3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EASTERN THOUGHT WORD IN THE CULTURES OF THE EAST SOUND – LANGUAGE – BOOK
Cracow, 28th – 30th November 2013
Institution: Philosophy of Culture Department, Jagiellonian University
Deadline: 15.6.2013
It is our great honour to announce the third conference on the Eastern thought, which will be organised on 28-30th November 2013 by the Eastern Philosophy Section of the Philosophy of Culture Department at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. This year’s meeting will be dedicated to the issues of sound, language and book which, although frequently featuring in contemporary Western thought, are rarely and still insufficiently addressed through their long lasting reflection in the Eastern cultures. Continuing the tradition established by our two highly successful conferences held in 2009 and 2011, we would like to invite scholars who conduct research into cultures, religions, and philosophies of the East (India, China, Japan, Tibet, Korea, and the Middle East), as well as those who are interested in the mutual influences between the East and the West.
Unquestionably, language is one of the central themes in contemporary philosophical, cognitive and cultural thought in the West. Having been researched from many different points of view, language appears both as a logical tool, a means of thinking or a medium of communication and as a creative factor within culture. Being a strictly human phenomenon, language has always sparkled interest – the Western civilisation is certainly not the first to explore it.
Yet although it is broadly acknowledged that the Western linguistics owes its modern development to the Sanskrit grammarians, in case of other aspects of language it seems that the Western thinkers prefer to reinvent the wheel rather than to ask the ancients. Our goal in this conference is to show all the richness of the speculations, conceptions and solutions concerning language through various Eastern philosophies and cultures.
Abstracts of 250/300 words accompanied by a short bio should be sent to the Secretary of the Conference, Małgorzata Ruchel at <malgorzata.ruchel@uj.edu.pl> by the 15th of June 2013.
Please use the Abstract Submission Form available at the Eastern Philosophy Section website: http://www.iphils.uj.edu.pl/
Authors will be informed by e-mail on the acceptance of their abstract by the 25th of June. Proposals received after the deadline but before the 15th of July 2013 may be accepted if space in the programme is still available.
There is no registration fee. All participants are also invited to the Closing Dinner on Saturday the 30th of November.
Selected papers will be published in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the conference. The deadline for the submission of full papers will be announced at a later stage.
