Conference programme available online!

We are pleased to announce that the programme is now available on the conference website.
As well as the timetable of events, there are also links to all the speakers' abstracts.
We advise participants to book the sessions they wish to attend, by downloading and filling in the booking form and sending it to officina.filosofica@yahoo.it.
Those who have booked places will take precedence over others, if spaces for a session are limited.

Introduce yourself to Carloforte

We would like to inform participants that there will be a stand where people attending the conference can display their own material: therefore, if you have written a book, an article or produced a CD connected to philosophical practice, that you would be interested in showing others, there will be the possibility to exhibit and, furthermore, sell this material.
As many of you know, the conference is a non-profit, self-funding event and does not receive independent funding. For this reason, a part of the money from the sales of this material will go towards the costs of running the conference.

Programme indications

The deadline for papers has now passed and the IX ICPP scientific committee is currently working on putting together the final conference programme, which will be published shortly.
In the meantime, we would like to provide participants with some general information about what will happen at Carloforte.
The conference starts on the morning of Wednesday 16^th July, with the official opening ceremony where the mayor and local authorities will be present. This will be followed by some plenary sessions and talks in the afternoon, then by the welcome cocktail in the evening at the Hotel Riviera.
Thursday and Friday are very busy days, full of lectures, workshops, debates, forums, initiatives with local schools, sessions on the beach, philosophical lunches, dinners and cinema. There will also be cocktails and the chance to sample some local traditional Sardinian dishes.
The conference will continue on Saturday morning and will finish in the afternoon, with the certificates of attendance being handed out then. The Gala Dinner will be held Saturday evening.

Among the participants are some of the best known philosopher practitioners from all over the world, as you can see from the list here to the right or from the new conference flyer.

Extension of the deadline for full papers

The deadline for sending in full papers has been extended to the

1^st June 2008.

We would like to remind you that the conference is not a formal academic event, but rather an international meeting of philosophers to discuss their philosophical practice. For this reason, we haven't given any strict guidelines for written contributions.

Accommodation update

We have contacted the conference hotels to ask for an accommodation update and it appears the hotels in the centre of Carloforte are almost all full. If anyone hasn't booked their accommodation yet, we suggest they do so as soon as possible, otherwise they risk not finding any vacancies.

The B&Bs, A ca' du paise and Il Carruggetto are already full, whereas the Hieracon and Riviera hotels still have a few rooms left. There are also places available at the Nichotel in the centre and the hotel Mezzaluna, which is situated outside town.

We would like to remind you that the special accommodation prices for conference participants are valid for booking made before the 15th May, after which the normal hotel price will have to be paid.

Abstracts and next deadlines

The scientific committee is now contacting those whose abstracts have been accepted for the conference. We hope to publish the list of all of these as soon as possible.
The deadline for contributors to send in their full papers is the 10th May.
We would like to remind that the acceptance of an abstract does not automatically enrol its author for the conference: they must complete their registration, if they haven't already done so, before the 30th April 2008. Failure to complete registration before this date means the acceptance of the abstract will be cancelled.
From the 15th April, the conference fee is the following:
250 euros (regular), 180 euros (student), 150 euros (accompanying person).
The deadline for registration is the 15th June. However, we would advise people to register as soon as possible and to book their accommodation, as places in the hotels are already scarse. We will give more information on this in the next post.

Note from the organizing secretary about arrivals/departures from Carloforte.

We would like to remind conference participants that Carloforte is situated on an island off the coast of Sardinia and it takes approximately one and a half hours, including the ferry crossing, to reach Cagliari airport.

For this reason, the organizing secretary has arranged for a shuttle service to be available from Cagliari airport to Carloforte on the 15th/16th July and back on the 20th July. The cost of the shuttle service is included in the conference fee, and it can be used by people and their 'accompanying friends and family', who have registered in advance for the conference. Places on the shuttle service are limited and reserved only for these people.

Anybody who has not registered and paid for the conference in advance, or who is arriving/departing on a date different from those mentioned above, will have to make alternative arrangements for transport, via taxi. There are no direct bus links between Cagliari airport and Carloforte.

We would also like to inform you that the first shuttle service from Carloforte to Cagliari airport on Sunday 20th July will leave at 7am. It will reach the airport at approximately 8.30am. Please take this into consideration when booking your return flight. If you need to leave before then, it is possible to book a taxi beforehand and pay separately. We have listed some private taxi companies on the conference website, in case anyone needs to arrange this.

On arrival at Cagliari airport, two members of the conference organization will accompany participants to the shuttle bus. On arrival at Carloforte, participants will be offered help and assistance, information about hotels, conference venues etc. Participants can then sign in for the conference at the Istituto Nautico, where they will receive the conference pack and conference pass, which allows access to all conference events and evening entertainment. It is not possible to pay for a pass on the spot.

N.B. The organizers will not be able to assist people who are not registered for the conference. They cannot accept payment of the conference fee on the spot, nor can they book taxis.