​Author: Olivera Z. Mijuskovic, member of the International Association of Greek Philosophy, University of Athens & President of the World Philosophy Network

​Special thanks to Angeliki Vasilopoulou, member of the International Association of Greek Philosophy, University of Athens


Dear colleagues and friends,
​
take participation on the great philosophical event this summer in Rhodes, Greece in organization of the International Association of Greek Philosophy, University of Athens.


All details you can find here:


29th International Conference of Philosophy
Greek Moral and Political Philosophy – From Pre-Socratics to Neo-Platonism
July 7-12, 2017
Rhodes, Greece

Call for Abstracts: submission deadline 15th of May, 2017
This conference will bring together scholars and researchers from all areas whose work concerns important issues involving Greek moral and political philosophy. Submissions may concern topics such as:
1. Ethical and political views of Pre-Socratics
2. Plato’s moral and political philosophy
3. Aristotle’s moral and political philosophy
4. Greek philosophy of Hellenistic and Roman age (moral and political philosophy, logic, ontology, metaphysics, epistemology etc.)
5. Moral and political philosophy of Neo-Platonists.
IAGP welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including Hellenistic Philosophy of Greek and Roman period (Panaetius, Poseidonius, Cicero, Seneca, Lucretius, Mousonius etc.), logic, ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politic, as well as other relevant disciplines and fields. Each paper session will have 20 minutes for presentation followed by Q/A session.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words excluding bibliography. Abstracts should be send at: secretariat@iagp.gr

Papers presented at the conference will be eligible for inclusion in a proceedings volume we are looking to publish works that explore ideas, concepts, theories and their implications across multiple disciplines and professions that grapple with the relevant problems of our age.

For further information and participation forms contact secretariat@iagp.gr

Keynote Speaker: Judith Butler
Theme: Politics of the Sensate Subject

The 5th Graduate Conference in Political Theory of Sciences Po Paris will be held on June 28-29, 2017. Each year, the conference brings together young political theorists representing a variety of traditions and methods to discuss the work of one prominent author. This edition will focus on the work of Judith Butler (Maxine Elliott Professor, UC Berkeley), who will be our keynote speaker.


A well-known public intellectual, Judith Butler has explored the disquieting relationship between subjects and norms through acclaimed books on gender identity and vulnerability. Her more recent works, from Senses of the Subject to Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, invite us to reconsider in the light of a critique of the subject the ethical and political issues at stake in social relations. By redefining the subject in terms of  interdependence, Judith Butler argues for a “social ontology” which grants a central place to the concept of sensitivity.


Sensitivity, understood as the responsiveness characteristic of living beings, refers to both the possibility of being affected by one’s environment (by others, their discourses and their norms), and the ability to react to it. This notion allows Butler to tie together the concepts of normativity, performativity, vulnerability and viability in an original way. Sensitivity allows us to make sense of how the life of individuals, and their potential precariousness, depends to large extent upon the patterns of conduct that are valued in a given society. This approach gives rise to a number of questions that this conference aims to explore. Our guiding question will be the following: Against or beyond liberalism’s classical view, what politics does this alternative conception of the subject yield?

The objective of this conference is thus twofold. First, it aims to reflect upon the principles and modalities of Judith Butler’s arguments about sensitivity. Second, the conference aims to discern the potential consequences and applications of this notion of the subject’s sensitivity to a range of political questions such as:

• Political representation and collective action: in particular the performative dimensions of representation connected to the constitution of the “people” and its sovereignty, which don’t only rely on speech acts and other links between the representatives and the represented, but also include other forms of appearance within the public sphere such as the plural and self-made assembly of bodies.

• Resistance, pacifism and critiques of power: the critique of power in Judith Butler’s work is twofold. On one hand, she analyzes the mechanics of power by identifying their norms, violence, and extra-juridical measures; on the other hand, she focuses on emerging forms of resistance, such as occupation, that challenge the traditional differentiation between the private and the political roles of the body.

• Technique, transhumanism and anthropocentrism: her desire to not surrender the theme of “life” to anti-abortion movements leads Judith Butler to wonder what a viable life can be. This question lies within a more global critique of humanism, which encourages us to question humanity’s dependence on technique, and to think about non-human forms of life.

• War, violence and precarization of life: how the traditional approaches of violence, war and terrorism are redefined in light of the plurality of the conceptions of life, and more specifically, the distinction between grievable and non-grievable lives.

• Gender and vulnerability: gender is the paradigmatic object of Judith Butler’s philosophy of vulnerability because it is constructed, as well as undone, assigned, as well as subverted, within discourses and speech acts whose character is normative and/or performative.

All contributions that are related to one of these topics are encouraged, but we also welcome propositions connected to other fields of interest.


Only graduate students who have not defended their PhD are eligible. Each two-hours-long session of the conference will concentrate on two to three papers and will be chaired by a Sciences Po graduate student. Presentations will be followed by a Q&A session open to the public.


Breakfast, lunch and refreshments will also be provided for the duration of the conference. Unfortunately, Sciences Po is not able to provide funds for housing and transportation.


Submission Information

• The submission deadline for proposals is March 3 rd , 2017. All proposals should be sent to sciencespotheorygrad@gmail.com

• Proposals and final papers should be written in English or French, which are the two working languages of the graduate conference.

Please send us:

• A detailed abstract (between 500-750 words) of your proposal in PDF format, prepared for blind review.

• A separate document, mentioning your name, the title of your proposal, and your institutional affiliation.

Selection procedure

• Political theory students from Sciences Po doctoral school will select approximately 13 proposals on a blind basis.

• The selected participants will be notified of their acceptance by April 15, 2016. All the other proposals will be acknowledged.

Selection committee: Bescont Amélie, De Barros Thomas, Estève Adrien, Ghins Arthur, Millou Vincent, Richard Lucile, Xhardez Catherine


For any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
sciencespotheorygrad@gmail.com
For further information on other activities and events organized by the Political Theory Program at Sciences Po, please visit (and like) our Facebook page: Sciences Po, Paris – Théorie Politique.

Author: Andrei Poama, Max Weber Fellow EUI, Florence
Source: Public Reason

​Inspired by upcoming Unesco World Humanities Conference - Liège, Belgium, 6-12 August 2017, World Philosophy Network and e-magazine "Philosophical Views" provides an opportunity for scholars around the world to write about the hottest topics in the area of humanities. This call is open to all those engaged in social sciences and humanities or are active in various organizations (ngo, political parties, humanitarian organizations etc.) 

Our first topic is dedicated to the relationship between "Philosophy and Ideology".

Introduction to article preparation

• The article submitted should include:
  
• The author’s name and the relevant information about the author`s professional biography, including institutional affiliation,
  
• The title of the article,
  
• An abstract of no more than 300 words,
  
• Key words
  
• The paper, up to 3500 words.
  
• Texts should be submitted in MS Word.
• Font should be 12 point Times New Roman with double spaces (normal, bold,  italic) but without line breaks in the text.
  

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​The papers will be sent on email:

oliveramijuskovic.theworldphilosophynetwork@presidency.com


Submission deadline: 1st March 2017

After peer review of our Editorial Team, the best papers will be included in the Issue 5 of the Journal "Philosophical Views".

Best regards, 

Presidency and Secretariat of The WPN

Online submission is open now.

All persons who want to participate in the Congress are welcome to submit their abstract and paper

Abstract and paper should be intended to one of the 99 Sections for contributed papers announced in the tab menu “Sections for Contributed papers”

WAYS OF SUBMISSION

There are three ways of submitting the abstract and paper:

(1) Online submission

Click here to reach the Online submission Page.

(2) As attachment to an email message: secretariat@wcp2018.pku.edu.cn

(3) the archaic way of sending the documents by post:

    Chinese Organizing Committee

    24th World Congress of Philosophy Secretariat

 Department of Philosophy—Peking University, No.5 Yiheyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China 100871

北京市海淀区颐和园路5 号北京大学哲学

    系世界哲学大会秘书处

    中国组委会（收）

    邮编：100871


***Submissions should not exceed 1,800 words (or 3,000 characters for papers submitted in Chinese), and should be accompanied by a 200 words abstract (500 characters in Chinese). The submission should include an indication, prominently displayed, of the section for which the contributed paper is intended and shall be written in one of the official languages of the Congress.


Circulars & Program

The World Congress of Philosophy is organized every five years by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) in collaboration with one of its member societies. 

The XXIV World Congress will be held in Beijing, China, from August 13 to August 20, 2018, under the auspices of the Chinese Organizing Committee. 

The complementary aims of the 2018 Congress include an emphasis on exploring dimensions of the human and inquiring into the challenges facing humanity:
To globalize philosophical investigations to encompass the diverse forms of philosophizing by past and present thinkers across cultures, with special attention to critical reflections on philosophy itself and the tasks and functions of philosophy in the contemporary world;
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To open the philosophical area to enable philosophers to address emerging global issues through fruitful interactions with other disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, with other activities in economic, social, political, and religious spheres, as well as with diverse cultures and traditions;
To encourage philosophical reflections to become public discourses on recurrent human concerns, such as ecology, justice, and peace. Endowed with arguably the longest history of cultural continuity but deeply challenged by severe ruptures in its modern transformation, China provides a unique locale to raise fundamental questions about self, community, nature, spirituality, traditions, and modernity, evoking the idea of philosophy as practice as well as theory. 

The 2018 Congress invites discussions on the nature, roles, and responsibilities of philosophy and philosophers to enhance a common awareness of “learning to be human.” It is committed to attending to problems, conflicts, inequalities, and injustices connected with the development of a planetary civilization that is simultaneously technoscientific and multicultural.

PLENARY SESSIONS
1. Self
2. Community
3. Nature
4. Spirituality
5. Traditions
SYMPOSIA
1. Ren, Ubuntu, Love, and the Heart
2. Mind, Brain, Body, Consciousness, Emotions
3. Philosophy at the Margins: Domination,
Freedom, and Solidarity
4. Rights, Responsibility, and Justice
5. Human, Non-human, Post-human
6. Science, Technology, and the Environment
7. Creativity, Symbol, and Aesthetic Sense
8. Reason, Wisdom, and the Good Life
9. Expressibility, Dialogue, Translatability
10. Differences, Diversities, and Commonality

SECTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
1. Aesthetics and philosophies of art
2. African philosophy
3. Africana philosophy
4. Ancient Greek philosophy
i. Presocratic philosophy
ii. Classical Greek philosophy
iii. Hellenistic philosophy
iv. Neo-Platonic philosophy
5. Bioethics
6. Buddhist philosophy
7. Business ethics
8. Byzantine philosophy
9. Chinese philosophy
i. Pre-Qin philosophy
ii. Philosophy from Han to Qing
iii. Modern Chinese philosophy
iv. Contemporary Chinese philosophy
10. Christian philosophy
11. Comparative philosophy
12. Conceptual history
13. Confucian philosophy
14. Contemporary philosophy
15. Contemporary philosophies in China
16. Cosmopolitanism
17. Daoist philosophy
18. East Asian and Southeast Asian philosophies
19. Environmental philosophy
20. Ethics
21. Ethics in research
22. Existential philosophy
23. Experimental philosophy
24. History of analytic philosophy
25. History of philosophy
26. Humanism and post-humanism
27. Human rights
28. Indian philosophies
29. Intercultural philosophy
30. Islamic philosophy
31. Jewish philosophy
32. Latin American philosophy
33. Logic
34. Marxist philosophy
35. Medical ethics
36. Medieval philosophy
37. Metaphilosophy
38. Metaphysics
39. Mystical traditions in philosophy
40. Moral psychology
41. Ontology
42. Phenomenology
43. Philosophical anthropology
44. Philosophical counseling and therapy
45. Philosophical hermeneutics
46. Philosophical issues about race
47. Philosophy and cinema
48. Philosophy and linguistics
49. Philosophy and literature
50. Philosophy and popular culture
51. Philosophy and oral traditions
52. Philosophy and psychoanalysis
53. Philosophy at the margins
54. Philosophy for children
55. Philosophy of action
56. Philosophy of architecture
57. Philosophy of argumentation
58. Philosophy of artificial intelligence
59. Philosophy of cognitive neurosciences
60. Philosophy of communication
61. Philosophy of culture
62. Philosophy of death
63. Philosophy of development
64. Philosophy of economics
65. Philosophy of education
66. Philosophy of family
67. Philosophy of food
68. Philosophy of gender
69. Philosophy of globalization
70. Philosophy of history
71. Philosophy of indigenous cultures
72. Philosophy of information and digital culture
73. Philosophy of language
74. Philosophy of law
75. Philosophy of liberation
76. Philosophy of logic
77. Philosophy of mathematics
78. Philosophy of mind
79. Philosophy of music
80. Philosophy of nature
81. Philosophy of physics
82. Philosophy of religion
83. Philosophy of science
84. Philosophy of sex and love
85. Philosophy of sport
86. Philosophy of technology
87. Philosophy of the axial age
88. Philosophy of the body
89. Philosophy of the human and social sciences
90. Philosophy of the life sciences
91. Philosophy of values
92. Political philosophy
93. Postmodernism
94. Renaissance and early modern philosophy
95. Russian philosophy
96. Social philosophy
97. Sociology of philosophy
98. Teaching philosophy
99. Theories of knowledge and epistemology

ENDOWED LECTURES
There will be at least five endowed lectures, named Ibn Roshd, Maimonides, Kierkegaard, Dasan, and Wang Yangming.

1. REN, UBUNTU, LOVE, AND THE HEART
Chair
Pia Søltoft (Denmark)

Speakers
Graham Parkes (Ireland)   
Abiola Irele (Nigeria)  
Zhang Xianglong (China)
Eleonore Stump (USA)

2. MIND, BRAIN, BODY, CONSCIOUSNESS, EMOTIONS
Chair
Amita Chatterjee (India)   

Speakers
Sean Gallagher (USA)  
Jonardon Ganeri (UK)   

3. PHILOSOPHY AT THE MARGINS: DOMINATION, FREEDOM, AND SOLIDARITY
Chair
Dimitrios Chitzos (Greece)

Speakers
Charles-Romain Mbelé (Cameroon)
Sally J. Scholz (USA)

4. RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITY, AND JUSTICE
Chair
Bhuvan Chandel (India)   

Speakers
Julian Nida-Ruemelin (Germany)    
Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Thailand)
Yao Xinzhong (China)   
Sally Haslanger (USA)
   
5. HUMAN, NON-HUMAN, POST-HUMAN
Chair

Speakers
Sangkyu Shin (Korea)     
Lars Fredrik Svendsen (Norway)   
Rosi Braidotti (Australia/Netherlands)

6. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chair
Ilkka Niiniluoto (Finland)   

Speakers
Vyacheslav Stiopin (Russia)
J Baird Callicott (USA)
Helen Longino (USA)
Peter Kemp (Denmark)   

7. CREATIVITY, SYMBOL, AND AESTHETIC SENSE
Chair
Gao Jianping (China)   

Speakers
Karsten Harries (USA)
Bashshar Haydar (Lebanon)
Jean-Godefroy Bidima (Cameroon)
Lydia Goehr (USA)

8. REASON, WISDOM, AND THE GOOD LIFE
Chair
Nam-In Lee (Korea)   

Speakers
Arindam Chakrabarti (India)    
Maurizio Ferraris (Italy)  
Pavlos Kalligàs (Greece)

9. EXPRESSIBILITY, DIALOGUE, TRANSLATABILITY
Chair
Barbara Cassin (France)

Speakers
Paul Healy (Australia)
Anat Matar (Israel)   
Michael Beaney (UK)    

10. DIFFERENCES, DIVERSITY, COMMONALITY
Chair
Vincent Shen (Canada)   

Speakers
Ram Adhar Mall (India)   
Tan, Sor-Hoon (Singapore)


Sincerely yours,

Olivera Z. Mijuskovic
&
Stefano Ulliana,

Presidency and Secretariat of The WPN

The World Philosophy Network
&
Journal "Philosophical Views"

invite you

on

The Panhellenic Logic Symposium

July 12-16, 2017 
Delphi, Greece


It is a biennial scientific event that was established in 1997. It aims to promote interaction and cross-fertilization among different areas of logic. Originally conceived as a way of bringing together the many logicians of Hellenic descent throughout the world, the PLS has evolved into an international forum for the communication of state-of-the-art advances in logic. The symposium is open to researchers worldwide who work in logic broadly conceived.

The Eleventh Panhellenic Logic Symposium will be hosted in Delphi, organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens. The University of Cyprus will help in the organization.

The scientific program of the symposium will consist of hour-long invited talks, tutorials and presentations of accepted contributed papers and posters.

Sincerely,

Olivera Z. Mijuskovic
&
Stefano Ulliana

Presidency and Secretariat of the World Philosophy Network

Dear colleagues and friends, 

World Philosophy Network and e-magazine "Philosophical Views" support the initiative of the UNESCO by celebrating World Philosophy Day on the third Thursday of November. 

We call all colleagues to send us essays on the topic: "Politics and Philosophy". 

Each paper should have your own original critical review, bibliography and your professional biography in a few sentences. The text shouldn`t be longer than 2000 words. The language is English. The Essay Contest is open to all those engaged in social sciences and humanities or are active in various organizations (ngo, political parties, humanitarian organizations etc.) 

Submission deadline: October, 15 - December, 15 
Email: oliveramijuskovic.theworldphilosophynetwork@presidency.com ​

We suggest you to read an interesting article that was published by London's "The Guardian". 


We celebrate philosophy every day!

Best regards, 

Presidency and Secretariat of The WPN

More informations find here: ​

Sincerely,

Olivera Z. Mijuskovic, President of the "World Philosophy Network"

&

Stafano Ulliana, Secretariat of the "World Philosophy Network"