Call for Papers
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Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
52nd Annual Conference
October, 2022
University of San Francisco, USA
CONFERENCE THEME: One and Many
Due date for Proposal submission: February 01, 2022
The 52nd annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (http://www.sacpweb.org/) will be held at the University of San Francisco, USA.
We invite individual and panel proposals related to the conference theme, One and Many. The SACP board especially welcomes diverse approaches to the conference topic from different philosophical traditions. Those who wish to participate are encouraged to submit proposals that correspond to their special areas of interest so long as they engage in some way with Asian and/or Comparative philosophies.
Submission of the proposals: Proposals should be sent electronically to the Secretary of the Society, Chiara Robbiano, at SACPconf@gmail.com. Proposal should have a filename that begins with the presenter’s last name and closes with the name of our organization and the year of the conference, e.g., ‘Berger–SACP 2020’.
Individual proposal should include: (1) title and a 300-word abstract; (2) presenter’s name, (3) institutional affiliation, and (4) email address.
Panel proposal should include: (1) title and a 300-word description of the panel; (2) title and a 300-word abstract of each paper; (3) name, institutional affiliation, and email address of all the participants.
The deadline for submission is February 15, 2020. Notice of the acceptance of proposals will be emailed at the beginning of March 2020, with instructions for how to register and submit the US$160 conference registration fee. Further details of the conference will appear at the Society’s conference website: http://www.sacpweb.org/conferences/annual-sacp-conference-2022/.
Graduate Student Essay Contest Awards: To encourage student participation, the SACP continues the tradition of Graduate Student Essay Contest Awards for this conference. Student Essay Contest Prizes are: US$1,000 for First prize, US$750 for Second prize, and US$500 for Third prize. The awards are given in order to assist with the travel and accommodation expenses for those winners who attend and present their work at the 2020 SACP conference only. Graduate students who wish their papers to be considered for these prizes must submit a blind copy of a complete essay of no more than 4,000 words (footnotes and bibliography, included; and a 300 word abstract excluded) as an attachment to Chiara Robbiano, at SACPconf@gmail.com (the name of the document should be the same as the title of your essay), by February 15 2020.
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