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PPA+ Conference Philosophy, Politics, Anthropology & Allied Disciplines University of Amsterdam, 15-17 May 2019 Keynote: David Graeber (LSE) & David Wengrow (UCL), 'The Myth of the Stupid Savage: Rousseau's Ghost and the Future of Political Anthropology' Call for abstracts: The basic premise of PPA+ is that the fields of philosophy, politics, anthropology, and other social sciences have much more in common than is typically acknowledged. Philosophical claims about human beings had to start somewhere and, indeed, they usually began as basic empirical generalisations about the nature of human societies. Anthropology began as an offshoot from the field philosophy in the early 19th century and it continues to carry the same fundamental set of theoretical building blocks with it into the present day. Politics and other social science disciplines have comparable origins, typically traceable to moral philosophy. As an interdisciplinary conference and scholarly society, PPA+ aims to articulate the theoretical principles, methodological orientations, and empirical data that form the basis of philosophy, politics, anthropology and allied disciplines as traditionally distinct fields. Through this collaboration, we hope to identify persistent shortcomings and biases in our thinking about the nature of human social life ways and to find better ways forward. Predecessors of this conference were held in New Orleans for the last three years. This year's conference will be hosted by the University of Amsterdam's Departments of Anthropology and Political Science. Deadline for abstract submission (2-300 words): 16 December 2018. Decisions by 21 December. Please send your abstract to [log in to unmask] Programme committee: Drew Chastain (Loyola) Julie McBrien (Amsterdam) Grant McCall (Tulane) Enzo Rossi (Amsterdam) Karl Widerquist (Georgetown) Local organisers: Gordon Arlen, Aleksander Masternak, Julie McBrien, Paul Raekstad, Enzo Rossi. Please circulate to potentially interested parties. Apologies for cross-posting. * Enzo Rossi * Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Co-editor, *European Journal of Political Theory* enzorossi.academia.edu University of Amsterdam, Roeterseiland Campus, Rm B10.5 PO Box 15578, 1001 NB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * If you find this email curt, please don't take offence. I'm trying to reduce everyone's correspondence load.* * Enzo Rossi * Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Co-editor, *European Journal of Political Theory* enzorossi.academia.edu University of Amsterdam, Roeterseiland Campus, Rm B10.5 PO Box 15578, 1001 NB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * If you find this email curt, please don't take offence. I'm trying to reduce everyone's correspondence load.* ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ECPR-THEORY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ECPR-THEORY&A=1