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Call for Papers Theme: African Philosophical and Intellectual Responses to the Development Crisis in Africa Type: International Conference Institution: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) Ebonyi State University Location: Abakaliki (Nigeria) Date: 10.–14.6.2015 Deadline: 1.4.2015 __________________________________________________ This conference focuses on evaluating the responses of the African intelligentsia to the current development crisis in the continent as well as encouraging reflections on the recurrent issues in the development crises such as the need to evolve a viable indigenous development oriented ideology that would adequately address such issues as identity and its construction in the context of globalization and cultural pluralism, determinism, freedom and responsibility, the individual and the collective, justice in plural, multi-cultural and international contexts, faith and reason in the public sphere, etc. Subthemes - Classifcations of Responses such as: Afro-pessimism; Re-colonization thesis; Nationalism; Afro-constructivism - African theories of Development - Ideology and Development - Justice and Development - Freedom and Responsibility - Ideolgy, Determinism and the Mechanisms of Change - Globalization, Pluralism and the State - Faith and Reason in the Public Sphere and Development Application There is no registration fee. Participants will cover their own travel costs and hotel. The application should include: 1) a vita that specifies the applicants educational background, professional positions and affiliations, and publications; 2) a letter of intent; and 3) the abstract of the paper by April 1, 2015; full paper by June 1, 2015. Please send all the information to Joseph C. A. Agbakoba ([email protected]), Jerry C. Chukwuokolo ([email protected]) and [email protected]. Contact: Joseph C. A. Agbakoba [email protected] Jerry C. Chukwuokolo [email protected] Web: http://www.crvp.org/conf/2015/nigeria.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
