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*4-15
Twentieth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2008).
Hamburg, Germany.
The European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information focus on the
interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. ESSLLI-2008 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). For more information about ESSLLI-2008, visit http: //www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/; for further information about FoLLI, see http://www.folli.org.
*6-10
DEADLINE IS MAY 1, 2008
A TEACHING SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY
FOR CURRENT OR RECENT GRADUATE STUDENTS
Co-Sponsored by
The American Philosophical Association
and
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT)
To be held during the AAPT’s
17th Biennial Workshop/Conference on Teaching Philosophy
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
The Teaching Seminar will be led by Dr. Betsy Decyk, California State University, Long Beach, the Executive Director of the AAPT.
Through a mixture of seminar and practicum experiences, students will explore issues, experiment with approaches and engage in a community of reflection in order to strengthen their individual philosophies of teaching. Topics will include preparing to teach (for example, course design and textbook selection), developing learning-centered philosophy classes, using traditional and non-traditional methods of assessment, and engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
It is required that participants attend all of the Seminar sessions, which will be held each morning, August 7-10. Participants are invited to attend the regular AAPT Workshop and Conference sessions in the afternoons and evenings.
Current graduate students, including students who will be receiving the Ph.D. in June 2008, and recent graduates (from 2006 - 2008) are eligible to apply for the Teaching Seminar. Preference will be given, first, to applicants who will be teaching their own courses during the 2008-09 academic year; second, to those who will be teaching discussion sections during 2008-09; and third, to those who will be grading for courses they are not teaching during 2008-09. Participants will also be chosen with some concern for achieving a balance among fields of interest. Maximum number of participants: 20. Accepted applicants will be notified and will receive a reading list with their notification.
The American Philosophical Association will be offering travel grants of up to $300 each for 20 participants. Recipients of APA travel grants must be members of the APA.
The registration fee for the AAPT conference is waived for graduate students accepted into the graduate seminar, however membership in the AAPT for $15.00/one year is expected. The cost of meals and lodging, estimated to be between $150 and $200, will be the responsibility of participants or their departments.
Please see reverse side for application process.
Please note the postmark deadline is May 1, 2008.
*8-12
XIXth International Symposium of the OLYMPIC CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE,
in Ancient Olympia and in Pyrgos, Elia, Greece.
The topic of the Symposium for this year is:
ECOLOGY AND ETHICS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
The organizers of the XIXth International Symposium hope participants will explore the
variety of views on:
· Economy and Ecology
· Environmental Ethics
· Risk Societies and Social Philosophy
· Globalization Ethics
· Human Activity and Political Philosophy
In addition, there will be a number of roundtable discussions on topics relating to the above m DEADLINES:
January 31, 2008: Abstract is due (300-500 words);
J June 30, 2008: Paper is due.
Contact:
Leonidas Bargeliotis
9 Aristotelous Street, 151 24 Amaroussion, Greece,
Tel. & Fax: (30-210) 8029313,
Mobile Tel: (30-6977) 947916,
Email: lbargel@cc.uoa.gr
*11-13
XIIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum
The University of Texas at Austin
The objective of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of ancient medicine, science and philosophy to advance our understanding of the compass of the term "Hippocratic". The term is used primarily to refer to the authors, texts, theories and practices of the Corpus Hippocraticum, which share a basic scientific outlook but which are notoriously polemical one with another. To date most research has focused on the disparities between treatises and polemical relationships between authors. We are soliciting papers which look more closely for specific commonalities and which identify clusters of shared theories and practices. We are interested in considering in what ways, if any, the Corpus as a whole, or at least the major part of it, can be differentiated from other rationalist medical theories of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. as illustrated in, e.g., the theories contained in the Anonymus Londinensis, the writings of Diokles of Karystos, papyrus fragments of medicine not duplicated in the Corpus, references to medicine in non-medical texts. The main question we hope to address is, "Is the Corpus the result of a haphazard process of collection of rational medical treatises or were there criteria for selection that deemed some rational medicine ineligible for inclusion in the Corpus?"
Examination of these issues could proceed either by intertextual study of two or more treatises within the Corpus or by comparison of treatises to works not included in the Corpus (literary, historical and philosophical as well as medical). We hope to elicit papers dealing with theory, therapy, chronology and geographical provenance. Papers dealing with the early catalogues of the Corpus or with later authors who can shed light on this question, such as Galen, are welcome. Innovative papers only tangentially related to the main theme of the Colloquium will also be considered.
The languages of the conference will be English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Proposals of 500-750 words should be sent, preferably in electronic format, to Lesley Dean-Jones, ldjones@mail.utexas.edu.
Surface mail: Department of Classics, 1 University Station C3400, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Deadline: February 8th, 2008. Authors whose papers are selected for presentation will be notified by March 15th, 2008. We particularly encourage proposals from graduate students and expect to have student bursaries to offset their expenses.
*18-22
The third annual Thomist ic Seminar sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute
Ethics, Value, & Practice
An intensive summer seminar for philosophy graduate students
Princeton, New Jersey, Faculty
John Haldane (St Andrews)
Gavin Lawrence (UCLA)
Michael Pakaluk (Clark)
Thomas Pink (Kings, London)
David Solomon (Notre Dame)
G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001) is widely regarded as one of the most powerful
philosophical minds of the twentieth century and has been described as the greatest woman philosopher of whom we have any record. The seminar will explore aspects of Anscombe’s work in the areas of value theory, ethics, and norm-governed practice. It will relate these to the work of some of her contemporaries and to the thought of Aquinas.
Application Deadline: May 1st , 2008
Visit http://www.winst.org/seminars/ts2008.php for application instructions and further
seminar information. Questions? Contact ThomisticSeminar@gmail.com
*19-23
Understanding Conflicts--Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Aarhus, Denmark
An international, interdisciplinary research conference
on the diversity of conceptions and cultural images of conflicts
www.understandingconflicts.net
Conflicts are part of human life and often a source of innovation. Different cultures not only generate conflicts but also impose on agents different “conflict cultures”— preferences for certain types of conflict dynamics (war, settlements, reconciliation) and predispositions for certain forms of epistemic approach (rational analysis, psychological hermeneutics, deep orientation). Attention to differences in cultural images of conflicts—the agentive understanding of sources, dynamics, and possible transformations of conflicts—is of central significance for conflict transformation in societies with cultural diversity.
UC-2008 is the first of a series of large international interdisciplinary meetings that will bring together researchers working on the analysis and transformation of conflicts due to cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity. Our invited speakers are international lead figures in conflict research, sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, the history of ideas, theology, and religious studies.
We invite submissions of abstracts on any of the 60 conference sessions, including workshop sessions, praxis reports, and panel discussion sessions. For tracks and topics see the conference website. Deadline: March 1. Conference papers will be published in an anthology and 2 special issues of international journals.
Keynote Speakers*:
Seyla Benhabib
Russell Hardin
Pumla Goboda-Madikizelan
Ron Pundak
Amina Wadud
Special Address at City Event, August 23: Bishop Desmond Tutu (confirmation pending)
Invited Speakers*:
Zygmont Baumann, Dept. fo Sociology, University of Leeds, Great Britain
William Connolly, Dept. of Political Science, John Hopkins University
Daniel Druckman, Dept. of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, USA, and School of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Queensland, Australia.
Ervin Staub, Dept. of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, USA
Toh Swee Hin, Multi-Faith Centre of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia
Alain Touraine, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris, France
Jan Oberg, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Futures Research, Sweden
Marc Howard Ross, Dept. for Peace and Conflict Studies, Bryan Mawr University, USA
Douglas P. Fry, Dept. for Social Sciences, Åbo University, Finland
Sohail Hashmi, Dept. of International Relations, Mount Holyoke College, USA
Michiaki Okuyama, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Japan
Dominique-Sila Khan, Institute for Rajasthan Studies, Jaipur, India
Christopher Mitchell, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Fernando Rendon, Director of the International Poetry Festival of Medellin.
Augustine Shutte, Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town
Karen Abi-Ezzi, Dept. for Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Great Britain
Reinhold Bernhardt, Dept for Theology, University of Basel, Swizzerland
Gordon Burt, Mathematical Social Science Program, Open University London
Chris Groves, Institute for Sociological Research on the Future, University of Cardiff, GB.
Fiencke Harinck, Dept. for Psychology, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Iris Lurasi, Department of Journalism, Tirana University, Albania, Director of the Counselling Center for Girls and Women.
Astrid Gade Nielsen, Director of Communications, Arla Foods
Kelly Oliver, Dept for Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA
Roberto Poli, Dept. of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy
Antonio Russo, Dept. of Theology, University of Trieste, Italy
Dorothee Schlenke, Dept. of Theology, Pedagogical University Freiburg, Germany
Levent Tezcan, Institute for Research on Conflicts and Violence, University of Bielefeld
Thomas Brudholm, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen
Nils-Henrik Gregersen, Department of Theology, University of Copenhagen
Robin Schott, Department for Philosophy, Danish Pedagogical University
Martijn Van Beek, Institute for Anthropology, Archeology, and Linguistics, University of Aarhus
Kees Van Kooten Niekerk, Department of Theology, University of Aarhus.
Vibeke Vindelov, University of Copenhagen, Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Law
*Some confirmations still pending.
Organizer: Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, University of Aarhus. Main coordinators: Johanna Seibt, Jesper Garsdal, Steen Wackerhausen.
Jesper Garsdal, Ph.D.
Coordinator and Managing Director for
The Research Unit for Interculturality, Worldphilosophy and History of Ideas (IWI)
Institute of Philosophy and History of Ideas
University of Aarhus
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7, bygn. 1465
Office 1465-425
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Tlf. +45 89 42 21 75; (Mobile +45 26 13 83 28)
idejg@hum.au.dk
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