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DARWIN’S IMPACT ON SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND CULTURE A 21st CENTURY REASSESSMENT
200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species
10-12 September 2009 Abstract Deadline: April 30, 2009
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL Faculty of Philosophy Braga – Portugal
The Centre of Philosophical and Humanistic Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy of Braga (Portugal) is organizing an International Congress to celebrate two remarkable anniversaries: the birth of Charles Darwin and the publication of his major work, Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Needless to say, the world changed dramatically after Darwin, and we are still coming to terms with the Darwinian revolution, as well as its impact on virtually every domain of human culture. We will reassess this impact especially on science (Biology, genetics, Artificial Life, Psychology and Linguistics), philosophy (Anthropology, Ethics, Epistemology, Aesthetics), and religion (Christianity, Islam, Budhism, Hinduism and other religious faiths). The reception of Darwinism in the different countries and cultures will also be a major issue that is to be addressed in the Congress.
MAIN AREAS
1. DARWINISM
1.1- Darwin and Evolution 1.2- Origins of Life 1.3- Origins of Species 1.4- Natural Selection 1.5- The Survival of the Fittest 1.6- The Reception of Darwinism 1.7- Neo-Darwinism
2. DARWIN’S IMPACT ON SCIENCE
2.1- Biology 2.2- Psychology 2.3- Genetics 2.4- Linguistics 2.5- Sociology 2.6- Artificial Life
3. DARWIN’S IMPACT ON PHILOSOPHY
3.1- Ethics 3.2- Anthropology 3.3- Epistemology 3.4- Philosophy of Science 3.5- Aesthetics
4. DARWIN’S IMPACT ON ARTS AND HUMANITIES
4.1. Literature 4.2- Art 4.3- Cinema
3. DARWIN’S IMPACT ON RELIGION
4.1- The Evangelical Response 4.2- The Catholic Response 4.3- The Islamic Response 4.4- The Buddhist Response 4.5- The Hindu Response 4.6- Creationism 4.7- Intelligent Design 4.8- On the (in)compatibility of biological evolutionism and religion
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Alfredo Dinis Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy of Braga “Darwin’s impact on science, society and culture”
Ana Leonor Pereira Auxiliary Professor, University of Coimbra “The reception of Darwin in Portugal!”
Augusto Silva Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy of Braga “Evolutionary linguistics”
Eric Charmetant Centre Sèvres, Paris “Darwin and ethics: the history of an early encounter”
Fiorenzo Facchini Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna. “Culture and its philosophical implications in an evolutionary view”
Francisco Ayala Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine “The biological foundations of ethics”
George Coyne Vatican Observatory “Evolution and Intelligent Design: What is science and what is not”
Godehard Bruentrup Hochschule für Philosophie, München “Darwinism and Naturalism - a Perfect Fit?"
Isabel Varanda Auxiliar Professor of the Faculty of Theology of Braga Title to be announced
Ivo Chelo Gulbenkian Institute of Science (Genetics) “Reevaluating the Origin of Species: the genetic constraints of evolution”
Jim Salmon Affiliate Professor of Chemistry and Theology, Loyola in Maryland, USA “Evolution of information”
João José Fraústo da Silva Departament of Chemical Engeneering, Higher Technical Institute, Technical University of Lisbon. “Reevaluating the Origin of Species: the chemical constraints of evolution”
John F. Haught, Senior Fellow, Science & Religion, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University “Darwin challenges to Christianity”
José Miguel Dias Costa Auxiliar Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of Braga Title to be announced “Evolutionary aesthetics”
Manuel Sumares Associate Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of Braga Title to be announced
Michael RuseLucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State University. “The Origin, yesterday, today and tomorrow”
Rodrigo de Sá Nogueira Saraiva Associate Professor of the Faculty of Psychology and Science Education, University of Lisbon – “Evolutionary Psychology”
Roland Cazalis École d’Ingénieurs of Purpan, Toulouse, France “Darwin as a pedagogical principle in the interaction between biological evolutionism and religion”
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Carlos Fernandes, Aveiro University Desiderio Murcho – Federal University of Ouro Preto - Brasil Domingos Terra, Catholic University of Portugal Eleonora Costa, Catholic University of Portugal François Euvé, Centre Sèvres, Paris João Duque, Catholic University of Portugal João Manuel R. de Miranda Justo, University of Lisbon José Henrique Silveira de Brito, Catholic University of Portugal Leandro Sequeiros, Salamanca University Luis Archer, New University of Lisbon Roque Cabral, Catholic University of Portugal
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ana Paula Artur Galvão Helena Palhinha José António Alves José Lobo Miguel Gonçalves Manuela Taveira
REGISTRATION FEES Until August 31:
General Public: € 180 (€ 220 thereafter) Former FacFil students: € 120 (€ 150 thereafter) Graduate students: € 80 (€ 120 thereafter) Undergraduate students: € 50 (€: 80 thereafter).
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION To be considered for a paper presentation at the Congress, please submit all the following items in ENGLISH
The abstract should be as informative as possible:
Singer, P., “Ethics and Sociobiology”, Zygon 19 (1984) 142-151. Moreland, J.P. and J.M. Reynolds, eds. Three Views on Creation and Evolution, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999. Haught, J., God after Darwin, Philadelphia: Westview Press, 2008. Maynard Smith, J. “A Darwinian View of Symbiosis”, in Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and Morphogenesis, ed. L. Margulis and R. Fester, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991: 26-39.
ALL SUBMISSION ELEMENTS MUST BE SENT VIA EMAIL AS ATTACHMENTS written in WORD (NO .pdf files will be accepted). WE CANNOT ACCEPT ANY OF THIS INFORMATION IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL MESSAGE.
As this is an international congress, the official language is ENGLISH. However, there will be some sessions of the congress that will be conducted in PORTUGUESE, SPANISH AND FRENCH. Please submit at least the ABSTRACT in ENGLISH.
LENGTH LIMIT OF FULL PAPERS: 10,000 words (approximately 20 single-spaced 8.5”x11” typed in 12 pt. Arial or Times New Roman font).
READING TIME: approximately 20 minutes, followed by up to 10 minutes of question and answer.
DEADLINE for submitting abstract and biography: APRIL 30, 2009.
DEADLINE FOR NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: MAY 30, 2009.
DEADLINE for completed versions of SELECTED papers: JUNE 30, 2009
FORMAT for papers: Final Papers must be submitted in ELECTRONIC format (WORD).
Please, submit cover sheets, abstracts, bios and (if selected) completed papers via email to darwinpapersbraga@gmail.com
CALL FOR POSTERS
To be considered for a poster presentation at the Congress, please submit all the following items in ENGLISH
The abstract should be as informative as possible:
As this is an international congress, the official language is ENGLISH. However, posters may be presented also in PORTUGUESE, SPANISH AND FRENCH. Please submit at least the ABSTRACT in ENGLISH.
DEADLINE for submitting abstract and biography: APRIL 30, 2009.
DEADLINE FOR NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: MAY 30, 2009.
Please, submit cover sheets, abstracts, bios and (if selected) completed papers via email to darwinpostersbraga@gmail.com
GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING POSTER PRESENTATION FOR THE
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON DARWIN’S IMPACT ON SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND CULTURE. A 21st CENTURY REASSESSMENT (18PT, ARIAL BOLD),
UPPERCASE
1Ayu Rahman, 2Teh Siew Cing, (14pt.) 1Department of Information Technology & Quantitative Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA Pulau Pinang, Malaysia ¬ 11pt. 2 School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia e-mail: 1ayurahman@ppinang.uitm.edu.my, 2tehscing@usm.my
Abstract (14pt., Arial bold)Abstract should be clear and written in 12 pt Arial, between 250 – 300 words.
1. Format (14pt., Arial bold)
The font type used in the content of poster is Arial. The font size is 12 point. The text is presented in 2 columns. Please note that there is a 10 pages upper limit on the length of each poster, in A4 size paper.
1.1 Margin (12pt., Arial bold)
The margin for the general text is 1 inch on the top, bottom, left and right.
1.2 Header
The following header is positioned at 0.5 inch from the top of the first page only. Font size is 8-point, regular.
“International Congress on Darwin’s impact on science, Society and culture (2009)”
2. Content of Poster
The content of the poster should include introduction, summary of literature review, methodology, analysis, discussion, summary and conclusion. References are also to be included.
2.1 Presentation of Poster
The poster should be printed in white A4 paper and laminated. The participants with an accepted poster (only one per participant) should report to the organizing committee of the Congress on the first day of conference. An exhibition area will be assigned to the participants to paste their poster presentation.
VENUE The venue of the conference is the Faculty of Philosophy of Braga (Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga) (http://www.facfil.ucp.pt), located in the center of the town.
Faculty of Philosophy of Braga Praça da Faculdade de Filosofia, 1 4710-297 Braga - Portugal
GEOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Braga is the capital of Minho, the most northern and ancient province of Portugal. Having a history that goes back more than 2,250 years, the city is an important religious, social and cultural center, and is one of the oldest Christian towns, being known as “The Portuguese Rome”. Braga offers a very diversified touristic-cultural program, a civilizable route, provided with documents since the Pre-Historical period to our days. Here we can find the most different and important monumental concentration predominating the Romanic, the Baroque, the Religious Art presented in most of the Churches and Convents, the Civil Art of Palaces and Manor Houses, the "Castros" and Archaeological ruins where the unchangeable secular tranquility remains. The city is 50 km from Oporto and 75 km from the Spanish boarder, and is linked to other European cities via railway (with some shortcomings), highway and Oporto international airport (half an hour from Braga). Click here for a brief historical and geographical note on Braga and Minho.
The Catholic University of Portugal was established in 1967, and has a regional configuration. It was born in the North, extended to Lisbon, where the Rector’s office is located, and continued its expansion to Oporto, Viseu, Figueira da Foz, Leiria and Sintra (in that order) in response to local needs. It has a total of nearly 10,000 students.
The Faculty of Philosophy of Braga was founded by the Jesuits in 1945 and in 1967 it became the first Faculty of the newly created Catholic University of Portugal. It offers undergraduate studies in Philosophy and in Humanities (Portuguese and Classical languages, literatures and cultures). It also offers a first degree that combines Philosophy and Humanities, and another that combines Philosophy and Business Administration. The four main post-graduation areas are Bioethics, Portuguese Literature and Linguistics, Cognitive Sciences and Documental Sciences. There are two main Research Centers: Philosophy (which includes a Cognitive Sciences Group) and Humanities (Linguistics, Portuguese Literature and Classical Studies).
CONTACTS darwinpapersbraga@gmail.com (papers and posters) ocdarwinbraga@gmail.com (organizing committee) infobragadarwin@gmail.com (general information)
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