Dear CPA Members,

The editorial team of the journal Dialogue, affiliated with the Canadian Philosophical Association, reminds its members that the submission of articles in French is always welcome.

Established in 1962 and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Dialogue publishes articles and special issues in all areas of philosophy. The journal meets the highest academic standards and is published by Cambridge University Press. It has 3 issues per year and offers accelerated publication times once articles have been reviewed and accepted.

Dialogue also subscribes to Cambridge University Press' Green Open Access policy, which allows for the distribution of certain versions of articles published on multiple platforms, and aims to make its modes of publication compatible with the open access requirements now imposed by many granting agencies.

Manuscripts can be submitted online on the ScholarOne platform at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dia.

For more information on submitting articles, visit our website: https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/dialogue-submissions.

If you have any questions or would like to propose a special issue project, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at dialogue.francais@acpcpa.ca.

Looking forward to reading your contributions,

Charles Côté-Bouchard

Collège Montmorency

Francophone Editor of Dialogue

Cécile Facal

French-speaking editorial assistant

Dialogue. Canadian Journal of Philosophy

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Canadian Jacques Maritain Association

Annual Symposium

June 18-21, 2024

In conjunction with the

Canadian Philosophical Association and

Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Theme: Maritain, Aquinas, and the Promise of Thomism

The influence of St. Thomas Aquinas on the life and work of Jacques Maritain is unmistakable. Aquinas inspired Maritain to become not only a philosopher, but an exponent and modern-day promulgator of Aquinas's philosophy. Since the publication of the papal encyclical Aeterni patris, many have turned their attention to Aquinas's work and have been convinced of its value to an age that had succumbed to depersonalizing ideologies and turned its back on the teachings of the perennial philosophy. In this respect, Aquinas was heralded as a guide to follow and a model to emulate.

     The Spring Symposium 2024 of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association will focus on the relationship between St. Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Maritain by assessing the importance of this intellectual and spiritual bond and the fruit that it has produced. A secondary focus is the influence of Aquinas on the Neo-thomistic movement, which include such eminent figures as Étienne Gilson, Joseph Maréchal, Mortimer J. Adler, W. Norris Clarke, Josef Pieper, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Erich Przywara, Charles De Koninck, Benedict Ashley, Ralph McInerny and Lawrence Dewan.

     As we find humanity in the 21st-century beset by innumerable unique challenges, from the transhumanist agenda to the technological hegemony of the internet and artificial intelligence to the various afflictions in the moral and political order, Aquinas's wisdom is needed now more than ever. A pressing question that lies at the forefront is: how can the spirit of Thomism address the coming issues of our age?

     The Canadian Jacques Maritain Association welcomes topics that treat aspects of Maritain's and Aquinas's thought either independently or in relation to each other. Of particular interest are papers that discuss the influence of Aquinas on the contemporary period as well as the promise that it affords for the philosophical, moral, political, social, and theological challenges that are felt to be current in our world or that ominously loom on the horizon.

     Since the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association is a bilingual association, papers can be in either English or French. Selected papers will be published in Études maritainiennes-Maritain Studies, the official journal of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association.

     The conference will take place over one or two days during the period of June 18-21, 2024—the actual dates are yet to be determined—in conjunction with the spring conference of the Canadian Philosophical Association and the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada will be the host venue.

Those who wish to present a paper should send by e-mail a one-page abstract or proposal to:

Dr. Nikolaj Zunic

Department of Philosophy

St. Jerome's University

290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G3, Canada

E-mail: nzunic@uwaterloo.ca

Deadline for submission of proposals: April 15, 2024

Papers should not exceed 35 minutes reading time.

For more information, please visit the website for the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association: https://www.maritain.info/

Call for Papers 

*Deadline Extended to July 15*

The 56^thannual meeting of the 

Western Canadian Philosophical Association

in conjunction with the 4^thannual meeting of the

Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/ Société Canadienne de Philosophie Environnementale

Keynote Speaker:

Andrew Light

Submissions of papers from all areas of philosophy are welcome. Papers should be no more than 4,000 words (excluding notes), presentable in 25-30 minutes to allow for commentary and discussion, and prepared for anonymous review. The extended submission deadline is JULY 15th 2019.

Please submit papers in electronic form (PDF) and a brief abstract (no more than 150 words) via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcpa2019conference

Proposals for panels or symposia are also welcome. Please submit the proposed title of the symposium as well as a collection of abstracts in electronic form (PDF), and a brief abstract (no more than 150 words) indicating that you are proposing a panel/symposium via EasyChair (in the same way as you would submit a paper). Symposia are allotted 2 hours.

Colloquium papers and panels/symposia on environmental topics may be submitted for presentation either on the WCPA main program or the program of the CSEP/SCPE, but will automatically be considered for presentation on both programs. Please indicate if you are submitting with the CSEP/SPCE in mind at the top of your abstract.

Both the WCPA and CSEP will be awarding a Student Essay Prize, so if you are a student, please indicate this.

For more information, and a link to the EasyChair submission page, please visit: http://www.uleth.ca/artsci/philosophy/western-canadian-philosophical-association-wcpa-conference

A keynote for CSEP may be announced at a later date

*Appel à communications*

COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL ET INTERDISCIPLINAIRE 2019
POUR ÉTUDIANT.ES ET NOUVEAUX CHERCHEUR.ES :
IMMIGRATION, DIVERSITÉ ETHNOCULTURELLE ET CITOYENNETÉ

Mercredi, 1er mai 2019 Salle D-R200, pavillon Athanase-David, UQAM

(1430 rue Saint-Denis/métro Berri-UQAM)

Date limite pour recevoir les propositions :
Vendredi, 15 février 2019, 17 heures

Le Centre de recherche en immigration, ethnicité et citoyenneté (CRIEC) invite les étudiantes et étudiants des cycles supérieurs, ainsi que les chercheur.e.s en début de carrière à participer à son colloque international et interdisciplinaire. Les communications pourront aborder un large éventail de questions liées à l’immigration, la diversité ethnoculturelle ou la citoyenneté. Plus largement, les propositions qui s’inscrivent dans un des principaux champs d’intérêt de du Centre seront privilégiées.

Axe 1 : Gestion des mobilités: enjeux de sécurité et d’insécurité
Axe 2 : Citoyenneté, droit(s) et processus de subjectivation et d’assujettissement
Axe 3 : L’insertion des immigrants dans les espaces du travail et les organisations
Axe 4 : Intégration, exclusions, et processus identitaires

Une présentation exhaustive des champs d’intérêt du Centre se trouve sur le site Internet : http://criec.uqam.ca/recherches/axes-de-recherche.html.

CONSIGNES : Les communications auront pour but de faire état des recherches en cours ou récemment achevées, et des résultats obtenus au moment de la rédaction. Les propositions de communication (maximum de 250 mots) devront être rédigées en français sur le formulaire « projet de communication CRIEC » disponible au: www.criec.uqam.ca. La durée de chaque communication est de 15 minutes.

DATE LIMITE : Nous invitons les candidates et candidats à retourner le formulaire par voie électronique à l’adresse suivante : criec@uqam.ca au plus tard le 15 février 2019, 17 heures.

Une confirmation sera transmise dès réception de la proposition. Par la suite, un comité scientifique du CRIEC évaluera les propositions et communiquera sa décision aux personnes sélectionnées avant le 15 mars 2019.

Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le site Internet du CRIEC :
www.criec.uqam.ca

Organisé par :
Le Centre de recherche en immigration, ethnicité et citoyenneté, Université du Québec à Montréal
Sous la responsabilité du Comité scientifique du Centre de recherche en immigration, ethnicité et citoyenneté, Université du Québec à Montréa

Partenaire: 

*Call for Papers*

2019 PHILOsurfer Convergence

What: 2019 PHILOsurfer Convergence

Where: Hotel Indigo, Del Mar, California

When: June 26 – 28, 2019

Keynote Speakers:

Jamie Brisick (Former professional surfer, Fulbright Scholar, author of Have Board, Will Travel: The Definitive History of Surf, Skate, and Snow, and Becoming Westerly)

Dr. Matthew Talbert (Senior Researcher with the Lund-Gothenburg Responsibility Project; Assoc. Professor of Philosophy, West Virginia University)

Topic Areas: Open, but papers addressing philosophical issues in surfing are encouraged.

Details:

The PHILOsurfer Convergence is an annual conference that aims to bring together philosophy professors and graduate students who share a passion for philosophy and surfing. This year's Convergence will provide opportunities for the philosopher/surfer to present a paper, socialize, and surf with like-minded individuals at the many breaks in and around the Orange County/San Diego area. The event is limited to twenty-five participants. 

If you would like to attend and/or present a paper at the 2019 Convergence, please email the conference organizers, Dr. Patrick Findler (patrick.findler@kpu.ca) and Dr. Colin Ruloff (colin.ruloff@kpu.ca)

Host Institution: Department of Philosophy, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Open Philosophy is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal covering all areas of philosophy. The objective of Open Philosophy is to foster free exchange of ideas and provide an appropriate platform for presenting, discussing and disseminating new concepts, current trends, theoretical developments and research findings related to the broadest philosophical spectrum. The journal does not favour any particular philosophical school, perspective or methodology.

Currently we have consecutive CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

• Topical issue: Object-Oriented Ontology and its Critics, edited by Graham Harman (Southern California Institute of Architecture) - deadline for submissions: May 31, 2019, https://www.degruyter.com/page/1880

• Topical Issue: Does Public Art Have to be Bad Art?, edited by Mark Kingwell (Toronto University) - deadline for submissions: April 30, 2019, https://www.degruyter.com/page/1690  

• Topical Issue: Experience in a New Key, ed. Dorthe Jørgensen (Aarhus University, Denmark) - deadline for submissions: May 31, 2019, https://www.degruyter.com/page/1675  

• Topical Issue: Computer Modeling in Philosophy, ed. Patrick Grim (Stony Brook/University of Michigan, USA) - deadline for submissions: February 28, 2019, https://www.degruyter.com/page/1776  

Call for Papers 

Annual Meeting 

of

The Canadian Philosophical Association

29 May - 1 June, 2023

2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 

York University

Toronto, ON

The Canadian Philosophical Association invites submissions of papers, abstracts, and Invited Symposium proposals for its 2023 annual meeting. This meeting is part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will take place May 29 – June 1 alongside meetings of other learned societies at York University in Toronto, ON. For the first time, the CPA meeting will include a series of special sessions, each of which will pair two prominent philosophers on a topic of shared interest. For its 2023 annual meeting, the CPA is delighted to announce the participation of Dorit Bar-On, Margaret Graver, Brad Inwood, Antti Kauppinen, Eric Marcus, Adam Pautz, Jonathan Schaffer, and Christine Tappolet.

As in previous years, the CPA meeting will also feature concurrent colloquia and symposia, and a plenary keynote given by a distinguished philosopher and sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Every area of philosophy will be represented at the CPA meeting, with several hundred philosophers attending from across the globe.

The program committee anonymously referees abstracts as well as full papers and will consider proposals for Invited Symposia. Submissions in all areas of philosophy are welcome. The CPA is committed to organizing an accessible and inclusive meeting.

A number of prizes are awarded by the Association for essays submitted for the Annual Meeting: two faculty essay prizes (one tenured, one non-tenured) and up to three student essay prizes (one student prize is reserved for each official language). The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences will again offer the Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) program to support graduate students at Congress. In each year’s December issue of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, prize winners from that year's Annual Meeting will be announced and a short list of exceptional papers that have been vetted by journal reviewers will be published. Prize winners are encouraged to submit their publication-ready papers to Dialogue early.

For more information about the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, please visit https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2023.

The deadline for abstract and paper submissions is midnight, January 9, 2023. For detailed instructions, please visit https://www.acpcpa.ca/cpages/submit.

Volunteers to chair or comment are encouraged. To volunteer, please click here.

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

2019 Association for Political Theory

Proposal Deadline: Monday, February 4, 2019

The Association for Political Theory Annual Conference
University of California, Irvine
October 24^th-26^th, 2019

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Hagar Kotef (SOAS University of London) and
Neil Roberts (Williams College)

The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals from faculty members, independent scholars, and ABD graduate students for its annual conference to be held October 24^th-26^th, 2019, at the campus of the University of California, Irvine. We will consider papers on all topics in political theory, political philosophy and their cognate disciplines, from scholars working in any field at any institution. We also encourage faculty members to volunteer to serve as chairs and/or discussants.

How to apply:
 

(1) Proposers must be members of the Association (membership is free). If you are not yet a member, please submit an application at: https://associationforpoliticaltheory.org/Member_Sign_Up by February 1, 2019.
 

(2) Abstracts of 300-400 words are due by midnight PST on Monday, February 4, 2019 at: https://associationforpoliticaltheory.org/Paper_Proposal_Form (you must log on to submit). Each member may submit one proposal and may be a co-author on one proposal submitted by someone else. The APT conference does not accept full panel or roundtable proposals.

Thursday Programming and applying for workshop panels: 

This year the APT will extend some of its programming into Thursday by holding three to four workshop panels on that day.  Workshops of this type were formerly held during the first session on Saturday.  We realize that not everyone can attend the conference on Thursday but if you are interested in presenting your paper at a Thursday workshop panel, please indicate on your proposal form that you would like to be considered and that you are willing to fulfil the commitments it requires. Workshop panels will consist of three presenters and a chair; but instead of a traditional discussant, the panelists and pre-registered audience members will read all papers and prepare written comments for the presenters by the beginning of the conference. At the conference, participants will spend approximately 30 minutes workshopping each of the papers. We will designate these panels only after the PC has evaluated the proposals.

Additional Thursday programming will include other events such as the First Book Manuscript Workshop and a plenary roundtable featuring scholars from UC-Irvine and other institutions in California. A reception shall follow.

Chairs and Discussants: 

If you are proposing a paper and wish to participate as a chair and/or discussant on another panel, please indicate your areas of expertise in the relevant box on the proposal form. If you are willing to participate as a chair and/or discussant without making a paper proposal, please fill out the form available at: https://associationforpoliticaltheory.org/C_D_Volunteer_Form. Chairs and discussants must have a Ph.D.

Pre-circulation requirement: 

Presenters on Thursday workshop panels must submit their papers electronically to the paper archive on the APT website no later than September 27, 2019. All other presenters must submit their papers to the archive no later than October 4, 2019. The archive will be password-protected so that access is limited to members of APT. Presenters who do not meet these deadlines will not be able to propose a paper for the following year’s conference.

Questions and assistance: 

For questions about the program or proposal guidelines, please contact one of the Program Committee Co-Chairs, Hagar Kotef (hagar.kotef@soas.ac.uk) and Neil Roberts (Neil.Roberts@williams.edu). If you have any difficulties submitting a proposal, please contact APT at communications@associationforpoliticaltheory.org.

To learn more about the Association and its annual conference please visit the APT website at https://associationforpoliticaltheory.org/.

*Call for Papers*

The Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy / Société Canadienne de  Philosophie Environnementale is holding its 2021 Annual Meeting 

in conjunction with

The 57^th annual meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association and 2^nd Salish Sea Aesthetics Workshop: November 12-14 2021

(Hosted by the University of Victoria, Marriot Hotel: Inner Harbour)

2021 Conference Themes:

Climate Change & Social Justice

New Directions in Environmental Philosophy

Submissions requested on the conference themes and any Canadian and global environmental issues in all their philosophical dimensions; including (but not limited to) the aesthetic, cultural, ethical, epistemological, metaphysical, ontological, phenomenological, social/political, scientific, and spiritual.

Colloquium papers should be no more than 4,000 words (text), presentable in 25-30 minutes to allow for commentary and discussion, and prepared for anonymous review.

Please note: papers accepted for the conference will automatically be considered for the Society's forthcoming new open access journal, the Canadian Journal of Environmental Philosophy.

Proposals for panels or symposia will also be considered. Please submit the proposed title, abstracts of presentations, and names of all participants. Symposia would be allotted 2 hours.

The CSEP/SCPE will award a Graduate Student Essay Prize, so if eligible, please indicate this.

Information about the conference will be available at the WCPA website: http://wcpaonline.ca/

Submissions should be submitted via EasyChair:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcpa2021

Please submit your paper or symposium proposal by August 1, 2021. Please include “CSEP/SCPE” among your keywords or in your submission title.

For assistance regarding the CSEP/SCPE, contact csepscpe@ualberta.ca

Or visit the CSEP/SCPE website: https://csepscpe.wixsite.com/csep-scpe

*Call for Papers*
Topoi Special Issue Adversariality in Argument

Guest Editors:
John Casey (Northeastern Illinois University)

and

Katharina Stevens (University of Lethbridge)

*Deadline for Submissions Extended to 1 June 2020*

 While worries about adversariality in argument date back to Plato, more recent concerns about adversariality can be found in Janice Moulton’s (1983) identification of adversarial argument as a dominant paradigm in philosophy. Since the 80’s, there has been a growing body of work on argumentation, deliberation, and disagreement that confronts the dangers, limitations, and advantages of adversarial argumentation spanning various areas of research, such as argumentation theory, feminist theory, critical thinking research, deliberative democracy, and the cognitive science of reasoning. Contributions have produced a multitude of conceptions of adversariality, and strong arguments both for and against the importance of different forms of adversariality in argument. The concern with the role of adversariality has led to the development of cooperative theories of argumentation in critical thinking research. It has motivated ideas about how adversariality could be reduced or used for its positive effects as well as arguments about the moral obligations arguers have towards their interlocutors in argumentation theory. It stands in the center of feminist criticisms of contemporary argumentative practices. It has sparked debates about the design of deliberative publics in research on deliberative democracy. And it plays an important role in the argumentative theory of reasoning in cognitive science.

The renewed interest in adversariality is important and timely. In an increasingly polarized world and faced with a public debate that is often hostile and unproductive, it is necessary to develop a robust theory of adversariality and its place in argument. Yet, authors in the debate often seem to be lacking a common understanding of what adversariality means, or in what sense it is or is not important/essential/productive. This special issue aims to bring different perspectives on adversariality in argument together and thereby both invigorate and focus an already lively debate. We therefore invite contributions that engage with adversariality in argument from any area of philosophy in the hope for a diverse and informative issue.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Kinds of Adversariality; Is Adversariality Essential to Argument?; The Psychology of Argumentative Adversariality; Adversariality and the Cognitive Science of Reasoning; Adversariality in Political Deliberation; Adversariality in Deliberation Design, Argument-As-War Metaphor; Can Cooperative Argument Replace the Dominant Adversarial Model?; Argumentative Adversariality and Feminist Theory; Adversariality and Justice in Argument; Adversariality and Belief; History of the Problem of Adversariality; Adversariality Across Theories of Argumentation (Informal Logic, Pragma-Dialectics, Rhetoric, etc.); Adversariality and Disagreement; Adversariality and Polarization; Adversariality and Epistemology; Adversariality and Pedagogy; Critical Thinking and Adversarial Argumentation; The Ethics of Adversariality.

Invited contributors: Scott Aikin (Vanderbilt University), Catherine Hundleby (University of Windsor) and Moira Howes (Trent University), Andrew Aberdein (Florida Institute of Technology), Sharon Bailin and Mark Battersby (Simon Fraser University)

Instructions for Submission: All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Submission is organized through TOPOI’s online editorial manager: https://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/default.aspx

Log in, click on “submit new manuscript” and select “Adversariality in argument” from the menu “article type”.

Please upload: 1) a manuscript prepared for double-blind peer-review and 2) a title page containing the title of the paper, name, affiliation and contact details of the author, word-count, abstract and key-words.

Papers should not exceed 8000 words (excluding notes).

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact: Katharina Stevens (Katharina.stevens@uleth.ca) or John Casey (j-casey1@neiu.edu)

Culture and Dialogue is an international peer reviewed print and electronic journal of cross-cultural philosophy and humanities. The Journal provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. For each issue, Culture and Dialogue  seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator.

The next 2019 issue (Volume 7, Number 2) will focus on the theme of 

Culture, War and Sovereignty:

“Culture, War and Sovereignty” can encompass a great many specifically philosophical themes and issues, and some ideas involving dialogical relationships include:

• Comparative philosophy of conflict resolution and reconciliation, which may analyse one or more particular non-Western perspectives and how they can engage the relevant fields of Western philosophy.

• Philosophical reflection on the range of approaches to war and sovereignty (analytic, interpretive, Western, Eastern etc.)
• Inquiry into the cultural dimension of conflicts.
• The role and significance of dialogue in conflict resolution and reconciliation.
• The nature of and justification for sovereignty claims across cultures.
• The essence of war and the question of sovereignty from interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives.

We welcome essays that address any of these issues from different cultural perspectives or philosophical traditions. 

Submissions to:          admin@culture-dialogue.net
Notes for Authors:       www.culture-dialogue.net/notes-for-authors
Deadline: Open until selection standards are met

More about the journal:

www.culture-dialogue.net
www.brill.com/products/journal/culture-and-dialogue

ISSN 2222-3282

Honorary Member: Tzvetan Todorov 1939-2017
Editor in Chief: Gerald Cipriani National University of Ireland, Galway
Associate Editor: Martin Ovens University of Oxford (UK)
Assistant Editor: Loni Reynolds University of Roehampton (UK)
Manuscript Editor Erika Mandarino Tulane University (USA)
Book Review Editor: Robert Clarke Lancaster University (UK)

http://www.culture-dialogue.net/

*Appel à communications / Call for papers*

9^e Séminaire québécois en philosophie moderne / 9^th Quebec Seminar in early modern philosophy

Trois-Rivières, QC (Canada) 10-12 Sept. 2019

Date limite de soumission / Deadline : 13 août 2019

SVP envoyez une proposition de communication d’environ une demie-page (simple interligne) à syliane.charles@uqtr.ca avant le 13 août pour participer au 9^e Séminaire québécois en philosophie moderne qui se tiendra du 10 au 12 septembre à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Les propositions peuvent porter sur tous les aspects de l’histoire de la philosophie moderne (de Montaigne à Kant), en vue de présenter une communication de 40 minutes. Le programme sera établi très rapidement afin de permettre à chacun d’organiser son voyage.

Le conférencier invité sera Lorenzo Vinciguerra (U. de Picardie à Amiens, France).

Tous les frais de repas seront couverts ainsi qu’une partie plus ou moins grande des frais de voyage et séjour (priorité donnée aux étudiants et personnes sans subvention, max. 500$ / personne).

Les participants pourront, de plus, soumettre leur texte pour publication dans les Studia de philosophia moderna s’ils le souhaitent (revue électronique bilingue spécialisée en philosophie moderne).

Pour info sur les éditions du colloque les années passées, cf. www.uqtr.ca/sqpm.

Les participants venant de l’étranger doivent réserver leur vol jusque Montréal puis prendre un autocar (www.orleansexpress.com) ou une voiture pour se rendre à Trois-Rivières (environ 2h). Du co-voiturage sera organisé.

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Submissions are welcome for the 9^th Quebec Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy that will take place at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières (QC) on Sept. 10-12, 2019.  Please send a half page proposal (single-spaced) to syliane.charles@uqtr.ca by Aug. 13, 2019 on any topic related to early modern philosophy (roughly, the period going from Montaigne to Kant).  The presentation time for papers will be 40 minutes.  It is requested that participants who present a paper in English can understand French sufficiently in order to benefit from the presentations in French and, ideally, take part in these discussions too. The program will be decided around mid-August so that travel plans could be arranged efficiently and rapidly.

Guest speaker: Lorenzo Vinciguerra (Université de Picardie, Amiens, France).

All catering expenses will be covered.  Travel and accommodation expenses will be partly covered, depending on needs.  Priority will be given to students and scholars without research grants for a maximum of $500 per person.

If they wish, participants will also be able to submit their paper to an electronic journal specialized in EMP, the Studia de Philosophia Moderna.

For information on the past editions of the Quebec Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, see www.uqtr.ca/qsemp.

Travelers from abroad should take a flight to Montreal and then a bus (www.orleansexpress.com) or a car to Trois-Rivières (ca. 2 hours).  Car-pooling will be organized.

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Canadian Jacques Maritain Association

Annual Symposium

Friday, November 1 and Saturday, Nov 2, 2019

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Theme: Maritain Engaging Contemporary Philosophy

2019 marks the 40^th anniversary of the founding of The Canadian Jacques Maritain Association. In 1979, a small group of philosophers, led by Jean Louis Allard, and including Léon Charette, Fr. Lawrence Dewan, Leslie Armour, and Fr Jacques Croteau, established the Association in order to keep alive the kinds of questions and issues discussed in Maritain’s work. Maritain had two dominant interests. One was the idea of a perennial philosophy. Maritain held that there was a continuity in philosophy – that important insights of the past could be retained without preventing philosophers from pursuing new ideas – and he himself sought to engage the philosophies of his time by drawing on this perennial philosophy that he saw represented in Thomas Aquinas.

To acknowledge and celebrate Maritain’s work this year, the CJMA will focus its annual symposium on the discussion of how Maritain’s philosophy, and the idea of a perennial philosophy in general, can engage issues and philosophies of the present time.

We invite papers/proposals, in English or French, relating to the conference theme. Selected papers will be published in Études maritainiennes-Maritain Studies. Papers outside the conference theme will also be considered.

Those who wish to present a paper should send a one-page abstract or proposal to:

Dr William Sweet

c/o Department of Philosophy, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, B2G 2W5  Canada

wsweet@stfx.ca

Deadline for submission of proposals: August 30, 2019

Papers should not exceed 30 minutes reading time.

The Canadian Jacques Maritain Association / l'association canadienne Jacques-Maritain c/o Collège dominicain de philosophie et de théologie, 96 Empress St., Ottawa (ON), K1R 7G3, Canada

Call for Papers: 

The Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/

Société Canadienne de  Philosophie Environnementale 

 Annual Meeting  

in conjunction with

The Western Canadian Philosophical Association 56^rdAnnual Meeting

October 25th-27

University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta

Keynote Speakers:

Paul B. Thompson  (CSEP/SCPE)

W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food & Community Ethics

Michigan State University

Andrew Light  (WCPA)

University Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Atmospheric Sciences

George Mason University

Submissions requested on Canadian and global environmental issues in all their philosophical dimensions; including (but not limited to) aesthetic, ethical, metaphysical, ontological, phenomenological, social/political, scientific, and spiritual welcome.

Colloquium papers should be no more than 4,000 words (text), presentable in 25-30 minutes to allow for commentary and discussion, and prepared for anonymous review.

Please submit papers in electronic form (PDF or Word) and a brief abstract (no more than 150 words) via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcpa2019conference

Proposals for panels or symposia are also welcome. Please submit the proposed title, abstracts of presentations, and names of all participants. Symposia are allotted 2 hours.

Colloquium papers and panels/symposia on environmental topics may be submitted for presentation either on the WCPA main program or the program of the CSEP/SCPE, but will automatically be considered for presentation on both programs.

The CSEP/SCPE will be awarding a Student Essay Prize, so if you are a student, please indicate this.

Please submit your paper or symposium proposal using the conference website by July 15, 2019.