*6-9
Ternational And Interdisciplinary Conference
Kolkata, India
Sponsored By The Society For Indian Philosophy & Religion,
The Center For Spirituality, Ethics And Global Awareness
Bethany College, West Virginia
Deadline: March 5, 2008
Topic: Self, Identity and Culture: East and West
Some Suggested Topics: Self and Personal Identity, Artificial Intelligence, Qualitative Aspects of Consciousness, Phenomenology of Consciousness, Theory of Action and Agency, Time Consciousness and Memory, Self Consciousness and Language, Consciousness, Knowledge and Reality, Social and Political Dimensions of Consciousness, Ethics, Alterity and the Phenomenology of Obligation, Technology and Consciousness, Consciousness of Self and Others, Imagination, Dreaming and Altered States of Consciousness, Consciousness and Cognition, Physicalist/reductive vs. Non-physical/non-reductive Accounts of Consciousness, Atomistic and Holistic Aspects of Consciousness, Mediations of Consciousness: Race, Gender and Ethnicity, Post-modern Selfhood, Relativism and Absolutism, Cultural Relativism, Singularity of Culture, Culture and Hermeneutics, Text and Interpretation, Sociology of Knowledge, Reductionist Theory, Empirical Self and Transcendental Self, Cultural Self, Self, Culture and Globalization, Tradition and Modernity, Dualism, Parallelism, Materialism, Split Personality, Individualism and Collectivism, Society, Culture and Religion, Personal Immortality, Cybernic Immortality, Immortality and Freedom, Yoga and Self realization, Atman and Brahman, Self-Consciousness and Identity, Consciousness and Unconsciousness, Cultural Relativism, Deconstructionism, Culture and Meaning. Selected papers from the conference will be published (subject to editorial review) in a special volume of the Journal of Indian of Indian Philosophy & Religion.
The Advisory Board Comprises:
Kisor K. Chakrabarti (USA), Kate Bemis (USA), Wayne Borody (Canada) Thomas Brooke (UK), Linda B. Elder (USA), Ashoke Kumar Ganguly (India), Gordon Haist (USA), Laurent Metzer(France) Isaac Nevo (Israel), David Rose (UK), Andrew Ward (UK), Bill Wyllie (UK)
Special arrangements have been made with local hotels for a limited number of hotels at a special conference rate.
There will be also two trips for conference participants and interested scholars. "Encounter India" program will be offered before and after the conference. Kindly visit our web page for details. Detail information about publication of papers, hotel booking, registration, pre-conference and post-conference trip will be available from December 20, 2007.In addition to the main program, the meeting will also host book launches, artistic and cultural activities, exhibitions, plenty of space and opportunity for informal networking and alliance building.
If you are interested to submit a paper proposal, please send by email an abstract (150 words) by March 5, 2008. Please include title of your paper, full Name, current affiliation, phone number and an email address. If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e., chair a session, organize a panel, conduct a round table session or any other offer please get in touch with:
Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti,
Director Center for Spirituality, Ethics and Global Awareness,
PO Box M, Bethany, WV 26032 USA
Email: cchakrabarti@bethanywv.edu <mailto:cchakrabarti@bethanywv.edu> ; cchakrabarti@yahoo.com,
Phone: 304-829-7525, Fax: 304-829-7926
*early 2009
International Association for Cognitive Education in Southern Africa
First announcement: Call for papers to follow Conference The Art of Thinking
Cape Town, South Africa
Developing the three Critical R’s
Reasoning Reflection Relationships
Without the ability to reason and reflect, and the capacity to relate effectively within a community of learners, the traditional Three R’s (Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic) are unlikely to be mastered successfully or used as the means to become a lifelong learner and a responsible citizen. Individuals growing up in the 21st century must possess effective cognitive skills and dispositions, meta-cognitive awareness and interpersonal sensitivity. The designers of the curriculum for South African education recognized the above when they framed its Critical Cross Field Outcomes, specifying, inter alia, that learners must be able to identify and solve problems and make responsible decisions using critical and creative thinking and to work effectively with others as members of a team.
Cognitive education is dedicated to the study and mediation of thinking in all its forms. This conference will focus on theory and research-based practical strategies to achieve the above outcomes in the course of implementing existing curricula, drawing on experience s elsewhere in the world and showcasing local practices.
For more information, contact Dr. Professor Lena Green: lgreen@mweb.co.za
