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Call for Papers "Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Slaveries and Freedoms Today" A Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807 EnterText: An interactive interdisciplinary e-journal for cultural and historical studies and creative work Volume 7, Number 2 (2007) __________________________________________________ Academic papers and creative submissions are invited for this special issue to mark the two-hundredth anniversary in 2007 of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Forms of slavery, quasi-slavery and the abuse or exploitation of one group by another remain widespread in the world today. Questions which might be addressed include: - Slavery, bondage and related un-freedoms around the world: their origins, social organisation, and cultures of validation - Identity formation and the Other: who needs outcastes? - Money and mastery - Intervention or reform: at local, national and international levels - Diverse definitions of individual and collective rights and responsibilities - Philosophy and practice in international law - The past and future roles of the United Nations - Violence as political tool - Media representation and power: news from nowhere? - Language and licence - Circumventing censorship - The cultural conundrum: can art represent abuse without abusing? - Works that have made a difference Submissions are invited by 1 March 2007. Related creative submissions in any medium suitable for electronic publication are also invited. EnterText is a free-access peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published by http://www.brunel.ac.uk/entertext/ where advice on submissions is also available. Contact: EnterText Faculty of Arts Brunel University Uxbridge, UB8 3PH UK Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/entertext/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
