Caribbean Philosophical Association
Under this heading, the Caribbean Philosophical Association will expand on its organizing theme, when it focused on the broad impact of the rise of Africana and other “third world” philosophies from geographical notions, metaphors, and assumptions that have long been associated with modern concepts of philosophical reason. For 2006, we will look more closely at the places of aesthetics (which here includes performance and literary work), science, and language within these rising post-European philosophies as well as their impact on the still changing geography of reason. In this spirit of reshaping the geography of reason, we invite the submission of papers on the philosophical aspects of aesthetics, science, and language that are present in the texts and practices of Native Caribbean, Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, Euro-Caribbean, African, Latin-American, African-American, Indian, and European thinkers, or in radically new formulations. We will also welcome papers addressing the unique relationship between Canadian intellectual institutions and Caribbean ones, especially regarding their development along the themes of this conference. Proposals may be submitted and papers may be presented in English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese since members of this organization are encouraged to work in these languages with and in indigenous and creolized New World languages as well.
Topics and participants include:
| Postcolonial Africana Philosophy | Lewis R. Gordon, Temple University & UWI-Mona |
| Philosophy of Translation | Sathya Rao, Université de Montréal |
| Francophone Philosophy in Literature | Françoise Naudillon, Concordia University |
| Non-Cartesian Notions of Rationality | Marina P. Banchetti-Robino, Florida Atlantic University |
| Francophone Caribbean Philosophy | Eddy Souffrant, University of North Carolina |
| Ethics, Politics, and Development | Elias K. Bongmba, Rice University |
| Francophone African Philosophy | Abiola Irele, Harvard University |
| Ibo Feminist Philosophy | Nkiru Nzegwu, Binghamton University |
| Ancient Egyptian Philosophy | Théophile Obenga, San Francisco State University |
| African Philosophy of Communication | Kwasi Wiredu, University of South Florida |
| Philosophy of the Novel | Teodros Kiros, Brown University & Suffolk College |
| African Existential Philosophy | Tunde Bewaji, University of the West Indies-Mona |
| Fanon & Sartre in Caribbean Philosophy | Nelson Maldonado-Torres, UC-Berkeley |
| Double Consciousness and Borderland Theory | Claudia Milian Arias, ISRST, Temple University |
| Africana Philosophy of Physics | Stefon Alexander, Penn State University |
| C.L.R. James, Cricket, and Art | Jan Boxill, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| The General Will in Caribbean Political Thought | Jane Anna Gordon, University of Pennsylvania |
| Creolizing Rousseau | Neil Roberts, Johns Hopkins & University of Chicago |
| Caribbean Critical Race Theory | Clevis Headley, Florida Atlantic University |
| Colonization and Slavery | Patrick Goodin, Howard University |
| Indo-Caribbean Philosophy | Paget Henry, Brown University |
| Poetics of Indo-Caribbean Thought | Ramabai Espinet, Distinguished Writer |
| Caribbean Analytical Philosophy | Bernard Boxill, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| Africana Phenomenology | Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Lewis University |
| Phenomenology of Performance | Myron Beasley, De Paul University |
| Race, Class, and Social Contractarianism | Charles Mills, University of Illinois at Chicag |
| Africana Philosophy of Education | Stephen Haymes, De Paul University |
| Philosophies of Race and Racism | Clarence Sholé Johnson, MTSU |
| Caribbean Feminist Thought | Gertrude James Gonzalez de Allen, Spelman College |
| Philosophy and Travel in the Indo-Caribbean | Brinda Mehta, Mills College |
| Critical Theory and Nationalism | Natalija Mičunovič, University of Belgrade |
| Africana Religious Thought | James Bryant, College of the Holy Cross |
| South-South Dialogues | Richard Pithouse, Institute for Civil Society, South Africa |
| Mulataje and Metaphorical Movement | José F. Buscaglia, SUNY-Buffalo |
| Political Alterity and Analetics | Michael Michau, Purdue University |
| Pathological Explanation and Measurement in the Social Sciences | Eric Tucker, Oxford University |
| W.E.B. DuBois and the Revolutionary Reconfiguration of Philosophy | Anthony Monteiro, Temple University |
| Hispanic Identities | Jorge J.E. Gracia, SUNY-Buffalo |
| Neonazism and Mainstream Culture | Natalija Mićunović, University of Sarajevo |
Send submissions for panels and abstracts for papers by March 21, 2006, by email to caribphil@yahoo.com or by regular mail to: Ms. Joan Jasak / Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought / Temple University / Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090 / (215) 204-5621/Fax: (215) 204-2535.
This conference is co-sponsored by:
The Département d' Études Françaises and the Department of English, Concordia University
The Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought, Temple University
The Philosophy Department, Florida Atlantic University
The Center for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica)
The Department of Africana Studies, Brown University
The Caribbean Philosophical Association thanks these institutions for their generous support.