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SUMMARY:Emmanuel Levinas and Interreligious Dialogue
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LOCATION:Pittsburgh\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p><em>To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression\, in which at each instant he&nbsp\;</em><em>overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond &nbsp\;the capacity of the I\, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity.</em></p>\n<p>~Emmanuel Levinas\, Totality and Infinity &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The North American Levinas Society is excited to announce that our eighth annual meeting and conference will take place July 28-July 31\, 2013 at Duquesne University on the theme\, &ldquo\;Emmanuel Levinas and Interreligious Dialogue.&rdquo\;&nbsp\;As &ldquo\;culture wars&rdquo\; and regional conflicts around the world continue to enlist various religious traditions and worldviews\, it&nbsp\;seems timely to open robust\, deliberative meditations on how Emmanuel Levinas&rsquo\; &ldquo\;ethics as first philosophy&rdquo\; might help&nbsp\;shape edifying interreligious dialogue for building peace and justice.&nbsp\;We hope that scholars use this conference to take part in the ongoing conversation about the ramifications of Levinas&rsquo\;&nbsp\;thought for various faith and non-faith traditions. Although preference will be given to papers that address the conference&nbsp\;theme\, it is Society custom to consider papers and panels on any topic related to the work of Emmanuel Levinas.&nbsp\;Our eight annual conference program will continue to include important Society traditions such as our annual Talmudic&nbsp\;Reading from Georges Hansel\, a pedagogy session\, Society banquet\, a film screening\, and provocative plenary&nbsp\;presentations from James Marsh\, Leah Kalmanson\, and others. &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>For our 2013 conference\, we invite you to bring your&nbsp\;questions and concerns on these matters to Duquesne University\, an historically important institution for Levinas studies in&nbsp\;North America\, in order to open a number of discussions concerning\, but not limited to\, issues such as:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developing concepts and practices for interreligious and interfaith dialogue</li>\n<li>The influence of religion in war zones\, from stoking conflict to building peace</li>\n<li>The interreligious dimensions of post-conflict resolution and reparation</li>\n<li>The role of religion in educating for social activism and responsibility</li>\n<li>The voices of women in building interreligious dialogue</li>\n<li>The postsecular intersections of religion and critical theory&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>The environmental aspects of interreligious dialogue&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>The affect of interreligious dialogue on indigenous rights and postcolonial struggles</li>\n<li>The possibilities of postsecular and interreligious responses to poverty and economic inequality</li>\n<li>The existential dimensions of interreligious dialogue and reparative justice.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</strong>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Please prepare materials for blind review and send them via email attachment to&nbsp\;cfp@levinas-society.org:&nbsp\;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individual paper proposals should be 200-300 words for a 20-minute presentation.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Panel proposals should be 500 words for 75-minute sessions. Please include on separate cover the session title and name&nbsp\; of organizer or chair\, along with participant&rsquo\;s names\, institutional affiliations\, disciplines or departments\, and brief&nbsp\; abstracts detailing the focus of each paper.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MARCH 31\, 2013.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>CONTACT &amp\; INFORMATION</strong>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Please direct all inquires concerning the conference to the organizers:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Erik Garret\, Duquesne University (garrette@duq.edu)</li>\n<li>Rick Sadlier\, Duquesne University (sadlierr@duq.edu)</li>\n<li>Sol Neely\, University of Alaska Southeast (sjneely@uas.alaska.edu)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>General questions regarding the Society should be directed to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sol Neely\, NALS President (sjneely@uas.alaska.edu)</li>\n<li>Michael Paradiso-Michau\, NALS Executive Secretary (secretary@levinas-society.org)</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp\;
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