CONF CFP: PHAVISMINDA International Conference on Critical Theory 2010, Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines

Call for Papers

33^rd Annual PHAVISMINDA Conference

International Conference on Critical Theory

27-29 May 2010

To be hosted by

Silliman University and St. Paul University

Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines

Keynote/Plenary Speakers:

Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie University, Sydney)

Nicholas Smith (Macquarie University, Sydney)

Theodore Jennings (Chicago Theological Seminary)-tentative speaker

Paolo Bolanos (UST and Macquarie University)

Reynaldo Rivera (Silliman University)

Dear colleagues in PHAVISMINDA,

The Conference Committee for the 33^rd Annual PHAVISMINDA Conference invites proposals for papers exploring themes in Critical Theory or any other papers relevant to Critical Theory, or Social and Political Philosophy. Paper proposals in other areas of Continental Philosophy are also welcome.

Topics include, but not limited to the following:

- Reification, Freedom, and Personhood
- The Frankfurt Tradition (Lukacs, Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Habermas,

Honneth)
- Hegel and Hegelianism
- Marx and Marxism
- Modern Trends in Social and Political Philosophy
- Critical Theory of Technology
- Freud’s Metapsychology
- Capitalism vs. Socialism
- Critique, Social Pathology, and Emancipation
- Social Inclusion and Exclusion
- History, Subjectivity, and Sexuality
- Modern Trends in Critical Theory
- Media, Technology, Society
- Themes in Continental Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, and

Structuralism/Post Structuralism (Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Ricoeur, Arendt,

Derrida, Foucault, and others)

Please email your proposals with your name, paper title, and an abstract of not more than 250 words to jefjust24@yahoo.com not later than 30 October 2009. AND PLEASE LIMIT YOUR PAPER TO A MAXIMUM OF 30 MINS READING TIME.

Conference info will be emailed soon. Thanks, and I look forward to receiving your proposals.

All the best,

Jeffry Ocay

Program Committee

P.S. Please forward this email to your colleagues and to prospective PHAVISMINDA members.

CONF CFP: Philosophical Association of the Philippines Midyear Conference 2009

The theme for this year’s midyear conference is “The Philosophy of the Human Person.”

We are inviting everyone to submit their abstracts for papers to be read/delivered in this year’s conference.  The dates and other details on the conference have not yet been finalized so we’ll be posting updates ASAP.

Please limit the abstract to one page only. you may send the abstracts to the following emails:

deanmejos@yahoo.com or jovejim24@yahoo.com

We will notify you on updates on the papers and the conference as quickly as we can.

Thanks very much!

Postdoctoral Fellowships 2010-2013, Princeton University, USA

Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2010-2013

The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars

in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences,
invites applications for the 2010-2013 fellowship competition. Three
fellowships will be awarded: Open Fellowship (all disciplines
represented in the Society of Fellows), Fellowship in Humanistic
Studies, and Fellowship in Latin American Studies.

Applicants for either of the specialized fellowships may also apply for
an Open fellowship. Please see website (listed below) for application
guidelines and relevant disciplines.

Hosted jointly by the Humanities Council and academic departments,
Postdoctoral Fellows pursue their research and teach half-time for a
term of three years. The postdoctoral fellowship carries with it an
appointment as a Lecturer. In each of the first two years, Fellows
typically teach one course each semester. In their third year, Fellows
teach only one course while remaining in residence at Princeton.

Fellows must reside in or near Princeton during the academic year. The
stipend for 2010-2011 will be approximately $72,000. Non-US citizens may
apply. Recipients of doctoral degrees in Education, Jurisprudence, and
holders of PhD degrees from Princeton University, are not eligible.

Selection is based on scholarly excellence, range and quality of
teaching experience, and potential contributions to an interdisciplinary
community.

Candidates must have received their PhD degree after January 1st, 2007.
Those candidates who will not have their PhD by the time they apply but
are expected to have fulfilled all conditions for the PhD degree,
including filing the dissertation, by June 15th, 2010 may apply for a
Postdoctoral Fellowship with the support of a letter of confirmation
from their department chair. See website for details.

Candidates are asked to submit an application form (online) and a full
dossier, postmarked by October 1st, 2009 to:

Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
The Joseph Henry House
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

www.princeton.edu/~sf
Email: fellows@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-4717
Fax: 609-258-2783

Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with
applicable EEO and affirmative action regulations.

Aesthetics Video and Audio Recordings

The Aesthetics Research Group at the University of Kent is pleased to make public its archive of recorded lectures in aesthetics:

http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/hpa/aestheticsresearchgroup/materialsarchive.html

The archive includes audio and video recordings of research talks given by Noël Carroll, Howard Caygill, Gregory Currie, David Davies, Susan Dwyer, Jonathan Friday, Andrew Kania, Jerrold Levinson, Patrick Maynard, Aaron Meskin, Alex Neill, Kathleen Stock, Cain Todd, Rob van Gerwen, Scott Walden, Kendall Walton, Tom Wartenberg.

Jerrold Levinson’s entire lecture series on “Key Concepts in Aesthetics” is also available in audioformat.

For more information on future events organized by The Aesthetics Research Group please visit www.aesthetics-research.org

CONF: A World Without Politics 2009, KU Leuven, Belgium

*A World Without Politics*
www.worldwithoutpolitics.be<http://www.worldwithoutpolitics.be/>

September 17-20th 2009
Higher Institute for Philosophy, Leuven, Belgium

All events are free. For any questions please contact Dr. Anya Topolski.
Registration (by September 11th) is required by e-mail: anyatopolski@hiw.kuleuven.be<mailto:anyatopolski@hiw.kuleuven.be>

As a result of globalization, international political structures are rapidly changing. The emerging world order is characterized by a growing and complex network of regional and transnational institutions which shape an increasingly interconnected global order in a way that undermines the sovereign independence of increasingly impotent and outdated nation-states. Because of the growing importance of international law and because of the technocratic nature of these new institutions, the emergence of the global governance structure has often been analyzed as a process of depoliticization. Whereas politics is supposed to be about a visible, organized and ongoing struggle for power, the very concept of governance, as a form of “government without opposition”, seems to refer to a bureaucratic and consensualistic way of organizing society. Although some have hailed the increasing reliance on law, expert knowledge and consensus as a reinforcement of democracy, others have argued that the process of depoliticization helps to conceal the true power relations underlying the global structure and contributes to the disempowerment of citizens world wide in their attempts to shape the global order in a democratically legitimized manner.  It is the purpose of this conference to analyze the alleged depoliticization of the global order and to reflect on the ways in which this process affects the prospects of some form of global democracy.

Thursday September 17th

11u00   Opening and welcome by the Dean Prof. Antoon Vandevelde

11u40   1st Lecture – Joshua Cohen (Stanford) and Charles Sabel (Columbia)
“Global public reason: in defense of the banausic conception of politics”

13u00   Lunch

14u00   2nd Lecture – Etienne Balibar (Nanterre/Irvine)
“Strangers or Enemies? On the impolitical dimensions of Global Governance”

15u40   Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Coimbra)

20u00   Chantal Mouffe (Westminster)
“Which democracy for an agonistic multipolar world?”

Friday September 18th

10u00   Jean Cohen (Columbia)
“Legality and/or Legitimacy in global Governance: the Dilemmas of Political Justice”

11u40   Junior Session I
Matthias Lievens (Leuven) – “Carl Schmitt and the Specter of a Deterritorialized Politics”
16u20   Annelies Degryse (Leuven)
“Is a World without  Politics already a Fact? Politics according to Arendt”

13u00   Lunch

14u00   Andreas Kalyvas (New School for Social Research, NY)
“World Empire and Global Anomie in Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory of International Law. ”

16u20   Junior Session II (3 parallel sessions)

18u00   Conference Dinner

Saturday September 19th

10u00   Stefan Rummens (Leuven/Nijmegen)
“From governance to government? Representative institutions and democratic legitimacy in the global society”

11u40   Margaret Moore (Queen’s University)
“Global democracy and collective forms of self-determination”

13u00   Closing Lunch/Reception
–
Dr. Anya Topolski
Center for Ethical, Political and Social Theory
KULeuven – University of Leuven
Parkstraat 45, Box 3602, 3000 Leuven, BELGIUM
tel. +32.16.323262
fax. +32.16.323088

Apologies for the relatively long hiatus . . .

Hi Folks,

As you all have noticed, Gawaing-Pilosopo has been in a relatively long hiatus for several months. The creator-cum-Webmaster of the bulletin board has been tied to several important commitments and is currently preoccupied with a research project which will probably consume him for an indefinite period of time. For this, he would like to extend his sincere apologies to those whose announcements were not posted and to those whose emails were not answered.

Gawaing-Pilosopo started last year as an experiment and, in its own little way, has proven itself to be of good use to the Filipino philosophical community. This is based on the number of event announcements, emails, and feedback that we have so far received. This in itself is enough reason to continue on with our mission of disseminating useful information to our fellow Filipino philosophers, in view of our vision of expanding our philosophical horizons and to forge, in our very own humble way, a more inclusive and open community.

The creator of Gawaing-Pilosopo has asked some of his friends to take over the management of the bulletin board. We are happy to announce that the communication lines are again open and that you can forward to us announcements for future events, scholarships, conferences, workshops, publications, etc. you wanted posted and disseminated.

Thank you for your attention and we hope that you’ll continue to find the bulletin board useful for your purposes.

The Gawaing-Pilosopo Team