CFP: Self, Culture and Justice: East and West

Submission deadline: August 20, 2012

Conference date(s):
January 9, 2013 - January 11, 2013

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Conference Venue:

Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures and College of Humanities, Fo-Guang University
Jiaoxi, Taiwan

Topic areas

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Subtopics:

  • Self and No Self
  • Personal Identity
  • Self as continuum, as flux or stream of Consciousness
  • Social Self
  • Self and Absolute
  • Process Theology
  • I and Thou
  • Cultural Self
  • Identity
  • Personal Immortality
  • Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
  • Global Justice
  • Criminal Justice
  • Globalization
  • Secularization and Future of Religion
  • Atheism and Values
  • Marx and Freud
  • Anti-Globalization Movements
  • Consumerism and Ethical Values
  • Socialism
  • Capitalism
  • Compassion and Perfectionist Ethics
  • Human Rights and Justice
  • Animal Rights
  • Mediation and Peace
  • Nonviolence of the Brave
  • Noncooperation as form of Nonviolence
  • Culture of Nonviolence
  • Merciless Justice
  • Social Justice
  • Liberal Democracy
  • Enlightened Anarchy
  • Politics and Morals
  • Global Market and Values
  • Globalization and Environment
  • Ecology, Cosmology and Teleology

The list is only suggestive and non-exhaustive.

Abstract: 150 words
Deadline: August 20, 2012
Email to [email protected]
Date of proposal acceptance: Week after the proposal is submitted

Papers from the Conference will be published subject to editorial review (Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies/Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion): http://legacy.lclark.edu/~sipr/SIPR2.html

Publication: Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion

  1. Books and papers: Magnus Publications
  2. Journal of Indian Philosophy and religion
  3. Interdisciplinary Journal

Papers from our last four conferences have been published by the Cambridge Scholars Press and by Magnus Publications.

If you are interested to submit your manuscript for book or paper, please contact Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti and send book proposal.

Advisory Board Members:

Kisor Chakrabarti (USA), Linda B. Elder (USA), Gordon Haist (USA), Rajani Jairam (India), Robin Kar (USA), Elizabeth Koldzak (Poland), Tommi  Lehtonen (Finland), Simi Malhotra (India), Maria Marczewska (Poland), JoAnne Myers (USA), Eve Mullen (USA), Rizwan Rahman (India), Andrew Ward (UK)

Conference  Director: Chandana Chakrabarti

Contact:

Chandana Chakrabarti, Ph.D.
Vice-President of the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
Email:[email protected]

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