Communities of Justice
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)
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
CPP 22nd Annual Conference 2009 with Angela Davis
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