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Call for Papers "Ethics in Cross Cultural Philosophy" 11th Annual Building Bridges Graduate Student Conference Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL (USA) 14-15 November 2008 __________________________________________________ The eleventh annual Building Bridges Conference will be held at Southern Illinois University Carbondale November 14-15, 2008. The aim of this conference is to open a space in which the ethics of the East Asian and South Asian philosophical traditions can be brought into dialogue with the ethics of the 19th century to contemporary Continental and American philosophical traditions. We welcome the submission of any paper that brings together at least one thinker from either the East or South Asian philosophical traditions and at least one thinker from the 19th century to contemporary Continental or American traditions, which deals with an issue in ethics from a comparative perspective. The purpose of "Building Bridges" is to bring into dialogue diverse elements not commonly associated. We seek interdisciplinary as well as intra-disciplinary themes that address problems from multiple philosophical standpoints, from different traditions, or in which two or more thinkers not customarily brought into conversation are compared. Our goal is to provide a pluralistic forum for constructive and critical communication across boundaries. Keynote Speaker Henry Rosemont, Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies at Brown University and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Philosophy at St. Mary's College of Maryland: "U.S. and World Poverty: A Confucian Critique" Submission Guidelines Papers should not exceed 3000 words and should be prepared for blind review. Do not include any personal information in the paper. On a separate cover page include the following items: The paper's title Author's name Institutional affiliation Email address Telephone number Word count (3000 words maximum) An abstract (150 word maximum) Deadline for Submission: September 7, 2008. Email a copy of your paper and your personal information, as attachments, in Microsoft Word format (.doc) or in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) to <[email protected]>. Title the file of your paper with an abbreviated paper title and title the file of your contact information with your last name and first initial. __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
