Dear CPA Members,

The editorial team of the journal Dialogue, affiliated with the Canadian Philosophical Association, reminds its members that the submission of articles in French is always welcome.

Established in 1962 and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Dialogue publishes articles and special issues in all areas of philosophy. The journal meets the highest academic standards and is published by Cambridge University Press. It has 3 issues per year and offers accelerated publication times once articles have been reviewed and accepted.

Dialogue also subscribes to Cambridge University Press' Green Open Access policy, which allows for the distribution of certain versions of articles published on multiple platforms, and aims to make its modes of publication compatible with the open access requirements now imposed by many granting agencies.

Manuscripts can be submitted online on the ScholarOne platform at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dia.

For more information on submitting articles, visit our website: https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/dialogue-submissions.

If you have any questions or would like to propose a special issue project, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at dialogue.francais@acpcpa.ca.

Looking forward to reading your contributions,

Charles Côté-Bouchard

Collège Montmorency

Francophone Editor of Dialogue

Cécile Facal

French-speaking editorial assistant

Dialogue. Canadian Journal of Philosophy

*Call for Papers*

The Canadian Philosophical Association

2022 Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

May 17-20, 2022

Online

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for the 2022 annual meeting. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will take place alongside meetings of other learned societies. The CPA meeting will take place May 17 – 20  and will include up to ten concurrent sessions. Every area of philosophy is represented, with several hundred philosophers attending from across the globe. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy sponsors a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher. The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for Invited Symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. The Association is committed to organizing an accessible and inclusive meeting.

The 2022 Congress will be virtual. For more information, visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2022.

The deadline for symposium proposals, abstract and paper submissions has been extended to 11.59PM on Monday, January 17, 2022 (PST). For detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit.

Volunteers to chair are encouraged. To volunteer, please click here.

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.

Preliminary 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 happening from 1-4 June 2025. Further details, including submission instructions, will be provided in a subsequent email.

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 1 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.

All submissions must be made by an active member of the CPA. Detailed submission instructions will be provided in a subsequent email.

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. 

Additionally, 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.

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.

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.

Symposium: MAiD in Canada: A Sober Second Look

Memorial University, Signal Hill Campus

St. John’s, Canada

September 27-28, 2024

In the eight years since Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) became legal in Canada, Canada has become one of the most liberal MAiD regimes in the world. The Centre for Bioethics at Memorial University is hosting an international symposium to consider what has been happening in this space, how we as a country got to where we are in this regard, and what if anything we should be doing differently moving forward. We welcome abstracts on any aspect of this topic.

Plenary speakers for this event include Trudo Lemmens (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto), Isabel Grant (Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia), and Scott Kim (Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA). Symposium proceedings will be published in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics.

Those wishing to present a paper should submit an abstract in Word format (300 words max) by June 7th, 2024.

Abstracts should be prepared for blind review, with name, institutional affiliation, and contact information on a separate title page. Please send abstracts to bioethics@mun.ca, with “MAiD Symposium” in the subject line. Decisions will be made by June 30th, 2024.

The symposium will take place at Memorial’s Signal Hill campus, against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean and the iconic Signal Hill National Historic Site.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Region Philosophers' Association (ARPA) 2024

October 4-5, 2024

Memorial University

St. John's, Newfoundland

Theme: Social Minds, Animal Minds & Ethics

Keynote Speaker: Kristin Andrews, York Research Chair in Philosophy of Animal Minds

• Papers from all areas of philosophy are welcome
• Submissions should assume the form of an abstract no longer than 300 words and should include the author's name, institution, affiliation, and contact information.
• Abstracts should be sent as Word or PDF files to 2024arpa@gmail.com

Deadline for submission of abstracts is August 1, 2024

*Call for Papers - Extended Deadline!*

The Canadian Philosophical Association

2021 Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

May 31- June 3 2021

University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for the 2021 annual meeting. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will take place alongside meetings of other learned societies. The CPA meeting will take place May 31 – June 3 and will include up to ten concurrent sessions. Every area of philosophy is represented, with several hundred philosophers attending from across the globe. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy sponsors a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher. The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for Invited Symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. The Association is committed to organizing an accessible and inclusive meeting.

The 2021 Congress will be virtual. For more information, visit https://congress2021.ca/congress-2021-announcement. 

The deadline for Invited Symposium proposals is midnight, November 30, 2020. The deadline for abstract and paper submissions is midnight, January 18, 2021. For detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit

Volunteers to chair or comment are encouraged. To volunteer, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/volunteer

*Call for Papers*

The Canadian Philosophical Association

2020 Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

June 1 – 4, 2020

Western University

London, ON 

 Le français suit.

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for its 2020 Annual Meeting in London, Ontario. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will take place alongside meetings of learned societies representing many sub-disciplines of philosophy as well as other disciplines of interest to philosophers. The CPA meeting will take place from June 1 – 4, with up to ten concurrent sessions, and every area of philosophy is represented, with several hundred philosophers attending from across the globe. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy sponsors a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher. The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for Invited Symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. Child care is available and the Association is committed to the accessibility of its Annual Meeting. Partial subsidies of travel costs are available to students and underemployed philosophers.

The deadline for Invited Symposium proposals is midnight, November 3, 2019. The deadline for abstract and paper submissions is midnight, January 12, 2020. For detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit

Volunteers to chair or comment are encouraged. To volunteer, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/volunteer

*Appel de Communications*

L'Association canadienne de philosophie

Le Congrès 2020 des Sciences humaines

Le 1 au 4 juin

L'Université Western

London, ON

L'Association canadienne de philosophie invite les soumissions d'articles, de résumés et de propositions de symposiums invités pour son congrès annuel de 2020 à London, en Ontario. Cette réunion fait partie du Congrès des sciences humaines et sociales et aura lieu en marge des réunions de sociétés savantes représentant de nombreuses sous-disciplines de la philosophie ainsi que d'autres disciplines intéressant les philosophes. La réunion de l'ACP aura lieu du 1 au 4 juin avec jusqu'à dix sessions simultanées. Chaque domaine de la philosophie est représenté, avec plusieurs centaines de philosophes du monde entier. Le Canadian Journal of Philosophy commandite une allocution plénière donnée par un philosophe distingué. Le comité de programme arbitre de manière anonyme les résumés, les résumés complets et examinera les propositions de symposiums invités. Les soumissions dans tous les domaines de la philosophie sont les bienvenues. Des services de garde sont disponibles et l’Association s’est engagée à rendre son congrès annuel accessible. Des subventions partielles pour les frais de voyage sont offertes aux étudiants et aux philosophes sous-employés.

La date limite pour les propositions de symposiums invités est minuit le 3 novembre 2019. La date limite pour la soumission des résumés et des communications est minuit le 12 janvier 2020. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez visiter https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit

Les  bénévoles pour présider ou commenter sont encouragés. Pour faire du bénévolat, veuillez visiter https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/volunteer  

Call for Papers 

Annual Meeting of The Canadian Philosophical Association 

2024 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

McGill University, Montreal

June 12 - 21, 2024

*CPA Meeting Dates June 18 - 21, 2024*

Call for papers now closed

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and symposium proposals for its 2024 annual meeting. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences taking place June 12 - 21 at McGill University in Montreal, QC.  The CPA annual meeting, held June 18 - 21, will feature concurrent colloquia and symposia, and a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher and sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. And, for the second year in a row, there will be a series of special sessions, each of which will pair two prominent philosophers on a topic of shared interest. Each session will approach the topic from a historical and a contemporary perspective as follows:

- Feminist Philosophy: Lisa Shapiro (McGill) & Lynne Tirrell (U Connecticut).

- Moral Psychology: Sarah Stroud (UNC Chapel Hill) and Jennifer Whiting (Pittsburgh).

- Philosophy of Language/Mind: Claude Panaccio (UQAM) & Francois Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod).

The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. The CPA is committed to organizing an accessible and inclusive meeting. 

In an effort to finalize the schedule in a timely manner, the deadlines for the 2024 meeting are earlier than in previous years: The deadline for symposium proposals is October 16, 2023 at 11:59pm ET. The deadline for abstract and paper submissions is midnight, November 1, 2023 at 11:59pm ET. 

Please note that the rules for symposia and abstract submissions have changed:

- Symposia submissions must be 500-750 words, and must include (i) a description of the topic of the symposium and its importance (recommended: a brief 100-200 word description for each presentation); and (ii) a list of participants who have confirmed attendance.  

- Abstract submissions must be 500-750 words. They should give a clear idea of the central theses defended, and, more importantly of the arguments to defend them. (Rules for full-paper submissions will be the same as in previous years).

All submissions will be managed through EasyChair. Upon submission, you will be prompted to choose two areas of philosophy. Please choose the areas that best fit your submission. Even imperfect matches will help the Program Committee find appropriate referees for your submission.  For further, detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit. Submissions must be made by an active member of the CPA. New member enrollment and membership renewals for 2024 will be accepted starting October 2, 2023. Please visit www.acpcpa.ca/join for more information.

A number of 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). 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. 

Finally, we extend a Call for volunteers to referee papers, or to chair, and/or comment at the meeting. If you are interested in volunteering for these roles, please click here.

Participants can show up in the program only in one primary role, either as a speaker in a symposium, or as an author of a paper (either full or based on abstract). However, participants can and are encouraged to also comment and chair other sessions.

For more information about the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, please visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2024. 

Any inquiries should be directed at the Program Chair, Juan S. Piñeros Glasscock, at  cpameeting24@gmail.com.

Raconter à l'époque moderne: le récit et ses usages, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle

Le XXII^e Colloque jeunes chercheurs du CIREM 16-18, qui se tiendra les 25-26 mai 2023 à l’Université d’Ottawa, aura pour thème le récit et ses usages à la période moderne. Afin d’accueillir des chercheurs et chercheuses de divers horizons, nous avons retenu une définition large du récit comme acte de relater des évènements factuels ou fictifs.

Fidèle à la tradition du CIREM 16-18, ce colloque cherche à réunir en un même lieu différentes disciplines : histoire, littérature, philosophie, théâtre et histoire de l’art. Le thème du colloque invite précisément à des formes de décloisonnement et permet d’interroger la frontière poreuse entre ces nombreuses disciplines à l’époque moderne.

Par exemple, dans le récit littéraire se tissent des liens étroits entre philosophie et littérature. Sous l’impulsion d’une rationalité réfléchissante qui éclot dans le courant de l’humanisme, les récits fictifs connaissent une grande effervescence, ainsi que le montrent au XVIII^e siècle les contes philosophiques de Voltaire. Les écrits irrévérencieux se mettent à foisonner et on voit s’éployer un éveil nouveau à l’orientalisme et à ses infinies potentialités narratives et philosophiques. Le théâtre est aussi le lieu d’un usage renouvelé des récits bibliques que la Réforme et la Contre-Réforme convoquent à leurs fins. C’est alors que naît, au confluent de l’imitation des Anciens et des exigences de l’époque, la tragédie biblique qui jouira d’une fortune exceptionnelle jusqu’au XVIII^e siècle. Ces exemples invitent à explorer les manières par lesquelles différents acteurs et actrices se saisissent du récit et l’investissent à l’époque moderne. Certains portent, par ailleurs, à réfléchir aux stratégies de vulgarisation et de diffusion de savoirs spécialisés ou encore à la position intermédiaire que peut occuper le récit entre réalité et fiction. Tel est le cas par exemple de nombreuses formes — canards, histoires tragiques, causes célèbres — qui émergent à la croisée du droit et de la littérature.

Nous encourageons ainsi des communications portant sur le récit dans son acception plus restreinte (conte de fées, récit de voyage, récit biblique, conte philosophique, etc.), ou mettant en valeur la part de récit dans d’autres types de sources (par exemple le récit de soi dans la correspondance ou la place du récit dans une théorie picturale fondée sur l’ut pictura poesis), mais aussi sur des questions plus théoriques. À l’époque moderne, différentes possibilités d’expérimentation s’entrouvrent à la fois dans les formes que peut prendre le récit et dans les objets qui peuvent être racontés. Les modernistes se retrouvent ainsi devant des enjeux méthodologiques (comment traiter ou vérifier de telles sources ?), épistémologiques (que peut-on connaître par le récit ?), esthétiques (quelle expérience esthétique se déploie dans le récit mis en mots, en images ou en scène ?), politiques (quelles critiques peuvent se faire par le truchement du récit ; comment peut-il être utilisé comme outil politique ?) et rhétoriques (comment aide-t-il ou non à vulgariser ou à convaincre ?). Nous invitons aussi les chercheurs et chercheuses à renouveler notre compréhension du récit et à s’interroger sur son rôle au sein de leur propre démarche. Comment raconte-t-on l’histoire à l’époque moderne et comment raconter l’histoire de cette période ? Qu’est-ce que l’usage du récit apporte aux écrivain.e.s et aux philosophes de l’époque ou encore aux chercheurs et chercheuses contemporain.e.s ?

Ce colloque accueillera les communications de jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses (à la maîtrise ou au « master », au doctorat ou au postdoctorat) qui travaillent dans différents champs des sciences humaines : histoire, philosophie, littérature, théâtre, histoire de l’art, etc. Les communications, inédites et en français, ne devront pas dépasser les vingt minutes allouées à chaque participant.e. Les propositions de communication (titre et résumé de 250 mots, niveau d’études, ancrage institutionnel) doivent être envoyées au comité organisateur avant le 17 février 2023 à l’adresse suivante : cirem.jeunes.chercheurs@uottawa.ca

Les actes du colloque seront publiés dans la collection de la République des Lettres (Hermann, Paris).

Comité organisateur :

Maud Brunet-Fontaine

Pascale Couturier-Rose

Elena Chudzia-Conde

Béatrice Leblanc-Martineau

Anderson Magalhães

Alexis Tétreault

Comité scientifique :

Mawy Bouchard

Geneviève Boucher

Sébastien Côté

Michel Fournier

Louise Frappier

Sylvie Perrier

Mitia Rioux-Beaulne

Call for Papers

Canadian Jacques Maritain Association

Spring Conference

May 29-30, 2023 (to be confirmed)

York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In association with

the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences

and 

the Canadian Philosophical Association

Theme: Maritain Today – After 50 Years

The Canadian Jacques Maritain Association (CJMA) will meet for its 2023 spring conference at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, under the auspices of the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Canadian Philosophical Association. The bilingual conference is scheduled for May 29-30, 2023. The deadline for abstract submissions is January 31, 2023.

The theme for this conference will be “Maritain Today – After 50 Years”. 2023 marks the 50^th anniversary of Jacques Maritain’s death in 1973. To commemorate this event we wish to bring together scholars who will speak about Maritain’s enduring legacy for modern and postmodern culture and society and to expound on the many ways that his ideas can help us to address the important challenges of life in the 21^st century.

To this end, we invite paper proposals in English or in French that deal with some aspect of Jacques Maritain’s writings in relation to current trends and developments in the world. Since Maritain wrote on many diverse subjects, from ethics and politics, to metaphysics and aesthetics, to logic and history, the scope of the conference is framed intentionally broadly.

Please send by e-mail a presentation abstract of no more than 500 words and any correspondence regarding the conference to: 

Dr. Nikolaj Zunic

President, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association

Department of Philosophy, St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

nzunic@uwaterloo.ca

The deadline for abstract submissions is January 31, 2023.

Canadian Jacques Maritain Association / L’association canadienne Jacques Maritain

Annual Symposium

Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5, 2022

Dominican University College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Theme: Freedom in the Modern World

The theme of the fall 2022 conference of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association is Freedom in the Modern World. The title is borrowed from Jacques Maritain’s 1933 book by the same name and the conference will pay homage to this text by focusing on topics that stem from it. 

Freedom is undoubtedly a fundamental pillar of the modern world, having occasioned the monumental changes to human civilization over the last four hundred years. Yet despite the importance of freedom, there is a widespread perception in our age that the value and viability of freedom are being challenged, threatened, and undermined on many fronts. The causes of such a subversion of freedom are myriad and range from political disturbances to social changes to profound epistemic crises. 

The conference aims to bring together scholars who are engaged in thinking about the concept of freedom and its meaning for our world. The questions that are pertinent to the conference theme include the following examples: What is freedom and how should it be realized? Is freedom under fire in the modern world? What is the relationship between order and freedom? How do culture, religion and philosophy contribute to the enhancement and preservation of freedom? What are the anthropological roots of freedom? How do freedom, rights, responsibilities, and duties relate to each other? What can history tell us about the plight of freedom? 

The theme is intentionally broad and encompasses a variety of perspectives and approaches, despite its having been modelled after Jacques Maritain’s 1933 book Freedom in the Modern World. Diverse approaches and standpoints are welcome. 

The Canadian Jacques Maritain Association welcomes proposals from individuals who are interested in presenting a paper at its 2022 fall conference. 

We invite papers, in English or French, relating to the conference theme, understood broadly. Selected papers will be published in Études maritainiennes-Maritain Studies.

Those who wish to present a paper should send by e-mail a one-page abstract or proposal to:

Dr. Nikolaj Zunic

Department of Philosophy

St. Jerome’s University

290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G3, Canada

E-mail: nzunic@uwaterloo.ca

Deadline for submission of proposals: August 26, 2022

Papers should not exceed 35 minutes reading time.

Please specify if the paper proposal will be delivered in person in Ottawa or remotely online.

The fall conference will adopt a hybrid mode of delivery. The conference will take place in person at the Dominican University College in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (96 Empress Avenue). However, the conference will be outfitted with technology for online participation to accommodate those individuals who are unable to attend in person. Thus, there will be a mixture of in person and online delivery of papers.

All participants of the conference, whether in person or online, must register in advance, no later than November 3. The conference registration fee is $20 CAD per person. Registration fees can be sent by cheque by regular mail to Dr Nikolaj Zunic at the address above, or online by means of Interac e-transfer to nzunic@uwaterloo.ca. Cheques should be made payable to “Canadian Jacques Maritain Association”.

Participants are also encouraged to become members of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association. The annual membership fee is $25 CAD, which can also be paid by Interac e-transfer.

Please visit the website for the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association: https://www.maritain.info/

*Appel à propositions*  

L'invivabilité et la précarisation du/des vivant-e-s : enjeux éthiques et philosophiques

La précarisation générale du vivant à travers les crises écologiques et sanitaires nous amène inévitablement à considérer la question de l'invivable. Qu'est-ce qui constitue le vivable et l'invivable dans notre contexte moderne ? Pour répondre à cette question, nous devons considérer la précarité comme une condition politiquement induite dans laquelle certains groupes sont différentiellement exposés aux blessures, à la violence et à la mort. Comment les systèmes de précarité et d'invivabilité sont-ils liés, notamment dans le cas de l'exploitation intensive de la nature, des femmes, des personnes racisées et des êtres vivants non humains ? Compte tenu des conditions sociales et politiques imposées à certains individus en fonction de leur race, de leur sexe, de leur classe et de leurs capacités, comment faire en sorte que la vivabilité des un·e·s ne soit pas liée à la destruction des conditions de vie des autres ou de la vie dans son ensemble ?

Le Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉ) a le plaisir de vous inviter à réfléchir à ces questions grâce à deux conférences d’honneur offertes par Frédéric Worms (École Normale Supérieure) et Katharine Jenkins (Université de Glasgow).

Conférences d’honneur 

Dans Le vivable et l'invivable (2021), Judith Butler et Frédéric Worms soutiennent que la condition d'invivabilité fait référence à la vie des personnes qui ont subi des traumatismes si grand qu'elles perdent le contact avec leur propre subjectivité. Les violences sociales, politiques et physiques produisent des ruptures et peuvent engendrer la fin de la reconnaissance de soi comme sujet agissant dans le monde. Dans cette conférence, nous explorerons les outils éthiques et philosophiques permettant non seulement de penser cette invivabilité, mais aussi de mieux comprendre ce qui est nécessaire en termes de structures de soutien politique et social pour garantir que toutes les vies soient vivables et ainsi espérer tendre vers la non-violence.

Pour leur part, les recherches de Katharine Jenkins portent sur la précarité produite par les catégories sociales, leur ontologie, ainsi que sur les moyens par lesquels les mouvements sociaux peuvent s’émanciper de ces catégories. Dans leur livre à paraître, Ontology and Oppression : Race, Gender, and Social Construction, Jenkins identifie une forme distincte d'injustice dans laquelle un individu est lésé par le fait d'être socialement construit comme membre d'un certain type social. Leurs récents travaux sur le handicap s'intéressent à la relation entre les capacités corporelles d'une personne et son contexte social.

Soumettre une proposition

Le colloque international du CRÉ qui aura lieu le 22 avril 2022 porte sur les enjeux éthiques et philosophiques du vivable et de l’invivable dans leur rapport aux structures sociales, aux normes sociales, aux constructions identitaires et aux violences sociales et politiques. Le comité souhaite recevoir des propositions portant sur les thèmes suivants :

• Les enjeux de vivabilité (environnementale, sociale, politique)
• Les violences politiques et sociales au cœur des normes
• Les systèmes de précarisation et les précarités sociales
• Le soin et ses polarités et le vitalisme critique (Worms)
• L’ontologie des catégories sociales (Jenkins)

Nous recevrons des propositions d’un maximum 300 mots jusqu’au 14 mars 2022 que vous pouvez envoyer au moyen de ce formulaire. Si vous avez des questions ou vous avez besoin de davantage d’informations, vous pouvez écrire à valery.giroux@umontreal.ca.

Unliveability and the precarity of the living: ethical and philosophical issues

The precarity of living through ecological and health crises inevitably leads us to consider the question of the unlivable. What constitutes liveability and unliveability in our modern context? In order to answer this question, we must consider precarity as a politically induced condition under which certain groups are differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death. How are systems of precarity and unliveability connected, especially in the case of the intensive exploitation of nature, women, racialized people, and non-human living beings? What does it mean to contribute to the livability of certain people to the detriment of others? Given the social and political constraints imposed on certain individuals along lines of race, gender, class, and ability, how can we ensure that the livability of some is not tied to the destruction of the living conditions of others or of life as a whole?

The Center for Research in Ethics (CRE) is honored to invite you all to think about these questions with two distinguished keynote addresses: Frédéric Worms (École Normale Supérieure) and Katharine Jenkins (University of Glasgow).

About the speakers

In Le vivable et l'invivable (2021) Judith Butler and Frédéric Worms argue that the condition of unliveability refers to the lives of people who have suffered such huge trauma that they lose touch with their own subjectivity. Social, political and physical violence produce ruptures and can engender the end of the recognition of oneself as an acting subject in the world. In this conference, we will explore the ethical and philosophical tools to not only think about this unliveability, but also to better understand what is needed in terms of political and social support structures to ensure that all lives are livable and thus hope to move towards non-violence.

Katharine Jenkins’ research considers the precarity of ontological categories themselves, as well as the ways in which emancipatory social movements can best respond to these categories. In their forthcoming book, Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Construction, Jenkins identifies a distinctive form of injustice in which an individual is wronged by the fact of being socially constructed as a member of a certain social kind. Their recent work on disability is concerned with the relationship between a person’s bodily capacities and their social world. 

Submitting

The CRÉ's international colloquium , which will take place on April 22, 2022, will focus on the ethical and philosophical issues of the livable and the unlivable as they relate to social structures, social norms, identity constructions and social and political violence. The committee would like to receive proposals on the following themes

• Issues of livability (environmental, social, political)
• Care and its polarities and critical vitalism (Worms)
• The ontology of social categories (Jenkins)
• Political and social violence at the heart of norms
• Systems of precarization and social precarities

We will receive proposals of up to 300 words until March 14, 2022, which you can send using this form. If you have any questions or need more information, you can write to valery.giroux@umontreal.ca.

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Canadian Jacques Maritain Association 

Annual Symposium Friday, November 5 to Saturday, November 6, 2021

Theme: Maritain and the Metaphysics of Culture

The fall 2021 conference of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association will explore the many dimensions of the metaphysics of culture. Jacques Maritain was a philosopher who was deeply interested in the role that culture plays in the life of human beings and was keen to think about its essence from a philosophical perspective. The metaphysics of culture engages an incisive reflection on the nature and foundation of culture. Although human beings live in and are shaped by their culture, it is another thing entirely to think about what culture is. The philosophical discipline of metaphysics touches upon perennial, timeless truths, whereas culture changes over time and deals with ephemeral aspects of life. To reflect on culture metaphysically is to straddle the divide between the permanent and transient elements of human life, and to think about those dimensions of human social existence that belong to our nature and those that change with time and place.

Some of the topics that impinge upon this theme include: the interrelationship between culture, society and politics; how reason and rationality influence and are influenced by culture; the temporal and historical aspects of culture in their relation to transcendent, supernatural realities; how religion, art, education, leisure, sport, and science define culture; the economic nature of contemporary culture; secularism and the rise of atheism; prospects for the rehabilitation of culture.

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions in place, this year’s fall conference will be a hybrid meeting. The conference will take place in person at the Dominican University College in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. However, the conference will be outfitted with technology for online participation as well for those who are unable to attend in person.

All participants of the conference, whether in person or online, will have to register in advance, no later than November 4. The conference registration fee is $20 CAD per person. Registration fees can be sent by cheque by regular mail to Dr Nikolaj Zunic at the address below, or online by means of Interac e-transfer to nzunic@uwaterloo.ca. Cheques should be made payable to “Canadian Jacques Maritain Association”.

The CJMA welcomes proposals from individuals who are interested in presenting a paper at its 2021 fall conference.

We invite papers, in English or French, relating to the conference theme understood broadly. Papers may explore aspects of Jacques Maritain’s philosophy or other perspectives related to the metaphysics of culture. Selected papers will be published in Études maritainiennes-Maritain Studies.

Those who wish to present a paper should send by e-mail a one-page abstract or proposal to:

Dr. Nikolaj Zunic
Department of Philosophy
St. Jerome’s University
290 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G3
Canada

E-mail: nzunic@uwaterloo.ca

Deadline for submission of proposals: September 15, 2021

Papers should not exceed 35 minutes reading time.

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for a topical issue of Open Theology

After the Theological Turn: Essays in (New) Continental Philosophical Theology

“Open Theology” (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opth) invites submissions for the topical issue “After the Theological Turn: Essays in (New) Continental Philosophical Theology”, edited by Martin Koci (University of Vienna).

Flyer:

https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/OPTH/downloadAsset/OPTH_CFP%20After%20the%20Theological%20Turn.pdf

DESCRIPTION

This topical issue aims to explore, interrogate and reflect on the ways in which contemporary continental philosophy, and phenomenology in particular, unfolds and advances the development of philosophical theology. What does it mean to practice theology after the philosophical return to religion? During the last few decades, the renewal of theology has been much discussed in light of philosophical lectures that have revisited fundamental Christian concepts. However, the debate seems to be stuck on rather formal questions about whether the theological turn happened or not, whether it has been a legitimate or illegitimate development, and whether theology and philosophy can benefit at all from reconsidering their disciplinary borders. Moreover, from the theological perspective, crucial issues continue to be unresolved: What should the proper propaedeutic framework for theological work be in a secular context? How to formulate theologically valid as well as contextually plausible truth-claims? What kind of grammar should be employed in theology to create not only rational but also credible discourse? The working hypothesis behind this thematic issue is that philosophical—in particular phenomenological—engagement with theological concepts transforms the fundamental theological practice, revisits its rigor, and provides the possibility of developing an intelligible grammar for articulating normative theological claims. 

     We invite scholars in theology and continental philosophy of religion to address the following questions: Is phenomenology a suitable ancilla theologiae to provide theologians with sufficient philosophical grammar? Is it possible to develop, after the demise of metaphysics, a phenomenological theology? How does theology look after Marion, Henry, Chrétien, Lacoste, Falque et al.? Does theology benefit from philosophical reconsiderations of fundamental Christian concepts such as Revelation, the Incarnation, the Resurrection, etc.? The nerve and, at the same time, novelty of raising the question about after the theological turn is a critical application of explicit theological perspectives to thus test both the potential of and limits to philosophical reconsiderations of the theological for formulating plausible as well as credible theology.

Authors publishing their articles in the topical issue will benefit from:

– transparent, comprehensive and fast peer review,

– free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions.

Because "Open Theology" is published under an Open Access model, as a rule, publication costs should be covered by Article Publishing Charges (APC), paid by authors, their affiliated institutions, funders or sponsors. 

Authors without access to publishing funds are encouraged to discuss potential discounts or waivers with Managing Editor of the journal Katarzyna Tempczyk (katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com) before submitting their manuscripts. 

HOW TO SUBMIT

Submissions will be collected by from September 1 to October 31, 2021, via the on-line submission system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/

Choose as article type: “After the Theological Turn”

Before submission the authors should carefully read over the Instruction for Authors, available at:

https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/OPTH/downloadAsset/OPTH_Instruction%20for%20Authors.pdf

All contributions will undergo critical peer-review before being accepted for publication.

Further questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Martin Koci at martin.koci@univie.ac.at. In case of technical or financial questions, please contact journal Managing Editor Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com.

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