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2009 CHCI Annual Meeting: Dialogues of Enlightenment The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland June 11-13, 2009 Much of the interdisciplinary research conducted in humanities centres and institutes is advanced through the lively exchange of ideas, including formal and informal conversations in which views are formed, evidence is tested, and conclusions are modified. At their best, these conversations become dialogues. In both European and other traditions dialogue has been a key mechanism for generating inquiry, leading to enlightenment across many fields of human endeavour. Dialogue allows the present to confront the past and the past to confront the present. As a genre in its own right, it is important for detailed study. The resources of Edinburgh and the history of IASH make this theme particularly appropriate for a CHCI meeting. ‘Dialogues of Enlightenment’ will however have a thoroughly contemporary focus: local facilities and historic sites will come into active relation with the conference through involvement with non-academic partners and historic and current venues of Enlightenment. Together we shall engage in interrogating locality and mobility; intellectual, religious, verbal and imaginative exchange; communication and misunderstanding across space and time; lines of servitude, oppression and emancipation; and the possibilities and limitations of knowledge generated through dialogue. Some panels will take the form of actual dialogues focusing on polarities in conversation; others will consider dialogue as a theoretical and generic concept of Enlightenment, in the work of Hume and Kant, for example. Panels will feature pairs of speakers reflecting the diversity of dialogues among disciplines – science, religion, philosophy, politics, and music; other sessions will be devoted to dialogues between East and West, and to contemporaneous conversations with the past. Music – in performance and in academic dialogue – will be a significant feature of the conference. In a new departure for CHCI, one session will take the form of a group conversation about a particular text. We shall use Hume’s Dialogues on Natural Religion, to address the idea of dialogue, the possibility of cultural difference, and questions of belief. We ask that all attendees familiarize themselves with the Hume text in the Penguin edition. Click here for information on previous CHCI Annual Meetings Host and Venues The 2008 CHCI Annual Meeting is generously hosted by and organized with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities was established in 1969 to promote interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh. It seeks to bring about collegial dialogue and to further collaborative research by maintaining a number of Fellowship schemes, by conducting regular programs of Seminars, and by developing overarching Research Themes around which interactions with the local research community are structured. Visit the Institute's CHCI Directory entry here. The meeting will take place at various venues in and around the University. Our hosts are also compiling a set of optional group exursions in Edinburgh. Registration The registration fee is $75 for each CHCI member organization. For this fee, each organization may send any number of affiliated personnel (ie., the Director and Associate Director may attend for a single registration fee). Registration fees offset the direct costs of the meeting. Registration information will be posted in late November 2008. Provisional Program This Information is Subject to Change (Updated November 12, 2008) Thursday, 11 June 2009
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Saturday, 13 June 2009
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