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Call for Papers "Religion, Philosophy, and the Question of a Clash of Cultures" Symposium under aegis of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Canadian Jacques Maritain Association Concordia University Montreal, QC (Canada) 31 May - 1 June 2010 __________________________________________________ The programme committee invites papers, in English or French, that focus on the conference theme. Those who wish to submit a paper should contact the organisers immediately for further details or send an abstract or proposal (of no more than two pages) to: Professor William Sweet Department of Philosophy St Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5 Canada Fax: +1 902 867 3243 Email: [email protected] Deadline for the submission of proposals: October 15, 2009 Papers must not exceed 30 minutes reading time. Information on the conference theme Even the most casual survey of political and social events reveals a variety of confrontations, disagreements, misunderstandings, lacks of mutual comprehension, and changing viewpoints. Within many countries, but also on the international level, one finds major debates between fundamentalists and reformers, religion and secularism, the wealthy and the dispossessed, the first world and the developing world, the urban and the rural, the young and the old, and so on. Recently, particular attention has been given to how religion – at least in the sense that which expresses one’s ultimate commitments – is part of, or is drawn into, such debates. These phenomena invite philosophers and scholars in cognate disciplines to examine not just the phenomena themselves but the underlying issues. The purpose of this conference is to investigate and review some of these underlying issues, to see what responses have or might be appealed to in order to address what have been called ‘clashes of cultures’, but also to see what problems have arisen or may arise in attempting to address these questions. Specific questions that may be addressed here are, then: What is it to speak of a clash and, particularly, a ‘clash of cultures’? Is clash a characteristic of cultural (but not local or individual) conflict? Is there any particular method that can be drawn on, to address putative clashes of culture? What is, or has been, the place of religion and philosophy in such clashes and in addressing such clashes? And how might philosophers respond to such clashes? For more information see the theme website at: http://people.stfx.ca/wsweet/maritain2010a-call.html Contact: Prof. William Sweet Department of Philosophy St Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5 Canada Fax: +1 902 867 3243 Email: [email protected] web: http://people.stfx.ca/wsweet/maritain2010a-call.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
