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Date: Mon 11 Feb 20:33:08 EST 2008
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Dear colleagues,

Before his untimely death, Professor Emmanuel Eze had written the call
for papers for African philosophy section of the annual meeting in
Chicago November 13-16, 2008. We are sending that call for papers to all
of you to consider submitting proposals and panels for the Chicago
meeting. We encourage you to form panels and submit those panel
proposals. It would be wonderful if African philosophy has several
panels at this year's meeting which marks the 50th anniversary of the
annual meeting. We have room for several panels on philosophy alone
since The ASA has sent out calls for religious studies as a separate unit.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to check with Kim Carlos
annual meeting coordinator at  [log in to unmask] or feel free to
email me for details at [log in to unmask]

*Call for Papers*
*Annual Meeting, November 13-16, 2008, Chicago
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African philosophy has rich histories and by all measures a brighter
future. It includes ancient written traditions in Egypt, medieval
Islamic Scholarship in Timbuktu, the sixteenth century religious
rationalism of Zera Yaecob and his disciples in Abysinnia, and the
empiricist tradition of William Amo's modernism. In the contemporary
period it expands to include a variety of methods and currents:
Systematic and critical ethnophilosophy and Sage Philosophy, African
Liberation Philosophy and the social and political thought from Nkrumah,
Nyrere to Towa, Fanon, Biko and Tutu; the hermeneutics of Okere and
Serequeberhan and the analytic approaches of Wiredu and Hallen; and the
reflections on African identity in a postcolonial era by Okonda, Masolo,
and Kebede. In addition, there is the philosophical reflection embedded
in the works of African artists and writers such as Senghor, Achebe,
Soyinka, and others.

This rich history raises expectations about the future directions of
philosophy in Africa. What are the emerging new paths for the field?
What challenges can be expected along these paths? With no attempt to be
exhaustive, we invite contributors to submit proposals for panels,
papers, symposia, or author-meets-critics around these and related themes:

1.      Reinterpreting the history/ies of philosophy in Africa: Black
Athena and Beyond
2.      Developing contemporary African epistemologies: e.g., relations
between mythic and symbolic thought, theoretical and empirical
scientific procedures, and philosophical reason
3.      Philosophy in relation to African art and literature
4.      Philosophy in African languages
5.      African revisioning of social and political and ethical life:
Ideal and Reality
6.      Philosophy and the quest to decolonize the African mind
7.      African philosophy as a site of interdisciplinary and
intercultural thinking
8.      The contribution of African philosophy to the global dialogue of
cultures
9.      Universality and Particularity of Philosophy: Reason, language
and representability
10.  Philosophy of Gender in the African contexts
11.  Philosophy and the construction of African identity: The politics
and philosophy of recognition
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Julie E. Maybee
Chair

Department of Philosophy
Lehman College
City University of New York
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Bronx, NY 10468-1589
(718) 960-8292
Fax: (718) 960-7497

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