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Call for Papers Theme: Greek Philosophy and Jewish Thinking Type: Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: University of Cyprus Location: Nicosia (Cyprus) Date: 23.–25.11.2018 Deadline: 10.9.2018 __________________________________________________ This three-day conference intends to explore and contest the way in which the classical Greek world inspired and influenced Jewish thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Scholars are invited to examine this diverse contact and the fertile pollination of ideas that have been since produced. The conference hopes to unveil creative collisions, collusions, tensions, and contentions that are both reconcilable and irreconcilable in their display and disentanglement. Papers from a wide variety of disciplines and methods of scholarship are encouraged. Scholars working in diverse and multifaceted fields such as philosophy, theology, classical studies, sociology, political science, cultural studies, literature, film studies, aesthetics, and visual arts are welcome to submit their abstracts. The following list — which is by no means exhaustive or exclusive — contains some of the themes the conference intends to address: - knowledge of God and nature - the sacred and the profane - monotheism and polytheism - presence and absence - identity and difference - Eros and divine love - ethics and prudence - justice and law - paideia and sociopolitical renewal - Greek polis and the modern Jewish state - topos and utopia - home and exile - settlement and banishment - exile and emancipation - election and predestination - inclusion and exclusion - mythologies and Biblical stories - hermeneutics and exegesis - memory and historiography The conference language is English, and each speaker will be allotted twenty minutes of presentation time followed by ten minutes of questions and answers. Please e-mail an abstract of approximately 250 words to the following addresses: [email protected] and/or [email protected] Please include a separate page with the title of the paper, the name of the author, your institutional affiliation, and e-mail address. Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, September 10th, 2018 Organizing Committee: Panagiotis Christias (University of Cyprus) Tziovanis Georgakis (University of Cyprus) Panos Christodoulou (European University Cyprus) __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
