Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 22:35:43 -0400
From: ldkaplan-AT-email.uncc.edu
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Levinas conference


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CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS (Please forward!!!)

FACE TO FACE WITH THE REAL WORLD: CONTEMPORARY APPLICATIONS OF LEVINAS

A unique gathering of philosophers, clergy, and community members to
explore practical applications of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas.

March 17-20, 1999
Walsh University, North Canton, Ohio
Cosponsored by the Wilkof Jewish Studies Project, Temple Israel, Shaaray
Torah Synogogue, and the Canton Jewish Federation.

The conference will be followed by an optional Shabbaton (weekend
Sabbath
celebration) sponsored by the community.

See below for:
I. Suggested topics
II.  Conference schedule
III.  For more information...
IV.  If you are interested in participating, please let us know ASAP...

I.  Suggested topics

Scholars are invited to submit papers that apply Levinas's ideas to
particular practices.  A great deal of work has already been done to
explicate and critique the theories of Levinas, and to relate those
theories to the theoretical works of other thinkers.  At this
conference,
we hope to avoid duplicating that work.  We are looking for papers
accessible to an audience of highly educated generalists on a variety of
topics along the lines of the following sample titles:

"Levinas on Technology and Nature"

"Ethics and Trauma: Levinas, Feminism, and Deep Ecology"

"Responsible Subjectivity: Levinas and Humanistic Psychology"

"Lacan and Levinas: Towards an Ethical Psychoanalysis"

"Levinas and the Hippocratic Oath: A Discussion of Physician-Assisted
Suicide"

"Escape From Solipsism: Levinas and the Ethical Imperative of Parenting"

"The Violence of the Face: Peace and Language in the Thought of Levinas"

"After the Death of God: Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethical Possibility of
God"

"Encountering the Face of God: A Levinasian Exploration of Theistic
Existentialism"

"Toward an Understanding of Home: Levinas and the New Testament"

"Levinas and the Jewish-Christian Dialogue."

"Levinas and the Idea of Black Philosophy"

"Levinas and Classroom Teaching of Multicultural Literature"

"Reading Holocaust Literature after Levinas"

"A Levinasian Encounter With the Ghosts of Raschihaus, Worms: A Prelude
to
Holocaust Studies"

Papers are limited to 20 minutes reading time.  Please send three copies
of
your paper, along with a 150 word abstract, to: Dr. Laura Duhan Kaplan,
Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
Charlotte, NC  28223.  Papers should be postmarked no later than October
1,
1998.

II.  Conference Schedule (Tentative)

Academic sessions will take place on Wednesday through Friday March
17-19.

For those who want to stay over Friday and/or Saturday night, the
conference theme will be continued during an optional Shabbaton (weekend
Sabbath celebration) hosted by the community.  The community will
arrange
housing within walking distance of synagogue services for those who
request
it.

Conference Activities:
*Wednesday evening March 17: Opening reception
*Thursday morning and afternoon March 18: Opening plenary session,
concurrent sessions including scholarly papers and introductory seminars
*Thursday evening March 18:  Plenary session: Wilkof Jewish Studies
Lecture
*Friday morning March 19: Concurrent sessions of scholarly papers
*Friday lunch and afternoon: Plenary session: Interdenominational Clergy
Institute, including lunch and a lecture on the theological work of
Levinas

Shabbaton Activities:
*Friday evening: Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming the Sabbath) Services at
the
Reform Synagogue
*Saturday morning: Morning Services, including Torah Service, at the
Conservative Synagogue
*Saturday afternoon: Study session on Levinas
*Saturday evening: Havdallah (ending of sabbath ceremony) and closing
reception

III.  For more information

Please contact one of the conference organizers:

Professor Laurence F. Bove
Department of Philosophy
Walsh University
North Canton, Ohio  44720
330-490-7223
bovel-AT-alex.walsh.edu

OR

Professor Laura Duhan Kaplan
Department of Philosophy
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, NC  28223
704-547-2780
ldkaplan-AT-email.uncc.edu

IV.  If you are interested in participating, please let one of us know
ASAP, so that we can begin to estimate numbers for the conference.
Thank
you!

Laura Duhan Kaplan
Philosophy, Women's Studies, Liberal Studies at UNC Charlotte
ldkaplan-AT-email.uncc.edu