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From: Markus Wiemker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wed 30/05/2007 10:42
Subject: 8th Interdisciplinary, International Graduate Conference
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
The Departments of German Studies, Philosophy, English and American
Studies,
Media Sciences, Political Sciences and Social Sciences at the University
of
Erlangen/Nuremberg, Germany, invite young scholars
(postgraduates and assistant professors) to present papers at our
conference:
Ethics and/or justice after postmodernism:
Revisioning media, politics, and the arts in the 21st century
8th Interdisciplinary, International Graduate Conference
at the University of Erlangen/Nuremberg
November 23 - 25, 2007
Keynote address (to be confirmed):
Axel Honneth (Frankfurt)
Poetry Reading by the Austrian-Jewish writer Robert Schindel and ensuing
discussion with Klaus Holz (Dortmund)
The reformulation of ethical narratives may be seen as one of the most
prominent signatures of the current political debate, of mass-media
communication, and of present literary and artistic productions. The
conference will focus on this recent 'ethical turn', observable in these
various and heterogeneous fields. However, does the focus on ethical
questions (as centering on the individual) exclude claims for political,
social, gender or ethnical justice, or are they mutually dependent?
The conference will ask whether the increase in subjects concentrating
on
ethical issues indicates a return to traditional and normative
positions,
marking the end of postmodern relativity and indifference. In this
context,
the present hostility to theory could be just as significant as the
notable
process of re-essentializing reality constructions previously put into
question by theories of difference.
Or, on the contrary, is the recent ethically based debate to be seen as
a
continuation of postmodern theories, insofar as the implicit question of
justice in poststructuralist thought has now turned into an explicitly
ethical-political discourse, facing the conflicts and challenges of a
global
and post-capitalist world?
Taking this into account, how can politically just and ethical actions
be
constituted and legitimized without the (religious, metaphysical,
anthropologic) grands récits that have traditionally served as their
foundation? How can theorists ground their arguments if they continue to
pursue poststructuralist ideas, when they have been employed to
deconstruct
the basic assumptions that have anchored western identity?
With our interdisciplinary and international conference we would like to
discuss what space justice and ethics occupy in contemporary everyday
life
and in the present academic discourse. In what ways do issues concerning
ethics and/or justice appear:
- in the media and in the arts (as return to narration, as new forms of
a
littérature engagée, as remembrance culture)
- in politics (as forms of inclusion and exclusion; as justice of
recognition and redistribution)
- in disciplines such as philosophy and the social sciences, which
theoretically and practically analyse forms of acting ethically and/or
justly
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Ethics of deconstruction/deconstruction of ethics
- Justice between remembrance and history
- Ethics and narration
- Interculturality, intercultural ethics and hermeneutics
- Ethics and (cultural) translation
- Media theory as media ethics
- Governmentality and biopolitics
- Ethical action between subjectivation and technologies of the self
- Gender justice
- Construction of (national) identities
- Self and other; inclusion and exclusion
- New antisemitism
- Borders (political, aesthetic, religious)
- Boundaries of the human
- Religiousness and fanatism, terrorism and fundamentalism
- Trans-marxist critique of culture, post-marxist politics
- Limits to postmodern liberalism
- Global society - global ethics
- Ethics in contemporary art and film
- Concepts of love, hospitality and friendship
Please register using our online submission form at
http://www.gradnet.de
The deadline for paper proposals (max. 200 words) is September 9, 2007.
For scholars who wish to attend the conference without giving a paper
the deadline for registration is Friday, 16 November 2007.
Panels with three to five speakers will last two to two and a half
hours. The time allocated for each paper is about 15 minutes to permit
ample time for discussion.
The official languages of the conference are English and German.
You will be notified whether your proposal has been accepted by Friday,
16
September 2007. In the case of scholars travelling from outside Germany,
we
shall endeavour to reach decisions earlier in order to facilitate travel
arrangements.
Before the conference, each contribution (approximately 6-10 pages or
3500-4500 words) will be posted on our web page in order to facilitate
discussion and
scholarly exchange. The deadline for the submission of these short
contributions is October 21, 2007.
Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
The conference fee is 20 EUR.
The University of Erlangen-Nürnberg is proud to be able to offer three
bursaries. The conference fee and accommodation costs will be waived for
up
to three
scholars whose papers have been accepted and who come from nations whose
scholars cannot normally afford to attend conferences in Western Europe.
Applications for bursaries,
including a curriculum vitae, should reach us by Friday, 23 September
2007
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For additional information go to our webpage "http://www.gradnet.de".
If you have further inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at
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Academic organizers:
Alexandra Boehm, M.A. (Comparative Literature)
Mark Schoenleben, M.A. (Philosophy)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Institut für Philosophie
Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen
Germany
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