Do you have an idea for an article engaging various streams of process thinking or dealing with some of the major topic areas of Center for Process Studies (ecological civilization, deep religious pluralism, religion & science, philosophy of psychedelics, cosmology, transdisciplinary research, etc.)? We’d love to hear your proposals!
John Cobb delivered a plenary speech which set the tone for the EcoForum. After reviewing the development of the concept of Ecological Civilization, which was presented as a vital concern for both China and USA, Professor Cobb dedicated this 17th EcoForum—and the first to convene in-person since the pandemic—as an occasion to launch an energetic new trans-Pacific dialogue between these two great nations.
Here’s what the Center for Process Studies China Project and the Institute for Postmodern Development of China have coming up this summer!
The intention behind the organization of this conference is to give scholars interested in the idealist aspects of Whitehead’s philosophy the opportunity to discuss and assess the relevance of the various strands of the idealist tradition to Whitehead’s metaphysics and to process metaphysics generally, as well as the relevance of process-relational philosophy to present day anti-materialist explorations in general metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) Program in Religious Studies supports promising PhD students or recent graduates (within 1 year of graduating with PhD and in an teaching or independent research position of some kind) to pursue targeted scholarship in Process-relational philosophy in substantive dialog with any aspect of South Asian traditions and praxis. Projects that engage the Jain tradition are particularly welcome.
The 17th International Forum on Ecological Civilization and 6th International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization are seeking papers. Please submit a 500-word abstract in English outlining your ideas. The deadline for abstract submission is May 10th, 2024.
Metaphysics and the Matter with Things was a well spring of humanity. Anchored by the work of psychiatrist and literary scholar Dr. Iain McGilchrist, the conference took its namesake from his recently published two volume set, The Matter with Things. McGilchrist’s masterwork presents a compelling case for what he terms “the hemisphere hypothesis” by demonstrating with exhaustive evidence the phenomenological distinctions between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
Joseph A. Bracken, S. J. (March 22, 1930 – April 13, 2024), was a distinguished figure in the world of theology and philosophy and a significant and beloved figure in the process community. His life and career have been marked by a profound commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and the synthesis of complex ideas, carefully negotiating faithfulness to tradition and the novelties of our contemporary situation.
Experts from every discipline interested in exploring the many complex social and ethical questions
raised by space exploration and the search for life on other planets are invited to attend the first joint
meeting of the European Astrobiology Institute and the Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology.
The Journal of Consciousness Studies plans to publish a special issue to mark the fortieth anniversary of David Bohm’s Wholeness and the Implicate Order.
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