Sixth International Philosophy Conference
The Center for Studies in Globalization

Global Conference
Responsibility and Globalization

Conference Location: Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala City

August 8-12, 2005

 1. Responsibility of the intellectual: The responsibility is to maintain the public space that allows every voice
     or view to be represented and to speak for those who cannot speak. This includes global and local intellectuals. 

 2. To maintain the impact of local cultures in terms of globalization: Suggestions for how to facilitate and
      represent local cultures in a globalized world and to explicate how local cultures interact with globalization.

 3. Aesthetic encounter: The aesthetic encounter creates and opens up different sensibilities and perceptual possibilities.
     Suggestions for articulating the interpretive political and moral judgments of aesthetic productions of others.
     What receptivities are to be explored for mutual appreciation of arts.?
     Discussions of the way creative arts may constitute a dual consciousness in terms of globalizing proliferation
    of western arts and how indigenous arts can create resistance to such globalization.

     The discussion of historical and cultural contexts to show how the arts or others ought to be understood,
     preventing the interpretation of arts in terms of aesthetic understanding from the western context.

 4. The responsibility of globalizing economy: What impact do investments have?
     What responsibilities the decision makers have toward others in other parts of the world, toward others,
      toward the environment, and toward the proliferation of American popular culture.
      While American culture might be seen as superficial, it has a forming influence on other cultures.

 5. Responsibility for tolerance: The maintenance of mutual tolerance for other races, genders, and ethnic groups.

 6. What is the public’s responsibility to the intellectual? The intellectual has to be able to communicate:
      what makes this possible and what publics do they have to address? What is the Guatemalan position?

Inquiries, Suggestions, and Submissions contact:

Harry P. Reeder, reeder@uta.edu

Department of Philosophy and Humanities

Box 19527

University of Texas at Arlington

Arlington, Texas 76019

U.S.A.

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