*** Call for Papers / Llamado a Ponencias ***
Conferencia Internacional
NIETZSCHE Y EL DEVENIR DE LA VIDA
2, 3, y 4 de noviembre 2009
Instituto de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago
de Chile
Convocatoria para presentar ponencias.
Esta conferencia ofrece una ocasión para la exploración y análisis de la concepción de vida en la obra de Nietzsche. Aún cuando Nietzsche consideró la afirmación de la vida terrenal como una manera de contrarrestar el nihilismo y el ascetismo, el significado de esta afirmación permanece una cuestión abierta. Esta conferencia desea considerar el pensamiento de Nietzsche sobre la vida en toda la variedad de sentidos que este concepto recubre: metafísico, estético, ético, político, y científico. Adicionalmente, esta conferencia desea proporcionar un espacio para presentar y discutir el estado de los estudios nietzscheanos en Latinoamérica.
Entre los conferencistas principales confirmados se encuentran:
Keith Ansell-Pearson, Warwick University, Great Britain.
Mónica Cragnolini, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Germán Cano Cuenca, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, España
Christa Davis Acampora, Hunter College, City University of New York, EE.UU.
José Jara, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.
Herman Siemens, Universidad de Leiden, Holanda.
Se invita a presentar propuestas para ponencias de 30 minutos sobre tópicos pertinentes al tema de la conferencia, entre los cuales se incluyen los siguientes:
- Nietzsche y la biología, la teoría de la evolución y la psicología;
- la concepción de Nietzsche del cuerpo, de la vida de los animales/plantas y de la naturaleza;
- vida y historicidad; vida, cultura y memoria; el futuro de la vida
- destino y libertad; voluntad de poder; culpa, responsabilidad y la inocencia del devenir;
- Dionisio y Apolo; tragedia y comedia; vida y literatura; la vida filosófica;
- Nietzsche y las filosofías de la vida
- Nietzsche y la biopolítica;
- Nietzsche, la geopolítica y el significado de la tierra
Las ponencias que versen sobre otros tópicos pertinentes al tema también serán consideradas. Las postulaciones tempranas son bienvenidas. Ponencias de estudiantes e investigadores jóvenes son bienvenidas. Los idiomas de la conferencia son español e inglés. Trabajaremos con traducción simultánea en las sesiones plenarias. Envíe por favor un sumario de un máximo de 600 palabras y un CV abreviado (1 página) al correo electrónico nietzsche.santiago@gmail.com, hasta el 30 de marzo del 2009. La notificación de aceptación será enviada antes del 15 abril del 2009.
Para información adicional, por favor visitar el sitio web de la conferencia: www.nietzsche.cl (en construcción) o contactarse con los organizadores a través de nietzsche.santiago@gmail.com
Organización: Vanessa Lemm, Instituto de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, vanessa.lemm@udp.cl / www.udp.cl.
Con la participación de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e Historia de la Universidad Diego Portales, la Universidad de Valparaíso y el Goethe Institut Santiago.
Second workshop:
‘The Biopolitics of Resilience’
-Call for papers-
Claus Moser Research Centre, University of Keele / 18-19 June 2009
Keynote speaker: Professor Pat O’Malley, University of Sydney
Resilience is becoming a security policy buzzword in areas as diverse as environmental, terrorist, and economic risks. Bird flu, chemical, biological, and nuclear attacks, flooding and natural disasters, all loom over systems of production, exchange and the continuation of liberal life. Cities, in particular, have been positioned as most vulnerable to these threats and critical infrastructure protection has been elevated to higher levels of priority.
But how do governments, cities, societies, and economies withstand and bounce-back from such disastrous ‘events’? How is life expected not only to endure but also to return to normal, either preserved or re-cast? How is life expected to ‘reset’ itself, snapping back into orderly patterns and routines? How are governments, agencies, organisations, and subjects to adapt and transform when disturbances unfold? This poses a challenge for contemporary liberal security policymaking.
However, there is no single language of resilience as evident in simultaneous resilience discourses, from US Homeland Security, to the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection, and to the UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat. Emergency preparedness has meant preparing-for the possible outcomes of all-hazards catastrophe, but there is no single understanding or logic of preparedness and catastrophe. In an act of ‘letting go’ (Foucault), different modes of resilience may assume that the event is inevitable, with the response up for grabs.
This workshop, the second of the Biopolitics of Security ESRC seminar series, seeks to examine the conception, en-action and experience of resilience as a practice of liberal security. It seeks to pose questions to historical and contemporary resilience strategies ranging from the genealogy of the concept to their conditions of possibility and operability, to their differentiation with other forms of security. In particular, but not exclusively, the following questions will be pursued:
- Is resilience a defining feature of liberalism? Are other forms of resilience present in its different stages?
- What is particularly different about resilience discourses in relation to other practices of liberal security?
- What are the different rationalities and practices required for an idea of resilience to operate?
- What do analyses of resilience discourses and practices have to offer to the ways in which we understand contemporary liberal governance?
- Is resilience an exclusive feature of liberal forms of life?
We welcome papers that could address topics such as:
- Genealogies of resilience
- Civil contingencies and emergency planning
- The temporality of resilience – pasts and futures
- Resilience industries
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Resilience and the environment
- Imaginations of resilience
- All- or Multi-hazards and differential modes of response
- The subjects of resilience
- Logics of resilience
- Histories of resilience
- Urban and rural resilience
- The psychological and affective dimensions of resilience
- Pre-emption and preparedness
- Resilience and militarism
Organisers:
Dr Luis Lobo-Guerrero (International Relations, Keele University)
E-mail: l.lobo-guerrero@intr.keele.ac.uk
Dr Peter Adey, (Geography, Keele University)
Deadline for abstracts: Monday 16 February 2009
Confirmation of acceptance of abstracts: Monday 23 February 2009
Submission of papers: Monday 8 June 2009
Funding: Paper-givers will be funded by the seminar series. Some funds have been reserved to facilitate the attendance of research students. Please register your interest with Luis Lobo-Guerrero as soon as possible.
A selection of papers will be considered for publication as part of an edited volume for the seminar series.
Call for ABSTRACTS…Appell de RÉSUMÉS
20th Canadian Bioethics Society Conference
June 11-14, 2009 - Hamilton, Ontario
The theme of the 2009 Canadian Bioethics Society Conference is Just Evidence? The Conference
Abstract Committee invites proposals for papers, workshops or posters that raise ethical issues around evidence-based knowledge, clinical care, health law, health policy and health related research. Discussions of justice in relation to global, local or clinical health contexts are particularly encouraged.
Deadline for submissions is February 9, 2009.
Submissions are welcome in English or French
For more detail, go to: http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/bioethicsconference/
Le thème de la Conférence 2009 de la Société Canadienne de Bioéthique est “Quelle prevue pour une décision juste?”. Le comité de lecture de la Conférence invite des propositions de présentations, d’ateliers, ou d’affiches qui soulèvent des questions éthiques, basées sur des connaissances factuelles, sur les soins cliniques, la loi, et les lignes de conduite liés aux soins et à la recherche. Les délibérations sur l’équité à l'échelle mondiale et locale dans le contexte de santé sont particulièrement encouragées.
La date limite des soumissions est le 9 février, 2009.
Oliver Klimek MDiv, MA
HHS/FHS Research Ethics Officer
McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, HSC1B7, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5
Tel: 905.525.9140 x22577 Fax: 905.523.6061 Email: klimeko@mcmaster.ca
Call for Papers - ANIMAL MINDS - Journal TEOREMA
Recently, the nature of animal minds has been the focus of increased interest and heated discussion among philosophers. The question philosophers have asked themselves is whether non-linguistic animals have minds; or more specifically, whether they have beliefs, perceptual
experiences and other intentional states. The answers given are shaped by intuitionsconcerning the interplay between the notions of intentional content, language and rationality.
Thus, assuming that language is necessary for conceptual abilities, some philosophers have denied that non-linguistic animals have beliefs or perceptions, on the grounds that they lack the conceptual resources required for intentional states. This view has been attacked from two directions. On the one hand, holding on to the thesis that language is necessary for conceptual abilities, it has been argued that non-linguistic animals can nonetheless be in states with intentional content (of a limited complexity, at least), because certain intentional states (eg, perceptions, or certain beliefs) do not require conceptual abilities. On the other hand, the thesis that language is necessary for conceptual abilities has been rejected, and on the basis of a more naturalist notion of a conceptual ability, it has been argued that non-linguistic animals have conceptual abilities and intentional states. Simultaneously, philosophers in the two latter groups have questioned the long-standing connection between language and rationality, and therefore the thesis that non-linguistic animals cannot count as rational beings.
Part of the interest of this research lies in the new insights offered into the notion of a conceptual ability, or the idea of rationality, arising from the contrast between intellectualist versus naturalist accounts. But the development of these naturalist accounts carries the associated danger of settling the issue about animal minds, simply by changing the way our initial question is understood. One may wonder, then, whether there was a substantial question to begin with. Hence, the need for further research into this area to avoid this impasse.
In 2009, a special issue of the Spanish philosophy journal TEOREMA will be devoted to exploring the nature of animal minds. TEOREMA welcomes submissions of original papers addressing any of the different conceptual questions involved. Papers presenting relevant empirical research are also acceptable, although its significance for the underlying conceptual questions should be clearly stated. Book reviews and critical notices of recent relevant publications are also welcome.
Papers must be written in English or in Spanish, and should not exceed 15 double-spaced A-4 pages (or 5000 words). For the presentation of their manuscripts, authors are requested to adhere to the details that can be found at www.uniovi.es/teorema. Authors must submit their papers both in electronic and paper formats.
Notification of intent to submit including subject matter will be greatly appreciated as it will assist with the coordination and planning of this special issue.
Deadline for submissions: 1st February, 2009.
NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 15th June, 2009.
All queries and submissions must be addressed to:
Prof. Luis Valdés-Villanueva
Editor of TEOREMA
Facultad de Filosofía
Universidad de Oviedo
E-33071 Oviedo (Spain)
E-Mail: lmvaldes@uniovi.es
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