• Estado y Nación: Estabilidad institucional latinoamericana
• Liderazgos políticos en América Latina: tendencias actuales
• Los pueblos originarios: trayectoria y perspectivas
• Pensamiento latinoamericano: teorías, métodos y casos
• Integración latinoamericana: economía, política, medio ambiente, rol de los intelectuales
• América Latina y la globalización
• Educación, ciencia, tecnología y universidad
• Democracia, historia y cultura
• Argentina y Chile: un caso de aceptación mutua y la superación de los miedos
• Culturas populares y culturas de masas en el Conosur y América Latina
• Artes y letras en América Latina
• Modelos económicos en América Latina

• Environmental Sustainability
• Cultural Sustainability
• Economic Sustainability
• Social Sustainability

• Christian groups and civil society
• Christian morality, sexuality and public health
• State policies on religious and ethnic boundaries
• Conversion to Christianity and social change
• Christianity, technology and social control
• The localisation of Christian doctrine
• Interfaith dialogue between Christianity and other religious groups

The conference is intended to share information, ideas, and arguments on issues related to freedom of expression and discussion, freedom of the press, information and misinformation, and the acquisition, evaluation, use and dissemination of information. We seek papers and panel presentation proposals on the general theme of the conference as well as those relevant to the recent events and discussions surrounding the publication of »blasphemous« cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad. Our invitation for papers and panel discussion proposals on topics related to the theme of the conference is inter- and multi-disciplinary, including issues in art, the news media, teaching, government, academic integrity, censorship, moral responsibility, and other related concepts or topics that speak to moral, social, historical, political, aesthetic, religious, theological, scientific and other issues in the free flow of information; personal, social, institutional, and governmental responsibility concerning freedom, dissemination, and acquisition of information; and problems, theories, principles, and concepts involved in the acquisition, use, abuse, assessment, and dissemination of information in ethical, social, political, religious, personal, and professional contexts.

Gleich, ob durch die Auswirkungen des 11. Septembers auf die internationalen Beziehungen, im Kontext eines evolvierenden Völkerrechts oder hinsichtlich der Konsequenzen sozialer und ökonomischer Globalisierungsprozesse: stets scheinen ehemals adäquate moderne Ordnungskonzepte wie z.B. rechtsstaatliche Demokratie, territoriale Souveränität oder einzelne »Volkswirtschaften« unter dem Druck der sich wandelnden Bedingungen nur noch unzureichend ihre erklärten Ziele erreichen zu können.
Politische, rechtliche und wirtschaftliche Ordnungen, sozialer Zusammenhalt und kulturelle Identitäten entwickeln sich unter diesen Bedingungen auf lokaler, regionaler und globaler Ebene ganz unterschiedlich. Diesen Wandel wissenschaftlich zu analysieren und fassbar zu machen ist Motivation verschiedener Wissenschaften, die oft ganz unterschiedliche und nicht sich nicht selten widersprechende Herangehensweisen entwickeln.

Este simposio convoca a especialistas en ciencias sociales y humanidades interesados en una reflexión que contribuya al conocimiento de los procesos de configuración de culturas políticas de tipo tolerante en el transcurso histórico. En esos procesos complejos y dinámicos es viable pensar también en las épocas y fenómenos en los que el signo de la intolerancia es el que predomina. Tomando en cuenta la presencia o ausencia de la tolerancia en la definición de las culturas políticas, son bienvenidas las investigaciones que discutan las relaciones entre tolerancia y procesos de participación y representación, disidencia, opinión pública y la relación entre tolerancia y otros fenómenos, como diversidad, multiculturalidad, faccionalismo, prejuicios, competencia, ética, creencias laicas y religiosas, derechos humanos, legalidad, educación, solidaridad y costumbres. Las propuestas pueden abarcar cualquier periodo histórico y cualquier area geográfica directa o indirectamente relacionada con el Continente Americano.

The conference seeks to understand the current state and future of democracy during this age of uncertainty. Numerous issues concerning democratization are to be addressed at our event, including the sustainability of democracy in the developing world, challenges facing post-industrial democracies, the impact of terrorism on freedom, and how globalization affects democracy.

Among the least studied but most fascinating of fields is radicalism. The aims of this conference are to explore the multiple forms of contemporary and historical radicalism in a transnational context. We welcome submissions from all relevant disciplinary or interdisciplinary approaches. Papers and panel-topics will be wide-ranging, and may include pacifism, violence and terrorism, religious radicalism, anarchism, environmentalist and ecological radicalism, technology and anti-technology, protest art, sexual radicalism, indigenous radicalism, anti-imperialism, »third way« political movements, corporations and radicalism, militias, right-wing movements, and anti-radicalism.

Zunehmend wird seitens nicht-europäischer Philosophien die Stärke der je eigenen philosophischen ›Herkunftswelten‹ betont, da sie allein den spirituellen Bedürfnissen des Menschen, seiner sinnlich-übersinnlichen Doppelnatur, noch gerecht zu werden vermögen. Gegen den ›vereinseitigenden Verstand‹ westlicher Prägung wird der Holismus einer die Extreme umgreifenden, Rationalität und Spiritualität integrierenden Perspektive betont.
Wie, so lautet darum unsere Frage, können Positionen, denen Spiritualität, das Sakrale oder der jeweilige Transzendenzbezug ein Letztes ist, zu Formen der Verständigung finden, die sie nicht dogmatisch voreinander trennt, sondern die ihr Anliegen auch für die anderen nachvollziehbar werden lässt? Und wie können Positionen, denen Rationalität als letzter Horizont der Weltbeschreibung gilt, die Tauglichkeit ihrer Rationalitätsstandards erweisen, um der Herausforderung der wiedererwachenden Spiritualität/Religiosität Rechnung zu tragen?

• Population Politics, Demography and Human Rights
• Legal and Illegal Migration and Population Politics (asylum and immigration laws and population politics)
• Neonationalist Population Policies / Natalism and Repatriation vs. Immigration
• Reproductive Rights as Human Rights (also in historic perspectives)
• Population Politics and Economic Developments
• Population Politics and the Politics of Life (access to health care, reproductive medicine as well as assisted reproductive medicine, nutrition, development opportunities)
• Population Crisis and its links

The conference aims to provide a forum for graduate students to present their ideas concerning how new perspectives and critical analysis of otherness can influence views about society and provide new theoretical and practical possibilities for political theory and ethical theory. Our hope is to capture a wide array of interests and perspectives, tapping into multiple areas such as feminism, race theory, and work in contemporary applications to politics from both continental and analytic perspectives.

The use of the word culture, and its often-unstated assumptions, has given rise to considerable theoretical controversy. What exactly do we mean when we talk of culture? Is it associated with language, ethnicity, religion, nationality, a civilization, a way of life or everyday social practices? Is it conceived as relatively unchanging, as something that is threatened by the impact with other ›cultures‹ or as a set of ideas and practices that is subject to historical and social change? How are these notions of culture affected by the changing forms of political, economic and military domination and the vicissitudes of the postcolonial world?

Diversity, a concept widely employed in conversations addressing education, is often not examined within contexts of economics, power, history, and culture. The conference will provide a forum for scholarly discussion of diversity grounded in relationships between peoples, and the economic and cultural landscapes in which they interact. We invite proposals for presentations that engage the themes of diversity and education within the contexts of globalization and diasporic movements of peoples, economies, cultures, and ideologies. We are especially interested in work that engages the topic of diversity while connecting the local with the global.

• Citizenship and the Construction of Race, and Vice-Versa
• Race, Citizenship and Policy Studies
• Race, Participation and Belonging

A principal focus of the event will be to highlight John Haddox's pioneering work begun more than 40 years ago in Latin American Philosophy by helping to establish this field as a distinct discipline of study. Over his many years of working as a philosopher, however, Haddox has passionately attended to several other areas of social concern including Native American Studies, Religious Existentialism, the Chicano movement, peace activism, Latin American education theory, the arts, international relations, and family and community life. Papers involving any of these areas will be considered especially those that connect the work of Haddox with the relevant issue.

The organizers invite submission of papers and panel proposals that explore all aspects of race and ethnicity in the 19th century, from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Topics might connect race and ethnicity with social identity or social control; with land use, ecology, city planning or industrialism; with emigration and immigration patterns; with aesthetics or with the sciences; with gender and sexuality.

The symposium aims to introduce and discuss theories concerning the relationship between Power, Law and Order, as well as theories concerning the relationship between World Order, state and nation as an introduction to an examination of the current terrorism conflict.

• Democracias plurinacionales: debate normativo
• Ciudadanía y modelos de estructura política compleja: federalismo, devolution, secesión
• Territorio: Articulación entre comunidades nacionales, Estados y sociedad internacional en la era de la globalización
• Democracia, Ciudadanía y Territorialidad en Iparralde

• Cultural representations of slavery and anti-slavery – literature, visual art, theatre, performance, film
• Women's writing on anti-slavery – 18th/19th century and its 20th and 21st century legacies
• Women's participation in anti-slavery campaigns
• Slave narrative
• Teaching the history and representation of slavery and abolition
• Critical and historiographical debates on slavery and abolition
• Contemporary debates over reparations and/or apologies for transatlantic slavery
• Contemporary debates over the representation of slavery in museums and other public spaces, particularly with 2007 in mind
• The treatment and interpretation of historical sites associated with slavery in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States
• Historical examples of how transatlantic slavery has been commemorated in the past; and contemporary debates surrounding how it might be commemorated in the present and the future

• Medical Ethics
• Ethics of Biotechnology and Genomics
• Environmental Ethics
• Asian Bioethics
• Bioethics Education
• Technology and Culture
• Science and Society
• Issues in Aging and Longevity
• Public Health Ethics
• Ethical Issues in Biomedical Research
• Ethical Issues Surrounding Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Companies

The organisers welcome papers that address citizenship and identity, the politics of recognition, international law and multiculturalism, pluralism and moral conflict, history of the debate about multiculturalism, and the role of law and judicial systems in the following contexts:

• Multinational states or empires in which in principle there is no systematic discrimination between different nationalities or cultures, even if in practice there are clearly, or arguably, hegemonic nations or cultures.
• Hierarchic states or empires, typically but not exclusively European colonial empires, in which a hegemonic nation, race or culture, is openly proclaimed and where there are explicit attempts to justify such hierarchies. This could include states or empires which recognise so-called domestic dependent nations.
• States which have seen themselves as largely culturally homogenous but have been forced to confront the problems of multiculturalism as a result of immigration.

• Planning research in areas of tension and conflict
• Dealing with difficult situations and dangerous places
• The limitations and challenges of methods used in peace research
• New and innovative ways of using methods and multi-method techniques in peace research
• Ethical and safety issues
• Collecting, handling and analysing sensitive data
• Generating theory from sensitive data
• Decision making strategies and adapting methods during fieldwork

• The value and relevance of comparative philosophy in a post-modern world
• Responsible global citizenship
• Navigating a pluralistic world
• Approaches to sustainability

• The rights of indigenous peoples to control knowledge that they have discovered or created (e.g., traditional medicines, native symbols, songs, rituals)
• The rights of indigenous peoples to control information about themselves
• The ethical dimensions of gathering information about and from indigenous peoples (e.g. through anthropological, biological, or historical research)
• The relevance of standard justifications for limiting information access, such as secrecy, privacy, and intellectual property, to questions of indigenous cultural property
• The implications of environmental ethics in relation to questions of indigenous knowledge and cultural property
• How control over physical artifacts of indigenous peoples can have an impact on the discovery and dissemination of knowledge and information (e.g., in archaeological research)
• Indigenous information stewardship and information professionals (e.g., librarians, archivists, museum directors)

• Globalisation
• E-Government, e-democracy and citizenship
• Agents
• Nanotechnology
• Assistive technology
• E-inclusion
• Health informatics
• Technology-enhanced learning
• Human communication
• Professional practice and system development
• Digital resources
• Knowledge management
• Technology and the workplace

1. Knowledge production: conversation or conservation?
2. Configurations and practices of knowledge
3. Resisting knowledge
4. Alternative sites for knowledge
5. Corporeality and the senses as sites for knowledge
6. Technologies and methodologies of knowledge

• Globalisation and its impact on human rights
• International human rights laws and practices in India
• Emerging hope… A new regime of laws
• Human rights culture through higher education
• A critique on human rights protective mechanisms and challenges
• The role of national and state human rights commissions
• The role of transnational and national non-governmental organizations
• Human rights of women, children, Dalits, disabled persons

• The history and legal issues of the Dred Scott case
• From Dred Scott to Grutter v. Bollinger
• Ethnicity, citizenship and politics in Africa
• Language, music and identity
• Representations of Dred Scott
• Dred Scott and the identity of people of African descent
• Gender and identity
• Diaspora identity
• Dred Scott and the emergence of Black Nationalism
• Dred Scott and Black Maternity