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	Pain and Death: Politics, Aesthetics and Legalities
	8-10 December 2005
	Canberra, Australia
	
	A conference and associated exhibits and performances, Centre for
	Cross-cultural Research, The Australian National University,
	Convener: Carolyn Strange
	
	The so-called war on terror and its representations have ignited interest
	in pain and death across a wide range of disciplines, including
	criminology, political science, law, history, literature, sociology,
	anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, linguistics, journalism and
	philosophy. At the same time artists working in the visual arts, as well as
	music, poetry, dance, and theatre have taken up the issue of state violence
	with renewed vigour. Fertile dialogue among and between artists, activists and
	scholars is the aim of this gathering.
	
	State-inflicted and state-sanctioned violence involves practices that are
	justified and contested on legal and political grounds. Yet it also raises a
	question of aesthetics: how/can officially-authorized violence be represented? 
	Scholars, artists and activists working on the politics and legalities of
	state violence, and those exploring and producing representations of
	officially-sanctioned pain and death are invited to submit an abstract.
	
	Confirmed Keynote Performers: Owens Wiwa, human rights activist; Javier
	Moscoso, philosopher; Jonathan Lamb, literary scholar
	
	Invited Speakers: Joanna Bourke, Hilary Charlesworth, Betty Churcher,
	Costas Douzinas, Mark Finnane
	
	INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Please submit an abstract of no more
	than 300 words, outlining your proposed topic, your approach, and the
	forms/media in which you intend to present your work. Include a brief
	(two-page) c.v., outlining your affiliation and your key publications,
	exhibits, and/or performances. Send your abstract (preferably in WORD or PDF) to:
	
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	Or mail it to:
	Carolyn Strange,
	Centre for Cross-cultural Research,
	Australian National University,
	Canberra, ACT,
	Australia, 0200
	
	ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 August 2005
	
	FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/conf/painanddeath/