Call for papers

Engaging the Contemporary 2022: Confronting Ethics

17-18 November 2022, University of Malta (Valletta Campus)

Keynote: Sophie Loidolt, Technical University of Darmstadt

 Engaging the Contemporary (EtC) 2022, is the seventh edition of a series of an annual international  conferences organised by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Malta, with the aim of promoting an interdisciplinary approach to a variety of current  philosophical debates. This year's theme -Confronting Ethics seeks to examine and bring into discussion recent engagement with the history of ethics as well as present day ethical theories and practises as confronted by contemporary philosophers.

The aim of the conferences is to bring together various philosophical traditions into a conversation that furthers our understanding of the ethical perplexities that beset contemporary times. We invite contributions on the following themes:

Contemporary Engagements with the History of Ethics

  • Neo- Aristotelian and Virtue Ethics
  • Ethics of Happiness, Joy and Wellbeing
  • Contemporary Approaches to Hellenistic Ethics
  • Ethics, Therapy and Philosophy as a Way of Life
  • Ethics, Reason and the Passions
  • Ethics and Moral Philosophy
  • Ethics and Natural Law Theory
  • Neo-Kantian Ethics and Contemporary Deontology
  • Contemporary Utilitarian Ethics

Contemporary Ethical Theories and Languages

  • Ethics and Postmodernity
  • Post-structuralist Ethics
  • Ethics of Alterity and Immanence
  • Ethics and Phenomenology
  • Ethics of Affect, Touch, Sight and Embodiment
  • Ethics of Vulnerability
  • Relational and Care Ethics
  • Ethics and Spirituality
  • Feminist and Queer Ethics
  • Ethics and Psychoanalysis
  • Ethics and/of the Self
  • Ethics and Critical Theory
  • Ethics and Atheism

Contemporary Applied Ethical Issues

  • Ethics of Health Care and Medicine
  • Business Ethics and Economics
  • Ethics and Education
  • Technology, AI and Blockchain
  • Ethics and the (Post-) Human
  • Ethics of Suffering and Pain, Life and Death
  • Ethics, Biopolotics and Law
  • Ethics, Borders and Migration
  • Political and Public Ethics
  • Ethics, Psychology and Emotions
  • Ethics and Disability Studies
  • Ethics of Sustainability, Climate Change, the Anthropocene and the Environment

Interested participants are to submit a 500- word abstract and a short biographical note through the website by 21st May 2022 midnight CET. Decisions will be communicated by 31st May 2022 midnight CET. Click here to submit abstract and biographical note 

Presentations are to be in English and no longer than 20 minutes.

For more information, visit: www.um.edu.mt/events/etc2022 

For enquiries kindly send an email here


https://www.um.edu.mt/event/etc2022/callforpapers