Confirmed keynote speakers:

• Fabrice Teroni (Université de Genève)
• Irene Borges-Duarte (Universidade de Évora)
• Pierre Leger (Université d’Aix-Marseille)
• Iwona Janicka (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Many thinkers stressed that emotions (at least a significant part of them) do not just happen to us. Since ancient philosophy, there have been many discussions about how there are active components in our emotions: that they are determined by our judgements, by our will or by our choices. There have also been many debates about how one’s culture determines one’s emotions. To a larger extent, this active shaping of emotions is unconscious, but many thinkers explored the possibility of expressly cultivating certain emotions and transforming our emotional life. What we do shapes our emotions. They are at least in part our responsibility. On the other hand, emotions decisively affect the way we think about action and act. This reciprocal relation between action and emotions affects our whole life and it is also decisive for the main crises we face today, such as ecological and climatic disruption, technological perils, social and cultural dissolution, the systemic decay of democratic and geopolitical orders, the erosion of shared truth, the atrophy of sustained attention, global mental health crisis, and so on. The goal of this conference is to discuss how our enacting of emotions contributes to these and other problems we face, as well as how we can cultivate different emotions to help us deal with these problems. 

We welcome contributions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and methodological frameworks, fostering a truly interdisciplinary dialogue on these issues.

Paper proposals should be sent to praxis@ubi.pt by July 1. They should include an abstract (250-350 words) and a brief biographical note about the authors (up to 100 words). We also welcome panel proposals (3 participants per panel, preferably mixed gender). Notifications of acceptance and rejection will be sent by July 15. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes and may be delivered in English, Portuguese or French. Please note that all presentations must be delivered in person, as videoconferencing will not be available.

More information at: https://sites.google.com/view/2ndpraxisconference/home

Call for Papers EN Version

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