10th International French-German Philosophy Colloquium
10ème colloque philosophique international franco-allemand
10. Internationales Franzoesisch-Deutsches Philosophie-Kolloquium

Sociality and recognition
Socialité et reconnaissance
Sozialitaet und Anerkennung

Evian (Lake Geneva), France
July 18-24, 2004.

Call for papers and Invitation

The goal of the International French-German Philosophy Colloquium is to bring Continental philosophy, and in particular contemporary French philosophy, into dialogue with other philosophical traditions.
The 2004 colloquium will be devoted to the question of sociality. What is sociality? What forces bind a society together wherever social structures develop? The concept of recognition has recently become popular as a basic concept for reconstructing social contexts. It is taken to clarify the mechanism by which social bonds, social fields and socialized subjects are created, it is used to explain the performative production of social cohesion by which modern subjects are constantly involved in the processes of individualizing socialization. For this reason, the colloquium will focus on the question of the constitution of sociality by taking up French, German and English discourses of recognition and asking to what extent sociality can be conceived as constituted in and by structures of recognition. We explicitly welcome submissions that suggest alternatives to and raise questions regarding the usefulness of the concept of recognition as the foundation for explaining sociality.

Call for Papers:
We invite proposals for papers for submission. The final deadline is February 15, 2004. Please send your proposals with a one-page abstract and a short CV to the following e-mail address:
evian@rz.uni-hildesheim.de

A detailed exposition of the topic and all relevant information concerning the character and history of the colloquium as well as matters of accomodation and costs can be found at our trilingual website:
www.uni-hildesheim.de/eviancolloquium/

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Georg W. Bertram, Institut für Philosophie, Universitaet Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 2, D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany

Organizers:
Georg W. Bertram (Hildesheim), Stefan Blank (Berlin), David Lauer (Berlin).
In cooperation with Robin Celikates (Potsdam), Stefan Deines (Gießen), Karen Feldman (Berkeley), Jo-Jo Koo (Pittsburgh), Christophe Laudou (Madrid), Jérôme Lèbre (Paris), Chris Doude van Troostwijk (Strasbourg / Amsterdam)