• The Dialogue between East and West: Past, Present and Future
• A New Dialogue for a New World
• Compared Visions: Asia and Latin America: Two Models of Society and Development
• Ethics and Globalization: Global Values and Local Values
• Reason and Spirit in the XXI Century: The Indispensable Dialogue
• Dialogue and Creativity: Art, Science and Culture

El eje del simposio será la reflexión en torno a las tradiciones orales en América Latina como procesos de comunicación en el marco de las hegemonías:

• Investigaciones de las tradiciones orales a través de la interdisciplinariedad, evidentemente consideramos la teoría literaria, la antropología, la historia y los estudios culturales
• Proyectos de difusión y promoción de la tradición oral
• Convenios y proyectos comunitarios que respondan a las necesidades del entorno en su inserción a los procesos de globalización nacionales

• Teoría, enfoques y metodos de la religión
• Las dimensiones del hecho religioso
• Las dimensiones simbólicas de las religiones y las etnicidades
• Los cambios religiosos
• La evangelización de América Latina
• La herencia de la evangelización: el catolicismo latinoamericano
• El pluralismo católico
• El complejo mundo evangélico
• Viejas y nuevas religiones autóctonas
• Viejas y nuevas religiones orientales
• Las religiones surgidas en el contexto norteamericano
• La nueva era, los espiritismos, esoterismos y las utopías tecnológicas
• Historia de las religiones y de las iglesias latinoamericanas
• Religiones, sistemas miticos y "literaturas"
• Politicas publicas y derechos y libertades religiosas

• African Christianity and the Barriers of the ethnic/tribal cultures
• Koloniales Erbe und Afrikanisierung der Kirche
• Violence in the Relations of Muslims and Christians in Indonesia
• Women, Dalits, Environment in Hinduism and Christianity in India
• Die Gestalt der Mission – eine indianische Kirche
• Liberation in the Basic Communities – Signs of a New Church
• The Limits of the Roman Mission – the Church in Russia

• Theoretical semiotics and epistemology
• Differences and identities
• Semiotics of communication: exchanges and relations
• Semiotics of cultural practices
• Semiotics and aesthetic practices
• Semiotics of space and time globalisation
• Political semiotics of globalisation

• Feminism and Globalisation: Theoretical Challenges
• Globalisation, Culture and Representation
• Women, Ecology and the Environment
• Global Transfers of Gender
• Sex and Sexuality in a Global Economy
• Violence Against Women and Children: Global Perspectives
• Women and Movement Across Borders
• Feminism, Global Citizenship and Democracy
• Globalisation and Labour
• Feminist Perspectives on Human Rights
• Globalisation and Feminism: From Resistance to Protest
• Communities and Relationships from Local to Global
• Technology, Gender, and (Re)Production
• Queer Globalisation: Paradigms for Theories and Praxis
• Organizing from the Grassroots and Transnational Coalition Building
• War, Conflict, and Peace-Building
• Empire and Post-Colonisation
• Globalisation of Rural and Urban Spaces
• Women's Studies, Feminist Scholarship and the 'Global Economy': Issues and Challenges

• Rights and Responsibilities in the Age of Terrorism
• Communitarian Economics: What Is to be Done?
• Sustaining and Reforming the Community of Communities
• From Empire to Community: Toward a Communitarian Foreign Policy
• The Moral Voice, Social Norms (Informal Controls), and the Law
• Beyond Relativism: The Moral Agenda – Communal Obligations and Universal Values
• Recapturing our Holidays
• Communitarian Policies
• Communitarian Theory and Philosophy

• Intercultural borrowings
• Religious division
• Hybrid art and literature
• Rich versus poor
• "Culture", "race", "ethnicity"
• Rules, regulations and laws: defining whose culture is in and whose is out
• Definition by others and self-definition
• Secular versus religious
• Language of difference and foreignness
• Social memory and reworking the past
• Illustrations of difference and foreignness
• "The Other" – and whose "other" and why?
• Masculinity versus femininity
• The status and treatment of minorities
• Muslims, Latins and Orthodox in the Mediterranean
• Transmission of ideas
• Political rivalries (e.g. Byzantium and the West, Normans in Sicily)
• Language contact

• when and why is law evil or a source of evil?
• state violence and coercion
• justifications for punishment, including capital punishment
• whether and under what circumstances the adversary or inquisitorial models of legal process generate, tolerate, or allow evil outcomes
• issues of distributive justice in law, including distributing the costs of legal error
• the intersection of law with issues of choice, responsibility, and diminished responsibility
• state responsibility for terrorism, war, intervention, ethnic cleansing, and other problems of international law and international relations

• Environmental Issues
• Social Issues
• Ethics
• Politics
• Feminism
• Technology
• Multiculturalism
• Philosophical theory and practice

The main theme of the Convention is the fate of nationalities and of national and nationalist ideas in a world of globalization and economic and political integration. This includes the relation between national ideals and the process of transformation in Central Asia, the Caucasus, East-Central Europe and the Balkans, the question of political change and democratization in the post-Soviet area, as well as the prospects for systemic change in the post-communist world.
The Convention will be held just two months after Poland and the other more advanced countries in the region join the EU while many other post-communist states continue to move back to authoritarian rule, twelve years after the fall of Communist system in East-Central Europe.
The Warsaw Special Convention will consider proposals on topics related to national identity, nationalism, ethnic conflict and state-building in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and adjacent areas. The Convention invites proposals for individual papers or for complete panels.

Das Kolloquium widmet sich der Frage der Sozialität. Was ist Sozialität bzw. was sind soziale Bindungskräfte, die überall dort wirksam sind, wo sich gesellschaftliche Strukturen ausbilden? Als ein möglicher Grundbegriff zur Rekonstruktion sozialer Zusammenhänge hat in jüngster Zeit der Begriff der Anerkennung an Konjunktur gewonnen. Er soll den Mechanismus verständlich machen, durch den sich soziale Bindungen, soziale Felder und sozialisierte Subjekte ausbilden – die performative Produktion sozialer Kohäsion durch die permanente Arbeit moderner Subjekte an ihrer individuierenden Vergesellschaftung. Das Kolloquium wird die Auseinandersetzung mit deutschen, französischen und angelsächsischen Diskursen der Anerkennung aufnehmen und fragen, inwieweit Sozialität als in und durch Anerkennungsverhältnisse konstituiert gedacht werden kann. Ausdrücklich sind Beiträge willkommen, die konkurrierende Vorschläge zur Explikation der grundlegenden Phänomene und Fragen von Sozialität mit ins Spiel bringen, also die Tragfähigkeit des Anerkennungsbegriffs in Frage stellen.

The congress values papers with a long-term strategic impact, the potential to promote the creative interaction of the natural, social and human sciences with religion, theology, spirituality or philosophy, in addition to concrete and immediate benefits for the general public and policy-makers. Also, it values papers with creative, constructive, forward-looking perspectives. Its presentations and formal publications will engage the theological and philosophical dimensions in a serious way as well as rigor in the empirical, scientific dimension.

• Memory and Neuroscience
• Architecture and Memory
• Memory and Perception
• Memory and Community
• Memory and Consciousness
• Memory Across Cultures
• Memes and Genes
• Genocide and Cultural Memory
• Hierarchical Structure and Memory
• Monuments and History
• Cosmological Memory
• Memory and Planning
• Organic/Inorganic Memory
• Memory and Narrative
• Quantum Memory
• Memory and/of the Future
• Memory in Ecosystems
• Memory and the Image
• Memory and Forgetting
• False Memories
• Computers and Memory
• Long-/Short-Term Memory

Submissions on the conference theme are encouraged, but proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome.

Im Zuge des Globalisierungsprozesses befinden sich alle Kulturen, Religionen und damit alle Gesellschaften der Welt in einem grundlegenden Wandel, der vor allem durch neue Kommunikationstechnologien, Migration, weltweiten Austausch von Kapital und Gütern bedingt ist. Diese Entwicklung hat zur Entstehung pluraler Gesellschaften geführt, die nicht nur eine Chance, sondern auch ein Bedrohungspotenzial für die Zukunft der Menschheit bedeutet. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich für die Tagung die Frage, wie ein Zusammenleben der Menschen in einer zunehmend multireligiösen und multikulturellen Welt gelingen kann.

Nowadays the Ethos of Individualism is regarded as a Myth rather than an Ethos hailing from the 17th Century Scientific Revolution and the 18th Century European Enlightenment. The Narrative of Modernity is, in a sense, the attempt to save the idea of Individualism from its esoteric background, without falling into moral Nihilism. The articulation of the Self in the context of coexistence with Others is the great challenge facing the European Mind, or simply, facing Europeans. Western civilisation has to meet the challenge of the legend of the disappearance of the Self. For this central issue it is imperative to rearticulate the unity of theory and practice on the one hand, and to break down the barriers within Humanistic Studies on the other.

In recent years, strong religious allegiances have presented increasing challenges to secular states committed to pluralism. The conference will examine these challenges and the roots of the religious revival in many parts of the world. Discussions will include religious extremism and its relationship to terrorism, the rising influence of more extreme religious beliefs in the governments of some secular states, and the tension between individual rights and collective religious rights in pluralist democracies.

Proposals for Working Groups on themes such as Religion and Ecology, Human Rights and Social Justice, Women and Religion, Toward a Global Ethic, Practice Across Traditions, Catholic Buddhist Relations, Religious Responses to Violence, Religion and Globalization, or other relevant themes, are welcome.
Proposals for Full Panels addressing specific themes, including issues in doctrine and theory, ritual, religious practice, methodology, and others, are encouraged.
Individual paper proposals on various themes, including doctrinal, ritual, practical, ethical and other issues relevant to Buddhist Christian dialogue are also encouraged.

• Translation and the colonialist project
• Translation as a post-colonialist practice
• Translation and the processes of othering
• Translation as a mode of resistance
• Translation, historiography and national histories
• Translating the identity of ethnic minorities
• The strategies of appropriating/manipulating the poetics and politics of national literatures
• The role of publishing policies in marketing particular aspects of national/cultural identities through translation
• Translation as disinformation/misrepresentation
• Translation and the discourse(s) of globalization

• Privacy of medical and genetic data
• Consent in population genetics and biobanks
• Genetic discrimination
• Genomics, governance and democracy
• Biobanks, population genetics and social justice
• The public discourse on genetic databases, biobanks and human genomics
• Concepts and methods in bioethical approaches to population genetics
• The effects of human genetics on ethical frameworks
• Social and historical contexts of genetic databases
• Legal frameworks and problems concerning genetic databases and biobanks
• Public perception of privacy and trust in relation to genetic databases
• Population genetics, databases and public policy
• Ethics committees and related institutions
• Commercialisation and benefit-sharing
• Genetic databases and human diversity
• Databases for research
• Databases and health service delivery

• Where and in what form do we need "one" law, "one" morality, "one" governance, "one" power, "one" public? How much weight should we accord Europe’s constitution, and how much its various regions?
• Where and in what form is "one" market necessary? In what ways does the economy foster homogenizing, and in what ways dissolving, forces? Which models of economy appropriately recognize these forces?
• Where and in which form do we need "one" culture, "one" education, "one" religion? What status should we give culture, education and religion in Europe?

The conference wants to be a meeting place of choice for professionals working from all disciplines who share a desire to develop a better understanding of the processes, implications and management of conflict in all arenas. This conference is intended as a forum for sharing the outputs of recently completed and ongoing research. We shall be pleased to receive submissions that take advantage of the location of the conference by reflecting its local and national context.

• Ethics as a dimension of animal production and consumption
• Ethics and sustainability: food production, environmental policies and future generations
• Ethics, world food security and development
• Ethics and the biobased economy of the twenty-first century: agriculture expanding into health, energy, chemicals and materials

• Human security in an historical perspective
• Militarization and human capabilities
• Violence and bodily integrity
• Food insecurity and capability deprivation
• Health and capability deprivation
• Basic capabilities and Social Security in affluent societies

• Gender and friendship
• Friendship and kinship
• Friendship within an imperial context
• Cross racial friendships

The academic programme for the Conference will be organised in the tried and tested format of Sections and Panels. A section is a number of panels linked by a common theme. Section chairs organise the panels, select panel chairs, and take responsibility for the actual execution of their section's part of the Conference programme.
A section may consist of (at most) ten 90-minute panel sessions during the programme. The actual number of panels in each case is flexible, although each section should aim for a minimum of three panels.
Each 90-minute panel should ideally comprise three papers plus a discussant and chair, or two papers plus two discussants and chair.
Section Chairs are encouraged to seek participants from Central and Eastern Europe.

• Human Rights and Security
• Civil Liberties in the War on Terror
• Unilateral or Multilateral Strategies for Defending Human Rights?
• Redefining Human Rights and Security

• The relation between nationalism and different types of historical writing (scholarly, literary, popular and textbook), archaeology (tourism, and museums) and visual images (film, and painting)
• The impact of nationalism on renaming practices (of places, people and institutions), the imagination of self and other and the legitimisation of violence
• The differences between nationalist and nation-state dominated histories

• Perspectives for Understanding Violence
• The Objects and Goals of Violence
• Representations of Violence
• Counter Cultures to Violence

• Religious freedom in liberal pluralistic societies
• Gender equality
• The impact of multiculturalism on setting and implementing national polices in such fields as immigration, citizenship, foreign policy
• The emergence of interculturalism as an alternative approach
• Critiques of multiculturalism focused on national identity and the social safety net
• The current challenges to multiculturalism policy that different nations now face

• International efforts to prevent, manage and settle self-determination conflicts and the conditions of their success in past, present and future
• The viability of different types of settlements (such as different forms of power sharing, autonomy and federal arrangements, as well as human and minority rights-based approaches)
• The tradeoffs between stability and human rights and between long-term and short-term security concerns and their direct and indirect consequences for actual and potential self-determination conflicts
• The broader and longer-term consequences of the 'war on terrorism' on the dynamics of self-determination and security

The purpose of the roundtable is to bring together philosophers of race, and those working in related fields, in California, and throughout the nation, in a small and congenial setting to share their work and to help further this sub-discipline. Papers are invited on any philosophical issue regarding race, ethnicity, or racism, and including those that take up race in the context of another topic, such as justice, racism, identity, ethnicity, mestizaje (mixed race), feminism, biology, phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis, metaphysics, or epistemology.

• The definition of excessive force
• The limits of force in the 'War on Terror'
• The ethics of air power
• Non-combatant immunity
• Case studies

• Changing Bodies, Changing Worlds
• Identities: Race, Community, Citizenship
• Poverty Amid Affluence
• Social Justice and Spaces of Containment
• Imagining Globalisation: Media, Culture, Information and Exchange
• Biotechnics, Bodies and Belonging

Ethnicity is strongly connected to politics, both domestic and international. What can we tell decision-makers and the public to help them understand ethnicity? What do we know about the relationships of ethnicity to other social forces such as race, religion, class, geography, culture, language, migrations? What have been the major authors, schools, approaches and publications during the past decade or so and what have been the major research projects and their key findings? How have our studies, methods and approaches evolved over time?

Across the disciplines we find diverse definitions, boundaries and societal implications associated with ideas of 'community' – making for complex and contested theoretical terrain. Meanwhile, community, as a powerful taken-for-granted discourse in our day-to-day worlds, serves as the basis for a diversity of local social, environmental, and political practices. And, it does this within continuously shifting social and political contexts. We invite paper submissions and workshops which theorize about communities and/or provide grounded experience in community work, while also addressing the issue of how to bridge gaps between community theory and praxis.

Themes:

• Governance
• Identity and Place
• Exclusion/Inclusion
• Development
• History
• Education
• Culture(s)
• Change, Difference
• Celebration
• Sustainability
• Environment
• Symbolism