Call for Papers "Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Cultural Identity" International Interdisciplinary Conference Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion Calcutta (India) July 27-30, 2006
The Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion will hold an International Interdisciplinary Conference in Calcutta July 27-30, 2006. The Conference theme is "Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Cultural Identity". The theme can be addressed critically, reflectively and creatively by the philosophical, religious and scientific traditions of the World's great civilizations. The program will include plenary addresses, volunteered papers, invited papers and panel discussions. Registered participants who are members of professional associations or societies are encouraged to submit proposals for holding meetings in the conference on behalf of their associations or societies. The organizers are committed to upholding the highest academic standards with emphasis on the exchange of ideas and dialogues among thinkers drawn from a wide range of the world's cultural traditions and movements. Possible topics include: Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity, Qualitative Aspects of Consciousness, Phenomenology of Consciousness, Theories of Action and Agency, Time Consciousness and Memory, Self-Consciousness and Language, Consciousness, Knowledge and Reality, Social and Political Dimensions of Consciousness, Ethics, Alterity and the Phenomenology of Obligation, Technology and Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness of Self and Other; Imagination, Dreaming and Altered States of Consciousness, Consciousness and Cognition, Physicalist/Reductive vs. Non-Physical/Non-Reductive Accounts of Consciousness, Atomistic and Holistic Aspects of Consciousness, Race, Gender and Ethnicity, Post-modern Selfhood, Relativism and Absolutism , Cultural Relativism, Culture and Meaning, Singularity of Culture, Tradition and Modernity, Culture: Descriptive and Normative Approach, Values, Customs and Culture, Culture and Hermeneutics, Text and Interpretation, Globalization of Culture, Sociology of Knowledge, etc. This list is illustrative and not exhaustive. The Program Board comprises: Elysabeth Agnew (USA), David Blanks (Egypt),Victoria Harrison-Carter (U.K), George Berry (Australia), Elysabeth Koldzak (Poland), Richard Libendorfer (USA), Craig Matarrese(USA), Devasish Mukherjee (India), Nityananda Saha (India), Joel Wilcox(USA). Registration: The advance registration fee for the conference is $100 and on site registration fee is $140. Conference events are currently expected to include a reception and an evening cultural program. We welcome your participation and suggestion. The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 25, 2005. The advance registration fee of $100 (due by October 31, 2005) should be paid by check drawn in favor of the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion mailed to the Secretary, Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion , 1210 Jamestowne Drive, Elon, North Carolina 27244, USA. If you would like to contribute a paper to this event please send an abstract of about 150 words to: Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion E-Mail: [email protected] Phone: (336) 524-9349 _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
