The Society of Adventist Philosophers is inviting submissions for papers and panels to be presented at its annual symposium. The title of the November 21, 2013, conference will be: Essentialism: Adventism and Questions of Race and Gender.
The keynote speaker this year is George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University and the editor of the book Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do?
The society invites presenters to submit abstracts or papers that address the metaphysics of race and/or gender and its epistemological and ethical implications. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, addressing Adventism and its relation to:
- Essentialism
- Constructivism
- Questions of racial/gender identity
- Phenomenological and existentialist accounts of race/gender
- Hermeneutics and race/gender
- Racism
- Sexism
- Feminism
Find out more here.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://spectrummagazine.org/node/5273