CFP: Bernard Bolzano in Prague 2014

Call for Papers

Bolzano in Prague 2014 (Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic, July 16 (afternoon) – 19 (morning), 2014) is a research meeting inspired by openness and inclusiveness. We aim at maximizing exchange in an informal setting to the benefit of the community of scholars interested in the work of Bernard Bolzano. Important goals of the conference are taking forward the current state of affairs of Bolzano studies, assessing their future, and the extent and the composition of the community of researchers engaged in work relevant to all aspects of Bolzano’s heritage. During the conference special attention will be paid to the coaching of young scholars and early-career researchers, who are particularly encouraged to join the conference.

Special Guest:

Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam UvA-ILLC/Stanford University)

Forms of participation and submission requirements

Language
The community of scholars interested in the thought of Bolzano is linguistically varied and many valuable contributions exist in languages other than English. There are however reasons to think that the benefit of the whole in whatever part will be increased by having participants of Bolzano 2014 publicly interact in English. The language of the conference is English, and Bolzano 2014 will only accepts submissions and talks in English.

Talks
Proposals for talks on any aspect of Bolzano’s thought, including topics in ethics, politics, aesthetics and theology as well as mathematics, logic, methodology and philosophy of science are welcome.

Your talk might be in any of the following formats:

• Long talks (45′): special sessions with two commentators of max 10′ each and ample discussion time
• Medium-long talks (20′)
• Short talks (10′)
• Lightning talks (3′): early-career sessions with one senior commentator for each session.

Full papers should be submitted as proposals for long talks. Although submission of papers prepared especially for the occasion are welcome, particularly suitable submissions for long talks are papers that have been recently published, and are therefore already available to the community.

Abstracts of max 500 words should be submitted as proposals for medium-long and short talks.

Abstracts of max 100 words should be submitted for lightning talks. Lightning talks are especially suitable for MA students, Post-master students and PhD students that only recently have begun research on Bolzano and want to participate in the conference by presenting their project and receive feedback by senior scholars.

Duration and allocation of time slots will be decided by the Programme Committee, and will depend among other things on the number, the quality and the type of proposals received.

We are researching the possibility for speakers of short and lightning talks to have a poster.

All submissions should be anonymous and mailed in pdf format to [email protected]

News & projects slots
Presentations for news & projects slots (no anonymity required!) can be proposed up to the very last minute, but please contact us at [email protected] as soon as possible so that we can allocate enough time for these slots.

Important dates

Abstract & Full Papers submissions: April 21, 2014
Acceptance and Time Slot Allocation notice:  June 1, 2014

Registration & Other Practicalities

Fees – tba

Bursaries (deadline: April 21st, 2104)

Three bursaries covering accommodation costs for three nights in a pension/hostel are available for junior participants (career stage up to postdoc excluded). You should apply for a bursary by April 21st, 2014 when submitting your talk proposal.

NB: If your paper is accepted but you are in fact prevented to come for financial reasons, please contact us at [email protected] with the details of the situation, and we will do our best to help. Keep however in mind that any support will be limited and decided case by case jointly with the Programme Committee. It is in any case mandatory to have investigated other sources first.

Committees

Organising committee

Co-chairs

Arianna Betti* (Amsterdam UvA): General Programme Setup, Resources, Committees
Steve Russ* (Warwick): Prague Organisation

Staff

Pam Rossel (Amsterdam UvA)

Local organising committee

Magdalena Hykšová*

Petra Ivaničová*

Ladislav Kvasz*

Steve Russ*

Alena Šolcova*

Kateřina Triflajová*

Programme Committee

The Programme Committee is representative of the composition of the research community of Bolzano scholars. For Bolzano 2014 it is composed of the following researchers:

Paola Cantù (Aix-en-Provence)
Anita Konzelmann-Ziv (Geneva)*
Antje Rumberg (Utrecht)*
Paul Rusnock (Ottawa)*
Mark Siebel (Oldenburg) (Chair)
Marta Vlasáková (Prague)

Wise Persons Committee

Wolfgang Künne (Hamburg)*
Edgar Morscher (Salzburg)
Kevin Mulligan (Geneva)*
Jan Sebestik (Paris)*
Peter Simons (Dublin)*

*confirmed conference participant

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