Espacio Agon

Bajo este titulo un tanto paradójico (¿no es la política el espacio donde el combate se torna deliberación?) se despliega un blog que aunque orientado a las ciencias políticas trae muchos materiales relacionados con el pensamiento contemporáneo y la filosofía. Y no solo textos y comentarios, sino incluso información sobre eventos (aunque estos parecen limitarse al ámbito Argentino). Altamente recomendable: http://espacioagon.blogspot.com/

Presentacion de libro: una tierra para dos pueblos, de Martin Buber

El lunes 12 de octubre presentaran Raymundo Mier y Silvana Rabinovich en el Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM la traducción al castellano de una colección de ensayos de Martin Buber sobre el conflicto entre Judíos y Palestinos. Buber fue uno de los pensadores centrales de un movimiento que preconizaba el dialogo y la cooperación entre ambos pueblos. Sus principios siguen siendo aun actuales, aunque la historia de los últimos cincuenta años no permitan demasiado optimismo.

Conferencia sobre la obra de Paul Ricoeur

El centro Paul Ricoeur organiza una jornada dedicada a la discusión de La Filosofa de la Voluntad, con motivo de la reedición de este trabajo. La jornada se llevara a cabo el dia 28 de Septiembre del 2009 en el anfiteatro del Instituto de Teologia Protestante de la ciudad de Paris. Para informacion dirigirse al correo: secretariat@iptheologie.fr

Encuentro de blogs juridicos en Colombia

El encuentro de editores de blogs jurídicos latinoamericanos se llevo a cabo con mucho éxito, según informa el blog de los organizadores, y hasta ya se prevee una segundo reunión a realizarse en Rio de Janeiro. Los organizadores han publicados fotos y próximamente también se publicaran las comunicaciones.

Se puede encontrar mas información en el sitio del encuentro.

Encuentro de editores de blogs juridicos (blawgers) en Colombia

Como ya la informamos en notas anteriores, a partir de hoy, 12 de Agosto y hasta el sabado próximo, se llevara a cabo en Bogota un encuentro de editores de blogs jurídicos. El programa del encuentro esta aqui.

Los organizadores van a intentar también utilizar Skype para permitir acceso remoto a alguna de las sesiones. Ver lo información mas abajo.

Dos bloggers que asistirán al Encuentro tendrán su Skype prendido para poder recibir invitados que escuchen las conferencias a través de este servicio. Busquen por favor a Mariana Jaramillo (marranajaramillo) y Carolina Bernal de Bogotá, Colombia. Vamos a intentarlo ojalá nos deje la tecnología…

Paralaje Revista Electronica de Filosofia

Paralaje es una revista editada por los estudiantes del Postgrado de Filosofía de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.

DE LA PRESENTACION:

Nuestro enfoque tiene la convicción de que los estudios filosóficos involucran una actividad de lectura y escritura que, en esencia, tiene la responsabilidad de abordar teóricamente temas que requieren de una perspectiva crítica, puesto que al ejercicio filosófico le atañe necesariamente una conceptualización de la realidad. Al ser temas propios de la filosofía la actualidad de la metafísica, de la política, de la ética, de la estética y de las ciencias, las investigaciones que desarrollan los estudiantes de postgrado en torno a estos temas requiere de un espacio propio que se abra, a su vez, a la recepción y difusión de los trabajos de estudiantes, académicos y profesionales interesados en nuestra disciplina.

Nuestros objetivos son promover el quehacer filosófico-crítico desde Valparaíso, Chile; activar el diálogo intelectual dentro del ámbito académico regional, nacional e internacional; registrar los resultados de la investigación en torno a temas considerados imprescindibles en la actualidad filosófica, posicionar en la discusión académica a los estudiantes de postgrado chilenos y extranjeros mediante la difusión de una publicación semestral propia.

Nuestra publicación incluye un Dossier con los resultados de investigaciones especializadas en temas previamente elegidos y debatidos; asimismo, cuenta con una sección Ensayos, que publica textos de filosofía y disciplinas afines con temáticas libres; una sección Tesis que busca incentivar la divulgación de los avances o conclusiones de tesis de filosofía pre y postgrado y otras secciones como Recensiones, Traducciones y Entrevistas.

Spinoza y Cuerpos: conferencia internacional

La universidad de Dundee (UK) organiza una conferencia internacional sobre Spinoza y las ciencias naturale y sociales. Reproducimos la invitación:

Spinoza Research Network: first conference

Spinoza and Bodies

Registration now open –

Spinoza and Bodies: an interdisciplinary conference on Spinoza and the
sciences and social sciences
Sept 10-11, University of Dundee
Attendance is FREE – advance registration is required

Speakers:

Daniel Selcer (Duquesne), “Singular Things and Spanish Poets: Spinoza
on Corporeal Individuation”

Caroline Williams (Queen Mary University of London), “Reconfiguring
Body and Mind: Thinking Beyond the Subject with/through Spinoza”

Michael Mack (Nottingham), “Spinoza and Freud, or how to be mindful
of the mind”

Eric Schliesser (Leiden), “Spinoza’s criticism of mathematical
science”

Anthony Paul Smith (Nottingham/DePaul), “The Ethical Relation of
Bodies: Thinking with Spinoza towards an Affective Ecology”

Mateusz Janik (Polish Academy of Sciences), “Thinking the Future -
Spinoza’s Political Ontology Today”

Please visit our new and improved website for full details of
conference registration and travel bursaries:

http://spinozaresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/events/

The Spinoza Research Network is hosted at the University of Dundee and
funded by the AHRC

www.dundee.ac.uk/philosophy/spinoza

6, 7 y 8 de mayo//V Seminario de Epistemología con T. Williamson (Universidad de Oxford) en la UNMSM (Lima)‏

Ver la información correspondiente en: http://diaporein.blogspot.com/

IV Seminario Internacional de Epistemología Analítica (Universidad San Marcos, Lima) 23, 24 y 25 de abril de 2009

IV Seminario Internacional de Epistemología Analítica

“Wittgenstein: Investigaciones epistemológicas (El argumento del lenguaje privado)

Sumario

Uno de los problemas centrales de la Epistemología es aquél que se sostiene sobre la idea de si es posible o no poseer un lenguaje que yo sea el único que pueda conocerlo, y, consecuentemente, si es posible o no que yo posea un conocimiento privado. Este es el problema del lenguaje privado. Sean cuales fueren las respuestas, las consecuencias epistemológicas, metodológicas y semánticas son de una inmensa gravitación para las Ciencias, en general, y para las Sociales, en particular. Lo último porque una noción central en éstas es la idea misma de comunidad, idea cuyo valor quedaría echado por tierra si la respuesta al problema del lenguaje privado fuese positiva. Ahora bien, precisamente dicha idea también es medular dentro de las investigaciones epistemológicas y semánticas del filósofo más importante del Siglo XX y es él quién ha examinado al detalle el problema del lenguaje privado, Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Poniendo énfasis en el aspecto relativo a la Filosofía de la ciencia, este Seminario expondrá –el 23, 24 y 25 de abril de 2009 (6:00 – 8:00pm)- detalladamente el problema en cuestión y cómo ha sido analizado por Wittgenstein.

(Su realización también quiere rendir un homenaje al mismo al estar cercana la fecha de la conmemoración de los 110 años de su natalicio)

Expositor:

David G. Stern (Universidad de Iowa, EE. UU.)

Objetivos específicos

* Presentar pormenorizadamente el problema del lenguaje privado desde la epistemología wittgensteiniana.

* Discutir las nuevas y antiguas interpretaciones sobre el mismo

* Destacar la utilidad de dicho problema para la investigación en Epistemología

Objetivos generales

* Desarrollar las competencias epistemológicas de las comunidades científicas peruanas y latinoamericanas.

* Continuar con la tradición de los Seminarios de Epistemología Analítica en el Perú inaugurados por Diaporein Grupo peruano de investigaciones filosóficas y transdisciplinarias y el Grupo Iberoamericano de Investigaciones en Filosofía Analítica.

* Estimular la sensibilidad y el apego filosófico en las comunidades universitarias del país y los paises latinoamericanos en torno a la Filosofía Analítica.

* Continuar con la tradición institucionalizada por Diaporeinen torno al fomento, desde el Perú, del estudio latinoamericano de Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Público dirigido: Docentes y/o posgraduandos

Costos por inscripción: INGRESO LIBRE

Organizadores:

Diaporein Grupo peruano de investigaciones filosóficas y transdisciplinarias

Cátedra Iberoamericana Ludwig Wittgenstein

Grupo Iberoamericano de Investigaciones en Filosofía Analítica

Lugar:

Sala de Conferencias, Bibloteca Central, Campus universitario de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima – Perú)

Coordinador General del evento:

Wilder Ramos Palacios

Coordinador de la agenda del prof. Stern en el Perú:

Antonio Ramirez-Victorio

Para mayor informacion ver: http://diaporein.blogspot.com/

Conferencia anual Enkidu: cuentos, memorias y construcción de la identidad

ESTA CONFERENCIA ACEPTA PONENCIAS EN CASTELLANO. SE DEBEN ENVIAR LAS PROPUESTAS ANTES DEL 20 DE ABRIL 2009. SUERTE A TODOS LOS INTERESADOS.

The Enkidu Summer Conference 2009: Storytelling, Memories and Identity Constructions
México City, 1 – 5 July, 2009

Deadline for paper proposal submissions: 20. April, 2009
(Deadline has been extended for all sessions and sub-conferences)
Conference Languages: English, Castilian, German, French and Nahuatl
Languages for presentation: English, Castilian

Conference Homepage:
http://enkidumagazine.com/chics/esc.htm

The primary focus for the 6th edition of this inclusive and interdisciplinary annual conference organized by Enkidu Magazine and the International Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS) in Mexico City with the support of the National Human Rights Comission of Mexico, is to interrogate storytelling, memories and identity constructions from a wide range of perspectives, and in their manifold cultural and social manifestations.

Among the themes of interest are the following:

- Narrative and Linguistics
- Linguistic borders and translation
- Narrative and Myth
- Storytelling in rituals, customs, and fetishism.
- Storytelling and Visual/Performing Arts and Music
- Oral Tradition and Contemporary Chronicle
- Postmodernity and its narratives
- Voice and reflexivity in oral and written texts
- Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
- Globalization and indigenous cultures
- Story, Dialogue and Discourse
- Memory and truth-telling
- Testimonial Narratives
- Memory and Written Record
- Text, Context and Intertext in Storytelling and Performance
- Children’s Stories- Language, Authority and Silence

Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome since all these topics in themselves stretch across several disciplines: history, literary studies, linguistics, psychology, political sciences, educational sciences, ethnology, queer studies, anthropology, sociology…

We welcome submissions from all branches of the social sciences, humanities, as well as the arts.

Interpretations of the conference themes ranging from the predictable to the surprising are encouraged.

Graduate students are encouraged to participate.

The conference has developed into a unique international academic forum for interpretative approaches in the humanities and social sciences. The conference has traditionally also been a forum for discussing creative historical and political memory, remembering and forgetting of the past, as well as translations between cultures and re-negotiations and re-constructions of cultural identities in one one way or another.

The conference is organised into a large number of thematic sessions and sub-conferences addressing several different issues. The conference has an exceptional multilingual and multi-cultural approach, typically bringing together participants from all over the world to share and exchange their research, experiences and ideas in a truly multicultural, multilingual and interdisciplinary academic environment.

The special sessions and subconferences in 2009 will cover a highly diverse series of themes extending from “Conquest and Political Memory in late colonial Nahuatl texts from Central Mexico”, “Migrations and Diasporas: Displacement Heritage, Global Spaces and Cultural Memories”, “Imaginary Homelands”, “‘Memory’ and ‘Nostalgia’ in cultural texts” to “Cyber-identities in movement” and “Slave Narratives from the Archives of the Spanish Inquisition”.

The conference sessions are conducted in Castillian and English. Occasionally, the conference also has sessions conducted in German and French. Some sessions will be bilingual and conducted in both languages with interpreters. Other sessions will be conducted in one of the two conference languages, and the session moderator will give summaries of the paper in the other language. Many sessions are being conducted with interpreters for sign language (on request).

Papers are welcomed on virtually all related topics and themes, independently of time period and space. Also papers of comparative phenomena will be considered. Interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged. The conference aims at bringing together academics working in all relevant disciplines as well as activists, artists and other professionals, and promoting innovative multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and dialogue.

500 word abstracts and a short biography (ca 100-150 words) should be submitted to the organising committee
(identities@enkidumagazine.com) in English, Castilian, German or French.

The conference languages for presentation will be English and Castilian.

* Paper and panel proposals

500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organising committee in English, Castilian, German or French.

Final papers should be of approximately 20 – 30 minutes duration (circa 8 – 10 pages). Other forms of presentation, for instance workshops, panel debates and poster sessions will be considered on request.

* Proposals for panel sessions

Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3 (maximum 4) speakers and 1 moderator (session chair). Each session will last for 2 hours allowing for 30 minutes for each speaker and a further 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposers should submit:

(1) Session title and a session intro (ca 100 words),
(2) Paper titles,
(3) Abstracts for each paper (500 words),
(4) Short biography for each participant and the panel chair (ca 100-150 words),
(5) Institutional affiliation and address for each participant,
(6) Audio-visual and other technical requirements.

If you would like to propose a panel session, and want assistance in finding speakers and/or a session chair, we can publish a call for papers for your panel session on the conference web site and distribute it in our newsletter. If you have an idea for a thematic panel session and would like us to publish a call for papers on the conference website, please send us a proposal by e-mail to info@enkidumagazine.com

* Proposals for individual papers

Abstracts are to be submitted along with the presenter’s name, short bio, address, telephone, email, and institutional affiliation.

However, abstracts will also be accepted as e-mail attachments to info@enkidumagazine.com. All correspondence for this conference will be conducted via email. You will be notified by 23. March, 2009 whether your proposal has been accepted or rejected.

* Disabled Participants

We are pleased to announce that printed conference materials that will be distributed during the conference, also will be available in large print or Braille on request. If you require sign language interpretation during your session, or you would like to distribute handouts or other materials in Braille during your presentation, please indicate this in the registration form. Registration Form for Participants with disabilities

Participants with disabilities are recommended to fill in this form if they require any special support or assistance during the event or during social and cultural activities before or during the conference:
http://enkidumagazine.com/eventos/identities07/disca.htm

We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted within few days. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to resend your abstract and resubmit your registration form, and if possible, suggest an alternative e-mail address. In particular delegates using hotmail or yahoo accounts to receive conference related e-mails often experience problems receiving conference information by e-mail.

E-mails from the conference organisers are often delivered to your spam folder and not to your inbox, unless you remember to add the following e-mail addresses: info@enkidumagazine.com and liowlb@enkidumagazine.com to your safe-list. The first address is the general e-mail address of Enkidu Magazine and will be used to send conference newsletters and general information. The second, is the e-mail address of the academic coordinator of the conference and will be used for individual communication with delegates.

* EXHIBITORS, PUBLISHERS AND ARTISTS:

Artists are welcome to suggest exhibitions and displays of art during the conference.

Organisations, universities and publishers are welcome to sign up for information stands at the conference center.

The following information is required by artists, publishers and other exhibitors during the conference:

1) Technical Description of the information stand or artwork with indications of technical requirements for their presentation, the size and extension of the individual artworks to be presented.

2) Estimated Insurance value of the artworks

3) One image of a representative sample of artistic work from the exhibitions can be sent by e-mail to the conference organizers in the format tiff or jpg.

4) Curriculum Vitae of artist (or organisation).

5) Description of Exhibition (300 – 500 words).

6) Short bio of artist (or organisation).

* CULTURAL AND SOCIAL PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

The academic sessions with formal paper presentations will take place between 1. July and 5. July, 2008. In the 2 weeks before the conference, we will organise a number of cultural and social activities for conference delegates and we hope that many international delegates will consider arriving in Mexico City some days before the conference and participate in these activities.

In addition conference delegates with name badges will be given discounts and sometimes free access to various theatre plays, concerts, film screenings and other events before and during the conference. The final program for the cultural and social pre-conference activities will be published on the conference web site and will be announced also in the conference newsletter, which will be distributed by e-mail in the months before the conference.

* REGISTRATION FEE for “Border cultures, Multi-Culturalism, Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism”:

- Waged delegates (speakers): 175 USD
- Students and unwaged delegates (speakers): 100 USD

Enkidu and the participating organisations will not be able to provide travel support for conference delegates. It is therefore strongly recommended to apply for a scholarship or a grant from other sources. Delegates from non-OECD countries and students and unwaged delegates from any country who do not receive financial support to attend the conference, can apply for a reduced registration fee.

Centro Cultural Enkidu
http://www.enkidumagazine.com
Calle Ezequiel Montes #37, int. 2
Colonia Tabacalera
06030 Mexico D.F.
Mexico
Email: info@enkidumagazine.com
Email: info@enkidumagazine.com
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