InterPhil: CFP: Borders and Boundaries
__ Call for Papers Theme: Borders and Boundaries Type: 2023 IARPT Conference Institution: Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (IARPT) Catholic Academy of Berlin Location: Berlin (Germany) Date: 12.–15.6.2023 Deadline: 15.2.2023 __ The Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (IARPT) is pleased to announce its 2023 international meeting, which will be held at the Katholische Akademie in Berlin on June 12-15 2023. The theme of the meeting is borders and boundaries. Keynote and plenary speakers include Sigurd Bergmann, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Terrence Deacon, John Thatamanil, Robert Yelle, Marcia Pally, Matthew Bagger, and Randall Auxier. As sites of power manifested, borders and boundaries characterize some of the prevailing developments of our time, encompassing families separated, hope and hopelessness, and the limits of civil and political order. Christian Parenti has written that “the border becomes a text from which to read the future — or a version of it” (2011). This conference theme finds inspiration in Parenti’s metaphor, both by recognizing a radical openness to the present situation and insisting on the capacity of theology, philosophy, ethics, and other associated disciplines to rewrite better outcomes and mitigate those that are catastrophic. This conference program invites an interdisciplinary and integrative look at these dynamics. In the fluidity of the contemporary global order, attending to relationships among forms of bordering offers lessons on how to reimagine borders and boundaries more justly and with greater sensitivity to both ecological systems and human communities, religious or otherwise. Particularly welcome are proposals for papers that explore political, religious, ecological, or analytical borders, which can be defined as follows and linked to some (non-exhaustive) potential paper topics: - Religious borders/boundaries can be defined as points at which the contrasts between religious traditions become explicit and self-conscious to the members of the cultures in question or to third parties, giving rise to narratives that reinforce said contrasts. Possible paper topics include: approaches to interreligious dialogue, the theological “spatial turn,” the limits of the secular/post-secular, political theologies regarding land and territory, or peace/violence in interreligious terms. - Political borders/boundaries can be defined as demarcations between neighboring sovereign territories, in which sovereignty is typically understood according to the (contested) norms of the Westphalian system, i.e., as mutually recognized, mutually excluded, and uniformly distributed within each territory in question. Possible paper topics include: the proliferation of walls, changing patterns of sovereignty, cartographic practices, and postcolonial dynamics, as well as various theoretical perspectives. - Ecological borders/boundaries can be defined as thresholds concerning human interaction with more-than-human biological and climatic systems, challenging as well as reinforcing such terms as “nature” and “culture” and traversing the limits of the human. Possible paper topics include: the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries ecology, biosemiotics, or ecotheologies. - Analytical borders/boundaries can be defined either as distinctions between analytical approaches, i.e., academic disciplines, or as distinctions which are themselves of a predominantly analytical character, i.e., logical or metaphysical distinctions. Possible paper topics include: approaches to interdisciplinarity, paradox, continuity/discontinuity, spatial or temporal boundaries considered as such, or theories of entanglement. By examining and layering these forms of bordering in succession, the program for the conference represents a structure by which the various types of borders can be analyzed and compared. To do so is to invite inquiries into the dynamics of interreligious interaction, territorial sovereignty, and the human relationship with nonhuman nature within planetary systems. Any paper that speaks to some aspect of the above question is welcome, but we particularly welcome papers that engage with one or more of the core traditions of IARPT: pragmatism, process thought, naturalism/empiricism, and liberal theology. Moreover, as always, we will consider proposals that do not address the conference theme but are related to the intellectual traditions that are of special interest to IARPT. Proposals should contain a descriptive title and a brief (no more than 500 words) but informative and readable description of the paper to be presented. Proposals should also include a brief (150-word) biographical sketch of their authors. Proposals should envision paper readings of approximately twenty minutes followed by moderated questions from the audience. All proposals should be sent
InterPhil: CFP: Borders and Boundaries
__ Call for Papers Borders and Boundaries 37th Annual National Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES) San Diego, CA (USA) 2-4 April 2009 __ The National Association for Ethnic Studies invites abstracts/proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or media productions from people in all disciplines and interdisciplinary areas of the arts, business, social sciences, humanities, science and education on issues of ethnicity. How do borders of race and ethnicity define our lives? How are they part of our individual and collective thinking? How do they become internalized, politicized and turn into boundaries? In contrast, how do issues of race and ethnicity defy demarcation? How do race and ethnicity challenge the interests and power struggles implicit in shaping borders and boundaries? How do race and ethnicity affect the collapse and/or transgression of borders and boundaries? The conference will create a lively forum for the discussion of issues related to ethnic communities, including, but not limited to the following: artificially (en)forced borders; physical and sexual borders; transracial relationships - marriage, adoption; hybrid identities; diasporas; economic boundaries; globalization; outsourcing of labor; boundless technologies; immigration; xenophobia and nationalism; citizenship; racial profiling; borderlands; national security; disaster response; human trafficking; allegiances and affiliations; policing borders and vigilante groups; borders of language and epistemologies; genre-blurring in the visual arts and literature; cross influences in music; and transnational social movements. Two-hundred-fifty-word abstracts/proposals should be submitted by October 15, 2008, which relate to any aspect of the conference theme, with the participants institutional affiliation and mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The abstract/proposal must indicate whether the presentation is an individual paper, co-authored paper or a complete panel presentation and if a/v equipment is needed. All program participants must pay full conference registration and 2009 NAES membership dues. Abstracts must be submitted electronically to: http://www.ethnicstudies.org/conference.htm Select the Submit Abstract link to proceed to the online submission form. NOTE: A separate abstract must be submitted for each presenter (including co-authored papers, roundtable presentations and pre-arranged panels) with complete contact information. Additionally, pre-arranged panel presentations MUST provide a chair for their session. Contact: Cecily Hazelrigg-Hernandez, NAES Office Manager Western Washington University 516 High Street, MS 9113 Bellingham, WA 98225 USA Tel: +1-360-650-2349 Fax: +1-360-650-2690 Email: n...@wwu.edu Web: http://www.ethnicstudies.org/conference.htm __ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
InterPhil: CFP: Borders and Boundaries
__ Call for Papers Borders and Boundaries 14th Nordic Migration Researcher Conference International Migration and Ethnic Relations Research Unit (IMER), University of Bergen Bergen (Norway) 14-16 November 2007 __ The theme for the Nordic Migration Researcher Conference points to issues of sovereignty, demarcation, distinction, exclusion and discrimination, but also to issues of transience, communication across distinction, and acceptance. Aspects of the global turn and the Europeanization of Europe, not least as manifest in migration and migrant populations, have brought border and boundary issues to the forefront not only in social science and humanities scholarship, but also placed them with exceptional prominence on the political agenda. The conference will be organized in plenaries, subplenaries, and workshops. For each of the three days, the plenaries will focus around a specific topic. The following topics have been defined: - Transnationalism and the relevance of borders: Specifically, the relevance of state/European borders in our attempts to understand migratory movements and migrant population integration. What reshapings of the sovereignty regimes do we see, and why? Do we see a development towards a sociology of mobility? Or do we see a re-nationalization within Europe? Borders, boundaries and identity construction are crucial issues here. - Mobility and gender: Increasingly, there has been a stronger and much needed focus on gender within studies in international migration and ethnic relations. This plenary will deal with, and tie together, some ways in which gender constructions are tied to imaginaries of community, and gendered distinctions in agency and the quality of life. - Globalizing idioms and human rights: Increasingly, globalizing and essentializing idioms, especially religious and ethnic ones, have been seen as major impediments to reasoned resolutions to conflicts and controversies. These idioms have been largely contrasted with human rights perspectives. The plenary will explore these issues, with particular attention also to the essentializing dimensions in the human rights discourses. The Conference theme will be particularly elucidated through plenary programs and a number of invited workshops. It is important to note, however, that the Nordic Migration Researcher Conference has a strong tradition of inclusiveness, and derives one of it major benefits from being the major gathering point for all Nordic and other researchers dealing with IMER issues. The theme, Borders and Boundaries, is therefore also to be understood as wide enough to serve as a vehicle for enticing researchers to present a rich and diverse result of scholarship, theoretically, topically, geographically. Submission of abstracts: 15 September 2007 Submission of paper: 1 October 2007 Abstracts will only be accepted through online submission. For more information see the conference website: http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/imer/conferences/ Contact: International Migration and Ethnic Relations Research Unit University of Bergen Unifob Global P.O. Box 7800 5020 Bergen Norway Email: coordinator.i...@uib.no Web: http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/imer/conferences/ __ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
