CALL. 15.02.2016: The Fragments of Aristotle's Lost Works - Lisboa (Portugal)
At the initiative of the Centre for Historical Ontology (Heidelberg – Helsinki – Leuven) in collaboration with the Universities and Research Institutes involved, and as a celebration of Aristotle’s 2400th anniversary, a set of interlinked conferences under the name Aristotle Today: International Multiple Congress will take place throughout 2016 in several European and North-American cities, namely the following: Athens, Córdoba, Heidelberg, Helsinki, Leuven, Lisbon, Moscow, Notre Dame (Indiana), Padua and Paris.
Each conference will approach a specific aspect of Aristotle’s thought. The conference to be held in the University of Lisbon will focus on the fragments of Aristotle’s lost works and will take place on July 6th and 7th 2016.
FECHA LÍMITE/DEADLINE/SCADENZA: 15.02.2016
FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 06-07/07/2016
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: The meeting is organised by the History of Philosophy Group of the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (HPhil) and the Project of the Annotated Translation of the Complete Works of Aristotle (PTDC/MHC-FIL/0787/2014).
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We welcome all proposals which address any topic within the scope of the conference. The presentations should have the maximum duration of 30 minutes and must be delivered in English. Exceptionally, presentations can be made in other languages, but in that case a written version in English must be supplied. Considering that there will be no parallel sessions and no more than 14 contributed papers can be accepted, we anticipate a highly competitive submission process. Proposals will be evaluated on relevance, quality, originality, and importance to the research field. The final decision on the accepted proposals will also contemplate that a welcome variety of subjects is represented in the conference program.
Submission of proposals
Whoever wishes to submit a proposal must send an abstract with the length and format stated below until the 15th February 2016. The abstracts will be evaluated through a blind referee process by the Scientific Committee, which will announce the accepted proposals by the 1st April 2016. After this date, the authors of the approved proposals must send their papers complying with the guidelines put forward below no later than 31st May 2016. All mail related to the symposium must be sent to the following email address exclusively: aristotletodaylisbon@gmail.com.
Guidelines for the submission of abstracts
Until 15th February 2016, a Word document must be sent to aristotletodaylisbon @gmail.com, with the following information: 1st page: title of the paper; abstract in English with circa 500 words; up to 6 keywords. 2nd page: name; email address; institutional affiliation; short biographical note (100 words).
Guidelines for the submission of papers
By the 31st May 2016, a Word document must be sent with the following format: English; no more than 10,000 words, including footnotes and bibliographical references; line spacing 1.5; Times New Roman 12 font; all special characters in Unicode. All remaining formatting criteria will be communicated at the appropriate time.