• inclusivity in theory and practice
• igration and asylum
• political ideologies of exclusion
• toleration and multiculturalism
• universalism and particularism
• negotiating 'otherness'
• re-thinking identity and nationalism
• liberalism, capitalism and citizenship
• race, class and gender
• developments in European civil society
• prospects for the European Union
• notions of 'community', present and future

Among the sub-topics we hope to address are the roles of today's diviners as political leaders and healers, the fundamental epistemologies which divination articulates, and the complex processes by which underlying realities are revealed. We also encourage descriptions of previously unstudied divination systems.

• GM (Genitical Modification)
• Cooperative and Sustainable Development
• Environmental Education and Intellectual Health
• Citizenship, Technological Innovation and Sustainability

• Information technology and culture
• Media and culture
• Communication and globalization
• Digital communication
• Interpersonal/intercultural conflict and negotiation
• Group/organizational communication across cultures
• Language and cultural education
• Nonverbal communication
• Health communication
• Crisis/risk communication/management
• International journalism
• Advertising
• Computer mediated communication
• Visual art and culture
• Culture as reality construction
• Cultural identity
• Rhetoric studies
• Ethnicity and communication
• Language attitude
• Language policy
• Language change and language stability
• Cultural and linguistic diversity
• Translation theory

• Wie kann eine spezifische Identitätskonstruktion auf universalen Werten gründen, die ihrem Geltungsanspruch nach die Grenzen einzelner Kulturen überschreiten?
• Kann sich eine europäische Wertegemeinschaft historisch legitimieren, z.B. durch den Bezug auf ein griechisch-römisches Erbe?
• Welche Rolle kann oder soll ein Bezug auf eine Tradition christlicher Werte in einem künftigen Europa spielen?
• Lassen sich Werte identifizieren, die einerseits spezifisch europäisch sind, andererseits von den Mitgliedern der europäischen Union gleichermaßen vertreten werden?
• In welches Verhältnis setzt die Begründung einer europäischen Wertegemeinschaft die EU zu anderen Teilen der westlichen Welt (z.B. den USA) oder zu außereuropäischen Nationen und Kulturen?
• In welches Verhältnis setzt die Begründung einer europäischen Wertegemeinschaft die EU zur Türkei?
• Auf welche Weise und mit welchen Erfolgsaussichten wird in dem Verfassungsvertrag Identitätspolitik betrieben?
• Kann oder sollte es etwas wie einen "europäischen Verfassungspatriotismus" geben; wird er – etwa aus demokratietheoretischen Gründen – gebraucht?
• Welche Erwartungen darf man hinsichtlich der Verfassungswirklichkeit der EU haben, insbesondere mit Blick auf internationale Interventionen, Arbeitnehmerrechte, oder die Asyl- und Einwanderungspolitik?

• What is the place of religion (meaning especially but not exclusively salvationist religion) in liberal democracies committed to multiculturalism and cultural diversity?
• Should religious practice and belief be treated simply as a sub-category of cultural identity or is there warrant for treating these commitments separately?
• To what extent should the internal life of religious communities match the liberal democratic norms of the wider society?
• How does religious commitment pertain to the questions of citizenship and civic responsibility?
• What are the appropriate relations between different religious communities (and their members) that share common citizenship?

• Los valores de la integración latinoamericana en un mundo globalizado
• Pensamiento iberoamericano del siglo XX ante la condición humana
• Historia de las ideas en América Latina y España
• Temas y corrientes contemporáneas del pensamiento filosófico y educativo en Iberoamérica
• El pensamiento marxista ante los problemas de la contemporaneidad
• La proyección del ideal social de la Revolución Cubana

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

• Politics, international relations and globalisation issues
• Trade, economy, business and human resource development
• Values, ethics, human rights, culture, tradition, religion and the arts, including issues of government, identity, gender and community
• Scientific and technological developments with particular emphasis on emergent ethical challenges

While the history of mercenary forces stretches back at least 4000 years, recent events in Africa, Iraq and elsewhere have highlighted the fact that private military forces are now being employed to a degree that is arguably unprecedented in the era since the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. Also unique is the degree to which 'Private Military Companies' are demanding recognition as legal and morally legitimate entities. These developments raise important moral, ethical, and policy questions. Despite this, there has been little focused attention on this phenomenon, nor has there been any sustained investigation into the relationship between Global Civil Society and Private Military Companies.

• La ruta del esclavo en América y las religiones afroamericanas
• Diversidad religiosa dentro de las religiones de origen africano
• Etnicidad y religión; etno-educación
• Género, migración y mercado en las religiones afroamericanas
• Sincretismo y nuevas tendencias religiosas en las religiones afroamericanas
• Globalización de la religiosidad
• Migración y conformación de nuevas identidades
• La mirada de los otros
• Las propuestas religiosas y los medios de comunicación

• Ethos of Universalism: Unifying With Co-Created World
• Universalism Born out of Cultural and Historiosophic Mutiny, out of Various Dreams of Perfect World
• Symbols of Ending of Bourgeuois Europe and »Doctor Faustus«
• The Role of Technosophy and its Alliances in the Building of Civic Information Society of the Age of Universalistic Globalisation
• Zaratustra and Tragic, But Joyful Wisdom
• Paradigm of Surviving: Synergy of Dialogue and Universalism – Towards the Settling of Historiosophic Arguments
• From Jagiellonian Polishness to Uprising and Universalistic Polishness
• Medicine and Everyday Wisdom: Towards Longevity and New Quality of Life
• Fundaments of Rationality and Length of Human Life: Homo Universalis
• Systematization of Dialogue and Universalism

• Development of Socratic dialogue
• Exchange of ideas: Socratic and other forms of dialogue
• Examples of dialogue practised in different political systems – notably those recently developed in Central and Eastern Europe
• The role of dialogue in mutual understanding within and between different cultures and in the political and economic sectors

I. Jews and Empire

• Jews and the Black Atlantic
• Evangelicalism, Millennialism and Missions to the Jews
• Imperialism and the imagery of 'Chosen People'
• Jewish emigrants and immigrants
• Global networks of communication
• Jewish and imperial historiographies
• Semitism and Orientalism
• 'The Jew' in Imperial Gothic narratives
• Zionism and imperial culture
• Anti-Semitism and imperialism
• Representations of the Wandering Jew
• Jews as colonists, colonial administrators or colonized people
• Diaspora, globalization and the Jews

II. Jews, Racialisation and the Anglo-American World

• Theories of racialisation
• Jews and Afro-Caribbeans/Afro-Americans
• Jews and other minorities
• Contemporary asylum seekers and processes of racialisation
• The continuation of 'race science' through genetic mapping? self-construction of minorities and processes of racialisation
• The impact of Empire and its aftermath

• Theorising recognition in politics
• Recognition/redistribution debates in critical theory
• Social justice in the age of 'identity' politics
• Case studies in the politics of recongition and respect

• Education, pedagogy and Orisa religion(s)
• Health, medicine and indigenous medicine
• Indigenous knowledge and technological systems
• Sacrifices, possession and ritual ceremonies
• Environment and ecology
• Use of the Yorùbá language and thought systems
• Visual, performing and creative arts
• The significance of Ifá and the literature of all the Orisa
• Public policies and social rights
• Promotion of Yorùbá culinary arts and sciences
• Development and maintenance of agnatic and spiritual families
• Social and economic development
• Link between the African continent and the diaspora
• Relations with other religions
• Ethics, protocol, discipline and character development
• Gender issues
• The denominations of Orisa religion
• Issues of body and sexuality in Orisa tradition
• Negritude: Africana perspectives on philosophy
• Politics and religion

• Theoretical conceptions of the notion of culture and conceptual clarifications of such conceptions (nature, primitive society and political society; popular and classical culture; forms of life and culture; interpretations of the phenomenon of culture; the necessary and sufficient conditions for the emergence, expression and constitution of culture; cultural universals; apoge and decline of cultures; the notion of cultural development; kinds of cultural values, etc.)
• Culture in history (great cultures of the past and their meaning for us today; the essential characteristics and elements of these cultures [Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, Arab, European, etc.]; the essence of Greek culture; Greek culture then and now; meeting and merging of cultures)
• Culture, nature and ecology (wildlife and culture; the dichotomy between cultured and primitive society; contemporary and postmodern philosophy of nature (wilderness); towards an ecological culture)
• Culture, values and globalisation (cultural identities; culture and religious fundamentalism/radicalism; the meeting and clash of cultures; cosmopolitanism, or towards a culture of cultures)

The worldwide expansion of new social and economic relations, new patterns of migration, and the spread of North American consumer culture have had radically destabilizing effects on the life-conditions of peoples and populations around the world. The conference will consider the diverse ways in which issues of democracy, practices of citizenship, and social security articulate with human rights in this globalizing era. It will bring together internationally known scholars, researchers, and activists whose work addresses the foundations, history, politics, or limitations of human rights and whose participation will assist in redressing the intractable dilemmas associated with the processes of globalization.

• globalization, development and conflict
• globalization, regionalization and the nation-state
• businesses, the workplace and the global economy
• media and culture in the global age
• mobility
• ethics, morality and religion

• Conflict prevention, resolution and transformation
• The role of culture – a new challenge to analyze
• Overcoming the security dilemma in the Aegean
• Promoting youth NGO's dialogue – parameters and perspectives
• Thinking beyond the current impasse – The Cyprus issue
• Provocation to conflict resolution: The Israel-Palestine ongoing conflict
• Internal and external factors for the building cultural alliances in international business
• The Macedonian issue – cultural and economical diplomacy consisting a platform based on trust and stability among Greece and FYROM

• Fronteras en el Cono Sur
• Ideas e intelectuales en América Latina/Cono Sur
• Actores Sociales, Democracia, Ciudadanía
• Derechos Humanos: memoria, silenciamiento, conquistas
• Procesos educativos e interculturalidad
• Configuraciones del trabajo en el Cono Sur
• Producciones Culturales en el Cono Sur

• global economy
• global justice
• global law and human rights
• global culture
• global sustainable development
• global society

• Weapons of mass destruction
• New wars and soft security
• Human rights and needs
• Regional integration
• Ecological and environmental questions
• Global civil society
• The UN at 60
• Identity issues and fundamentalism
• Cutting edges in International Relations theory
• New trends in diplomacy and foreign policy
• Imposition of democracy
• Ethics in International Relations
• Migration

• Philosophy and Theology
• 1800 and all that? The late 18th century as a paradigm shift
• Idealism and Materialism
• German philosophy – French theory: the migrations of thirdness
• Configurations of the Third in Modern Theology
• Chiliasm, millenarianism and utopia in the 19th and 20th centuries
• History and Philosophy of Science
• Third bodies
• Parasites, epidemics, infections: configurations of the Third in the history of medicine
• The dialectics of evolution
• The uncertainty principle and metareflexivity in modern science
• Social and Political Sciences
• Third ways
• Money, circulation, acceleration: reflections on modernity
• Concepts of time and space in postcolonial discourse
• Jürgen Habermas and the public sphere
• Giorgio Agamben's concept of 'homo sacer'
• Literary Studies
• The Third as a literary theme: demigods and angels, rivals and voyeurs, pícaros and tricksters
• Theories of metaphor
• Reader-response criticism and the author-text-reader triangle
• The sublime, the uncanny, the individual: psychoanalysis and literature
• Media Studies / Cultural Studies
• Intertextuality, Intermediality
• Tertiary models in media studies and communication theory
• Configurations of the uncanny in media studies
• The Third in cultural studies (eg cultural materialism, postcolonial theory)
• The notion of 'ecology' in cultural theory

Traditionally, civil religion and religious nationalism have been linked to specific nation states. Due to the globalization, migration, and intensified demographic mobility of the last decades, various kinds of religion and religiosity have been transferred to new and unusual contexts. This conference seeks a more thorough understanding – theoretically as well as empirically – of the dynamic interrelations of migration, mobility, civil religion and religious nationalism. In short, we would like to find out what takes place, when religions of nations are out of place, and what kind of conflicts that may arise from this displacement.

The ability of conflict to do long-term damage to life, relationships and property is well-documented. This year we are looking, if not exactly for good news stories, at least for examples of situations where the powerful negative energy of conflict has been transformed into something more positive; and for methodologies which may promote this. This may of course involve better understanding of the negative aspects of conflict, and we would not wish the theme to be seen as too restrictive. This 3-day conference is intended as a forum for sharing the outputs of recently completed and ongoing research.

The conference will look at the differing but overlapping histories of the terms ›biculturalism‹ and ›multiculturalism‹ in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

• Concept of Global Civil Society
• International Politics and Global Civil Society
• Religion and Global Civil Society

Participants in this Summer Academy will discuss the circulation of knowledge and cultural transfer processes in the tensile field of mutual relations and interconnectivity. Particular emphasis will be placed on interaction among non-European societies, Europe and the United States, as well as on interactions between non-European societies. We will proceed from the assumption that these contacts exerted a formative influence on all interacting parties, and that they are embedded in the process of social and cultural globalization.

• Human Rights
• Justice, Equality and Minority Rights
• The Politics of Radical Democracy
• Theories of Green Political Economy
• Defining the Political
• The Concept of Multitudes
• The Nature of Political Theory
• Art, Aesthetics and Politics
• Equality
• Concepts of Toleration
• Anti-Capitalism and Utopia
• Political Subjectivities in Globalising Structures
• Altruism, Ethics and the Market
• Atrocity, Responsibility and Redress
• The Concept of the Public Realm
• Marxism

• Spaces and Places of Conflict
• Practices and Dynamics of Conflict
• Mediation and Resolution of Conflict
• Images and Representations of Conflict
• Concepts and Understandings of Conflict

• Authoritarianism and Democracy
• Impacts of Globalization
• Problems of Economic and Democratic Transitions
• State and Society Relations
• Religion and Politics
• Islam and Islamism
• Challenges of Post-Communism
• Culture, Gender, and Ethnicity
• Natural Resources, Conflict, and Sustainability
• Media, Cinema, and Film
• Migration, Refugees, the Displaced, and Diaspora
• Human Rights and Minorities
• Post-9-11 Regional and International Affairs
• Nation-building Projects in Afghanistan and Iraq
• Politics of External Actors (US, Russia, EU, China, etc.)
• Israel and Palestine Studies
• US-Iran Relations
• Xinjiang and Uyghur Nationalism
• Terrorism and State Violence
• Conflict Prevention and Resolution
• Regional Organizations and Cooperation
• Civil Society

The three-day event offers a new context for students, academics and others with an interest in Modern European Philosophy to meet and discuss their work and ideas.

Die Bedeutung des Wortes "Rationalität" scheint sich schon längst von seinem ganzheitlichen philosophischen Gebrauch gelöst und in den verschiedensten wissenschaftlichen, kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Kontexten ausdifferenziert zu haben. Die Konzeption der einen Rationalität wird in Frage gestellt und mit einem Pluralismus von Rationalitäten konfrontiert, welcher auch die eine Wahrheit unterläuft.
Wie wird oder wurde mit diesem Problem umgegangen? Soll Wahrheit auf einen jeweils beschränkten Gültigkeitsanspruch reduziert oder gleich als paradoxe Differenz dekonstruiert werden? Welche Akteure, sozial-historischen Strukturen, Herrschaftsapparate oder Ausschlussmechanismen liegen einer sich als neutral ausweisenden Rationalität zu Grunde? Welche Gefahren verbergen sich hinter der einseitigen Dominanz zweckrationalen Denkens? Inwieweit ist Rationalität in Sprache eingegossen und welche Funktion kommt dabei der Sprache selbst zu? Wie manifestiert und determiniert Rationalität die soziale Praxis und in wie ist eine Emanzipation aus "rational" gefestigten Strukturen möglich? Wie ließe sich andererseits das Verhältnis von Rationalität und Religion, Kunst, Alltagssprache, Mythos oder Emotionen begreifen?

• Philosophical and ethical foundations
• Basic capabilities, human development, adaptive preferences
• Poverty, inequality, distribution, justice
• Ecosystems and the environment
• Public actions, public debate and democratic practice
• Education and knowledge
• Health, AIDS and disability
• Culture, identity, religious matters
• Collective agency and public policies
• Micro and macro vision of social sustainability
• Capability measurement and empirical analysis

In honor of Keith E. Yandell's contributions to the philosophy of religion we welcome papers on Christianity as a conceptual system, cross-cultural philosophy of religion, religious epistemology, the problem of evil, and Christian accounts of God, as well as other topics of interest to philosophers of religion. We are especially interested in papers that discuss and develop Professor Yandell's work.

• Perspektiven internationaler Gerechtigkeit und solidarischen Handelns im heutigen Weltkontext
• Kontexte und Subjekte von Solidarität
• Wer kann die neue Solidarität leisten und wie kann sie geleistet werden?

• Life Writing/Reading Lives
• Translating Cultures
• Aesthetic Questions
• Transcultural Histories
• Image and Sound
• Cultural Identities/Global Politics
• Body Forms
• Situated Identities, Migrant Cultures and Contested Locations

En este nuevo milenio, el cambio y la heterogeneidad juegan un papel crucial en el desarrollo de los individuos y las sociedades. Es el nuestro un mundo que se caracteriza por continuos cambios y transformaciones, así como por la coexistencia de »múltiples« sujetos y »múltiples« culturas que generan diferentes procesos de identificación y que, a su vez, producen nuevas formas de identidad en torno a nuevos ideales. Se podría hablar así de una especie de nuevo orden mundial que se mueve en la tensión entre la homogeneización y la heterogeneidad; la globalización y la particularización, tanto en lo social, lo político, lo ideológico, lo económico, como en nuestras vidas cotidianas. Un objetivo clave de la investigación sociocultural es analizar los instrumentos mediacionales que surgen y se desarrollan en las actividades (inter)culturales, prestando especial atención a los que surgen en las nuevas formas de comunicación (ligadas a las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación). Por todo ello, el principal foco de interés de este congreso, en un sentido amplio, será el sujeto actuante.

The conference will examine the interrelationship between security and development and its implications for development co-operation, and will stimulate the debate between the security and the development communities in Europe and worldwide on the challenges of the future. The concept of human security ensures that the conference will focus both on the narrow aspect of violent threats to the integrity of states through international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and on the wider range of threats to people's lives and integrity, such as natural disasters, environmental degradation, epidemics and increasing poverty.

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.