• GM
• Cooperative and Sustainable Development
• Environmental Education and Intellectual Health
• Citizenship, Technological Innovation and Sustainability

• Dimensions of Diversity
• Governing Diversity – Community in a Globalising World
• Representing Diversity – The Influences of Global Tourism and the Global Media
• Learning Diversity – Education in a World of Difference
• Working Diversity – Managing the Culture of Diversity

• Changing perceptions of national, regional and personal identity across as broad a geographical and chronological range as possible
• The value of the analysis of identity as a concept for historical understanding
• The interaction of identities, national, regional and personal

• Theorising Belief
• Philosophy and Religion
• Islam in the West
• Politics of Belief
• Religion and Postmodernism
• Religion and Language
• Religion and Utopia
• Religion and Colonialism
• Religion and Post-colonialism
• Religion and the New Right
• Religion and Education
• Religion and Partition
• Religion and Gender
• Religion and Emancipation
• Religion and Patriarchy
• Religion and Sexuality
• Religion and Social Cohesion
• Religion and National Identities
• Religion and Nationalism
• Religion in Multicultural Societies
• Race and Religion
• Religion in Wales
• Fundamentalisms
• Atheism
• Philip Pullman and Religion
• Derrida on Religion

• Kabbalah, Modernity, and Scholarship (the development of the academic study of Kabbalah within Jewish Studies since the 19th century)
• New approaches in the study of Kabbalah (current scholarship and methodology of the field of study)
• Kabbalah and politics (the relationship between Kabbalah and expectations of a Messiah, Zionism and Jewish nationalism in the 20th century)
• Kabbalah, literature and the arts (the influence of Kabbalah on cultural expressions)
• Romantic and Esoteric Readings of Kabbalah (the influence of Kabbalah – outside the traditional Jewish Studies – on romantic and esoteric currents in philosophy, literature and art since the 19th century)
• Contemporary kabbalistic Schools (the revival and popularity of Kabbalistic movements from the 20th century until the present)

The conference will bring together researchers working on linguistic minorities, different aspects of bi- and multilingualism, bilingual education, ideologies of language, language and identity construction, language policy, and especially on maintenance and revitalization of minority languages in the new Europe. Sociolinguistic, anthropological, historical, political, legal, economic and social approaches are all welcome.

• Philosophical dimensions of globalization, including the impact of the Internet
• The metaphysics, epistemology and ontology of globalization
• The ethics of outsourcing in a global economy
• The changing nature of space and time in a global economy
• The Internet, globalization and changes in economics
• The globalization of higher education, especially engineering education
• The ethics of hegemony and empire, with particular attention to the role of technologies
• Following Thomas Friedman's lead, comparisons between older versions of globalization and the current phenomenon
• Technology and population movements

• Models of civil society/state and supranational relations
• Migration and asylum: Revisiting Fortress Europe
• The clash of civilisations: Christian and Muslim worlds
• Re-thinking identity, nationalism otherness
• Political ideologies of inclusion/exclusion
• Community, sameness and difference
• Universalism and particularism
• Recognition and redistribution
• Liberalism, the market and democracy
• Liberalism and its discontents
• European Union and national interests/identities
• New thinking on Europe, Europeans and Europeanness
• Inside and Outside Europe – intersections
• Europe in a changing world – international relations and anti-capitalism

Les banlieues sont depuis plus d'un an sous les projecteurs médiatiques. Cette »crise« a mis en évidence une jeunesse qui vit son altérité comme une mise au ban de la société. Elle interroge d'autant plus les productions de l'imaginaire social que nombre d'observateurs n'avaient rien vu venir… La question des représentations de l'autre, de leurs évolutions et leurs altérations, sera l'objet du colloque. Afin de susciter la réflexion et le débat, seront proposées des interventions et de nombreuses études de cas à partir des pratiques suscitées par le soin, la création artistique, l'éducation, les politiques locales.

• Religious plurality, freedom of religion and laicism
• Dialogue, integration and macroecumenism
• The so-called New Religious Movement
• Politics, culture, globalization and religion
• Daily Life and religion. Subjectivity and social praxis
• Eastern religions in the West
• Religion, gender and family
• Theoretical and methodological prospects for the study of religion
• Marginality, minorities, ethnic and religious conflicts
• Conversion and reconversion processes

• Genocidal violence in the former Yugoslavia
• Early warning signs of genocide
• Prevention of genocide
• The aftermath of genocide
• Genocide in comparative perspective
• Genocidal aspects of contemporary terrorism

• Idealism and Pragmatism
• Local and Glocal
• Orientalism and Occidentalism
• Pluralism and Egalitarianism
• Sacred and Profane
• Historicism
• New Taxonomies of Art
• Culture Industry
• Aesthetics of Technology
• Aesthetics and the Everyday – High/Low
• Real and Virtual
• Philosophical Approaches
• Interculturalism and the Arts
• Territory and Cultures
• Art in Transhistorical Perspectives
• Violence/Aesthetics
• Aesthetics and Ethics

In welcher Weise kann eine Öffnung auch gegenüber vielfältigen nicht-europäischen Philosophien, in denen das Weltverhältnis noch an das wissende und wollende Selbstverhältnis gebunden bleibt, einen Weg in eine gemeinsame Fragestellung weisen? Die Fragestellung der Tagung ist auf die unterschiedlichen Weisen gerichtet, wie in den Weltphilosophien unser Selbst- und Weltverhältnis ausgelegt wird, – eher im Rahmen einer metaphysischen Theorie, der Ethik oder Moralphilosophie, der Anthropologie oder der Gesellschaftstheorie oder gar der Religionsphilosophie?

• Online communities, the virtual and the »real«
• Privacy, data protection, RFID, surveillance, CCTV, spam, phishing, and spyware
• Global computing and intercultural information ethics
• Information access, search engines, and the digital divide
• Democracy and the internet; computing technology and natural disasters
• Virtuality, simulation and reproduction
• Computing, identity and difference: gender, ethnicity, race, religion
• Open source; virtual ownership; intellectual property and copyright
• Emerging technologies, such as nanotechnology, supercomputing, Internet2, robotics, biomedicine, bioinformatics and bioengineering
• New military, security and law enforcement applications of IT
• New developments in artificial intelligence, artificial agents, embedded systems and artificial life

The Conference aims to provide a philosophical forum for exploring the principles, values, purposes, aims and the means of paideia, and more broadly of education, nurturing, and upbringing, within the framework of the common issues and problems that all corners of the world face in the present era of globalization. So the main questions to be discussed and investigated are whether and what conceptual changes should be concerning the content and the procedure of education and whether education understood as paideia should be considered of value in our technological global era. Seeing things from this point of view, nations and states have to consider the question whether and to what extend they have to make changes and to restructure their education system.

• Concepts of global justice
• The ethics of globalization
• Global wealth and poverty
• Just war traditions, terrorism, humanitarian intervention
• The significance or insignificance of nation states, nongovernmental organizations, international institutions (World Bank, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, United Nations, etc)
• World government
• Latin American, African, Asian, and Middle Eastern philosophical traditions
• Human rights and responsibilities
• Global feminism and women's rights
• Cosmopolitanism and philosophy
• Global immigration and human trafficking issues
• Global media and the Internet
• Globalization and cultural, ethnic, or racial identity
• Globalization and indigenous cultures
• Religion and religious identity in global context
• Science and technology as transcultural phenomena
• Global warming and environmental ethics
• Mega cities and global ecology

• Theoretical and interpretational frameworks (concepts and ideas of tradition)
• Mythical and literary approaches (myths and imagined tradition)
• Historical approaches (actual practices and procedures of transmission)

The main theme of the congress are differences and similarities between legal cultures. This theme is important both for theoretical and practical reasons. It is extremely interesting, especially nowadays – in the age of globalisation and terrorism – to try to examine how fundamental legal concepts are understood in different legal traditions. It may turn out that behind apparently significant diversities in understanding these concepts, some intuitions can be found that are common for all legal cultures. These theoretical issues have an evident practical dimension: without identifying these common intuitions, it seems hardly possible to attain a fruitful and genuine communication between representatives of different legal cultures.
This theme, though the main, is not the only one to be take up during the Congress: a number of workshops and working groups will be formed to provide appropriate grounds for discussion concerning almost all crucial topics in legal theory and social philosophy.

• Arts, Culture and Heritage
• Development and Urbanization
• Documentation, Resource Management and Technology
• Economy, Business and Law
• Environment and Energy
• History
• Knowledge and Philosophy
• Language and Literature
• Media and Communication
• Politics and International Relations
• Religion
• Society and Identity
• Welfare and Health

The conference will be focussed on aspects of freedom, an area chosen in recognition of the 200th anniversary in 2007 of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. On this occasion we are particularly interested in contributions that explore the nature and value of freedom, both personal and political, the grounds for the rejection of slavery and similar conditions, and the tensions that our ordinary commitments and values relating to freedom face when confronted by the results or assumptions of scientific enquiry.

Man is a primate. He is a tool-making, culture-creating ape, highly engaged in competition, cooperation, and communication with his fellow flock members, just as the rest of his relatives. But is he more than this? If so: What are the uniquely human behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures that make man particularly human? The special characteristics of the human mind, so to speak.
Relevant data and theoretical considerations from a broad range of sciences are piling up, contributing to the puzzle of what makes us human. Researchers from various areas such as psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, archaeology, primatology, philosophy, and the scientific study of religion are invited to submit their empirical or theoretical studies on these issues.

• Esotericism
• Mysticism
• Alternative expressions of major religions
• Religions of re-enchantment
• Popular culture religions
• Indigenous religions
• Paganism and Neo-Paganism
• New Religious Movements
• Personalised religion
• Alternative methodologies

• Multiculturalism and Social Citizenship: What are our Goals? What are the Challenges?
• The Immigrant Experience: Economic and Social Challenges
• The Second Generations and Beyond: What does the data tell us?
• A Progressive's Dilemma? The Politics of Difference and the Politics of Redistribution
• Social Citizenship and Education
• Social Citizenship, Inclusive Services, Participation and Interaction
• Social Citizenship and the Limits of Accommodation

• Kultur(en) und Religion(en)
• Kultur und/als Text
• Kultur und (Im-)Moral
• Kultur und Körper
• (Ästhetische) Kultur und Kunst
• Kultur und Politik

• Is a secular, non-denominational education system the best means of breaking down intolerance?
• Does this involve the provision of an environment that is free from all religious symbolism and doctrine?
• Should state education systems centralise the curriculum?
• May this be considered an imposition of a specific form of materialism?
• What is the role of teaching history and comparative religions in promoting tolerance and liberal freedoms?
• Does the teaching of comparative religion lead to the idea that moral values are relative to culture and religion, and does relativism promote tolerance or undermine it?
• Is the point of comparative religion an exercise in providing students with a means of comparing and evaluating different value systems, and hence promoting individual choice and autonomy?
• Alternatively, is the point of teaching comparative religion to dispel prejudices that are the basis of intolerance?
• Should the promotion of tolerance as a ›civic virtue‹ be a minimum requirement for public funding of religious schools?
• If tolerance is a virtue, can it be taught as a topic within the curriculum or does teaching it involve a kind of modelling or some other educational method for behaviour?
• What is the difference between the state using religious symbols, and its citizens using them?
• Should state schools be rigorously secular?
• Should they provide opportunities for religious education and worship, or is this a private, parental responsibility?
• Does the failure to provide facilities for religious worship within public schools and universities create unreasonable barriers to equal access to education?
• Should local schools be responsive to local pressure groups about what is included in the curriculum, and if so, should local groups be able to ban certain subjects from being taught?

• Derrida and the Political
• Hume and the Problem of Sociability
• Property and Political Theory: Historical and Contemporary Understandings
• Anarchist Thought: Classical and Contemporary
• Political Theory and Science Fiction
• Truth, Power, and Politics: Reflections on the Logic of Politics
• Religion and political philosophy
• The Contemporary Relevance of the Political Theory of Hannah Arendt
• A global politics of recognition?
• Marxism
• Group rights and group representation
• Language and Politics
• Green Political Theory
• Habermas and Violence
• International Relations Theory
• The ›Theory‹ of ›the State‹ today?
• Rethinking Borders
• Normative Political Theory and Public Policy
• Hobbes Studies
• British Idealism: Philosophy, Society and Politics
• Anti-democratic Thought
• Ethics, Work and Emancipation

• Challenging Old Concepts of Self and Other
• Nations, Nationhood and Nationalisms
• Institutions, Organizations and Social Movements
• Persons, Personhood and the Inter-Personal
• Media and Artistic Representations
• Transnational Cultural Interlacing of Contemporary Life
• New Concepts, New Forms of Inclusion

• Theories of justice
• Globalization
• Human rights
• Group and cultural rights
• Post-colonialism and neo-colonialism
• Conflict and post-conflict societies and justice
• Gender and culture
• Justice and pluralism
• Scientific, technological and bioethical issues of justice
• Environment and ecological issues of justice

• Changing contexts for ethics in higher education
• Global and professional ethics of health and well-being
• Faith, philosophy and dialogue in health and well-being
• Universities and the teaching of applied and professional ethics

• To what extent do theories of global justice need to rely on empirical assumptions about the nature of the global order, the causes of world poverty, and the level of self-determination that nation-states still enjoy?
• What are the connections between problems of domestic social justice and global normative concerns?

• conflict between religions
• conflict within religions
• the religious interpretation of conflicts as well as the interpretation of religious conflicts
• religions conflicting with socio-cultural choices or as a vector of socio-cultural choices
• religion as a socio-cultural filter
• religion conflicting with other means of or filters for perceiving the world
• the representation of conflict(s) as a source of conflict
• the representation of conflict in religion(s)

• Pharmaceutical Innovation: Must We Exclude the Poor?
• World Poverty: Causes and Responsibilities
• Global Health and Access to Essential Medicines

• La crisis de la modernidad
• Hermenéutica y multiculturalismo
• Lenguaje y filosofía hermenéutica
• Disputas actuales en ética

• Theorising terror
• Historicising terror
• Religion and terror
• The psychology of terror
• The language of the »war on terror«
• The terror of poverty
• Guerilla warfare and postcolonial politics
• Human rights, terror and the nation state
• Fundamentalisms
• Terror as ideological war
• Populism and the politics of terror
• The politics of life
• The economics of the »war on terror«
• The politics of oil
• Rethinking 9/11
• Torture and the American Empire
• Iran, nuclear politics and »the west«
• Iraq and Afghanistan
• Palestine and Israel
• Rethinking protest

• New Modalities of National Self-Determination and Sovereignty
• Theorizing Nationalism and the Nation
• European Governance Beyond the Nation-State

1. Approaches to International Relations in an Age of Terror: Places, Spaces and Risks
2. Central Concepts in IR: a meta-theoretical conversation
3. Conflict Transformation – European Experience(s)
4. Critical approaches to security in Europe
5. Cultural Plurality in IR Theory and IR Practice
6. Democratic Legitimacy Upheld? On the Politicisation of the Law and the Legalisation of International Politics
7. Global governance, a critical encounter: depolitisation/repolitisation in theory and practice
8. Global Health Challenges in/for International Relations
9. Governing the service economy: International standards from a political economy perspective
10. IPE, Developing Countries, and Development
11. Liberalism and Peace
12. Post-Modern Foreign and Security Policy in the Enlarged European Union
13. Pragmatism and International Relations
14. Religion, soft power and international Relations
15. Security, Politics, Critique
16. Small States in International Affairs
17. Sovereignty and Agency
18. State capacity, development, and peace
19. The Contribution of Regional Studies to International Relations Theory
20. The English School Approach to International Relations
21. The Place of the Middle East in International Relations: Making Sense of Global Interconnection and Local Dynamics in Middle East Politics
22. The UN in the globalized international system
23. Towards a Post-Western West? The Changing Heritage of ›Europe‹ and the ›West‹
24. Universality and Particularity, Time and Space, Continuity and Disjuncture: Historical Sociology meets International Relations
25. Violence beyond the State

This conference is aiming to uncover the discursive strategies that disseminated attitudes and mentalities in favour of colonial enterprises. A major goal will be to re-assess postcolonial theory for its capacity to explain the illusions, fantasies and material promises disseminated through factual and fictional descriptions of the encounter between colonial ›masters‹ and their subjugated peoples. We welcome studies of the different kinds of narrative that tried to make sense of the cross-cultural encounters and called into existence fantasies of Western superiority. Further topics of interest relate to the conflict-ridden attempts to theorise sovereignty in overseas territories and the formation of postcolonial nation states.

• religious movement including – but not limited to – bodily movement, dance, pilgrimage etc.
• devotional bodies / bodily devotions
• ritual and symbolic constructions of the body
• mythical constructions of the body
• body and sacrifice

Key themes

• philosophical foundations
• measurement methods
• conceptual and theoretical issues
• policy applications

Special theme

• intellectual freedom in academic institutions
• economics in universities
• the recent trajectory of development economics
• human development and social movements
• democracy and social movements
• human development and development policy
• institutions and ideas

• the moral necessity of tackling health inequalities
• the use of coercion in public health interventions
• the role of health literacy in avoiding paternalism in health promotion
• empowerment versus repression in health promotion
• health promotion as enemy or ally of individual autonomy
• health promotion and imposing conceptions of ›the good life‹
• health promotion and paternalism
• the role of health promotion with regard to ›medicalization‹ and ›healthism‹
• health promotion and individual responsibility
• the use of marketing strategies in health campaigns
• the applicability of the achievements of biomedical ethics within the context of health promotion
• individual interests versus the common good
• any other topic that deals with the ethical aspects of health promotion

• Theoretical reflection of contemporary moral problems
• Contemporary philosophical theories of morality
• Comparison of contemporary moralities with moralities in the past
• Morality from the point of view of sociology, psychology, ethnology, theology and other disciplines
• Moral issues in contemporary applied ethics
• Comparing the moral systems of various cultures
• Morality in Slovakia, in Central Europe and in the world

• A Matter of Methods: Philosophies and Ethnographies of Justice
• Forms of Justice (allocative, distributive, visions, summary forms, dialogic, minimal justice, retributive, restorative, transitional, etc.)
• Visions of Justice: Correcting Historical Injustices
• Justice and Law
• Cultural Representations of Justice
• Administration of Justice: Justice and Governmentality
• Rights and Justice: Justice as Supplement
• Social Justice: Forms and Controversies
• Is Feminism a Matter of Looking at Justice in a Different Way?
• The Blindness in Perceiving Injustices

• Europa als internationales System und die diesbezüglichen Friedensprojekte
• Europa als geschichtsphilosophische und zivilisatorische Einheit
• Europas Selbstverständnis in Abgrenzung und Ausgrenzung von inneren und äußeren Alteritäten
• Europa als kultureller, religiöser, literarischer, sprachlicher Raum
• Europa in den Kunstwerken und anthropomorphen Darstellungen
• Europa in den Karten, Enzyklopädien und Wörterbüchern
• Europa als kollektive Identität und räumliche Einheit
• Europas geographische Beschaffenheit und Grenzen
• Europas Stellung und Aufgabe in der Welt (Kulturtransfer, Kolonialismus und seine Kritik)
• Europas wirtschaftliche Strukturen und Handelsnetzwerke

• The modernisation of military criminal justice, including the tensions and setbacks resulting from the rising number of conflicts and from the political and judicial debate over the »war against terror«
• The criminal law framework applicable to military interventions abroad, as well as the ability of military forces abroad to perform criminal investigations
• Peace as a value that must be protected also through criminal law – the definition of the crime of aggression on a national and international scale
• Review of the most serious violations of fundamental rights which have occurred during recent conflicts
• International tools for the protection under criminal law of journalists and means of mass communication in war-torn areas
• Threats to peace which involve a criminal law dimension, such as the violations of international rules on nuclear weapons or the protection of systems and strategic data bases from attacks

• Concepciones del ser humano y vías de humanización en las culturas asiáticas
• Concepciones del ser humano y vías de humanización en las culturas africanas
• Concepciones del ser humano y vías de humanización en las culturas europeas
• Concepciones del ser humano y vías de humanización en las culturas americanas
• ¿Porqué y para qué el diálogo intercultural de las concepciones del ser humano?
• Concepciones y rostros de lo humano en un mundo de exclusión y desigualdad
• Lo humano en un orden tecnocientífico globalizado

• What have been the main pressures leading to more recognition of multinational diversity in Europe/North America?
• What are the pressures for such recognition and accommodation in Asia?
• Why have these pressures led instead to resistance in Asia, and a reassertion of the nation-state?
• What are the consequences of adopting certain institutions recognizing diversity in Asian cases, yet underming these through other policies and practices?

• Religion
• Philosophy
• Gender Studies
• The Afterlife
• Family Life
• Justice
• Education
• Power/Authority Politics
• Contemporary Literature
• Material Culture
• Linguistics
• Health

The conference is designed to explore the theoretical, empirical and historical connections between democracy and globalization. We anticipate participation and attendance by scholars across disciplinary boundaries. As such, we welcome papers that examine the causal connections between democracy and globalization broadly conceived.

• Variety of the world, cultures and public valuables
• Race, color, sex, nationality, religion, political opinions, property and social origin as factors of unity and differences
• Historical forms of a xenophobia and intolerance, their roots and evolution
• Social-economic factors of the rapprochement and separations of the peoples
• Religion, xenophobia and intolerance
• New forms of manifestation of the xenophobia and their causes
• Role of the education and training in elimination of the xenophobia and shaping of tolerance
• National and world politics as factors of integration and disintegration of societies and cultures
• Influence of the mass medias on shaping of a cosmopolitism and xenophobia, tolerance and intolerance

• Struggle for recognition
• Politics of recognition
• Ethics of recognition

The Canadian Ethnic Studies Association invites proposals for papers, sessions, panels, roundtables, and poster presentations that address the topics of ethnicity, immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism in Canada, particularly in relation to civil society and globalization.

There are two main definitions of the term »justice,« both remarkably broad: one predominantly institutional, based on positive law (which refers to all the legal rules and regulations in force in a given state), the other more philosophical and moral, akin to natural law, i.e. unchanging principles founded on fairness and common sense, and defined as superior to the law itself. The object of this conference is to compare and confront both concepts of justice through artistic representation (novels, plays, poems, paintings, films, television shows) and through civilisation (history, history of ideas, sociology, political science) in order to bring to light the idiosyncrasies of justice in the English-speaking world, one of which is the common law, other examples of which can be found in the field of institutional justice (English justice v. Scottish justice, British justice v. Canadian justice).
The conference will also aim at studying the opposition between the universal and relative qualities of justice which reflects the strained relationship that exists between on the one hand the administration of justice and on the other hand a true adherence to morality, reason, truth and fairness as outlined by the second definition.

This symposium is devoted to current researches at the interface of epistemology and the social sciences. Contributions with respect to the analysis of knowledge in the light of social and cultural parameters are all welcome.

The theme calls for papers which analyze diversity and value conflicts in the 21st century world. Since Samuel Huntington revived the term »clash of civilizations« a decade ago, global politics has been littered with talk of cultural clash and value conflict in a diverse world. »Civilizational lines« become delineators in global political negotiations on issues as diverse as trade relations, the environment, and security concerns. Cultural differences have important impacts in global politics, as do manifestations of cultural bias or prejudice. In the era of the »clash of civilizations«, scholars of global politics are obligated to understand and analyze the ethics of communication, negotiation, and action in a diverse world. The theme seeks to explore the ethics of these interactions, as well as their application to manifestations of cultural conflict in military conflicts, ethnic cleansing, media battles, and other forums.