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What are we talking about when we speak about making philosophy more inclusive?

Due to the fact that I work in an underrepresented area of philosophy (Indian philosophy, even worse: Pūrva Mīmāṃsā) and I am a woman, I am more than interested in the general topic of “making philosophy more inclusive“. But what do we really mean by this slogan?
We might mean:

  1. Including more people from underrepresented groups (women, transsexuals, disabled people, black people, ethnic, political and religious minorities…)
  2. Including more people working on underrepresented topics (e.g., feminist philosophy, (critical) race-theory, philosophy of disability, Africana philosophy…)

At the link above you can read my thoughts on this topic.

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American Academy of Religion

The deadline for submissions for this year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego is Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:00 pm EST. The Program Administration Proposal, Evaluation, Review, and Submission (PAPERS) System, the AAR’s online proposal submission system, is open for your proposal! The AAR Meeting will be held November 22-25, 2014.

The Yogācāra Buddhism Group invites proposals on the following:

Call for Papers:

In light of the success and excitement that our text-discussion format has received in recent years, the following candidates for the upcoming AAR were proposed:

• The “Tattvārtha” chapter of the Bodhisattvabhūmi
• A chapter of the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra, e.g., Paramārthasamudgata
• A short text or significant passage from any text related to Yogācāra

Panel and Paper topics:

• Tantric Appropriations of Yogācāra (for a possible cosponsored session with the Tantric Studies Group)
• The body in Yogācāra (can include medicine)
• Intersubjectivity
• Yogācāra and cognitive science
• Yogācāra and phenomenology
• Modern Yogācāra revivals

Additional topics welcome.

Ready to submit your proposal? Go to the MyProposal page to get started.

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Anthropology means critical scrutiny—an interview with Stephan Kloos

I should have met Stephan Kloos because we both work at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, but in fact we met at a common friend’s party and only later realised we had seen each other quite often before in the Academy. After that, I started having a look at his work. Departing from his wonderful website, all his work is dedicated to the anthropology of Tibetan medicine, especially of Tibetan medicine in exile. Kloos 2013, for instance, investigates on how it ended up being recognised, in India, in the West and in the Tibetan community as a “medical system” and how this concept involves a strategy and the self-construction of a new “Tibetan” identity —once the Tibetan identity could no longer be determined on a geographical basis— as related to Buddhist ethics, i.e., to one’s altruistic attitude towards the others.