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Invitation to an
International Conference
Identity and Globalization:
Ethical Implications
Klaipeda, Lithuania June
17-18, 2014
in cooperation with
Klaipeda University
Theme
Over
many centuries the pace of change was very slow – even glacial.
Then in the aftermath of World War II geopolitical changes
imposed not progress but stagnation.
Now
however the dynamics of the process of globalization brings a
vast range of cultural interchange that entails both hopes and
threats. The threats include economic competition which puts
great pressure on weaker peoples to reduce worker compensation
below a living wage and to tailor their educational system to
forming servants of the machine rather than free citizens. The
hopes, however, are that cumulatively the best sense of human
dignity will coalesce to form the aspirations of all peoples and
orient their constructive efforts. Between these threats and
hopes lies the decisive field of the human struggle of our
times. Can we conceive of a more worthy identity; can this
include the other and indeed all others in these mobile times,
can our aspirations take us beyond the material to the
spiritual?
The
conference on June 17-18, 2014 will examine the following issues
on which the submission of abstracts and papers are invited.
1/
construction and deconstruction of cultural identity
2/ interchange of cultures:
historical and ethnographic
3/ immigration and
integration: the face of Other in national culture
4/
the relation of material achievement to spiritual fulfillment
and vice versa
The Council for
Research in Values and Philosophy will publish the resulting
papers upon review. An abstract of 300 words should be submitted
to daliastanciene@yahoo.fr and cua-rvp@cua.edu by
April 15, 2014, papers by June 1, 2014, and final papers
for publication (without upper page limits) by October 1,
20134. Attached please find the style sheet.
Logistics
There is
no registration fee. Participants will cover their own travel
and hotel costs.
Contact
Dalia Stanciene
Klaipeda University
Klaipeda, Lithuania
daliastanciene@yahoo.fr
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