CfP: European Hobbes Society Workshop

CALL FOR PAPERS European Hobbes Society Workshop

27-28 April, 2017

European University Institute, Florence

Keynote lecture: Alan Cromartie, University of Reading, ‘The Hobbesian project: science, politics, and worship’.

We invite papers on any aspect of Hobbes’s philosophy for discussion at a meeting of the European Hobbes Society to be held 27-28 April at the European University Institute, under the auspices of the Max Weber Programme.

Format of the workshop
Papers will be pre-circulated. There is an hour for the discussion of each, divided as follows:
• Five minutes for the author to introduce their paper. It is assumed that those attending
have read the paper in advance.
• A short (five-ten minutes) response from an allocated respondent.
• Brief opportunity for the author to reply.
• Questions.
If you would like to present a paper, please send a title and a short abstract (no more than 250
words) by Monday 27th February to alexandra.chadwick@eui.eu<mailto:alexandra.chadwick@eui.eu>.
We ask that papers are ready for circulation by Friday 14th April to enable attendees to read
them in advance.
Unfortunately, we are unable to cover the expenses of those presenting papers at the
workshop.

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CfP: I Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Brazilian Association of Eighteenth-Century Studies invites submissions to its first meeting

“As Luzes e o Brasil”

September 4-6 2017

Universidade de São Paulo – USP

Deadline: February 15th 2017

Check the full Call for Paper in Portuguese below.

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I Congresso da ABES XVIII – “As Luzes e o Brasil”
4 a 6 de setembro de 2017
Universidade de São Paulo – USP

PRIMEIRA CHAMADA PARA INSCRIÇÃO DE TRABALHOS
(até 15 de fevereiro de 2017)
APRESENTAÇÃO

A Associação Brasileira de Estudos do Século XVIII (ABES XVIII) foi constituída em 2014 e formalmente registrada em 2016, a partir do convite e do apoio do Comitê Executivo da Société Internationale d’Étude du Dix-huitième Siècle (SIEDS), à época com sede em Montreal, sob a presidência do Professor Marc-André Bernier, docente da Universidade de Quebec à Trois Rivières, Canadá.

Filiada à Sociedade Internacional, a Associação Brasileira tem como objetivo reunir pesquisadores brasileiros de diversas áreas do conhecimento interessados no pensamento, na cultura e na história do século XVIII europeu, latino-americano e brasileiro. Trata-se de uma entidade sem fins lucrativos, voltada para o incentivo e o desenvolvimento de estudos acadêmicos relativos ao movimento intelectual conhecido como Iluminismo. Em suas atividades, a associação tem como pressupostos a criação de um espaço multidisciplinar de investigação sobre o século das Luzes, a fim de contribuir para a ampliação das atuais pesquisas e para a formação de novos pesquisadores. A ABES XVIII já conta com uma centena de membros, docentes e pós-graduandos de todas as regiões do país. Para seu primeiro congresso, a associação propõe o tema “As Luzes e o Brasil”.
JUSTIFICATIVA DO TEMA

Consideramos que o tema “As Luzes e o Brasil” permitirá, em primeiro lugar, acolher e fazer um balanço dos estudos de pesquisadores brasileiros sobre o século XVIII, na filosofia, na história, na literatura, na história das ciências, das artes e da educação, bem como em outras áreas das humanidades. Existem, atualmente, diversos grupos de pesquisa sobre as Luzes, disciplinares e interdisciplinares, coordenados por professores de universidades, em todas as regiões do Brasil, e que mantêm seminários e organizam colóquios, tendo em vista o intercâmbio de estudos sobre o tema. Pode-se dizer, sem dúvida, que há uma tradição consolidada de pesquisas brasileiras sobre o Iluminismo em suas mais diversas formas de manifestação.

O Congresso acolherá trabalhos sobre a questão das mulheres no século XVIII. Estes poderão ter como objeto tanto a produção literária e filosófica das escritoras da época, quanto a questão do alcance e dos limites do pensamento do século em relação a questões de gênero.

Haverá também espaço para estudos sobre autores do século XX e XXI que se dedicaram ao exame do legado das Luzes, tais como Hannah Arendt, Adorno e Horkheimer, Foucault, Derrida, Koselleck e outros, cujos trabalhos permitiram medir a relevância e as implicações do pensamento iluminista na cultura e na história do Ocidente.

Além disso, o Congresso espera trabalhos sobre a recepção das Luzes europeias no Brasil e na América Latina. As pesquisas de alguns historiadores brasileiros mostram que as ideias da Ilustração francesa foram recebidas muito cedo no Brasil. É possivel identificar a difusão das ideias francesas no Brasil colonial a partir dos relatórios das devassas que foram feitas pela polícia nas bibliotecas dos participantes de algumas das conspirações que ocorreram em território brasileiro na segunda metade do século XVIII. O caso mais evidente é o da Inconfidência Mineira. Segundo os dados recolhidos por Maxwell nos documentos oficiais, o Cônego Vieira, um dos mais cultos dentre os inconfidentes, contava em sua biblioteca com a História da América de Robertson e a Encyclopédie, bem como obras de Voltaire e Condillac. Cláudio Manuel da Costa era tido como tradutor da Riqueza das Nações de Adam Smith (o manuscrito da tradução parece ter sido perdido); circulavam entre os inconfidentes exemplares da História de Raynal, além de obras de Mably.

Finalmente, o Congresso acolherá pesquisas sobre a visão das Luzes europeias acerca do Novo Mundo. Na literatura, na história e na filosofia do século XVIII europeu, a descoberta da América deu ensejo à produção de relatos de viagens, romances e contos, além de ter possibilitado a reflexão acerca das diferenças entre povos e culturas, da questão das origens das civilizações e do direito de colonização. Essa visão europeia manifesta-se nos livros sob duas diferentes perspectivas: por um lado, promovem o olhar do europeu para o que é o outro de sua cultura; por outro lado, por meio de discursos fictícios dos nativos da América sobre a Europa, favorecem uma reflexão sobre a forma como os próprios europeus concebem a alteridade simbolizada pelos povos do Novo Mundo.
COMISSÃO ORGANIZADORA

A Comissão Organizadora é formada por professores de todas regiões do Brasil, que orientam trabalhos e organizam atividades de pesquisa sobre o pensamento do século XVIII. Esta composição da Comissão tem o intuito de estimular as pesquisas e a adesão à ABES XVIII de docentes e pesquisadores de todo o país.

Presidente: Maria das Graças de Souza (USP);

Membros: Antônio Carlos dos Santos (UFS), Genildo Ferreira da Silva (UFBA), Jacira de Freitas (UNIFESP), Luciano Façanha (UFMA), Luiz Felipe Sahd (UFC), Maria Constança Peres Pissarra (PUC-SP), Pedro Paulo Corôa (UFPA), Pedro Paulo Pimenta (USP), Renato Moscateli (UFG), Rodrigo Brandão (UFPR), Sônia Campaner Miguel Ferrari (PUC-SP), Thomaz Kawauche (pós-doutorando USP).
PROFESSORES CONVIDADOS

– Lise ANDRIES, professora da Université Paris 4, atual presidente da SIEDS;
– Marc-André BERNIER, professor da Université du Quebec à Trois Rivières, ex-presidente da SIEDS;
– Sébastien CHARLES, doyen e professor da Université du Quebec à Trois Rivières ;
– Michel DELON, professor da Université Paris 4, vice-presidente da SIEDS;
– Clorinda DONATO, professora da California State University, Long Beach, EUA;
– Alberto POSTIGLIOLA, professor da Università di Napoli Orientale.
PROGRAMAÇÃO

A programação dos dias 4, 5 e 6 de setembro de 2017 será organizada da seguinte maneira:

10h00 – 12h00: comunicações;
14h00 – 16h00: comunicações;
16h00 – 18h00: mesas-redondas;
19h00 – 21h00: conferências.
INSCRIÇÃO

Enviar mensagem para congressoabes18@gmail.com até 15 de fevereiro de 2017 com as seguintes informações:

Título da comunicação;
Resumo (máximo de 500 palavras);
Nome do(a) autor(a);
Titulação;
Vínculo institucional;
E-mail.
PROMOÇÃO

Este evento é promovido pelo Departamento de Filosofia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo.

A ABES XVIII possui um site (http://abes18.wixsite.com/inicio/) e uma página no Facebook (https://pt-br.facebook.com/estudos18/). A divulgação desses endereços é livre.

CfP: Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy – 6th Edition

Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy – 6th Edition

31 March – 1st of April 2017

Keynote Speakers:
Sarah Hutton (University of York)
Dmitri Levitin (University of Oxford)
Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge)
Tinca Prunea Bretonnet (IRH-ICUB)

Venue: IRH-ICUB & Faculty of Philosophy
The sixth edition of the Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy will take place at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, in 31 March and the 1st of April 2017. This edition is organized by the IRH-ICUB and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. Advanced MA and PhD student working in the field of Early Modern Philosophy are encouraged to participate.

We invite graduate students to submit abstracts on any topic related to Early Modern Philosophy to ovidiu_babes@yahoo.com by January 10. The proposals should not exceed 500 words and should be prepared for blind review. Each presentation will be given 40 mins. The organizing committee will notify authors of its decision by January 20. Participation fee: 30 euro (to cover for the coffee breaks and lunches).

CfP: CSECS-NEASECS Joint Annual Conference: “From Cosmopolitans to Cosmopolitanism”

CSECS – Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
NEASECS – Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

FROM COSMOPOLITANS TO COSMOPOLITANISMS
Joint Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, 18-22 October 2017
Proposals for panels due by 1 February 2017
Proposals for papers due by 1 March 2017

Further info here.

Charles B. Schmitt Prize 2017

As the result of generous donations from an anonymous donor and our publisher (Routledge), the International Society for Intellectual History is offering, on an annual basis, a prize to honour the contribution of Charles B. Schmitt (1933-1986) to intellectual history.

The prize is £250, plus £50 worth of Routledge books, and a year’s free membership of the ISIH with a subscription to the Society’s quarterly journal Intellectual History Review. The paper awarded the prize will also be published in the Intellectual History Review.

Submissions will be accepted in any area of intellectual history, broadly construed, 1500 to the present, including the historiography of intellectual history. Because it is a condition of the award that the paper awarded the prize will be published by IHR, submissions should not have been accepted for publication elsewhere, or exceed 9,000 words (including footnotes). Eligibility is restricted to doctoral students and those who have been awarded their PhD within two years of the closing date for the prize.

The paper should be forwarded as an e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word format to stephen.gaukroger@arts.usyd.edu.au and to s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk. The e-mail itself should state that the paper is being entered for the prize, and should confirm eligibility at the time of submission, as well as availability of the paper for publication.

The closing date for the prize is 31 December 2016, and an announcement of the award will be made by the 1 March 2017.

CfP: Enlightenment and Freedom of Speech, Kraków, May 20-22, 2017

ENLIGHTENMENT AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH

International Colloquium at Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 20-22.5.2017

Keynote speakers:
Prof. Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Prof. Ulrich Lehner (Marquette University)

We would like to remind you of the call for abstracts for our forthcoming colloquium, dedicated to studying the idea that we should have a freedom to voice and otherwise express our thoughts, its origins, problems, critiques and justifications, from the angle of the history of philosophy, history of ideas, and contemporary political philosophy. The abstracts should be of maximum 500 words and relate to any of the following, or connected topics:

  • The concept of and arguments for (and against) the freedom of speech formulated by the early modern and Enlightenment thinkers, and their philosophical origins (re-discovery of the Stoics and Epicureans, Reformation, Cartesianism, Spinozism etc.) and historical context (e.g. religious persecutions, censorship and the adoption of constitutions in the USA, Poland and France). The distinction, and congruence, between freedom of speech and ‘freedom of the pen’.
  • The relationship of freedom of speech and secular state. In particular: is freedom of speech even compatible with secularism? Could unregulated freedom of speech hinder the realisation of the secular state by allowing people to express opinions that are based on their ‘particular’ religious world-views instead of purely ‘universal’ rationality? What are the justifications for this Enlightenment distinction?
  • The above questions are related to the question about the limits for the freedom of speech. Is the state ever entitled to limit people’s freedom to express ideas, for example, in order to prevent the manipulation of people’s opinions and emotions, or so-called hate-speech? If so, what are the minimum universal (or perhaps context-specific) rational standards that we can demand from public expression?

    If you are interested in presenting at the colloquium, we encourage you to submit your abstract (preferably in .doc, .docx or .pdf format), with a short note including information about your contact details and academic affiliation, by 31st January 2017, to one of the organisers:
    Dr. Anna Tomaszewska (a.tomaszewska@iphils.uj.edu.pl)
    Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen (h.j.hamalainen@iphils.uj.edu.pl)

    The submitted abstracts will undergo a peer review and applicants will be informed whether their abstract has been accepted a month after the submission deadline. Each invited participant will have 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion.

    If you would like to participate in the colloquium without presenting a paper, please send your expression of interest by 1st March 2017.

CfA: Science in the Scottish Enlightenment, March 10-12, 2017, Princeton University

The philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment was marked by a distinctive ambition – to extend the observational methods of science to study of the human as well as the physical world. The pursuit of this ambition led to many innovative studies of mind and metaphysics, as well as morality, aesthetics and politics. It also led to an investigation of the methods themselves, and the conception of ‘science’ that underlay them. This conference aims to explore many of these important topics, both philosophically and historically. Submissions are invited on any aspect of this general theme. Abstracts of 300-500 words should be sent as email attachments to cssp@ptsem.edu by Nov 1st, 2016, with author details in the accompanying email only. Decisions will be advised by early December. Registration will open in January 2017.

This conference is associated with research for the Scottish Philosphy in the 18th century Volume 2edited by James Harris (St Andrews University) and Aaron Garret (Boston University). This volume is part of the 5-volume, multi-authored History of Scottish Philosophy (General editor Gordon Graham) published by Oxford University Press. The first two volumes were published to coincide with the CSSP spring conference 2015, a volume devoted to Scottish philosophy in the 17th century is due to be published in 2017, and a fifth volume on Scottish philosophy in the Renaissance is currently under discussion. Further information on the series can be found here.

David Hume in Gronigen

On Wednesday December 7, 2016 the Faculty of Philosophy in Groningen, the Netherlands, will host a one-day workshop on David Hume, especially on A Treatise of Human Nature 1.4.1.
Among the speakers are: David Owen, Don Garrett, and Kevin Meeker. See the programme below.
Attendance is free, but registration is required. This can be done by sending an email to: jeanne.peijnenburg@rug.nl

Place:University of Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy (room Alpha)
Oude Boteringestraat 52
Groningen, the Netherlands

Programme:
9:10 – 9:15     Welcome
9:15 – 10:45    David Owen (University of Arizona)
10:45 – 11:00   Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30   Kevin Meeker (University of South Alabama)
12:30 – 13:30   Lunch
13:30 – 15:00   Jeanne Peijnenburg (University of Groningen)
15:00 – 15:15   Tea break
15:15 – 16:45   Don Garrett (New York University)

CfP: Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VIII (SSEMP VIII)

10-11 April 2017
Edinburgh University

Key note speakers:
Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen)
Peter Millican (Oxford University)

The SSEMP VIII is the eight edition of a yearly event that brings together established scholars, young researchers and advanced graduate students working in the field of Early Modern Philosophy. The aim is to foster scholarly exchange among the different generations of academics in the UK and to strengthen international collaboration. We welcome abstracts on any topic in pre-Kantian early modern philosophy (broadly defined, ranging from late Renaissance philosophy to the Enlightenment.) We particularly encourage proposals that consider early modern philosophy in relation to other related disciplines, such as theology, intellectual history and/or the history of science. Presentations should be in English and approximately 30-35 minutes in reading length. We make an effort to assure a reasonable gender balance.

The SSEMP awards a Graduate Student Essay Prize which this year, like in previous years, is funded by the British Society for the History of Philosophy. The prize includes an invitation to present the essay at the SSEMP and a bursary of £200 towards travel and accommodation. The bursary cannot be used for any other purpose. Submissions to the essay competition should include: (1) Name, affiliation, name and email of supervisor, and personal contact information; (2) the complete essay (max. 6000 words, including notes). Everything should be gathered in a single pdf or word file. Deadline for submissions is 15 December 2016. They should be sent by email to Mogens Lærke on mogenslaerke@hotmail.com. Those who wish to submit a proposal both as a complete text for the essay competition and as a short abstract for the regular program are free to do so.

Abstracts for the regular program (approx. 300 words, abstract and contact information in a single pdf or word file) should be sent by email to Mogens Lærke on mogenslaerke@hotmail.com. Graduate students submitting to the regular program should include contact information for one referee (typically the supervisor.)

Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 December 2016. Due to very high numbers of submissions we can no longer undertake to respond individually to all of them. Applicants who have not been contacted within one month by 15 January should consider their submission declined.

Please note that the SSEMP cannot provide funding for travel or accommodation for speakers.

Organisation:
Prof. Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh University)
Prof. Mogens Lærke (CNRS, IHRIM, ENS de Lyon)

CfA: Enlightenment and Freedom of Speech

International Colloquium at Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 19-20.5.2017

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Prof. Ulrich Lehner (Marquette University)

We are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for our forthcoming colloquium, dedicated to studying the idea that we should have a freedom to voice and otherwise express our thoughts, its origins, problems, critiques and justifications, from the angle of the history of philosophy, history of ideas, and contemporary political philosophy. The abstracts should be of maximum 500 words and relate to any of the following, or connected topics:

-The concept of and arguments for (and against) the freedom of speech formulated by the early modern and Enlightenment thinkers, and their philosophical origins (second scholasticism, re-discovery of the Stoics and Epicureans, Reformation, Cartesianism, Spinozism etc.) and historical context (e.g. religious persecutions, censorship and the adoption of constitutions in the USA, Poland and France). The distinction, and congruence, between freedom of speech and ‘freedom of the pen’.

-The relationship of freedom of speech and secular state. In particular: is freedom of speech even compatible with secularism? Could unregulated freedom of speech hinder the realisation of the secular state by allowing people to express opinions that are based on their ‘particular’ religious world-views instead of purely ‘universal’ rationality? What are the justifications for this Enlightenment distinction?

-The above questions are related to the question about the limits for the freedom of speech. Is the state ever entitled to limit people’s freedom to express ideas, for example, in order to prevent the manipulation of people’s opinions and emotions, or so-called hate-speech? If so, what are the minimum universal (or perhaps context-specific) rational standards that we can demand from public expression?

The submitted abstracts will undergo a peer-review and applicants will be informed whether their abstract has been accepted a month after the submission deadline. Each invited participant will have 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion. If you are interested in presenting at the colloquium, we encourage you to submit your abstract (preferably in .doc, .docx or .pdf format), with a short note including information about your contact details and academic affiliation, by 31st January 2017, to one of the organisers:

Dr. Anna Tomaszewska (a.tomaszewska@iphils.uj.edu.pl)
Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen (h.j.hamalainen@iphils.uj.edu.pl)
Dr. Damian Barnat (damian.barnat@gmail.com)

If you would like to participate in the colloquium without presenting a paper, please send your expression of interest to the organisers by 1st March 2017.