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Call for Papers "Peace as a Global Language" 9th Annual Conference International Christian University Tokyo (Japan) 4-5 December 2010 __________________________________________________ On behalf of Peace as a Global Language this year’s PGL Conference Committee invite academics, activists and other concerned individuals to submit proposals for panel paper presentations, individual paper presentations and workshops for sessions to be arranged by the Committee. The Conference will be held at International Christian University in Mitaka, Tokyo. This year the focus is less on language and more on the actual concepts involved in Peace and peace promotion. Therefore the Committee seeks sessions and panelists that will educate, engage and enlighten audiences on the broad themes of peace and how to achieve it, the descriptive and normative role of academia, the media and society in war and peace and the exploration of the ways in which they could do more to promote peace. Below is a partial list of themes and their effects on peace and war, and these are the kind of subjects the conference hopes to cover. Proposals that deal with these themes in this respect have a higher chance of being accepted. Themes - Corporatisation of Academia - involvement of academics in corporate / military research - Military Industrial Complex - relationship with Academia - Corporate Media - cheerleaders for war - Media Literacy - Propaganda - Role of Alternative / Independent Media - People Power / Direct Democracy - Peace Studies - Is ‘Just War’ Justified? - Resource Wars - War Crimes - State Crimes Against Democracy (S.C.A.D.) - Human Rights - Globalisation and War - Teaching approaches / techniques for any of the above Submissions When submitting your proposal please indicate if you are applying for a short or extended workshop (30 or 60 minutes), a short or extended paper presentation (30 or 60 minutes) or a group panel presentation (30 minutes per presenter plus 30 minutes Q & A / discussion per session). Deadline: Sunday 31 October 2010. We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you at the conference. Enquiries: [email protected] Web: https://sites.google.com/site/pgl2010/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
