CFP for the 2010 International Conference: "Readings of Difficult Freedom"
This international conference is an initiative of the Société internationale de Recherches Emmanuel Levinas (SIREL, Paris, www.sirel-levinas.org and the North American Levinas Society (Purdue University, USA, www.levinas-society.org). The conference will host participants from all over the world, with 120 projected presentations. Priority will be given to students and young researchers. The proceedings will be published (articles selected by the editorial committee). If funding permits, some financial aid may be made available, in particular to young researchers.
The complete CFP can be downloaded here. 500 word abstracts should be submitted (preferably as Microsoft Word files by 30 September 2009 to dlib2010@gmail.com
North American Levinas Society's Fourth Annual Conference
The 2009 conference schedule appears on our conference webpage. Additionally, the schedule can be downloaded as a Microsoft Word document.
2009 Conference Registration Form
The 2009 NALS conference registration form is available for download. Forms can be faxed or mailed once completed. Also, please make sure to renew your membership in addition to completing your registration; our Paypal links should be up and running soon--thanks for your support and your patience!
Call for Papers: Philosophy and its Others
The North American Levinas Society invites submissions of individual paper proposals and panel proposals for the fourth annual meeting and conference to be held June 28-30, 2009. While we will organize the conference around the broad theme of “Philosophy and Its Others,” we will consider proposals for paper and panels on any topic related to Levinas in an effort to draw the widest array of interests.
Please follow this link for the complete Conference CFP, including an extensive theme description and important dates.
AnOther CFP of Interest
, JACwill be publishing a special issue on Levinas and rhetoric guest edited by Michael Bernard-Donals. JAC focuses on the intersections of philosophy, rhetoric, technology, and composition. Since there is not an electronic CFP, I reproduce it here:
Emmanuel Levinas's work has gained widespread attention in the years since his death in 1995, though it has been taken up only recently by theorists of rhetoric. This is, in many ways, surprising, since the indissoluble link of language and ethics in his work—not to mention his focus on how individuals are defined through utterance — would seem to be fertile ground for those working in the field. Of course, there are facets of Levinas's work that complicate matters: it is rooted in a Jewish, rather than a Greco-Roman, tradition; it is hostile to systems of any kind, rhetoric included; and it is wedded to theology perhaps more than it is to philosophy, among other issues. Suffice it to say, then, that while Levinas's work has been and will continue to be taken up by rhetoricians, it is fraught terrain.
This special issue of JAC will include essays that take up the complicated relationship between the work of Emmanuel Levinas and rhetoric, the rhetorical tradition, and writing. Essays are invited on any facet of Levinas's work and its relation to rhetoric, cultural studies, and writing studies. Essay topics might include: the relation of language, ethics, politics; the connection between rhetoric and Judaism; the relation between Levinas's work and that of other rhetorical theorists; Levinas's notions of trauma, suffering and/or otherness as foundational for rhetoric and writing; the performative dimension of Levinas's idea of utterance; other topics welcome.
Deadline for completed papers is 1 May 2009; papers should be between 6000 and 8000 words in length. Questions and completed tss. (as attachments) should be sent to Professor Michael Bernard-Donals (mfbernarddon@wisc.edu). Tss. can also be sent by mail to Professor Bernard-Donals at the Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Helen C. White Hall, 600 North Park Street, Madison WI 53706.
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Shelley DeBlasis
Assistant Editor, JAC
GTA, Department of English
Instructor, Women and Gender Studies Program
Illinois State Universitysddebla@ilstu.edu
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