CFP: Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland
Sep 24, 2017 → Oct 20, 2017
We invite abstracts that either engage with pioneering philosophical work on Ireland, or develop entirely novel philosophical approaches to the below (without being limited to these):
- Diaspora, exile, return
- Women’s bodies, women’s rights
- Institutionalisation and containment
- North-South dynamics
- Conflict, violence, resolution
- The Home, housing, and homelessness
- Economic boom and bust, social class, and the welfare state
- Political systems and governance
- Education, schooling, and curricula
- Nationalism, patriotism, and cosmopolitanism
- Citizenship and belonging
- Race, ethnicity, and identity
- Art, culture, and the socio-political
- Ethics, religion, and the secular
- Hiberno-English and/or the Irish language
- The relationship between philosophy and Irish Studies in the contemporary context
We welcome papers from a variety of expert areas, including Education, Gender Studies, Politics, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and History.
Submission should, however, explicitly constitute and explicitly engage philosophical treatments of contemporary Ireland.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to
clara fiischer and aie mahon
by October 15th 2017. Decisions will be communicated by October 30th 2017.