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CFP: 2024 AAPT Workshop-Conference

Update: the deadline to submit a proposal for the 2024 Workshop-Conference has been extended to February 12.

The AAPT is a collegial community of engaged teacher-scholars, dedicated to sharing ideas, experiences, and advice about teaching philosophy, and to the support and encouragement of both new and experienced philosophy teachers. We are inviting proposals for sessions at the 2024 Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy.

Topics:

Interactive sessions related to teaching and learning philosophy at any educational level are welcome. We encourage creative approaches to individual or panel workshops on:

• Innovative and successful teaching strategies, course/assignment design.

• How work in other disciplines can improve the teaching of philosophy.

• Innovative uses of instructional technologies.

• Teaching in non-traditional settings.

• Methods to improve student learning.

• Professional issues connected to teaching.

• Diversity and inclusion in our classrooms and discipline.

This year’s highlighted topic is: Philosophy Amplified

We highly encourage individual or panel presentations on expanding our work to deepen the impact, extend the reach, and demonstrate the value of philosophy…

• Into new pedagogies: open source, ChatGPT, new genres and styles of text, new voices, alternative assessments, and new ways of organizing classroom activities.

• Into new academic spaces: building our majors and making interdisciplinary connections.

• Into new communities: mentoring, experiential learning, public philosophy, K–12 philosophy, and philosophy in prisons.

• Into the workplace: career competencies, transferable skills, and unexpected careers.

• Into the unfamiliar!

Proposals should include:

• Session title.

• Length of the proposed session: 30 minute session, 60-minute session, 90-minute session.

• 100-200 word abstract suitable for the conference program.

• 1-3 page description of session goals and interactive design, planned handouts, etc.

• A list of relevant sources.

To facilitate anonymous review, no identifying information should appear in the proposal.  Please include contact information for each presenter, including institutional affiliations, in the email or on a separate cover sheet.

Send submissions, via email, to Andrew Mills, andrewpmills@gmail.com, by February 12, 2024.

6-8 September 2024

Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

 

8th ENOJP Conference

Conference Theme: The Past in the Present

 

 

It is well known that Japanese thinkers, from medieval Buddhist scholars to 20th century thinkers such as Ōmori Shōzō and Kimura Bin, have developed highly original theories of time, which have given rise to lively interpretations both in Japan and elsewhere. But in more general terms as well, the presence of the past has made itself known, sometimes explicitly and sometimes tacitly, during different periods of the development of Japanese thought — the influences of the Japanese tradition on Kyōto school thought have often been discussed, and similarly are the ideas of past thinkers recently been found to make a valuable contribution to present debates, thus, for example, certain ideas of Dōgen have been co-opted by many ecological thinkers of our time both in the West and in Japan. However, the shadows of the past are not always beneficial, thus, for example, the political involvement of some Kyōto school thinkers continues to be an issue for their interpretation. Does the context of the past provide us with the most adequate framework for reading them in the present? These and other related issues should hopefully provide for a fruitful engagement with Japanese philosophical texts, both past and present.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

• YUSA Michiko (Western Washington University, Emerita)
• DEGUCHI Yasuo (Kyoto University)
• Tõnu VIIK (Tallinn University).

 

Submission Guidelines

 

Applicants are encouraged to send proposals for individual presentations or group proposals (ideally 3 persons together) to collaborate on a panel. Papers related to the conference’s central topic are particularly welcome, but papers on other aspects related to Japanese thought will also be considered. We encourage participants to approach the general topic in a creative way, keeping in mind that giving a presentation on a topic they are interested in is more important than adjusting the topic of the paper to the general theme.

 

• Deadline Extended: The deadline for submission is Feb 23rd, 2024
• Notification of Peer Review: April 1st, 2024
• Length of abstract: 250-500 words (日本語: 400–700字)
• Keywords: Please include 5–10 with your abstract
• Languages of the Conference: English and Japanese

 

Submit to: enojp2024@tlu.ee

 

 

Call for Applications:

The First PhD Workshop

of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy

 

Date: September 2024 (before the ENOJP Conference)

Venue: Tallinn

Application deadline: March 31, 2024

 

The European Network of Japanese Philosophy (ENOJP) invites PhD students engaged in research in Japanese philosophy to apply for the first PhD workshop, to be held in Tallinn the day(s) before the ENOJP conference. This first edition of the workshop will be a pilot one, but – depending on its outcomes – we are planning to organize it every year in the future. The duration of the workshop is still open at this point (one, or two days), as it will depend on the number of participants.

The aim of the workshop is to create a cross-national network of advanced graduate students and scholars in Japanese philosophy. We are thinking of including (some of) the following:

–          presentation sessions – where participants, working with their peers, can get and give feedback on their respective research projects;

–          advising sessions – where participants can get feedback and advice from a senior scholar specialized in a similar topic;

–          “sempai talk sessions”, in which students would be able to talk directly to PhD graduates, discussing various aspects of the process of writing a dissertation (such as overcoming writer’s block, organizing the bibliography, managing the life-work balance, etc.), but also post-doc programs, working the dissertation into a publishable manuscript, applying for jobs etc.

–          sessions on publishing (information about journals and publishing houses, what to know when submitting, how to write an abstract etc.)

The workshop will be organized in an informal setting, with ample time for discussion, socializing, and networking.

Please note that at the time of this call for applications, there is no funding available for the workshop. However, the ENOJP and the local organizing team in Tallinn have applied for funding to various institutions and we are hoping to be able to subsidize at least some of the costs of the workshop. The workshop will be free of charge for all participants.

The scholars providing guidance and advice during the workshop will be decided once the application process is over.

 

Eligibility

Any student of any nationality working in any university on a topic related to Japanese philosophy and intellectual history is eligible. Please note that the workshop will be conducted in English.

Participating in the workshop, and then presenting a paper during the conference is also accepted. (There is no participation fee for the conference, either.)

 

Application and Selection Process

Please send the following documents by email, through the conference website:

–          a curriculum vitae;

–          a summary of the dissertation project (maximum 1,000 words), explaining topic, relevance, research question, methodology, and current stage. In your summary, please insert a paragraph about the things you are struggling with / would like to get advice on, etc.

Selected candidates will be notified by April 2024 and will be required to send a more detailed project report (of about 4,000 words) by mid-June, 2024.

The evaluation of the applications will be carried out by the ENOJP Board, in collaboration with the local organizing team in Tallinn.

It is not necessary to be an ENOJP member at the time of application or at the time of the workshop, but we do encourage all candidates to join the network. (There are no membership fees.)

For all enquiries, please feel free to contact us via email at enojp2024@tlu.ee

The Journal of Japanese Philosophy is the oldest international peer-reviewed journal on Japanese philosophy (in existence for over ten years, published by SUNY Press), an academic area that has been receiving increasing global attention since the journal’s inception. By enhancing the quality of research through a worldwide, recognized consortium of scholars, this journal provides an international platform for Japanese philosophy.

With internationally established and renowned scholars of Japanese philosophy on the editorial and advisory boards, this annual journal is devoted to scholarly engagement with open discussions of a wide variety of philosophical texts and discourse. The journal aims to demonstrate the relevance of Japanese philosophy for all fields of contemporary philosophizing. It welcomes rigorous academic papers on all time periods and all areas of Japanese philosophy, classical to contemporary, from a variety of perspectives, including interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and comparative studies of philosophical traditions in Japan, the West, and the globe.

Having no preference for any particular religious tradition or philosophical school, the journal also provide a platform for scholars in the field of area studies or Japanology. The journal strongly encourages dedicated researchers, young and old, to submit their papers, and will provide critical feedback to this indispensable part of the development of Japanese philosophy.

We are currently soliciting submissions for volume 11. Submission due date is the end of March 2024. The article should not exceed 8,000 words and should follow the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two specialists. For details of the journal, please kindly refer to https://www.pdcnet.org/jjp/Journal-of-Japanese-Philosophy or https://sunypress.edu/Journals/The-Journal-of-Japanese-Philosophy. Should you have any inquiries, please send your email to japanesephilosophy@gmail.com.

From the Editors
Journal of Japanese Philosophy, SUNY Press
japanesephilosophy@gmail.com

JJP CFP