CALL FOR PAPERS

The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
1 Ivy Pointe Way, Hanover, New Hampshire  03755, United States, Telephone: (802) 295-3487; Fax: (802) 295-5963;
Website:  http://www.phenomenology.org
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, President; Marlies Kronegger, Vice-President        

The Fifty-Seventh International Phenomenology Congress
***   Under The Tree of Life   ***

Organized by:  The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, its centers and affiliated societies

Hosted by:        Istanbul Kultur University

Topic:              MEMORY IN THE ONTOPOIESIS OF LIFE - An interdisciplinary investigation -

Location:          Istanbul, Turkey
Date:                June 18 – 22, 2007

Program Director:  Professor Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, World Phenomenology Institute, 1 Ivy Pointe Way, Hanover, New Hampshire  03755, United States, Fax: 802-295-5963

Papers are invited for the following topics and sessions:
A)  Memory in the Self-Individualizing Logos of Life:  Life and non-life; Memory and the differentiation of the ontopoietic spheres of sense: organic, vital, sharing-in-life; Communication (reference to the fields of biology, biochemistry, genetics, anthropology, sociology, history, etc.) 
B)  Memory in the Primal Functioning of Consciousness:  Memory as the operational factor of association and continuity in the origin and course of experience; Memory in Imaginatio Creatrix; The thread of memory in deliberation and the continuity of the creative process
C)  Memory as Remembrance:  Retrieving “traces” of the past: origins, becoming, coincidences, reasons (origins of tradition, culture, history)
D)  Memory and the Temporalizing/Spacing Axis Constitutive of Reality:  Memory as projecting the associative links between the traces of the past and expectations of the future; Memory in selection, planning and the human titanic effort to accomplish; Fabulation of the “facts” and sense of history
            This Conference proposes a new research into the functioning of memory in the ontopoietic logos of life. 
            (Consult the volumes of Analecta Husserliana devoted especially to life, Volume 50 and thereafter.)

- Abstracts due: April 1, 2007; Full papers due: May 15, 2007.  Please send abstracts and papers to Professor Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Program Director, World Phenomenology Institute, 1 Ivy Pointe Way, Hanover, New Hampshire  03755, USA, Fax: 802-295-5963. 

Local Organization Committee:  Erkut Sezgin - Chairman, Hikmet Çağlar, Gürsel Hacıbekiroğlu, Esra Fidanoğlu (İst. Kültür Üniv.); Semiha Akıncı (Anadolu Üniv.) Halil Turhan, Ayhan Sol, Ahmet İnam (ODTÜ); Doğan Özlem (Muğla Üniv.);  Semra Aydınlı (İTÜ); Betül Çotuksöken (Maltepe Üniv.); Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, ex. ufficio (World Phenomenology Institute)

- Registration:  The fee for registration: Before May 1, 2007: US $150.00; After May 1, 2007: US $250.00.  Please mail registration fee to: Jeffrey Hurlburt, Secretary, World Phenomenology Institute, 1 Ivy Pointe Way, Hanover, New Hampshire  03755, USA.  Make check payable to “World Phenomenology Institute”.  Registration fee is to be remitted either by a check on an American bank (with magnetic numbers) or by an international postal order.
-The first 30 participants to register and pay their registration fee will enjoy the hospitality of the University with free lodgings. 
- For further details about the topics and other information, please watch our website (http://www.phenomenology.org)
- The opening of the Conference: June 17, in the afternoon. 
- In the afternoon of June 19, a sightseeing visit of the city is planned; An excursion on the Bosphorus is planned on June 22
- Meals in Istanbul cost 4 – 5 euros. 
- For all information, contact Mr. Jeffrey Hurlburt, World Phenomenology Institute, at the address above

Papers submitted are copyrighted for the first option of publication in Analecta Husserliana (Springer Science & Business Media B.V.).