13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

ISSEI
International Society for the Study of European Ideas

in cooperation with

CALL FOR CHAIRS

We have the pleasure of informing you that the next conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas—ISSEI’s 13^th conference—will be held in cooperation with the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, 2–6 July 2012.

The theme of the conference is:

The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity:

Reconciling ‘The Three Narratives’—Art, Science, and Philosophy

Language—and by extension our story telling activities in general—enables us to confront the contingencies of life by answering the immediate question: what’s happening and what is going to happen next. Science also attempts to answer this question. However, there appears to be—at least in the western cultural tradition—a fundamental tension between the literary-artistic and the scientific projects: whereas the artist seeks to recreate human experience, thereby evoking basic ethical issues, the scientist seeks ethically-neutral, evidence-based facts, as the constituents of our knowledge of reality. It is thus left to others—to the philosopher, theologian, critic, or historian—to bridge the theoretical and ethical gaps between the world of ‘fiction’ and the world of ‘fact’, of art and science. Among other things, the ever increasing rate of production of scientific data in the modern age poses a new multidisciplinary challenge: how to address the unresolved/unresolvable tensions between the language of normativity and the language of facticity.

The organizers of the 13^th ISSEI Conference invite scholars from various academic fields to discuss the ethical challenge of multidisciplinarity by characterizing the scope, effects and implications of the discontinuities among ‘the three narratives’: to consider how artists, scientists, and philosophers have articulated, explained and responded to them and/or have attempted to reconcile them.

The conference is divided into five sections:

1. History, Geography, Science

2. Politics, Economics, Law

3. Education, Sociology, Women’s Studies

4. Literature, Art, Music, Theatre, Culture

5. Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology, Psychology, Language

Colleagues interested in chairing a workshop in their academic field on a topic related to the general conference theme are invited to submit a one-page proposal to:

Ezra Talmor
Kibbutz Nachshonim
DN Merkaz, 73190
Israel

Email: ISSEI@nachshonim.org.il

The deadline for submitting a proposal is JUNE 30, 2011

This will be the 13th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), founded in 1984 in Bellagio, Italy, by the editors of interdisciplinary journal, The European Legacy (formerly, History of European Ideas).

In 1996 The Library Journal chose The European Legacy as one of the ten best journals in the United States.

In 2010 The European Legacy was rated among the top 15% of academic journals around the world by the Australian Government’s Australian Research Council. Our journal was in a category where publishing “would enhance the author’s standing, showing they have real engagement with the global research community and that they have something to say about problems of some significance.”

Previous ISSEI conferences were held in: Amsterdam (1988); Leuven (1990); Aalborg (1992); Graz (1994); Utrecht (1996); Haifa (1998); Bergen (2000); Aberystwyth (2002); Pamplona (2004); Malta (2006); Helsinki (2008); and Ankara (2010).

Guidelines for Chairs:

1. The Chair will promote the workshop in collaboration with the ISSEI central office.

2. Workshops with 8-10 participants will be held in a single 4-hour session (with a 30- minute coffee-break). Workshops with more than 8-10 participants will be conducted in two sessions.

3. Papers are to be presented rather than read. A presentation will be 20 minutes long.

4. Papers should not exceed 3,000 words, or 10 double-spaced pages, including Notes. (Notes are to be included in the papers submitted to the Conference Proceedings).

5. The Chair should send copies of the abstracts to all participants in his/her workshop so that they may have some idea of the various themes and thus be better prepared to take part in the discussions.

6. Chairs are responsible for selecting and editing the papers recommended for publication in the Proceedings.

7. Workshop chairs may present a paper in their own and/or in other workshops.

Conference Co-Chairs:

Marianna Papastephanou Dept. of Education University of Cyprus 61, Kallipoleos St. P.O. Box 537 Nicosia Cyprus edmari@ucy.ac.cy

Ezra Talmor Kibbutz Nachshonim D.N. Merkaz, 73190 Israel Tel: +972-3-938-6445 Fax: +972-3-761-7778 Email: ISSEI@nachshonim.org.il

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