2015 UEHIRO PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
Place of Philosophy – Philosophy of Place
March 19-20, 2015 at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Keynote Speakers:
Yoko Arisaka, Ph.D.
Dr. Arisaka is a fellow at the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie, Hannover. She has published and lectured extensively in the fields of Japanese and Continental philosophy, feminism, postcolonialism, and philosophy of mind. She is on the forefront of the intersection of philosophy and environmental concerns, having participated in the interdisciplinary Japan-U.S. Sustainability Research Group. She is the author of Prophetischer Pragmatismus: Eine Einführung in das Denken von Cornel West (Prophetic Pragmatism: Introduction to the Thoughts of Cornel West), and co-editor of Kitarō Nishida in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts (Kitaro Nishida in the 20th Century Philosophy).
Shigenori Nagatomo, Ph.D.
Currently Professor of Comparative Philosophy & East Asian Buddhism at Temple University, Dr. Nagatomo received both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from our own University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He specializes in Comparative philosophy and East Asian Buddhism, with a focus on issues of the mind/body. Dr. Nagatomo has an impressive body of work addressing the place of the body in religious experience and the place of religious experience in philosophy. He is also the translator of a number of key texts of philosophy, including but not limited to Nishida’s Place and Dialectic: Two Essays of Nishida Kitarō, Yuasa’s The Body, Self-Cultivation & Ki-Energy and The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory.
The Uehiro Cross Currents Philosophy Conference showcases exceptional work by graduate and advanced undergraduate students in all fields of philosophy that explore "place" and its relation to philosophy, including but not limited to such topics as: How has place been conceived in Philosophy? What does it mean to "have a place?" Does philosophy "have a place" in other fields in which it inserts itself (postcolonialism, ecology, race theory, women's studies, technology, art, et al); How might a comparative approach to a philosophy of place contribute to philosophy and other fields? How has/can philosophy mediate in the current environmental crisis? How has philosophy been changed by our changing environment? We welcome papers addressing these and other questions pertaining to the conference theme.
Email full papers to psa@hawaii.edu. Papers should be suitable for a 20-minute presentation. In the body of the email include: 1) Your name, 2) Title of the paper, 3) Institutional affiliation, 4) Contact information (email, phone number, mailing address), and 5) Whether you would like to be considered for a travel award. Send documents in word format with no identifying information for blind review. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 20th, 2015. The Uehiro Student Essay Award will be presented to the best student presentation. Competitive partial travel subsidies will be available this year for both international and domestic travel. All submissions will be considered for possible publication in the Uehiro Conference Proceedings, published in the past by Cambridge Scholars Press.
DEADLINE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 1st 2015
Support provided by the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education
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