Bucharest Conference in Applied Ethics '09 [CFP]

BUCHAREST CONFERENCE IN APPLIED ETHICS '09
"Ethics Committees and Other Ethical Tools"
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
October 30-31, 2009


We are delighted to invite you at the 2nd edition of the BUCHAREST CONFERENCE IN APPLIED ETHICS, 2009. The event will be hosted by the Faculty of Bucharest, University of Bucharest, during October 30-31, 2009.

The BCAE has been developed as a debate platform, where theorists and practicians meet together and discuss the most important topics in the fields of Applied Ethics. The main aim of these conferences is the advancement of significant solutions for the real world.

This year topic, "Ethics Committees and Other Ethical Tools", reflects the growing interest in institutionalizing ethics. And though there has been some discussions on the role of ethics committees or on the function of some other ethical tools (especially, ethics training and social audit) -- mainly in the form of academic papers --, we consider that the debate is insufficient and too localized. In practice, the theoretical developments are rarely taken into consideration (e.g., in Southern and Eastern Europe, ethics committees function as 'intuitive' bodies, where decision is influenced more by its members' biases, while the Northern European pattern depends heavily on procedures).

Our aim is to bring into light those aspects that can make the ethics tools really work. The ethics committees and the codes of ethics are not individual tools; so we hope to see them working together in integrated ethics (and compliance) frameworks or management systems.

The conference organizers are looking for papers that consider either the integrative model or individual tools. The later approach may discuss topics such as:

* the ethics committees and their role in developing effective policies;
* codes of ethics: typology, role, structure;
* ethics (and compliance) trainings;
* ethics audit, social audit, CSR reporting;
* ethics (and compliance) policies;
* awareness programs;
* other ethical tools.

Early submissions are highly encouraged. This way, the prospective participants may receive the acceptance letters faster.

Prospective participants must send final papers to the conference organizers by September 10, 2009. All papers will circulate before conference and will be temporarily published on the official website. After the conference, the papers will be published in the BCAE Proceedings.

Official language is English, but there will be a Romanian speaking panel.

All papers must observe the editorial guidelines and must be prepared for blind-review (one Word file containing the title, author's name, and an English 200-words abstract + a separate Word file containing the title, the abstract and the paper).

There is no participation fee.

For general inquiries, all correspondence should be sent to:
bcae /AT/ bcae / DOT/ ro.

The BCAE official website: www.bcae.ro

Cercetarea in Romania

Declaratia unuia dintre membrii echipei de informaticieni SYTECH, care a castigat Imagine Cup de anul acesta, ar trebui sa-i puna pe ganduri pe guvernantii nostri. Din pacate, traim intr-o tara condusa de indivizi care nu vad decat propriul interes si nu vor face nimic pentru welfare-ul general.

Citez declaratia data Evenimentului Zilei:

“O să fim proprii noştri şefi, intenţionăm să dezvoltăm o firmă care să lucreze numai cu guvernele mai multor ţări, să vindem diverse platforme create de noi. Vrem să deschidem o firmă într-un paradis fiscal şi sperăm să fim şi proprii noştri impresari şi manageri. Aici am primit mai mult strângeri de mână, avem câţiva oameni cărora le suntem recunoscători, dar nu cred că vom rămâne în ţară."

Iarasi despre plagiat

Revin dupa ceva timp de absenta doar ca sa semnalez o recenzie la un volum care plagiaza o lucrare de licenta sustinuta la Babes-Bolyai in 2004. Recenzia este semnata de Alexander Baumgarten si a aparut numarul din Mai 2009 al revistei "Dilematica". Aici veti gasi integral recenzia la "Toleranta in filosofia lockeeana", publicata sub egida necunoscutei edituri "Realitatea Romaneasca" in 2006.

Citind comentariul din "Dilematica", nu pot sa nu remarc tripla asociere a autorului cartii incriminate: Stefan Nemecsek, <<master al Facultatii de Filosofie si Jurnalism [de la Universitatea Spiru Haret], doctorand al Institutului de Filosofie si Psihologie "Constantin Radulescu-Motru" [al Academiei Romane], doctorand al Facultatii de Filologie si Istorie a Universitatii "1 Decembrie 1918" din Alba Iulia.>>

Nu vi se pare culmea ca tripla asociere se face numai prin institutii care de-a lungul anilor au atras doar indivizii eliminati pe motive de competenta din universitatile de stat?

My new website is up and ready. You may learn more about my work by visiting

www.cristian-ducu.ro

Cristian Ducu's website

CSR Training / Training RSC

Smart Solutions & Support, Romania, a inceput inscrierile pentru programul de training CSR Workshops '09, dedicat celor interesati de CSR (responsabilitate sociala corporativa). Toti cei care se vor inscrie in luna mai vor beneficia de o reducere de 50% din pretul de catalog pentru seriile din Bucuresti. Intra pe site-ul programului CSR Workshops '09 si afla mai multe detalii.

Smart Solutions & Support, Romania, has begun the registration process for the CSR Workshops '09. This program is dedicated to all those interested in CSR (corporate social responsibility). Those registring for the training in May 2009 will benefit of a 50% discount from the catalog price for the training series taking place in Bucharest, Romania. Visit now the official website of CSR Workshops '09 and learn more about them.

Site-ul oficial / Official website: http://csr-workshops.omnitraining.ro/

Manufacturing Happiness: Investigating Subjectivity, Transformation, and Cultural Capital

CALL FOR PAPERS

Manufacturing Happiness: Investigating Subjectivity, Transformation,
and Cultural Capital

The Graduate Students of George Mason University invite paper proposals
for our 4th Annual Cultural Studies Conference. The Conference will
take place on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at George Mason University
in Fairfax, Virginia.

This conference considers practices, institutions, and products that
promise happiness, in a sense of inducing “the good life,” typically
expressed as self-realization or finding one’s purpose—borrowing
Agamben’s term, subjective technologies that have a specific
relationship to social and political forces. How do practices designed
or claimed for such diverse purposes as personal stress management,
recovering from colonization, parenting, global conglomeration, and
corporate development work? What kinds of transformations do they
bring, in terms of personality, power, and communitas? And what becomes
of the living cultural traditions from which these practices are
abstracted, as in the care of the psychotherapeutic practice of
“western Buddhism,” which Zizek claims is the “hegemonic ideology par
excellance of late capitalism?” From the transmission of packaged
idealisms and practices with a putative relationship to traditional
sources to the commodified transactions for services and goods, the
conference organizers seeks papers that investigate the growing cultural
industries, both global and local, devoted to manufacturing happiness.

The wide-ranging contexts for our investigation include, but are not
limited to: the social positions within the family, home, workplace,
community, or nation-state; geographical and global considerations of
institutional development and affiliation; the political economy of
corporate training models; cultural capital and legitimation; media and
mediation (print, television, DVD, Internet, radio, etc.); religious
connections and origins; the confirmation and construction of
identities (gender, physical, class, spiritual, national, sexual, and
race) in social or political realms; and the rise and intensity of
ecological subjectivities.

Examples:
• Integral Institute, Integral Naked, and Ken Wilber
• est Training
• Shambhala Training
• Eckhardt Tolle and Oprah’s Book Club
• Weight loss and Constructing Beauty
• The “Human Potential” Movement
• The Zen Alarm Clock
• The Secret
• Hollywood Kabballah Centre
• Transpersonal Psychology
• The “Self-Help” Industry
• Magazines such as What Is Enlightenment?

Please e-mail a 500-word abstract of your presentation along with a
short CV to Michael Lecker (mlecker@gmu.edu) no later than June 15,
2009.