Submissions
THE NEWSLETTER for Concerned Philosophers for Peace welcomes submissions of short articles and book reviews. Please indicate “cpp submission” in subject line and include a bio and contact information. Email to either editor:
Editor
Greg Moses
gmosesx-at-gmail.com
Associate Editor
Wendy Hamblet
wchamblet-at-gmail.com
(updated Oct. 19)
CONCERNED PHILOSOPHERS FOR PEACE
TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE
SUNY CORTLAND, CORTLAND NY
OCTOBER 30-31, NOVEMBER 1-2, 2008
“RESISTING WAR, EDUCATING FOR PEACE”
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ARUN GANDHI
Cost: $75.00 including Thursday Reception, Friday and Saturday lunches, Saturday night Banquet. Checks payable to Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice
Conference Hotel Country Inn and Suites (details below)
Nearest Airports Ithaca (ITH) 19.5 miles 32 minutes
and (SYR) 48 mins 41 miles
Final Program
All sessions in Dowd Fine Arts Gallery unless stated
Registration and all food served in the mezzanine outside Main Gallery
Thursday October 30
Reception 7:30-8:30 pm
Main Gallery
Menu
Raspberry Brie En Croute
Cheese Quesadilla
Fresh Mozzarella, Tomato and Basil
Bruschetta
Petit Four
Wine and soft drinks
Friday October 31
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
Bagels, Fresh Fruit, Coffee, Tea, Orange and Cranberry Juice
9:00-10:30 Session 1
Room A
Duane Cady (Hamlin University, MN) “Religion and War”
Rick Werner (Hamilton College, NY) “The Right to Hope and the Ethics of Belief”
Room B
Lawrence Whitney (Boston University) “ Strategic Transition: The Cosmology of Security”
Margaret Gilleo (Fontbonne University, St. Louis, Missouri) “Challenging war in Eleven Words”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Session 2
Room A
Katina Sayers-Walker (SUNY Cortland) “The Blues Guitar, Blue Frog, and the Blues”
Bob Murhlnickel (Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, NY) “Vulnerability and the Peace-Making Virtues”
Room B
Jean-Marie Makang (Frostburg State University, MD) “Poverty as a Way to Peace”
Chuck Guenther (St. Louis Community College) “An Assessment of the Economic Conversion Movement”
12:15- 1:30 Lunch
Roast Turkey or Hummus Sandwiches, Pickles, Potato Chips, Cookies and Brownies, Cold beverages
1:30-3:00 Session 3
Room A
Ron Hershbein (California State University, Chico) “Bad News: Propaganda is Passé”
Bill Gay (UNC Charlotte) “Nonviolent Rhetoric in Geopolitics”
Room B
Paul Parks (SUNY Cortland) “Building Bridges to Peace: Teaching Tolerance Through the History of Art”
Danielle Poe (University of Dayton, Ohio) “Intersubjective Women and Intersubjective Mothering and Nonviolent Activism
3:00-3:15 Break
Assorted cookies, coffee and tea
3:15-4:45 Session 4
Room A
Ronald Glossop (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville) “Toward World Citizenship: Why and How?”
Fuat Gursozlu (Binghamton University, NY) “Political Virtues for Democratic Pluralism”
Room B
Joe Betz (Villanova University, PA) “Will Kymlicka as Peacemaker”
Edmund Byrne (Indiana University) “Armed Homicidal Self-Defense: A natural Right?”
4:45-5:45 CPP Executive Committee Meeting Room A
7:30 Keynote Address
Sperry Center 105
Arun Gandhi
Saturday November 1
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
Bagels, Fresh Fruit, Coffee, Tea, Orange and Cranberry Juice
9:00-9:30 Welcome
Main Gallery
9:30-11:00 Session 5
Room A
Christina Michaelson (Le Moyne College, NY) “Pedagogy in Peace Education”
Abby Thomas (India) “Educating for Peace: An Asian Philosophical Blueprint”
Room B
Animals and Violence Panel
Steve Best (University of Texas, El Paso), Andrew Fitz-Gibbon (SUNY Cortland) and Anthony Nocella (SUNY Cortland)
11:00 -11:15 Break
11:15-12:00 Session 6
Main Gallery
Dennis Rothermel (California State University, Chico) “Teaching Anti-War War Films”
Room A
Colleen Kattau (SUNY Cortland) Workshop: “The Power of Song for Nonviolent Transformative Action”
Room B
Wendy Hamblet (North Carolina A&T State University) “Cultivating Peaceful Communities: An Exploration of the Paradoxes and Frustrations”
12:00- 1:00 Lunch
Roast Turkey or Hummus Sandwiches, Pickles, Potato Chips, Cookies and Brownies, Cold beverages
1:00-2:30 Session 7
Room A
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon (SUNY Cortland) “Religious Nonresistance to Violence as Political Resistance to the State
Barry Gan (St. Bonaventure University, NY) “Pacifism as Pathology”
Room B
Anna Lübbe (University of Applied Sciences of Fulda, Germany.) “Systemic Constellations and Their Potential in Peace Work”
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:30 Session 8
Resisting War Panel
Main Gallery
Chair: Larry Ashley (SUNY Cortland)
Panel: Michael Smith (Ithaca College), Mr. Finn (Cornell University), Ron Hershbein (UC Chico),
4:30-5:30
CPP Annual Meeting, Room A
CNYPSC Executive Committee Meeting, Room B
7:30 Banquet and President’s Address
Gail Presbey (University of Detroit, Mercy) “Gandhi on the Problem of Violence within the Indian Struggle for Independence.”
Caleion Room Corey Union
Menu
Spinach Salad, Dinner Rolls
Tomato Soup
Apple Sage Stuffed Chicken Breast with Cranberry Chutney Glaze
Lasagna ala Florentine
Herb Seasoned Rice
Seasonal Vegetable Medley
Cheesecake with strawberries and whipped cream
Wine and Perrier Water
Coffee and Tea
Sunday November 2
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
Bagels, Fresh Fruit, Coffee, Tea, Orange and Cranberry Juice
9:00-10:30 Session 9
Sanjay Lal (Columbus State University) “Gandhian Non-Violence Does Not Presuppose Human Goodness”
Joseph Rayle (SUNY Cortland) “Peace Education: An Ecological Framework”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Session 10
Academic Repression Panel
Chair: Anthony Nocella (SUNY Cortland)
Panel: Steve Best (University of Texas, El Paso), Liat Ben-Moshe (Syracuse University), Caroline Kaltefleiter (SUNY Cortland), Mecke Nagel (SUNY Cortland)
Conference Hotel
Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, Cortland, NY
3707 Route 281, Cortland NY 13045
Reservations: (888) 201-1746 US Toll Free
Telephone: (607) 753-8300 Fax: (607) 753-8301
Email: cx_cort@countryinns.com
Standard room (2 queen beds)
Rate is $113/night including tax
We have reserved 40 rooms
Cut-off date is 9/30/08
When calling to reserve the room, ask for “Fall Peace Conference for SUNY Cortland”
John Lango has put together a very fine CPP session (see below) for the APA Eastern Division meeting this coming December. Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend:
THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION, EASTERN DIVISION
ONE HUNDRED FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM
DECEMBER 27-30, 2008
Philadelphia, PA- Marriott Hotel
GROUP PROGRAM
SUNDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 2008
GROUP SESSION VI 7:30-10:30 P.M.
GVI-5. Concerned Philosophers for Peace
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Topic: The United States and the World: How Should the New President Change U.S. Foreign Policy?
Chair: John W. Lango (Hunter College-City University of New York)
Speakers: Joseph Betz (Villanova University)
George R. Lucas, Jr. (United States Naval Academy)
Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo-Canada)
Harry van der Linden (Butler University)
In a 1963 anthology, The Quiet Battle: Writings on the Theory and Practice of Non-violent Resistance (paperback by Beacon, 1968), edited and introduced by Mulford Quickert Sibley, Étienne de la Boétie receives attention as the first modern voice of nonviolence. An English translation of Boétie’s Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (1548) is offered by two internet archives: The Memory Hole and Constitution.Org.
“For the present I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him. Surely a striking situation!”
A dozen reviews of books for peace seekers in the July-August 2008 Summer Reading Issue of Peacework Magazine. See for example a review of Francis Boyle’s latest appeal for civil resistance, and a reading of Cormac McCarthy’s dead center narrative about what will happen if we don’t stop the madness before the nuclear bombs fall.
Dear CPP members,
I am planning for the Central APA meeting. If you would like to present a paper at this meeting, please send me a 250 word abstract via email by August 30th, 2008.
In 2009, the APA Central Division is moving its annual meeting time to February. This will require moving forward the dates by which I need various information about group sessions. The 2009 meeting will be at the Palmer House Hilton hotel, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, February 18 to Saturday, February 21, 2009).
Sincerely,
Danielle
Danielle Poe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
University of Dayton
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469-1546
Danielle.Poe@notes.udayton.edu
As part of the Summer 2008 upgrade, we’re beginning to add links. There are many, many peace related web sites. With the advent of the Google search engine, link indexes have become less important. So we will begin adding links that have organic relationships to our work, but without any immediate claims to comprehensive scope. If you have a link in mind, please nominate it via email to the web editor: gmosesx at gmail dot com
“The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru hit the headlines in 2001. The site is a thousand years older than the earliest known civilisation in the Americas and, at 2,627 BC, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt. Many now believe it is the fabled missing link of archaeology – a ‘mother city’. If so, then these extraordinary findings could finally answer one of the great questions of archaeology: why did humans become civilised?” And what role did warfare play in the development of the earliest cities?
WordPress categories may overlap, and here at the CPP website they often do. For example an article in a newsletter will appear under Newsletter, Articles, and Volume Number (V23), also in the year of publication under Archives. When viewing a post at this website, you will find categories for that post listed at the bottom of the entry. Clicking on a category name will return the archive for that category. And don’t forget to use the search function at the top right of the website to search for authors, etc.
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