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SUMMARY: International Virtual Conference on  Contested Bodies and Emerging Selves: Anthropology at the Crossroads of Identity\, Technology\, and Meaning [Dialogo2026 CBES]
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DESCRIPTION:<p>The International Virtual Conference (DIALOGO 2026 CBES) on &ldquo\;Contested Bodies\, Emerging Selves: Anthropology at the Crossroads of Identity\, Technology\, and Meaning&rdquo\; invites scholars and professionals worldwide to engage one of the most urgent questions of our time: what remains of &ldquo\;the human&rdquo\; when bodies are contested\, identities are renegotiated\, and technologies increasingly mediate personhood?</p>\n<p>&ldquo\;At stake is not only how identity is defined\, but whether the very category of &lsquo\;the human&rsquo\; remains intelligible across biological\, technological\, and symbolic transformations.&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>CFP &mdash\; Call for Papers</p>\n<p>This year&rsquo\;s conference is designed as a balanced\, high-rigor forum where religious and philosophical anthropologies enter into direct conversation with contemporary frameworks shaped by gender theory\, rights-based identity paradigms\, biomedical innovation\, AI-mediated life\, and posthumanist thought. Our aim is not ideological verdicts\, but serious mapping of the emerging anthropological terrain&mdash\;what is changing\, why\, and with what consequences.</p>\n<p>Venue</p>\n<p>Online (Join us at <a href="http://www.dialogo-conf.com">www.dialogo-conf.com</a>)</p>\n<p>Dates</p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlybird submission: [Jan 15 &ndash\; Feb 28\, 2026]</li>\n<li>Regular submission: [Apr 25\, 2026]</li>\n<li>Author notifications: [May 10\, 2026]</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Conference dates:May 20&ndash\;28\, 2026</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Live keynote Webex event: [May 23\, 2026 | 18:00&ndash\;22:00 UTC]</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Why submit? (Incentives)</p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Global reach\, zero travel: participate from anywhere\, with international visibility</li>\n<li>High-impact dialogue: meet scholars across theology\, philosophy\, social sciences\, law\, bioethics\, education\, and digital studies</li>\n<li>Extended engagement: nine days of online discussion + live video meeting</li>\n<li>Rigorous review: double peer-review for submissions</li>\n<li>Visibility and indexing: publication in Dialogo with broad international indexing and database visibility (20+ databases)</li>\n<li>Fast publication track: accepted papers can be published within 30 days after the conference concludes (subject to timely revisions)</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Key Themes and Questions (8 Panels)</p>\n<p>DIALOGO 2026 features eight panels\, each focusing on a major axis of contemporary anthropological transformation:</p>\n\n<p>I. Anthropology and Gender Debates: Tradition\, Identity\, Transformation</p>\n<p>II. Religion Under Pressure: Classical Anthropologies Confront New Ideologies</p>\n<p>III. The Technologized Body: Medicine\, Alteration\, and Posthuman Embodiment</p>\n<p>IV. Digital Selves\, Virtual Realities\, and AI-Mediated Personhood</p>\n<p>V. Philosophy and the Collapse of Essentialism: New Ontologies of the Human</p>\n<p>VI. Social and Legal Reconfigurations of Personhood</p>\n<p>VII. Cultural Memory\, Myth\, and the Rewriting of Human Meaning</p>\n<p>VIII. Ethics\, Education\, and the Future of Human Normativity</p>\n\n<p>Core questions include:</p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>What assumptions about personhood are being challenged today&mdash\;and why?</li>\n<li>Does self-determination expand freedom\, or create new forms of fragility and exclusion?</li>\n<li>How do technologies of transition and enhancement reshape embodiment and moral agency?</li>\n<li>Can religious and philosophical anthropologies adapt without losing substance?</li>\n<li>How should institutions (education\, law\, medicine\, religion\, policy) respond to shifting anthropological premises?</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Distinguished Guest Speakers</p>\n<p>[confirmed so far&hellip\;]</p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig M&uuml\;ller</li>\n<li>Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gunther Wenz</li>\n<li>Prof. h. c. J&uuml\;rgen Henkel</li>\n<li>Emeritus prof. Albert Classen</li>\n<li>Emeritus prof. Stephen David Edwards</li>\n<li>renowned British author Karen Armstrong</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n<p>Extended Engagement Format</p>\n<p>Engage in nine days of online presentations and discussions\, culminating in a special live Virtual Video Meeting with featured speakers (Webex).</p>\n<p>Live meeting (proposed): May 23\, 2026 | 18:00&ndash\;22:00 UTC(editable)</p>\n\n<p>Key Dates (editable)</p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlybird Deadline (full-paper submission): Jan 15 &ndash\; Feb 28\, 2026</li>\n<li>Regular Deadline: Apr 25\, 2026</li>\n<li>Author notifications: May 10\, 2026</li>\n<li>Conference dates: May 20&ndash\;28\, 2026</li>\n<li>Webex live meeting: May 23\, 2026 | 18:00&ndash\;22:00 UTC(editable)</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n<p>Submission Instructions</p>\n<p>Publishing guide / submission rules: <a href="https://www.dialogo-conf.com/publishing-guide/">https://www.dialogo-conf.com/publishing-guide/</a></p>\n\n\n
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