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Call for Papers Theme: Philosophy and the Outside Type: Inaugural CRMEP Annual Graduate Conference Institution: Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London Location: London (united Kingdom) Date: 14.–15.6.2012 Deadline: 1.3.2012 __________________________________________________ The research students at the CRMEP are pleased to announce the inaugural CRMEP annual graduate conference, 14-15 June, 2012. The inaugural CRMEP Annual Graduate Conference will focus on philosophy and the question of the ‘outside’. On one level, the outside signifies philosophy’s problematic relation to ‘non-philosophical’ discourses. For instance, art, politics and science have, in various ways, been historically constituted as an outside to philosophy. Alternatively, the outside can denote practices or forms of experience that cannot be subsumed within the confines of philosophical thought. Crucially, how are we to conceive the encounter between philosophy and the outside; what happens in the process of a ‘thing’ or experience being absorbed into philosophical thought? Different questions thus begin to emerge. Is philosophy necessarily related to the question of the outside? Is the outside the very condition of possibility for philosophy? Why do certain ‘outsides’ become part of philosophical discourse, and others remain antagonistic to it? Why are certain outsides privileged? How does the outside command what philosophy becomes - must we be forced to think? If philosophy is a conditioned discourse rather than an external arbiter, what becomes of its place and role in relation to the outside? Is this outside a resource or an excluded zone? Philosophy qua tradition has also been continuously confronted with other traditions of thought and radical practices, without including them in its systems of reference. In such encounters, defining ‘philosophy’ is always at stake. Can the relationship between philosophy and its outside be reciprocal, or will the tradition always be in a position of domination? Is philosophy destined to remain ‘Western’, and its history Eurocentric? How far can we understand this outside spatially? Finally, to what extent do these external encounters shed light on another type of outside, that which we might define as philosophy’s inner outside? Are there unexplored resources within philosophy that could possibly allow a different relation to the complexity of the outside, and to the problems posed by new practices and new experiences? Insofar as the conference thematic raises interdisciplinary considerations, we invite participation from those working outside philosophy, as well as those within. Keynote Speaker TBA Abstracts Abstracts should not exceed 300 words, for 20 minutes papers. Please include a short biographical summary with your abstract, noting academic affiliation and contact details. Deadline for submission: 1st March 2012 Please send abstracts to: [email protected] Enquiries: George Tomlinson, [email protected] Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/crmep/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
