Call for Papers 

Annual Meeting of The Canadian Philosophical Association 

From 1-4 June 2025 

George Brown College, Toronto, ON 

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers and abstracts for its 2025 annual meeting, which will be held as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. This year, the meeting will take place at George Brown College in Toronto, marking the first time it will be hosted at a college. The Congress is scheduled from 30 May 30 to 6 June 2025, with the CPA meeting from 1-4 June 2025. 

The event will include concurrent colloquia and symposia, along with a plenary keynote address by a distinguished philosopher, sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. For the third consecutive year, special sessions will feature pairs of prominent philosophers engaging in discussions on topics of mutual interest.

To ensure the schedule is finalized in a timely manner, the submission deadlines will align with last year’s timeline. The deadline for submitting abstracts and papers is 15 November 2024, at 11:59 pm ET.

The program committee will conduct an anonymous review of both abstracts and full papers. Submissions are encouraged from all areas of philosophy, and the CPA is committed to making the meeting accessible and inclusive.

There are two formats for individual paper submissions:

1. Submit a completed paper of no more than 3,000 words (excluding bibliography, notes, and abstract). The paper must include an abstract of no more than 50 words. Accepted papers will be scheduled for one-hour sessions (30-35 minutes for the presentation, followed by comments and discussion).

2. Submit an abstract of 500-750 words (excluding bibliography), providing a clear summary of the central theses and the arguments supporting them. Accepted abstracts will be scheduled for half-hour sessions (20 minutes for the presentation, followed by discussion). Abstracts are not eligible for essay prizes.

Please note that symposium submissions will not be accepted this year.

How to submit

All submissions will be managed through FourWaves. As part of the submission process, you will be prompted to choose an area of philosophy. Please choose the area that best fits your submission. Even imperfect matches will help the Program Committee find appropriate referees for your submission.  

Detailed instructions are available on the submission platform at  https://event.fourwaves.com/acpcpa/pages

Submissions must be made by an active member of the CPA. New member enrollment and membership renewals for 2025 opened on 1 October 2024. Visit www.acpcpa.ca/join for more information.

Please note that participants may only appear in one primary role in the program (either as a symposium speaker or as the author of a paper, whether full or abstract-based). However, participants are encouraged to serve as commentators or chairs in other sessions.

Volunteer

We invite volunteers to serve as referees, chairs, or commentators at the meeting. If you are interested in volunteering for any of these roles, please click here.

Prizes

Several prizes are awarded by the Association for essays submitted for the Annual Meeting: two faculty essay prizes (one tenured, one non-tenured) and up to three student essay prizes (one student prize is reserved for each official language). The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences will again offer the Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) program to support graduate students at Congress. 

In each year’s December issue of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, prize winners from that year's Annual Meeting will be announced and a short list of exceptional papers that have been vetted by journal reviewers will be published. Prize winners are encouraged to submit their publication-ready papers to Dialogue early. 

More information

For more information about the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, please visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025.

For any inquiries, please contact the Co-Program Chairs, Nicole Ramsoomair at Nicole.ramsoomair@dal.ca, and Martina Orlandi at martinaorlandi@trentu.ca.

Spontaneous Generations, graduate journal for the history and philosophy of science and technology at the University of Toronto, invites abstract submissions for 2025’s issue on non-human agents and objects in science. We invite submissions from the history of science, philosophy of science, and science and technology studies broadly construed. A description of the issue’s topic and submission details follows.

Traditional studies of science focus on human theorizing and human actions while viewing non-human factors as ancillary. Here, we aim to highlight the role of non-human objects and agents in science. How do non-humans contribute to or co-produce scientific knowledge? What kinds of science emerge from interactions with non-humans? What are the epistemological and practical implications of relegating non-human actors and natural processes to an ancillary role in scientific inquiry?

For this issue, we encourage authors to conceive of “non-humans” quite broadly: tools, machines, artifacts, animals, artworks, networks, algorithms, and more.

The following are some potential themes to explore:

• What makes an artifact a scientific tool? What epistemic role do tools play in science?

• Do animals, AI, or other non-human agents have knowledge?

• How do biological organisms shape how science is done? 

• What is the role of biomimicry/biomimetics in the sciences?

• How have certain technologies reshaped how science is done throughout history?

• What are the relationships between instruments, measurements, and theory?

• How has science been represented in or inspired by art?

• To what degree are models in science autonomous from human agents?

• What are the epistemological implications of framing natural phenomena as optimization processes in nature-inspired algorithms?

• What are the disadvantages of predominantly anthropocentric science studies? What perspectives do non-human agents and objects add?

Please submit an abstract of less than 500 words by December 31, 2024, at the following link:https://forms.gle/cWQiEFRh8YTYV8VU8

Successful applicants will be notified in January of 2025, and will be expected to submit a full paper of 8000 words or less by the end of March. The papers will then be peer-reviewed by the end of May. Publication is slated for June 2025.

For any inquiries, please contact us at spontaneousgenerations2025@gmail.com

*Call for Abstracts* 

The Canadian Section of the IVR

York University, May 28, 2023

(The CS-IVR meets as an affiliate of the
Canadian Philosophical Association)

Every year, the Canadian Section of the IVR (International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) holds a conference devoted to subjects in law, legal theory, and moral and political philosophy. While we welcome papers on any topics in these fields, this year we particularly encourage papers which focus on one (or both) of the following themes:

(i) law and justice in relation to Indigenous Peoples; we invite papers examining legal,political and moral questions that need to be addressed as we work toward greater justice in settler-Indigenous relations. Special consideration will be given to papers examining Indigenous scholars’ understanding of these issues.

(ii) climate change; we invite papers investigating the legal, moral, and political dimensions of issues of climate degradation, action, and sustainability, all broadly understood.

The meeting will follow the usual format of the CS-IVR. Papers accepted for these sessions are circulated (via a Dropbox link) ahead of the meeting to those registered for the conference. Anyone who is registered can write commentaries on a paper (or papers). Commentaries are also circulated ahead of the meeting. To allow maximum time for discussion at these sessions, authors briefly summarize their main points rather than read their papers or commentaries.

Registration: please e-mail csivrsubmit@gmail.com with a copy to giudice@yorku.ca to be added to the listserv for the conference. *Please note: while the meeting is planned for in-person, there will also be an option to join remotely via Zoom.

Here are the Submission Deadlines for the Meeting:

• Friday, March 17, 2023: Brief Abstracts (maximum 750 words) of papers should be sent to csivrsubmit@gmail.com with a copy to giudice@yorku.ca. Abstracts will be refereed by the end of March. Abstracts should give a summary of the question(s) and argument of the paper.
• Friday, April 21: All accepted papers (maximum 5000 words) should be sent to csivrsubmit@gmail.com with a copy giudice@yorku.ca. Excerpts from larger papers and drafts in progress are welcome.
• Wednesday, May 17: All commentaries (maximum 1200 words) should be sent to csivrsubmit@gmail.com with a copy to giudice@yorku.ca.
• Conference: May 28, 2023

Further information about the CS-IVR, as well as past programmes, can be found here:
http://phil.uregina.ca/cs-ivr/index.html

 2022 Annual Meeting

The Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy

Société Canadienne de Philosophie Environnementale  

September 30 - October 2, 2022

in conjunction with

The 58^th annual meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association

Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Canada

Submissions of abstracts requested on Canadian and global environmental issues in all their philosophical dimensions; including (but not limited to) the aesthetic, cultural, ethical, epistemological, metaphysical, ontological, phenomenological, social/political, scientific, and spiritual.

Abstracts for Colloquium papers (presentable in 25-30 minutes), anonymized, should be between 500 and 750 words and sent to csepscpe@ualberta.ca. Abstract submissions will be accepted until 11:59 pm on August 15, aiming for notification of acceptance by August 30. Colloquium papers should not run over 4,000 words (text.)

Proposals for panels or symposia will also be considered. Please submit the proposed title, abstracts of presentations, and names of all participants. Symposia would be allotted 2 hours.

The CSEP/SCPE will award a Graduate Student Essay Prize, so if eligible, please indicate this.

The conference will be held at Alt Hotel in downtown Winnipeg. (https://www.germainhotels.com/en/alt-hotel/winnipeg).

Booking information will be made available soon. Information about the conference will be available at the WCPA website: http://wcpaonline.ca/. This conference will be accessible. Please direct any questions about the WCPA conference planning to the conference organizers: Adam Murray (adam.murray@umanitoba.ca) and Chris Tillman (chris.tillman@gmail.com).

For assistance regarding the CSEP/SCPE, contact csepscpe@ualberta.ca

Or visit the CSEP/SCPE website: https://csepscpe.wixsite.com/csep-scpe

Call for Abstracts: Symposium Platonicum XIII 

Due to Covid uncertainty and disruption, the Executive Committee of the International Plato Society has extended the deadline for submissions of abstracts for Symposium XIII. 
New Deadline: November 29, 2021
 
Now that the US has now opened its borders to those who have been vaccinated we are hopeful that the International Plato Society will have a robust in-person Symposium XIII on Plato’s Sophist at the University of Georgia on July 18-22.  Nonetheless, we will continue the Zoom option for presenters and attendees.
 
Abstracts should be 800-1200 words and written in any two of the Society’s five official languages (Italian, English, French, Spanish, German).  They should be anonymized for blind review, combined into a single file, and sent as pdf or Word attachments to: symposium-xiii@platosociety.org by November 29, 2021.  Your name and academic affiliation should appear in the body of the email.  The Executive Committee will blind review submitted abstracts and announce its decision in January, 2022. For more information on our July, 2022 Symposium, visit the IPS website:  https://platosociety.org/symposium-platonicum-xiii-platos-sophist-in-athens-ga-usa-jul-18-22-2022/.
 
For your abstract to be considered, you must be a current member of the International Plato Society.  Information on membership criteria and on how to join the IPS and how to renew your membership is available at: https://platosociety.org/membership/.  
 

Conference presentations, call for abstracts:

 IDEA-UNAULA-UnIbagué-REDETICA 2021 Congress

Twelfth Congress of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA)

Development in times of conflict: ethical pathways towards peace and justice

Medellin, Colombia, February 1st – 3rd, 2021

Abstracts due: 15 June 2020

A trilingual conference, with opportunity for video-conference participation. The Universidad Autónoma LatinoAmericana(UNAULA), Universidad de Ibagué (UnIbagué), Red para la formación ética y ciudadana (REDETICA) and International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) invite scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and other interested parties to submit proposals for presentations at a conference on the theme of “Development in times of conflict: ethical pathways towards peace and justice.” The convening organizations invite submissions from practitioners and academics concerning the current Colombian context and concerning ethics in the context of development generally. Full details and submission instructions:

CFP English: https://developmentethics.org/idea-unaula-ibague-2021-congress-development-in-times-of-conflict/

CFP Espanol: https://developmentethics.org/idea-unaula-ibague-2021-congreso-development-in-times-of-conflict-spanish-cfp/

CFP Portugues: https://developmentethics.org/idea-unaula-ibague-2021-congresso-development-in-times-of-conflict-cfp-portugues/

*Call for Abstracts / Appel à contributions*

CSHPS Annual Conference / Congrès annuel de la SCHPS
London, ON, May 30-June 1, 2020
 

Proposals due January 10th, 2020 / Date limite de soumission 10 janvier 2020

[La version française suit]

The Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) is holding its annual conference as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in London, ON, May 30-June 1, 2020 (http://www.yorku.ca/cshps1/meeting.html).

The Program Committee invites scholars working on the history and philosophy of science to submit abstracts for individual papers or proposals for sessions (typically 3 papers). We particularly encourage scholars to engage with the theme for Congress 2020 – “Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism”. Unrelated topics and themes are also welcome.

Meeting languages: The CSHPS is a bilingual society. Individual papers may be given in English or French, but efforts to broaden participation are appreciated (e.g. a presentation in English could be accompanied by a PowerPoint in French, and vice versa). Similarly, sessions can be presented in either English or French, but bilingual sessions are especially welcomed.

Joint sessions: The CSHPS meeting overlaps with the meeting dates of a number of other member societies of the CFHSS, including the Canadian Philosophical Association, the Canadian Historical Association, Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes, and the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. We welcome proposals for joint sessions with these and other societies (please mention this specifically in your session proposal). However, no talk will be accepted for presentation at more than one society.

Number of submissions: Individuals can only submit one abstract for the CSHPS meeting (i.e. either an abstract for an individual paper or an abstract as part of a session proposal).
 

Submissions via EasyChair: In order to preserve the anonymity of authors, it is important that contact information and other identifying information be excluded from the file containing the abstract.
Individual paper submissions should include a file with a title and a brief abstract (150-250 words), and—on the EasyChair form—the author’s name and contact information, and a list of keywords.
Session proposals should include a single file with a session title, titles and brief abstracts (150-250 words) for each paper, and—on the EasyChair form—the names and contact information of the presenters and session organizer, and a list of keywords.

Proposals should be in pdf format.

Deadline: January 10th, 2020

Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cshpsschps2020

Presenters: All presenters must be members of the CSHPS at the time of the meeting. For more information about CSHPS membership, consult: http://www.yorku.ca/cshps1/join.html.
Student Prize: The CSHPS offers the Richard Hadden Award, a book prize for the best student paper presented at the meeting. To be considered for the award, students should submit a copy of their paper by e-mail (program.cshps@gmail.com) by April 6th, 2020. Details of this prize can be found at:
http://www.yorku.ca/cshps1/HaddenPrize.html.
 

CFHSS: Information about Congress registration and accommodation will be available at the CFHSS congress website: http://congress2020.ca.

Program Committee (2019-2020): Geoff Bil (Delaware), Molly Kao (Montreal) chair, Gordon McOuat (King’s College), Audrey Yap (Victoria)
Local Arrangements: Eric Desjardins (UWO)
Contact email: program.cshps@gmail.com

La Société canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences (SCHPS) tiendra son congrès annuel dans le cadre du Congrès des sciences humaines, London, ON, 30 mai – 1er juin 2020
(http://www.yorku.ca/cshps1/meeting_fr.html).

Le comité de programme invite les historiens et philosophes des sciences à soumettre un résumé pour une communication individuelle ou une proposition de séance pour le congrès. Les propositions de séances (typiquement pour 3 communications) seront particulièrement bienvenues. Nous sommes notamment à la recherche de contributions sur le thème du Congrès des sciences humaines 2019, « Bâtir des passerelles : combattre le colonialisme et le racisme anti-Noirs ». Les contributions qui ne sont pas liées à ce thème seront également considérées.

Langues du congrès : La SCHPS est une société bilingue. Les communications individuelles peuvent être en français ou en anglais, mais les efforts pour faciliter une participation diversifiée sont encouragés (par exemple, une communication en français accompagnée d’une présentation PowerPoint en anglais, ou vice-versa). De même, les séances peuvent être en anglais ou en français, mais les sessions bilingues sont particulièrement appréciées.

Séances conjointes : Le congrès de la SCHPS se déroule en même temps que ceux de plusieurs autres sociétés membres de la FCSH, comme l’Association canadienne de philosophie, la Société historique du Canada, Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches féministes, et la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine. Nous encourageons les propositions de séances conjointes avec d’autres sociétés (merci de bien l’indiquer dans votre proposition). Cependant, aucune communication ne peut être présentée à plus d’une société.

Nombre de soumissions : Une personne ne peut soumettre qu’un résumé de communication (c.-à-d. soit pour une communication individuelle soit dans le cadre d’une proposition de séance).

Soumissions avec EasyChair:
Afin de préserver l’anonymat des auteurs, aucune coordonnée personnelle ne doit être incluse dans le fichier contenant la proposition de communication.
Les propositions de communication individuelle doivent comprendre un fichier avec un titre et un résumé (entre 150 et 250 mots), et, sur le formulaire EasyChair, les coordonnées de l’auteur et une liste de mots clés.

Les propositions de séance doivent comprendre un seul fichier avec le titre de la séance, les titres et résumés (entre 150 et 250 mots) de chaque contribution, et, sur le formulaire EasyChair, les noms et coordonnées des auteurs et de l’organisateur de la séance et une liste de mots clés.
Les propositions doivent être soumises dans des fichiers de format pdf.

Date limite de soumission: 10 janvier 2020.
 

Les soumissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cshpsschps2020
Présentateurs : Tous les présentateurs doivent être membres de la SCHPS au moment du congrès. Pour plus d’information sur l’inscription à la SCHPS, consulter le site : http://www.yorku.ca/cshps1/join_fr.html.
 

Prix étudiant: La SCHPS décerne le prix Richard Hadden pour la meilleure communication étudiante présentée lors du congrès. Les candidats qui souhaitent concourir devront envoyer par courriel (program.cshps@gmail.com) une copie de leur texte avant le 6 avril 2020. Pour plus d’information sur le prix, voir : http://www.yorku.ca/cshps1/HaddenPrize_fr.html.
Les informations concernant l’inscription et les possibilités d’hébergement pour le congrès se trouveront sur le site Internet du congrès de la FCSH: congres2020.ca/.

Comité de programme (2019-2020) : Geoff Bil (Delaware), Molly Kao (Montréal) présidente, Gordon McOuat (King’s College), Audrey Yap (Victoria)
Organisation locale: Eric Desjardins (UWO)
Contact email: program.cshps@gmail.com

*Call for Abstracts*

Measurement at the Crossroads 2020
Measuring and Modeling

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Milano, Italy, 29 June – 1 July 2020

 

Measurement at the Crossroads 2020 - Measuring and modeling is an interdisciplinary conference that explores the philosophy and history of measurement. It aims at consolidating and developing the study of these topics, following the conferences in Bielefeld (2013), Cambridge (2015), and Paris (2018). It will bring together philosophers, historians, sociologists, and metrologists to address questions related to measurement across disciplines ranging from the natural sciences to the life and human sciences. It will be held at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, 29 June - 1 July 2020.

for a PDF version please see: https://measurement2018.sciencesconf.org/data/MaC_2020_call_for_abstracts.pdf

Measurement at the Crossroads 2020 is an interdisciplinary conference that explores the philosophy and history of measurement. It aims at consolidating and developing the study of these topics, following the conferences in Bielefeld (2013), Cambridge (2015), and Paris (2018).

The conference intends to promote the reflection on the foundations of measurement across the sciences from philosophical, historical and sociological points of view. In particular, it will aim to gather scholars from different disciplines to study within diverse perspectives the role of modeling in measurement, the use of measurement in modeling, and the way of demarcating the scope of these activities. In fact, measuring and modeling are fundamental activities for understanding both natural and human domains: through measurements we aim at acquiring objective and intersubjective information about the world; through models we are able to understand complex systems and to predict their dynamics. Although crucially different as activities, measuring and modeling are profoundly intertwined. On the one hand, models are essential in order to select what is to be measured, to provide a sound interpretation of measurement results, and to assess their dependability. On the other hand, measurements are indispensable for determining the quality of models and their ability to capture their intended targets. In the last decades, a growing interest on the connections between measuring and modeling has arisen, from a better comprehension of measurement processes and how model simulations can be used to integrate measurement results, to the idea that the distinction between measurements and simulations is to be thought anew.


Topics

The range of topics of interest includes but is not limited to:

1. Models in measurement
•    The role of models in measurement
•    The role of models in justifying measurement results
•    Models, intersubjectivity, objectivity, validation
•    Models of measurement from a historical point of view

2. Models of measurement
•    The general structure of the measurement process
•    The structure of measurement in social and human sciences
•    Transduction and calibration in measurement
•    History of the conception of the structure of measurement

3. Measurement and simulation
•    Connections between measuring and simulating
•    Can simulation substitute measurement?

4. Measurement and Data Science
•    Measurement and data quality
•    Measurement and data analysis
•    Measurement and big data


Important dates
Deadline for submission: 31 January 2020
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2020


Submission guidelines
We invite submissions for 20 / 30 minute presentations, with 10 additional minutes for discussion.
Please send a 1000-word abstract in PDF prepared for blind review.
All abstracts should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mac2020

Invited speakers

• Anna Alexandrova (King’s College, Cambridge, UK)

• Denny Borsboom (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam)

• To be announced

Programme Committee
•    David Andrich (University of Western Australia, Australia)
•    Francesca Biagioli (Università di Torino, Italy)
•    Mieke Boon (University of Twente, Netherlands)
•    Marcel Boumans (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
•    Olivier Darrigol (CNRS, SPHERE, France)
•    Nadine De Courtenay (University Paris Diderot, France)
•    Alessandro Giordani (Catholic University, Italy)
•    Giora Hon (University of Haifa, Israel)
•    Luca Mari (Cattaneo University, Italy)
•    Andrew Maul (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
•    Roman Morawski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
•    Alfred Nordmann (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
•    Wendy Parker (Durham University, UK)
•    Leslie Pendrill (Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden)
•    Oliver Schlaudt (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
•    Léna Soler (University of Lorraine, France)
•    Eran Tal (McGill University, Canada)
•    Mark Wilson (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Organizing committee
•    Nadine De Courtenay (University Paris Diderot, France)
•    Alessandro Giordani (Catholic University, Italy)
•    Fabien Grégis (Cattaneo University, Italy)
•    Luca Mari (Cattaneo University, Italy)
•    Oliver Schlaudt (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
•    Eran Tal (McGill University, Canada)

* Call for abstracts : The West Network *

Conference

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

June 5-7, 2019

The West Network, an international and multidisciplinary research network coordinated from the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, is organizing its 2nd international conference titled:

THE END OF WESTERN HEGEMONIES?

If we look at ‘the West’ as a group of states, we can say it has been globally hegemonic in many areas of life, such as scientific innovation, the economy and consumption, military force, medicine, technological development, press freedom, political regimes and ideology. In addition, there are views according to which the West has imposed its own vision of the world by having hegemony over the production of knowledge in intellectual domains, such as philosophy, political science, and sociology, the West has imposed its own vision of the world. This is how the ‘Western paradigm’ has been built. Adopting this paradigm has long been held as a global criterion of success. However, as long as there have been Western hegemonies, there have been contestations of them.

History did not end in the triumph of Western liberal democracy, and there are societal developments in the US and Europe that are seen as undermining (the unity of) the West. It is feared that the era of Donald Trump will disengage the US from the Western and global political arenas. The imminent separation of Britain from the European Union is raising concerns about the unity of Europe. The overall rise of right-wing populism is seen to jeopardize such core Western values as internationalism, liberalism and solidarity. Increasing individualism and identity politics, racism, toxic masculinity, unemployment or a lost sense of purpose are seen to erode Western society from the inside by dividing people into different sides of cultural wars.

Moreover, the so-called emerging countries, China in their lead, are often seen as a threat to Western geopolitical, economic and cultural hegemonies, if not to the contemporary world order. Western military ventures have been seen as the source of deep fractures, not only between the West and other countries, but also within non-Western societies, since they have helped to cause the rise of militant Islam and the unleashing of wars in these countries. This interventionism, however, has not been without consequences in the West as well, for these wars have caused flows of refugees, and brought crowds of immigrants into Western countries. This situation has fueled further political conflict within Western societies whose people debate about the nature of Western civilization and its role in helping others.

Will the ‘non-West’, the emerging countries, or China surpass the West? If so, in which areas of life? Can the West hold on to its hegemonies in science, liberal democracy, economy, civil liberties, and the military sphere? Or is it bound to become one of many equal players - or a relic - in a new multi-polar world order? At the same time, the West - and all of humankind - is developing further in terms of technology, health, human rights, democracy and peace, and many think there is no reason to believe the West would lose its hegemonies.

If one holds that the West is mainly an imagined community, one can doubt that it ever could have exercised any concrete domination. One can thus easily problematize the basic concepts of ‘the West’ as well as its ‘hegemonies’. In contrast, the very notion of hegemony invites explorations in specific areas in which one can postulate a hegemonic or dominating position of the West, today or in the recent past. If one accepts that the West enjoyed a strong leadership in certain domains, one may ask why and how it occurred. Or one might, enquire about the present and future of this domination. Will it come to a close? If so, why and how - politically, culturally, socially or narratively?

We invite scholars, particularly from social sciences and humanities, to present empirical or theoretical papers on the topic of the conference by focusing on the following sub-themes, issues and/or phenomena or other topics relevant to the theme of the conference (the list is not exclusive):

Brexit, Christianity, civilization, climate change, Cold War, collectivism, democracy, dystopia, energy, ethnicity, economy, emerging countries, ethnicity, fragmentation, freedom, gender, geopolitics, identity, imagined communities, individualism, Islamism, leadership, the Left, liberalism, nationalism, NATO, Occidentalism, Orientalism, popular culture, political ideology, populism, post-WWII, protectionism, race / racialization, regional powers, religiosity, science/scientism, secularism, super powers, technology, terrorism, tribalism, utopia, Whiteness.

Keynote speakers:

- Prof. Riccardo Bavaj, University of St Andrews, https://bit.ly/2IIJ11i

- Prof. Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine, https://bit.ly/2y0gW1j

Roundtable discussion lead by Dr. Marie-Josée Lavallée. Participants will be announced later.

Deadlines:

- Abstract proposals (300-400 words) 6 January 2019

- Accepted presenters will be notified by 5 February 2019

- Extended abstracts (800-1200 words) 30 April 2019

Participation fees:

- Basic: 80 euros, including lunch, refreshments, reception buffet

- Basic + dinner: 115 euros (dinner on 2nd day)

- Basic + dinner + cruise: 160 euros (lunch cruise on Lake Jyväskylä on third day)

More information on transactions in February 2019. Unfortunately, no travel bursaries can be granted to participants.

Abstracts + inquiries: westernhegemonies@gmail.com

Organizing committee: Jukka Jouhki & Marie-Josée Lavallée, Pertti Ahonen, Antero Holmila, Matti Roitto

Useful links:

The West Network

- Website: https://thewestnetwork.org/

- Facebook: www.facebook.com/thewest2016

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/thewest2016

- Instagram: www.instagram.com/thewest2016/

- Conference venue on map: https://goo.gl/maps/vRpxRp2bufM2

- University of Jyväskylä: https://www.jyu.fi/en

- Visit Jyväskylä: https://visitjyvaskyla.fi/en

*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*

Thirty-Sixth International Social Philosophy Conference

Sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy

with the Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco July 11-13, 2019

Proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome, but special attention will be devoted to the theme:

Home: Sanctuary, Shelter, and Justice

Some possible paper topics include:

• Membership in families

• Membership in communities

• Group identity

• Transnational identities

• Identity, immigration, and assimilation

• Caregiving and care receiving

• Care and Justice: Compatibilities and Incompatibilities

• Philosophical perspectives on welcoming and openness

• Philosophical perspectives: What it means to be at home and/or homeless

• Homeless in the academy: Conservative political philosophy

• Future society and/or technology in reference to the meaning of home

• Collective activity and/or collective care

• Proper citizenship

• Neoliberalism and social responsibility

• Philosophical perspectives on discrimination

• Sanctuary and “homeplacing”

• Sanctuary, shelter, and living “in-between” worlds

• Sanctuary, shelter, and justice as related to gender

• Feeling at home/homeless in reference to gender

• Recreation, play, and social concerns• Leisure and the common good

• Classical philosophical perspectives on the meaning of community

• Educating for social justice and/or citizenship

• Educational rights in reference to immigrants and the homeless

• Educational levels and feeling at home within society

• The ethics of social practices

• The status of community and home in an age of political division

• Citizenship and civic obligation

• Religious belief and the feeling of home/homeless

• Religious belief and security, justice, and/or shelter

• The connection between food, water, and security

• The effects of health and well-being on security

• Public institutions security

• Philosophical perspectives on sanctuary, shelter, and/or justice

We welcome submissions from both members and non-members, but we require that all presenters join the North American Society for Social Philosophy if their papers are accepted and if they present at the conference.

Submission Deadline: February 15, 2019. Please submit a 300 word abstract at: http://www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/call-for-abstracts/

Questions? contact@northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org

The Program Committee:

Geoff Karabin, Neumann University (chair) Roksana Avali, University of Oklahoma Laura Kane, University of Tampa

Local host: Jeff Paris, University of San Francisco David Stump, University of San Francisco Ron Sundstrom, University of San Francisco

Members of the Program Committee may be reached at: program@northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org

NASSP Support for International Presenters

The NASSP will waive fees for conference registration and for the banquet for those participants traveling from outside of the United States and Canada.

NASSP Conference Awards for Graduate Students:

The North American Society for Social Philosophy has established the NASSP Awards for Best Graduate Student Papers to promote new scholarship in social philosophy and to encourage student participation in our Conference.

The winners of the annual prizes. The prizes are awarded only to conference attendees, though there is no obligation to use the money for conference-related costs. Any graduate student enrolled in a program towards a degree beyond the B.A. or first university diploma is eligible.

The paper may address any topic in social philosophy. Papers should be no more than 3,000 words (include a word count with submission), and they should conform to the requirements set out by the APA for colloquium submissions to annual Divisional meetings.

Those who want to be considered for this award should send their full papers on or before February 15 to gradaward@northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org – and they should also submit abstracts to the site by February 15, 2019.

*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*

“MARGINALIZED PEOPLES, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND DEVELOPMENT ETHICS”

17-18 May, 2018

Chişinău, Moldova

 Hosted by:

Universitatea de Stat din Moldova (The State University of Moldova)

Organized by:

The State University of Moldova

The Ombudsman Office of the Republic of Moldova

UN Office for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Moldova School of Public Health and Management

The Department of Philosophy & Anthropology at MSU

The International Development Ethics Association

Conference theme: 

The Universitatae de Stat din Moldova and the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation at an international, interdisciplinary conference for scholars, development practitioners, government policy makers, and representatives from local and regional marginalized groups.

The conference will explore the ethical dimensions of international, national, and community development by and for marginalized populations, with an emphasis on human rights and democratic participation.  The concept of marginalization recognizes the myriad ways in which individuals and groups might be economically, socially, or politically excluded, and the developmental, democratic, health, and ethical consequences of that exclusion.  Presentations will address the challenges to marginalized populations and ethno-cultural minorities, as well as other economically or geographically isolated groups, in the region and in Moldova especially, but also beyond, where there are valuable insights and lessons to be learned. 

Keynote Speakers (third to be announced):

Dr. Beatrice Ioan, ​Chair of the Committee on Bioethics, Council of Europe & ​Professor of Legal Medicine and Bioethics at Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iaşi, Romania

Dr. Chloe Schwenke, Director of the Global Program on Violence, Rights and Inclusion at the International Center for Research on Women (USA), former Obama Administration Senior Advisor on Human Rights at the Africa Bureau of USAID, former Vice President for Global Programs at Freedom House.

Conference Format:

Plenary sessions and individual presentations composed into panels.  Presentations in English, Romanian, and Russian with simultaneous translation available.

Topics might include, but ARE NOT limited to, the following:

·         Theorizing, Mapping, and Assessing Marginalization

·         Ethics, Governments, and Marginalization

·         Corruption as a driver of Marginalization

·         Marginalization and the Right to Health

·         Local Norms, Group Rights, and Universal Rights

·         Marginalized Groups and Democratic Transitions

·         Development Ethics and Autonomy Movements in Moldova and Eastern Europe

·         Autonomy and Self-Determination as Tools of Cultural Freedom

·         The Process Aspect of Self-Determination

·         Democratic Approaches to Conflicts of Culture

·         Minorities within Minorities

·         Intersectionality and “Universal” Rights

·         Language, Culture, and Identity Rights

·         The Rights of Linguistic Majorities and Minorities

·         Marginalization and Displacement by Development

·         Human Rights and Targeting Marginalized Groups

·         “Mere Words?” – Indigenous, Minority, First, and/or Marginalized Peoples?

·         Social, Economic, and Cultural rights in the Republic of Moldova

·         Human Trafficking as Cause and Consequence of Marginalization

In addition to papers on the conference theme, papers on all core IDEA themes are welcome:

·         the nature of ethically desirable development

·         ethical means for achieving development

·         ethical dilemmas arising in the practice of development.

IDEA Bordeaux Fellowship:

We anticipate that the conversation will not end in Chişinău.  This conference will be held one month before the IDEA Congress in Bordeaux, France (June 25-27, 2018).  In keeping with IDEA’s commitment to supporting local and marginalized scholars and practitioners, organizers hope to select two or more participants—from the State University of Moldova or other local or regional universities or groups—for a fellowship to attend the Bordeaux IDEA Congress.  The fellowship will pay the conference fee, and travel and lodging expenses.  If you wish to be considered for the IDEA Bordeaux Fellowship, please indicate this in your submission.  Selection will be based on the merit of the proposed papers and relevance to the core objectives of the conference.

Program Committee and Conference Chairs:

Dr. Gheorghe Ciocanu, Rector, State University of Moldova

Dr. Rodica Gramma, Bio-Ethics, School of Public Health and Management (Moldova)

Dr. Stacy J. Kosko, Development Ethics, University of Maryland (USA), Conference Chair

Dr. Angela Popa, Philosophy, State University of Moldova

Dr. Amandine Sabourin, International Relations, State University of Moldova

Dr. Eudochia Saharneau, Philosophy, State University of Moldova

Dr. Valentina Teosa, International Relations, State University of Moldova, Conference Chair

Ms. Natalia Visanu, Ombudsman’s Office of the Republic of Moldova

How to Submit Your Proposal:

Presentation can be made in English, Romanian, or Russian.  However, submissions should all be in English, and include the name, email, and affiliation of the presenter(s), an abstract of no more than 300 words, and a statement of whether you wish to be considered for the IDEA Bordeaux Fellowship.

* Organizers especially encourage participation from members of marginalized groups, including but not limited to European minority and indigenous peoples and sexual and gender minorities. * 

Submissions should be send to: Prof. Stacy J. Kosko, sjkosko@umd.edu by 1^st March, 2018 -- EXTENDED to March 15

Conference Registration Fee Schedule:

On-line conference registration will open around April 2018.

Fee includes coffee and tea breaks, lunch both days, and evening reception.

• Professional, high-income country, early (€100)

• Professional, high-income country, standard (€125)

• Professional, low- or mid-income country, all (free)

• Student, high-income country, early (€25)

• Student, high-income country, standard (€50)

• Student, low- or mid-income country, all (free)

• Low- or mid-income country, Journal subscription and postage (€35)

Please note that the registration fee does not include a year's membership in IDEA, which is compulsory for conference attendance for individuals from high-income countries.  Membership may be secured at https://developmentethics.org/joining-idea-2/.

For those not required to pay a registration fee, IDEA has set aside a grant to support one year’s membership for the first 20 registered conference participants from low and middle-income countries.  Membership includes a year’s subscription to the Journal of Global Ethics.

Important deadlines:

March 15, 2018 - Submission of abstracts

April 1, 2018 - Announcement of acceptance/rejection

April 15, 2018 - Deadline for conference registration at early-bird rates

May 1, 2018 - Submission of full papers (if applicable – not required from practitioners)

May 1, 2018 - Final deadline for conference registration at standard rates

Journal of Global Ethics:

We encourage papers presented at the conference to be submitted for publication in the Journal of Global Ethics. This IDEA-affiliated journal is a peer reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal on all aspects of the theory and practice of global ethics as well as ethics in the context of globalisation.  See the journal webpage for more information on the journal and on how to submit your paper: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjge20/current.

For more information contact:

Prof. Stacy J. Kosko, sjkosko@umd.edu (English, French)

Prof. Valentina Teosa, vteosa@yahoo.com (Romanian, Russian) 

International Development Ethics Association * https://developmentethics.org/

*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*

13th Annual Meeting of The Hannah Arendt Circle

April 11-13, 2019

     University of Alberta, Edmonton

Please submit an abstract formatted for anonymous review (750 word limit in .doc or .docx format) on any aspect of Hannah Arendt's work.

 Send as an email attachment to arendtcircle2019@gmail.com 

Please indicate "Arendt Circle Submission" in the subject heading of your email. 
Deadline: December 1, 2018 Program decisions announced by January 10, 2019. 

 PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Yasemin Sari 

University of Northern Iowa

Katy Fulfer 
University of Waterloo 

Andreas Stuhlmann 
University of Alberta 

WORKING GROUPS

The Arendt Circle also hosts two working groups, which will meet on Thursday, April 11, 2019. 
For more information on the format and how to participate, please contact the working group coordinators by email: 

1. "Arendt Beyond Borders": Lisa Stenmark, San Jose State University @  lisa.stenmark@sjsu.edu 

2. "Hannah Arendt and Her Contemporaries": David Antonini,ClemsonUniversity @ dranton@clemson.edu