International Conference on Ethics and Professional Culture

DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS: March 6, 2011

Upcoming Event, Call for Papers, and Call for Session Proposals

2^nd International Conference on Ethics and Professional Culture, Babeş - Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, 15-16 April, 2011

Meddling with other people's work. Cross-disciplinary approaches on moral conflicts and (mis)communication in organizations

Organizer: Center for Applied Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (Romania) http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro/CFA/

Conveners: Ion Copoeru, Mihaela Frunză, Imre Ungvári-Zrinyi

The 2^nd national conference on Ethics and Professional Culture (EPC2011) will be held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 15-16 April 2011. This highly interactive, cross-disciplinary conference will bring together researchers from a broad area of academic disciplines (philosophy, biology, medicine, journalism, psychology, sociology, social work, law, management etc.) and practitioners to discuss the growing problems posed by the conflict of various professional perspectives and modes of understanding of the professional practices in today's Romania and in the world.

It happened more than once to each of us that our professional activity came to be scrutinized by other professionals or by simple citizens. Also, most probably we have been many times in the position to take a critical look at what other professionals are doing. Ethicists by definition are meddling in other people's work, but also journalists, accountants, counselors, judges, policemen and others. These situations are rarely conceptualized. This conference aims at bringing forth typical cases of interaction and communications and to analyze them focusing especially on the ethical tools and institutions involved, as well as on the ways of bridging different or even contradictory professional perspectives. The conference will provide also excellent opportunities for participants to network with academic and practitioners form various fields.

The conference format will consist of submitted (reviewed) presentations, invited keynotes, and two-hours interactive discussion sessions.

Case studies, panel discussions and multi- and interdisciplinary approaches are highly encouraged.

Languages: Romanian, French, English

The authors of the best papers will be invited to send extended versions of their papers after the conference to the Editor-in-Chiefs of Studia UBB. Philosophia - a journal indexed in international data bases. Extended versions of the papers might be published also in other journals after the conference with additional review.

Deadline for the submissions of abstracts and session proposals: March, 6^th 2011

Contact person: Dr. Ion Copoeru   copoeru@hotmail.com