CFP: Change and Its Challenges

Change is nothing new. Academics and public intellectuals have always struggled with change, examining its nature and effects through the lenses of literature, science, philosophy, theology, sociology, economics, and psychology. These studies have regarded change as a driving force, variously positive and negative, but always present. This conference will explore change as a theme and inspiration of both academic discourse and scientific exploration, from antiquity to the present day and beyond.

We invite papers/posters and panel/session proposals from all disciplines focusing on works from any period that explore change as it is discussed in literature, philosophy, theory, art, film, science, or society and its effects on the study of the same. Possible topics falling under this heading include, but are not limited to:

• Difficulties posed by change
• Persistence of identity throughout change
• Varieties of change
• Conditions of change; Beginning and ending
• Change and the individual
• Climate and environmental change
• Regime change and revolution
• Paradigm shifts
• Gender
• Race
• Education
• Representation
• Love
• Death
• Scientific change
• Evolutionary change
• Societal change

Submissions for panels are due by November 21st, and submissions for papers are due December 12th. Panels and papers from all disciplines of philosophy and interdisciplinary papers and panels are welcome and encouraged. 

More information is available at the conference website: http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/graduate__profession/arts__sciences/student_resources/graduate_student_ass/2015_gsa_conference_/index.asp