[Discussion] CFP: Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Cultural Identity (India) (5/25/05; 7/27/06-7/30/06)

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Call for Papers

Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Cultural Identity


The Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion will hold an International
Interdisciplinary Conference in Calcutta July 27-30, 2006. The
Conference theme is "Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Cultural
Identity".

The theme can be addressed critically, reflectively and creatively by
the philosophical, religious and scientific traditions of the World's
great civilizations. The program will include plenary addresses,
volunteered papers, invited papers and panel discussions. Registered
participants who are members of professional associations or societies
are encouraged to submit proposals for holding meetings in the
conference on behalf of their associations or societies. The organizers
are committed to upholding the highest academic standards with emphasis
on the exchange of ideas and dialogues among thinkers drawn from a wide
range of the world's cultural traditions and movements.

Possible topics include:
Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity, Qualitative Aspects of
Consciousness, Phenomenology of Consciousness, Theories of Action and
Agency, Time Consciousness and Memory, Self-Consciousness and Language,
Consciousness, Knowledge and Reality, Social and Political Dimensions of
Consciousness, Ethics, Alterity and the Phenomenology of Obligation,
Technology and Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness of
Self and Other, Imagination, Dreaming and Altered States of
Consciousness, Consciousness and Cognition, Physicalist/Reductive vs.
Non-Physical/Non-Reductive Accounts of Consciousness, Atomistic and
Holistic Aspects of Consciousness, Race, Gender and Ethnicity, Post-
modern Selfhood, Relativism and Absolutism , Cultural Relativism,
Culture and Meaning, Singularity of Culture, Tradition and Modernity,
Culture: Descriptive and Normative Approach, Values, Customs and
Culture, Culture and Hermeneutics, Text and Interpretation,
Globalization of Culture, Sociology of Knowledge, etc. This list is
illustrative and not exhaustive.


The Program Board comprises: Elysabeth Agnew (USA), David Blanks
(Egypt),Victoria Harrison-Carter (U.K), George Berry  (Australia),
Elysabeth Koldzak (Poland), Richard Libendorfer (USA), Craig
Matarrese(USA), Devasish Mukherjee (India), Nityananda Saha (India),
Joel Wilcox(USA).

Registration: The advance registration fee for the conference is $100
and on site registration fee is $140. Conference events are currently
expected to include a reception and an evening cultural program.

We welcome your participation and suggestion. The deadline for
submission of abstracts is May 25, 2005. The advance registration fee of
$100 (due by October 31, 2005) should be paid by check drawn in favor of
the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion mailed to the Secretary,
Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion , 1210 Jamestowne Drive,
Elon, North Carolina 27244, USA.

If you would like to contribute a paper to this event please send an
abstract of about 150 words to:

                  Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti
                  Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion
                  E-Mail: chakraba@elon.edu
                  Phone: (336) 524-9349


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