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Call for Papers "Conversations III: Aspects of Freedom" Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHIPS) 2007 University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus Bridgetown (Barbados) 9-10 August 2007 __________________________________________________ "It has been a mission of thinking that humanity tries to reach beyond the limits imposed upon us." "For people of African descent, we need, then, an emancipation of ideas in which we can engage, without subordination, thoughts that we can treasure far into subsequent generations." (Lewis R. Gordon) The third theme in our series of philosophical conversations will be focussed on aspects of freedom, an area chosen in recognition of the 200th anniversary in 2007 of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. We previously concentrated on dialogue between different approaches to philosophy and on the relevance of those different approaches to everyday concerns and problems in human life and thought. On this occasion we are particularly interested in contributions that explore the nature and value of freedom, both personal and political, the grounds for the rejection of slavery and similar conditions, and the tensions that our ordinary commitments and values relating to freedom face when confronted by the results or assumptions of scientific enquiry. The Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium Conversations III is looking for papers that seek to demonstrate the relevance of philosophy to questions in these areas. The Symposium also welcomes papers of a theoretical nature in the disciplines that share a boundary with philosophy, disciplines such as critical theory, cultural studies, law, linguistics, mathematics and natural sciences, medicine, political theory, theology, etc. These papers should grapple with the relevance or contribution of particular philosophical ideas or approaches to the roles of freedom in the disciplines in question. Our keynote speaker will be Dr Lewis R. Gordon. He is President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association and Laura H. Carnell Professor, the most distinguished chair, at Temple University, where he holds appointments in philosophy, religion, and Judaic studies and directs the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning Her Majestys Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times (Paradigm, 2006), An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and co-editor of A Companion to African-American Studies (Blackwell, 2006) and Not Only the Masters Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice (Paradigm, 2006). In an effort to ensure well-prepared, quality presentations, abstracts (300-500 words) are due by April 30, 2007. Participants whose abstracts are accepted by the vetting committee will then be asked to submit their completed papers via email as an attachment in either Word or Wordperfect by the firm deadline of June 30, 2007. (These papers will then be posted on-line for other participants to consult prior to the conference with the intention that time at the Symposium can be devoted much more to discussion than to exposition of the written papers. We hope that revised papers will continue to be available online: those from the previous symposia can be accessed from http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/histphil/Philosophy/CHiPS/ .) Deadlines: Abstracts (300-500 words) due: April 30, 2007 Completed papers due: June 30, 2007 Limits: Each presenter will be allotted 20 minutes to place the main ideas of his or her contribution. Contacts: Dr Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo [email protected] Mr Ed Brandon [email protected] Ms Roxanne Burton [email protected] __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
