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CFA: Thirty-First International Social Philosophy Conference

Call for Abstracts

Thirty-First International Social Philosophy Conference

sponsored by

The North American Society for Social Philosophy

July 17 – July 19, 2014

Southern Oregon University

Ashland, Oregon, USA

 

Proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome, but special attention will be devoted to the theme:

 

Power, Protest, and the Future of Democracy

 

Some possible paper topics include:

·        The Aims and Uses of Protest

·        Protest and Human Rights

·        Civil Disobedience

·        Protest and Deliberative Democracy

·        The Future of Protest

·        Transnational Solidarity and Protests

·        Protest and Complacency

·        Forms of Power

·        Democratizing Global Political Power

·        Democracy and Disenfranchisement

·        The Justification of Political Power

·        Global Capitalism and Democracy

 

We welcome submissions from both members and non-members, but we require that all presenters join the North American Society for Social Philosophy if their papers are accepted and if they present at the conference.

 

Please submit a 300-500 word abstract here: bit.ly/nassp2014

Submission Deadlines:

For those living in Canada or the U.S.: March 15, 2014.

For those living outside of the United States and Canada: January 15, 2014.

 

The Program Committee:

Professor Mark Navin of Oakland University (Chair), Professor Elizabeth Sperry of William Jewell College, and Professor Peter Higgins of Eastern Michigan University.

 

Members of the Program Committee may be reached at: nassp2014@gmail.com

 

 

 

NASSP Support for International Presenters

The NASSP will waive fees for conference registration and for the banquet for those participants traveling from outside of the United States and Canada.
NASSP Conference Awards for Graduate Students
The North American Society for Social Philosophy has established the NASSP Awards for Best Graduate Student Papers to promote new scholarship in social philosophy and to encourage student participation in our Conference.

 

The winners of the annual prizes each receive $300. The prizes are awarded only to conference attendees, though there is no obligation to use the money for conference-related costs. Any graduate student enrolled in a program towards a degree beyond the B.A. or first university diploma is eligible.

 

The paper may address any topic in social philosophy. Papers should be no more than 3,000 words (include a word count with submission), and they should conform to the requirements set out by the APA for colloquium submissions to annual Divisional meetings.

 

Those who want to be considered for this award should send their full papers tonassp2014@gmail.com – and they should also submit their abstracts atbit.ly/nassp2014 – by March 15, 2014. 

10-02-2013 | Comments Off on CFA: Thirty-First International Social Philosophy Conference

CFA: Experiential Learning in the Philosophy Classroom

Call for Abstracts
Experiential Learning in the Philosophy Classroom
Due date for abstracts: July 19, 2013
Edited by Julinna C. Oxley, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Coastal Carolina University


The purpose of this edited collection is to articulate and examine pedagogical practices that focus on student engagement, by showcasing different models of experiential learning (such as service learning) in the discipline of Philosophy. While many university administrators praise MOOCs (massive open online courses) and distance learning courses, research on student learning reveals that students learn the most – in the sense that they acquire long-term knowledge and practical understanding – when the course involves experiential learning.  Experiential learning is a pedagogy that emphasizes student engagement outside the classroom structure, as in traditional service learning or internships, or the practical application of knowledge in a reflective, creative and rigorous way, as in collaborative projects like creating websites and videos.  Experiential learning is one of the few instructional strategies that are considered “high impact educational practices” – along with first-year seminars, learning communities, and undergraduate research.  Experiential learning enables students to apply what they are learning in a Philosophy course beyond the classroom, and thus enables them to prepare for jobs in different sectors of society. This volume will examine different methods of experiential learning currently used in Philosophy, including service learning, civic engagement, and activism. It will thus be a timely reflection on best practices for teaching Philosophy and an anticipation of the ways in which pedagogical practices will continue to evolve in the 21st century.

Chapter proposals may include, but are not limited to, the following types of experiential learning:
·     Internships, Service Learning and Volunteer Work
·     Experiential Learning (Site Visits, Performances, Guest Speakers, Reflections)
·     Political Activism and Social Change (Demonstrations or Letter-writing Campaigns)
·     Community Action or Campus Project
·     Creative Artifacts (a zine, pamphlet or PSA)
·     Collaborative Projects such as creating websites, videos, skits, or games

Contributions from the following types of courses are desirable:
·     Lower division courses, Upper-division courses, and Graduate courses
·     Internships and Capstone Seminars
·     Study abroad courses

Courses may be related to any area of Philosophy:
·     Metaphysics or Epistemology (including Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, or Philosophy of Religion)
·     Philosophy of Science (including Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Physics or Philosophy of Mathematics)
·     Ethics (Normative Ethics, Applied Ethics, Meta-Ethics) and Political Philosophy (including Philosophy of Law)
·     Aesthetics
·     Logic
·     Feminist Philosophy
·     Philosophy of Race
·     History of Philosophy
·     Special Topics in Philosophy

Solicited by: Lexington Books (A Division of Rowman & Littlefield) though other academic presses will be explored

Abstracts of 500-700 words should include:
(1) A brief overview of the course and its learning outcomes or goals
(2) A summary of the experiential learning activity
(3) A short description of the relationship between course readings and the proposed activity
(4) Assessment tools and guidelines
(5) The outcomes of the experiential learning activity

Submission Guidelines:
(1) Submission deadline for abstracts (500-700 words): July 19, 2013. Submissions should be prepared for blind-review (with author’s name and institutional affiliation appearing on a separate page) in a Word or PDF document and sent via email to: Julinna Oxley at joxley@coastal.edu <mailto:joxley@coastal.edu> .
(2) Notification of Acceptance: September 2013.
(3) Due date for drafts of accepted papers (c. 5,000 words):  March 15, 2014.
(4) Publication date:  Fall 2014.

Inquiries regarding topics, pedagogical activities, submissions or deadlines are welcome, and should be directed to Julinna Oxley at joxley@coastal.edu <mailto:joxley@coastal.edu> .

—
Julinna C. Oxley, Ph.D.
Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Associate Professor of Philosophy
279 EHFA
Coastal Carolina University
P.O. Box 261954
Conway SC 29528
(843) 349-6548
joxley@coastal.edu

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CFA WMU Bioethics/Medical Humanities Conference, Sept. 26-27

FWD: from AGSP listserv

[To whom it may concern,]

I just wanted to send word along to your department (especially graduate students) regarding a bioethics/medical humanities conference nearby at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. It’s only 2-2.5 hours drive from Chicago. The conference takes place September 26-27, and they’re accepting abstracts through July 15.

The primary focus “will be on emergent technologies in health care and humanities, and how these affect patient care, the patient experience, and the effectiveness of the practice of health care, though proposals in any area of medical humanities are welcome.” I’ve attached the full CFA.

 

Cheers,

Alex B. Neitzke

Department of Philosophy

Michigan State University

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CFA: On the body and human identity

NOTRE DAME CENTER FOR ETHICS & CULTURE

14th ANNUAL FALL CONFERENCE

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Body and Human Identity

November 7-9, 2013

 

[W]e know a person only in his or her embodied presence. In and through that body the person is a living whole. For certain purposes, we may try to “reduce” the embodied person simply to a collection of parts, thinking of the person (from below) simply as the sum total of these parts. But we do not know, interact with, or love others understood in that way; on the contrary, we know them (from above) as a unity that is more than just the sum of their parts.

– Gilbert Meilaender, “The Gifts of the Body”

 

The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture will devote its fourteenth Annual Fall Conference to the theme: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Body and Human Identity. In customary interdisciplinary fashion, this conference will take up a host of questions related to the human meaning of the body and life as an embodied self. These questions will be pursued in the contexts of philosophy, theology, political theory, law, history, economics, the biosciences, literature, and the arts.

 

We welcome the submission of abstracts drawing on a wide range of moral and religious perspectives and academic specialties. Possible issues to be explored include:

 

 

• Teleology and the Human Body

• The Incarnation and the Eucharist

• Beauty and the Human Form

• Property in the Body

• Aging and Relations Among the Generations

• Artificial Intelligence

• Torture

• Marriage, Procreation, and Parenting

• Thought, Language, and the Body

• “Personhood” and the Body

• Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

• Epistemology and the Body

• The Definition and Meaning of Death

• Mind, Body and Dualism

• The Body in Literature and the Arts

• Memory and Identity

• End of Life Decision-making

• Human/Nonhuman Chimeras and Hybrids

• Genetics and Evolutionary Biology

• Vulnerability and Suffering

• “Health” and the Ends of Medicine

• Transhumanism

• Systems Biology

• Eating and Gastronomy

• Performance Enhancement in Sport

 

  

 

One-page abstracts for papers should include name, affiliation, address, and e-mail address (if available). Session Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes. Please note that we will not be accepting panel proposals this year.

 

The deadline for submissions is Friday, July 5, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be sent by Friday, August 23, 2013. One-page abstracts, along with your full contact information, should be e-mailed to ndethics@nd.edu or mailed to:

 

Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
14th Annual Fall Conference
424 Geddes Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

5-03-2013 | Comments Off on CFA: On the body and human identity

New Perspectives on Understanding in Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology accepting proposals

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CFA: “Politics at the Limits of Civil Society”

Politics at the Limits of Civil Society

A Conference in Political Philosophy

University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

September 20 – 22, 2013

 

Keynote Addresses:  Max Pensky (Binghamton University), Chiara Bottici (New School for Social Research), and Monique Deveaux (University of Guelph)

 

Our present political moment has been marked by the diversification of political landscapes and the emergence of new antagonisms. These transformations demand that we rethink the extent to which our concepts in political philosophy are adequate to the task of making sense of our present situation. One pertinent question is whether the concept of society underlying our normative and critical theories is called into question by recent events, from the collective contestations of capitalism to the construction of state constitutions under military occupation. This question is attested to by the return to concepts from modern political thought, such as “civil society,” the “commons,” and the “multitude.” Part of the promise of these concepts is that they seem to provide conceptual resources for thinking the diverse forces of the social body, as well as new modes of political subjectivity, outside of and against the theoretical coordinates of the state and the market. An answer to this question will be both practical and ontological. It must take into account not only concrete changes to the institutional and political structures of society, but also the ideal models by which we judge claims to social justice and conceive the possibilities of political existence.

 

The Philosophy Graduate Students Association welcomes submissions in the history of social and political philosophy on, but not limited to, the following themes:

 

Civil society and its transformations
Democracy: challenges and limits
Conceptions of the political
The People, Citizens, Multitude
Critiques of modernity
Collective political organization and action
Theories of political sovereignty
Theories of power
History, utopia, and the future
Crisis, limit, and social transformation
Limits of political representation
Potential politics
Politics and culture
Governmentality
Politics of time
Capital, crisis, and political economy
Property and the Commons
Critique and method
The state, borders, and mobility
Liberalism and its detractors
Antagonism and conflict in society
Constitution-building under occupation


Submissions: Abstracts should be between 400–700 words. Submissions must be formatted for blind-review: abstract and title should be attached as a .pdf file and should not bear the name of applicant or any identifying information. Please include the following information in the body of the email: full name, title of paper, contact email and phone number, institutional affiliation and status (e.g. faculty, graduate student, independent). Final papers should be around 20 minutes spoken.

 

** There are two financial awards for top graduate student submissions to help cover travel expenses.
Please send all submissions to: guelphphilosophy@gmail.com

All submissions must be received no later than June 15th, 2013.

 

This conference is sponsored by Philosophy Graduate Students Association, Department of Philosophy, Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change, College of Arts, and Vice President of Research at University of Guelph.

http://www.praksis.ca/civil-society

3-31-2013 | Comments Off on CFA: “Politics at the Limits of Civil Society”

CFParticipation for graduate students working in aesthetics: ASAGE: Authors, Book Reviewers, Blind Reviewers

Call for Participation: Authors, Book Reviewers, Blind Reviewers
ASAGE (American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-journal)
ASAGE is a peer-reviewed, graduate journal of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics. We publish articles, book reviews, dissertation abstracts, and interviews. For details on how to contribute as an author or blind reviewer, please visit the site. The submission period for Issue 5.2 is now open.
Deadline for article submissions: 5/30.
Deadline for book review proposals: 4/30.
Deadline for dissertation abstracts: 5/30.
Any questions or comments can be directed to editor@asage.org.
Best,
Mike
——————
Michael Gutierrez
PhD Student, Loyola University Chicago
Editor, ASAGE
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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

3-20-2013 | Comments Off on CFA: CONF: Law, Culture and Morality, University of Illinois

Call for Abstracts: The Phenomenological Method to the Madness

The McMaster University Phenomenology Group invites submissions of abstracts for our upcoming student conference, to take place April 6th, 2013 in Hamilton, Ontario. The deadline for abstracts is January 15th, 2013. For more information, please see the CFA posted on our website: www.closetphenomenology.com

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