Category : conference
CFP: Central States Philosophical Association 2013
Central States Philosophical Association (CSPA)
2013 Call for Papers
The 2013 Central States Philosophical Association meeting, hosted by Oklahoma State University, will take place
October 4-5, 2013
Oklahoma State University, Tulsa Campus
Tulsa, OK 74106
Keynote Speaker: Professor Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado)
The conference hotel (where the meeting will take place) is the Holiday Inn Tulsa City Center, 17 West 7th Street, Tulsa, OK 74119.
Questions about local accommodations can be addressed to Professor Eric Reitan at [eric.reitan@okstate.edu].
You need not be a member of an institution in the central states area to participate. Colloquium papers in any area of philosophy are welcome. Submissions dealing with aspects of Profesor Jaggar’s work are encouraged. Papers are limited to 3,000 words. All submissions must include, on the title page, author information, a word count for the paper, and an abstract (not longer than 150 words). The title page and the paper should be submitted as separate documents. No author-identifying references should appear in the paper. Both the title page and the paper should be submitted as MS Word, RTF, or PDF files.
The deadline for submissions is: May 31, 2013.
Submissions should be sent by e-mail, using the subject heading “CSPA submission,” to Sandy Goldberg, at s-goldberg@northwestsern.edu. Responses to submissions will be sent by July 31, 2013.
Suggestions for commentators and session chairs (including self-nominations) are welcome.
Conference registration fees, although not yet set, are expected to be nominal.
Suggestions and questions regarding the program should be directed to Sandy Goldberg at: s-goldberg@northwestern.eduCC
CFP: “Exploring Awe and Wonder”
Call for papers
Interdisciplinary conference
Exploring awe and wonder
6-8 September 2013
Institute for Simulation and Training
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation’s
Research Grant: Space, Science and Spirituality
http://www.chdr.cah.ucf.edu/spaceandspirituality/
The concepts of awe and wonder occupy an important place in the history of ideas, often associated with the beginnings of philosophy and with religious experience. In contemporary times, however, they are under-studied and rarely discussed. It is not clear that such experiences are more rare in our time. One might argue that given our ability to explore more and more corners of the physical and intellectual universe using technology and advanced science, and our capacity for representing the results of such explorations in art, film and various mass media, we should expect that experiences of awe and wonder are more common.
The interdisciplinary conference, Exploring Awe and Wonder, will bring together researchers in psychology, emotion theory, neuroscience, philosophy, art history, religious studies, and other relevant fields to explore the science and phenomenology of awe and wonder. Proposals for presentations in these areas are welcome. A special session on Space, Science and Spirituality is being organized to present current research on the experience of awe and wonder during space flight.
Keynote speakers
Jesse Prinz (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate)
Michelle Shiota (Psychology, Arizona State University)
Jesse Prinz (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate)
Michelle Shiota (Psychology, Arizona State University)
Invited speakers
Jonathan Cole (Neuroscience, Bournemouth University)
Joerg Trempler (Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Yale Center for British Art)
Jeff Williams (NASA, Astronaut)
Send abstracts and session proposals by June 15, 2013 to
Bruce Janz
Department of Philosophy
Center for Humanities and Digital Research
University of Central Florida
CFP: Faith, Film and Philosophy conference, “Of Fairy-stories, Fantasy and Myth”
Call for Papers:
“Of Fairy-stories, Fantasy and Myth”
October 11th & 12th, 2013
Gonzaga University’s Faith and Reason Institute and Whitworth
University’s Weyerhaeuser Center for Faith and Learning are pleased to
announce their Seventh Annual Seminar on Faith, Film and Philosophy,
entitled “Of Fairy-stories, Fantasy and Myth.” The past decade has
seen film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, as
well as three of C.S. Lewis’s “Chronicles of Narnia,” and, most
recently, Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Although the immediate inspiration for
our seminar is the release of the first part of Peter Jackson’s
cinematic treatment of The Hobbit, our interest is neither solely nor
primarily in Jackson’s films. Instead, we wish to explore a variety of
cinematic treatments of myth, fairy-story, and fantasy, and to explore
philosophical and religious questions raised by such films. The Star
Wars saga, the various incarnations of the world of Star Trek, the
imaginative world of Pan’s Labyrinth, the Narnia films, Snow White and
the Huntsman, Prometheus, Wrath of the Titans, How to Train Your
Dragon, Arrietty, Ponyo, Hugo, Shrek, Knowing, The Road, After
Earth….These are but some of the films that fall within the purview of
our seminar. Even apart from the content of these films, the genres
touched upon in our title raise very general questions about art,
reality, meaning, and truth. For example, is film an appropriate art
form for mythopoesis? What is the nature of the reality portrayed in
these films? What truth, if any, can films of this sort explore or
convey?
Possible topics for seminar papers include the following, although
proposals on other topics or questions of relevance are certainly
welcome and encouraged.
• What constitutes a literary fantasy?
• What motivates literary fantasies? Is there a psychological payoff?
If so, what is it?
• What is the underlying neurological basis for fantasy? Why do we
fantasize in the first place and what evolutionary value might this
have?
• Gender identity in fantasy and science fiction.
• Social functions of fantasy literature, including political
functions.
• Cinematic treatments of sexual fantasies.
• Revenge fantasies.
• Heroic figures and our fantasies of being like them. (What do Iron
Man and I have in common?)
• Fantasies of the end of the world, their characteristics and
functions.
• Fantasies and reality: since most fantasies are never realized in
actuality, why do we keep having them?
• What’s the difference between a fantasy, whether literary and filmic
and outright hallucination or delusion?
• Criticisms of the work of Peter Jackson.
• Epistemological issues: what can be known by means of a fantasy that
might not be known otherwise?
• The Life of Pi as fantasy.
• Fantasy and possible worlds.
We are particularly interested in popular films from the last 20
years, although the program committee will certainly consider
exceptions to the 20-year rule.
Seminar sessions will take place on Friday (October 11th) and Saturday
(October 12th). Public lectures and other events associated with the
seminar will take place in the days leading up to the seminar. One of
the public lectures will be on the evening of October 11th, when one
of our invited speakers will give a keynote address. The invited
speakers include Michael Foley (Baylor University), Richard McClelland
(Gonzaga University), and Katherin Rogers (University of Delaware).
These invited speakers will also participate as resident “experts”
during the seminar discussions.
Proposals not longer than two pages (double-spaced), and in Word
format, should be submitted electronically to Dr. Brian Clayton at
clayton@gem.gonzaga.edu no later than 30 June 2013, and should include
title, author(s), institutional affiliation (if any), mailing address,
email address, and the text of the proposal. The seminar organizers
will send acceptances by 8 July 2013.
The seminar and its associated public events are part of a series of
jointly-sponsored programs focused on “Faith, Reason and Popular
Culture.” The conviction behind these programs is that if Christian
institutions of higher learning are to respond properly to their
charge to be places where faith seeks understanding, then they must
engage contemporary popular culture. Film is among the most powerful
and important forms of popular culture. Thus, the seminar organizers
seek scholars who will engage in two days of discussion investigating
issues of faith and philosophical import raised by contemporary
popular film. Presenters need not have any formal academic
appointment.
For further information please contact Dr. Brian Clayton, Director,
Gonzaga University Faith and Reason Institute at
clayton@gem.gonzaga.edu.
CFP: SEP/FEP 2013, “Modern European Philosophy and its Politics”
CALL FOR PAPERS
Modern European Philosophy and its Politics
The Society for European Philosophy/Forum for European Philosophy Joint Annual Conference for 2013 will be hosted by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London
5–6 September 2013
Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE
Plenary speakers
Professor Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths/Cambridge University
Queer Will
Professor Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University
Kant and the Hottentots
Professor Tuija Pulkkinen, University of Helsinki
Thinking Intervention
The SEP/FEP conference is the largest annual event in Europe that aims to bring together researchers, teachers and others, from within different disciplines, interested in all areas of Modern European Philosophy. Submissions are therefore invited for individual papers and panel sessions in all areas of Modern European Philosophy. For 2013 submissions that address the conference’s plenary theme – Modern European Philosophy and its Politics – are particularly encouraged. This would include papers and panels that address philosophical issues in the history of Modern European Philosophy with regard to the cultural, social and political contexts of their elaboration; and those that address philosophical issues with regard to the social, cultural and political contexts of the present.
Abstracts of 500 words for individual paper submissions and proposals for panels should be sent to Stella Sandford (S.Sandford@Kingston.ac.uk) by 17 May 2013. Proposals for panels should include a 500-word abstract for each paper within the panel. Proposals from academics, graduate students and independent scholars are welcome.
Enquiries: S.Sandford@Kingston.ac.uk
Conference: “Norms of Freedom in Kant and Hegel,” UChicago, Apr 12-13
Norms of Freedom in Kant and Hegel
April 12-13
Student Center East
Room 302, 3rd Floor Conference Tower
750 S. Halsted Street (just south of Harrison)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Speakers include:
Terry Pinkard, Paul Guyer, Christoph Menke, Thomas Khurana, Dirk Setton, Stephen Engstrom, Rahel Jaeggi
Register here:
For more please information visit: http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/germanphil/events.html
20th Conference of the North American Sartre Society
The University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 4-6, 2013.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The North American Sartre Society is issuing a call for papers on the occasion of its twentieth conference, hosted by Adrian van den Hoven, at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 4-6, 2013. We welcome papers in any area of Sartrean scholarship (philosophy, literature, theater, psychology, politics, intellectual history, Sartre and other writers, etc.). Reading time for a paper should be 25-30 minutes maximum. In addition to individual papers, we welcome suggestions for panel topics. Graduate students are encouraged to submit suggestions for papers. We hope to provide a limited number of stipends for graduate students to help defray the cost of travel and lodging. Any graduate student whose paper has been accepted must however apply for these stipends.
While topics on any of Sartre’s many activities are welcome, one of the themes we are promoting this year is Sartre’s relationship to jazz. It has also been noted that 2013 is the centenary of Camus’s birth. Also in 1943 Sartre published L’Etre et le néant and Simone de Beauvoir published L’Invitée.
We invite anyone interested to submit proposals in either English or French. Nevertheless, we require those whose papers are accepted to become members of NASS (if they are not already) in order to present their paper.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: March 31, 2013.
Please E-MAIL an abstract (1-2 pages max) as an attachment to John Ireland: jireland@uic.edu and Matt Eshleman: eshlemanm@uncw.edu For panel submissions, please submit both an abstract for the whole panel and abstracts for each individual paper. These will be forwarded to the Program Committee for blind refereeing.
We have been very fortunate to secure Michel Contat as our Keynote Speaker. Michel Contat, known to every Sartre scholar, has generously agreed to talk to us on the subject of Sartre and jazz.
Further details on the conference, the University of Windsor and hotel arrangements will be communicated to you in due course.
Any questions can be directed to:
John Ireland (President)
Matt Eschleman (Co-President)
Adrian van den Hoven (On-Site Conference Organizer) vdhoven@uwindsor.ca
CFP: FEAST “Envisioning Plurality: Feminist Perspectives on Pluralism in Ethics, Politics, and Social Theory,” Fall 2013
FEAST
The Association for Feminist Ethics and
Social Theory
invites submissions for the Fall 2013 conference:
Envisioning Plurality: Feminist Perspectives on Pluralism in Ethics, Politics, and Social Theory
Oct. 17-20, 2013
Fiesta Resort and Conference Center
Tempe, AZ
http://www.fiestainnresort.com/
submission deadline: February 28, 2013
Keynote speakers:
Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Author of Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, Alcoff has initiated public discussions of pluralism, through both her Pluralist’s Guide to Philosophy and her 2012 NYT op-ed piece addressing Arizona’s censorship of the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.
Jennifer Lisa Vest is a mixedblood (Black/Florida Seminole/German) poet and philosopher who holds the position of Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. Co-author of Philanthropy in Communities of Color, her book manuscript Sovereign Wisdom: Generating Academic Native American Philosophy is under review.
Invited Sessions:
- · Viewing and discussion of film, “Precious Knowledge”
- · Invited Panel on Pluralism
FEAST encourages submissions related to this year’s theme. However, papers on all topics within the areas of feminist ethics and social theory are welcome.
Description of this year’s theme:
One meaning of pluralism within philosophy is that it seeks to bring
underrepresented theoretical perspectives and underrepresented groups into the philosophical mainstream, transforming philosophy as a result. Yet what is meant by “pluralism” and how to assess whether or not pluralism has been achieved remains hotly contested.
While philosophy is often depicted as the academic field most in need of pluralistic correctives, other disciplines, too, struggle with the marginalization of those whom, due to their theoretical approaches or their bodies, have been pushed to the edges of their disciplines.
This year’s FEAST conference encourages submissions that challenge us to think in new ways about the boundaries, methodologies, and subject matter of academic subfields that pertain to feminist ethics, politics, and social theory, broadly construed. The program committee welcomes papers that take both theoretical and practical approaches to these issues. We aim to create a conference with a diverse group of presenters and a wide range of approaches, topics, and styles. FEAST strongly encourage members of groups that are underrepresented in academia to send submissions.
Call to submit a panel proposal (topic and speakers) for a lunch time “Difficult Conversation”
FEAST conferences typically feature a lunch time “Difficult Conversation” that focuses on an important, challenging, and under-theorized topic related to feminist ethics or social theory. Past topics include: Critical Understandings of Dependency and Disability; Are Academic Feminist Philosophies and Methodologies Still Too White?; A Difficult Conversation about Feminist Sexualities and Identities. We hereby invite proposals for next year’s Difficult Conversation.
Submission Guidelines
A completed paper of no more than 3000 words must be submitted for individual presenters and prepared for anonymous review. Proposals for a Difficult Conversations session or for non-paper formats (e.g., workshops, discussions, etc.) must include detailed descriptions (500-750 words).
Please send your submission, in one document (a Word file, please, so that abstracts can be posted), to feast2013@csbsju.eduby February 28, 2013. Your document must include: paper title, abstract of 100-250 words, and your paper, with no identifying information. The word count (max. 3,000) should appear on the top of the first page of your paper. In the body of the email message, please include: your paper or panel title, name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, surface mail address, and phone number. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed.
Note: Panel organizers, please send the panel title and all three abstracts and papers in one document, along with word counts (3,000 for each paper). Difficult Conversations and other non-paper submissions should be marked as such.
For more information on FEAST or to see programs from previous conferences, go to: http://www.afeast.org
Questions on this conference or the submission process may be directed to the Program Chair, Jean Keller, at feast2013@csbsju.edu
Empirical Bioethics: Emerging Trends for the 21st Century February 21 & 22, 2013; Cincinnati, OH
Empirical Bioethics: Emerging Trends for the 21st Century
February 21 & 22, 2013
Sponsored by the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training
Kingsgate Marriott Conference Hotel, Cincinnati, OH
Featured Presentations:
Ethics and Evidence: What Data Can and Cannot Do for Bioethics
Thursday, February 21st,3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Chicago
Is Human Nature Ready for Autonomy: What Behavioral Science
Teaches us About the Limits of Shared Decision Making in Medicine
Friday, February 22nd,8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Peter Ubel, MD
Fuqua School of Business and Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Ethics Companion Studies: Strategies, Successes and Setbacks
Friday, February 22nd,1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Rebecca D. Pentz, PhD
Emory School of Medicine
2013 APA Central Division announcement
Fwd from APAonline:
The 2013 Central Division meeting will be held February 20-23 in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside.
Meeting Program
The meeting program is now complete and will be available on the APA website by the beginning of December. Printed copies of the meeting program issue of the APA Proceedings and Addresses will be mailed to members in December or January.
Meeting Registration
Advance meeting registration is now available online using the same system as the upcoming Eastern Division meeting (which is considerably more flexible than registration has been in the past). You will be able to register online up to and during the meeting itself, and advance registration rates will remain in effect online through February 19, the day before the meeting. You may also register in advance by fax or mail using the form available on the APA’s website (to receive advanced registration pricing by mail or fax, your registration form must be received no later than January 23). On-site registration is available at the meeting, but at higher rates.
The Tenth Annual Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference
The Tenth Annual Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference
March 21-23, 2013
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Downing
Ohio State University
Paper: “Locke and his Predecessors on the Status of Secondary Qualities”
Plenary Speaker: Dustin Stokes
University of Utah
The Philosophy Department of the University of Utah is proud to announce the 10th annual Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference (IWSPC) to be held March 21-23, 2013 in Salt Lake City, UT. Papers in any area of philosophy by graduate or undergraduate students are welcome. Papers should be suitable for a twenty-five minute presentation with fifteen minutes of commentary and Q & A.
Submission requirements: Papers should be no more than 3,000 words and prepared for blind review. Only one submission per author will be considered. The paper should be in .doc or .pdf form and submitted electronically to UUIWGPC at gmail dot com.
Along with your paper, we ask that you also submit a cover letter including the following information:
Paper Title
Author’s name
Word count
Abstract (100 words)
Institutional affiliation
Academic status (graduate or undergraduate student)
Subject area of paper
Email address
Deadline: January 7th. Notification of acceptance will be emailed no later than February 7th. Each student who presents a paper will also be expected to give a five minute commentary on another student’s paper.
Our website: http://intermountainwestphilosophy.wordpress.com/
Check out our facebook group: 2013 Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference.
Follow us on Twitter: @UtahPhilosophyG
Any questions should be addressed to Anna at UUIWGPC at gmail dot com
Forwarded from Dr. Ward.
Loyolans at SPEP
This is a little late, but it’s still nice to see what some Loyolans have been doing at SPEP this weekend.
Thursday:
Hanne Jacobs presented “Perceptual Consciousness and Attention” for a session on Perception and Movement.
Friday:
Maggie Labinski presented “Who’s Reading Who: Renewing the Value of Feminist Re-Readings of ‘The Canon'” for a session on the theory and practice of feminism.
Andrew Cutrofello gave a talk titled, “Cogito and the History of Melancholy: Situating Hamlet in Derrida’s Debate With Foucault.”
