CFP/CFA: Building Bridges conference on "Desire"

From: Bethany Henning [[email protected]]

16th Annual "Building Bridges"

Graduate Student Philosophy Conference

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

October 18 -19, 2013

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Willett

Professor of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta , Georgia.



Deadline for submissions: September 7th, 2013



This fifteenth annual Building Bridges conference will be held at Southern
Illinois University Carbondale October 18th and 19th, 2013.



This year’s topic is the concept of “Desire” ̶̶ its nature, its work, and
its meaning. How do we navigate and negotiate our desire in spaces and
discourses where objectivity is privileged? How does desire come into play
with ideas of freedom and autonomy? Why has desire loomed so fearfully in
some mythologies? What is the role of *Eros* in the development of
community? The topic is to be construed broadly and we invite papers and
presentations from all areas of philosophy, as well as philosophically
interesting papers from other disciplines.



*Submission Guidelines:*

Papers should not exceed 3000 words and should be prepared for blind
review. Please do not include any personal information in the paper. On a
separate cover page include the following items:

The paper's title

The author's name

Institutional affiliation

E-mail address

Word count (3000 words maximum)

An abstract (150 words maximum)



E-mail a copy of your paper and your personal information, as attachments,
in MS Word format (.doc), (.docx) or in Adobe Portable Document Format
(PDF) to [email protected]. Please name the file of your paper with an
abbreviated paper title and title the file of your contact information with
your last name and first initial.



Abstracts without papers will be considered. Full papers are preferred.



*Conference Statement:*

The purpose of “Building Bridges” is to bring into dialogue diverse
elements not commonly associated. We seek interdisciplinary as well as
intra-disciplinary themes that address problems from multiple philosophical
standpoints, from different traditions, or in which two or more thinkers
not customarily brought into conversation are compared. Our goal is to
provide a pluralistic forum for constructive and critical communication
across boundaries. For more information visit our website:
http://philosophy.siuc.edu/Graduate/bridges.html

Bethany Henning

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