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Dear Dr. Morris,
Please find enclosed a paper proposal for the forthcoming conference "Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness". Should you have any difficulties in opening the attachment, kindly let me know.
With kind regards,
Sini Kangas
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Sini Kangas, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
P.O.Box 4
Fabianinkatu 24
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
+358-9-191 23489
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> Dear All:
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> This is a FANTASTIC inter-disciplinary conference, going into its 11th year. I cannot recommend it highly enough!
>
> Stephen
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> 11th Global Conference
> Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
>
> Monday 15th March - Thursday 18th March 2010
> Salzburg, Austria
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> Call for Papers
> This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding evil and human wickedness. Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on issues on or broadly related to any of the following themes:
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> 1. Wrestling with ‘Evil’
> - does the language of ‘evil’ make sense in the 21st Century?
> - what is ‘evil’? What is the concept of ‘evil’?
> - when we use the term ‘evil’ what do we seek to
convey?
> - understanding the language of evil
> - ‘evil’ and other possibilities: morally objectionable; morally wrong; bad; immoral; iniquitous; reprobate; sinful; wrong; depraved; diabolical; heinous; malevolent; wicked
>
> 2. The Nature of Evil
> - the contexts of evil; the ‘meaning’ of evil as context dependent
> - the roots of evil
> - what counts as evil? Evil, Evils. Is there such a thing?
> - the boundaries of evil; the forms of evil; types of evil; instances of evil. Universal evil?
> - the practices of evil
> - taking evil seriously; enjoying evil; satisfying evil
>
> 3. Explanatory Frameworks
> - what are we looking for? The possibility of explanations
> - what is an explanation?
> - what does or should an explanation seek to achieve?
> - is evil capable of explanation?
> - explanation as evil
>
> 4. Understanding
Evil
> - from the perspectives of the disciplines
> indicative examples: anthropology, art, art history, criminology, cultural studies, history, legal studies, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology
>
> - from the perspectives of professions
> indicative examples: accountants, architects, diplomats, doctors, engineers, lawyers, pharmacists, planners, teachers, vets; people working in economics, forensics, medicine, nursing, politics, prison services, psychiatry
>
> - from the perspectives of vocations
> indicative examples: people working in altruistic vocations, professional vocations, voluntary vocations, religious vocations, humanitarian campaigning and activities
>
> - from the perspectives of ngos
> indicative examples: United Nations, international ngo’s, business oriented ngo’s, governmental ngo’s, quango’s, civil society ngo’s; people working with
interest groups, lobbying activities; charity organisations; relief organisations; occupational organisations; not-for-profit networks
>
> 5. Representations of Evil
> - art, art history, visual culture
> - cinema, tv, theatre, radio
> - music; metal
> - media
> - technological and multi-media representations
> - video games and on-line communities
> - subcultural formations and identities
> - fashion and evil
> - gothic subjectivities and Othering
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> 6. Confronting Evil
> - how is it possible to confront evil?
> - can evil be resolved? Should evil be resolved?
> - the work of Truth and Reconciliation commissions; the International Criminal Court; the role of law and local criminal justice procedures
> - the work of international organisations
> - the role of charities
>
> The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of
pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 2nd October 2009. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 5th February 2010. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
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> a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract
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> Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
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> Organising Chairs
>
> Stephen Morris
> Hub Leader (Evil)
> Independent Scholar
> New York, USA
> E-mail:
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> Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
> Hub Leader (Evil)
> School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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> Rob Fisher
> Network Founder and Network Leader
> Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
> Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
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> The conference is part of the ‘At the Interface’ programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
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> All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s) or for inclusion in the Perspectives on Evil journal (relaunching 2010).
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> For further details about the project please visit:
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http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/perspectives-on-evil/>
> For further details about the conference pleaser visit:
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http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/perspectives-on-evil/call-for-papers/>
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