LLAMADO A PONENCIA: Conferencias/Seminarios
Taking Animals Apart: Exploring Interspecies Enmeshment in a Biotechnological Era.
The Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center and Program in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is sponsoring a three-day conference to bring together advanced graduate students in animal studies, science and technology studies, and allied disciplines (English, History, Anthropology, and Fine Arts among others) to discuss the relationships between animal studies and STS. Keynote speaker will be Susan Squier, Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English at the Pennsylvania State University, acting director of its Science, Medicine, Technology in Culture program, and author of Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet.
Please send a paper proposal of 250 words and a curriculum vitae to Peter Boger (boger@wisc.edu) or Jen Martin (jamartin4@wisc.edu) by December 15, 2011. Visual artists and creative writers of fiction, nonfiction or poetry should contact Heather Swan (hsrosenthal@wisc.edu) for more information.
Wild
May 25- 26, 2012, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
If you are interested in giving a paper addressing the topic 'Wild' from whatever disciplinary perspective, please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words with a brief biography (also of no more than 200 words). These should be included within the body of your email – not as attachments. Please send them to basn@strath.ac.uk. The deadline for abstracts is January 13, 2012. Presentations will be 20 minutes long, and will include work by individuals at different career stages.
For more information, click http://www.britishanimalstudiesnetwork.org.uk/
Simposio: “La filosofía francesa de la segunda mitad del siglo XX como caja de herramientas en América Latina”
8, 9 y 10 de marzo de 2012 - Mendoza - República Argentina
Este simposio tiene por objeto reunir trabajos que expresen el tenor con que se desarrollan en América Latina, aquellas investigaciones del área de las humanidades y las ciencias sociales, vinculadas al pensamiento francés de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Para el caso reconoceremos concretamente el rol señero que cabe a las producciones de Gastón Bachelard, George Canguilhem, Gilles Deleuze y Michel Foucault, entre otros.
Más información aquí
Minding Animals Conference 2012
4-6 July 2012
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Call for abstracts open until January 15th 2012
Please visit www.uu.nl/hum/mindinganimals
This conference is the second in a series of conferences about scientific, ethical and social issues related to human interactions with and uses of animals.
The aim of the conference is to bring together academics from different areas (animal welfare, animal ethics, and animal studies in general) with politicians and a broad variety of interest groups.
The conference offers a platform for exchange of information about research developments, debates about controversial political and ethical issues concerning the treatment of animals and a variety of cultural activities around animals.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Prof. Colin Allen, Professor of Philosophy, specialized in Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science, in particular animal behaviour and cognition
- Prof. Marc Bekoff, Emeritus Professor of Animal Behaviour, author of numerous books about animal capacities and the human-animal relationship
- Prof. John Coetzee, Nobel Prize winning author
- Prof. Julia Driver, Professor of Philosophy, exploring a Humean account of duties towards animals
- Prof. Robert Garner, Professor of Political Theory, specialized in the political representation of non-human interests and animal rights
- Prof. Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy
- Prof. Christine Korsgaard, Professor of Philosophy, developped a novel Kantian account of our duties towards animals
- Prof. Will Kymlicka, Professor of Political Philosophy, recently co-authored a book on political philosophy and animal rights
- Prof. James McGaugh, Research Professor of Neurobiology and Behaviour, author of 'Memory and Emotion: The Making of Lasting Memories'
- Raj Panjwani, practicising lawyer of the Supreme Court of India, specialised in animal protection.
- Prof. Harriet Ritvo, Professor of Philosophy, specialised in the history of human-animal relationships
- Jill Robinson, animal protectionis and founder of Animals Asia
- Prof. Paul Schnabel, Professor of Sociology and director of the Dutch Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau
- Prof. Peter Singer, Professor of Philosophy, developed a utilitarian approach to animal ethics
Llamado a Presentar Ponencias al Coloquio:“Biopolítica de lo Común”
Instituto de Humanidades y Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e Historia
Universidad Diego Portales
Jueves 27 de Octubre 2011, 15.00-20.30 hrs.
Lo común se ha convertido en uno de los conceptos claves en torno al cual, las demandas sociales, políticas y culturales se están articulando y teorizando en la actualidad. Reconsiderando el desplazamiento forzado de personas, desde un compartir espacios comunes a un habitar privado, así como la transformación creciente de la propiedad pública a privada –ocurrida como acontecimiento central en el desarrollo del capitalismo europeo en los siglos XVIII y XIX-, lo común aparece como una noción que insiste en el carácter fundamentalmente compartido de la vida social, esto es: que todo, desde el lenguaje a la educación, desde la naturaleza a nuestra herencia genética, pertenece irreductiblemente a todos nosotros; a un vivir que es en tal sentido siempre nuestro.
Más aún, en una coyuntura nacional y mundial en donde lo privado pareciese apropiarse de todo lo colectivo, este coloquio explorará cuáles son la respuestas que desde la teoría política contemporánea es posible dar a dicha “acumulación por desposesión” a partir de las aproximaciones formuladas por Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy, Étienne Balibar entre otros.
Para ello, se invita a los académicos de la Universidad Diego Portales, en especial a aquéllos que forman parte del Instituto de Humanidades y de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, así como a los investigadores miembros de la red biopolitica.cl interesados en participar en el coloquio, a enviar un resumen de sus presentaciones de 300 palabras, a más tardar al 30 de Agosto de 2011, a los profesores:
- Ricardo Camargo (ricardo.camargo@udp.cl)
- Miguel Vatter (miguel.vatter@udp.cl)
Habrá una selección de las propuestas recibidas y se avisará a los postulante cuyas propuestas resulten aceptadas, quienes deberán enviar sus ponencias escritas al menos dos semanas antes de la fecha del Coloquio.
Este coloquio se beneficiará significativamente de la presencia y participación de Antonio Negri, uno de los pensadores políticos más destacados de la actualidad. Antonio Negri ha venido desarrollando una agenda teórica no sólo en torno a la noción de lo común, sino también de las nociones de Imperio, Multitud, Trabajo Intelectual, entre otras, las que han sido consagradas en su trilogía reciente, en co-autoria con Michael Hardt: Imperio, Multitud y Commonwealth.
El Coloquio se cerrará con una Conferencia Magistral dictada por el profesor Antonio Negri.
Call for papers Negative Cosmopolitanisms: Abjection, Power, and Biopolitics. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 11-13 October 2012
Organizers:
Terri Tomsky (University of Alberta), Eddy Kent (University of Alberta), Imre Szeman (University of Alberta)
Keynote Speakers:
Timothy Brennan (University of Minnesota)
Pheng Cheah (University of California, Berkeley)
Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia)
Peter Nyers (McMaster University)
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the array of negative cosmopolitanisms operating today—all those ways in which cosmopolitan subjects are still stigmatized, disempowered, excluded, and denied. Against the superficial liberal celebration of cosmopolitan diversity in the world today, negative cosmopolitanism instead reveals experiences of rupture, exile, oppression, and imperialism. The conference will bring researchers together to explore the histories and constitution of cosmopolitanism past and present, with the aim of better understanding the complex experience of power today.
Though cosmopolitanism is often thought of as a positive form of “world citizenship”, this conference is interested in the way cosmopolitanism can signify disenfranchisement. Globalization’s economic asymmetries and the biopolitical management of modern states create cosmopolitan abjections: in the circulation of outsourced prisoners, with the deportation of sick migrants, in the extraordinary rendition of enemy combatants, with the worldwide flows of migrant and trafficked workers, and so on. The conference will engage the
invisible presence of this “negative cosmopolitanism” for the Western middle-class and its liberal pundits. It will open up considerations of negative cosmopolitanism, exploring ideas around an imperial cosmopolis, slum or ghetto cosmopolitanisms, finance capitalism, piracy as it pertains both to material and intellectual property, and so on.
Despite its long history, the status of the negative cosmopolitan assumes a new importance in the aftermath of globalization, not only within discourses about universal human rights but also in the infrastructures built to shuttle people, things, and ideas around the world. We therefore aim to understand the role of the nation-state in refuting or resolving this problematic subjectivity. But we must also account for the influence of internationalism, workers’ unions, women’s movements, NGOs, and religious organizations. Some of this theorizing is obviously not new, but it needs to be rearticulated in a context in which idealistic misconceptions of cosmopolitanism still dominate.
We invite theoretical and historical contributions to these and related topics.
Themes you may wish to consider include (but are not limited to):
- The history and/or representations of cosmopolitanism
- Slum- or ghetto-based cosmopolitanisms
- Imperial cosmopolitanism (e.g. the military complex, the War on Terror)
- Labor and Internationalism
- Community or the Commons
- Piracy
- Trafficking, dislocation, border-crossing
- State sovereignty/state vulnerability/ the penal state
- Communication and information technologies, new media
- Biopolitics
- Religious movements
- Feminism
Proposals shall consist of an abstract of 350-500 words and a one-page CV. Please send your applications to Dr. Terri Tomsky <tomsky@ualberta.ca> by 21 October 2011.
Radical Foucault – An International Conference
The Centre For Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London will be hosting a major international conference on September 8th-9th, 2011 which will re-assess Michel Foucault’s contribution to radical thought and the application of his ideas to contemporary politics. What does it mean to draw on Foucault as a resource for radical politics, and how are we to understand the politics which implicitly informs his work? Keynote speakers will be Stuart Elden, Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University, one of the founding editors of Foucault Studies and Mark Kelly, Lecturer in Philosophy, Middlesex University, author of The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault (Routledge, 2009). Please see full call for papers here.
Email abstracts to Jeremy Gilbert (j.gilbert@uel.ac.uk) and Debra Benita Shaw (d.shaw@uel.ac.uk).
22nd World Congress of Political Science
Call for Papers for RC # 12 (Biology and Politics) Panels
The Research Committee on Biology and Politics (RC # 12) invites you to submit a paper proposal for one of the following panels:
- Panel 1: Evolution and Politics
- Panel 2: Research Frontiers in Biology and Politics (including ideas not covered in Panels # 1 and # 3).
- Panel 3 : Biology and Policy
If you are interested in participating in one of these panels, please contact Steven Peterson (sap12@psu.edu) and Albert Somit (albertsomit@gmail.com). Please provide them with a brief abstract of the proposed paper. If you wish to serve as a discussant or chair, please let Drs. Peterson and Somit know.
Please send your paper proposal via the paper proposal submission page at www.ipsa.org/events/congress/madrid2012/congress-theme before October 7, 2011.
Convocatoria II Jornada de Medicina & Humanidades: “El cuerpo y sus diversas dimensiones”
Durante los días 8 y 9 del mes de septiembre de 2011 se llevará a cabo en la Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile) la segunda jornada de Medicina y Humanidades. Esta Jornada tiene como objetivo promover instancias críticas desde el punto de vista literario, artístico, científico, filosófico, ético, político, histórico, etc. para un debate sobre las múltiples temáticas y problemáticas en torno a la práctica de la medicina. En esta ocasión el eje temático será “El cuerpo y sus diversas dimensiones”.
Lugar y hora: desde las 8.00 horas, en el auditorio Pedro Uribe Concha de la Escuela de Medicina, ubicado en Hontaneda 2653, Valparaíso.
Para más información sobre presentación de ponencias y participación en el evento ver el siguiente link. http://www.biomedica.uv.cl/?p=2766
Call for papers MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 2011
From 2011, the Manchester Centre forPolitical Theory (MANCEPT) in Politics at the University of Manchester will be organizing the annual Political Theory Workshops. Over the last seven years, participants from over twentycountries have come together in a series of workshops concerned with issues in politicaltheory/philosophy widely construed.
For more information check the following link.
http://manceptworkshops.wordpress.com/
Call for papers: Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World, Vancouver April 2012 - 1
Between the 26th and the 28th of April is taking place in Vancouver, under the auspices of Simon Fraser University, the*Scientiae*: a new interdisciplinary conference on early-modern science. .The working assumption of the conference is that interdisciplinarity is not only an option, but a necessity, for the study of early-modern culture in its knowledge of the natural world. That is because period science is itself an interdisciplinary function, emerging from Biblical exegesis, advanced design, and literary humanitas; as well as from natural philosophy, alchemy, craft traditions, etc. The Papers and panel proposals of no more than 500 words, should be sent by September 30 of 2011 to silenus@sfu.ca
For more information check the following link:
www.d.umn.edu/~smatthew/Scientiae_Conference_Vancouver.html
The 18th Internacional Conference Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Reason and Unreason: Nietzsche - The Enlightenment - Romanticism
The Friedrich Nietzsche Society is issuing a call for abstract proposals for the 18th international conference. The purpose of this conference is to examine the place of Nietzsche's thought between Reason and Unreason by focusing on its relation to the modern traditions of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
All 30-minute papers must discuss the topics bearing on the conference theme, including the following:
* Nietzsche and Reason / Nietzsche and the Irrational
* Nietzsche's relation to both the Enlightenment and Romanticism
* Nietzsche and the Enlightenment / Nietzsche contra the Enlightenment
* Nietzsche and Romanticism / Nietzsche as Romantic
The 2011 conference will take place the 9, 10 and 11th of September in the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations Queen Mary College, University of London.
For more information see the new FNS website at www.fns.org.uk or click here
Or send all your questions and comments, as well as any requests for information or assistance, to: friedrich.nietzsche.society@gmail.com
What is Life?: Theology, Science, and Philosophy
Kraków, Poland
24-28 June 2011
We are especially interested in papers in the following areas:
- Phenomenology
- Metaphysics
- Systematic Theology
- Patristics
- Philosophy of Science
- Biblical Studies
- Politics and Life
- Vitalism
- Speculative Materialism
- Resisting Violence
- Economics and Life
- Ethics of Life
Applicants must submit an abstract of their paper no longer than 200 words, emailing it to conor.cunningham@nottingham.ac.uk or filling out our Paper Abstracts submission page (http://theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk/Krakow2011/#conference_box).
The deadline for the paper abstract is 1st June, 2011.
More information: http://theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk/Krakow2011/
III Coloquio Latinoamericano de Biopolítica y I Coloquio Internacional de Biopolítica y Educación
A comienzos del siglo XX el sueco Rudolf Kjellén introdujo el concepto de biopolítica. Varias décadas más tarde, sin ninguna referencia a los trabajos de Kjellén, Michel Foucault se sirvió de este término para definir una de las dimensiones fundamentales de la política moderna: el gobierno de la vida biológica de la población. Desde 1974 hasta 1979, esta problemática ocupó el centro de sus reflexiones. A pesar de ello, ninguno de sus libros publicados en vida le está enteramente dedicado, sólo es abordado en la última parte de La voluntad de saber. Recién con la publicación de sus cursos en el Collège de France, a partir de 1997, esta problemática, por un lado, abrió una nueva perspectiva de lectura de la obra de Foucault y, por otro, adquirió nuevos desarrollos que han dominado una parte importante de la reflexión política de las últimas décadas en Europa, Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica.
A la luz de estos trabajos, en el año 2008 y 2009, tuvieron lugar el primer y el segundo Coloquio Latinoamericano de Biopolítica, organizados en Chile por una red de universidades. En el marco de estos encuentros, se confió a los participantes de Argentina la organización de un tercer coloquio con la intención, entre otras, de estimular la reflexión biopolítica a partir del contexto de Latinoamérica y de involucrar el mayor número posible de países y expertos de la región.
Invitados internacionales: Nickolas Rose (London School of Economics, Inglaterra), Andrea Cavalletti (IUAV/Universidad de Venezia, Italia) y Alfredo Veiga Neto (Universidad Federal Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil).
Fecha límite de envío de ponencias y propuestas de mesas redonda: 30 de Junio de 2011
Para las ponencias individuales, se deberá presentar:
1) Un resumen ampliado para la evaluación, sin datos referentes al autor y una extensión máxima de 1000 palabras, un abstract de 100 palabras, en el mismo formato y un breve curriculum vitae del autor (en un documento separado).
Las ponencias individuales tendrán una duración máxima de 20 (veinte) minutos en su exposición y luego se dispondrá de otros 10 (diez) minutos para su discusión.
Para las Mesas Redondas:
Estarán a cargo de un coordinador y no más de 4 integrantes (incluido el coordinador, en caso de exponer), su extensión será de 2 horas en total por cada. El coordinador deberá enviar el título de la mesa; el área; los nombres de los integrantes; y un resumen de 500 palabras de toda la mesa y, separadamente, un curriculum vitae de todos los integrantes.
Formatos de presentación en orden de preferencia:
pdf, rtf, docx, doc. Times New Roman 12, interlineado de 1,5. Idioma: español o portugués.
Fecha límite de inscripción (participantes sin ponencia): 31 de julio de 2011
Mail para el envío de las ponencias y mesas redondas:
pensamiento.contemporaneo@unipe.edu.ar
Mayor información: www.labtic.unipe.edu.ar/blog/ipc/
Post/autonomy - Call For Papers
Conference, Amsterdam, 19-22 May 2011
‘What can ‘post/autonomy’ mean today?’ therefore is one of the pivotal questions in contemporary critical theory and activism. Rather than packaging it as ‘Italian Theory’, we would like to explore the international dissemination of autonomous thought and activism today and their possible futures; in particular we would like to explore critical engagements and uses of autonomist ideas that shape what we might call post/autonomy. It is precisely the dynamics, tensions and ruptures between autonomy/autonomia and its possible futures (or ‘posts’) that we would like to investigate. What are the effects of autonomy/autonomia, as a thought and a movement, in a variety of domains: from critical theory to cinema, from activism to academic practice?
The conference will provide a platform for addressing these and other important questions. Papers may address the following topics (but are by no means bound to these):
Post/autonomy and
- contemporary activism
- conceptualizations of bio-politics
- the neo-liberal state
- precarity
- media activism
- academic activism and new student movements
- post-situationism
- queer autonomy
- feminism
- semiocapitalism
- artistic and cultural activism
- political/cultural memories of autonomia
- the metropolis and the social factory today
- the new communism
- strategies of resistance
- populism
- the law, the state of exception and legitimacy
We welcome both academic and practice-oriented contributions. Papers should not exceed 20minutes. Please send abstracts (350 words) before March 1st to postautonomia@gmail.com. For further information, please contact postautonomia@gmail.com / orj.g.c.debloois@uva.nl
Organizing committee:
Vincenzo Binetti, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Joost de Bloois, University of Amsterdam
Silvia Contarini, Université de Nanterre
Monica Jansen, Utrecht University
Federico Luisetti, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Frans-Willem Korsten, Leiden University/Erasmus University Rotterdam
Gianluca Turricchia, University of Amsterdam
CALL FOR PAPERS: Radical Foucault: A One Day Conference
Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London
The publication of Michel Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-84 in English will be complete in April 2011 and his first Collège de France lecture course, La Volunté de Savoir will be published for the first time in February. The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London is holding a one-day conference on Friday, September 9th, 2011 which will re-assess Foucault's contribution to radical thought and the application of his ideas to contemporary politics. What does it mean to draw on Foucault as a resource for radical politics, and how are we to understand the politics which implicitly informs his work?
Many commentators today would seem to claim Foucault as the theorist of a politics which eschews all utopian ambition in favour of a certain governmental pragmatism, while others would claim him for a rigorous but ultimately rather simple libertarianism: can either of these positions ever be adequate to the radicalism of Foucault’s analyses? Does it matter?
What is the significance of Foucault’s ideas of ‘governmentality’ and ‘biopolitics’ in understanding his later oeuvre and its implications; do either of these terms deserve to carry the weight attributed to them by some commentators? What is the ongoing relevance of Foucault’s account of disciplinarity: is, it, as Lazzarato has claimed, a historical category no longer fully applicable to contemporary forms of power?
How can Foucauldian ideas be brought bear on the analysis of austerity politics? Is there a role for Foucault's ideas in formulating effective resistance to the increasing erosion of civil liberties that operates both within countries and across state boundaries? Can the notion of bio-power account for contemporary forms of racism? How can Foucauldian epistemology enable an understanding of the biopolitics of contemporary scientific discourse?
Confirmed Keynotes:
- Stuart Elden, Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University.
- Mark Kelly, Lecturer in Philosophy, Middlesex University.
Abstracts of no more than 350 words are invited, to arrive no later than Tuesday, 1st March 2011. Subjects may include, but are not limited to:
- Foucauldian thought and contemporary subjectivation
- Foucault and other thinkers
- Governmentality and everyday life
- Strategic discourses of war and terror
- New technologies of the self
- Foucault and new forms of resistance
- Heterotopias now and in the future
- Foucault and the erosion of the state
- Disciplinary society and the society of control
- Foucault, British politics and the 'big society'
- Foucault, post-Fordism and post-democracy
Email abstracts to:
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Jeremy Gilbert (j.gilbert@uel.ac.uk) and Debra Benita Shaw (d.shaw@uel.ac.uk)
The Future of Creation Order: International Conference, 16 – 19 August 2011, VU University Amsterdam
People of all times have experienced the world of nature as expressing an overwhelming beauty, coherence and order. In the great monotheistic traditions this beauty, coherence and order have been related to the will or nature of a Creator. This idea has come under considerable pressure from different directions: evolutionary theory with its emphasis on the deep contingency of the living world, social science and in particular historicist and postmodernist strands in it, and philosophical critiques inspired by Marxism, Nietzschean perspectivism, existentialism, critical theory, social constructivism, and postmodernism have all served to subvert traditional conceptions of order.
The challenge for this ecumenical, interdisciplinary, and international conference is to explore whether there is room, still, for a distinction between something like an ontological affirmation of pre-given norms and ordering principles in various domains, while also acknowledging the particularity and ‘locatedness’ of our access to those norms and principles. Key ideas in this dialogue will be order, law, structure, principle, system, necessity, chance, change and emergence. The goal of the conference is to delve deeper into the current condition of the philosophical concept of (creation) order, and to assess its future trajectories and prospects.
Keynote speakers include:
- Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale)
- Eleonore Stump (St. Louis)
- C. Stephen Evans (Baylor)
- Gordon Graham (Princeton Theological Seminary)
- Denis Alexander (Cambridge)
- William Desmond (Leuven)
- Roy Clouser (College of New Jersey)
- Lambert Zuidervaart (ICS Toronto)
- Jonathan Chaplin (Cambridge)
- René van Woudenberg (VU)
- Gerrit Glas (VU)
- Henk Geertsema (VU)
- Call for papers
In addition to the plenary sessions, there will be further parallel workshop sessions for contributed papers. We cordially invite thinkers from all different philosophical and scientific traditions to submit a 500 word abstract on any topic relevant to the conference theme. Please prepare your abstract for anonymous review. Abstracts may be submitted by e-mail (as plain text, MS Word, Pages, or pdf files) to info@cpc2011.org or by regular mail (consulthttp:www.cpc2011.org for the address).
Abstracts should be submitted to the conference organizers by March 1st, 2011. Notification of acceptance / rejection: April 15th, 2011.
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Practical details
Session length for contributed papers will be 30 minutes including question time. We encourage authors to prepare papers that take no longer than 20 minutes to present so as to leave suitable time for questions and discussion afterwards.
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Further information and registration
For all further details, online registration, and payment, please visit www.cpc2011.org. Feel free to contact us with questions about the conference at info@cpc2011.org.
The concept of nature in politics, ECPR General Conference Reykjavik August 2011
We would like to remind you that you can submit your abstracts for a political theory panel at the ECPR General Conference in Reykjavik, August 2011: Panel 96: The Concept of Nature in Politics (see panel abstract below). Please note that this panel is included in the Political Theory Section (section 64).
The deadline for abstract submissions is 1 February. Proposals should be sent using the on line submission system at the ECPR web site. Please, log in to MyECPR to submit your proposal.
THE CONCEPT OF NATURE IN POLITICS
Abstract:
The panel seeks to determine what role(s) the often neglected concept of nature can and should play in shaping political theory and the study of politics. Nature was (at) the core of political theory up to the times of Hobbes, Locke and Spinoza, but after Hume and Kant discredited nature as a foundation of ethics, its explanatory role somehow disappeared as well.
However, a number of recent developments indicate that nature's role in political theory is not over yet. Some contemporary researchers are investigating possible contributions of genetics and sociobiology to politics. Others, e.g. animal rights scholars, are analyzing new ways of understanding nature as (possibly not) opposed to culture. Theorists of justice increasingly include the management of and access to ecological benefits and burdens from food and water to global warming in their research. And while many scholars of environmental politics adopted various interpretations of sustainability, others have criticized this as a self-defeating strategy, trading in nature for environment and true ecologism for human egoism.
Participants in this panel will consider why empirical and philosophical theories of politics incorporating the notion of nature are marginalized and how conceptualizations of the political sphere can (again) incorporate nature. At least three approaches to this issue are possible: systematic (e.g., Does nature exist? How does nature differ from environment? Can we think about nature yet avoid the 'is-ought fallacy'? Was nature always constructed in opposition to humanity?), normative (e.g., Can and should different conceptions of nature result in alternative theories of justice, citizenship, democracy and polity?) and interdisciplinary (e.g., How do difference accounts of nature shape policy areas? How can political theories of nature better contribute to and learn from empirical political science?)
CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on Foucault and Habermas
I will be convening a workshop on Foucault and Habermas in the context of the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, to be held between 31 August and 2 September 2011 at the University of Manchester. Papers are invited on any aspect of the social and political thought of Foucault, Habermas, the Foucault/Habermas debate and the Habermas/Rawls debate. Please submit an abstract to evangelia.sembou@hotmail.com by 15 January 2011. Please also submit an abbreviated CV. Completed papers should be submitted by 29 July 2011.
Information about the conference can be found at: manceptworkshops.wordpress.com
The Foucault Society, NYC / Call for Papers: 2011 Colloquium Series
The Foucault Society is pleased to announce a new colloquium series, which will begin in January 2011 and meet monthly in New York City. As a forum for new research and works-in-progress, this series will provide an opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to share new work with a friendly and supportive audience of colleagues.
We invite paper proposals on any aspect of Foucault studies. Papers may offer close readings of Foucault's texts; analyze social, cultural or political phenomena in the context of Foucaultian critique; or situate Foucault's work in terms of related thinkers or areas of critical theory. Critiques of Foucault and comparative readings are welcome, as are diverse critical, historical and empirical approaches.
Papers should be approximately 30 minutes reading time.
Graduate students, recent Ph.D.s, new faculty, and independent scholars are especially encouraged to apply. Presenters may come from any field in the humanities or social sciences.
Please send 500-word abstract and c.v. to the Foucault Society's Executive Committee at foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com. Inquiries are welcome.
Deadline for Spring 2011 presentations: December 1, 2010. Papers received after that date will be considered until the schedule is full.
Deadline for Fall 2011 presentations: May 30, 2011.
For updates and more information, we invite you to visit our newly updated website: www.foucaultsociety.org
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Convocatoria III Seminario de investigación “María de Cazalla”: “Rebeldes, asimilados y emboscados”
Se invita a los investigadores interesados, a participar en el tercer seminario de investigación “Maria de Cazalla”, titulado Rebeldes, asimilados y emboscados: mecanismos de poder y de control de los modos de vida a través de la Historia. Seminario de profundo análisis, de carácter histórico e interdisciplinar, en donde se revisaran una gran gama de temáticas relacionadas con conceptos y mecanismos biopolíticos, como gobierno, administración de la población, control de minorías, políticas de la sexualidad, conductas en base a los discursos médicos, etc., entre otras variables más, a lo largo de la historia. Éste se realizará el 23, 24 y 25 de Septiembre de 2011 en Palma del Río (Córdoba, España). Las propuestas de ponencias deben enviarse a mariadecazalla@gmail.com, mediante un resumen de aproximadamente 500 palabras, junto con un currículum (aprox. 200 palabras), antes del día 15 de junio de 2011. Los resultados se comunicaran el día 1 de julio.
