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CFP: Binghamton SPEL Graduate Student Philosophy Conference

Binghamton University’s philosophy graduate program invites submissions for its 2019 graduate student conference. The conference will be held at Binghamton University’s Downtown Center on Saturday November 2, 2019.

This year’s conference theme broadly focuses on our program’s specialization in Social, Political, Ethical, and Legal (SPEL) philosophy. We hope to host a diversity of graduate research that asks important questions and starts meaningful dialogues on SPEL topics.

Giving the keynote address will be Michael Patrick Lynch from University of Connecticut’s philosophy department. Lynch also has contributed to New York Times’s “The Stone” philosophy section, and is principle investigator for the Humility and Conviction in Public Life project.

Acceptable subgenres of SPEL themes include, but are not limited to:

·         Applied social and political philosophy

·         Applied ethics

·         Normative ethics

·         Metaethics

·         Critical theory

·         Feminist philosophy

·         Philosophy of race

·         Social epistemology

·         Philosophy of education

·         Theories of risk

Submissions in these areas from any philosophical tradition are also welcome.

Submissions must include a full paper of about 3000-3500 words, with a view for a 20-minute presentation followed by 10-minute Q&A. Each submission will be anonymously reviewed by conference committee members, and submitters will be notified of acceptance or rejection by September 15. Email all submissions to Bingspelconf@gmail.com no later than September 1, 2019.In your submitting email please include name, university affiliation, current level of graduate studies, and SPEL themes your paper fits into.

https://philevents.org/event/show/70766

SPEL Graduate Conference

2018 SPEL Graduate Conference

"Toleration: Accepting the Other"

keynote: Tommy Curry

Saturday, October 27th
University Downtown Center

website: here

Conference reminder -- on Saturday

Saturday at the Downtown Center ...

9:00AM – 9:30AM Breakfast, Room 224

9:30AM – 10:10AM Ryan Adams: “Dignity and Violence: A Personalist Ethics of Resistance”

10:10AM – 10:50AM Elham Beygi: “Coordination Duty to Disobey the Law in Non-Legitimate States”

10:50AM – 11:05AM Coffee Break, Room 224

11:05AM – 11:45AM Alicja Duda: “A Phenomenological Analysis of Violence and Vulnerability in the El Salvador Civil War”

11:45AM – 12:25PM Wendy Lynne Lee: ” Unsustainable: The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund; Approach to Resistance and Environmental Justice”

12:25PM – 1:05PM Rachael Flores: “William Morris’ Solution to Marxist Aesthetics”

1:05PM – 2:20PM Lunch, Room 224

2:20PM – 3:00PM Stephen Wrenn: “Failure and Generation”

3:00PM – 3:40PM Steven Powers: “Post-Hope: What’s Left For Us?”

3:40PM – 3:55PM Coffee Break, Room 224

4:00PM – 5:30PM Keynote Gabriel Rockhill: “Standing Before the Law: Toward a Theory of Immanent Normativity”

Graduate Student Conference: Law-Breaking and Theories of Resistance

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LAW-BREAKING AND THEORIES OF RESISTANCE

a conference organized by students in the graduate program in Social, Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy


Saturday, November 4th, 2017
9:00am to 5:30pm
Binghamton University Downtown Center
Room 223

Keynote by Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University
"Standing Before the Law: Toward a Theory of Immanent Normativity"

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reminder: CFP for grad conference

https://philevents.org/event/show/33266

CFP: Law-Breaking and Theories of Resistance

Binghamton University

Graduate Conference on Law-breaking and Theories of Resistance

Keynote Speaker:

Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University

Conference Description:

When is an act of political resistance justified? At minimum, it seems to require that the norms relevant to the act of the resistance must lack the moral authority required to demand compliance. But when does this occur? When norms lose their authority, are all forms of resistance justified? If there are limits to what kinds of resistance are permissible, how could they be determined? Might one resist by participating in an unjust system, but doing so in a deliberately inefficacious fashion? Alternatively, what can be said of methods of resistance that are intended to be effective, but fail to be so? Or, related, what likelihood of success is necessary (if any) in order for an act of resistance to be justified?

This conference aims to consider these and other questions related to political resistance. We welcome any papers which explore normative issues related to such questions. In this context, the contributions can cover, among others, the following topics:

•                Civil disobedience

•                Conscientious objection

•                Complicity with status quo

•                Solidarity

•                Violent disobedience

•                Strategic foot-dragging

•                When and how to resist in a nearly just democracy

•                The moral authority of democracy

•                Small acts of rebellion

•                Distribution of burdens associated with an act of resistance

Submissions:

Please submit abstracts or papers for consideration to BingConference2017@gmail.com by September 15, 2017. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by September 20. 

2017 graduate conference

The Binghamton University philosophy department will be holding its 2017 graduate conference, "Law-Breaking and Theories of Resistance," on November 4, 2017. Please see the PhilEvents call for papers here. 

https://philevents.org/event/show/33266