October 6, 2008 | Temple University | Paley Library Lecture Hall, Ground Floor
EXPLORING RACE IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE: A SYMPOSIUM ON JEWISH DIVERSITY
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September 5, 2008 | Temple University | Center for the Humanities | 10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall
PREMODERN SOVREIGNTIES AND THE DISCOURSES OF POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND BIOPOLITICS
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SUMMER 2008
May 8 - 10, 2008 | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York| New York, NY
8TH ANNUAL PHENOMENOLOGY ROUNDTABLE MEETING
Phenomenology, in its Husserlian inspiration, is an attempt to constitute a scientifically valid methodology for the human sciences through a radical inquiry into the basis of the meaningfulness of human existence. Phenomenology discovers these roots in the world constituting subject. As such, phenomenology is historically the most sustained and most successful challenge to positivism, the naïve belief in the reality and knowability of an independently existing world. The world today, academia as well as in society at large, is garbed in various forms of positivism, from the logicism of analytic philosophy to the historicism of the social sciences and humanities to the naturalism of the hard sciences. The positivist search for "objective knowledge" has lost touch with its own origins in the human, and in so doing has become profoundly inhumane. In its emphasis on transcendental subjectivity and intersubjectivity, i.e. the human, as the starting point of all philosophical investigation, the Phenomenology Roundtable stands as an intervention in this positivist landscape.
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June 4 - 7, 2008 | Cité des Métiers, Le Raizet, Guadeloupe
5TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CARIBBEAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION
Under this heading, the Caribbean Philosophical Association will expand on its organizing theme, when it focused on the broad impact of the rise of Africana and other “third world” philosophies from geographical notions, metaphors, and assumptions that have long been associated with modern concepts of philosophical reason. For 2008, we will continue to look closely at the variety of intellectual movements that have shaped the development of ideas, especially in the Caribbean, that have contributed to, and continue to have an impact (positive or negative) on, the geography of reason. These movements include, but are not limited to, those that have grown out of the Africana Francophone world such as Negritude, Mestisaje, and Creolité, the varieties of Afro-Latin discourses on race and decolonization, and social and philosophical movements such as Pan-Africanism, Garveyism, Rastafari, Black Consciousness, Feminism, Historicism, Poeticism, historicism, Marxism, Afrocentrism/Africology, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Existentialism, Pragmatism, Logical Analysis, Deconstruction, Poststructuralism, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and more. In the spirit of reshaping the geography of reason, we invite the submission of papers on the philosophical aspects of these movements, nearly all of which are present in the texts and practices of Native Caribbean, Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, Euro-Caribbean, African, Latin-American, African-American, Indian, and European thinkers, or papers that offer radically new formulations of issues born from these movements. Proposals may be submitted and papers may be presented in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese since members of this organization are encouraged to work in these languages with and in indigenous and creolized New World languages as well.
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