Call for Papers: <\/span><\/h2>\nCPA 2016 \u201cShifting the Geography <\/span><\/h2>\nof Reason XIII: <\/span><\/h2>\nTheorizing from Small\u00a0Places\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n![\"phil.107327171_scaled_594x474\"](\"https:\/\/repeatingislands.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/phil-107327171_scaled_594x474.jpg?w=500\")
<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nThe Caribbean Philosophical Association\u2019s\u00a02016 Annual Meeting \u201cShifting the Geography of Reason XIII\u201d will focus on \u201cTheorizing from Small Places.\u201d The conference will take place on June 16-18, 2016, at the University of Connecticut (UCONN) in Storrs, Connecticut. The deadline for submitting abstracts and panel proposals is December 15, 2015.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nCall for Papers:\u00a0<\/strong>Born on the ten-by-twelve-mile island of Antigua, writer Jamaica Kincaid inaugurated a remarkable literary life with reflections on what it meant to occupy\u00a0A Small Place<\/em>\u00a0presumed to be largely uninhabited by the tourists who came to enjoy its beautiful beaches. In Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone, Anglophone and Dutch Caribbean letters,\u00a0\u201cthe archipelago,\u201d\u00a0a cluster of islands, has been mobilized as a distinctive trope characterizing a unique geopolitical, existential, authorial, and theoretical disposition. Across the Atlantic some centuries earlier, Genevan-born Jean-Jacques Rousseau, upon encountering Paris, reflected that academies were most developed in empires that trained people in rules of civility and predictability that squelched their potential to \u201cfollow their own lights.\u201d He suggested that the most important and innovative ideas almost always emerged from people who came of age in\u00a0more remote stomping grounds, where they could be led by their own curiosities and priorities, undisrupted in pursuing their projects by distractions of narcissism and a public of glaring, monitoring eyes.<\/span><\/p>\nThis year\u2019s conference theme therefore continues the organization\u2019s exploration of our larger motto of\u00a0\u201cshifting the geography of reason\u201d\u00a0through challenging the presumption that historic ideas and theory must emerge from large, metropolitan centers. We particularly invite reflection on the global range of small places from which many have undertaken theoretical endeavors and continue to produce vital ideas of worldly significance, the usefulness of Caribbean reflections on this situation, and more generally about how the scale and nature of the terrains where we work inflect the character of our thinking.<\/span><\/p>\nPlease submit paper, panel or roundtable proposals by\u00a0December 15th, 2015. In turn, we will send out acceptance notices by\u00a0January 30th, 2016. Questions? Write to Jane Gordon at\u00a0caribphil@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nFor more information, see\u00a0http:\/\/www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org\/cpa-2016.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
of Reason XIII: <\/span><\/h2>\nTheorizing from Small\u00a0Places\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nThe Caribbean Philosophical Association\u2019s\u00a02016 Annual Meeting \u201cShifting the Geography of Reason XIII\u201d will focus on \u201cTheorizing from Small Places.\u201d The conference will take place on June 16-18, 2016, at the University of Connecticut (UCONN) in Storrs, Connecticut. The deadline for submitting abstracts and panel proposals is December 15, 2015.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nCall for Papers:\u00a0<\/strong>Born on the ten-by-twelve-mile island of Antigua, writer Jamaica Kincaid inaugurated a remarkable literary life with reflections on what it meant to occupy\u00a0A Small Place<\/em>\u00a0presumed to be largely uninhabited by the tourists who came to enjoy its beautiful beaches. In Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone, Anglophone and Dutch Caribbean letters,\u00a0\u201cthe archipelago,\u201d\u00a0a cluster of islands, has been mobilized as a distinctive trope characterizing a unique geopolitical, existential, authorial, and theoretical disposition. Across the Atlantic some centuries earlier, Genevan-born Jean-Jacques Rousseau, upon encountering Paris, reflected that academies were most developed in empires that trained people in rules of civility and predictability that squelched their potential to \u201cfollow their own lights.\u201d He suggested that the most important and innovative ideas almost always emerged from people who came of age in\u00a0more remote stomping grounds, where they could be led by their own curiosities and priorities, undisrupted in pursuing their projects by distractions of narcissism and a public of glaring, monitoring eyes.<\/span><\/p>\nThis year\u2019s conference theme therefore continues the organization\u2019s exploration of our larger motto of\u00a0\u201cshifting the geography of reason\u201d\u00a0through challenging the presumption that historic ideas and theory must emerge from large, metropolitan centers. We particularly invite reflection on the global range of small places from which many have undertaken theoretical endeavors and continue to produce vital ideas of worldly significance, the usefulness of Caribbean reflections on this situation, and more generally about how the scale and nature of the terrains where we work inflect the character of our thinking.<\/span><\/p>\nPlease submit paper, panel or roundtable proposals by\u00a0December 15th, 2015. In turn, we will send out acceptance notices by\u00a0January 30th, 2016. Questions? Write to Jane Gordon at\u00a0caribphil@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nFor more information, see\u00a0http:\/\/www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org\/cpa-2016.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
The Caribbean Philosophical Association\u2019s\u00a02016 Annual Meeting \u201cShifting the Geography of Reason XIII\u201d will focus on \u201cTheorizing from Small Places.\u201d The conference will take place on June 16-18, 2016, at the University of Connecticut (UCONN) in Storrs, Connecticut. The deadline for submitting abstracts and panel proposals is December 15, 2015.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Call for Papers:\u00a0<\/strong>Born on the ten-by-twelve-mile island of Antigua, writer Jamaica Kincaid inaugurated a remarkable literary life with reflections on what it meant to occupy\u00a0A Small Place<\/em>\u00a0presumed to be largely uninhabited by the tourists who came to enjoy its beautiful beaches. In Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone, Anglophone and Dutch Caribbean letters,\u00a0\u201cthe archipelago,\u201d\u00a0a cluster of islands, has been mobilized as a distinctive trope characterizing a unique geopolitical, existential, authorial, and theoretical disposition. Across the Atlantic some centuries earlier, Genevan-born Jean-Jacques Rousseau, upon encountering Paris, reflected that academies were most developed in empires that trained people in rules of civility and predictability that squelched their potential to \u201cfollow their own lights.\u201d He suggested that the most important and innovative ideas almost always emerged from people who came of age in\u00a0more remote stomping grounds, where they could be led by their own curiosities and priorities, undisrupted in pursuing their projects by distractions of narcissism and a public of glaring, monitoring eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n This year\u2019s conference theme therefore continues the organization\u2019s exploration of our larger motto of\u00a0\u201cshifting the geography of reason\u201d\u00a0through challenging the presumption that historic ideas and theory must emerge from large, metropolitan centers. We particularly invite reflection on the global range of small places from which many have undertaken theoretical endeavors and continue to produce vital ideas of worldly significance, the usefulness of Caribbean reflections on this situation, and more generally about how the scale and nature of the terrains where we work inflect the character of our thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n Please submit paper, panel or roundtable proposals by\u00a0December 15th, 2015. In turn, we will send out acceptance notices by\u00a0January 30th, 2016. Questions? Write to Jane Gordon at\u00a0caribphil@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n For more information, see\u00a0http:\/\/www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org\/cpa-2016.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n![\"phil.107327171_scaled_594x474\"](\"https:\/\/repeatingislands.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/phil-107327171_scaled_594x474.jpg\")
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