BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240328T100859Z DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200414T230000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200414T230000 SUMMARY:Philosophy and Eschatology: or\, Thinking of/from the End of the World UID:20240328T112714Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Africa/Johannesburg LOCATION:Johannesburg\, South Africa DESCRIPTION:
7th \;Annual International Conference of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa
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\n1st \;CFP:
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\nPhilosophy and Eschatology\, \;
\nOr: thinking of/from the end of the world \;
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\n11-12 September 2020
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\nUniversity of Johannesburg\, South Africa
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\nOrganized by Paul Slama\, Carien Smith\, Justin Sands\, Rafael Winkler\, and Abraham Olivier
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\nTheme:
\nEschatology\, the narrative of the end of time or the world\, is an integral aspect of various intellectual traditions. From the Western theological tradition to Afro-pessimism\, it also underlies the modern idea of progress and its dialectical counterpart in Hegel and Marx\, as well as the works of Nietzsche\, Husserl\, Heidegger\, Levinas\, Bataille\, Blanchot\, Derrida\, and Jean-Luc Nancy. It has inspired some authors in the phenomenological tradition to rethink the transcendental reduction and view the world\, in its sheer rustling presence\, in the horizon of its eventual collapse. For Levinas\, on the other hand\, it offers the subject a relation to justice beyond history. Eschatology furnishes philosophy with (among other things) a way of thinking about the final end\, what is most extreme and unsurpassable. It is in that respect also concerned with the limit or end of thought. \; \;
\nEschatology has more recently entered the discourse of the ecologist and the eco-phenomenologist on the devastation of the earth\, that of the geologist and critical theorist on the Anthropocene\, and that of global capitalism and the total catastrophes &ndash\; natural\, social\, military\, and technological &ndash\; it threatens to unleash at every instant. \;
\nThe aim of this conference is to address these and related topics with a specific focus on the relation between philosophy and eschatology\, ecology and eco-phenomenology\, the critical discourse on global capitalism\, the Anthropocene\, religion\, the end of time\, and Afro-pessimism. \;
\nTopics of the conference include\, but are not limited to: \;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Eschatology and religion\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Eschatology and phenomenology\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Eschatology and apocalypticism\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Eschatology\, ethics\, and political thought\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Eschatology\, Afro-pessimism and African philosophy\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, Blanchot\, Heidegger\, Derrida\, Nancy\, Kojè\;ve\, Bataille\; \;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;African concepts of the end\, time\, worldhood\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Critical Race Theory\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Black theology\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Ancestry and history\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Akan\, Bantu\, and Igbo cosmologies (among others).
\nSubmission: \;
\nPlease send a 700 word abstract for blind review to \;ujphenomenology@gmail.com. The full paper should be no more than 3500-4000 words for a 35-40 min. presentation. Proposals for panel discussion are also welcome. \;
\nThe deadline for submission of abstracts is Wednesday the 15th \;of April 2020. Notification of acceptance will be sent early May 2020. \;
\nConference fees:
\nThe fee for the full two-day conference (including tea and lunches) for participants is R1500 (including VAT). It is R750 for the full two-day conference for all participating graduate and PhD students. \;
\nBursaries:
\nA limited number of bursaries will be available for travel and accommodation. \;
\nAccommodation:
\nThe organizers recommend that conference participants stay in the Melville area in Johannesburg\, which is within walking distance from UJ Auckland Park Campus. The current rate for B&\;Bs in the Melville area is R600 per person per night. \;
\nFor more information about the conference\, please visit the website of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa: \;https://saphenomenology.wordpress.com. Alternatively\, please contact one of the organizers: Paul Slama (paul.slama@hotmail.fr)\, Carien Smith (smithcatharina23@gmail.com)\, Justin Sands (Justin.sands@nwu.ac.za)\, Rafael Winkler (rwinkler@uj.ac.za)\, or Abraham Olivier (aolivier@ufh.ac.za). \; \;
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