Call for Papers: NALS 2015 Conference | July 27-July 30, 2015 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Par David le dimanche 26 avril 2015, 21:03 - 2015 - Lien permanent
Emmanuel Levinas across the Generations and Continents
The resistance of analytic philosophy to continental philosophy, at least as practiced in the United States, is well known. Anecdotes abound regarding failed attempts to bridge the divide or to discover continuities that have been missed. Increasingly however, younger scholars, thinkers, and critics who have been tempted on the one hand by analytic philosophy, and on the other by Levinas's ethical thinking, are turning to Levinas as a way of challenging the breach.
In this year's conference, the tenth anniversary of the existence of the North American Levinas Society, we would like to explore this gap and this potential dismantling. Because the idea for the organization and for the yearly conference began at Purdue (in a graduate course on Levinas), we thought it appropriate that the tenth anniversary should take place at Purdue. The conference will begin on the morning of July 27 and conclude the evening of July 30, 2015.
Two axes will organize our thinking: pairing
older thinkers with younger ones, and inviting a number of French
practitioners who have recently demonstrated an interest in finding
continuities and in undoing the divide. We invite papers that explore
all aspects of this continental-analytic divide in generational,
national, and/or other relevant contexts. As has become customary in
NALS over the years, however, we also welcome papers on any topic in
Levinas studies that happens to be of interest to you. The official
language of the conference will be English and so while we welcome
papers by non-native speakers, we suggest that all papers be
translated for delivery. More information on the conference is
available at the Purdue website where you will also be able to
register:
www.cla.purdue.edu/research/conferences/emmanuallevinas/
The
new extended deadline for receipt of proposals (of no more than 500
words) is May 31, 2015. Please send all proposals to Monica
Osborne:
monica.osborne@pepperdine.edu
All
submissions will be acknowledged. Notifications of the acceptance of
proposals for the first round of submissions to the NALS 2015
conference at Purdue will be sent out as previously indicated by
March 1, 2015. Notifications of the acceptance of proposals in the
second round will be sent out no later than May 31.
We look forward to greeting you, or to
welcoming you back to Purdue.
Sandor Goodhart
NALS 2015 Conference Organizer