InterPhil: CONF: Interkulturalität
__ Konferenzankündigung Theme: Interkulturalität Subtitle: Theologische und philosophische Perspektiven Type: Jahrestagung 2022 Institution: Deutschen Gesellschaft für Missionswissenschaft (DGMW) Location: Wittenberg (Deutschland) Date: 6.–8.10.2022 __ Sowohl in Theologie als auch Philosophie gibt es seit über fünfzig Jahren eine jeweilige Profilierung der Fächer, die sich selbst als „interkulturell“ identifiziert. Interkulturelle Theologie und Interkulturelle Philosophie verbinden vergleichbare Anliegen, nämlich Grundfragen des Selbstverständnisses und einzelner Fachdiskurse unter den Bedingungen postkolonialer Globalisierung und der damit einhergehenden Diversifizierung von Rationalitäten angemessen zu bearbeiten. Ebenso ist die vielfache, integrale Verwobenheit mit und die bewusste Bezogenheit auf kulturwissenschaftliche Diskurse für beide Fachdisziplinen charakteristisch. Es erstaunt daher, dass beide Fachwissenschaften bislang nicht in lebhaftem interdisziplinärem Austausch stehen, sondern nur fallweise und sporadisch von Diskursen und Forschungsergebnissen der jeweils anderen Notiz nehmen. Die DGMW-Jahrestagung 2022 will dieses Desiderat adressieren, Gelegenheit zur Darstellung von Grundlagen und aktuellen Wissensständen beider Disziplinen bieten sowie gleichzeitig zur vergleichenden Diskussion über Anliegen, Methodenfragen, Problemen angemessener Selbstkontextualisierung und Anschlussfähigkeit kulturimprägnierter Reflexionen in beiden Fächern anregen. Forschungs- und Nachwuchspanels laden zudem zur Vorstellung interdisziplinären Diskussion eigener Projekte ein. Erstmalig wird auch der mit 5.000 Euro dotierte "Forschungspreis Interkulturelle Theologie" vergeben. Programm Donnerstag – Leucorea 15.30–16.00: Begrüßung 16.00–16.40: Niels Weidtmann (Tübingen): Zur Interkulturalität in der Philosophie - Grundlagen, Geschichte, Standort- und Verhältnisbestimmung 17.15–17.55: Ulrich Dehn (Hamburg): Zur Interkulturalität der Theologie - Grundlagen und Verflechtungen 19.00–20.00: Podiumsgespräch Interkulturelle Theologie und Philosophie – Begegnungen, Perspektiven und institutionelle Präsenz Ulrich Dehn (Hamburg), Ram Adhar Mall (München), Ulrike Schröder (Rostock), Niels Weidtmann (Tübingen) 20.00: Grußwort des Landesbischofs der Ev. Kirche in Mitteldeutschland, Friedrich Kramer (Magdeburg) Preisverleihung des DGMW-Forschungspreises für Interkulturelle Theologie Laudatio: Richard Friedli (Freiburg, Schweiz) Freitag – Leucorea 09.00: Morgenimpuls 9.30–11.00: Vorträge Markus Wirtz (Köln): Zwischen propositionalen Wahrheitsansprüchen und kultureller Praxis: Religiöse Pluralität und Interreligiosität aus philosophischer Sicht Klaus Hock (Rostock): Crossroads, oder: Wie theologisch ist interkulturelle Theologie? 11.15–12.45: Parallele Panels/Sektionen Hermeneutik, Dimensionen und Konstruktionen der Fremdheit Ulrike Schröder (Rostock), Chibueze Udeani (Würzburg) Religion, Gesellschaft und Migration Dorottya Nagy (Amsterdam), Johann Schelkshorn (Wien) Kultur und Interkulturalität Norbert Hintersteiner (Münster), Jens Kreinath (Wichita/Kansas), Georg Stenger (Wien) 14.00–15.45: Nachwuchspanels 16.00–18.00: Lektüreworkshops Bildphänomenologie und Bildsemiotik aus interkultureller Perspektive He Guanghu’s Sino-Christian Theology Diskursanalyse in der interkulturellen Theologie 19.30–21.00 Mitgliederversammlung der DGMW Samstag – Katharinensaal 09.00–09.15: Morgenimpuls 09.15–10.45: Forschungspanels 11.00–12.30: Schlussvortrag Reinhold Bernhardt (Basel): Wahrheit: „Jeder glaubt, sie zu haben, und jeder hat sie anders“ (G. E. Lessing). Religionsphilosophische Grundfragen der Religionstheologie 14.00: Fakultatives Angebot Stadtführung mit interkulturellem Schwerpunkt Die Tagung findet an zwei Orten statt: 06.-07.10.2022: Leucorea, Auditorium Maximum Collegienstr. 62, 06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg 08.10.2022: Katharinensaal, Stadtkirchengemeinde Jüdenstraße 35, 06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg Anmeldung: Zentrale Anmeldung (bis zum 13.08.2022) über die EMW-Geschäftsstelle unter dem Stichwort „DGMW“: as...@mission-weltweit.de Website der Tagung: https://www.dgmw.org/2022/07/14/jahrestagung-2022-programm-und-einladung/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CONF: Belonging and Returning to the African Community
__ Conference Announcement Theme: Belonging and Returning to the African Community Subtitle: Decolonial and Intercultural Perspectives Type: International Colloquium Institution: College of Fellows, University of Tübingen Location: Tübingen (Germany) Date: 21.–22.7.2022 __ What does it mean to belong and to return? Two African thinkers, Pantaleon Iroegbu and Amilcar Cabral have engaged with the two concepts, respectively. While Iroegbu sees belonging as a metaphysical and ethical act of identity construction and solidarity, Cabral thinks of returning as a psychological and epistemological processes of healing and regeneration. Both are forms of philosophical journeys and lean on some ethical principles that distinguish authentic from inauthentic attempts. The framing of these concepts by the two African thinkers mentioned earlier offers great philosophical insight into what, otherwise, might appear ordinary. To belong and to return to the African community are thus not ordinary physical activities. They are metaphysical, epistemological, psychological and ethical journeys. Considered under decoloniality and interculturality, this colloquium calls for a creative, inclusive, yet critical discussions on the concepts of ‘belonging’ and ‘returning’ to the African community. What does this intellectual journey mean for different people, Africans and non-Africans alike? What does it mean for migrants, homeless, poor, victims of injustice and violence? And what prospect does it portend for us all as citizens of the world divided by borders? Program 21 July 2022 13:30-14:00 Niels Weidtmann / Jonathan O Chimakonam: Welcome 14:00-14:50 Jonathan O Chimakonam: The Development of the Concept of Belongingness in African Philosophy: Contributions of the Calabar School 14:55-15:45 Susanne Goumegou / Louis Nana: Forms of return and reintegration into the community in some African novels – Léonora Miano 16:15-17:05 Bernard Matolino: Belonging in a disrupted environment 17:10-18:00 Komla N. Avono: n.n. 22 July 2022 10:00-10:50 Bado Ndoye: What does it mean to belong to Africa? 10:55-11:45 Olajumoke Akiode: Communities, Identities: Gendered Reconstructionist Ideas for Africa 12:15-13:05 Aribiah Attoe: “The End of Ubuntu” and the Need for Conversationalism in Contemporary African Thought 15:00-15:50 Simon Makwinja: Between Modernity and Tradition: Dilemmas of Belonging and Returning to the African Community 15:55-16:45 Samuel Olusegun: Ubuntu Sharing, Belongingness, and the Problem of Habitat Loss This event is open to interested participants. Venue: University of Tübingen Neue Aula, Raum 236 Organizers: Dr Niels Weidtmann Email: niels.weidtm...@ciis.uni-tuebingen.de Dr Jonathan O Chimakonam Email: jonathan.ok...@up.ac.za Website of the colloquium: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/210121#c1614716 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Human Rights and Duties
__ Call for Papers Theme: Human Rights and Duties Type: 3rd International Congress on Human Rights and Duties Institution: Yadam Institute of Research Location: Online Date: 10.12.2022 Deadline: 15.11.2022 __ Abstracts are invited from researchers, scholars, students and civil society leaders to present their papers in the 3rd International Congress on Human Rights Duties 2022. The event is going to be organized virtually. Topics: - Human Rights - Women and Gender Rights - Child Rights - Constitutional Rights - Civil and Political Rights - Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Environmental Rights - Animal Rights - War and Peace - Religion and Human Rights - Law - Allied Topics Send 200 – 300 words abstract to email: yadaminstituteofresea...@gmail.com i...@yior.org Abstract Submission last date: 15th November, 2022 Conference website: https://yior.org/international-webinar-on-human-duties-and-responsibilities/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Indian Religions and the Concept of God
__ Call for Publications Theme: Indian Religions and the Concept of God Publication: Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions Date: Special Issue (2024) Deadline: 30.11.2022 __ Although Western philosophy of religion has developed many useful exegetical and philosophical tools for evaluating Abrahamitic conceptions of God as they apply to respective philosophical traditions, there is a growing awareness that such monotheistic Western approaches might conceal and prohibit a culturally sensitive and philosophically adequate appreciation of the numerous concepts of God found in religious traditions outside of the Western hemisphere. This awareness, which is part of the motivation beyond what is known as cross-cultural philosophy of religion, encompasses both the need for and the encouragement of new dialogues between Western philosophy of religion and non-Western traditions as a means to foster a deeper mutual understanding of the variety of concepts of God or the divine developed in the history of humankind. Divinity in some Indian religions, such as Vaiṣṇavism, Śaivism and Śaktism, is often conceived monotheistically, as a supreme OmniGod (much like Western accounts of God.) Despite the evidence supporting this, these Indian concepts of God exhibit certain peculiarities that threaten the idea of their being monotheistic (or even theistic, one might say.) For instance, they manifest a plurality of divine forms, referred to as devatās and avatāras (divinely incarnations), they subsequently assimilate or incorporate other divinities in the Hindu pantheon and continue to exist in ambiguous relationships with them (an example being those between Viṣṇu, Śiva, Brahmā, and the Goddess), they are united with ordinary living beings in various ways, and they sometimes possess (exude?) ultimately impersonal or abstract nature. Moreover, in the Indian subcontinent, theistic traditions have resided alongside those that are decidedly non-theistic (for instance, Jain, Buddhist, and naturalist traditions), or non-theistically inclined (such as Nyāya and perhaps Yoga within Hinduism), and possibly a[mono]theistic (as in the Cārvāka and Mīmāṁsā schools) – although concepts of divinity in all these traditions are up for debate. Given all of this, we might ask: are Indian theistic traditions really monotheistic? Or, to put it in conceptual terms, is their concept of God a monotheistic one? Or, is their concept of divinity theistic at all? Accepting that there are different conceptions of divinity among the Indian religious and philosophical traditions, we are then behoved to pose this question: how can these concepts of God be philosophically characterized? What divine properties does any given tradition ascribe to its divinity? Can this divinity be described in a consistent way? Or is it a contradictory concept? If the concept is contradictory, how would this affect its intelligibility? Does any of those concepts of God have some advantage over traditional philosophical accounts of God? How do they relate to well-known accounts of God, such as those of classical theism, pantheism, panentheism, process theism, open theism, etc.? And what are the difficulties peculiar to these Indian concepts of God? This special issue of Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions will address these questions and approach the concept of God in Indian religions from a contemporary philosophical perspective. We invite submissions of papers on general philosophical topics related to Indian religions and the concept of God, including but not restricted to the following themes: - God in Indian religious traditions. - Divine attributes and Indian concepts of divinity. - Indian concepts of divinity vs. western concepts of God. - Atheistic or agnostic arguments against the coherence of Indian concepts of God. - Vaiṣṇavism/Śaivism/Śaktism: monotheistic, panentheistic or what? - Language and God in Indian traditions. - Divinity and Hindu deities. - Relation of the divine with the world: creation and difference/non-difference. - Consciousness and Indian concepts of divinity: cosmopsyshism, panenpsychism or what? Papers should be submitted through Sophia’s Editorial Manager specifying that they are being submitted to the special issue on Indian Religions and the Concept of God: https://www.editorialmanager.com/soph/default1.aspx Sophia's submission guidelines: https://www.springer.com/journal/11841/submission-guidelines Submitted papers will go through a double-blind peer-review process. The deadline for submission is November 30, 2022. Guest-editors: Ricardo Silvestre, Alan Herbert and Purushottama Bilimoria Email: ricard...@ufcg.edu.br – a...@ochs.org.uk Further information: https://www.logicandreligion.com/vaishnava-concept-of-god Journal website: https://www.springer.com/journal/11841
