InterPhil: CFP: Hope and Fear
__ Call for Papers Theme: Hope and Fear Type: Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities Institution: Carroll College Location: Helena, MT (USA) Date: 31.3.–1.4.2017 Deadline: 6.1.2017 __ Our social, political, and religious climate has been dominated recently by a mood of collective fear, regarding everything from economic anxiety, the outbreak of new and frightening diseases, mass shootings, social tension and violence between law enforcement and communities of color, environmental and technological dangers, and the threat of terrorism both foreign and domestic. Where is there room for hope in such times of uncertainty and fear? Indeed, what would hope look like? What might the interplay be between hope and fear as we reflect on the past, present, and future not only of this country, but of humanity as a whole? How might respect and compassion overcome division and mistrust in our discourse and interactions? What do the various disciplines of the humanities have to offer on the subjects of hope and fear, both in our own time as well as for all time? We invite paper proposals from both faculty and graduate students for an interdisciplinary conference in the humanities to be held at Carroll College in Helena, MT, March 31-April 1, 2017. Please send an abstract (no more than 300 words) and CV to humanit...@carroll.edu by January 6, 2017. Contact: Dane J. Cash, Ph.D. History Program Carroll College 1601 N. Benton Ave. Helena, MT 59625 USA Phone: +1 406 447-4372 Email: humanit...@carroll.edu __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Hope
__ Call for Papers Theme: Hope Subtitle: Probing the Boundaries Type: 6th Global Conference Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net Location: Prague (Czech Republic) Date: 14.–16.3.2014 Deadline: 11.10.2013 __ When Pandora’s box emptied all of its ills that would plague the world, one small winged creature still remained: hope. The project inquires into the nature of this gift. Is hope, in fact, a good, encouraging us to do or be good? Or is it an evil; an illusion, perhaps an impossible fantasy? How does hope manifest itself in the world, in language, literature, and the arts? How – should – hope be encouraged? Is hope individual or collective in nature? Or both? What does hope contribute to individual or national identity? This inter- and multi-disciplinary research and publications project explores the multi-layered ideas, actions, and cultural traditions regarding hope, as well as the nature of hope, its relationship with other emotions or movements, and its manifestation in the actions of individuals, cultures, communities and nations. We seek papers and presentations which consider the history of hope, its cultural and artistic representations, its meaning(s), and/or its philosophical or scientific ‘legitimacy’. We are particularly interested in the nascent field of future studies, and in teasing out the distinctions between hope and optimism. Presentations, papers, performances, reports, works-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to hope, including, for example: - Theories of Hope - Pedagogies of Hope - Hope in Literature/Literature as Hope - Hope in Art/Art as Hope - Hope in Music/Music as Hope - Hope and Religious Teaching - Hope and the Beginning of Life - Hope and Despair - Hope and Reconciliation - Hope and Illness - Hope and Loss - Hope and the beginning of Life - Hope and Despair - Hope and Reconciliation - Hope and Illness - Hope and Loss - Hope and the End of Life - Hope and Oppression - Consciousness and Hope - Between Hopelessness and Hope - Hope vs. Illusion - Hope and Media - Psychologies and Hope - Philosophies of Hope - Hope and Forgiveness - Remarriage Following Divorce: ‘The Triumph of Hope over Experience’ - Love and Hope - Good Works as Hope The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. What to Send 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 11th October 2013. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 17th January 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract f) up to 10 key words E-mails should be entitled: HOPE6 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs John L. Hochheimer: h...@siu.edu Nancy Billias: nbill...@usj.edu Rob Fisher: ho...@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Persons programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/hope/call-for-papers/ __ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __
InterPhil: CFP: Hope - Probing the Boundaries
__ Call for Papers "Hope - Probing the Boundaries" 4th Global Conference Inter-Disciplinary.Net Mansfield College, University of Oxford Oxford (UK) 22-24 September 2008 __ This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore contemporary definitions, meanings and expressions of hope. In particular, it will seek to examine the individual, social, national and international contexts within which hope emerges as well as its counterpart, hopelessness. The theme and the sense of uncertainty pervades the start of the twenty-first century. Although young, the past bears witness to the brutality of genocides, atrocities, terrorism which acts to counter-balance economic, political, technological and ecological aspirations. Medicine and bio-ethics are split between those who foresee the worst implications for persons and those who foresee the promise of genetic engineering. Cultural conflicts likewise offer scope for grave apprehension or the hopeful anticipation of a culturally enriched shared world. This project is committed to the view that now is the time look at the main spheres in which there seems to be a pendulum between fear and hopeful expectation, with a view to thinking out constructive strategies for exploration. Papers, workshops and reports are invited on any of the following possible areas for discussion: 1. Human awareness of the passage of time; changing attitudes to what H.G. Wells called the shape of things to come. What are the possible bases for thinking about the future? 2. Expressions of these attitudes in contemporary culture portrayals in art, cinema, literature, radio, science fiction, theatre, tv 3. The psychological basis of fear of the future. Why millennial hopes are matched by millennial fears 4. The concept of a new age. Utopian thinkers; Dystopian visions. The connection with political movements. What do new agers want? Hedonism and the simple life. The fear of longevity. The fear of loneliness 5. Hopelessness, despair, indifference and resignation. The meaning of life 6. The science of the future. Prediction, risk and disaster management 7. The phenomenology of hope. What is this phenomenon that we call hope? How does it live and seemingly thrive in difficult times? How is it sustained? How is it invoked? Is there any difference between those who seem to be more hopeful than others? 8. Does hope and the act of hoping/or the predisposition to hope differ from culture to culture? What are those variances and what accounts for them? How is hope differently instantiated among cultures? What are those instantiations? 9. The notion of open and closed futures 10. The role and place of religion and religious movements. 11. Risk, possibility and hope. 12. Envisaging possible futures. The question of choice. Cultivating hope. To boldly go. These are indicative themes. Papers are welcome on these and related themes. Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 18th April 2008. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 8th August 2008. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Dr Nancy Mardas Billias Chair, Department of Philosophy Coordinator, Leadership Studies Saint Joseph College 1678 Asylum Avenue West Hartford, CT 06117 USA E-mail: nbill...@sjc.edu Dr Rob Fisher Inter-Disciplinary.Net Priory House, Wroslyn Road Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR United Kingdom E-mail: ho...@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume. For further details about the project please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hope/hope.htm For further details about the conference please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hope/h4/cfp.htm __ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philoso
InterPhil: CFP: Hope - Probing the Boundaries
__ Call for Papers "Hope - Probing the Boundaries" 2nd Global Conference Interdisciplinary.Net Mansfield College, Oxford University Oxford (UK) 18-20 September 2006 __ This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore contemporary definitions, meanings and expressions of hope. In particular, it will seek to examine the individual, social, national and international contexts within which hope emerges as well as its counterpart, hopelessness. The theme and the sense of uncertainty pervades the start of the twenty-first century. Although young, the past bears witness to the brutality of genocides, atrocities, terrorism which acts to counter-balance economic, political, technological and ecological aspirations. Medicine and bio-ethics are split between those who foresee the worst implications for persons and those who foresee the promise of genetic engineering. Cultural conflicts likewise offer scope for grave apprehension or the hopeful anticipation of a culturally enriched shared world. This project is committed to the view that now is the time look at the main spheres in which there seems to be a pendulum between fear and hopeful expectation, with a view to thinking out constructive strategies for exploration. Papers, workshops and reports are invited on any of the following possible areas for discussion; 1. Human awareness of the passage of time; changing attitudes to what H.G. Wells called the shape of things to come. What are the possible bases for thinking about the future? 2. Expressions of these attitudes in contemporary culture portrayals in art, cinema, literature, radio, science fiction, theatre, tv 3. The psychological basis of fear of the future. Why millennial hopes are matched by millennial fears 4. The concept of a new age. Utopian thinkers; Dystopian visions. The connection with political movements. What do new agers want? Hedonism and the simple life. The fear of longevity. The fear of loneliness 5. Hopelessness, despair, indifference and resignation. The meaning of life 6. The science of the future. Prediction, risk and disaster management 7. The phenomenology of hope. What is this phenomenon that we call hope? How does it live and seemingly thrive in difficult times? How is it sustained? How is it invoked? Is there any difference between those who seem to be more hopeful than others? 8. Does hope and the act of hoping/or the predisposition to hope differ from culture to culture? What are those variances and what accounts for them? How is hope differently instantiated among cultures? What are those instantiations? 9. The notion of open and closed futures 10. The role and place of religion and religious movements. 11. Risk, possibility and hope. 12. Envisaging possible futures. The question of choice. Cultivating hope. To boldly go. These are indicative themes. Papers are welcome on these and related themes. Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 2nd June 2006. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 1st September 2006. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats. Rob Fisher Inter-Disciplinary.Net Priory House, 149B Wroslyn Road Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR E-mail: r...@inter-disciplinary.net Stephen Morris Independent Scholar, New York, USA E-Mail: smmorri...@yahoo.com Stephen Neff University of Pennsylvania, USA E-mail: stephenn...@hotmail.com The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume. For further details about the project please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hope/hope.htm For further details about the conference please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hope/h2/cfp.htm __ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
InterPhil: CFP: Hope - Probing the Boundaries
__ Call for Papers "Hope - Probing the Boundaries" 2nd Global Conference Inter-Disciplinary.Net Mansfield College, University of Oxford Oxford (UK) 18-20 September 2006 __ This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore contemporary definitions, meanings and expressions of hope. In particular, it will seek to examine the individual, social, national and international contexts within which hope emerges as well as its counterpart, hopelessness. The theme and the sense of uncertainty pervades the start of the twenty-first century. Although young, the past bears witness to the brutality of genocides, atrocities, terrorism which acts to counter-balance economic, political, technological and ecological aspirations. Medicine and bio-ethics are split between those who foresee the worst implications for persons and those who foresee the promise of genetic engineering. Cultural conflicts likewise offer scope for grave apprehension or the hopeful anticipation of a culturally enriched shared world. This project is committed to the view that now is the time look at the main spheres in which there seems to be a pendulum between fear and hopeful expectation, with a view to thinking out constructive strategies for exploration. Papers, workshops and reports are invited on any of the following possible areas for discussion; 1. Human awareness of the passage of time; changing attitudes to what H.G. Wells called the shape of things to come. What are the possible bases for thinking about the future? 2. Expressions of these attitudes in contemporary culture portrayals in art, cinema, literature, radio, science fiction, theatre, tv 3. The psychological basis of fear of the future. Why millennial hopes are matched by millennial fears 4. The concept of a new age. Utopian thinkers; Dystopian visions. The connection with political movements. What do new agers want? Hedonism and the simple life. The fear of longevity. The fear of loneliness 5. Hopelessness, despair, indifference and resignation. The meaning of life 6. The science of the future. Prediction, risk and disaster management 7. The phenomenology of hope. What is this phenomenon that we call hope? How does it live and seemingly thrive in difficult times? How is it sustained? How is it invoked? Is there any difference between those who seem to be more hopeful than others? 8. Does hope and the act of hoping/or the predisposition to hope differ from culture to culture? What are those variances and what accounts for them? How is hope differently instantiated among cultures? What are those instantiations? 9. The notion of open and closed futures 10. The role and place of religion and religious movements. 11. Risk, possibility and hope. 12. Envisaging possible futures. The question of choice. Cultivating hope. To boldly go. These are indicative themes. Papers are welcome on these and related themes. Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 2nd June 2006. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 1st September 2006. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats. Rob Fisher Inter-Disciplinary.Net Priory House, 149B Wroslyn Road Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR E-mail: r...@inter-disciplinary.net Stephen Morris Independent Scholar, New York, USA Stephen Neff University of Pennsylvania, USA E-Mail: smmorri...@yahoo.com Stephen Neff University of Pennsylvania, USA E-mail: stephenn...@hotmail.com The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume. For further details about the project please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hope/hope.htm For further details about the conference please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hope/h2/cfp.htm __ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
