UPDATE: Thinking in/after Utopia: East-European and Russian Philosophy before and after the Collapse of Communism (4/15/05; 10/27/05-10/30/05)

Deadline extended:

Thinking in/after Utopia. East-European and Russian Philosophy before and
after the Collapse of Communism

CALL FOR PAPERS

27-30 October, 2005

Organizer: The Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies, Miami
University of Ohio

Plenary speakers:

* Vladimir Tismaneanu (University of Maryland): "The End of Leninism and
the Future of Liberal Values"

* Mikhail Epstein (Emory University): “The Platonic Drama of Russian
Thought: Ideas against Ideocracy”

* Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Columbia University): TBA

The 2005 annual Havighurst young researchers’ conference is dedicated to
exploring

* The state of East-European and Russian philosophy today
* How philosophical ideas contributed (or didn’t contribute) to the
process of dismantling of the Communist system
* The effects that the collapse and Communism had on shaping new
configurations/movements of philosophical ideas in Eastern Europe and
Russia

The conference is conceived of as a forum where young researchers in the
field of East-European and Russian studies/philosophy come, from all over
the world, and share their views and the outcomes of their research,
interact with senior researchers in the field, and with Miami University
faculty and students.

We are interested in bringing together papers that deal not necessarily
with philosophical problems/topics taken in themselves, but especially
with the sophisticated, ever-changing interplay that took place in the
Communist countries between philosophy and politics, philosophy and
ideology, philosophy and social life, philosophy and the other humanities,
philosophy and the arts. What role (if any) did various philosophical
practices (teaching, research, philosophically-informed cultural
journalism or philosophically-inspired civic movements, etc) play in
undermining the Marxist ideology in East-Europe and Russia? On the other
hand, how precisely did philosophy (Marxism included) permeate the
(societal, intellectual, cultural) life in the Communist regimes? What
happened with philosophy – and with the net of relationships that it had
established with politics, ideology, social life, etc. – when the system
collapsed? What happens with the life of the mind when one school of
thought (Marxism) becomes the only accepted school of though? What happens
with that school of thought itself under such conditions? What happened
with all the Marxist philosophers of Eastern Europe and Russia in the 90’?
What have become of them? What are, in general, the sources of the
post-communist Russian and East-European philosophy? To what extent the
“dissident philosophers” (Patocka, Havel, and others) can be seen as
practitioners of the ancient conception of “philosophy as a way of life”?
These are only some of the issues to be addressed in the course of the
conference.

Call for papers:
Young scholars (ABDs, Post-docs, Assistant-Professors, etc.) working in
the field of East-European and Russian thought are hereby cordially
invited to submit abstracts on these or any other issues related to the
conference’s topic.

Funding:
Those selected to present papers will be provided with accommodation for
the duration of the conference, ground transportation from/to the airport,
and partial travel funding (up to $250
for domestic travel and up to $500 for international travel).

Publication:
We plan to publish the conference papers in an edited volume with a major
US academic press.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 April, 2005. Email submissions are strongly
encouraged.

Please send abstracts (no longer than 300 words) and a copy of your CV to:

Dr. Costica Bradatan,
Havighurst Fellow and Conference Coordinator
Department of Philosophy,
221 Hall Auditorium,
Miami University,
Oxford, OH-45056
USA

Email: bradatc_at_muohio.edu

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Costica Bradatan, PhD

Department of Philosophy,
Miami University,
Hall Auditorium, 221
Oxford, OH 45056
USA

http://www.users.muohio.edu/bradatc/

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