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I'm passing along this call for papers. The conference is a great, interdisciplinary event. Sorry for overlapping postings.
John Parry University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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5th Global Conference Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
Friday 19th - Wednesday 24th March 2004 Anglo-American College Prague, Czech Republic
Keynote Speaker Professor Samuel Pillsbury Speaking the Language of Evil
Key Workshop Graeme Goldsworthy Evil & Global Demining
Call for Papers (Please cross post where appropriate)
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding evil and human wickedness. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in the fields of anthropology, criminology, cultural studies, legal studies, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology. Perspectives are sought from those working in the caring professions, the media, prison services, politics, psychiatry and other work-related and vocational areas.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes;
+ the concept and language of ‘evil’ and ‘wickedness’ + the nature and sources of evil and human wickedness + moral intuitions about dreadful crimes + psychopathic behaviour - mad or bad? + choice, responsibility, and diminished responsibility + social and cultural reactions to evil and human wickedness + the portrayal of evil and human wickedness in the media and popular culture + suffering in literature and film + individual acts of evil, group violence, holocaust and genocide; obligations of bystanders + terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing; the evils of terrorism, fear of terrorism, international relations especially with regard to the modern nation state, superpower interventionist strategies, post-war reorganisation following the evils of war + the search for meaning and sense in evil and human wickedness + the nature and tasks of theodicy + religious understandings of evil and human wickedness + postmodern approaches to evil and human wickedness + ecocriticism, evil and suffering + evil and the use/abuse of technology; evil in cyberspace
Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 12th December 2003. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 13th February 2004.
The conference is part of a larger series of ongoing conferences, run under the general banner ‘At the Interface’. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
Six themed volumes have and are in the process of being published. All papers selected for and presented at this conference will be published in an ISBN eBook; selected papers accepted for and presented at this conference will also be published in a themed volume.
Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to Dr Rob Fisher - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - they may be in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format.
For information about the project generally please go to http://www.wickedness.net/pehw.htm
Further details about the conference can be found at http://www.wickednessnet/evil/evil5/pehw5.htm |
