Demarginalizing Futures:
rethinking embodiment, community and culture

19th-20th, February 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS

AKTUELL:

Imaginaries in Intercultural Perspective

The international conference on Johann P. Arnason's 80th birthday

March 22-23, 2021 - University of Vienna

Place:Alte Kapelle, Uni-Campus | Hof 1, Alser Straße 2–4 | 1090 Wien

Organizers:

Georg Stenger (Universität Wien) & Ľubomír Dunaj (Universität Wien)

Department of Philosophy in a Global World

DETAILS

Geschichten der Philosophie in globaler Perspektive

Kosellek-Projekt an der Univ. Hildesheim, Leitung Prof. Dr. Rolf Elberfeld

Es gilt, für eine globale Zukunft des Philosophierens eine Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung in globaler Perspektive zu entwerfen, in der die eurozentrischen Verengungen im Bild der Philosophiegeschichte überwunden werden. Diese Verengungen sind vor allem im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert in Europa entstanden und haben weitgehend das Bild von der Philosophie auch im 20. Jahrhundert und bis in die Gegenwart geprägt, und zwar über den europäischen Raum hinaus. 

Wir stehen damit heute vor der Herausforderung, philosophische Traditionen und ihre Träger*innen aus allen Regionen der Welt in die Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung einzubeziehen und dafür zugleich neue Methoden, Einteilungskriterien und Periodisierungen zu entwickeln. Dies kann nur in Zusammenarbeit mit internationalen Expertinnen und Experten gelingen, mit denen der Rahmen und die Reichweite einer globalen Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung in einem ergebnisoffenen Reflexionsprozess neu auszuloten und zu bestimmen sind. Am Ende des Projektes soll der Vorschlag für ein neues Bild von der Geschichte der Philosophie in globaler Perspektive stehen. 

Im Rahmen dieses Projekts finden regelmäßig Veranstaltungen statt, worüber Sie sich HIER informieren können.

Vollständige Liste der Projekt-Veranstaltungen

GIP-Lectures Online

Die GIP (Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Philosophie) organisiert ab dem Sommersemester 2020 monatlich eine Online-Vorlesung. Details und Programm auf der Homepage der GIP

Teilnahme über Anmeldung per E-Mail an weidtmann(at)uni-tuebingen.de jeweils bis einen Tag vor einem Termin.

In Search of Zera Yacob [Call for Papers – REVISED]

Please note that the new submission deadline is 31 March 2021 , and that the CfP is now open to all researchers (rather than just graduate students and early career researchers). In light of Covid-19 pandemic developments, we have also decided to postpone the Conference till September 2021 .

We invite proposals for papers to be presented at an international conference entitled ‘ In Search of Zera Yacob ’, to take place at Worcester College, University of Oxford, most likely in early September 2021. The exact dates have yet to be confirmed, subject to Covid-19 pandemic developments.

The invited speakers are Dr Teshome Abera (Addis Ababa Science and Technology University), Prof. Peter Adamson (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/King's College London), Prof. Wendy Belcher (Princeton University), Mr Eyasu Berento (Kotebe Metropolitan University), Prof. Getatchew Haile ( Curator Emeritus of the Ethiopian Study Center at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library), Dr Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University) , Dr Ralph Lee (SOAS), Prof. John Marenbon (University of Cambridge), Prof. Binyam Mekonnen (Addis Ababa University), Dr Fasil Merawi (Addis Ababa University), Prof. Justin E. H. Smith (University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot), and Dr Anaïs Wion ( Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).

In Search of Zera Yacob will be the first international and interdisciplinary conference on two remarkable philosophical texts from Ethiopia and the ongoing debate over their authorship. The Ḥ atäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝ qob and the Ḥ atäta Walda Heywat have fascinated and puzzled alike since their discovery in 1852, both for their intrinsic philosophical interest and the ways they challenge prevalent ideas about the history of philosophy and African intellectual history. The debate also has implications for the global history of philosophy, and for understanding the relationship between colonial knowledge production and the historiography of philosophy.

We are interested in papers that examine the Ḥ atäta in the context of: global and connected histories of philosophy; Africana philosophy; the historiography of philosophy and the formation of philosophical canons; Ge’ez manuscript traditions and Ge’ez philology; orientalism and the academy; 17th century rationalism; Ethiopian and East African literatures; philology and empire in the twentieth century; the history of forgeries; the philosophy of Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy; the history of modern Ethiopia, etc.

To unite these various areas of interest, the guiding thread of the conference is the long-standing controversy over the authorship of the Ḥ atäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝ qob and the Ḥ atäta Walda Heywat, examining whether they have a genuine 17 th century Ethiopian authorship, or whether the supposed ‘discoverer’ of the texts, the Capuchin monk Giusto d’Urbino, was in fact their secret author. The conference works on the assumption that the texts are interesting either way, and in either case demonstrate a cultural hybridity that has traditionally been overlooked in discussions of authorship. We hope to explore the structure of the authenticity debate over the past century: its arguments and assumptions, its lessons and the prospects for its eventual resolution.

This conference aims to raise these questions from multiple disciplinary perspectives, putting scholars from across the world, and across disciplinary boundaries, into dialogue. It aims to stimulate a productive dialogue on the text between scholars from philosophy, history, and Ethiopian philology, and to serve, if a
17 th century authorship is demonstrated, as a prolegomenon to any serious philosophical study of the Ḥ atäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝ qob .

Eligibility : The CfP is open to graduate students and researchers at all levels.

Submission Guidelines ( open to g raduate students and researchers at all levels ):
We will be considering two types of submission:
● A 500-word abstract suitable for a 20-minute presentation ;
● Or : A full paper ( not exceeding 8000 words , including footnotes but not including references) in addition to a 300-word abstract , to be considered both for presentation at the conference and for publication in an edited volume (to be reviewed for acceptance as part of De Gruyter’s ‘New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy’ series).

To submit an abstract or full paper, please send a .doc or .pdf file to yacobconference@gmail.com . Please write ‘Conference Submission’ in the subject line of your email and include your name, departmental affiliation, email address, and the title of your paper (as well as the year in which your PhD was awarded in the case of early career researchers) in your email. Abstracts (and papers, if relevant) should be prepared for blind review, so please ensure that your document is free from any identifying personal details. The submission deadline is 31 March 2021 .

Note that full paper submissions only will be considered for publication. We will notify authors of acceptance by 15 May 2021 at the latest. We hope to be able to contribute to travel and accommodation expenses for any speakers wishing to attend the conference, pending further funding applications and Covid-related complications. However, so as to make the conference maximally accessible to those who might not be able to travel in these difficult times, arrangements can certainly be made to incorporate talks given by video link.

For all enquiries, please contact: yacobconference@gmail.com . More information can be found on the Conference website .
The conference is organized with the generous support of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the Mind Association, the Aristotelian Society, and the Hinton Clarendon Fellowship, Worcester College.

The Conference Organizers
Jonathan Egid, Lea Cantor, Robin Brons, Justin Holder, and Johann Go
Part of Philiminality Oxford