Category: CPP at APA

Wednesday, April 5, 8-10PM

Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Session 1
Topic: Book Symposium: Andrew Fiala and Jennifer Kling, Can War Be Justified?: A Debate
Authors: Andrew Fiala (California State University, Fresno)
Jennifer Kling (University of Colorado Colorado Springs)
Critics: David K. Chan (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Yvonne Chiu (U.S. Naval War College)
R. Paul Churchill (George Washington University)
José-Antonio Orosco (Oregon State University)

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Saturday, April 8, 6-8 PM

Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Session 2
Topic: Nonviolent Resistance in the Muslim World
Moderator: Andrew Fiala (California State University, Fresno)
Panelists: Walaa Quisay (University of Edinburgh)
Tom Woerner-Powell (University of Manchester)

Concerned Philosophers for Peace Group Sessions

Co-sponsored by The Gandhi, King, Chavez, Addams Society

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SESSION 1 

Thursday, February 23

7:00pm – 10:00pm

G4J. Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Moral Thought on Peace and Nonviolence

Co-sponsored by The Gandhi, King, Chavez, Addams Society

Speakers:

Gregory Bock (The University of Texas at Tyler) and Court Lewis (Pellissippi State Community College)
“Illuminating Bonhoeffer’s Conception of Forgiveness”

William Barnes (New Mexico Highlands University)
“Simone De Beauvoir: The Virtue of Un-Knowing”

Talhah Mustafa (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
“Racial Powers”

Joel Ballivian (UW-Madison)
“Reparations for Historic Racism: What Does Benefitting Have to Do With It?”

Solomon A Laleye (Adekunle Ajasin University)
“Advanced Cyber-Crime, Ritual Killings and Their Mutual Exclusiveness”

John Park (California State University, Sacramento)
“Why Regulations on Empirical Claims in the Media Are Justified”

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SESSION 2

Friday, February 24

7:00pm – 10:00pm

G5D. Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Visions of Peace and Nonviolence in Popular Culture

Co-sponsored by The Gandhi, King, Chavez, Addams Society

Speakers:

Kate C.S. Schmidt (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
“Batman Never Kills: Envisioning the Moral Costs of Violence in Popular Culture”

Katie Harster (Boston College)
““For Light and Life”: Peace in Thoreau and the Jedi of Star Wars: The High Republic”

Colin J. Lewis (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
“Hegemons, Peace-seeking, and The Godfather”

Jennifer Kling (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
“Nonviolent Activism in Lord of the Rings”

The meeting will be held February 22-25, 2023 at the Hilton Denver City Central in Denver, CO. 

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Virtual Group Session

Thursday, January 13, 2022

11:00 am – 12: 50 pm EST

Chair:

Fuat Gursozlu (Loyola University Maryland)

Speakers:

Jean-Marie Makang (Frostburg State University) “Authoritarianism and Sectarianism and the Democratic Experiment”

Will Barnes (University of New Mexico)
“Left Cynicism, Cheekiness, and Satire”

James Walker (DePaul University)
“Towards a Radical Engagement with Global Health Inequity as a Necessary Component of Positive Peace Building”

Feb. 24, 2022 (Chicago)

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Thursday morning, 9:00am – 12:00pm

Celebrating the Work of Bat-Ami Bar On

G2M. Concerned Philosophers for Peace 1

Co-sponsored by The Gandhi, King, Chavez, Addams Society

Chair: Court Lewis (Pellissippi State Community College)

Speakers:

Jennifer Kling (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

“Resettling Refugees: State Obligations, Egalitarian Concerns”

Court Lewis (Pellissippi State Community College)

“Nonviolence When Everyone is a Citizen-Soldier”

Wim Laven (Instructor of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Governing Council of International Peace Research Association)

“Daring To Be Good: The Moral Demands of Bat-Ami Bar On”

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Thursday evening, 7:15pm – 10:15pm

Racism, Pacifism, and Avoiding Atrocities and War

G3Q. Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Chair: Court Lewis (Pellissippi State Community College)

Speakers:

Rashad Rehman and Lydia Clarke Rehman (The University of Toronto)

“The Moral Responsibility of Whom? Re-thinking Water Inequality in Canadian Indigenous Communities”

Joel Ballivian (UW-Madison)

“Racial Apathy and the Persistence of Injustice”

Carlo Filice (SUNY Geneseo)

“How Absolute is the Pacifism of Jesus?”

Leonard Kahn (Loyola University New Orleans and the United States Naval Academy)

“Just Cause and Risk Transfer”

Will Barnes (University of New Mexico)

“The Virtue of not-Knowing: Hannah Arendt and Auto-Deconstruction”

Wim Laven (Instructor of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Governing Council of International Peace Research Association)

“The Role of Philosophy in Healing a Divided America”

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Concerned Philosophers for Peace

2022 Central Division Program, Palmer House Hilton

Chicago, IL, February 23-26, 2022.

Call for Abstracts

SESSION 1: Celebrating the Work of Bat-Aman Bar On

Bat-Ami Bar On, professor of philosophy, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Judaic Studies at Binghamton University, director of the university’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, passed away in 2020. Professor Bar On was a vibrant, brilliant, and deeply thoughtful person, and we invite abstracts on papers that engage with Bar On’s life, work, and impact on nonviolence and peace.

               Her philosophical interests were diverse, but all connected with a thread of responding to violence. From the most individualized (constitution of violent bodies), to the more international—refugees and what we ought to do for them. Her final published article was on Fascism (“But Is It Fascism?”), but her latest interest were refugees.

SESSION 2:  General Session On Nonviolence, Peace, and Related Topics

We invite abstracts dealing with any topic relevant to nonviolence and peace studies.

Submission Guidelines

Submit: an abstract (with bibliography) of no more than 500 words, prepared for blind review

Send to: Court Lewis (cdlewis1@pstcc.edu)

Write: “APA 2022 submission” in subject line

Deadline: August 20, 2021

Format: submit only files in .doc, .docx, or .pdf.

Include: name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and paper title in the body of your e-mail

Acceptance notices will be sent by September 1, 2021

About Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace is the largest, most active organization of professional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of violence and prospects for peace. Concerned Philosophers for Peace is committed to an inclusive and productive environment where all can discuss the study of peace and nonviolence and how it impacts our social and political lives. More information at Concerned Philosophers for Peace website: http://peacephilosophy.org, our Facebook page, and our YouTube channel.

April 16, Wednesday Evening, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The Westin Gaslamp Quarter
910 Broadway Circle
San Diego, California 92101

Group Meeting G2A

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Topic: Philosophy, Peace, and Exigent Circumstances

Speakers:

Ron Hirschbein (Walden University)
“‘Hell No! We Won’t Go!’: Vietnam Draft Resistance”

Ovadia Ezra (Tel Aviv University)
“Civil Disobedience: A Refusenik’s Perspective”

George Larkin (Walden University)
Tanya Settles (Walden University)
“Ethics and Exigent Circumstance”

Commentator: Kevin Darnell (U.S. Naval War College)

Concerned Philosophers for Peace:
Group Meeting Central APA
February 15-18, 2012
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL

Session Title: “Philosophies of Nonviolence”
Friday, Feb. 17
7:30pm – 10:30pm

Chair: Danielle Poe
CPP President

Presentations:

“Tolstoy’s Ethics of Christian Love and Nonviolence”
Predrag Cicovacki
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA

“The Philosophy of Nonviolence of the Late American Philosopher J. Glenn Gray”
Paul Churchill
George Washington University

“Peace through . . . ? Exploring Peacebuilding Initiatives”
Tracey Nicholls, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Lewis University

GROUP SESSION American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division

Hilton Bayfront
Thursday April 21, 6:00-9:00pm

Perspectives on the Middle East

David Boersema
“Positive Peace and the Middle East”
Pacific University
boersema@pacificu.edu

Andrew Fiala
“Pluralism, Religion, and Peace”
Cal State Univ. Fresno
afiala@csufresno.edu

Ovadia Ezra
“Moral Responsibility at the End of Military Occupation”
Tel Aviv University
ovadia@post.tau.ac.il

Ron Hirschbein
“Confessions of a Self-Hating Jew”
Walden University
hirschbein@sbcglobal.net

Fuat Gursozlu
“Strife, Violence, and Harm”
Binghamton University
(unable to attend)
fgursozlu@yahoo.com