CFP: Transcontinental Migrations: Selfhood, Community, and Nature in World Philosophies
Submission deadline: March 1, 2019
Conference date(s):
April 5, 2019 - April 7, 2019
Conference Venue:
Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida
Tampa,
United States
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Transcontinental Migrations: Selfhood, Community, and Nature in World Philosophies
University of South Florida Philosophy Graduate Student Organization Conference 2019
Keynote speakers:
Mohammed Azadpur, PhD (Islamic Philosophy)
San Francisco State University, Department of Philosophy
Gil Ben-Herut, PhD (Hinduism, Sanskrit Poetics, Bhakti traditions)
University of South Florida, Department of Religious Studies
Martin Schönfeld, PhD (Comparative Philosophy, Climate Philosophy)
University of South Florida, Department of Philosophy
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April 5-7, 2019
University of South Florida PGSO Conference
"Transcontinental Migrations: Selfhood, Community, and Nature in World Philosophies”
This graduate conference aims at providing a platform for graduate researchers and scholars in philosophy, religious studies, and other diverse disciplines to discuss the philosophical significance of themes in non-western and comparative thought including but not limited to self/personhood, society/community, and environment/nature. We invite papers focusing on metaphysical, religious, moral, and epistemological dimensions of philosophy, broadly construed, from diverse and non-traditional perspectives.
Areas:
“Eastern” philosophy, Chinese philosophy, South Asian/Indian/Hindu philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Jewish philosophy, Comparative philosophy, African philosophy, Native American philosophy, Indigenous perspectives, Latin American philosophy, non-canonical philosophy, Pluralism, Global South, critique of orientalism, postcolonial thought
Submission deadline: March 1, 2019
Submission guidelines:
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Please submit an abstract of 300-500 words to [email protected].
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All submissions should be in .doc, .docx or .pdf formats and should be prepared for blind review.
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Please include in your email: (1) author's name; (2) paper title; (3) word count; (4) institutional affiliation; and (5) contact information.
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Responses to submissions will be sent by March 1, 2019.
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Please send any questions to Cameron Wright [email protected].