The Society for Ricoeur Studies is pleased to announce the theme of the 2016 conference “Crossing Boundaries: Ricoeur in a Global Age” in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the Society. The conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois. We are pleased to announce that the SRS keynote speaker for 2016 is Professor David Tracy of the University of Chicago Divinity School.
We welcome submissions that address the influence of Ricoeur’s thought inside and outside the discipline of philosophy, such as but not limited to aesthetics, architecture, art practice, counselling, cultural studies, economics, education, feminism, health care, jurisprudence, literary theory, medicine, music, nursing, political science, psychiatry, religious studies, sociology, and theology.
Papers
Please submit an abstract of approximately 300-500 words without any author-identifying information. In your email, please include the paper’s title, the author’s name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email address. Abstracts and papers may be in English, French, or Spanish. Please note that finished papers should be no longer than twenty minutes when read aloud (roughly 3000 words).
Panels
Proposals for a panel discussion of a theme, a book, or an author related to Ricoeur are also welcome. The proposal should include a brief description (300-500 words) of the topic, the names of the panel members, and, as a separate document, the abstracts for each presentation (300-500 words). Panels will last for a period of 1 hour 30 minutes (or what comes to 3 x 20 minute presentations with 30 minutes of discussion). In your email, please include the panel’s title along with the panel members’ names, institutional affiliations, mailing addresses, and email addresses.
New Scholars and Graduate Students Roundtable
New scholars and graduate students are encouraged to participate in the conference roundtable and are welcome to suggest possible topics of interest for the 2016 new scholars and graduate students roundtable. Suggestions should be sent to Dr Michael Sohn at mikedwsohn@gmail.com no later than April 15, 2016. Michael will be issuing a separate call for the roundtable with the chosen topic at a later date.
Members must be in good standing to submit an abstract proposal and to present at the Society’s conference. Membership dues are valid from September 1 to August 31. Members who paid dues at last year’s conference will remain in good standing until August 31, 2016. If your membership dues are not currently up-to-date, you can pay them through PayPal on the Society’s website (http://ricoeursociety.org/). N.B. you do not need to have a PayPal account to pay via PayPal.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 15, 2016.
SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: Dr Todd Mei at tsmei@kent.ac.uk. Abstracts and panel proposals accepted for conference presentations will be published on the Society’s website prior to the conference. If you prefer not to have your submission published there, please inform Todd in your submission email.
Abstracts and panel proposals will be reviewed blind by a committee. Notification of acceptance will be given via email by June 17, 2016.
Information regarding conference fees and hotel accommodations will be sent out in the near future.