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PROGRAM

Presidential Address

President of Concerned Philosophers for Peace Danielle Poe will present the annual presidential address on Diane Wilson’s environmental activism during the closing plenary session for the CPP annual conference at Austin Community College.

In a paper tentatively titled, “Mothering against the Norms: Diane Wilson and Environmental Activism,” Prof. Poe will explore intersecting meanings of justice and mothering in the writings of the highly respected Texas activist. Here’s how Poe describes the upcoming presidential address:

“When my daughter was five years old, I bought her a book about Diane Wilson, whose nonviolent civil disobedience landed her in jail as she confronted injustice. Wilson’s story inspires me, and I hoped it would inspire my daughter as well. Wilson inadvertently stumbles on information about the pollution of the bay where she and her family have shrimped for four generations, and she tirelessly confronts those who are causing the pollution in order to save her community and its bay. I want this kind of passion and sense of justice for my children; I want them to speak out against injustice even when the odds are overwhelmingly against them.

“I will analyze the ways in which Wilson’s experience as a mother inspires her to choose nonviolent, civil disobedience that will result in incarceration. As part of this choice, Wilson confronts norms about what it means to be a mother in U.S. society. Her actions challenge social pressure to raise children who conform to values of capitalism and militarism rather than to justice. While it may seem to be the case that the time that Wilson serves undermines her ability to be a mother by going to jail, I will argue that she fulfills her obligations to her children and provides a creative example to other mothers on how we can mother and resist oppression such that we work to give our children a better society, a capacity to discern justice from injustice, and a capacity for imagining and creating a better
society.”

Poe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. She will deliver the CPP presidential address at 3pm, Saturday, Nov. 5, at the auditorium of the Riverside Campus of Austin Community College. The event is free and open to the public.

Community Panel

On Friday, Nov. 4, CPP will host a community panel on “Activism in the Tradition of Cesar Chavez” at 3pm, also at the ACC Riverside Campus, featuring Susana Almanza of PODER, Jim Harrington of the Texas Civil Rights Project, and a representative from Red Salmon Arts. The community panel will be moderated by Prof. Jose-Antonio Orosco of Oregon State University, author of “Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence.” The community panel is also free and open to the public.

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Advance Schedule
(updated Nov. 3, 2011)

Concerned Philosophers for Peace
Annual Conference
Nov. 4 – 5, 2011
Austin Community College (ACC)
Riverside Campus
1020 Grove Blvd., Austin, TX 78741
http://www.austincc.edu/rvs/

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

CPP Info Table & Resistencia Books:
Building G (hallway, ground floor, East side)

Fri 8:15 Meet & Greet
ACC Riverside Campus Building E — Room 7004
Breakfast tacos & coffee

Fri 9:00 – 9:10 Welcome
ACC Riverside Campus Building E — Room 7004

Lyman Grant, Dean of Arts and Humanities at ACC

Fri 9:15 – 10:45 Immigration, Violence, and Democracy
ACC Riverside Campus Building E — Room 7004

Chair: Bob Libal, Grassroots Leadership

Jorge Mario Rodriguez Martinez, Professor of Philosophy, University of San Carlos of Guatemala:

“The Ethical Dimensions of Human Rights and the Moral Limits of Citizenship”

Richard Peterson, Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University:

“Violence, Intellectuals, and the Public Sphere”

Jose-Antonio Orosco, Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University:

“Cesar Chavez, Undocumented Immigrants, and American Democracy”

Fri 11:00 – 12:20 Peace Education, Religion, and the Public Life
ACC Riverside Campus Building E — Room 7004

Chair: Celeste Rios, Adjunct Professor of Government, ACC

Lillian Huerta, Director of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, ACC:

“Service Learning as Peace Education”

Sharon Sarles, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, ACC:

“Positioning Religion as a Peacemaking Force”

Carlo Filice, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, SUNY Geneseo:

“Peace and Public Fairness”

Fri 12:20 – 1:20
Lunch
Please visit Campus Snack Bar, Building A
or Tin Cup Grill near Golf Course Parking
Presenters: please go to Building G – Room 9135

Fri 1:20 – 2:50 Peace, Resistance, and Revolution
ACC Riverside Campus Building E — Room 7004

Chair: Nicole Berland, Education Organizer for Occupy Austin

Ron Hirschbein, Professor of Philosophy, Walden University

“Edward Bernays’ America”

Raul G. Garcia, Instructor of Philosophy, Lamar University:

“The Philosophy of Ramsey Muniz and the Rising of the Sixth Sun”

David Boersema, Professor of Philosophy, Pacific University:

“Positive Peace in the Middle East”

Fri 3:00 – 5:00 Community Panel:
Activism in the Tradition of Cesar Chavez
ACC Riverside Auditorium Building G – Room 8100

ACC Welcome

Chair: Jose-Antonio Orosco, Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University and author of Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence

Lilia Rosas, Red Salmon Arts

James Harrington, Founding Director, Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP )

Susana Almanza, Coordinator, People Organized for the Defense of the Earth and her Resources (PODER)

Fri 6:00 Dinner at Threadgill’s World Headquarters (South)
“Come as you are, pay as you go, tip like a liberal”

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Sat 8:15 Meet & Greet
ACC Riverside Auditorium Building G – Room 8100
Breakfast tacos & coffee

Sat 9:00 – 10:15 Critical Issues in Law, Police, and Prisons
ACC Riverside Auditorium Building G – Room 8100

Chair: Scott Henson, Grits for Breakfast

Nick Braune, Associate Professor of Philosophy, South Texas College:

“Police Power and Deception Cause False Confessions”

Michael J. Coyle, Assistant Professor of Political Science, CSU – Chico:

“Penal Abolition and The Public Intellectual as Peace Maker”

Sat 10:30 – 12:15 Critical Figures in Peace Philosophy
ACC Riverside Auditorium Building G – Room 8100

Chair: Glynis Christine, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, ACC

Wendy C. Hamblet, Associate Professor of Liberal Studies, North Carolina A&T University:

“The Philosopher, His Poor and the ‘Nature’ of the Public Life: A Rethinking of Plato’s Treatment of the Working Poor and their place in the Life of the Polis”

Robert Gould, Professor of Philosophy, Portland State University Conflict Resolution Department:

“Hume’s Anti-War Fact/Value Argument Evolves into a Contemporary Warrior Meritocracy, where the Fact of Power and Wealth Trumps Moral Values”

ACC Philosophy Club, Association of Recreational Thinkers (ART)

“Rand Revisited: Objectivist Axioms and Social Movements”

Sat 12:15 – 1:15
Lunch
Please visit Campus Snack Bar, Building A
or Tin Cup Grill near Golf Course Parking
CPP Business Meeting: Building G – Room 9135

Sat 1:20 – 2:50 Philosophy in the Public Life
ACC Riverside Auditorium Building G – Room 8100

Chair: Linda Braune, Poet and Peace Activist

Gail Presbey, Professor of Philosophy, University of Detroit-Mercy:

“Philosopher and Public Intellectual: Compatible Roles?”

Tanya M. Loughead, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Canisius College:

“Freedom-Work”

William C. Gay, Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Coordinator, UNC – Charlotte:

“How Philosophers Advance Peace in the Public Sphere”

Sat 3:00 – 4:45 CPP Presidential Address
ACC Riverside Auditorium Building G – Room 8100
ACC Welcome

Chair: Gail Presbey, Past President of CPP, Professor of Philosophy, University of Detroit Mercy

Danielle Poe, Professor of Philosophy, University of Dayton:

“Mothering against the Norms: Diane Wilson and Environmental Activism”

Sat 5:00 ACC Facility Closing Time

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CONFERENCE LOCATION DETAIL:
Homepage for ACC Riverside Campus
1020 Grove Blvd., Austin, TX 78741
http://www.austincc.edu/rvs/

LODGING INFO: CPP has been offered
a block of rooms for $69.99 per night at:
Comfort Suite Austin Airport
7501 E Ben White Blvd
Austin , TX 78741
Phone: (512) 386-6000
http://www.comfortsuites.com/hotel-austin-texas-TX573

When you call for reservations, please mention
Concerned Philosophers for Peace
The Motel is one mile from
Austin-Bergstrom Intl Airport (AUS)
and 2.4 miles from the ACC
Riverside Campus

SAMPLE BUS SCHEDULES

THURS PM Airport to Motel

FRI AM Motel to Conf

SAT AM Motel to Conf

Conference Objectives

“Peace and the Public Life”

When we think of peace do we think of something public? Or is peace a private thing somehow widely shared? U.S. debates over public options, public workers, and public spending seem to signify a crisis of doubt over the value of the very meaning of “the public.”

For the 2011 conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace at Austin Community College (Austin, TX, Nov. 4-5) we invited proposals for papers and panels that address conceptual issues involved with re-thinking peace or peacemaking in relation to a crisis in “public life” that has thrown into doubt the very meanings of public and private terms.

The location of this year’s conference–at the Riverside Campus of ACC–also evokes legacies of Cesar Chavez, Gloria Anzaldua, and the civil rights philosophy of J. Leonard Farmer. Papers seeking peaceful conceptions of rights for migrant peoples, of rights to borderline identities, and the equal treatment of peoples under the law would be especially suited to the terrain.

Of course other areas of exploration are also welcome, especially including reflections on issues raised by democracy movements across the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Every year is a good year for philosophers of peace to gather for working refreshment of their conceptual tools. Perhaps the crisis of “public life” presents an opportunity for philosophers to contribute timely meditations on the ways that the turmoil in terms public and private signify hazards and opportunities for conceiving peace.

About CPP

Since its inception in 1981, Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) has become the largest, most active organization of professional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of war and prospects for peace. The organization holds an annual conference as well as programs at each divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association.

“The Obama Years: War, Peace, and Environmental Sustainability”
« Les années Obama: Guerre, Paix, et Développement environnemental »

McGill University/Université de Montréal
October 29-31, 2010

sponsored by
Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM),
the Philosophy Department of McGill University,
and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill

LOCATION
Conference sessions will take place at Thomson House, the conference venue run by McGill University graduate students. Thomson House is located at 3650, rue McTavish (cross street: rue Dr Penfield)

REGISTRATION
Conference registration fee: $100.00 (USD or CAD)
Saturday night banquet is an additional $25, payable on site.
Checks/cheques should be made payable to: CONCERNED PHILOSOPHERS FOR PEACE
Registration details (name, affiliation, and confirmed title of your presentation) should be mailed, with payment, to:
Tracey Nicholls
Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM),
C.P. 6128 succursale Centre-ville
Montréal QC H3C 3J7
CANADA
(Please note that the registration fee will be waived for students, but you are still asked to register and declare your student status at that point.)

NEAREST AIRPORT
Pierre Elliot Trudeau International (YUL)

LOCAL TRANSPORTATION
Travel from the airport (Pierre Trudeau International Airport, code: YUL) is fairly straightforward. You can take a taxi to the downtown area (centre-ville) for about $38 plus tip, or you can take the shuttle that the municipal transit service has just introduced, the 747 Express, for $7.

Taxi
As you exit the arrivals area with your luggage, signs directing you to the taxi stand should be clearly marked. Please note that the fare between the airport and centre-ville is a fixed rate. It will be clearly posted on the windows of the taxicabs and you should not pay more than that posted rate (unless you opt to stay at an address that falls outside the centre-ville zone indicated on the signs).

Bus
As with taxis, you should find signs to the bus fairly clearly marked. The bus runs every 15 minutes between 8am and 8pm; every 30 minutes at non-peak times. Passes for the 747 Express bus can be purchased at a kiosk at the Currency Exchange desk, which is located in the public area of the airport that you pass through after collecting your luggage. You can pay by credit card, and you have the option of a $7 one-day pass that will give you access to the entire transit system (metro and buses) for 24 hours or a 3-day carte ocasionelle (about $13).

ACCOMMODATION
I have made block bookings at two different hotels in the downtown area, and confirmed availability at a third. The block-booked hotels are both located on Sherbrooke Street, which is the main east-west artery of the downtown area, one to the east of the main entrance to the McGill campus and the other to the west. Both hotels offer easy access to McGill via the 24 Sherbrooke bus route.

Chateau Versailles
There is a block of 25 rooms here under the name “Concerned Philosophers for Peace” (group booking code CPJ19S). This hotel is located at 1659 Sherbrooke Street West, so you will need to travel east on Sherbrooke to reach the McGill campus (about 8 blocks). It is a beautiful, old-world style hotel offering all standard hotel amenities and continental breakfast for the rate of $144/night (Canadian) plus applicable taxes. You can make reservations at 1-888-933-8111 or http://www.chateauversaillesmontreal.com. Please note that any unreserved rooms left in this block will be released on September 29, 2010, so you need to book with them before then.

Holiday Inn Midtown
There is a block of 15 rooms here under the name “2010 Concerned Philosophers for Peace Conference.” This hotel is located at 420 Sherbrooke Street West, so you will need to travel west on Sherbrooke to reach the McGill campus (about 4 blocks). It also offers all standard hotel amenities and continental breakfast for the rate of $131/night (Canadian) plus applicable taxes. You can make reservations at 1-800-387-3042. Please note that any unreserved rooms left in this block will be released on September 24, 2010, so you need to book with them before then.

L’Abri du Voyageur
This is your low-budget option. They have a web special of $62/night plus applicable taxes, available if you book online at http://www.abri-voyageur.ca. Alternatively you can make reservations by phone at 1-866-302-2922. L’Abri du Voyageur is located at 9 St-Catherine West (corner of St-Catherine and St-Laurent, which is the major north-south artery of centre-ville). It is, as you will immediately notice if you book there, right smack in the heart of the “red-light” district. The area is perfectly safe, if a little seedy, and I have personal testimony from friends who have stayed there that the hotel is clean, safe, and remarkably well-appointed for the price. You can reach McGill quite easily by walking a block north on St-Laurent to metro St-Laurent and taking the subway west (direction: Angrignon) three stops to metro Peel. From the Peel subway stop, it is about a four block walk north to our conference location. I have not booked a block of rooms here, but I have confirmed that they have rooms available.

Please feel free to contact me directly (at this email address, or at 312-218-6834) if you have any questions that I have not answered here. And, just by way of helpful reminder for those of you who may not have travelled to Canada recently, let me give you a heads-up that you will need to make sure your passport is up-to-date in order to get across the border!

Regards,
Tracey Nicholls
Local (Montréal) Organizer, 23rd Annual CONCERNED PHILOSOPHERS FOR PEACE Conference

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON/CONCERNED PHILOSOPHERS FOR PEACE
CONFERENCE ON “COMMUNITIES OF JUSTICE”
NOVEMBER 5-7, 2009

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Pre-Conference Reception: 8 p.m. (ArtStreet facility)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Session 1, 9am-10:45am

Room A: Global Politics

“Orientalism in the Global War on Terror” by Nathan Eckstrand, Duquesne University

“How Some Definitions (and Their Applications) of ‘Terrorism’ Are Better for the Community than Other Definitions” by Doug Knapp, Inver Hills Community College

“Deliberative Global Politics and Non-Military Humanitarian Counter-Interventions” by Michael Allen, East Tennessee State University

Room B: Problems of Oppression

“Oppression Reconsidered” by Sybol Cook Anderson, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

“Virtue Ethics and the Problem of Oppression” by Robert Paul Churchill, George Washington University

“The Moral Responsibility of Engaging One’s Oppressor” by Court Lewis, University of Tennessee

Coffeebreak: 10:45-11:15am

Session 2, 11:15am-12:30pm

Room A: Post-Modern Views

“The Entwining of Freedom and Intersubjective Sensibility” (Levinas) by Bergo Bettina, Universite de Montreal

“It Could Be…Better” (Irigaray) by Danielle Poe, University of Dayton

Room B: Communities in Conflict

“Communities in Conflict: Standards for Just Negotiations” by John Lango, Hunter College of CUNY

“The Cultural and Political Dimension of Ethnic Conflicts” by Messay Kebede, University of Dayton

Lunch Break: 12:30-2:00pm (Kennedy Student Union or Brown Street)

Session 3, 2:00-3:45pm

Room A: Just Community

“What Constitutes a Just Community?” by Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva, Visiting Scholar, Penn State Univ.

“Looking Backward toward a Just Community” by Ron Hirschbein, Walden University

“Leftists and Rightists on Distributive Justice” by Ronald Glossop, Prof. Emeritus, Southern Ill. Univ., Edwardsville

Room B: Community Issues

“The Family Lacuna” by Douglas Dreier, Cornell University

“Human Rights, Complex Equality, and Hospitality” by Eddy Souffrant, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte

“Five Forgiveness Assessments Recommended for Conflict Resolution Processes” by Robert Gould, Conflict Resolution, Portland State University

Coffeebreak: 3:45-4:15pm

Session 4, 4:15-5:30pm

Room A: Indigenous and Undocumented Immigrant Communities

“No Justice, No Peace: What We Must Be Doing” by Tracey Nicholls, Lewis University

“Dream On, Children: Whither the Dream Act?” by Kyoo Lee, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Room B: Reflections on African American Women

“In Support of the Girls from ‘Round Here’: Black Feminist Reflections on the Utility of Rage for Building Communities of Support” by Denise James, University of Dayton

“The State as Batterer: Women’s Progress to Address American’s Family-Like Racial Dysfunction” by Angela Mae Kupenda, Mississippi College School of Law

Room C: Executive Committee of CPP

(See local information for dinner)

Plenary Session: 7:30pm, Kennedy Student Union Ballroom (2nd floor) Angela Davis

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Session 5, 9am-10:45am

Room A: Tolerance and Diversity

“Moral Conviction and Disagreement: Getting Beyond (Negative) Toleration” by Matthew Pianalto, Eastern Kentucky University

“Community and Diversity” by William Gay, UNC Charlotte

“Repressive Justice: Marcuse, Adorno, and the American Attempt to Live Wrong Life Rightly” by Arnold Farr, University of Kentucky

Room B: Problems of Justice

“How to Achieve Justice: Rorty on Redescription and Justification” by Susan Dieleman, York University

“Why Are Only Citizens Worthy of Global Justice?” by Jason Breen, York University

“The Relationship between Feminism, Critical Race Theory, and Justice as Fairness” by Michael Da Silva, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Coffeebreak: 10:45-11:15am

Session 6, 11:15am-12:30pm

Room A: Radical Interpretations

“The Radical Praxis of Teaching for a Just Community: Marcuse and Kristeva on Liberating the Subject” by Tanya Loughead, Canisius College

“Devious Emancipations: A Marxian Reexamination of Rawls’s Political Conception of Justice” by Hamad Mohamed, Duquesne University

Room B: Developing Just Communities

“Just Communities and Character Formation: An Answer from Hume’s Treatise” by Juan Santos-Castro, Binghamton University SUNY

“On the Virtues of Community Organizing: Recovering Franklin’s and Dewey’s Insights” by Shane Ralston, Pennsylvania State University

Lunch Break: 12:30-2:00pm (Brown Street)

Session 7, 2:00-3:45pm

Room A: Reflections on Warism

“Civilian Casualties and War” by Joseph Betz, Villanova University

“Grief and Precariousness in Alexander Sokurov’s Alexandra (2007) and Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir (2008)” by Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico

“An Engineer’s Reflection on Sometimes Kafkaesque Searches for ‘Truth’ and ‘Communities of Peace and Justice’ in the United States” by Chuck Overby, Engineering Professor Emeritus, Ohio University

Room B: Justice and Economics

“Crime, Punishment, and Justice in Communities” by Wendy Hamblet, North Carolina A & T State University

“Justice in Business and Defense Communities” by Joseph Kunkel, Professor Emeritus, University of Dayton, and Hamid Rafizadeh, Professor of Business, Bluffton University

“Justice and a Pro-Democratic Ethic” by Steve Martinot, Independent Scholar

Short Coffeebreak: 3:45-4:00pm

Session 8, 4:00-5:15pm

Room A: Nonviolence and Love

“Intersectionality and Love” by Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, SUNY Cortland

“Principles for Successful Activism” by Barry Gan, St. Bonaventure University

Room B: Religious Communities

“And They Shall Beat Their Swords into Plowshares: The Peace Ethic of J. Leonard Farmer, Sr.” by Greg Moses, Independent Scholar

“United Methodist Women and Social Justice” by Joseph Osei, Fayetteville State University/UNC

CPP Business Meeting (5:15-6:00pm) in Room C-all are invited!

Banquet and Presidential Address by Gail Presbey

Reception starts at 7:15pm in Kennedy Student Union

CONCERNED PHILOSOPHERS FOR PEACE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON, DAYTON, OH
NOVEMBER 5-7, 2009

“COMMUNITIES OF JUSTICE”
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ANGELA DAVIS

Cost: $50.00 including Thursday and Friday Receptions, Friday and Saturday breakfast (Saturday night Banquet is an additional $25.)

Checks payable to:
Department of Philosophy.

Send registration to:
Linda Mckinley
Department of Philosophy
University of Dayton
300 College Park,
Dayton, OH 45469-1546

Questions can be sent to:

Danielle.poe@notes.udayton.edu

or you can call Danielle Poe at 937-825-5392

Conference Hotel:
Marriott Hotel
Dayton Marriott
1414 S. Patterson Blvd.
Dayton, OH 45409
(937) 223-1000
The Marriott has reserved rooms at a rate of $75. Each participant must make their own reservation. The block is listed under “Baker Philosophy Colloquium”. Everyone needs to make their reservations by October 15, 2009.

Nearest Airport: Dayton (DAY)

The 2009 Concerned Philosophers for Peace Conference will be held at the University of Dayton, November 6-8, 2009.

The topic of the colloquium is “Communities of Justice.” The focus of the colloquium is on the opportunities and challenges of creating just conditions in local communities. Our keynote speaker on November 7, 2009 will be Dr. Angela Davis. Possible paper topics include:

* What constitutes a just community?
* What obstacles do we face in creating Communities of Justice?
* How can obstacles be overcome in order to make a community more just?
* What is the relationship between local action and national or international action
* Who is oppressed and who are the oppressors?
* How should, and how do oppressed groups respond to each other?
* How should, and how do oppressed groups respond to their oppressor?
* How can we learn from the past, making use of what is valuable, without being tainted by what is harmful?
* What aspects of race theory and feminist theory are supportive of, or prevent creating Communities of Justice?

Anyone interested in presenting a paper should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by August 1, 2009 to danielle.poe@notes.udayton.edu

Call For Papers
DEADLINE September 1, 2008
Concerned Philosophers For Peace
Twenty-First Annual Conference

Suny Cortland, Cortland NY
October 30-31, November 1-2, 2008

“Resisting War, Educating For Peace”

Since its inception in 1981, Concerned Philosophers for Peace [CPP] has become the largest, most active organization of professional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of war and prospects for peace. The organization holds an annual conference as well as programs at each divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The forthcoming Cortland conference invites papers in any area of war resistance and peace education. Submissions are also invited addressing other topics related to the causes of war and the prospects for peace.

The conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics Peace and Social Justice, SUNY Cortland; the M.K. Gandhi Institute, Rochester University; and the Central New York Peace Studies Consortium. Saturday of the conference incorporates the CNY Peace Studies Consortium’s annual peace conference.

Please send an abstract of your proposal by September 1, 2008 [not more than 300 words] to: Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Director, Center for Ethics Peace and Social Justice, Philosophy Department, SUNY Cortland. fitzgibbon-at-cortland.edu

CPP publishes a newsletter, and many of the conference papers have been published in various anthologies. Presenters will be invited to submit papers for peer-reviewed inclusion in a volume to be published in the Rodopi VIBS, Philosophy of Peace series.

Further information is available via the CPP list server, which can be accessed by contacting Barry Gan at bgan-at-sbu.edu; and membership information is available from David Boersma at boersema-at-pacificu.edu.

Accommodations for CPP 2007 Conference

Prices quoted for July 2007. Contact directly for current rates and availability.

Lodging in North Manchester

The Treeway Inn
(3 miles from Manchester College)
1601 St. Rd. 114 West, North Manchester, IN 46962
Toll free: 1-877-982-9090
$60 + tax single, $64 + tax double; request conference rate.

Fruitt Basket Inn – bed & breakfast
(1.2 miles from Manchester College)
116 W. Main Street, North Manchester, IN 46962
260-982-2443
4 rooms available on the second floor of 100 year old Victorian home. Breakfast included.
Suite for $100/night: 2 rooms (one king-sized bed, one full-sized bed) with shared bath
2 rooms for $75/night each: (king-sized beds and private baths)

The Hospitality House – historic bed and breakfast
(1 mile to campus)
202 N. Walnut Street, North Manchester, IN 46962
contact: Jennifer Pattison
telephone: 260-454-0720<
jeneckpat@hotmail.com or hospitalityhousebb@hotmail.com
4 distinctive rooms in Victorian hotel. Private baths, queen-sized beds, internet access, full breakfast. $75/night

On-campus dormitory housing
A limited number of rooms are available in the campus dormitories. Each room has two single beds and shares a communal washroom with the floor.
East Hall – rooms for women (6 rooms) Schwalm Hall – rooms for men (9 rooms)
$27.75 per night (per person), includes taxes, linens & towels.
Contact Katy Gray Brown at klgraybrown@manchester.edu or 260-982-5343.

Home stays for students/low-income participants
We hope to arrange lodging (a range of guest rooms, spare futons, and floor space) for those who wish. Please contact Katy Gray Brown at klgraybrown@manchester.edu or 260-982-5343 by October 15th if you would like free lodging.

Lodging near North Manchester
Huntington is just south of the route between North Manchester and the Fort Wayne airport. Warsaw lies north of North Manchester, away from the Fort Wayne airport.

Holiday Inn Express Huntington
(19.5 miles from Manchester College)
2205 N. Jefferson Street, Huntington, IN 46750
260-356-3434/1-888-465-4329
$79-$89 + tax/night

Super 8 Motel Huntington
(19 miles from Manchester College)
2801 Guilford Street (US 24 and Hwy 9), Huntington, IN 46750
260-358-8888
$54.00 + tax/night (request Manchester College conference rate)

Ramada Plaza Warsaw
(20 miles from Manchester College)
2519 E Center Street ( US 30 and Center St), Warsaw, IN 46580 US
Phone: 574-269-2323
$74.00 + tax (king or two doubles). Request the Manchester College rate when booking.

Transportation to Manchester College

Manchester College is located in North Manchester, Indiana, about 35 miles west of Fort Wayne and 100 miles north of Indianapolis.

By air:
Fort Wayne, IN (35 miles) Airport code: FWA
South Bend, IN (76 miles) Airport code: SBN
Indianapolis, IN (115 miles) Airport code: IND
Chicago Midway (147 miles) Airport code: MDW
Chicago O’Hare (160 miles) Airport code: ORD

Free shuttles will be arranged from the airport in Fort Wayne to Manchester College. Two shuttles will run to Manchester College (one Thursday late afternoon, one Thursday evening). Shuttles will be offered to the Fort Wayne airport on Sunday after the morning conference sessions. Contact Katy Gray Brown (klgraybrown@manchester.edu) if you wish to use these shuttles.

Rental cars are available at all airports. If you are planning on renting a car and are willing to offer space for others, we encourage you to post a message on the CPP listserve (cpp@lists.sbu.edu). Note: In order to post a message, you must be a subscriber to the CPP listserver. You may subscribe to the list by sending a message to listserv@lists.sbu.edu and typing in the body of the message the words “subscribe cpp” followed by your first and last name. You will then be sent an e-mail with instructions on how to confirm your request.

Other than limited on-campus rooms, motel accommodations are not within convenient walking distance from the conference. We will help to arrange local car pools for conference participants at the beginning and end of each day, if necessary.

Free parking will be available for conference participants.

Facilities and services at Manchester College

The campus cafeteria and snack bar will be open for those who wish to eat on campus. Local restaurant information will be available upon conference arrival.

All conference activities will be in fully accessible buildings. If there are other ability accommodations that you would like, we will work to make arrangements for you. With advance notice, we will facilitate child care arrangements for those bringing children to the conference. Please contact Katy Gray Brown (klgraybrown@manchester.edu) as soon as possible with your requests.

Call for Papers, 2007 Annual Conference, Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Nonviolence: Critiquing Assumptions, Examining Frameworks

November 1-4, 2007
Manchester College
North Manchester, IN

Many judgments regarding what is good or bad, possible or impossible, rely upon unspoken assumptions or frameworks which are used to view and evaluate events and actions. Philosophers uncover these hidden aspects of thoughts and judgments, scrutinizing them for soundness, validity, and fairness.
These assumptions and frameworks permeate the topics of violence, nonviolence, war, conflict, and reconciliation; and they influence how we address these problems and issues. This conference encourages philosophers to reflect upon these assumptions and frameworks and their effects, both in the abstract and in the concrete, and to share their insights with us.
Possible subtopics include:

• How do our current assumptions and frameworks regarding the Middle East shape our concepts of the prospects of war and peace in these areas?
• How do our assumptions and frameworks regarding poverty, wealth, race, and economy influence our understanding of the prospects for poverty eradication in North America, Africa or Latin America?
• What guiding assumptions and frameworks have led many Americans to trust military buildup, and even the use of torture, to defend the nation during the “war on terror”? What are the problems with such assumptions and frameworks? Would a different framework provide a better way of securing peace in America?
• Is peace possible? If so, how? If not, why not? Is human nature such that negative and/or positive peace is improbable if not impossible? Does national security and nation-state autonomy demand a warfare State? Does economic inequality make violence or the threat of violence inevitable?
• What kind of assumptions and frameworks would be needed in order for people to see nonviolence as a sensible approach to current day problems?

This call for examining assumptions can be used to either defend or challenge nonviolence as a guiding principle for relationships.

Conference Highlights:

Performances: Howard Zinn’s “Marx in Soho” by Robert Weick

Workshops: Peace Journalism, Tom Hastings, Portland State University

Student Paper Session

Presidential Address: Barry Gan, St. Bonaventure University

Contemplative, nonviolent environs.

Abstracts (200 words) and panel proposals by September 1, 2007 to:

Katy Gray Brown Box 122
Manchester College
North Manchester, IN 46962

Or, send it by email to:
KLGrayBrown@manchester.edu
For further questions,
contact Katy Gray Brown at 260-982-5343
http://www.manchester.edu/

Sponsored by the Manchester Peace Studies Institute and the Department of Religion and Philosophy

Colleagues,

Here is a website for the upcoming CPP conference, Oct. 19-22 at SBU.

http://acorn.sbu.edu/celebration.htm

The site also has a link to the call for papers, which I am still in the process of editing. But I think it is more helpful to provide you with what information is now available. If you have suggestions for improving the call for papers, do let me know. Please construe the conference theme broadly.

At the present time, in addition to the keynote speaker, Arun Gandhi, we are planning a Gulu walk of one hour or so to raise money for children in Uganda who are forced nightly to flee their villages and sleep in nearby cities to avoid abduction.

We are also planning to devote some conference time to former SBU graduates who have involved themselves in various ways with peacework–or failed to do so despite the best of intentions.

At any rate, comments–critical or otherwise–are invited. Since our last conference at SBU, five years ago, two new motels have been built within walking distance of the University and the old motel at which some of you stayed, The Castle, has been demolished. Information is available on the website.

http://acorn.sbu.edu/celebration.htm

Barry Gan