5.7.2020 / 14.–15.8.2020 / 10.–11.10.2020 Deadline: 30.3.2020 __ The Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies, with the assistance of the FROGBEAR Project based at the University of British Columbia (frogbear.org), the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” in Naples of Italy and La Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale (ISEAS) in Kyoto of Japan, the Geumgang University 金剛大學 in Nonsan of South Korea, and Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, cordially invites proposals for an international, three-session conference. The conference is to honour the remarkably enduring influence of Antonino Forte (1940–2006) upon the fields of Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese and Japanese history, Silk Road studies, East Asian art and archaeology, and beyond in North America, Europe, Oceania, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China. Characteristic of Professor Forte and his work, the “Enduring Discoveries of the Cosmopolitan, Multicultural, Expansive and Relative Orthodoxies in the Study of East Asian Buddhism, History, Manuscripts, Archaeology, Literature, Art, and East-West Exchanges” conference will be a unique tripartite confluence: geographically cross-regional, and thematically as cross-cultural, cross-religious, and interdisciplinary as possible. The three sessions of the conference are to be held in North America, East Asia and Europe: at (1) Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, (2) Geumgang University in Nonsan, South Korea, and (3) the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” in Naples, Italy. Each session respectively focuses on three major aspects of Prof. Forte’s broad research interests: (1) the Transmission of Buddhism in Asia and beyond (for the North American session, July 4–5, 2020), (2) Buddhism as a Medium for Cultural Communication: Sui-Tang China (581–907) and Its Neighbouring Powers in East Asia (for the East Asian session, August 14–15, 2020), and (3) Buddhism and Other Religious Traditions in Medieval East Asia (for the European session, October 10–11, 2020). Known to his many friends, teachers, and students as “Nino”, especially at the ISEAS in Kyoto, Japan, Professor Forte’s scholarship changed the way we—across the globe—think, research, and teach about the medieval world in Asia. He relished every opportunity to utilize archaeological discoveries in multiple languages from Chinese Central Asia, and particularly the cache of manuscripts found near Dunhuang at the turn of the 20th century, to rewrite the narrative of the history of the Buddhist religion in medieval China, Central Asia, and Japan. Moreover, his meticulous attention to critical analysis of sources transformed the way anyone studies Chinese history. It is difficult to imagine any undergraduate student who takes a course in the disciplines of Chinese or Japanese history, or Buddhist or Asian studies is not exposed to the fruits of Prof. Forte’s outstanding and enduring research. His investigations ranged from apocryphal or Buddhist texts composed or compiled in China, to those translated from Indic languages, colossal edifices, and a clock. He examined powerful personalities who shaped the enigmatic age of Empress Wu Zetian 武則天 (624–705), and pursued the case of a 2nd century Iranian prince held hostage in China. He explored the multifaceted translation processes from Indic languages into Chinese and Japanese, manuscripts from Dunhuang and Nanatsudera (in Japan), as well as researched science, architecture, Daoist and religious studies, art and iconography in medieval China and Japan. As a member of the École Française d’Extrême Orient (EFEO) in Kyoto from 1976 to 1985, and as director of the Italian School of East Asian Studies, Prof. Forte contributed much more than merely his own research. He also dedicated ceaseless time and attention to editing and contributing entries to Hōbōgirin 法寶義林: Dictionnaire encyclopédique de bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises with Paul Demiéville (1894–1979), Anna Seidel (1938–1991), and his close friend Hubert Durt (1936–2018). Prof. Forte’s expert guidance led to the publication of numerous groundbreaking monographs by the Italian School of East Asian Studies. Prof. Forte played a seminal role in introducing a generation of junior and senior
InterPhil: CFA: Research Associate in Intercultural AI Ethics
__ Call for Applications Type: Research Associate in Intercultural AI Ethics Institution: Alan Turing Institute Location: London (United Kingdom) Date: 2020–2022 Deadline: 15.3.2020 __ The Alan Turing Institute, UK, is hiring a Research Associate in Intercultural AI Ethics for a new project – PATH-AI: Mapping an Intercultural Path to Privacy, Agency, and Trust in Human-AI Ecosystems. This project is a cooperation between The Alan Turing Institute, the University of Edinburgh, and RIKEN – Japan’s largest comprehensive research institution. The project will investigate the values of privacy, agency, and trust from a comparative and intercultural perspective, focussing on the UK and Japan, while also framing the issues surrounding AI ethics and governance in a broader global context. The research will endeavour to enrich and widen understanding of these ideas and to inform policy formation from an intercultural point of view. The project’s final phase will involve the international co-design an AI governance framework. More specifically, the work of the Research Associate will contribute directly to the achievement of the objectives of the PATH-AI project, including: - Develop a global vision of the AI ethics landscape by taking a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to researching and understanding privacy, agency, and trust - Integrate cultural, religious, philosophical, psychological, political, sociological, and legal studies (alongside computer and data science) into current and future dialogues on AI ethics - Build sustainable intercultural networks and communication channels between policy-makers, civil society, research institutions, industry actors, and citizens within and between the UK and Japan - Lead an international bottom-up co-design process for interculturally-grounded AI governance frameworks and policy recommendations This position is for a fixed time period of 2.5 years. Deadline for applications: 15 March 2020. If you want to know more, please see the link: https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/research_associate_in_intercultural_ai_ethics_8987/en/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: USHMM Seminar on Teaching Mass Atrocity
__ Call for Applications Theme: Teaching Mass Atrocity Subtitle: The Holocaust, Genocide, and Justice Type: 2020 Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Location: Washington, DC (USA) Date: 1.–12.6.2020 Deadline: 13.3.2020 __ The 2020 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for Faculty will bring the study of the Holocaust into conversation with studies in the field of genocide and international justice for the purposes of opening up an informed dialogue among scholars across disciplines, who utilize a range of approaches and methodologies in their classrooms. As a starting point, the Seminar will introduce pedagogical tools for teaching the history of the development of the concept of genocide with a close look at Raphael Lemkin’s coining of the term, the proceedings of the Nuremberg Trials, as well as the approval of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. Building on this framework, the Seminar leaders will facilitate discussions across disciplinary boundaries on how to address common themes relating to Holocaust and Genocide Studies — such as “othering,” violence, atrocity, justice, and restitution. In doing so, we will introduce a range of pedagogical methods, course design approaches, and assignment development tools intended to help participants think through how to introduce these complex topics into their classrooms. At the same time, the seminar leaders will be careful to problematize the various approaches to teaching this history within the separate — though interconnected — fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The 2020 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar is designed to help faculty, instructors, and advanced PhD students who are currently teaching or preparing to teach courses that focus on or have a curricular component relating to Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Applications are welcome from instructors across academic disciplines including but not limited to: language studies, film studies, war studies, displaced people and refugee studies, human rights, genocide studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, literature, and international law. We also particularly welcome scholars who teach courses with a global, comparative, or transnational approach. Over the course of the Seminar, participants will be introduced to sources in the Museum’s film, oral history, testimony, recorded sound, archival, and photography collections, as well as the International Tracing Service Digital Archive. Participants will also have time to tour the Museum’s permanent exhibit and special exhibitions. Additionally, participants will meet staff scholars who work on the Holocaust as well as experts from the Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for Genocide Prevention. This year’s Silberman Seminar will take place from June 1 to 12, 2020 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It will be led by Dr. Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Assistant Professor and Director of the Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program at George Mason University, and Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Leon Levine Distinguished Professorship of Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University. Dr. Douglas Irvin-Erickson is Assistant Professor and Director of the Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program at George Mason University School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He has worked in the field of genocide studies and mass atrocity prevention in DR Congo, Burundi, Cambodia, Myanmar, Ukraine, and Argentina. He is the author of books, chapters, and articles on genocide, religion, and violence; human security; international criminal law; and political theory. His first book is titled Raphaël Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), and he is currently writing a second book on global successes of prevention. Professor Irvin-Erickson is a Senior Fellow with the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a Board Member of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, and a member of the editorial board of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal. He holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs and an M.A. in English Literature from Rutgers University in Newark, NJ. Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan is the Leon Levine Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies as well as Professor of History at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. A Holocaust scholar and German historian by training, his larger scholarly agenda aims at a cultural and linguistic history of genocidal violence in the modern world. He has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, Grinnell College, Davidson College, and De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. Professor Pegelow Kaplan has held research fellowships at numerous
InterPhil: PUB: Space and Place
__ Call for Publications Theme: Space and Place Publication: Roczniki Humanistyczne Date: Vol.11, No. 68, 2020 Deadline: 15.5.2020 __ The forthcoming issue of Roczniki Humanistyczne (Annals of Arts), vol.11 (Anglica), 2020 will be devoted to one of the most contested and varied topics in the humanities, i.e. Space and Place. Contemporary researchers treat these categories both within the limits of their respective specialities as well as at the interface of such scholarly fields as geography, sociology, cultural studies, literary theory and criticism, ethnography, media and urban studies. With this in view, we invite the scholars of diverse fields of humanities willing to contribute their papers on all aspects relating to the leitmotif of the current issue. The profile of our magazine especially favours papers which will investigate the space and place of/in a literary text or any text of culture with its specific historical/cultural idiosyncrasy or universality. We invite papers pertaining to cultural, historical and literary dimensions of spatial criticism in all English speaking countries of any historical period from Anglo-Saxon through contemporary times. We accept only unpublished research papers of high scientific quality. Contributions should be submitted to dr Kamil Rusiłowicz: krusilow...@gmail.com and dr hab. Sławomir Wącior: wac...@kul.pl. The submission deadline for the current issue is 15 May, 2020. General information: 1. The manuscript should not exceed 4 characters with spaces (including abstracts, key words, and the list of works cited). 2. The article should follow the latest Modern Language Association (MLA) citation and format style. 3. Authors are requested to include an abstract of approximately 150-words, and a list of key words. 4. Author’s information, in a separate file, should include: full name, title of the article, academic degree, affiliation, address for correspondence, and e-mail. 5. The article should be submitted in two versions: as a .doc and a .pdf. The author’s name should be omitted from the article for peer review. Contact: Kamil Rusilowicz Department of American Literature and Culture John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Email: krusilow...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Solidarity at the Crossroads
__ Call for Papers Theme: Solidarity at the Crossroads Subtitle: Concepts, Practices, and Prospects from an Interdisciplinary Perspective Type: Joint Conference Institution: BMBF Research Project 'Practices of Solidarity' Rottendorf Research Project 'Global Solidarity' Munich School of Philosophy Location: Munich (Germany) Date: 7.–9.10.2020 Deadline: 1.5.2020 __ From Karolin-Sophie Stüber Both in the public debate and the scientific discourse, reference is increasingly made to ‘solidarity’. The popularity of the term can be understood as a response to global social, political, cultural and economic upheavals: From the increasing precarisation of certain communities, the unease regarding a neoliberal world economy, the escalation of the ecological crisis, the growing success of right-wing populist movements, to the potential collapse of the European Union. Against the background of this globalized 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. Importantly, the various research paradigms investigating these practices imply both different conceptualisations of, and different ways of reflecting, justifying and employing solidarity. From the perspective of the history of ideas, ‘solidarity’ analytically and empirically captures the mechanism of social integration somewhere between cohesion and fragmentation. Most research paradigms share the attempt to explain or problematize how social collectives of different sizes and objectives cohere. Conceptually, however, the analysis often remains fixed on the ‘social bond’ as a shared, habituated feeling of unity and obligation. In light of this, it seems theoretically more promising to focus on the practical dimension of solidarity and to investigate how shifting, solidarity-based initiatives interact with different institutional structures. That way, practices of social solidarity beyond the welfare state come into focus. It also provides the possibility to improve our understanding of the role temporal change plays in historical processes of negotiation, in everyday experiences, but also in conflicts involving gender-specific codes, colonialism, the environment, the interests of animals or the far future. This practice-based approach also promises to shed light on how problems are collectively perceived and processed, on the conditions of cooperative action as well as on power and resource differentials. The conference is interdisciplinary and brings together philosophy, sociology, history, and political science. Conference questions - What is the conceptual core of solidarity in the different research paradigms and historical episodes? - What are the preconditions of solidarity, i.e. who can be in solidarity with whom or what? - What are the (geographical, temporal, systemic) limits of solidarity? - To what extent is solidarity conceptually distinguished from ‘justice’, ‘altruism’, ‘loyalty’, ‘community of interests’, ‘cooperation’, ‘humanitarian aid’ etc.? To what extent is it related to any of these? - Can there be a unified concept of solidarity that provides equal insight into local, national, and transnational practices of solidarity? - How can solidarity be understood with respect to the tension between exclusion and inclusion? - Is there a duty of solidarity, or must it be voluntary? - To which current and historical problems do practices of solidarity react? To what extent do they become effective as alternatives to existing modes of action or institutions? - What is the relationship between agents who act in solidarity? - How can practices of solidarity be criticized? Does this necessarily require an external normative framework, or can criticism evolve from within the (respective) concept of solidarity? - What role do practices of solidarity play for lived democracy? - What contribution do practices of solidarity make to the generation of new moral norms? Keynotes Invited keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Frank Adloff (University of Hamburg) Dr. Alasdair Cochrane (University of Sheffield) Prof. Dr. Carol C. Gould (Hunter College & CUNY) Dr. Benjamin Möckel (University of Cologne) Prof. Dr. Sally Scholz (Villanova University) Organisers The conference is part of the interdisciplinary research project “transnational practices of solidarity”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This project is a cooperation between Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich (LMU Munich), Prof. Dr. Michael Reder (Munich School of Philosophy), and Prof. Dr. Dietmar Süß (University of Augsburg). Further information: https://praktiken-solidaritaet.de The second partner of the conference is the research project “global solidarity” at the Munich School of Philosophy. It is
InterPhil: CFP: Rethinking Development
__ Call for Papers Theme: Rethinking Development Type: International Conference Institution: Satya Nilayam Research Institute of Philosophy and Culture (SNRI) Location: Chennai (India) Date: 23.–25.7.2020 Deadline: 20.3.2020 __ Aim A critical engagement of the notion of ‘development’ from interdisciplinary perspectives Description Rethinking development is a critical engagement of questioning, debating, analysing, and evaluating the various developmental models that are in place today. Such a rethinking is necessitated by changing social structures and the need for alternative holistic models of development. The idea of development down the history lane has kept on evolving and the contexts in which we find ourselves today lead us to rethink development, against the background of SDGs of UN, de-growth movements, minimalist movements etc on the one hand and exploitative tendencies of the corporates and the markets on the other hand. Amidst the rift between right wing ideologies that contain fundamentalist and nationalist tendencies and the liberal left, the idea of development swings accordingly. Development is not an isolated concept and is the result of various ideologies, economies, historicity, hierarchies, politics and governance, social conventions, religious influences, global interventions, neo-imperialistic activities, etc. The effects of development thus so far in history has been lopsided, leaving behind a massive population of the poor, and the subaltern, at the mercy of a few that seek an uncontrollable power to exploit, even to the point of self-destruction. In the light of ‘modern development’, there is an urgent need to question and clarify notions of development: - Basic questions such as what development is, who defines development, the stakeholders of development, whom it reaches, etc. - The ethical implications such as the reachability of development, the care of the environment, the dignity of humanity, etc. - Social and cultural implications such as humanization, rights and freedom, identities, etc. - Philosophical frameworks operational behind current or future models of development, such as capitalism, social economy, degrowth, minimalism Themes - Philosophical Perspectives - Gender Perspectives - Economical Perspectives - Political Perspectives - Religion Perspectives - Historical Perspectives - Developing Countries Perspectives - Ecological Perspectives - Subaltern Perspectives - Moral Perspectives - Sociological Perspectives - Cultural Perspectives - Anthropological Perspectives - Feminist Perspectives - And other related themes Participation This International Conference attempts to bring together researchers, scholars, academicians, social engineers, religious leaders, economists, political analysts, ethicists, policy makers, and others to critically engage in current models of development and propose ideas for inclusive development. Participation is open to all. Registration All registrations are done online. Fill in the registration form online or download it and send it to the snric...@gmail.com. Registration opens on 1 March 2020 and closes on 1 July 2020. Registration Fee: INR 1000 for Indians, USD 30 for SAARC countries, and USD 50 for all other nationalities. The registration fee can be paid on arrival. The Registration fees are charged for Conference kit + 3 day lunch + conference dinner. Accommodation The organizers can assist you in booking nearby hotels (Holiday Inn and Hotel Turyaa). The charges here are not too expensive. Staying within the campus is also possible for a limited number who prefer a simple and modest room. Dates Submission of abstract: 20 March 2020 Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2020 Online registration opens: 1 March 2020 Registration closes: 1 July 2020 Submission of complete paper: 1 June 2020 Conference dates: 23, 24, 25 July 2020 Ethos As a professional courtesy to fellow participants, all those who wish to participate in this international conference are required to participate in the proceedings in all the three days. If you are unable to do so, we request you not to apply for this conference. Organizing Committee Convener: Robin S. Seelan SJ, Director Coordinators: Anthony Joseph Yesu Antony, Anudeep Antony Das Stalin Contact: Robin S. Seelan SJ, Director Satya Nilayam Institute of Philosophy and Culture Chennai - India Mobile/Whatsapp: +91 9962303182 Email: snric...@gmail.com Web: http://snri.satyanilayam.com/events/rethinking-development/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Global South Conversations
__ Call for Papers Theme: Global South Conversations Subtitle: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change Type: International Conference Institution: Department of English, Jadavpur University Location: Kolkata, West Bengal (India) Date: 5.–6.3.2020 Deadline: 15.2.2020 __ This conference envisions a conversation between scholars, activists, writers and artists and local communities. We would, through the proceedings of this conference, like to explore the range of concerns and objectives that span the polarities of “eco-cosmopolitanism” and the “ethics of proximity”, exploring varied critical responses to complex geological and biological interactions and ecological transformations in the Global South. According to the United Nations’ environmental risk index, a by-country report on the effects of global climate change, the inhabitants, locales, and economies of global south nations will be disproportionally affected as global warming intensifies. Many of these nations are projected to be hit by a three factors: rising populations, combined with already-vulnerable economies and spikes in severe weather events will result in massive disruptions to livelihoods and cultural practices, as well as mass migrations as environmental refugees flee to more habitable areas. In her seminal text Sense of Place, Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global, Ursula K. Heise defines the eco-cosmopolitan impulse as “environmental world citizenship” that “attempt[s] to envisionindividuals and groups as part of planetary “imagined communities” of both human and non-human kinds”. The thrust of her work is aimed towards developing “a more nuanced understanding of how both local cultural and ecological systems are imbricated in global ones” (2008, 59). From the position of an environmental world citizen it may become possible to incorporate within the known world an unseen complexity of human and non-human systems. However, as Heise understands, while the potential richness of the eco-cosmopolitan worldview has the capacity to transcend the “ethic of proximity”, “such a perspective needs to be attentive to the political frameworks within which communities begin to see themselves as part of a planetary community, and what power struggle such visions might be designed to hide and legitimate.” It might even be regarded as a utopian perspective given the reality of the power wielded by global trade organizations, the ability of individual purchase-power to nullify political and environmentalist initiatives and the absence of a functioning global environmental regulation. The lack of progress made more than two decades after the “Rio Declaration on Environment and Development” (1992) substantiates the skepticism of many environmentalist scholars and activists. There is also the danger of eco-cosmopolitanism being co-opted by climate capitalists to continue capitalist petro-industrial exploitation of the environment. At the same time grassroots environmentalism is frequently liable to fail as the way it conceptualizes resistance to ‘development’ – roads, power-plants, industries – is perceived as perpetuating the impoverishment of ‘backward’/ ‘underdeveloped’ places. However, grassroots environmentalism or as Ramchandra Guha terms it “environmentalism of the poor” has flourished through the South, from the Chipko Andolan of the Himalayan peasants to the struggle to protect the Brazilian Amazon forests by Chico Mendes and the local communities. While nation states and international bodies argue for ‘development’ at the cost of conservation, Guha points out that it is environmental degradation that often intensifies economic deprivation of the local communities whose lives and livelihood are inextricably connected with the natural world. At the grassroot level concern for the environment inevitably overlaps with concern for social justice. We envisage this conference as a space for articulation of hesitation and a moment for pause in our march for ‘development’, when we examine such ideologies and responses as eco-cosmopolitanism and ethics of proximity and analyze our anthropocentric anxieties about our life-sustaining planet transforming into a space that is hostile to the survival of humans and non-humans equally. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical approaches to the depiction of climate change in the Global South - Making a case for eco-cosmopolitanism - Traditional and scientific knowledge of local ecosystems - Whose forests are these? Analysing the human-non-human contact - Nature fighting back: Representations of nonhuman agency - Wetlands and mangrove forests - Managing water resources - Conservation of flora and fauna - Nonhuman animals in narratives of environmental change - Development and clean energy -
InterPhil: CFP: The Power and Politics of Transitional Justice
__ Call for Papers Theme: The Power and Politics of Transitional Justice Type: 7th International Conference on European Studies (ICES'20) Institution: Center for European Studies, Epoka University Location: Tirana (Albania) Date: 27.–28.4.2020 Deadline: 25.3.2020 __ Epoka University, in Tirana, Albania, organizes the 7th International Conference on European Studies (ICES'20). The conference titled ‘The Power and Politics of Transitional Justice’ will be held on 27-28 April 2020 in Tirana, Albania. Within these 2 decades, transitional justice has become a key pillar on transforming politics, societies and scope of international intervention. As a transitional mechanism, this international norm has covered post-conflict countries, deeply divided societies, post-authoritarian regimes and post-communist countries. Due to the importance in dealing with the past in order to seek truth and justice, transitional justice comes in front of us as an emerging tool to build trusting institutions, embrace the rule of law and approach towards higher levels of democratization. This conference aims to bring together scholars, graduate students and practitioners to provide different perspectives and methodologies on theoretical and empirical models, as well as to enrich the public discourse on transitional justice in international and local levels. Conference topics may include, but are not limited to: - Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective - Nationalism and ethnic - diversity as barriers or promoters of transitional justice. - Transitional justice as an international norm in international law. - Liberalism and post-conflict justice in divided societies. - Law and Justice before and after Communism - The prospects and limitations for a regional Balkan approach in transitional justice. - Is transitional justice a circumstance of justice in a unique context? - Transitional justice and Peacebuilding. - Transitional Justice and Civil Society - Transitional Justice and Development - Political Economy of Transitional Justice - Transitional Justice and Gender Perspectives - Critical Reflections on Transitional Justice With this focus in mind, we warmly welcome paper submissions and presentation proposals from across the world and from a wide spectrum of disciplines and perspectives. We also welcome poster submissions, which will provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Participants may present in a maximum of two sessions. Abstracts should be 500 words maximum and sent to c...@epoka.edu.al. Accepted abstracts will be notified via email until March 30, 2020. The workshop has no fee, but the participants are responsible to cover travel and accommodation costs themselves. ICES’20 will host a high-level keynote address and one policy link panel featuring representatives from media and civil society. The Journal of European Social Research will co-organize the ICES’20 Best Paper Award competition. Selected papers will be part of an edited book on transitional justice. Important Dates and Deadlines Abstract submission deadline: March 25 2020 Abstract acceptance notification: March 30, 2020 Paper submissions due: September 15, 2020 Conference: April 27-28, 2020 Contact: Nertila Duraj, ICES 2020 Conference Rapporteur Center for European Studies Epoka University Rruga Tiranë-Rinas, Km 12 1039 Tirana Albania Phone: +355 4 2232086 Fax: +355 4 177 Email: c...@epoka.edu.al Web: http://ices.epoka.edu.al/2020/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Myths in the Ancient and Modern World
__ Call for Papers Theme: Myths in the Ancient and Modern World Type: II. International Symposium & Exhibition on Mythology Institution: Ardahan University Location: Ardahan (Turkey) Date: 3.–5.6.2020 Deadline: 1.3.2020 __ Although, for modern societies, the term “myth” stands for a tale, an untrue story, a legend, a superstition etc., for archaic societies who existed prior to written culture, myths were narrations of “the ultimate origin of reality” and, in that respect, they were not tales but true stories based on Reality. Therefore, a great philosopher like Plato appealed to muthos as a pedagogical means for telling his views through the Dialogues. On the other hand, along with the transition from mythopoetic thought to cosmological arguments, an irreversible diffraction occurred in the history of ideas, and philosophy parted ways with mythos for a certain while. Centuries later, however, many theorists in both clinical psychology and contemporary philosophy made use of the myth as a symbolic means of expression and pioneered a “mythic-turn” in the social sciences. This fact indicates that mythology remains an essential area of interest for humanities like philosophy and psychology. This is also the case for the disciplines of sociology and socio-cultural anthropology, whose practices developed within the framework of rituals, myths, customs and traditions, indicating that myth and mythology have pervaded into daily life, that they have turned into a reference guide, sometimes due to their guiding spirit and sometimes by being a tool for social control. Throughout historical and cultural processes, human beings have attributed divine meanings to the factors influencing them. By attributing such meanings to natural forces that were superior to them, humans also adopted the habit of symbolization. Furthermore, depending on the geographic and cultural context they were in, humans developed solutions for inexplicable events and/or situations such as illnesses. To specify, humans sought for genuine solutions by means of the daily practices they structured around the myths and legends, which were transmitted to them through cultural heritage. Legends and symbols are not discoveries that archaic people carried out on their own; rather, they are the products of a cultural whole that is well limited, kneaded and transmitted by some societies. In this way, some of these creations spread to lands far away from their own root-soils, becoming absorbed by the local people of those lands who would not recognize these elements otherwise. As the interaction between literature and mythology is at stake, a similar picture confronts us in this domain. Myths of several cultures have been shaping modern literary texts, and the characters in these myths have been creating modern stereotypes. The world where the mythological characters of ancient Greece and Rome belong may seem exaggerated for the modern reader. However, when the historical journey of literature is considered, it is understood that myths, initially, provided an inspiration for tragedies. Just like the fates of tragic heroes, the fates of mythical characters are full of circumstances that point towards a “moral.” From this perspective, it is undeniable that mythology is an essential reference for modern literature. Within the literary world, almost all writers apply myths, mythical characters and related archetypes that then become woven within the collective unconscious as a means for their literary narrative element for various purposes. Thus, it is difficult to understand Ulyssesby James Joyce, who is one of the most prominent writers of English literature, or Oedipa Maas by the American author Thomas Pynchon without the knowledge of classical mythology. As is obvious, mythology plays a crucial and central role in shaping and constructing literary genres, fiction and the relation of characters. Without the knowledge of mythology and iconography, art history could not be comprehended, nor could art criticism be carried out. Today, mythology is the primary source to which one appeals in order to interpret the works of art ranging from the hunting scenes on the walls of Lascaux to the masterpieces of the Renaissance and the products of eminent artists of various genres from primitivism to cubism. Certainly, the dance of mythology with other sciences cannot be limited to the abovementioned disciplines and areas. Myths and mythological systems have a peculiar role for each discipline associated with the humanities and social sciences. Based on this fact, as young academicians, we have decided to organize a worldwide symposium and, by doing so, we desire to bring together academicians and students from all areas of study including philosophy, sociology, anthropology, literature, psychology, art history and the fine arts provided that their papers are in
InterPhil: PUB: Language and Worldviews
__ Call for Publications Theme: Language and Worldviews Subtitle: Ideas on Language Throughout the Ages Publication: Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy Date: Special Issue Deadline: 15.4.2020 __ Description Language is a favourite topic of intellectual thought. Over the ages, language has been understood as a medium capacitating knowledge or belief; a mental faculty facilitating cognizing and reasoning; a behavioural capacity enabling communication and social interaction; a sociocultural means to identify and differentiate between groups and individuals; or an instrumental tool that permits objective scientific analysis. With this issue we aim to better delineate the intellectual genealogy of how language has been perceived and studied differentially within philosophical, religious, linguistic, and socio-anthropological schools of thought. In line with the spirit of Topoi, we want to open up a respectful dialogue on how views on language relate and differ from one another. Our issue can already count on contributions on the following topics: - Language in ancient philosophies (logos theories) - Language in Judeo-Christian traditions (the search for an Adamic language) - Language in the Renaissance and Enlightenment (the search for the original Mother tongue) - Language in analytical traditions (the reference problem, indeterminacy of translation) - Language use in the evolutionary sciences (discourse analysis) In addition to these topics, we are calling for papers on the following themes: - Language in non-Western Philosophies and World Religions - Origins and rationale of Logic as an area of research - Language and the Universalia debates - Origins, divergence, and rationale of Cognitive, Bio-, Socio- and Anthropological Linguistics - Signs and codes as defined in (Bio)Semiotics and their relation to concepts of information, communication and language - Any other topic deemed to shed light on the relationship between language and worldviews By comparing these traditions, our goal is to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of how ideas on language are formed, how they underlie worldview formation or the Zeitgeist of an era, and how they change over time. Such research is important because it enables a better understanding of the reach and limits of existing schools of thought and it contributes to knowledge on the overall role that language plays in human symbolic evolution. Instructions for Authors - Pre-enquiries by April 15th, 2020: Potential contributors are encouraged to send pre-inquiries and extended abstracts of 2 pages containing the contact details and full affiliations of all authors to the guest-editors by April 15th at nlgont...@fc.ul.pt; mtfacoe...@gmail.com; dpco...@ub.edu. - Paper submissions by December 1st, 2020: Authors are asked to prepare their manuscript according to the journal’s standard guidelines available at https://www.springer.com/journal/11245/updates/17215504, and to upload their manuscripts by December 1st, 2020 on Topoi’s Online Manuscript Submission System (Editorial Manager), accessible at http://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/. When uploading your paper, be sure to select the “S.I.: Language and worldviews (Gontier/Facoetti/Couto)” in the drop down menu of “Article Type”. All papers will undergo standard review procedures and when accepted they will be made available as online firsts until final publication which is estimated to occur in 2022. Guest Editors Nathalie Gontier Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon nlgont...@fc.ul.pt Marta Facoetti Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon mtfacoe...@gmail.com Diana Couto Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy, University of Barcelona & Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto dpco...@ub.edu Journal website: https://www.springer.com/journal/11245/updates/17624274 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Art and Otherness
__ Call for Papers Theme: Art and Otherness Type: Graduate Workshop and Symposium Institution: Bergen Network for Women in Philosophy, University of Bergen Location: Bergen (Norway) Date: 29.4.–1.5.2020 Deadline: 1.3.2020 __ The Bergen Network for Women in Philosophy (BNWP; https://www.uib.no/en/bnwp) at the University of Bergen, Norway (UiB) will host its second graduate student workshop and symposium from April 29th - May 1st, 2020. We will discuss the relationship between art and otherness, broadly construed. Please see below for sample questions. Our keynote speakers are Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (University of Hertfordshire) and Sharon Rider (Uppsala University). The event will comprise three kinds of sessions: Workshops will involve close discussion of a pre-circulated paper in small groups. Symposium presentations will be given by keynote speakers and interested workshop participants. Finally, there will be the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion. This panel will be held in cooperation with the Master’s in Fine Arts graduate exhibition at the local art museum, Kunsthall (http://www.kunsthall.no/), where interested workshop participants, fine arts students, and professors from the fine arts and art history departments will converse and take audience questions on the topic of ‘otherness.’ Symposium presentations and the panel will be open to the whole department and the general public. We welcome submissions from women (inclusively defined) who are currently enrolled in a graduate program (masters or doctorate) or have completed a graduate degree within the past year. Submissions must be in English. There is no registration fee. Some meals will be provided. To submit a paper, please fill out this form by March 1st: https://forms.gle/5fTfmFxeby8ZSx4aA Successful applicants will be required to send a full paper by April 19th, 2020. Discussion will include, but is not limited to, the following: - How does art disclose what is other – that is, strange; new; foreign – in the familiar? How does it delimit what ‘otherness’ is? - How does art reveal the ways in which we, its audience, are other to what the piece depicts or to whom created it? How does it make experiences of being ‘othered’ – racism; sexism; expatriation; etc. – vital to its audience? How do art, and issues in the philosophy of art more broadly, deal with the topic of ‘otherness’ in politics, colonialism studies, and technology? - What does the creation of – and engagement with – art suggest about the relationship between self and other? How do artistic forms, movements, or mediums themselves become ‘other’ as practices of art and art-making technologies change? We particularly welcome submissions in aesthetics and philosophy of art, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of anthropology, philosophy of language, and political philosophy. Scientific organisers: Jasmin Trächtler, Carlota Salvador Megias, Špela Vidmar Feel free to contact us if you have any questions: bnkf.i...@uib.no __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Contested Imaginaries
__ Call for Papers Theme: Contested Imaginaries Type: Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: Humanities PHD Program, Concordia University Location: Montreal, QC (Canada) Date: 24.–25.4.2020 Deadline: 21.2.2020 __ As we enter the new decade, both hopes and anxieties run high. In this age of shifting paradigms, political uncertainty, and rapid development, thinkers across diverse fields are contesting ideas once taken for granted, calling for new modes of knowledge production, new frameworks of understanding, and new ways of being in the world. How do utopic ambitions intersect with worldly concerns? How are spaces of encounter and departure entangled with legacies of power? How might different domains of knowledge intersect, aid, resist, and/or challenge one another? How does the imaginary shape the possible? This interdisciplinary conference seeks to create dialogue between scholars, artists, community members, and experts in all fields, bringing them together to share their expertise and unique perspectives. Potential topics for papers, workshops, and performances may include but are not limited to: - Alternative or speculative futures, queer futurities, Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurism - Critical race, postcolonial, and First Peoples studies - Critical disability studies - Ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and the Anthropocene - Monuments, memorials, memories, and nostalgia - Trauma studies and theories of mourning - Hauntology - Popular culture and ephemera - Studies of political crises, sites of resistance, and contestation - Archives and/or archeologies of past, present, and future(s) - Sciences and technologies of the past, present, and future(s) - Human/non-human/post-human/more-than-human/cyborg/animal studies - Sensory studies - Materiality, immateriality, embodiment, and disembodiment Please submit your anonymized 250 word abstract to contestedimaginar...@gmail.com by February 21, 2020. Submissions should be in .doc or .docx format. In a separate document, please include a 50-80-word bio. Performances, creative pieces, interactive workshops, and experimental forms are welcome and encouraged. Please specify any materials you will need (e.g. projector, DVD player) and whether you will be presenting a 20 minute paper or an alternative form such as a workshop, screening, performance, or something else. If one of the the latter, please specify how much time you will require. Contact: Humanities PHD Program Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, QC H3G 1M8 Canada Email: contestedimaginar...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Varieties of Peace, Varieties of War
__ Call for Papers Theme: Varieties of Peace, Varieties of War Type: 12th International Conference on Applied Ethics Institution: Project Research Center for Applied Ethics (PRCAE), Hiroshima University Location: Hiroshima (Japan) Date: 12.–13.12.2020 Deadline: 3.5.2020 __ We are pleased to announce that the 12th International Conference on Applied Ethics will be held on December 12-13, 2020, at Hiroshima University, hosted by the Project Research Center for Applied Ethics (PRCAE). We encourage paper proposals on the conference theme, but welcome other topics in the following areas (the topics listed below are examples, not exhaustive): bioethics, medical ethics, environmental ethics, intergenerational ethics, business ethics, information ethics, research ethics, animal ethics, food ethics, engineering ethics, international ethics, professional ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of technology. We also welcome panel proposals (3 papers for a 90-minute session). Participants who wish to present papers are requested to submit a 300 word abstract with your personal details (name, job title, and affiliation) in a MS-Word file to 2020i...@gmail.com by May 3 (Sun), 2020. The decision will be announced in late May 2020. Registration: Registration opens in early June 2020. Conference Venue: The conference venue is Higashi-Senda Campus: https://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/access/higashisendacampus Conference fees: The basic registration fee required of all presenters and attendees is 5, 000 JPY (the discounted fee, 3,000 JPY, applicable to students). The fee includes refreshments on the 12th and 13th. The optional conference dinner on the 12th is 5,000 JPY (the discounted fee, 4,000 JPY, applicable to students). We will announce how to pay the conference fee soon. Accommodation: There are a wide range of accommodations available in Hiroshima City and its surrounding areas. Be advised that Hiroshima is one of the most popular cities for sightseeing, so it is important to book early both to save money and ensure a spot. Conference Chair: Hiroshi Goto (Professor and Director of PRCAE, Hiroshima University) Coordinator: Shunzo Majima (Associate Professor, Hiroshima University) All queries should be sent to: 2020i...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: On Differences, Togetherness and Politics
__ Call for Papers Theme: On Differences, Togetherness and Politics Subtitle: Reading Nazrul vis-à-vis South Asian Thinkers Type: International Conference Institution: Nazrul Centre for Social and Cultural Studies, Kazi Nazrul University Southfield College Location: Darjeeling, West Bengal (India) Date: 16.–18.9.2020 Deadline: 24.5.2020 __ Concept Note Nazrul, being the National Poet of Bangladesh, cannot be studied in isolation from the issues related to nation, nationalism and formations of identities based on differences and similarities. Nationalism based on ethno-racial, geopolitical or religious terms has already been proved to be a not only non- inclusive but also often violent, intolerant, and discriminatory. Trying to link liberalism with the issues of identity formation, thinkers like Neil Mac Cormick, Will Kymlicka, Chaim Gans, Charles Taylor, and David Miller, while making one’s choice and individuality central to one’s attempt to form group identities have argued for framing of national identity based on cultural and social contexts rather than on a common ancestry. Despite the differences between ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘you’, ‘other’, etc., an individual, once conscious of being a ‘singular-plural’, is in a pursuit of becoming a ‘we’ out of togetherness, based on the subjective choice. This choice of the individual, on the one hand, is grounded on the consciousness of the perils of a ‘solitarist’ identity, and on the other hand, is guided by the possibilities of intimacies provided by the multiple cultures of the civilizational domain where one is located. Integrity teaches us about responsibility and objectivity in one’s way of engaging with others, while the prerogative of intimacy, according to Kasulis, is to orient the self with responsiveness and intersubjectivity in one’s engagement with people who are the intimate-others. The South Asian culture, thus, needs to be revisited with intimacy every time we as South Asians, attempt to reorient ourselves with ever changing notions of identities. The politics of intimacy aspires towards a social bi/multi-orientationality that will allow an individual to adapt oneself to different cultural contexts in a shared civilizational domain. Nazrul Islam, with his interfaith and dialogue with various intellectual traditions and communitarian praxes, is one of the best suited models for the South Asians in addressing various issues related to differences, togetherness, choice, identity formations, nationalism and cultural syncretism. The present seminar aims at revisiting Kazi Nazrul Islam to understand the following issues in a better way: - What, according to Nazrul and his works, has been the essence of the civilizational domain that we call South Asia? - Accepting the markers of what makes one a Bengalee or a Bangladeshi, shouldn’t one need to move beyond them towards a broader cultural orientation of inclusiveness in order not to contradict with the spirit of Nazrul’s multi-cultural nationalism? - What are the various social bi/multi-orientationality that one can learn from Nazrul in course of one’s politics of intimate belonging towards togetherness? - How has Nazrul agreed to or differed from the other South Asian thinkers of intimate consciousness through cross cultural recognitions and responsiveness? - How and why is there an urgent need for the contemporary South Asians to revisit Nazrul in orientating the self about engaging with the people of differences? Papers are invited for presentation, related to any of the following sub-themes: - Differences and Exchanges: Nazrul and His Works - Togetherness in a multination: Lessons from Nazrul - Politics of Belonging with Others: Insights from Nazrul - Nationalities, Identities and Beyond: Nazrul in a Comparative Lens with South Asian Thinkers - Relevance of Nazrul in Contemporary South Asia Submissions A limited number of presenters will be invited to participate in the international conference. The participants interested in presenting paper are requested to mail an abstract of the proposed paper (within 500 words), along with five keywords and a brief bio-note (within 250 words) to Srikanta Roy Chowdhury (e-mail: nazrulodtp2...@gmail.com; WhatsApp: +91 9832481951). Last date for submitting abstracts: May 24, 2020 till 12:00 midnight. Date of confirming the acceptance to the selected participants: May 30, 2020. The participants invited for the conference should mail the first draft of their complete paper in English, unpublished and with proper citations (as per the style sheet to be provided along with the letter of acceptance) by August 30, 2020. The organizers can reimburse the travelling expenses (if required) and will be happy to provide hospitality from September 15 afternoon to September 19 forenoon, 2020. Terms and conditions will be intimated along with the
InterPhil: PUB: Philosophy and Landscape East and West
__ Call for Publications Theme: Philosophy and Landscape East and West Publication: Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology Date: Special Issue (Vol. 7, No. 2, 2020) Deadline: 31.5.2020 __ The landscapes we live within play a vital role in all aspects of human life and have become an important locus of phenomenological analysis. Often, landscapes are venerated for their beauty, sublimity, or their sacred status. Others, those too close to notice, the mundane landscapes of our everyday lives, hide themselves and in so doing are no less (or perhaps more) important for determining how we are as human beings, how we move, perceive, imagine, and think, perhaps even how we philosophize. We find ourselves as earthbound beings among the landscapes of the sacred and the mundane, the elevated and the everyday, the visible and the invisible. Inquiring between and beyond these binaries, the Fall 2020 volume of the Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology will explore the various thinkers and artists East and West who have disclosed the rich potential of landscape for philosophy. Submissions are welcome from all philosophical approaches and traditions exploring any number of issues or debates relating to and expanding the philosophies and phenomenological analysis of aesthetic issues relating to landscape; including, landscape art, painting, sculpture, landscape gardens, representations in cinema, virtual landscapes, topics relating to landscape and territory, migration, pilgrimage, religion, boundaries/borders, geophilosophy, the environment, as well as philosophies of place, environmental aesthetics, and issues arising from intercultural dialogue on landscape art and aesthetics. We welcome in particular submissions that are grounded in the phenomenological tradition. Of course, relevant papers grounded in other philosophical traditions are welcome, although we ask that authors show sensitivity to the journal’s philosophical orientation. The editors invite articles on these and other topics related to Landscape East and West. Submissions will go through a blind review process and four of them will be selected for publication by the guest editor. The maximum length of the article is 8,000 words. Please follow the journal’s style guidelines: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rfap20=instructions Guest Editor: Adam Loughnane University College Cork Submission Deadline: 31 May 2020 Send submissions to: adam.loughn...@ucc.ie __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: 'Blood on the Leaves / And Blood at the Roots'
__ Call for Papers Theme: 'Blood on the Leaves / And Blood at the Roots' Subtitle: Reconsidering Forms of Enslavement and Subjection across Disciplines Type: Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: University of Warwick Location: Coventry (United Kingdom) Date: 19.–20.6.2020 Deadline: 20.4.2020 __ 18th June 2020: Pre-conference panel on getting published & networking event for postgraduate students and early career researchers and practitioners 19th-20th June 2020: Conference at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Funded by the University of Warwick Centre for Philosophy, Literature and the Arts (CRPLA), The Humanities Research Centre (HRC), the Environmental Humanities Network (EHN), the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies (YPCCS), the Department of English and Comparative Studies, the Department of Philosophy, the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) and The Royal Historical Society (RHS). This event aims to open a multicultural space beyond institutional and geographical boundaries to foster discussions and to listen to a variety of voices, addressing the problems of enslavement and subjection. In this space, this conference seeks to explore the various figurations and conceptions of enslavement and subjection across disciplines—from philosophy to literature, from the arts to the social sciences, to mention only a few— and beyond territories. Enslavement and subjugation are not only concerns of our past but urgent problems of our present and future. The title of the conference directly refers to Billie Holiday’s 1939 performance of Strange Fruit so as to emphasise both the human and environmental impact of forms of enslavement and subjection which have—literally and metaphorically—left “Blood on the leaves / And blood at the Roots.” This exploration, as we intend it, takes the form of a reconsideration because we believe that enslavement and subjection need to be continuously ‘considered again’ and ‘rethought’ to extend and problematise understandings and approaches to these key themes. Each time we return to these issues, we fix in our mind something that we ought not to forget and we learn something new that we ought not to neglect. In this conference, we would like to reconsider and return on the multiple facets of the problems of enslavement and its evolution in modern forms of subjections, taking with us and keeping in mind the following words: “[E]ven as we experienced, recognized, and lived subjection, we did not simply or only live in subjection and as the subjected.” (2016:4) In this quote, describing her family’s struggle as Black Americans in the 1950s US, Christina Sharpe’s words and italics highlight an insidious pitfall in methodological approaches to the study of slavery and its legacies in a number of academic disciplines. These approaches are often conducive to a consideration of subjected individuals and communities “simply or only” as ‘enslaved’ people. These subjected agents become objects of study only as ‘slaves’ rather than subjects endowed with their own agency, thinking and feelings, and this tendency continues in post-slavery and race studies. Hence, the very attempt to study and understand (post-)slavery and subjection poses the risk of falling back into another type of objectification and dehumanisation of ‘subjected subjects.’ As for example, Saidiya Hartman notes in relation to archival studies that “[t]he archive dictates what can be said about the past and the kinds of stories that can be told about the persons cataloged, embalmed, and sealed away in box files and folios. To read the archive is to enter a mortuary; it permits one final viewing and allows for a last glimpse of persons about to disappear into the slave hold.” (2007:17) In light of these words and cognizant of this danger, the conference would like to propose a reconsideration of enslavement and subjection that aims to de-objectify and do justice to the humanity of what we have called the ‘subjected subjects,’ of the subjects of uneven (hi)stories of a brutally imposed condition, that is not just part of our past, but also continues to have disastrous impacts on our society and environment. Thus, we also aim to further consider the ecological dimension of enslavement and subjugation as tightly knit with the human one, promoting a de-reification of ‘nature’ and the ‘natural.’ Thereby our purpose is to illuminate systematic and structural issues of our current climates. The best way to carry out this reconsideration, in our view, is to create a space to listen and to discuss, bringing together diverse contributions across disciplines and institutions, within and without academia. We are convinced that only an inter-and-trans-disciplinary enterprise, which encourages human and intellectual diversity, enables a reconsideration of the problems of enslavement and subjection, as
InterPhil: CFP: Semiotics to the challenge of intercultural communication in the age of globalization
__ Call for Papers Theme: Semiotics to the challenge of intercultural communication in the age of globalization Type: 10th International Symposium on Semiotics and Literary Text Institution: Faculty of Letters and Languages, Mohamed Khider Biskra University Location: Biskra (Algeria) Date: 23.–25.11.2020 Deadline: 20.3.2020 __ Thinking of the other culture from one's own culture remains one of the oldest approaches adopted by the humanities and social sciences, which have fought for objectivity that ensures a certain clairvoyance of self and others, but which remains, in the eyes of the most rigorous, a pure subjective vision. In the same vein, and to escape this subjectivity, semiotics is a discipline that is based on the guiding assumption that there is a beyond culture that would play the role of mediator between disparate cultures. In other words, a common, or universal, level that would allow the exchange and integration of the diversity of their worldviews (Ludovic Chatenet). However, this ambition is increasingly being discussed by a globalization that challenges a compartmentalized vision of intercultural communication based on a rigid notion of borders where the other merges with the foreigner, and where travel is identified with exoticism. In fact, and beyond the universalist utopia implicit in the notion of globalization, the globalized involvement of the economy in culture itself leads to the destruction of the very idea of intercultural communication, which is no longer limited to a simple exchange of messages but above all to a mutation from the symbolic meaning to a product meaning. Indeed, economic globalization continues to affect the symbolic nature of culture to make it into goods produced in order to be consumed by an individual overwhelmed by an instant global circulation of messages, images, speech and practices; (mass tourism, advertising, fashion, relaxation, Zen...) (Gilles Lipovetsky). This has led to a clash between an objective power which, with reference to the globalization of the market, and the growth of transnational corporations, advocates the diffusion of standardized mass cultural goods, and a subjective, cultural resistance which, in order to defend itself, calls on notions of national, religious or ethnic identity (Alain Touraine). It is when this identity distress develops in a context devoid of common sense that intercultural communication is interrupted and gives way to a destructive war in which both sides, paradoxically and ironically, resort to culture in all its significant complexity. In fact, as interpreted by some "peripheral" cultures as a threat to their cultural integrity, they constantly claim their right to be different in order to ensure a presence under the roof of globalization. Unfortunately, this cry of alarm, pushed to its climax, tends to renounce exchanges and contacts, judged from the outset as destructive, hence the phenomenon of identity withdrawal which finds its expression in religious, political and ideological fundamentalisms... Admittedly, the many technological advances in the virtual domain facilitate the path towards a world without borders, where intercultural communication is supposed to result in the emergence of a networked world, but this revolution in space-time has unfortunately led to a destabilization of cultures, seen by Serge Latouche as an aggression that pushes these same cultures to barricade themselves behind everything that can ensure their identity survival. This deculturation has reinforced the emergence of identity borders, which will become increasingly violent. Therefore, a semiotic reading of the notion of intercultural communication in the age of the abolition of borders is required because of the complexity of intercultural phenomena generated by globalization which, because of its universalist hegemony, tends to reduce space-time to zero, to the point where the border between "far" and "near", "familiar" and "foreign", "here" and "elsewhere", The "exotic" and "indigenous" interfere and hybridize, by testing the theoretical model proposed by the socio-semiotics, which tried to cover all the diversity of possible modes of relationship between one self and another (Eric Landowski), in a world where cultural isolation is no longer an option, and where globalization has imposed a generalization of interactions; which is part of a Ricoeurian philosophy where "The Other is the shortest path between oneself and oneself" (Paul Ricoeur). In this respect, however, semiotics can be very useful not only in deconstructing the meaning of an identity surrounded by a globalization that sees only a product to be commercialized, but also in rebuilding the crumpled sense of conflict generated by a new Westernization of the world orchestrated by a West that believes it has a duty to save the world; which the West
InterPhil: CFP: Political Demonologies
__ Call for Papers Theme: Political Demonologies Subtitle: Race, Gender, and Coloniality in a Postsecular Age Type: International and Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: University College Dublin Location: Dublin (Ireland) Date: 15.–16.5.2020 Deadline: 1.3.2020 __ The last decade has seen growing public awareness of right-wing populism and authoritarianism across Europe and the Americas, from Orbán’s Hungary and Putin’s Russia to Trump’s America and Bolsonaro’s Brazil. These nationalist resurgences are not isolated, but often draw on networks and ideas that are distinctly transnational, whether that be the “Eurasianism” of Aleksandr Dugin, or the critical role of conservative charismatic and evangelical Christians in the elections of Trump and Bolsonaro. Such movements rely upon what have been called “political demonologies” — frameworks of demonization and dehumanization that police borders around “self” and “other,” conjuring folk devils that embody anxieties of societal change and galvanizing adaptive regimes of exclusion that are more or less secularized in places and fully theological and non-secular in others. Religious dimensions of these frameworks are often underexamined despite reactionary discourses often articulating themselves in religious terms or claiming religious justifications, perhaps clearest in invocations of a “Judeo-Christian” civilization besieged from without by an Islamic Other and undermined from within by the presence and accommodation of gender and sexual variance and religious and ethnic difference. Rather than signalling something new, however, the exclusionary systems brought to bear in these invocations depend upon pre-existing systems of epistemic and material violence: colonialism and neocolonialism, slavery and its afterlives, and the structures of racial-sexual ordering these inscribed and maintain, as well as a theopolitical substrate that has long worked to stratify humanity within economies of salvation and damnation, being and non-being. This conference aims to critically examine how constructions of religion, race, coloniality, gender, secularity, and sexuality operate within the discursive and affective frameworks of contemporary systems of exclusion and erasure. Surges in reactionary violence and the expansion of state regimes of surveillance and security demonstrate that the political demonologies circulating today are not only comorbid but rely on deep-rooted systems and structures, including the global circulations of racial capitalism and the matrix of coloniality. These structures, their genealogies and legacies, are ones that have come under critical and creative engagement in critical theory and cultural studies, notably in the areas of queer dissidence, afro-pessimism, and decolonial critique. However, many critical insights from these fields have not yet been brought into sustained conversation with scholarship in sociology, religious studies, or politics and international relations. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary body of scholars, the conference will bring these fields into fruitful and timely conversation. In doing so, it will not only chart current reactionary politics but critically excavate the structures they draw upon, exacerbate, and rearticulate — antiblackness, misogyny, queer- and transphobia, settler colonialism, and global coloniality — and how these distinct systems of marginalization are mobilized in ways that both reinforce and deconstruct one another. Please submit a paper title, abstract of 250–300 words, a short biography, and contact details to jonathon.odonn...@ucd.ie and catherine.ca...@ucd.ie. We also welcome applications for full panels of 3-4 papers. Please put the phrase ‘Political Demonologies Abstract’ in the subject header. The deadline for paper and panel proposals is March 1, 2020. We will make decisions on paper and panel submissions on a rolling basis to help facilitate participant’s planning for conference attendance. Possible topics of discussion include, but are not limited to: - The racialization of religious identities. - The theological genealogy of contemporary secularised patterns of prejudice. - Intersections of vectors of prejudice (for example, queer- and transphobia, antiblackness, anti-indigeneity, antisemitism, Islamophobia). - The global material and ideological cross-pollination of reactionary groups. - Christianity's relationship to "the West" and its ties to secularised discourses of othering. - Christian demonology (past and present) and its relation to projects of epistemic and material violence. - Sovereignty and unsovereignty. - The conscription of non-European subjects into the project of European modernity. - The intersections of queer- and transphobia with surveillance and security regimes. - The enduring impact of colonialism on categories of
InterPhil: CFP: Boundaries of the Natural
__ Call for Papers Theme: Boundaries of the Natural Subtitle: Matter, Territory, Community Type: Transdisciplinary Conference Institution: Universidad de la Salle Location: Bogotá (Colombia) Date: 28.–30.5.2020 Deadline: 14.2.2020 __ (Version española abajo) “Boundaries of the Natural” is a transdisciplinary conference that takes on questions about the forms of knowledge and action responsive to the political and social climate of late globalization and global environmental crisis. Responses to the past few decades’ mass migrations across oceans and continents have been emblematic of the impasses in thinking about borders as social, historical, and legal categories that shape and naturalize ideas about community, kinship, and identity. The movement of millions across inhospitable landscapes and national borders competes for attention with the rise to power of the politics of deep conservatism all over Europe, Asia, and the Americas. We are present for new, thicker accounts of the historical and economic contexts of migration: the livelihoods, ways of life, entire economies and nation states migrants seek and leave behind. The physical distance between centers of economic power and areas of poverty are diminishing: financialized service economies of the large cities have made obsolete or invisible the land-based economies, eclipsed in political discourse the urgent questions of land and water ownership and use, and profoundly changed the relationship of “developed” societies to agriculture, food production, and food security. Virtualized land and territory in financialized economies become assets rather than spaces for living and growing food. Wars are fought over access to the land and its “natural resources.” Transnational markets and technologies demand resource exploitation because the resources are exhaustible, often on the verge of catastrophic depletion. Narratives about migrants’ disregard for the conditions of national borders and labor markets elicit important questions about what kind of knowledge drives decisions about moving across the boundaries of the known, facing physical danger, and imagination about a “better life” structured around culturally and historically specific categories like citizenship and rights. The goal of the conference is community-building within and beyond academia, in order to challenge conventional models of learning and action. The conference proposes to bring scholars together with practitioners (activists, artists, educators, etc.) from the Americas and other continents, to share knowledges about the way borders and boundaries shape nature and scale of political action today. We hope to create a space for the study of denaturalized categories such as gender, tribe, nation, state, and race that now determine the shape of communities in the unsustainable world. Conference Streams We are open to a variety of formats and encourage the submission of proposals for academic papers and thematic panels, but also for round-table discussions, workshops, storytelling, project presentations, performances, film screenings, debates, installations, activist-driven reflections, reflexive exercises, and other forms of interaction. Contributions could mix or match any of the following colors: RED - Imagined communities, deimagination, ‘new’ borders - Political organization, comunidad/society, tradition/capitalism and possibilities of dissent - Communitarian work and ‘identity politics’ - Peace and conflict in the context of neoliberal state making GREEN - Tierra, territory, place, location, state; land and water ownership and use; sustainability - Critical geographies and territorialities; globalization, nationalism, internationalism and transnationalism - Migration: travel, tourism, small places, displacement, ‘South’ as ‘Nature’ and resource BLUE - Boundaries of Nature/Naturaleza, epistemologies of race and gender, science and biopolitics, liberal feminism and the ‘North’ as ‘Nature’ - Ontological boundaries: realism and aesthetics of the ‘natural’ - Natural bodies and technologies of transformation/reproduction/movement; laboring machines, feeling machines, surrogates; affect and emotion; robots, replicants, androids, and others ROSA MEXICANO - Alternative narratives/histories of the natural - Literary nature: fiction, speculation, conjecture; utopia and dystopia - Social imaginary and (un)profitable creativity - Historiography and ‘creative’ writing; style and artifice; social history/history of society Submission Guidelines We invite proposals in English or Spanish for individual presentations (250 words max), panels of up to three participants (800 words max), or alternative formats (600 words max), individual or collective (e.g., performance, screening etc.). Please include name, contact information, affiliation, and a short bio
InterPhil: CFA: Summer School on Religious Diversity and the Secular University
__ Call for Applications Theme: Religious Diversity and the Secular University Type: Summer School Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge Location: Cambridge (United Kingdom) Date: 6.–17.7.2020 Deadline: 10.2.2020 __ The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project 'Religious Diversity and the Secular University' is pleased to announce the third annual two-week summer workshop for early career scholars across the humanities and social sciences (Cambridge, 6-17 July 2020). Following two highly successful Summer Workshops on 'Religious Diversity and the Secular University' in July 2018 and July 2019, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge invites applications from outstanding early career scholars to participate in a two-week summer workshop in July 2020, devoted to some of the most critical issues in the emergence of the modern university and our historical moment: the related questions of secularism and religious diversity. We are grateful to be joined by four world-class senior scholars, who will be in residence to lead the workshop: Homi Bhabha (Harvard University) Lyndsey Stonebridge (University of Birmingham) Khaled Furani (Tel Aviv University) Olivia Harrison (USC Dornsife) For two weeks, twelve junior scholars will work with the scholars-in-residence as well as with the members of the CRASSH project, Simon Goldhill, Theodor Dunkelgrün and Sami Everett. Together, participants will study a set of primary sources selected by the senior scholars and engage critically with work-in-progress by each participant. We welcome applications from scholars in any academic discipline whose work engages with the dynamics of religious interaction in historical and cultural perspectives, with the study of religion(s) in one way or other, and with the intellectual, methodological and conceptual foundations thereof. Candidates will be no more than seven years beyond obtaining their doctorate (having been awarded their doctorate in July 2013 or later). Applications from doctoral students in the final stages of their dissertations may also be considered. The workshop will run from 6-17 July 2020. We shall award a maximum of twelve scholarships that provide up to £500 towards travel, as well as two weeks of room and board in Cambridge. Applications are made online and should include a CV, two letters of reference, a writing sample and an indication of the topic of the likely work in progress for discussion: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/applications/ Applications will be accepted until midday on 10 February 2020. Contact: Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) University of Cambridge Alison Richard Building 7 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DT United Kingdom Email: tw...@cam.ac.uk Web: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28868 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: In the Wake of Red Power Movements
__ Call for Papers Theme: In the Wake of Red Power Movements Subtitle: New Perspectives on Indigenous Intellectual and Narrative Traditions Type: International Symposium Institution: Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick Location: Coventry (United Kingdom) Date: 15.–16.5.2020 Deadline: 15.3.2020 __ This symposium explores North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions that were recovered, reclaimed, or (re-)invented in the wake of Red Power movements that emerged in the 1960s in the settler colonial societies of Canada and the USA. It asks: which new perspectives and visions have been developed over the last 50 years within Indigenous studies and related fields when looking at Indigenous land and land rights, Indigenous political and social sovereignty, extractivism and environmental destruction, oppressive sex/gender systems, and for describing the repercussions of settler colonialism in North America, especially in narrative representations? The symposium is guided by the idea that North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions developed and recovered since the 1960s offer new and reclaimed ways of being, organizing, and thinking in the face of destruction, dispossession, and oppression; Indigenous ways of writing and righting are connected to ongoing social struggles for land rights, access to clean water, and intellectual and socio-political sovereignty; they are, as Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill (2013) have pointed out, “a gift” from which most academic disciplines can benefit greatly. In the face of ongoing exploitations of Indigenous knowledges and resources, it is paramount that researchers who focus on Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions, especially those who come from settler-colonial backgrounds, carefully examine their implications in settler-colonial ways of dispossession. It is in this context that the symposium encourages self-reflectivity and invites participants from all positionalities to include reflections on how to act, think, and write in a non-appropriative manner about the intellectual achievements of Indigenous academics, activists, artists from North America. What kind of challenges does an engagement with Indigenous intellectual and narrative achievements from North America pose, and how do these achievements enable their audience to think differently and to develop visions that go beyond settler colonial hegemonies that make themselves felt in customs, laws, property-relations, or gender roles? Possible topics include: - North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions that emerged or were rediscovered over the last 50 years; - Indigenous representations of land and water, community-building, the other-than-human world; - connections and frictions among and within different Indigenous traditions and/or settler societies in North America; - Indigenous understandings of sex/gender; - methodologies for reading across ethnic divides, alliance-building tools in academia and activism. Please send your proposals (max. 300 words) plus a short bio (max. 150 words) to in_the_w...@outlook.com by March 15, 2020. You will be notified by March 29, 2020, if your paper is accepted. For any questions, please refer to the organizer Dr. Doro Wiese, IAS, University of Warwick. Keynote speakers: Dr. Mishuana Goeman Associate Professor of Gender Studies, UCLA Dr. Robert Warrior Distinguished Professor of American Literature & Culture, University of Kansas Contact: Dr. Doro Wiese Institute of Advanced Study University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL United Kingdom Phone: +44 24 76150565 Email: in_the_w...@outlook.com Web: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/calendar/in-the-wake __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFA: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ethics of War and Peace
__ Call for Applications Type: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ethics of War and Peace Institution: Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, Stockholm University Location: Stockholm (Sweden) Date: 2020–2022 Deadline: 21.2.2020 __ The Stockholm Centre is looking to deepen and broaden its research profile, especially with regards to the grounds, scope and nature of the duty to rescue. This includes, for example, work on our duties to refugees fleeing war and natural disaster, our duties in the face of climate change, and the ethics of immigration policy, as well as the ethics of direct and indirect humanitarian intervention. The Stockholm Centre aims to reflect the fact that the best work in moral and political philosophy is informed by research across philosophy, as well as other cognate disciplines. We thus welcome applications from researchers from a range of backgrounds (for example, those working on causation, moral responsibility, rights, collective action, philosophy of action, authority, as well as those already working directly on the duty to rescue, war, climate ethics and immigration). The Fellow will be expected to produce and publish high-quality analytic, philosophical research, disseminate their research via international conferences, and publish in high-quality peer-reviewed journals. To this end, a generous research stipend is attached to the post. The Department of Philosophy is Sweden’s largest philosophy department, and is divided into Theoretical Philosophy and Practical Philosophy. It has a thriving research community and hosts regular visiting speakers and conferences. Please note that there is no requirement to speak Swedish to hold this post. The Fellow will be expected to undertake research in English. Applicants are expected to hold a doctoral degree, or be expected to attain such a degree no later than August 2020. The start date is negotiable, but will be no later than August 2020. This is a pensionable position, subject to the favourable conditions of standard Swedish social benefits, such as paid parental leave. The Fellow will be expected to reside in Stockholm. Stockholm University strives to be a workplace free from discrimination and with equal opportunities for all. Deadline for Applications: 21 February 2020 Full details of the post, including information on how to apply, can found on the University’s vacancies webpage here: https://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/jobs?rmpage=job=11257=UK Further information about the position can be obtained from Helen Frowe: helen.fr...@philosophy.su.se Contact: Helen Frowe, Director Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace Department of Philosophy Stockholm University SE-10691 Stockholm Sweden Email: helen.fr...@philosophy.su.se __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Philosophy of Migration and Asylum
__ Call for Papers Theme: Philosophy of Migration and Asylum Type: International Conference Institution: Institute of Philosophy, NOVA University of Lisbon Location: Lisbon (Portugal) Date: 16.–17.6.2020 Deadline: 28.2.2020 __ The Institute of Philosophy of the NOVA University of Lisbon organises an international conference on the philosophy of migration and asylum. Papers on all relevant field-related topics are invited, and contributions from graduate students are welcome. In the light of the so-called “refugee crisis” that has affected EU countries in recent years, there will be a special focus on asylum. Contributions to the philosophy of asylum are therefore particularly welcome, including from political theorists working on the reform of the Common European Asylum System and the integration of refugees in Europe. Also, this year it will be twenty years since the publication of Phil Cole’s "Philosophies of Exclusion” (Edinburgh University Press, 2000). The conference will therefore host a roundtable on the work of Phil Cole. Participants may also consider sending in proposals for short contributions to the roundtable discussion. The deadline for receipt of submissions (max. 300 words plus a short bio) is 28 February 2020. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 10 March. Proposals can be sent to the following address: gabriele.deange...@fcsh.unl.pt Keynote speakers: Phil Cole, University of the West of England, Bristol Sarah Fine, King’s College, London Venue: Colégio Almada Negreiros (CAN) Campus de Campolide Universidade NOVA de Lisboa 1099-032 Lisboa, Portugal Contact: Dr. Gabriele De Angelis IFILNOVA/FCSH Universidade Nova de Lisboa Av. de Berna 26 1069-061 Lisbon Portugal Email: gabriele.deange...@fcsh.unl.pt __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CONF: Recognition, Migration, and Critical Theory
__ Conference Announcement Theme: Recognition, Migration, and Critical Theory Type: International Workshop Institution: Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg Location: Salzburg (Austria) Date: 3.–4.3.2020 __ The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research of the University of Salzburg is organising a workshop on "Recognition, Migration, and Critical Theory" on 3-4 March 2020. The aim of this workshop is to discuss to what extent the concept of recognition is suitable for the analysis and critique of current migration issues. David Ingram (Loyola University Chicago) will give the keynote talk at this workshop. In recent years, the concept of recognition has found an astonishing resonance in social and political philosophy and ethics, but also in the social sciences. The claim is made that social relations and processes can be better understood through the reference to recognition and misrecognition, which opens up potentials for criticism and overcoming injustices and distortions in modern, capitalist societies. Critics, on the other hand, often argue that the focus on recognition is misguided and obscures the view of the actual social problems and their causes and is therefore not suited to pointing the way out. Central to many discussions is always the application of a critical theory of recognition and the extent to which it is able to understand and analyse emerging social phenomena and developments. Migration movements and the associated tensions are phenomena that have become the focus of scientific, political and public debate in recent years. Migration in all its forms and its causes is by no means a new phenomenon, but it has become more intense in some parts of the world and, especially in Europe, its perception by politics and the population has changed. So what contribution can a critical theory of recognition make here? Is the concept of recognition appropriate to answer the political, social, ethical and socio-theoretical questions posed by migration, flight and integration? To what extent can global migration movements and their causation through displacement, war, poverty, hunger or climate change be analyzed in terms of recognition theory, or is there a need for other conceptual approaches and theories? And finally, the question what distinguishes the perspective of recognition from the many other theories and normative concepts in social and political philosophy that deal with migration, and what additional insights or critique it has to offer. There is no attendance fee but places are limited. Please send an e-mail to c...@sbg.ac.at before February 15 if you wish to attend. Précis of the papers are shared in advance among all participants. Program Tuesday 10.00-11.00 David Ingram (Loyola Chicago): What Recognition Theory Can Add to an Ethics of Migration 11.15-12.15 Drew Thompson (Loyola Chicago): Migration, Recognition, and Autonomy: Some Challenges 13.30-14.30 Martin Huth (Vienna): Migration and the (selective) recognition of vulnerability. Reflections on solidarity between Judith Butler and the Critical Theory 14.45-15.45 Simon L Joergensen (Aalborg): Naturalization policies as practices of recognition 16.00-17.00 Onni Hirvonen (Jyväskylä): Recognition and Civic Selection 17.15-18.15 Kevin A. Escudero (Brown University): A Comparative Social Movement Approach to the Politics of Recognition in the U.S. Immigrant Rights Movement Wednesday 09.00-10.00 Sabine Hirschauer (New Mexico): German and U.S. Borderlands – Recognition and the Copenhagen School in the Era of Hybrid Identities 10.15-11.15 Rizza Kaye C. Cases (U of the Philippines): Claims-Making and Recognition through Care Work: Narratives of Belonging and Exclusion of Filipinos in New York and London 11.30-12.30 Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag (Nord University) & Gabriela Mezzanotti (University of South-Eastern Norway): A quest for justice: A case study on recognition in migrant interactions with Child Welfare Services in Norway 13.30-14.30 Hilkje Hänel (Berlin): Epistemic Injustice, Recognition and Refugees 14.45-15.45 Heiko Berner (Salzburg): Asylum and Reification 16.00-17.00 Gonçalo Marcelo: Transnationalizing recognition: a new grammar for an old problem Contact: Gottfried Schweiger Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research University of Salzburg Email: gottfried.schwei...@sbg.ac.at __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: On the Boundaries of Here and Now
__ Call for Papers Theme: On the Boundaries of Here and Now Type: International Symposium Institution: Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca'Foscari University of Venice Location: Venice (Italy) Date: 1.–2.10.2020 Deadline: 30.4.2020 __ Today, more than ever before, interconnections, flows, interdependencies, crises and/or re-articulations of models and identity challenge the firmness of boundaries and the idea of homogeneity of presupposed, imagined identity communities that are predicated on these boundaries. In this instance, the academia across various disciplines has been facing the challenge of turning from post-colonial approaches towards a global and transcultural vision of the world. Central to these scholarly reflections has been the question of how to conceptualize cultural encounters without falling into dichotomous categorizations such as the East/West, centre/periphery, etc. This symposium aims to reflect on and contribute to the methodological lenses introduced by the recent scholarship and is an attempt to develop a critical understanding of the disputed spaces in Eurasia. Simultaneously, it seeks to investigate how boundaries are negotiated, (re-)made, resisted and/or unmade within spaces of cultural (re)production in the contemporary world, where, for instance, a populist wave of nationalist ideologies fuels tensions and conflicts globally. Boundaries; aesthetic, ideological, epistemic or physical boundaries that are temporal and spatial compositions and, at the same time, embody (trans-) cultural conceptions of time and space that shape socio-political sensitivities and crises. We encourage participants across different disciplines to present their research and reflect with us on how to open a passage for understanding Boundaries of Here and Now in Eurasian spheres. Where are boundaries located? How do they conceptualize past, present or future? How do individuals, at the micro-level, create and /or participate in the (re)formation of boundaries, and how their acting is connected to the larger transformations at a global level? Furthermore, it is at the centre of our symposium to ask how boundaries are resisted and by whom? Are there ways, visions etc., that attempt to transcend boundaries? These are some of the questions that we would like to address at the symposium. We welcome any innovative way of approaching case studies related to the topic. We especially welcome applications from graduate students as well as post-doc and early-career researchers, but we will also consider submissions from scholars in more advanced stages of their career. The symposium will be opened by a keynote address delivered by Professor Joseph Massad from Columbia University. Application Deadline: 30 April 2020 For applying please email us the following documents in PDF format: - an abstract of 250-350 words including the title of presentation - a short biography (max. 150 words) Symposium official email: boundar...@unive.it Symposium official page: https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/4/36815 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Philosophy and Eschatology
__ Call for Papers Theme: Philosophy and Eschatology Subtitle: Or: Thinking of/from the End of the World Type: 7th Annual International Conference Institution: Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa University of Johannesburg Location: Johannesburg (South Africa) Date: 11.–12.9.2020 Deadline: 15.4.2020 __ Theme: Eschatology, the narrative of the end of time or the world, is an integral aspect of various intellectual traditions. From the Western theological tradition to Afro-pessimism, it also underlies the modern idea of progress and its dialectical counterpart in Hegel and Marx, as well as the works of authors such as Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Bataille, Blanchot, Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy. It has inspired some authors in the phenomenological tradition to rethink the transcendental reduction in order to recover the genesis of the world prior to the birth of consciousness. One of the contributions of eschatology to phenomenology is the insight that the world be thought, in its integrity, unity, or meaning, from the standpoint of its eventual collapse. For Levinas in Totality and Infinity, by contrast, it provides the subject with the standpoint of justice beyond history. Eschatology offers philosophy with (among other things) a way of thinking about the final end or outermost limit, what is most extreme and unsurpassable. It is in its way, much like philosophy, concerned with the limit of the thinkable. Eschatology has more recently entered the discourse of the ecologist and the eco-phenomenologist on the devastation of the earth, that of the geologist and critical theorist on the Anthropocene, and that of global capitalism and the total catastrophes – natural, social, military, and technological – it threatens to unleash at every instant. The aim of this conference is to address these and related topics with a specific focus on the relation between philosophy and eschatology, ecology and eco-phenomenology, the critical discourse on global capitalism, the Anthropocene, religion, the end of time, and Afro-pessimism. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: - Eschatology and religion - Eschatology and phenomenology - Eschatology and apocalypticism - Eschatology, ethics, and political thought - Eschatology, Afro-pessimism and African philosophy - Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Blanchot, Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy, Kojève, Bataille - African concepts of the end, time, worldhood - Critical Race Theory - Black theology - Ancestry and history - Akan, Bantu, and Igbo cosmologies (among others) Submission: Please send a 700 word abstract for blind review to ujphenomenol...@gmail.com. The full paper should be no more than 3500-4000 words for a 35-40 min. presentation. Proposals for panel discussion are also welcome. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Wednesday the 15th of April 2020. Notification of acceptance will be sent early May 2020. Conference fees: The fee for the full two-day conference (including tea and lunches) for participants is R1500 (including VAT). It is R750 for the full two-day conference for all participating graduate and PhD students. Bursaries: A limited number of bursaries will be available for travel and accommodation. Accommodation: The organizers recommend that conference participants stay in the Melville area in Johannesburg, which is within walking distance from UJ Auckland Park Campus. The current rate for B in the Melville area is R600 per person per night. For more information about the conference, please visit the website of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa: https://saphenomenology.wordpress.com Alternatively, please contact one of the organizers: Paul Slama (paul.sl...@hotmail.fr), Carien Smith (smithcatharin...@gmail.com), Justin Sands (justin.sa...@nwu.ac.za), Rafael Winkler (rwink...@uj.ac.za), Abraham Olivier (aoliv...@ufh.ac.za). __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: The Empire and Interreligious Conflicts
__ Call for Papers Theme: The Empire and Interreligious Conflicts Type: International Conference Institution: Istituto Svizzero di Roma University of Bern Location: Rome (Italy) Date: 8.–10.6.2020 Deadline: 14.2.2020 __ This conference is a part of a broader project on epistemology of interreligious conflicts. Its ongoing effort is to study such conflicts, both conceptually and historically, as inter-epistemic conflicts, namely as conflicts between radically different conceptions and performances of truth. The present conference, which will take place in Rome, is dedicated to the political dimension of inter-religious conflicts, more specifically to the role of the Empire. Rome is in fact a striking paradigm for the central and ambivalent role of the imperial power in the history of inter-religious conflicts as conflicts on truth. The Roman Empire was, first, as imperium, the commanding and oppressing power, a primary enemy of the monotheistic message on divine and true justice, championed by both early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. Monotheistic truth was spoken to Rome’s imperial power. Inter-religious conflict would be a conflict on how to best resist the Empire. Nonetheless, Rome, enemy and competitor, was also an inspiration for the political vision of monotheism. The expansive, universal reach of the Emperor, a king of kings, was a living model for the glory of the Kingdom of God, Sovereign of the World. The monotheistic message, like all truth, has a universal scope and accordingly a global, imperial claim. The history of inter-religious conflict is thus also a history of diverging strategies of coping with the Empire. The Jewish-Christian conflict arises from different approaches to living with Rome. Islam, emerging beyond Rome, interacts with different Empires, whose inter-imperial competition with Rome will inform the Islamic-Christian conflict. Finally, besides being an enemy and role model for monotheism’s universal message, the Roman Empire could be also imagined as the external, neutral space, precisely a space of non-truth, which enables the peaceful co-existence of multiple monotheisms, in conflict with each other as well as with other truths. The Empire puts an end to wars, or at least, to follow Carl Schmitt’s theo-political notion of katechon, “hedges” war by postponing the moment of truth. Speakers are invited to reflect on these and other historical models, first, with respect to various configurations of Roman Empires, West and East, with their different political theologies and different wars, but also with respect to other imperial and religious constellations: like the Babylonian, the Persian, the Greek, the Sasanian, and the different Caliphates. The inquiry is not only historical, but ultimately concerns the contemporary situation of inter-religious conflicts. Special attention will be given to the modern condition, which is closely linked to the disappearance of the Roman Empire, as well as, on the one hand, the rise of territorially limited, particular nation-states, and on the other hand, the rise of new forms of imperialism and globalization (capitalist, technological, informational etc.). Participants will be accordingly invited to reflect on inter-religious and other inter-epistemic conflicts in their relation to modern models and conceptions of empires (like the Iberians, the French, the British, The (Third) Reich, the Czarist, the USSR), as well as contemporary super-powers or regional powers (like the USA, China and Russia, or corporate global powers such as Walmart, Shell or Apple). These and other imperial constellations will be contemplated in their relations to contemporary cultures and conflicts of truth, such as the notions of “post-truth”, “return to religion” and “conflict of civilizations”. Presentations will be strictly limited to 20 minutes, followed by discussion. Conference languages are English and Italian (with simultaneous interpretation). Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the organizing institutions. This call is especially addressed to potential speakers on empires in antiquity and in the middle ages. Organizers: Luca Di Blasi (University of Bern) Elad Lapidot (University of Bern) Submission: February 14, 2020 Please submit abstracts of 200 words to Elad Lapidot (elad.lapi...@theol.unibe.ch) and Luca Di Blasi (luca.dibl...@theol.unibe.ch) __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CONF: Autonomy, Diversity and the Common Good
__ Conference Announcement Theme: Autonomy, Diversity and the Common Good Type: 41st Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference Institution: Claremont Graduate University Location: Claremont, CA (USA) Date: 6.–8.2.2020 __ The theme of the 41st Claremont Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference will be Autonomy, Diversity and the Common Good. The conference will be held at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, on February 6-8, 2020. Topic Description We live in a time of growing social and cultural diversity and inequality. This has increased the traditional tensions between individual freedom and social responsibility to a point where the binding forces of our societies seem to be exhausted. Where previously the commonalities of nature, culture, and tradition that connect us before we become an individual self were emphasized, we have learned to deconstruct these commonalities and replace them with our own cultural constructions without being disturbed by the biological, cultural, moral or religious limitations of earlier times. However, instead of creating a society of equals, for which many have hoped, we have increased inequality, diversity, and injustice in our societies to an unprecedented degree. In order to create more just conditions for everybody, we pursue politics that promote greater self-determination, cultural participation, and political power for marginalized groups in order to help them assert their distinctiveness and gain recognition in contexts of real or perceived inequality or injustice. But we often do it without due regard for the interests and potentials of society at large, or the different needs of others, or the commonalities we must share for our society to work. Like the sorcerer’s apprentice, we have inaugurated a global process of social change but cannot control the forces that drive us apart or prevent the weakening of the forces that bind us together. The tensions between centripetal and centrifugal forces in society can be observed everywhere, and they have been fueled by the global spread of capitalism and consumerism. For some freedom, independence and autonomy are the highest values in our society that must not be compromised by any social commitments, legal restrictions or political obligations. Others emphasize justice, equity, and equality and insist that we must practice solidarity with those who need it and assume responsibility even for that for which we are not responsible. But why play off one against the other? Is it true that insistence on autonomy and diversity weakens social cohesion, or that striving for justice, equity and equality undermines individual freedom? How much individuality and what kinds of diversity are we ready to accept? Where do we want to draw a line, if we do, and for which reasons? How much autonomy and diversity are possible without destroying social cohesion and human solidarity? And how much social commonality is necessary to be able to live an autonomous life and do justice to diversity? A long tradition has seen the common good as the social order in which individuals and groups can best strive for perfection. Liberal societies insist that this perfecting must not be done at the cost of others or by restricting the right to such a striving only to some and not granting it also to others. But what does ‘perfection‘ mean today? And what has become of the common good in our time? There are significant differences between conceptions of the common good in the West and East and between secular and religious interpretations of the human pursuit of happiness and fulfilled life. What are the contributions to this debate by religious traditions? How do they configure the ideas of autonomy, diversity, and the common good? Do they have anything to offer that goes beyond secular conceptions? If so, is what they offer compatible with secular views? Or must we depart from the idea of the common good and seek alternatives that would allow us to better hold together the diverging forces of autonomy, individuality, and diversity on the one hand and the binding forces of social justice, equality, solidarity, and responsibility on the other? Main Conference Participants: - Clare Carlisle (King’s College London) - Jörg Dierken (Halle) - Nils Ole Oermann (Lüneburg / Oxford) - Joseph Prabhu (Cal State LA) - Michael Puett (Harvard) - Hartmut von Sass (Berlin) - Francis Schüssler Fiorenza (Harvard) - Linn Tonstad (Yale) - Graham Ward (Oxford) - Elliot Wolfson (UCSB) Click here to register: https://forms.gle/ev6vjebLc1YjmwLV7 Conference website: https://research.cgu.edu/philosophy-of-religion-conference/about/conferences-publications/2020-autonomy-diversity-and-the-common-good/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive:
InterPhil: CFP: Ethics in a Global Environment
__ Call for Papers Theme: Ethics in a Global Environment Type: 6th Annual Conference Institution: Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham Location: Birmingham (United Kingdom) Date: 28.–29.5.2020 Deadline: 1.2.2020 __ The Centre for the Study of Global Ethics (Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham) is pleased to announce its Sixth Annual Conference. The theme for 2020 is Ethics in a Global Environment. Human activity is increasingly compromising the global environment in which we and other species live. Whether it be greenhouse gas emissions, plastic pollution, overconsumption, landfills, or deforestation, human ways of life are undeniably responsible for making our planet less and less hospitable. As a result, biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates, and environmental degradation makes a flourishing life impossible for many sentient individuals across the globe. These problems give rise to fundamental questions about what we owe to one another globally, how we should relate to other animals and nature, and what kinds of society we want to live in. What do we owe to our fellow humans and other sentient creatures? What kinds of environmental goods are individuals entitled to? Are there duties of environmental justice? Are there moral duties to protect species and ecosystems? Who is responsible for the harms caused by environmental degradation? How do systems of oppression intersect to exacerbate environmental injustice? What ethical and political philosophical frameworks are appropriate in an ever-changing global environment? We believe that adequately addressing these questions will require a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges they raise, and we therefore welcome contributions from a variety of disciplines, including, but by no means limited to, philosophy, geography, law, politics, animal studies, sociology, and history. Submissions We welcome abstract submissions addressing the central theme of the conference, as well as a wide range of topics within global ethics, from faculty, graduate students, activists, and others. First, we welcome abstract submissions addressing the central theme of Ethics in a Global Environment, including, but not limited to, the following sub-themes: - Environmental ethics - Animal ethics - The ethics of technology (e.g. in preserving species, promoting biodiversity, and climate change mitigation and adaptation) - Agricultural ethics - Indigenous perspectives on environmental sustainability - Climate justice - Urbanization and just urban environments - Ethics regarding the transition towards environmental sustainability - Environmental governance - Justice in interspecies societies - Postcolonialism and the environment - Intersectionality and the environment In addition, we encourage scholars in global and practical ethics; legal, social and political philosophy; and cognate disciplines to submit an abstract on a wide range of topics within global ethics. Areas of research may include: - Gender justice - Global distributive and social justice - Justice and race - Just war theory - Humanitarian ethics - Global bioethics Submission guidelines We aim to make this conference accessible to all people with a disability, and ask you to help us achieve this goal. We would really appreciate it if you could comply with the requests in section 2.3 (on pages 6 and 7) of the BPA/SWIP Guidelines for Accessible Conferences. To propose a paper (suitable for presentation in 15 minutes), please send the following two documents (doc or pdf) to: globalethicseve...@contacts.bham.ac.uk - Blind abstract: document containing title, abstract (500 words max.), 3-5 keywords - anonymised for blind review (so not containing any author information) - Non-blind abstract: document containing title, abstract (500 words max.), 3-5 keywords as well as author information (name, position, affiliation, contact details, and short biography) Submission deadline: 1 February 2020 We aim to let you know the outcome of the blind review by 1 March 2020. Conference website: https://globalethics2020.weebly.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Africa in a Cosmopolitan and Polycentric World
__ Call for Papers Theme: Africa in a Cosmopolitan and Polycentric World Subtitle: Violence, Conflict Mediation, and Peace Building Dynamics Type: Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! Conference on African Philosophy Institution: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences Location: Prague (Czech Republic) Date: 15.–16.6.2020 Deadline: 24.4.2020 __ For nearly three decades, Africa has been swayed by conflicts of different nature and intensity: the South African apartheid and the conflicts in Rwanda, Burundi, Angola or Sudan, Jihadist incursions in various African countries, the secessionist attempt in Western Cameroon, as well as multiple crises facing the Great Lakes Region, and other conflicts. These phenomena reveal two paradoxical realities. On the one hand, there is the violence and exclusion – including extermination – imposed on the majority of African people today. On the other hand, we must mention the organized activities seeking to find suitable solutions to this suffering through a range of initiatives generically called "peace interventions" which include various actors, philosophies and strategies. The globalization process and the collapse of the Cold War have both contributed to the reconfiguration of the world order. The abundant literature on this subject sheds light on questions related to this reconfiguration including, for example, the examination of ideas such as interdependence, mobility, polycentrism, multilateral arrangement, cosmopolitanism, intercultural dialogue, sustainable development, climate change, both the new economic and the ecological order, to mention but a few. Being part of planet Earth, Africa cannot be excluded from these concerns. The Asixoxe (Let's Talk!) Conference on African Philosophy 2020 would like to explore issues raised by the evoked context. The conference focuses on conflicts, violence, conflict mediation, and peace building dynamics currently developing in Africa. It also seeks to analyze the meaning, the nature and the causes of conflicts and violence currently affecting Africa. Subsequently, it also seeks to explore theories and dynamics of peace in the African continent. In addition to this, the conference addresses issues related to African political thought and practice, African languages and literature, African culture and identity, migration and gender, human rights and demography. Possible topics include: - Concepts and narratives of peace and war in Africa - Conflict mediation and resolution - Indigenous knowledge on conflicts and their resolution - Countries, Ambassadors, and United Nations (UN) approaches to conflicts - Intercultural and religious dialogues - African philosophy’s conflict and peace theories - Interaction between local and global structures for peace - Non-violence, gender, new technologies, and other related topics We invite you to explore these issues at the fourth Prague edition of Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! Conference on African Philosophy, organized by the Centre of Global Studies (CGS) of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The conference will be held in Prague, on 15th-16th June 2020. Titles and abstracts of 200-250 words, as well as any queries, should be sent by 24th April 2020 to Dr Albert Kasanda (CGS, Prague), kasa...@flu.cas.cz. Each speaker will be given 20 minutes for the presentation, with subsequent 10 minutes for questions and discussion. We envisage a publication of selected papers from the conference. There is no registration fee for presenters and other participants. English is the working language. Contact: Albert Kasanda, PhD Centre of Global Studies Institute of Philosophy Czech Academy of Sciences Jilská 1 110 00 Prague 1 Czech Republic Email: kasa...@flu.cas.cz __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Kyoto in Davos
__ Call for Papers Theme: Kyoto in Davos Subtitle: The Question of the Human from a Cross Cultural Vantage Point Type: International Conference Institution: Institute of Philosophy, Hildesheim University Location: Hildesheim (Germany) Date: 10.–13.9.2020 Deadline: 15.3.2020 __ From Ralf Müller The international conference, “Kyoto in Davos,” to be held in Hildesheim, Germany, 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. With this question, Kant outlined the field of philosophy in its “cosmopolitan importance.” And while Kant’s cosmopolitanism was progressive and an expression of the best of the Enlightenment, such a cosmopolitanism cannot but appear to us today as Eurocentric. It has become essential to critically reflect on the cultural bias of our understanding of the human. Max Scheler, in his 1928 book, *The Human Place in the Cosmos*, explicitly begins from the point of view of a “well-educated European” and thus from a clearly stated cultural bias. Returning to the Davos disputation, we ask to what degree the debate between Cassirer and Heidegger was dominated by a Eurocentric bias and how the philosophical account of the human would have unfolded had a culturally other voice been part of the debate. Thus, the conference seeks to imagine a counter-factual confrontation (Auseinandersetzung) between Cassirer, Heidegger, Nishida, and other Japanese philosophers and to rethink, both historically and systematically, the nature of the human: What role does culture and religion play in Philosophical Anthropology? And to what extent does the plurality of cultures and religions contradict the perspective of universalism largely assumed by Philosophical Anthropology today? And how can other philosophical traditions broaden our understanding of the human and challenge the dominant models of essentialism, naturalism, culturalism, and existentialism? Within this framing of the question, we suggest furthering the discussion at Davos within three thematic fields: 1. Historical and systematic contextualization of philosophical anthropology and the question of the human: - What are the parallels in Japanese and German philosophical history from the 1910s to the 1930s? - What role do neo-Kantianism and Lebensphilosophie play in Germany and Japan at the beginning of the 20th century? - What can the Kyoto School and other streams contribute to philosophical anthropology? - What are the repercussions of the multi-cultural view of the human? 2. The repetition, appropriation, and transformation of Kant and post-Kantian philosophy: - What is the importance of Kant, neo-Kantianism and philosophical anthropology for the development of early Japanese philosophy? - What is the importance of early Japanese philosophy to our understanding of Kant and the post-Kantian philosophy? 3. The Crisis of Human Self-Understanding and the Kantian Question Across Cultural Difference: - Given the interconnection between language and understanding, what does it mean to translate philosophical language, specifically such terms as *Mensch*, human, 人間, from one culture to another? - Can we translate Kant’s question of the human from Western to Eastern tradition, from the past to the present? - What were the conditions for translating the Western philosophical discourse into Japanese and rendering it understandable? Is it possible to translate Japanese philosophical discourse back into Western terminology? - Are there limits to understanding? - How does the limits of linguistic or cultural translation offer us new systematic insights into the question concerning the human? We invite abstracts for proposed papers (250 word maximum) that explore some aspect of the thematic fields outlined above. The invited speakers and guests include: Eric Nelson (Hong Kong), Steve Lofts (London, Canada), Ralf Becker (Landau, Germany), Sascha Freyberg (Venice, Italy), John Maraldo (Florida, USA), Bret Davis (Baltimore, USA), Gregory Moss (Hong Kong), Fernando Wirtz (Kyoto, Japan), and Jörn Bohr (Wuppertal). Deadline: March 15th 2020. All abstracts should be sent to: kyotoinda...@protonmail.ch __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Antarctica
__ Call for Papers Theme: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Antarctica Type: Interdisciplinary Workshop Institution: University of Oslo Location: Oslo (Norway) Date: 3.–4.12.2020 Deadline: 30.3.2020 __ Does Antarctica have a colonial history? Has it entered a postcolonial present? And are those terms even appropriate for a continent without an Indigenous population, a continent that is paradigmatically represented as a space for science and peace that is exceptional to the processes governing the rest of the world? The aim of this workshop, sponsored by the projects “Political Philosophy Looks to Antarctica” and “Greening the Poles: Science, the Environment, and the Creation of the Modern Arctic and Antarctic”, is to critically explore these and related questions. The aim is to produce an edited volume that poses fundamental questions about how power has been exercised in Antarctica in the past – and how it continues to be exercised in the present – and about the analytic limits of colonialism and postcolonialism in Antarctica and beyond, in sites like the outer space or the deep seabed. Our aim is to bring scholars of Antarctica and the polar regions into conversations with historians, philosophers, and geographers who study colonial and postcolonial processes elsewhere in the world. As such, we welcome submissions from scholars at all career stages who can speak to this topic. Our primary focus is on deeper conceptual issues related to the concepts of colonialism and postcolonialism in Antarctica and other spaces without Indigenous populations. Applicants should submit a 500-word abstract (max) with contact details to Oda Davanger (o.s.davan...@iss.uio.no), no later than March 30. Successful applicants will be notified by April 20. The workshop will consist of pre-circulated papers and applicants should be prepared to deliver a draft paper suitable for commentary and discussion (of c. 6000 words) by November 15. Travel funding is available for successful applicants. “Political Philosophy Looks to Antarctica” is financed by the Polar Program of the Research Council of Norway. “Greening the Poles” is financed by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. [716211 – GRETPOL]). The workshop organizers are Associate Professor Alejandra Mancilla (University of Oslo, alejandra.manci...@ifikk.uio.no) and Associate Professor Peder Roberts (University of Stavanger, peder.w.robe...@uis.no). Contact: Peder Roberts, Associate Professor of Modern History University of Stavanger Email: peder.w.robe...@uis.no __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Identities: Understanding of Oneself, Others and the World
__ Call for Papers Theme: Identities Subtitle: Understanding of Oneself, Others and the World Type: XXVII International Interdisciplinary Colloquium Institution: Graduate Students' Association of the Department of History, University of Montreal Location: Montreal, QC (Canada) Date: 18.–20.3.2020 Deadline: 13.1.2020 __ Identities and discourses of alterity are, at all times and in all societies, an integral part of social, political, economic, cultural and territorial interactions. Our views of ourselves and others tend to be influenced by multiple factors, including discourses on individuals, groups and their environment, as well as various performances and materialities. The historiography of identities and alterities is now divided into several subfields. Concepts of plurality and the multitude are hence at the core of our understandings of self, others and the environment. In view of this, the organizing committee is pleased to offer a platform for exchanges and reflections on the use and conceptualization of identities and alterities as well as their relations with the environment in which they exist and evolve. In what ways do they vary in time and space? How are they shaped? How are they institutionalized? How do alterities act as factors in identity construction? How do they confront and/or comfort each other? In what ways are they influenced by internal or external ideologies? By what means are they disseminated and shared? By what mechanisms are they made invisible? How do identity groups represent themselves, others and their backgrounds? Who is marginalized by these identities and what is their agency? What mechanisms explain these rejections and what are their consequences? Finally, in the context of scholarship, how do these concepts influence the work of researchers? The committee seeks proposals for presentations of 15 to 20 minutes addressing, but not limited to, the following themes: - Movements related to identities and otherness or representations of others (concepts of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, language, religion, etc.) - Representations related to the understanding of self, others or the comprehension of the world on a social, cultural, political, economic and geographical level. - Issues related more broadly to identities (national, religious, gendered, sexual, linguistic, territorial, etc.) Graduate students from any field of study whose work focuses on these themes are invited to participate in the XXVII International Interdisciplinary Colloquium of Graduate Students’ Association of the Department of History of the University of Montreal. Participation in this colloquium is an excellent opportunity to present your research, interact with fellow students and professors, and eventually publish your findings. Please submit your proposal in either English or French (250 words maximum) before January 13, 2020, at 6 p.m., to xxviicolloqueaedd...@gmail.com with a copy to marly.tiburcio-carne...@umontreal.ca. Applicants must also provide their first and last name, institutional affiliation and an estimate of travel costs if financial assistance is required. Contact Email: xxviicolloqueaedd...@gmail.com __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
