FINAL NOTICE The Community of Philosophical Thinkers

in conjunction with the

Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

is pleased to announce our

5th Annual Student Philosophy Conference

taking place on

March 23rd, 2013

Papers are now being accepted for undergraduate as well as graduate presentations on any topic in philosophy. Keynote speaker Dr. Robin James, presenting a new lecture: Just Ludacris Enough: sophrosyne, neoliberalism, & EDM-pop:
Philosophers have noted similarities between ancient Greek and neoliberal political theories. For example, Rancire argues that the neoliberal state is the perfect realization of the empty virtue Plato called sophrusune (Disagreement, 106). Because both ancient Greeks and neoliberals organize society harmonically, this comparison is, to a certain extent, a valid one. However, they each understand harmony differently: for the ancient Greeks, harmony is measured geometrically; for the neoliberals, harmony is measured acoustically. In this presentation, I flesh out the differences between ancient Greek and neoliberal concepts of harmony, and use a reading of Ludacriss 2012 single/video Rest of My Life to translate between neoliberal concepts of harmony and neoliberal political practices and ideals.

Submissions Should be no more than 3000-4000 words (approx. 10-15 pages in length). Students submitting papers should be prepared to give a 20 to 30 minute presentation on their work. Papers are to be submitted in Word format (.doc or .docx) with the document title the same as the title of the paper, and prepared for blind review. Students should include a cover sheet with their full name, the title of their paper, their institutional affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address and phone number.

Deadline The electronic submission deadline is February 20th, 2013. Submission guidelines Submissions are to be sent, electronically only, to coptconference@uncc.edu with an accompanying abstract of 100-200 words.

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Students will be notified of acceptance in early March. The conference schedule will subsequently be finalized by March 12th, 2013. Please send any additional questions about the conference or submissions to Emil Karim at ekkarim@uncc.edu. Also, follow the Community of Philosophical Thinkers on Facebook and on Twitter for updated information on the conference and other club news.

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More on Dr. James:
Robin James is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at UNC Charlotte, where she is also affiliated with the Womens and Gender Studies Program and the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics. Jamess theoretical and creative research bridges philosophy, gender/sexuality studies, critical race theory, musicology, popular music studies, and sound studies. Her writing has appeared in venues such as The New Inquiry, Hypatia, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Contemporary Aesthetics, PhaenEx, Philosophy Compass, and the anthology Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy. Her book The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music was published in 2010 by Lexington Books. Her creative research uses music, sound art, and digital technology to examine the role of sound in contemporary forms of knowledge, value, pleasure, embodiment, and capital. She blogs about all of this at its-her-factory.blogspot.com.