INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Topic: Law, Culture and Morality: East and West.
Dates: October: 4-5, 2013.
Place: University of Illinois.
Abstract: 150 words.
Email to chandanachak@gmail.com.
Sponsored by the University of Illinois, Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion and Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange.
Date of proposal acceptance: Week after the proposal is submitted.
Subtopics: legal philosophy, Philosophy of Right, Morality and Law, Law and Marxism, Legal Positivism, Legal Realism, Virtue Ethics, Virtue and Jurisprudence, Utilitarianism, Deontology and Law, Dworkin and Interpretivism, Philosophical Approaches to Legal Problems, Justice and Globalization, International Law, Natural Law, Bentham, Austin and Dworkin, Natural Law and Natural Rights, Law, Authority and Morality, Law of the Land and International Law, Ancient Law, Laws of Manu and other Hindu Lawgivers, Confucius theory of Virtue, Islam and Law, Law and Human Rights, Post Modernism and Law, Virtue and Knowledge, Morality and Society, Confucius Ethics, Perfectionist and Situational Ethics, Moral Relativism, Humanism and Positivism, Ethnic Identity and Culture, Human Nature and Human Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Consumption and Morality, Politicizing Consumer Culture and Effects on Morality, Dynamics of Group Culture, Ethnic Boundaries, Constructing and Deconstructing Ethnic Identity, Cultural Transformation, Culture and Morality, Christian Ethics, Buddhist Ethics, Hindu Ethics, Jewish Ethics, Islamic Ethics and Global Ethics. The above list is suggestive and not exhaustive.
Advisory Board Members: Panos Eliopoulos (Greece), Yolanda Espina (Portugal),Gordon Haist (USA), Robin Kar (USA) Elizabeth Koldzak(Poland), Simi Malhotra (India), MariaMarczewska(Poland),Debkumar Mukhopadhyay( India), Rizwan Rahman(India) Ming Shao(China), Tommi Lehtonen (Finland) Andrew Ward(UK),Su-Chen Wu(Taiwan)
Papers from the Conference will be published subject to editorial review in Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies/Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion (Website).
Contact: Chandana Chakrabarti, PhD.
Vice President Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion
