CFA: CONF: Law, Culture and Morality, University of Illinois
INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Topic: Law, Culture and Morality: East and West
Dates: October 4-5, 2013
Place: University of Illinois
Abstract: 150 words
Email to Chandana Chakrabarti <chandanachak@gmail.com>
Sponsored by:
The University of Illinois,
The Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, and
The Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange
Date of proposal acceptance: Week after the proposal is submitted
Subtopics:
Legal Philosophy; Philosophy of Right; Morality & Law; Law & Marxism;
Legal Positivism; Legal Realism; Virtue Ethics; Virtue &
Jurisprudence; Utilitarianism, Deontology & Law; Dworkin &
Interpretivism; Philosophical Approaches to Legal Problems; Justice &
Globalization; International Law; Natural Law; Bentham, Austin &
Dworkin; Natural Law & Natural Rights; Law, Authority & Morality; Law
of the Land & International Law; Ancient Law; Laws of Manu & Other
Hindu Lawgivers; Confucius Theory of Virtue; Islam & Law; Law & Human
Rights; Postmodernism & Law; Virtue & Knowledge; Morality & Society;
Confucius Ethics; Perfectionist & Situational Ethics; Moral
Relativism; Humanism & Positivism; Ethnic Identity & Culture; Human
Nature & Human Culture; Cultural Anthropology; Consumption & Morality;
Politicizing Consumer Culture & Effects on Morality; Dynamics of Group
Culture; Ethnic Boundaries; Constructing & Deconstructing Ethnic
Identity; Cultural Transformation; Culture & Morality; Christian
Ethics; Buddhist Ethics; Hindu Ethics; Jewish Ethics; Islamic Ethics &
Global Ethics.
The above list is suggestive and not exhaustive.
Advisory Board Members:
Panos Eliopoulos (Greece), Yolanda Espina (Portugal), Gordon Haist
(USA), Robin Kar (USA), Elizabeth Koldzak (Poland), Simi Malhotra
(India), Maria Marczewska (Poland), Debkumar Mukhopadhyay( India),
Rizwan Rahman (India), Ming Shao (China), Tommi Lehtonen (Finland),
Andrew Ward (UK), Su-Chen Wu (Taiwan)
Papers from the Conference will be published subject to editorial
review (Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies/Journal
of Indian Philosophy & Religion)
http://legacy.lclark.edu/~sipr/SIPR.html