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Call for Papers "America, Islam, Violence, and Dogma" 12th Annual "Building Bridges" Graduate Student Philosophy Conference Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Carbondale, IL (USA) 30-31 October 2009 __________________________________________________ The twelfth annual Building Bridges Conference will be held at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. This years topic envisions a dialogue between American and Islamic thought concerning issues of violence and dogma. We welcome novel connections among these four themes and encourage submissions that are interdisciplinary in their approach. We accept papers coming from all philosophical traditions and look forward to bringing these different perspectives into conversation. 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: William Chittick Professor of the Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook Submissions: Papers should not exceed 3000 words and should be prepared for blind review. Please do not include any personal information in the paper. On a separate cover page include the following items: The papers title The authors name Institutional affiliation Email address Telephone number Word Count (3000 words maximum) An abstract (150 words maximum) 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]>. Please 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. Deadline for Submission: August 7th, 2009. Contact: "Building Bridges" Graduate Student Philosophy Conference Department of Philosophy Southern Illinois University Faner Hall Carbondale, IL 62901 USA Phone: +1 618 453-7442 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.siu.edu/~philos/Building_Bridges.htm __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
