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UPDATE OVERVIEW

  1. President's message: Sharon Bailin
  2. Puerto Valarta pitch: Michael Katz
  3. Conference News: Daniel Vokey
  4. Elections
  5. Calls for proposals and announcements
  6. New books by PES members

President's message - Sharon Bailin

Don’t let the February blahs get you down! Look ahead to the prospects of an enchanting April and the attractions of our PES meeting in Puerto Vallarta: an exciting program, stimulating exchanges with friends and colleagues (perhaps over a Margarita), a chance to interact with philosophers from Mexico, (and, as a bonus, sun, palm trees, and the enriching atmosphere of this lovely Mexican town). Room rates at the Sheraton Buganvilias are only $97 +17% tax U.S. for single or double occupancy and $150 - $180 for a suite with kitchen sleeping 4. Be sure to book your room soon to secure our group rate.

Now for some good news and some bad news. First the bad news: Seyla Benhabib informed us in November that she no longer feels that she has the time to fulfill her commitment to deliver the Kneller lecture. The good news is that we have a wonderful new Kneller lecturer, Professor Joseph Carens, a political philosopher from the University of Toronto who is currently working on a book on the ethics of immigration (more from Daniel).

I look forward to seeing you all in Puerto Vallarta!

Sharon

Puerto Valarta pitch - Michael Katz TOP

This is a fabulous resort with exceptionally reasonable rates (among the lowest they have ever offered their convention guests according to the Convention and Meeting chair); they are giving us these great rates for three days before and after our reserved dates from April 20-24. It would be a shame
for people who have the time not to have a few days of great vacationing on either side of the conference. There is also an RCI time share right next door to the main Sheraton conference hotel with an equivalent number of rooms (about 500) for those of you with timeshare options--probably a small number of you. Tell your friends and colleagues abroad to come. You will have a ball in Puerta Vallarta--great restaurants, marvelous weather, friendly people.

--Michael Katz, teaching only spring semesters and enjoying places like Mexico as often as I can get
there.

Conference News - Daniel Vokey TOP

We can look forward to an exciting program for our meeting in Puerto Vallarta. Out of 120 submissions the Program Committee and I have selected papers and alternative sessions on topics such as authority, discipline, trust, suspicion, hope, intuition, compassion, and awe. Clearly, we should all expect to leave the meeting more intellectually and morally virtuous. Program highlights include the COSW and COPA panels, the Invited Lecture by Teresa Yurén (professor-researcher at La Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos), the Presidential Address by our own inimitable Sharon Bailin, and the Kneller Lecture by Joseph Carens. Once details have been finalized and respondents/chairs have been confirmed, the program will be available on the PES website.

A few words on our new Kneller lecturer: Joseph Carens is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he arrived in 1987 after five years at Princeton University as Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs. He arrived with no less that three advanced degrees from Yale University: PhD (Political Science), M.Phil (Political Science), and M.Phil (Religious Studies). During his academic career he has published numerous articles and chapters with titles such as “Thinking Normatively about Democracy and Citizenship in Latin America” and “The Problem of Doing Good in a World That Isn’t: Reflections on the Ethical Challenges Facing INGOs”. He has also published four books, the most recent being Culture, Citizenship, and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness (Oxford University Press, 2002), which was awarded the C. B. Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association. He has presented over 60 papers at academic conferences and symposia, including international conferences in Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom. We are delighted that Joseph Carens will be adding Puerto Vallarta to the long list of locations at which he has delivered invited lectures, a list that includes the Centre for Advanced Social Science (Port Harcourt, Nigeria), the Interdisciplinary Institute for Cultural Sciences (Vienna), Institut d'Études Politiques (Paris), Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna), Université Catholique de Louvain, University of Amsterdam, and the University of Westminster (London). Given his work on topics such as the ethics of immigration and the conceptions of justice appropriate to multicultural democratic societies, his background is a perfect fit with our “thinking beyond borders” theme.

My thanks to the members of the Program Committee for all their hard work identifying the best out of many strong submissions. The combination of stellar program and location is not to be missed: I look forward to seeing you all in Puerto Vallarta in April 2006.

    Conference registration. Please do register in advance. If you cannot, drop Sasha Sidorkin an e-mail; say you're coming, so he can make a nice badge for you. And no one will know you are a procrastinator.

    Call for volunteer interpreters. If you speak both English and Spanish, please identify yourself . No need to be fluent, just have an ability to carry on a conversation. You will receive a special sticker on your badge, so people can ask you to help communicating. There is a special check box on the registration form, or just e-mail Sasha.

    Message for new members TOP

    PES traditionally welcomes its new members with special treatment at the conference. Name tag stickers that identify new members will allow officers and others to extend a warm welcome. The Kneller/New Members Reception on Friday evening will enable new members to introduce themselves and make connections. Please plan to attend.

    Message for graduate students TOP

    PES is committed to supporting graduate students in their efforts to attend the annual conference. Thanks to the generous contributions of Society members to our Legacy Fund, we are providing $100 to all graduate students who get a paper accepted on the program. Sorry, this does not yet apply to responses. The checks will be issued at the conference when you check in.

    We will have four subsidized rooms (up to four people in each) for graduate students for $20 a night. Please keep in mind that rooms may only have two beds, so privacy cannot be expected. To reserve a place in the subsidized room, please email Sasha Sidorkin with dates, indicate your gender, and then mail a check for the entire amount (along with your registration form). This fee is non-refundable, and your place will only be guaranteed after the check is received. This is a first come--first served sort of things.

    Book display TOP

    As a reminder, Emery Hyslop-Margison is coordinating the book display in Puerto Vallarta. If you have any special requests, please feel free to email him at ejhyslop@education.concordia.ca. We will also require some volunteers to staff the book display during the conference in return for first choice on a free book. Graduate students are especially invited to fill this role. If you're interested, please email Emery and let him know. The book display will run from 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. on April 21st, 22nd and 23rd.

Elections TOP

The elections of the Executive Board member and COPA member will be conducted on-line. The Elections Committee is finalizing its nominations. As soon as the names are ready, you will receive another e-mail with a link to the voting page, password, and instructions. Those few of you who requested a hard copy of the update will also receive a paper ballot: make sure you vote only once: either on-line or by mail.

Calls for proposals and announcements (See also JOBS) TOP

  • The second annual Graduate Students in Philosophy of Education conference will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 13-14, 2006. We welcome graduate students from North America and around the world to participate in this unique event, following its successful inauguration at Columbia University in New York, April 1-2, 2005. The conference title is "Ethics, Epistemology, and the Educated Political Subject: Exploring the Dimensions of Philosophy of Education". Please consult the GSCOPE web page for further information: www.gscope.org

    We hope to see you in Toronto!
    Graham McDonough and Trevor Norris, Coordinators.

  • The New England Philosophy of Education Society (NEPES) will hold its Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 21st 2006 at Framingham State College in Framingham, Massachusetts. The keynote speaker is Dr. Walter Feinberg who is the Charles D. Hardie Professor of Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Call for Papers for the conference will be distributed in February 2006. Please contact Dr. Kelly Kolodny at 508-626-4567 or kkolodny@frc.mass.edu for information.
  • PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA INC: 35th Annual Conference, University of Sydney, New South Wales. 23 November – 26 November 2006

    Theme: Politics, business and education: The aims of education in the Twenty-First Century

    Members of PESA and other persons interested in presenting a philosophically competent paper on the theme or other topic of philosophical and/or educational interest are invited to forward a copy of the paper to the Conference Convenor Dr. Jim MacKenzie at j.mackenzie@edfac.usyd.edu.au

    Refereed papers for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings should be sent to the Convenor by 30 July. Papers should be 5000 - 6000 words, submitted by email in the style of the Society’s journal, Educational Philosophy and Theory. Submit in Word format for text only papers. For papers containing diagrams, text boxes etc., please submit in PDF format with diagrams embedded
    Working papers should be sent to the Convenor by 30 September for inclusion in the program.

    A philosophy of education workshop for graduate students is proposed prior to the opening of the conference on the evening of 23 November.
    Conference Grants and Subsidies

    A grant of AUDS400 is available for ‘graduate student’ presenters and for retired full members of PESA who have an abstract accepted and a paper approved for presentation. Successful recipients will be notified before the conference.
    Those wishing to combine conferences may wish to go on to Adelaide for the Australian Association for Research in Education conference 27 – 30 November and to Rotorua for NZARE on 5 – 8 December.
    For further information contact the Conference Convenor or the PESA website at www.pesa.org.au

  • Imagination and Education. Opening Doors to Imaginative Education: connecting theory to practice. July 12th. to 15th. Vancouver, B.C. Canada. [http://www.ierg.net/confs/index.php?cf=1]
    This conference will feature presentations from teaching and scholarly communities from around the world. Presentations will focus on our central theme of "opening doors to imaginative education:connecting theory to practice". The keynote session will be an interactive satellite video session with Dr. Howard Gardner.

    Call for papers--closes Feb. 28th. 2006. See web site for details

  • The Canadian Philosophy of Education Society (CPES) will be holding its annual meeting 27th–30th May, in conjunction with the meetings of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), at York University in Toronto. If you are interested, please check the CSSE web site for details of the program and conference arrangements, at www.csse.ca PESers would be most welcome to join in the intellectual stimulation and provocation, all in an atmosphere of support for good scholarship, general collegiality and the occasional Scotch.

    As well, CPES is extremely pleased that our journal, Paideusis, has just been guided into its new online format by its very capable editor, Heesoon Bai, and her team.

    Hope to see you in Toronto! Don Kerr

  • Paideusis: The Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society (CPES) call for papers. Deadline for submissions for the Fall Issue is May 1, 2006.

    Dear Lovers of Wisdom, near and far! As the new editor of Paideusis, I am very excited to write the letter of introduction and invitation on this special occasion that marks Paideusis’ reincarnation from print to online. Published in print since 1987, Paideusis is now re-emerging as an open access journal. As many of you know, Paideusis, highly respected for its rigorous scholarship and original voice, is the official academic journal for the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society. Our move to an online format is intended to increase Paideusis’ readership and increase accessibility of its scholarship to readers throughout Canada and elsewhere, while maintaining its high scholarly standards. The transition from print to online is something of a leap of faith in our quest for viability and sustainability in postmodern academic journal publishing. The new online Paideusis will strive to serve the greater community of philosophically-minded, -oriented and -lensed educational theorists and practitioners in all academic disciplines and fields as well as an informed, interested, and concerned public. My personal hope as the new editor is that the scholarly activities that online Paideusis sponsors will not only regenerate and revitalize Canadian Philosophy of Education but also lead to new horizons of philosophizing. Towards this end, Paideusis aims at a greater cultural, cross-cultural, ecological, and spiritual sensitivity, diversity, and inclusivity, all demanded by the present configuration and trajectory of a complex and troubled, yet creatively enterprising global world.

    Sincerely yours,
    Heesoon Bai, Editor

  • A call for papers to be published in the International Journal of Educology (IJE) is made. For information about IJE see: www.era-usa.net and/or IJEFile@www.msnusers.com
    Send papers by postal mail to: James E. Fisher, Co-Editor, IJE, Columbia, SC 29212 or, send papers by e-mail attachment to: fisher_james@msn.com
    Any standardized research or paper writing form is acceptable. There is no deadline.

New books by PES members TOP

CONTACT: PES Executive Cris Mayo
217-333-3673; cmayo@illinois.edu