Meaning, Morality, and Culture - AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

June 23-24, 2012

Hawaii, USA

University of Hawaii System

Leeward Community College Campus

Abstract: 150 words
Deadline: March 31st, 2012
Email to chandanachak@gmail.com
Date of proposal acceptance: Week after the proposal is submitted


Subtopics:

Cognitive Meaning, Emotive Meaning, Suggestive Meaning, Myth and Metaphor, Meaning as Universal, Meaning as Form, Universal and Particular, Structure and Identity, Personal Identity, Reductionist view, Ethnic Identity and Culture, Society, Culture and Consumption, Politicizing Consumer Society and Culture, Social Identification, Dynamics of Group Culture, Ethnic Boundaries, Constructing and Deconstructing Ethnic Identity, Evolution of Society, Encountering Different Cultures, Indian Civilization and Society, Society and Effect of Colonization, Art, Media and Society, Art and Culture, Morality and Society, Rules of conduct, Taoist view on Morality, Enlightened Anarchy, Values in Confucius Ethics, Perfectionist and Situational Ethics, Spirituality and Modern age, Humanism and Positivism, Reductionist Approach to Moral Responsibility, Ethnic Identity and Culture, Human Nature and Human Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Society, Culture and Consumption, Politicizing Consumer Culture Archaeological Approaches to Society, Social Identification, Dynamics of Group Culture, Ethnic Boundaries, Constructing and Deconstructing Ethnic Identity, Evolution of Society, Asian Society and Culture, Cultural shock, Civilization and Effect of Colonization in Social Structure, Cultural Transformation, Role of Culture and Religion, Cultural Meaning, Buddhism and Post modernity: Buddhist Ethics, Buddhism and Philosophy of Deconstruction, Ethics of Modernity, Global Ethics and Politics, etc.

Advisory Board Members: Laura M. Amrhein(USA),Kisor Chakrabarti (USA), Linda B. Elder(USA), Gordon Haist(USA), Robin Kar(USA) Elizabeth Koldzak(Poland), Maria Marczewska(Poland), JoAnne Myers(USA)Eve Mullen(USA), Ming Shao(China), Nancy Snow(USA),Tommi Lehtonen(Finland) Andrew Ward(UK).

Director: Chandana Chakrabarti

Papers from the Conference will be published subject to editorial review (Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies/Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion).
http://legacy.lclark.edu/~sipr/SIPR2.html

Contact:
Chandana Chakrabarti, Ph.D.
Dean of International students
Director of the Center for Spirituality, Ethics and Global Awareness
Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia