Continental Philosophy

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Via Christopher P. Long

Call For Papers:

The newly founded Bay Area Continental Philosophy Association (BACPA) will meet at the Pacific APA in Vancouver, BC (April 8 – 12, 2009). Everyone interested in continental thinking is invited to submit a paper related to the following topic:

Nature

Please submit a complete paper of no more than 3000 words and prepared for blind review to: gkuperus@usfca.edu or moele@usfca.edu

Attach the paper as a Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF file.

Include your contact information and institutional affiliation in the email.

The deadline is October 1st 2008.

A note from the Pacific APA: US travelers to Canada now need a passport to re-enter the United States, and students in the US on F1 visas must ensure proper documentation. Further information is provided on the meeting web site at http://apa-pacific.org.

BACPA organizes colloquia in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.usfca.edu/org/bacpa/

Canadian Society of Hermeutics and Postmodern Thought is now The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (www.c-scp.org). 

And the link to the society's journal: Symposium: Candian Journal of Continental Philosophy/ Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale (www.symposium-journal.com).

The recently formed Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology is pleased to announce the launch of our website. SIFP was formed by Professors Bonnie Mann and Beata Stawarska, both faculty members in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon; Dr. Sara Heinämaa, Senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland, Professor of Women’s Studies at the Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at the University of Oslo, Norway, and International Adviser of SIFP; and Dr. Eva Maria Simms, Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and the National Adviser of SIFP. Please visit the new website, located at

http://whp.uoregon.edu/sifp

for more information about the society and our activities, to create a “scholars page,” join our listserve, and more!

SIFP’s activities have been made possible through funding from the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Philosophy.

Two things about the North American Sartre Society:

1 – It has a new website: sartresociety.org

2 – The submission deadline for the upcoming conference has been extended to November 15th. Here is the original CFP

16TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SARTRE SOCIETY
HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY of MARY WASHINGTON, FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA
APRIL 4-6 (FRIDAY-SUNDAY) 2008

The University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, is located an hour south of Washington, D.C. Papers in any area of Sartrean scholarship are welcome (philosophy, literature, psychology, politics, literature). Reading time for a paper should be 25-30 minutes (to be followed by the respondent’s commentary (optional) and 10 minutes of discussion). In addition to individual papers, we would be most interested in receiving suggestions for panel topics. Panel topics that deal with any aspect of Sartre’s work; its relationship to other authors as well as those that deal with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (we are celebrating the centenary of her birth in 2008) will be seriously considered. Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers. A number of stipends will be available to help defray the cost of travel and lodging.

BEFORE OCTOBER 15, 2007: Please email – in the form of an attachment – a copy of your paper (or a two-page summary) and suggestions for panels to: (These will be forwarded to the Program Committee): vdhoven@uwindsor.ca

Fredericksburg is a historic little city, situated on the Rappahannock River, with a thriving arts community, and lots of antique stores. It is the boyhood home town of George Washington, and was a major site of Civil War battles, located halfway between Washington D.C. and Richmond. Thomas Jefferson wrote the draft of the Virginia Statute on Freedom of Religion in Fredericksburg; this became the First Amendment to the US Constitution. The university is named after Washington’s mother, and is a state-supported liberal arts college of about 4000 students. Local hotel accommodations will run $60/night for Best Western. Amtrak services Fredericksburg, and National and Richmond airports are equidistant. Information and maps can be found at http://www.umw.edu or at Fredericksburg.com.

On behalf of the newly formed Comparative Continental Philosophy Circle, I invite you to participate in our second annual meeting on April 13 and14 in Seattle. The CCPC will sponsor a journal (Per se: Journal of Comparative &Continental Philosophy) and plans a book series on comparative andcontinental topics, especially those topics that serve as bridges between the Asian and Continental traditions.  We are open to othertraditionssuch as the African traditions as well.

In addition, our scope is wide and encompasses other disciplines beyond philosophy such as literature, critical theory, art history,aesthetics, and so forth. Please encourage anyone who may be potentiallyinterested to submit a proposal.

The CCPC was formally known as the Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle (GCPC), which met regularly from 1995-2006.  The GCPC began from adesire to expand and experiment with the content, methods, and environment of the philosophical forum; it was not founded in hostility to moreestablishedpractices of philosophy, but was born out of a love of philosophy, and this love drove us to continue to explore a more robust range of philosophical discourses. The CCPC is the latest mutation of this desire.

Details of our next meeting are:

April 13 and 14, 2007
Seattle University
Seattle, Washington, USA

We are a small, open, congenial, and discussion-driven philosophy Circle. We are inviting papers and presentations on any aspect ofComparativephilosophy, Continental philosophy, and/or bridges between them. Presentations will be considered for publication in our new journal.

Send abstracts, papers, or inquiries by March 1, 2007 to:

- Dr. Jason M. Wirth (Seattle University): wirthj@seattleu.edu
- Dr. David Jones (Kennesaw State University):djones@ksuweb.kennesaw.edu
- Dr. Michael Schwartz (Augusta State University): mscwart@aug.edu

On behalf of my fellow CCPC officers, Michael Schwartz and Jason Wirth, we look forward to welcoming you to the beautiful city of Seattle and acongenial conversation on a variety of topics in comparative andcontinental philosophy.

The Merleau-Ponty Cirlce website has moved to a new address (though the design of the site has not changed).

Here (MS Word Document) is the program of the 31st Annual Meeting: 

“BODY AND INSTITUTION”

Featured speakers to include:

Mauro Carbone (Keynote)

and

Jacques Taminiaux (Special Distinguished Lecture)

The Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle, will be held at George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia. The dates are October 26-28, 2006.

I started a list of continental-related philosophical associations. I would like to bring a new society to your attention as well: The North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics. Its mission statement:

NASPH was formed in 2005 in order to further the study of philosophical hermeneutics. While honoring the rootedness of philosophical hermeneutics in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, NASPH also recognizes that the future of such thinking depends on engaging with a diverse range of figures and issues. Our intention is to promote dialogue focusing on both the sources of, and the prospects for, philosophical hermeneutics.