June 23rd, 2008 11:57am
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Fifteenth Annual Conference
October 24 & 25, 2008
Michigan State University
Union -The Parlor Room
This conference will seek to explore the conceptual framework that informs the emergence and consolidation of the area of inquiry of African American Studies and its relationship to the intellectual and cultural movement that began in the sixties as Black Studies. Consequently we will reflect on the philosophical, sociopolitical, cultural and intellectual ethos of the experience in the U.S. that resulted in the Black Consciousness and Black Arts Movement with the assertive political refrain, Black Power. Consideration will given to the influence of “ the movement” on the rise of multiculturalism and the search for cultural identity among ethnic groups, gender politics , national/internationalism and the search for alternatives in political and academic discourse.
Abstracts for papers should be no more than 80 words and proposals for panels are welcomed. July 21, 2008 is the deadline for abstracts and proposals.
The conference which is being sponsored by the African and African American Studies Program at Michigan State is free and open to the general public
Looking forward to your participation and support.
Contacts:
John McClendon
Director, African American and African Studies/Professor Department of Philosophy
Michigan State University
Room 1 Morrill Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 432-0869
Mcclen21@msu.edu
J. Everet Green
Everet@optonline.net
Leonard Harris
lharrisl@hotmail.com
April 8th, 2008 10:47pm
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This year’s conference will be hosted at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
The theme will be, “PHILOSOPHY AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES”
Stay tuned for details.
January 4th, 2008 09:58am
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The Caribbean Philosophical Association Announces A CALL FOR PAPERS FOR ITS FIFTH MEETING:
JUNE 4–7, 2008
Cité des Métiers, Le Raizet, Guadeloupe
Theme: Shifting the Geography of Reason V: Intellectual Movements
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.
In keeping with this focus, we encourage papers and panels on topics such as:
Africana Philosophy
Decolonial Ethics
Deconstruction
Critical Race Theory
Caribbean Philosophical Movements
Mestisaje
Africana Feminist Philosophy
Philosophy & Literature in the Francophone Antilles
Africology
African Social Transformation
Mulatinidad
Creolizing Political Theory
Maroonage
Classicism
Indo-Caribbean Philosophy & Literature
Phenomenology
Social Contractarianism
African Political Thought
Critical Theory
Participants include:
Lewis R. Gordon, Temple University & UWI-Mona
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California-Berkeley
Clevis Headley, Florida Atlantic University
Michael Monahan, Marquette University
Paget Henry, Brown University
Alexis Nouss, Cardiff University
Kathryn Gines, Vanderbilt University
Françoise Naudillon, Concordia University
Molefi Asante
Elias K. Bongmba, Rice University
Claudia Milian Arias, Duke University
Jane Anna Gordon, Temple University
Neil Roberts, The Johns Hopkins University
Patrick Goodin, Howard University
Brinda Mehta, Mills College
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Lewis University
Charles Mills, University of Illinois at Chicago
Clarence Sholé Johnson, Middle Tennessee State University
Natalija Mičunovič, University of Belgrade
Sessions are also encouraged on intellectuals from or associated with the Caribbean and Latin America such as Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé, Enrique Dussel, Ramabai Espinet, Frantz Fanon, Anténor Firmin, Edouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, C.L.R. James, José Martí, André Schwartz-Bart, Sylvia Wynter, as well as those from other regions of the globe.
Send submissions for panels and abstracts for papers by 25 February 2008, by email to caribphil@yahoo.com or by regular mail to: Research Associate • Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought • Temple University • Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090 • (215) 204-5621/Fax: (215) 204-2535. This conference is co-sponsored by The Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought at Temple University, the Department de Lettres and GEREC at the Université Antilles-Guyane, the Philosophy Department at Florida Atlantic University, and the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University.
[NEW SERVER PBOS]
September 17th, 2007 08:56pm
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Africa in the Dialectics of History
October 26 & 27, 2007. The New School, New York City
Now recognized as the cradle of humanity, once declared a continent without history by the intellectual father of European colonialism, extending by its many diasporas to every part of the world, Africa raises for those of us [involved in a philosophy born of struggle] many questions and challenges [concerning the past, present and future.
Participants in the next Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference will discuss these questions and face their challenges. Here are some of the particular questions that will be discussed.]
First, what role has Africa played in the liberation struggle and the creation of an alternative to “European Civilization”? Of special importance here is the place Africa has occupied in the struggle in the United States for Black Power [and against U.S. apartheid (or “Jim Crow”)], and the reconstruction/revaluation of African identity and values. From Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Alice Walker, most Black revolutionaries have seen their relation to Africa as crucial to their political, intellectual project. What has Africa—in practice and in the collective imagination—meant in the struggle of black people in the US and worldwide? What ideological, political, philosophical visions has the African struggle for self-determination opened up for the anti-colonial revolt worldwide?
Second, what does Africa today with its cultural and linguistic diversity signify [after decades of postmodern thinking, neoliberalism and Afro-pessimism]? Does it make sense still to speak of Africa (as Mudimbe has questioned)? Is Africa, as a totalizing intellectual concept or a commodified image, a distortion of the actual experiences and diversities present on the continent? Are there (social, economic, cultural) trends, contributions, and problems that define the “African experience” today? And if there are, what are they? What lessons are there to be learned from the contradictions (social, economic political) many Africans are confronting in their lives? And what are the politics of the dominant discourse on Africa as shaped by intellectuals in the EU and the US?
Lastly: which way Africa? What are the [internal and external] forces that will shape Africa’s future?
What is the dialectics of history seen from the viewpoint of the struggles taking place on the African continent? [Can African communal life transform itself once more into a political force that will give power to those struggling for liberation in the United States?, in the Americas? Philosophy Born of Struggle will explore these questions in our coming conference of October 26-27, to be held at the New School for Social Research, New York City.
Looking forward to your participation and support.
Contacts:
J. Everet Green
Everet@optonline.net
Leonard Harris
lharrisl@hotmail.com
July 27th, 2007 08:05am
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“I thank everyone for your kind condolences. The Grant family and I will carry on. My son-in-law and two granddaughters have a mighty legacy by virtue how Jamila lived her all to short life. Your kind support and words of encouragement will help us carry on in high spirits.”
–Leonard Harris (September 6, 2007)
Jamila was co-author with her father Leonard of A Father’s Journey, A Daughter’s Voyage: A Cancer Journal (Lincoln: iUniverse, June 2005) ISBN: 0-595-34348-1
June 6th, 2007 06:00pm
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Africa in the Dialectics of History
New School University
New York NY, October 26 & 27
January 29th, 2007 09:23am
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Announcing the 23rd Annual Symposium
On African American Culture & Philosophy
Held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting
of the Alain L. Locke Society
Harlem Renaissance: Aesthetics, Values, and Identity
Symposium Papers: We are seeking individual papers and panel submissions on topics related to the Harlem Renaissance. We particularly appreciate complete panel submissions with discussants. We also encourage alternative formats such as roundtables, performances, and “author meets critics” discussions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:
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January 28th, 2007 09:09am
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October 19-20, 2007 (NOTE DATE CHANGE)
Conference on the Status of Black Women in Philosophy
Vanderbuilt University
Nashville , Tenn
CONTACT:
Gines, Kathryn T
k.gines@Vanderbilt.Edu
December 10th, 2006 02:24pm
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“Philosophy and the Scientific Spirit” addressed the difficult question of the relationship between reason (as ways of thinking, especially when shaped by social definitions of being scientific and thereby implicitly definitive of immutable facts) and social reality (especially the reality of race).
Lewis Gordon, the keynote speaker, presented a masterful argument regarding the multiple uses of scientific reason.
Lucia Desir provided an impressive array of facts regarding the unscientific formation of race in Latin America and the multiple ways of identifying that seem to defy a singular formula.
Marily Nssim-Sabat, taking up Gordon’s focus on phenomenology, concentrated on what is involved in de-colonizing science and phenomenology.
Dmitri Nikulin continued the discussion of a phonological account, but with his own focus on the status of ‘the other’ within the discourse of what it is to think about reasoning.
Jeanne Christensen presented a detailed account of Rastafarians use of ‘the master’s tools’ for the purpose of creating a ‘different house’ such that the tools of language especially were shaped in a way that provided language of alternative meaning.
George Caffentzis analyzed the way science has failed to pose itself as anti-racist, yet, present itself as without an interest.
Tania Evans contended that there is a gap between philosophy and social science, one feature of which involves the need to quantify in natural science and the lack of necessity in philosophy.
Al-Yasha I. Williams spoke about public responsibility and accountability in relationship to development on the Island of Sapalo, Georgia. The ethical issues that face the community, including the impact of tourism and environmental hazards, were presented as a case of conflict between the community, researchers at the University of George, and development projects.
Leonard Harris argued that Alain Locke’s metaphysical pluralism included a caveat that limited the use of natural science as a model of reasoning.
Everet Green raised numerous questions regarding the condition of black life, religious institutions, and social responsibility.
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PBOS XIII:
Philosophy and the Scientific Spirit
October 27 & 28
NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York 10011
Amphitheatre: Room 404-407
Lead Organizers:
J. Everet Green - everet@optonline.net
Leonard Harris - lharrisl@hotmail.com
September 24th, 2006 04:05pm
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This 28-minute video excerpt preserves the heart of Cornel West’s keynote address at PBOS X (2003) (Streaming Video, Real Media, 55mb)
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