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Listed below are calls for papers, as well as upcoming conference announcements, from a wide variety of philosophical organizations.
If you have an announcement you would like listed on this page, please click here to send us an email. Please limit announcements to 250 words. We reserve the right to edit for style and length. SPEP 2008 Call for papers now available (Nov 18, 2007)
The Unbearable Charm of Frailty. Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe
A Special Issue of ANGELAKI - The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
Guest Editor: Costica Bradatan (The Honors College, Texas Tech University)
ANGELAKI hereby invites contributions on the topic of "Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe," a special issue scheduled for late 2009.
Over the last several years European Union has welcomed a number of new member countries, most of which used to belong to the "Eastern bloc." While, thanks to the influence of mass-media, tourism, immigration, etc., Western Europe has come to acquire some general geographic knowledge about these countries, comparatively relatively little is known about what happens there in terms of production of knowledge and cultural artifacts, in terms of intellectual debates and marketplace of ideas. Although all of them are now part of the same "European family," there is comparatively little knowledge in the countries of the Western Europe about the cultural physiognomy of the East-European newcomers.
The intellectual traffic between East and West within Europe seems to be most often one-way traffic: it is as if ideas and intelligence can only move eastwards, as though from East westwards almost nothing (intellectually valid) is to be expected or desired. As such, the face of the "new Europe" that the West most often sees is that of "le plombier polonais."
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Architecture and Phenomenology
Footprint: the Journal of the Delft School of Design, TU Delft, The Netherlands
For the third issue of Footprint we are calling for papers that take account of current discussions in philosophy and architecture on phenomenology with respect to space, place, location.
Papers which deal with the late work on ‘topology’ in Heidegger, and the issue of perception and ‘inner spatiality’ in the work of Merleau-Ponty are of immediate interest. We hope also to have papers which deal with Brentano’s work on space.
A further topic of special interest is the critique, provided by Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, of Descartes, and of functionalism in general. The re-reading of Aristotle by Heidegger with regard to public space, and the development of this in the work of Arendt is also of interest.
Papers are welcome on the work of architects who have deployed insights from the philosophical area of research for their work.
Examinations of the research of Casey, Malpas, Dreyfus and others including Ihde would be a welcome addition to the issue, either in the form of short notices or reviews. Articles will be peer reviewed, and the issue is expected to be available at the beginning of October.
All papers and correspondence should be sent by email to Patrick Healy, with "Footprint: Issue no.3" in the subject line.
The deadline for submissions is the 15 June 2008. Papers should be between
6-8000 words. See the 'Guidelines for Authors' at http://www.footprintjournal.org/paper_submission.
NORTH AMERICAN LEVINAS SOCIETY
The North American Levinas Society invites submissions of individual paper proposals and panel proposals for the third annual meeting and conference to be held August 31-September 2, 2008, at Seattle University in Seattle, WA. While we will organize the conference around the broad theme of “Levinas and the Sacred,” we will accept proposals for paper and panels on any topic related to Levinas in an effort to draw the widest array of interests.
Submissions
Send materials via email attachment (preferably Microsoft Word) to: submissions@levinas-society.org
The International Association for Environmental Philosophy
The International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) invites paper proposals in the form of full (1-2 page) abstracts.
Proposals on the thought of the late Val Plumwood are especially encouraged, though all submissions will be considered. Proposals for either individual papers or sessions organized around a specific topic
(3-4 presenters) are also welcome. The DEADLINE for submission of abstracts is Monday, May 5, 2008.
Please submit abstracts electronically (in Word format) to Brian Schroeder, IAEP Co-Director brian.schroeder@rit.edu
Notice of selection will arrive by June 1. Presenters will be expected to have current IAEP membership.
Authors should also consider submitting essays to the Association's journal, Environmental Philosophy.
Submission information is available at the journal’s website: http://ephilosophy.uoregon.edu
The International Association for Environmental Philosophy offers a forum for the philosophical discussion of our relation to the natural environment. Embracing a broad understanding of environmental philosophy, IAEP encourages not only discussions of environmental ethics, but of environmental aesthetics, ontology, theology, the philosophy of science, political philosophy, ecofeminism, and the philosophy of technology. IAEP also welcomes a diversity of approaches to these issues, including those inspired by Continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, and the tradition of American philosophy.
Membership in IAEP is open to everyone. For information about joining IAEP or subscribing to Environmental Philosophy, please visit our website:
http://www.environmentalphilosophy.org.
SOCIETY FOR RICOEUR STUDIES CONFERENCE
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 30, 2008
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Critical Theory Workshop in Paris (Summer 2008)
The Atelier de Théorie Critique is a graduate-level research seminar, which will take place at the Centre Parisien d’Etudes Critiques and the Collège International de Philosophie The primary objective of the Workshop is to provide an international forum for interdisciplinary and comparative research in critical theory. The Workshop will also offer students direct access to some of the most recent developments on the French intellectual scene.
In 2008, the theme of the Workshop will be “Politics and Aesthetics,” and the authors studied will include Sartre, Barthes, Foucault, Marcuse, Heinich, Badiou, and Rancière. The seminar, which will be run by Professor Gabriel Rockhill, will include the participation of Rancière (sous réserve) and Heinich, who have been invited to discuss their work. The language of instruction is French, and a minimum of 6 college semesters of French or the equivalent are required. Contact Hours: 45. Credit: 3 semester/4.5 quarter hours.
For dates, costs and application: http://www.villanova.edu/vpaa/intlstudies/summerprograms/arts.htm#Event7
PHILOSOPHY AS LITERATURE A Special Issue of The European Legacy
Guest Editor: Costica Bradatan (The Honors College, Texas Tech University). This special issue is scheduled for late 2009.
The European Legacy, published by Routledge, is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10848770.asp
Like novelists, historians or columnists, philosophers, too, are writers. They make sophisticated use of language, and employ - whether deliberately or not - specific rhetorical and stylistic devices, as well as certain repertoires of metaphors, images and symbols. As writers, philosophers also have to adjust their writing to specific audiences, tailor it to serve specific purposes, and strategically choose one genre over another, with all its rules, protocols, and constraints. In short, it is crucial for philosophers - if they are to persuade readers - to advance their ideas following certain aesthetic rules, rhetorical procedures and strategies of persuasion. This has led some authors to speak of "the literariness of philosophical texts" (Berel Lang) as something indistinguishable from the philosophical substance and relevance of those texts.
A writer's relationship to language, writing and weaving of narratives in general is always complex. For, if we are to believe Heidegger, although "man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, ...in fact language remains the master of man." Therefore, it might well be the case that - as often happen with writers - philosophers, too, go through some peculiar experiences: sometimes, for example, they become so completely seduced by language that they almost lose themselves in the act of writing and come to utter whatever language compels them to; some other times, they become so deeply caught up in their own discourse that it becomes difficult for them to separate from it: on such occasions they are not very different from those novelists who end up becoming characters in the narratives they are weaving.
The implication is that a work of philosophy might well be seen as a work of (literary) art, as an autonomous world, for whose creation the author's personal vision, imagination, playfulness and inventiveness play a major role. In other words, according to this view, "The Critique of Pure Reason" is, in a fundamental way, much closer to "Hamlet" or "The Brothers Karamazov" than to, say, "On the Origin of Species."
With this in mind, some scholars of philosophy have been in a position to say that philosophy is nothing other than literature. Others, more cautious, have allowed philosophy to be literature only to some degree or under circumstances. Then, there are, of course, those for whom philosophy does not have anything to do with literature.
We invite submissions dealing with the multifaceted relationship between philosophy and literature, some aspects of which have been pointed to above. Interdisciplinary approaches (combining, for example, philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history) are particularly encouraged.
Here are only some of the possible topics:
SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:
From the Rim of the Pit: Creative Responses to the Abyss Call for Papers
Each of us is a bottomless pit, and this bottomlessness [sans-fond] is, quite evidently, opened over the groundlessness [sans-fond] of the world. In normal times, we cling to the rim of the pit, over which we pass the greatest part of our lives. But Plato’s Symposium, Mozart’s Requiem, and Kafka’s Castle come from this groundlessness and make us see it. . . . the myths themselves, like religions, at once have to do with this groundlessness and aim at masking it: they determine it and give it a precise figure, which at the same time recognizes the groundless and, in truth, tends to occult it by fixing it in place. The sacred is the instituted simulacrum of the groundless. Cornelius Castoriadis (1979)
In this most curious passage, Cornelius Castoriadis invites us to (re)think our “human, all too human” experiences of the abyss. Of course, other scholars, thinkers, and creative artists have demanded individual engagement and confrontation with the abyss. Plato’s Socrates, for example, demands the constant and rigorous examination of one’s own life—“for the unexamined life is not worth living for human beings”; to be a human being is to enter on the quest for truth even though, as Socrates knows full well, this project is completely impossible for human beings and is doomed to failure from the outset. Hegel, Marx, and Freud attempt to ground the experience of the abyss in the certitude of historical process. Once Schopenhauer tears the veil away, he finds the irrational, the will. Kierkegaard demands a conscious choice—a leap of faith—in the face of the experience of abyss. Nietzsche reminds us of the terrible wisdom of Silenus—the best thing for humans is to die as soon as possible, better still, not to have been born at all! In acceptance of the tragedy of human existence, Nietzsche sets about smashing idols—attempts to mask the experience of the abyss—and he asks us to greet life in its entirety with a cheerful “Yes and Amen!” Camus, too, embraces the abyss although he knows it to be a Sisyphian task, and finds human authenticity in an acceptance of full responsibility for our own decisions. The individual, for Heidegger, is always creating against the inevitability of mortality. For Derrida, human mortality is both tragedy and “gift.” Levinas finds the meaning and significance of human existence in the ethical response to widows, orphans, aliens, and at worst, S.S. Guards, a response which, in taking responsibility even for the irresponsibility of others, provides grounding to human projects and assigns meaning to mortality.
The editors invite interested scholars from any discipline to explore the notion of groundlessness and to chart examples of creative responses that have sought to express, sanctify, or mask it. Accepted papers will be published as a collected volume under the (proposed) title, From the Rim of the Pit: Creative Responses to the Abyss.
Some suggested topics:
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: APRIL 15, 2008.
Submit abstracts electronically to
A Special Issue of TELOS: Carl Schmitt and the Event Papers are invited for a thematic issue on Carl Schmitt and the Event to appear in Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts in 2009.
Guest-edited by Michael V. Marder (University of Toronto), the journal invites papers that explore the political, philosophical, and theological dimensions of the event in Carl Schmitt. Some of the topics that elucidate this notion implicit in Schmitt's oeuvre might
include:
In addition, essays may address models of political events and interventions and their relationship to historical moments; events as performance; or the standing of executive power and decisionism in relation to political events.
Comparative studies drawing on the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, and other thinkers of the event are also encouraged.
Papers should run no more than 7500 words (without notes) or 8500 words (with notes). Telos also welcomes submissions of shorter pieces, such as book reviews, relevant to the announced theme. All submitted articles and reviews should adhere to The Chicago Manual of Style guidelines. Inquiries and papers should be sent via email to the guest editor of the issue at michael.marder@utoronto.ca by DECEMBER 1, 2008.
The International Association for Environmental Philosophy 18-20 October 2008, Pittsburgh, PA
The International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) invites paper proposals for its twelfth annual conference, to be held in Pittsburgh on October 18-20, 2008, immediately after the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP).
Please send 1-2 page proposals in Word format to IAEP Secretary Ted Toadvine toadvine@uoregon.edu. Proposals should indicate institutional affiliation and any special audio-visual or equipment needs. The deadline for receipt of proposals is MARCH 21, 2008. Notice of selection will arrive by mid-May.
$100 PRIZE FOR BEST GRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY:
The International Association for Environmental Philosophy offers a forum for the philosophical discussion of our relation to the natural environment. Embracing a broad understanding of environmental philosophy, IAEP encourages not only discussions of environmental ethics, but of environmental aesthetics, ontology, theology, the philosophy of science, political philosophy, ecofeminism, and the philosophy of technology. IAEP also welcomes a diversity of approaches to these issues, including those inspired by Continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, and the tradition of American philosophy.
For more information, please visit our website www.environmentalphilosophy.org.
14th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian What is Second Nature? - Reason, History, Institutions
Evian (Lake Geneva), France
Human beings have always understood themselves as beings that are not
(merely) natural in certain respects. They are faced for this reason with the question of how their way of life should be understood as distinct from their "first nature". As a response to this question, there is widespread agreement that understanding the human way of life involves clarifying how it is essentially shaped through human beings' engagement in practices, an engagement through which they also shape themselves. Familiarly, the concept of culture expresses this basic situation of being human in manifold ways.
But insofar as human beings comprehend themselves as beings with a particular first nature, it is also legitimate to account for the human way of life in terms of the workings of this first nature. It is in this theoretical context (among other things) that the invocation of the idea of "second nature" becomes interesting as a possible alternative to that of culture. For what distinguishes the idea of second nature is its insistence that the irreducibly expressive and self-constituting activities of human beings should be understood as broadly natural phenomena, not solely cultural ones. The wide variety of determinations of the concept of second nature brought forward in the course of Western thought from Aristotle through Hume and Hegel to Bourdieu and McDowell (to mention only a very small selection of thinkers), can be arguably captured in terms of the three concepts of reason, history, and institutions. But different philosophical traditions and systematic options intersect in multiple ways in the course of reflecting on the idea of second nature. The 14th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian invites philosophers to consider and discuss these intersections in an intensive and collective way, transgressing the narrow confines of particular schools and traditions in philosophy. The passive mastery of French, German, and English (the three languages of discussion of the colloquium) is an indispensable prerequisite for its participants.
A detailed exposition of the topic and all relevant information concerning the character and history of the colloquium as well as matters of accomodation and costs can be found on our website.
We invite proposals for presentations (maximum length: one page), along with a short CV (maximum length: two pages), by APRIL 1, 2008.
Please send these documents via e-mail by clicking here.
Organisation: Georg W. Bertram (Berlin), Robin Celikates (Bremen), David Lauer (Berlin) in cooperation with: Karin de Boer (Groningen), Karen Feldman (Berkeley), Jo-Jo Koo (Pittsburgh), Christophe Laudou (Madrid), Jérôme Lèbre (Paris), Diane Perpich (Clemson), Hans Bernhard Schmid (Basel), Chris Doude van Troostvijk (Strasbourg/Amsterdam)
Boston College Graduate Student Conference
According to Heraclitus, all things are ordered by struggle and war ('polemos'). And yet, violence seems at odds with our most basic intuitions about order. Some have argued that violence is unavoidable, and even productive of what we value, locating 'polemos' in nature, in the dialectic of history, or in the psyche. Others have held that peace is the highest goal of social and political life, not simply as the absence of violence, but as a positive principle of change. Does peace order all things?
We invite papers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives that examine violence and non-violence. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Papers will be blind reviewed. Please limit submissions to approximately 4,000 words and attach a cover page including name, institution and contact information. For more information please contact:
Submission Deadline: January 24, 2008
Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Call for Papers The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy will hold its annual conference on October 30 – November 1, 2008, at the University of Montreal, Quebec.
We invite papers or panels on any theme
relevant to the broad concerns
of continental philosophy. Please submit complete papers (no more than 4500 words) and a brief abstract (150 words). If you are submitting a panel proposal, send only a 750 word abstract for each paper. Please prepare your paper for blind review as an attachment in Word.
All submissions (in French or English)
must be sent electronically by June 1,
2008, to:
Diane Enns, CSCP President, ennsd@mcmaster.ca
If you are a graduate student, please
identify yourself as such in order to
be eligible for the graduate student
essay prize. The winner will be
announced at the annual conference and
considered for publication in the
following spring issue of Symposium:
Canadian Journal of Continental
Philosophy. Appel à Communications
La société canadienne de philosophie continentale (SCPC) lance un appel de présentations et de tables rondes se rapportant à tout aspect de la philosophie continentale. Le congrès annuel de la société se tiendra du 30 octobre au 1 novembre 2008 à l’Université de Montréal.
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University of South Florida First Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
Thoughts and Actions that Make a Difference
The conference will be held at The University of South Florida on March 21st and 22nd, 2008, and will consist of selected graduate student papers relevant to the topics of Philosophy of Mind, American Philosophy/Pragmatism and Aesthetics. We are looking for papers that offer perspectives on one or more of these topics from any area of philosophical research.
The keynote address will be presented by: Richard Shusterman: Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities, Director, Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, Florida Atlantic University
The deadline for submission to this conference is January 15th, 2008, and a response will be given by February 1st, 2008. Submitted papers should be between 3,000 and 4,000 words, and accompanied by an abstract that explains the thesis of the paper. Submissions should be presented for blind-review, devoid of any marks indicating authorship. Name, institution, email and personal information should be included with the abstract. Please submit papers via electronic mail to usfphilosophyconference@gmail.com
Giving Voice to Other Beings
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Organizer: David Wood
In the case of the non-human stakeholders on the planet, we never had the illusion of democratic participation, but the possibilities of informal listening, noticing, engagement, conversation and even representation are no less compelling. We may not be able to establish a parliament of all beings, or an ecological democracy, but other species, tribes of a quite different ilk, make claims on us for systematic respect and consideration. As the rate of species extinction accelerates, and the web of life begins to come apart, what once looked like an ethical option is starting to look like a condition for our own survival. This interdisciplinary conference will look at questions of representation (religious, legal, literary, philosophical), along with the whole range of our communication and engagement with non-humans, and with the ethical and even 'spiritual' dimensions of these questions.
Speakers include
Call for Papers
In either case, one page abstracts of 20 min papers should be sent to david.c.wood@vanderbilt.edu by January 20 2008.
The conference will be held at Vanderbilt’s Scarritt-Bennet Center: “Ten tree-filled, park-like acres in the heart of Nashville”. The gothic architecture, combined with beautifully landscaped grounds provide a peaceful environment for reflection and conversation. Rooms $45-55 per night.
THE MIDSOUTH UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE
Theories and Problems of Subjectivity
Although historically our conference has not thematized its call for papers, this year the Undergraduate Philosophy Circle will offer undergraduates the opportunity to examine, critique, and rethink accounts and theories of subjectivity as they have emerged in the history of philosophy.
In the spirit of pluralism practiced in the Philosophy Department at the University of Memphis, we welcome papers from all philosophical traditions and discourses, including, but not limited to, the following areas: history of philosophy, ethics, moral perception and moral reasoning, social and political thought, philosophy of mind, phenomenology and existentialism, structuralism and poststructualism, personal identity, philosophical psychology and psychoanalysis, feminism and queer theory, and race theory.
Submissions must not exceed a length of 3000 words, and must include a cover letter stating the author's name, university or college, mailing address, telephone number and/or email address. Send two printed copies to:
Papers for the Undergraduate Philosophy Conference must be postmarked by January 14.
Direct questions about the Undergraduate Philosophy Conference to Dr. Pleshette DeArmitt at pdearmtt@memphis.edu.
Third Annual Scholars in Critical Race Studies Conference
2008 Theme: “Global Civil Rights”
The Scholars in Critical Race Studies (SCRS) at University of Memphis seek submissions for their third annual colloquium. In commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s murder in Memphis, the topic this year is on “Global Civil Rights.” The keynote speaker this year is internationally renowned critical race theorist David Theo Goldberg. Please send all inquiries or proposals to: jgorman@memphis.edu Scholars affiliated with the SCRS examine the historical evolution and contemporary expression of race as a social category for discriminating, organizing, regulating and maintaining social differences. By revealing that racial categories emerge in specific contexts that are connected to power, politics, economics and culture, these scholars destabilize those categories as natural or transhistorical. The point is to disclose how race operates in differing situations and texts, in order to undermine the force of racism. The SCRS is an interdisciplinary forum that seeks to facilitate a conversation by scholars across the humanities and social sciences, including Philosophy, Literature, History, Foreign Languages, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, and Jewish Studies.
This colloquium was made possible by the generosity of the Marcus Orr Center for the Humanities, the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, Bornblum Judaic Studies, and the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Memphis.
Submissions are welcome in the following categories, however the suggested topics below are by no means exclusive. We particularly welcome contributors from the Mid-South region (Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas).
NORTH AMERICAN LEVINAS SOCIETY
Third Annual Conference and Meeting: “Levinas and the Sacred”
“The Sacred – together with the fear and trembling…”
Celebrating the third anniversary of our founding, the North American Levinas Society continues in our aim to build interest and promote dialogue
around the important work of Emmanuel Levinas.
Last year’s conference, building on the enthusiasm of the inaugural meeting, brought Levinas’ family from Paris and Jerusalem together with young scholars
from across the world to forge important relationships and foster respectful solidarities around the question of community and the ethical.
This year, the Society hopes to carry this momentum forward, as we organize our first meeting and conference outside of Purdue University,
the Society’s founding institution. We are very pleased to announce that our 2008 annual meeting and conference will be hosted by Seattle University
in the beautiful “metronatural” center of the Pacific Northwest.
The North American Levinas Society invites submissions of individual paper proposals and panel proposals for the third annual meeting and conference
to be held August 31-September 2, 2008, at Seattle University in Seattle, WA. While we will organize the conference around the broad theme of
“Levinas and the Sacred,” we will accept proposals for paper and panels on any topic related to Levinas in an effort to draw the widest array of interests.
Without doubt, the theme of “the sacred” will stir up vigorous, productive debates, and there are a number of entry points into such dialogues.
For instance, what is the relation between the state and the sacred??What are we to make of the coincidence of the political and the spiritual from,
say, Hegel’s Philosophy of Right to some of the more controversial passages in Levinas’ Difficult Freedom?
What important insights concerning derivations of the sacred do we find in Levinas’ engagement with Heidegger on the question of truth, being,
and the sacred? How do considerations of the sacred respond to critiques of onto-theology?
How might the recent postsecular turn in Continental philosophy promote discussions of the sacred as it relates to the ethical and justice?
How are we to understand Levinas’ claim that the horror of existence, of the there is (il y a)…, contributes to the destruction of sacred categories?
How have notions of the sacred contributed either to colonial and geopolitical violences, and how have notions of the sacred worked to correct such violences?
Certainly, these are only a few questions of the sacred broadly posed, but it is clear that such questions open Levinas’ work to a more difficult,
and perhaps edifying, scrutiny.? We are also interested in receiving panels that address the relation between the sacred, the ethical, community,
justice, and pedagogy from a variety of multicultural perspectives.
Submissions
Please send materials via email attachment (preferably Microsoft Word) to: submissions@levinas-society.org.
If you have questions regarding the Society or the conference, please send inquiries to: secretary@levinas-society.org.
The deadline for submissions is March 2, 2008.
“Time, History, Memory” The Villanova University Philosophy Graduate Student Union announces its 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference to be held March 28-29, 2008.
Keynote Speaker: David Wood, Vanderbilt University
We encourage submissions from all philosophical approaches and traditions considering the themes of time, history, and memory. Papers might consider figures who have contributed to how we understand and think about these topics, including (but not limited to) Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Husserl, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Bergson, Foucault, Derrida, Ricouer, Gadamer, Lévinas, McTaggart, MacIntyre, Butler, and Kristeva. Also, we welcome thematic papers, engaging subjects such as mourning, subjectivity, loss, alterity, temporality, narrativity, tradition, event, archaeology, progress, genealogy, flow, revolution, eternity, and ecstasis.
David Wood’s philosophical interests include contemporary continental philosophy, nineteenth-century German thought, Heidegger, Derrida, and the philosophy of nature. His recent publications include Time After Time (Indiana University Press, 2007), The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction (SUNY Press, 2005), Truth: A Reader (ed. with José Medina) (Blackwell, 2005), Thinking After Heidegger (Polity Press, June 2002), The Deconstruction of Time (Northwestern, 2001), and On Derrida, Heidegger and Spirit (ed. and intro.) (Northwestern, 1993). He co-directs Vanderbilt’s Ecology and Spirituality research group. Professor Wood is a committed environmental philosopher and earth-artist.
Submission Guidelines
We will be accepting papers from current graduate students. Papers should range in length between 3,000 and 5,000 words. Please submit papers in blind review format to christopher.noble@villanova.edu by February 1, 2008.
We are pleased to announce that this conference strives for carbon neutrality.
Conference Website: http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/philosophy/doctorate/gsu/
First Annual Art and Philosophy Conference at
Stony Brook Manhattan March 28 – 29, 2008
The Masters in Art and Philosophy Program at Stony Brook University in
Manhattan studies the intersections of art and theory. In our efforts to further the dialogue between
traditionally disparate fields of study, we offer this conference as an interdisciplinary event. We welcome
participants from a variety of fields and media to respond to our inaugural theme:
veils
Desiring dialogue between the worlds of art and philosophy, this conference investigates the relationship
between creative activity and theoretical endeavor as they bear upon the notion of veils. Invoking “veils,” we
gesture toward perception and materialization through method, space and presence, hiddenness, mechanism,
expressivity, feeling, purpose and meaning. How are these elements significant in the movement of art and
philosophy? How do different media map the horizon of truth in art? Are art and theory more or less veiled in
relation to each other? Does contemporary culture stand in need of greater or fewer, more opaque or more
transparent veils? How does engaging the trope of veils contribute to the dialogue between aesthetic theory,
artistic practice, and art criticism?
These questions are not exhaustive, but they are intended to provoke thought about the theme of veils as it
bears on the dynamic relationship of art and theory. Where these fields converge, we open our inquiry.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:JANUARY 15, 2008
The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday March 28 and 29 at Stony Brook Manhattan: 401 Park
Ave South. For further information and updates, please consult the conference website. Please
contact philosophyartconference@notes.cc.sunysb.edu with any questions.
4th ANNUAL PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 15-16, 2008
Expanding the Notions of Community and Solidarity
Keynote Speaker: Tina Chanter, DePaul University
The 4th annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference will be held February 15-16, 2008 at the University of Memphis, in Memphis, TN. The purpose of the conference will be to discuss the notions of community and solidarity by expanding them into various areas in contemporary thoughts. This conference aims to provide a forum for graduate students to present their ideas concerning how we can re-think the questions on community and solidarity today and to provide new theoretical and practical possibilities for political and ethical thinking. Our hope is to capture a wide array of interests and perspectives, tapping into multiple areas such as feminism, race theory, and post-colonial theory in contemporary applications to politics from both continental and analytic perspectives.
Deadline for submission of papers is DECEMBER 15, 2007. Papers should be sent as Word Documents not to exceed 12 double-spaced pages. Papers should be suitable for blind review, including a cover letter with all relevant personal information (name, contact information, university affiliation). Electronic submissions are preferred.
Send Paper Submissions to:
For more information, please contact one of the conference committee members:
Two Graduate Sessions of the Warwick Hegel Conference 2008: Truth and Falsity The conference will be held at the University of Warwick campus on Thursday and Friday, May 29th and 30th 2008.
Speakers: Robert Pippin, Stephen Houlgate, Robert Stern, Anton Koch, Angelica Nuzzo, and Paul Franks.
Papers should be of the highest quality and deal with Hegel’s understanding and discussion of the notions of truth and falsity in any one of his writings. The approach could be either exegetical or critical or both. Papers that engage Hegel’s thought with contemporary debates concerning these notions are particularly welcome. Only four papers will be accepted and the selection will be made by members of staff of the Warwick Philosophy Department.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to I.D.Trisokkas@warwick.ac.uk by JANURARY 15th, 2008. A complete version of the selected paper (designed for a thirty-minute presentation) should be submitted by April 15th, 2008. On the abstract page please also write your full name, affiliation and email.
* Note that at the moment we are unfortunately unable to cover any of your expenses. However, a funding application has already been made to the AHRC and if it is approved, we will be able to fund your full expenses within the UK.
** Should you have any questions about the conference please email Ioannis Trisokkas.
*** For more information on the conference and updates please visit: the conference website
Art, Praxis, and Social Transformation: Radical Dreams and Visions The Eighth Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference,
November 6-9, 2008, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Art has long served as a form of critical reflection and a source of alternatives to what Herbert Marcuse and others have called "the given." At the same time, it has served to reinforce the status quo, whether through comics of "happy" African slaves, the design of certain buildings and monuments, or sleek commercial and political advertisements. In the situation we confront today, what role might art play in enabling us to think, imagine, and go beyond "the given"? Does art disclose truth or distract us from it? Is it more a tool for revolution or a means of co-optation? Do popular art and popular culture entrench dominant social relations, or help us question and overthrow them? Today, as we struggle to understand and contend with various forces of social reaction, exclusion, and oppression, it seems timely to ask what role art might play in renewing critical consciousness and social transformation.
Proposal Submission Instructions: We invite submissions of proposals for papers, panels, workshops, poster sessions, performances, and other types of conference contributions on all topics related
to radical philosophy and praxis from philosophers and theorists who work inside and outside the academy.
We encourage contributions from graduate students and from those who are often excluded from or marginalized in traditional academic disciplines and professional organizations,
including people of color, gays and lesbians, persons with disabilities, and poor and working-class persons.
We also encourage submissions that challenge standard conference presentation format, and that emphasize collective inquiry and interaction between participants and audience.
Individual papers should be limited to 3000 words, for a 20-25 minute presentation. Some preference will be given to proposals which reflect the conference theme.
In your proposal submission, include: 1. Name, contact information, and affiliation of presenter(s); 2. Title of presentation paper(s), panel, workshop, poster session, performance, etc.;
3. Abstract of 250-500 words for each individual presentation paper; and/or, 4. Description of panel, workshop, etc., including siting, audio-visual, and other requirements.
5. Let us know if you are willing to serve as chair for a panel or workshop that needs one.
Ancient Friends in Contemporary Thinking 2nd Annual Duquesne University Graduate Philosophy Conference
Keynote Speaker: John Sallis, Boston College
February 23rd 2008
Approaches could be made from (but are not limited to): Phenomenology, Deconstruction, Literary Theory, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis, Political Theory, Post-Structuralism, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, Aesthetics
This conference is co-sponsored by Duquesne Graduate Students in Philosophy (GSIP), Duquesne University Philosophy, the Dean of the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, and the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center.
Submission Deadline: JANUARY 1st 2008
For further information, questions, or problems with submissions contact James Bahoh or visit the conference website.
Michigan Feminist Studies Michigan Feminist Studies invites submissions for its 2008 issue on the theme of “Sexuality & Reproduction.” Women’s sexuality and reproductive capabilities have long been an important topic for feminist researchers, theorists, and activists. This volume of Michigan Feminist Studies seeks to reengage with this subject from many different angles and perspectives. While our empirical and theoretical focus is on women and gender, we also encourage submissions that draw linkages between gender and other social identities, such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, ability, and nationality.
We welcome submissions in the form of empirical/scholarly analysis, literature reviews, theoretical papers, creative writing, and visual art from emerging or established scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, artists, creative writers, and activists. We encourage scholarly works from all disciplines, including (but not limited to): anthropology, sociology, psychology, English/literature, linguistics, women’s studies, biology, chemistry, physics, history, public health, public policy, philosophy, art history, business/marketing, information sciences, political science, studio arts, communications/media studies, theater, international studies, law, and education. As feminists, we also support interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research.
In this issue of Michigan Feminist Studies we are interested in considering questions such as: How have sexuality and fertility been examined and discussed in feminist research and theory? What does it mean to be a “sexual” woman/man in different societies/contexts? Who deems a sexuality 'legitimate'? What are the effects of the medicalization of sexuality and reproduction? What is motherhood and does the definition of motherhood vary based on gender, race, class, or other social categories or identities? How is women’s sexuality and/or pregnancy portrayed in art, and have these portrayals changed over time? What is the relationship between sexual health/abstinence education and sexual agency?
More specific topics for submissions could include:
· sexual health, including HIV/AIDS and other STDs/STIs and their global impact
· sex education
· public policies and laws related to reproduction
· abortion and reproductive decision-making
· sexuality and reproduction in literature, music, marketing, and art
· sexual assault and abuse
· sex work/pornography
· the biochemistry or neural correlates of sex(uality)
· issues of consent
· the history of sexuality
· abstinence pledges and purity balls
· genital mutilation
· compulsory heterosexuality
· the regulation of sexuality
· the Viagra phenomenon and its affects on sexual pleasure and experience
· sexualization (of women/children/men/products) in media/advertising
· women's sexual and reproductive rights
· fertility/infertility (“infertility tourism”, infertility and its effect on different cultures, infertility technologies, the value placed on bearing children, etc.)
· sexuality and women's leadership
· "natural," home birth versus in-hospital births
· contraception: new technologies, usage, health effects, empowerment issues, and cost/access issues (e.g., The Pill compared to Viagra)
· sexuality/pregnancy and violence
Please note that these questions and topics are intended as suggestions and not limitations.
Michigan Feminist Studies is an annual publication edited by graduate students at the University of Michigan.
Manuscripts should be roughly 4000-6000 words and double-spaced. Please submit three single-sided copies, and include a 150-200 word abstract, brief biographical note, institutional and departmental affiliation (if applicable), mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Papers may be submitted in the accepted format of your own academic discipline (e.g., MLA, APA). If your paper is selected, you will then be asked to submit an electronic file.
Mail submissions to:
The Deadline for Submissions is January 11, 2008
41st NORTH TEXAS PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION MEETING April 11 and 12, 2008 at the University of North Texas, Denton TX
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis) FEATURED ADDRESS: Geoff Waite (Cornell University) INVITED PAPERS: Denny Bradshaw (University of Texas-Arlington); Rod Coltman (Collin College); Robert Frodeman (University of North Texas); Pete Gunter (University of North Texas); Bruce Krajewski (Texas Woman’s University) Robert E. Wood (University of Dallas)
The NTPA invites submissions of less than 3000 words on any philosophical theme from Continental, Historical, and Environmental perspectives.
Doing Phenomenology: Back to the Things Themselves! 2008 Workshop Theme: "The In-Between/Edges" The Philosophy of Love and Affectivity The Marquette University Philosophy Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce its 9th annual graduate conference entitled "The Philosophy of Love and Affectivity," featuring a keynote address by Burt Hopkins of Seattle University.
The conference is March 29, 2008 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Marquette's Campus. Paper Submissions are due 15 January 2008, and should be prepared for blind review format, with a length of around 3000 words. The Substance of Thought: Critical and Pre-Critical The Theory Reading Group at Cornell University invites submissions for its fourth annual interdisciplinary spring conference. featuring keynote speakers Simon Critchley (The New School for Social Research) and Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University of London) The last few decades have witnessed a struggle within continental philosophy between those thinkers who accept Immanuel Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” and those who refuse critical philosophy in favor of a “classical” metaphysics that, in the words of Alain Badiou, “considers the Kantian indictment of metaphysics…as null and void.” This conference will consider the conflict between “critical” and “classical” or metaphysical strains in contemporary thought. Has critical philosophy run its course, as Badiou suggests? Or has Kant’s critical turn determined the horizon of all future philosophical work? Or is there an alternative path?
We are interested in analyzing the contemporary division between thinkers who prescribe a return to the pre-critical metaphysics of, for example, Spinoza, Leibniz, or Lucretius, and those who continue to take up various trajectories of Kant's critical legacy. The former camp might include Deleuze and Badiou as well as Negri and Althusser, while the latter might include Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Derrida. We particularly wish to encourage work that takes a stand on the conflict between the two camps, as well as work that considers the implications of the conflict for the arts and social sciences. The wide range of our inquiry includes interrogations of the nature of critique, the fate of aesthetics, the privilege accorded to immanence or transcendence, and the status of materialism.
The deadline for submission of 250-word paper abstracts for 20-minute presentations is February 1, 2008. Please include your name, e-mail address, and phone number. Please email abstracts to theory@cornell.edu.
Notices of acceptance will be sent no later than 15 February 2008. For more information about the Theory Reading Group, visit www.arts.cornell.edu/trg 100 YEARS OF MERLEAU-PONTY: A Centenary Conference / Sofia University, Bulgaria / March 14-16, 2008 Featured Speakers include: A Conference to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Merleau-Ponty’s birth will take place at Sofia University. We welcome essays on any topic related to the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. We will accept papers in either English or French—approximately 20 minutes reading time. For full consideration, complete papers must be received by 14 January 2008. Please send essays to the conference co-directors: Dr. Duane H. Davis
Ivan Kolev
For more information about the conference, please visit the conference web site: http://www.merleau-ponty.eu 26th North Texas Heidegger Symposium: Heidegger and/in the History of Philosophy Organized by the Dallas Area Seminar on European Inquiry (DASEIN) Papers should focus on specific philosophical figures -- either Heidegger's own reading of a certain figure in the history of philosophy or a more contemporary thinker's interpretation of Heidegger. Submissions can be either completed papers (of no more than 3,000 words), abstracts (75 to 100 words), or panel proposals. Panel proposals must include a title, a proposal of 500 words for the panel as a whole, and either completed papers (no more than 3,000 words) or abstracts (no fewer than 750 words) for each paper in the panel. Since papers and panel proposals are chosen through an anonymous review process, names and addresses of authors and organizers must be stated only on a separate cover sheet and omitted from the proposals, papers, and footnotes. Papers and/or abstracts may be submitted either electronically, as an e-mail attachment (in Microsoft Word or RTF format) to rcoltman@ccccd.edu, , or physically, by mailing three copies to the following address:
Prof. Rod Coltman /
Philosophy Department /
Division of Communications and Humanities /
Collin College /
2600 E. Spring Creek Blvd. /
Plano, TX 75074
Any questions may be directed to Rod Coltman at rcoltman@ccccd.edu, or visit HeideggerSymposium.org for details.
The 2008 North Texas Heidegger Symposium is sponsored by:
The University of Dallas, The University of North Texas, The Collin College Division of Communications and Humanities, and Austin College, Sherman, Texas
Goucher College's Undergraduate Philosophy Confernece VERITAS, the Goucher College Philosophy Club, in collaboration with the Goucher Philosophy Department, invites submissions by undergraduates for our fifth annual philosophy conference, to be held Saturday, April 19, 2008. Papers can be on any philosophical topic. A keynote speaker will be announced. Submission Guidelines: - Paper format; 12-point, double-spaced, Times New Roman - Students may submit more than one paper for consideration - Please prepare for blind review: remove all contact information and identifying marks from the body of the paper - Please fill out a cover sheet and submit it, with (if submitting more than one paper, please include Your cover sheet should include the following: Name, Email, Phone, School, Paper Title,1-3 Sentence Abstract The 25th Annual International
Sponsored by the Special attention will be devoted to the theme but proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome The Program Committee will be chaired by: A 300-500 word abstract should be sent to the program chairs. Individuals who wish to be considered for the award for best graduate student paper should submit their entire paper and abstract. Electronic Submissions welcomed and encouraged. Jordy Rocheleau Richard Buck The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2008 Continental Philosophy Review Feminist Phenomenologies Call for Papers Papers should be informed by the tradition of phenomenology, for example Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, etc., or they should be methodologically arising out of that tradition. Papers are expected to apply such a phenomenological approach to questions and/or issues of a feminist nature, or regarding gender/sexuality. Due date: Papers and full abstracts should be sent to BOTH the following email addresses by May 1st, 2008: Authors will be notified of the editors’ decisions at the end of May, 2008. Rethinking 1968 The events of 1968 shook the world. On the 40th anniversary of the protests in France, Germany and the United States, we are organizing a panel to reflect on the importance of these student actions and whether they can serve as a basis for critiquing our current political climate. We want to ask if the philosophical underpinnings of these revolutionary acts have continued relevance today. In France, the French phenomenologist and existentialist, turned Marxist, Jean-Paul Sartre was held up as one of the intellectuals who could provide an intellectual basis for the revolution. Alongside structuralists like Althusser, Sartre was viewed as an intellectual god-father of the movement, not only because of his writings critical of capitalism and the bourgeois system, be they his early writings on existentialism, or his later reformulation of Marxism in the Critique of Dialectical Reason, nor because he linked left-wing activism in the first world with support for the oppressed elsewhere, but because he was willing to lend his name and support to the Maoists against the Gaullist government. In Germany, two philosophers, the phenomenologically-inspired and Marxist Herbert Marcuse and the neo-Marxist and member of the Frankfurt School Jürgen Habermas were central figures for the student revolutionaries. As a member of the Frankfurt School’s second generation, Habermas was viewed by the students as safely removed from the alleged post-World War II conservatism of Adorno and Horkheimer. For the first several years following its publication, Habermas’s habilitation thesis, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, was text central to the student struggle in Germany. Similarly, Marcuse’s texts, Reason and Revolution, Eros and Civilization, and One-Dimensional Man, as well as his occasional writings, were used as rallying cries by the left both in Europe and in the United States. The question we propose for this panel is, what relevance do these philosophers’s works have today, in light of the continued stability and even expansion of the capitalist system, and the fact that student leaders like Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Bernard Kouchner, and Joschka Fischer have renounced extra-political activities and joined the political mainstream. We are interested in papers that explore the relevance of the philosophical critiques that inspired the movements of 1968 for present day radical politics, including papers that use the philosophical inspirations behind 1968: Interested authors should submit the following electronically in RTF or WORD formats: 1. A copy of your paper, not more than about 3,500 words, and prepared for anonymous review (identifiable by paper title only). If you are interested in presenting a commentary (of not more than 1,000 words) on a paper, please submit a brief email note of interest, including your name, complete mailing address, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and relevant areas of interest. Submissions and queries should be sent to: Kevin W. Gray at kevin-william.gray.1@ulaval.ca. The submission deadline is January 1, 2008. The panel will be part of the annual meeting for the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC/TCEP) — http://www.brocku.ca/eptc-tcep/ — at UBC in Vancouver, Canada, June 3-5, 2008, held in conjunction with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities of Canada. Every year the Congress brings together some 100 learned associations and more than 5,000 scholars from Canada and the international community for approximately 10 days of interdisciplinary symposia, cultural events, and public discussions. For more information see: http://www.fedcan.ca Papers from this session will be considered for possible publication in a special volume of the journal PhaenEx, to be published the end of 2009. marking the centenary of Merleau-Ponty’s birth, will take place at Ryerson The topic is “Time, Memory and Keynote speakers are Bernhard THE SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: FOR THE SOCIETY’S MEETINGS TO BE HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH The SSPP invites papers for two conference panels. We are seeking papers that address issues pertaining to: Marx and the Return of Communism The return to Marx that was more or less announced in mid-1990s by such works as Derrida’s Specters of Marx was something of an overstatement. Marx had never left academia; concepts such as ideology, alienation, and the analysis of the economy have always been central to study of society and politics. These concepts, part of Marx’s critique of political economy functioned primarily as tools for economic and social analysis. This was the Marx of academic business as usual, the Marx that could be applauded by the writers of the Financial Times and The New Yorker.What did change, however, was a renewed interest in Marx’s emancipatory project: that is, communism. This word, which was thought to be dead and buried with collapse of the Soviet Union, began to resurface with the works of such authors as Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Kojin Karatani, and Jacques Rancière. Through these authors communism did not designate a form of the state, but became the grounds for rethinking the relations between politics and economics, as well as a reconsideration of equality and the commons. While we are not looking for essays that necessarily deal with these authors, we are looking for works that pursue the link between the critique of capitalism in the Marxist tradition and the idea of an other basis for politics. In short, we are looking for works that can connect the critique of the present with the imagination of the future. Complete papers of 3000-5000 words (that can be summarized and presented in 20-30 minutes) should be submitted for consideration for the 2008 meeting (deadline: March 1, 2008). The SPEP Conference is scheduled for October 16-18, 2008 Pittsburgh, PA. Authors should include their name(s) and contact information on the cover page ONLY. Papers should be emailed as attachments in Word or RTF format to papers@sspp.us. For information on the society, and to become a member, please consult our web page at www.sspp.us. For other questions or information, please email us at information@sspp.us. THE SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: FOR THE SOCIETY’S MEETING TO BE HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH The SSPP invites papers for two conference panels. We are seeking papers that address issues pertaining to: Queerness and Colonialism: Then and Now The shared history of non-normative sexuality and Western colonialism is long and complicated. This panel invites paper submissions that explore the intersection of sexual identity and national identity in all is iterations: from the gendering of native peoples to the rise of sex tourism. How, for instance, does gender inform conceptions of race and ethnicity? To what extend does being at home sexually involve being displaced culturally? What effects do foreign occupation and/or tourism have on local sexual norms and practices? How has immigration been associated with sexual deviance? How has economic globalization begun to globalize queer practices? Complete papers of 3000-5000 words (that can be summarized and presented in 20-30 minutes) should be submitted for consideration for the 2008 meeting (deadline: March 1, 2008). The APA Conference scheduled for December 27-30, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. Authors should include their name(s) and contact information on the cover page ONLY. Papers should be emailed as attachments in Word or RTF format to papers@sspp.us, For information on the society, and to become a member, please consult our web page at www.sspp.us. For other questions or information, please email us at information@sspp.us. |
