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CFP: HERA Conference, “Humane, Inhumane, Human”

HERA

Call for Papers

Humanities Education and Research Association

Annual Conference, February 27- March 1, 2014

Washington D.C.

 

 

Humane, Inhumane, Human

 

In keeping with HERA’s mission of promoting the study of the humanities across a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplines, we invite presentations for the 2014 conference. The wide range of disciplines and areas of study for the conference include but are not limited to Aesthetics, Anthropology, Architecture, Art, Classics, Communication Studies, Composition, Cultural Studies, Dance, Design, Digital Technology, Education, Environmental Issues, Ethics, Ethnic Studies, Family, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Geology, Globalization, History, Languages, Literature, Media, Museum Studies, Music, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sexuality, Sociology, Theater and all sciences relevant to the topic.

 

Creative presentations, readings, and exhibitions are also welcomed. Submissions are encouraged from educators at all levels (including advanced graduate students) as well as all those with an interest in the arts and humanities.

 

Proposals for papers, panels, or workshops must be submitted through the conference web portal on the HERA website at www.h-e-r-a.org.

 

Questions may be directed to the conference organizers, Marcia Green (mgreen@sfsu.edu), Sarita Cannon (sncannon@hotmail.com), and Erin McCoy (erin_mccoy@hotmail.com) 

 

Presentation time for individual papers is limited to 15-20 minutes.

 

Deadline for submission: no later than October 24, 2013.

The Fairfax Hotel Embassy Row (Starwood Luxury Collection) is the host of HERA’s 2014 conference.  The guest room rate is $139 plus tax.  The hotel is a short walk from the Dupont Circle Metro stop.

 

 

Dr. Marcia Green                        
Executive Director/CFO                  
Humanities Education and Research Association
HERA                              
P.O. Box 715                           
Pacifica, CA 94044-4206                      
 mgreen@sfsu.edu
Phone: 650-359-2660
Website: http://www.h-e-r-a.org 

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Upcoming events organized by The Phenomenology Research Group, LUC, Oct. 4,19, & Nov. 5

The Phenomenology Research Group has events on October 4, 19 and November 5.  Click the link below for details:

http://www.phenomenologyresearchgroup.net

 

Basic event info (lifted from PRG site, link above):

  • Events on October 4, 2013
    Research Seminar: Carly Lane (UC)
    Starts: 2:00 pm
    Ends: October 4, 2013 – 4:00 pm
    Location: TBA
    Description: “It is Not Finished: Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Love”
  • Events on October 19, 2013
    PRG Workshop: Psychoanalysis
    Starts: 12:00 pm
    Ends: October 19, 2013 – 1:00 pm
    Location: TBA
    Description: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat
    Allan Breedlove
    Russell NewstadtTime: TBA
  • Events on November 5, 2013
    Harald Wiltsche
    Starts: 4:00 pm
    Ends: November 5, 2013 – 5:00 pm
    Location: TBD
    Description: Talk
    (A related seminar will be held earlier in the day at 2:00pm. For more information, email phenomenology.info[at]gmail.com)
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Correction to previously announced WMU Grad Conference dates, Dec. 6-8

The previous message announcing the 7th Annual WMU Grad conference
incorrectly stated that it would occur Dec. 7th-9th. The actual conference
dates are Dec. 6th-8th. The deadline for submissions is still October 18th.

Please see the conference’s philevents page for further information.

http://philevents.org/event/show/11631

Matt Miller
Department of Philosophy
Western Michigan University

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North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics Annual Conference, DePaul, Sept. 27

Next week the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics will be hosting its annual meeting at DePaul University. Below is a copy of the program.

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California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, 2013: Program Schedule and Updated Website, DePaul, Oct.10-12

If any of you are interested in philosophy of race, the California Roundtable for Philosophy of Race is holding its 10th anniversary meeting at DePaul this year. The program is below and at www.caroundtable.webs.com.

 (Info sent to us from alumnus Dr. Drew Pierce)

California Roundtable on Philosophy & Race

October 10th-12th, 2013

Chicago, Illinois

Thursday October 10th

2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: Coffee/Welcome

Session I: 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Moderator: Lisa McLeod, Guilford College

3:00 p.m.: Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia

“Atmospheric Pressures: On Race and Affect”

4:00 p.m.: Stephanie Rivera-Berruz, University of Buffalo

“The Gaze Returned: Boomerang Perception Thrown Through Racial Realism”

5:00-5:30 p.m.: Break

5:30-6:00 p.m.: Introductory Remarks

Reception

Friday October 11th

9:00-9:30 a.m.: Coffee/Light Breakfast

Session II: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Moderator: Ernesto Rosen Velasquez, University of Dayton

9:30 am: Sybol Cook Anderson, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

“The Imperative of Post-Racialism: Ending the Racial Paradigm”

10:30 am: Alia Al-Saji, McGill University

“A Phenomenology of Hesitation: Interrupting Racializing Habits of Perception”

11:30 a.m.: Sophie Guérard de Latour, EHSS, Paris

“Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism, Allies or Enemies? Assessing the ‘Strategy of Des-ethnicization’ in Critical Republicanism”

Lunch: 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.

Session III:  2:00-4:00 p.m.

Moderator: Janine Jones, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

2:00 p.m.: Shannon Sullivan, Pennsylvania State University

“The Hearts and Guts of White People: Ignorance and the Physiology of White Racism”

3:00 p.m.:  Andrew Pierce, Sacred Heart University

“The Myth of the White Minority”

Break: 4:00-4:30 p.m.

Keynote: 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Lucius Outlaw, Vanderbilt University

Moderator: Darrell Moore, DePaul University

Keynote Reception: 6:00-7:30 pm

Saturday, October 12th:

9:30-10:30 a.m.: Coffee/Light Breakfast

Session IV: 10:00 a.m.-12 p.m.

Moderator: Lawrence Blum, University of Massachusetts, Boston

10:00 a.m.: Grant Silva, Marquette University

“The Colonial and Racial Dimensions of Immigration: Why No One Has a Problem With Legal Immigration”

11:00 a.m.: Eddy Souffrant, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

“The Challenge of Universal Freedom: Douglass in Haiti”

Lunch: Noon-1:30 p.m.

Session V: 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Moderator: Michael Monahan, Marquette University

1:30 p.m. Megan Mitchell, UNC Chapel Hill

”‘Everything’s a Little Bit Racist:’ An Account of Implicit Racial Bias as Institutional Racism”

2:30 p.m.: Joseph Smith, Southern  Illinois University, Carbondale, “The Niggarization of Black Bodies”

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45 p.m.: Kristin McCartney, Oakton Community College, “This Bridge…: On Reading Lesbian Contexts as Philosophers of Race”

Break: 4:45-5:00 p.m.

Session VI: 5:00-6:30 p.m., Roundtable on the Roundtable

Closing Reception: 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Warm regards,

The Organizers of the CRPR

Darrell Moore, Depaul University
Mickaella Perina, UMass Boston
Falguni A. Sheth, Hampshire College

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Events, 2013-14: Theology and Ecology

‘Theology and Ecology’ Event Planning for AY 13-14

 

Fall Semester

 

1.  Oct. 4   

            Screening of James Balog film “Chasing Ice” and Post-Screening Panel Discussion

            Panel: William French (Theo), Michael Agliardo, S.J. (Soc), Martin Berg (Biol)

            7:00-9:00pm, Damen Theater, LSC

           

            LUC’s participation in the nationwide Catholic Climate Coalition program “Melting Ice,   Mending Creation: a Catholic Approach to Climate Change.” Organized by the LUC            Office of Sustainability.

 

2.  Oct. 15 

            Presentation by Pulitzer Prize Winning Environmental Journalist Bob Marshall 

            Screening of Elizabeth Coffman/Ted Hardin film “Veins in the Gulf”

            4th Floor IC   (times being determined)

            Panel Discussion: interested faculty

 

            The focus of the event is on exploring how the overlapping themes of journalism,

            ecology, and religion impact the narrative ‘reading’ of catastrophic storm events and

            environmental disasters (in this case, those in the Gulf of Mexico).

 

            Organized by the School of Communication, Institute of Environmental Sustainability,
            and the Department of Theology

 

3.  Nov. 14-15

            Conference: US Energy and Environment: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy

           

            Nov. 14  7:00pm   Keynote Lecture: Filmmaker James Balog

            Nov. 15  9:15am   Presentation on Energy and Climate Change (speaker TBA)

                           11:15am Dr. Emmanuel Agius

                                          Presentation on Energy Policy from a European Perspective                  

                           2:00pm   Panel: Science, Ethics, and Energy Policy

                                          Dr. Howard Learner

                                          Dr. Donald Wuebbels

                                          Dr. Jame Schaefer

 

            Organized by the Department of Theology and the Institute of Environmental
            Sustainability
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CFP: 7th Annual Northern Graduate Philosophy Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Annual Northern Graduate Philosophy Conference
November 8-9, 2013
Northern Illinois University

Keynote Speaker: Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California
Friday, November 8, Holmes Student Center, University Suite
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Submissions by graduate students of approximately 3,000 words in length on any topic in mainstream analytic philosophy are welcome. Submissions accessible to a general philosophical audience will be favored.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Please send the following as separate attachments in .pdf or WORD (.doc, .docx) format to philgsac@niu.edu:

1.      A cover page, containing the following information:

a.      Author’s name

b.      Institutional affiliation

c.      Contact information (email, phone number)

d.      Title of paper

e.      Topic area of paper

f.        Word count

2.   The paper itself, free from all identifying information. Please include a title page with an abstract (no more than 150 words).

 

Responses to submissions will be sent by September 30, 2013.

Please direct all questions concerning the conference to the NIU Graduate Student Advisory Council in Philosophy: philgsac@niu.edu

We gratefully acknowledge sponsorship by the Department of Philosophy, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Northern Illinois University.

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Third Annual WMU Medical Humanities Conference

September 26-27, 2013
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Fetzer Center
Western Michigan University

Continental breakfast and lunch are included with event tickets. Separate registration for dinner required

Registration for the Third Annual WMU Medical Humanities Conference is now available: www.mywmu.com/mhc

And full conference details—including hotel information—is here: www.wmich.edu/medicalhumanities/conference2013/

 

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CFP: American Assoc. of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) Session at the 2014 Central Division APA Meeting

The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) invites proposals for our group session at the 2014 Central Division APA meeting in Chicago, IL Feb 26-Mar 1, 2014.

Proposals on any topic related to teaching philosophy will be considered. Submissions are encouraged from teachers at two-year as well as four-year colleges. Individual proposals and panel proposals are welcome. The AAPT encourages proposals that are interactive.

Format: The three hour session will be composed of three 45 minute presentations, so presenters should plan for no more than 30 minutes of “presentation” time, leaving at least 15 minutes for questions and discussion.

Submissions: Proposals should be prepared for blind review, and include an abstract of no longer than 300 words, along with relevant citations and submitted in either Word or PDF to Andrew Mills (andrewpmills@gmail.com).

 Deadline for proposals: October 1, 2014.

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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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13th Annual Phenomenology Roundtable, Loyola, May 19-21

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Conference: Translating Realism: The Nature and Emergence of Contemporary French Thought, Notre Dame, May 10-11

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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

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Conference: Art, Social Justice, and Critical Theory, Kalamazoo, May 16-18

ART, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND CRITICAL THEORY

Olmsted Room, Kalamazoo College

May 16th – 18th, 2013

 

Thursday Evening 8:00 PM:

  • Keynote Address: “Active Passivity: On the Aesthetic Variant of Freedom.”  Martin Seel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
  • Wine Reception: Humphrey House Lounge:

Friday Morning: Theories of Art and Aesthetics: Focus Seel and Zuidervaart:

  • 8:30 – 10:30
    • Paul Guyer, “The Moving Appearance of Truth” (Philosophy, Brown University)
    • Richard Eldridge: “Modernity, Art, and Expressive Freedom” (Philosophy, Swarthmore College)
    • Comments:
      • Martin Seel (Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität)
      • Lambert Zuidervaart (Philosophy, ICS and University of Toronto).

Coffee Break:

  • 11:00 – 1:00
    • Michael Kelly: “Just True Art” (Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
    • Elizabeth Millán: : “Aesthetic Opportunities and the Spanish American Landscape: A Look at Alexander von Humboldt’s Aesthetic of Nature through the Lens of Seel’s Aesthetic of Appearing.”  (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago)
    • Comments
      • Martin Seel (Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität)
      • Lambert Zuidervaart (Philosophy, ICS and University of Toronto)

Lunch: 1:00 – 2:00: Banquet Room

Friday Afternoon: The Theory and Practice of Activating Art:

  • 2:00 – 3:45
    • Sandra Shapshay (Philosophy, Indiana University): “”Schopenhauer on the Symbiotic Relationship between Artistic and Philosophical Truth, a Reconstruction and Defense”
    • Veronique Fóti:“Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty” (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University)
    • Comments:
      • Martin Seel (Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität)
      • Lambert Zuidervaart (Philosophy, ICS and University of Toronto)

Refreshments:

  • 4:15 – 6:00 Panel Discussion: Mural as Public Art: Artist Dialogue:
    • Christine Hahn [Moderator] (Art History, Kalamazoo College)
    • Conor McGrady (Independent Artist, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
    • Dan Wang (Artist, Madison, Wisconsin)
    • Sonia Baez-Hernandez (Artist in Residence, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo College)

6:00 – 8:00 Dinner, Stone Room

8:00 – 9:15 Keynote Address: “Theses on Pictures and Films.” Martin Seel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main.

Wine Reception: Humphrey House Lounge:

Saturday Morning:

  • 9:00 – 10:30 Panel Discussion: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food:
    • Amelia Katanski (English, Kalamazoo College)
    • Alison Geist (Director, Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service-Learning, Kalamazoo College)
    • David Strauss (History, Kalamazoo College)

Coffee Break

  • 11:00 – 12:30 Panel Discussion: Museums and Curatorship:
    • Lambert Zuidervaart [Moderator] (Philosophy, ICS and University of Toronto)
    • Christine Hahn (Art History, Kalamazoo College)
    • Paul Wittenbraker (Art, Grand Valley University)
    • Alexandra Gravely (Art, K’13)
    • Eeva Sharp (Art, K’13)

12:30 – 2:00: Lunch: Stone Room:

Saturday Afternoon:

  • 2:00 – 3:30: Panel Discussion: Performance Art:
    • Adriana Garriga-Lopez (Anthropology/Sociology, Kalamazoo College)
    • Shanna Salinas (English, Kalamazoo College)

Coffee Break:

  • 4:00 – 5:30: Round Table Discussion & Closing Comments:

5:30 Reception, Stone Room

6:30 – 9:00 Dinner, Stone Room

 

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Phenomenology Research Group workshop on Saturday, 5/4, 2-4pm

Hey all,
Just wanted to give a quick shout out to the Phenomenology Research Group workshop this Saturday at the Crown Center (Rm. 140) from 2-4pm. We’ll have two speakers, Sean Petranovich and Trevor Perri (who is scheduled to defend at KU Leuven in June, so come lob tough questions at him). If you haven’t come to a PRG workshop before, this one will be a nice short & sweet introduction. If you have, stop by again before saying adios for the summer.
And, of course, don’t forget the other events in May: PRG 6: Language (5/11) and the Phenomenology Roundtable (5/19-21).
Cheers,
Mike
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