-----Original Message----- From: McWeeny, Jennifer <[email protected]> To: boston-philosophy <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Feb 19, 2015 5:09 pm Subject: [Bos-Phil] CFP: 21st Century Body: Merleau-Ponty Circle CALL FOR PAPERS Please distribute widely B 40th Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle October 1-3, 2015 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Massachusetts B THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BODY: THINKING MERLEAU-PONTY IN AND OUT OF TIME B The present era is animated by unique political and technological landscapes that affect the ways we experience and think about our own bodies and the bodies of others. The focus of this interdisciplinary conference is to investigate the varied ways that Maurice Merleau-Pontybs phenomenological philosophy speaks and does not speak to our twenty-first century bodies and the ethical, social, scientific, artistic, and existential challenges that situate and enliven them. Interrogating this theme thus leads us to consider the ways that Merleau-Pontybs thought is ahead of its time, tied to its time, and beyond time and context. More important, these questions ask us to explore the intimacy between our own bodies and the body of our timebthat fully material zeitgeist that is our present, yet also holds our past and future, our regrets and possibilities. This three-day congress will include presentations from approximately twenty-five scholars working in a variety of disciplines, an art exhibition on the conference theme, opening and closing receptions with musical performances, and myriad opportunities to engage in conversations about Merleau-Pontybs place at the dawn of the twenty-first century. B The keynote speakers for the conference are Etienne Bimbenet (UniversitC) Jean Moulin b Lyon III) and Sean Kelly (Harvard University), and plenary session speakers include Susan Broadhurst (Brunel University), Stefan Kristensen (University of Geneva), Leonard Lawlor (Penn State University), and George Yancy (Duquesne University). B For a detailed description of the conference theme and events, submission guidelines, and travel information, please see the conference website: : wpi.edu/+mpcircle Call for Papers and Call for Art: http://www.wpi.edu/academics/hua/news/callforpapers.html PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 1, 2015 ART SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 1, 2015 For questions and further information, please contact the conference director, Jennifer McWeeny at [email protected]. B B B __________________________ Jennifer McWeeny, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy Worcester Polytechnic Institute B This message comes to you from the Boston-Area Philosophy Mailing List. To UNSUBSCRIBE from the list, send a message with the text "unsubscribe [email protected]" to [email protected]. Note: This message must be sent from the e-mail address that is subscribed in order to be effective. To SUBSCRIBE to the list, send a message with the text "subscribe [email protected]" to [email protected]. To SUBMIT AN ANNOUNCEMENT for distribution through the list, send it to [email protected]. Announcements should be contained in the body of the message, not in an attachment. For other subscription options, visit the home page of the list at https://lists.brandeis.edu/wws/info/boston-philosophy. For a calendar of events in philosophy in the Boston area, visit https://sites.google.com/site/bosphilos/.
