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Invitation to an International Conference
African
Philosophical and Intellectual Responses to the Development
Crisis in Africa
June 10-14,
2015 Abakaliki,
Nigeria
in cooperation with
Ebonyi
State University
Conference Program
Theme
This conference focuses on evaluating the responses of the
African intelligentsia to the current development crisis in
the continent as well as encouraging reflections on the
recurrent issues in the development crises such as the need
to evolve a viable indigenous development oriented ideology
that would adequately address such issues as identity and
its construction in the context of globalization and
cultural pluralism, determinism, freedom and responsibility,
the individual and the collective, justice in plural,
multi-cultural and international contexts, faith and reason
in the public sphere, etc.
Subthemes
- Classifications of Responses such as: Afro-pessimism;
Re-colonization thesis; Nationalism; Afro-constructivism
- African Theories of Development
- Justice and Development
- Ideology and Development
Freedom and Responsibility
- Ideology, Dterminism and the Mechanisms of Change
- Globalization, Pluralism and the State
- Faith and Reason in the Public Sphere and Development
Application
There is no registration fee. Participants will cover their
own travel costs and hotel.
The application should include:
1) a vita that specifies the applicants educational
background, professional positions and affiliations, and
publications;
2) a letter of intent; and
3) the abstract of the paper by April 1, 2015; full paper by
June 1, 2015.
Please
send all the information to Joseph
C. A. Agbakoba (jcaagbakoba@gmail.com), Jerry
C. Chukwuokolo (jerrychidozie@yahoo.com) and cua-rvp@cua.edu.
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