The next conference of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology (SCPT) will be held at Fordham University (NY), May 3-4, 2015 on the theme “Evil, Fallenness, Finitude.” Keynote Speakers will be Ingolf Dalferth (Zürich & Claremont) and Emmanuel Falque (Paris). SCPT welcomes additional papers on the conference theme.
SCPT CALL FOR PAPERS:
Much of the twentieth and the dawn of the twenty-first centuries have struggled with the realities of evil and human finitude on a variety of levels, whether in light of two world wars, the Shoah, 9/11, current volatile political situations, or various ecological and other crises. Continental philosophers (Heidegger, Ricoeur, Lévinas, Jankélévitch, Derrida, Marion, Kristeva, Irigaray, Kearney, and others) have approached such questions in a number of ways: by questioning traditional symbols of evil, dealing with the questions of responsibility, forgiveness, hospitality, and the immemorial or imprescriptible, confronting the issue of suffering via psychoanalytic and phenomenological analyses, often engaging traditional theological issues concerning the origins of evil, human finitude and its relation to sin, fallenness and guilt.
Papers on any topic related to the conference theme are welcome from any religious, theological, and philosophical perspective, including those drawing on aesthetic, literary, or psychoanalytic resources. Only complete papers with a maximum of 3,000 words will be accepted. Papers should be prepared for blind review and sent to bmason9@fordham.edu as email attachments.
For further information (but not for paper submissions), please contact gschwandtner@fordham.edu