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Upcoming Conferences

Interrogating Trauma: Arts and Media Responses to Collective Suffering

2-4 December 2008

Perth, Western Australia

The humanities have had a long-standing interest in the social and cultural dimensions of human suffering caused by catastrophic events. Contributions made in this area by traditional disciplines such as philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and history have been complemented by the health and human sciences throughout the 20th century. Since the 1980s the degree of attention given by scholars in the humanities to experiences of and responses to such life-shattering events as incest, war, genocide, torture, and terror has increased at a pace described by some as “explosive”. As a result, several interrelated, inter-disciplinary fields, such as trauma, memory, and genocide studies, have emerged to constitute an encompassing, rapidly-evolving, and hyper-productive network of studies. [full announcement]

Website and contacts: http://nass.murdoch.edu.au/nass_conf_fest_trauma.htm

Deadline for proposals was: 31 March 2008

Entrepreneurship and Conflict

20-21 March 2009

INCORE, University of Ulster, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Entrepreneurs are often adversely affected by violent conflict such as civil war. At the same time though entrepreneurs may contribute to or even benefit from violent conflict and other ‘destructive’ and ‘unproductive’ activities that limit economic development. Whatever the direction of causality, entrepreneurs can be found at the heart of all violent conflicts and at the centre of post-war reconstruction and development. Surprisingly, the nature of the relationship between entrepreneurship and violent conflict is relatively neglected in academic research. Therefore, the purpose of this workshop is to deliberate on the nature of entrepreneurship  and conflict, exploring how entrepreneurship should be promoted for the establishment and maintenance of peace, security, and development [...].

Website and contacts: http://www.hicn.org/papers/call_WIDER_INCORE_2009.pdf

Deadline for abstracts: 5 January 2009

War, Virtual War and Security

1-3 May 2009

Budapest, Hungary

Is war an extension of politics by other means? The locomotive of technology? Is it humankind in its most natural state; or is human society - despite perceptions and ongoing conflict around the world today - actually moving toward an aversion to war and a state of peace? This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to provide a challenging forum for the examination and evaluation of the nature, purpose and experience of war, and its impacts on all aspects of security, human security and to communities across the world. Viewing war as a multi-layered, multi-factorial phenomenon, the conference series seeks to explore the historical, legal, social, human, religious, economic, and political contexts of conflicts, and assess the place of art, journalism, literature, music, the media and the internet in representation and interpretation of the experience of warfare [...].
Website and contacts: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net:80/ptb/wvw/wvw6/cfp.html

Deadline for abstracts: 9 January 2009

Violence and the Contexts of Hostility

4-7 May 2009

Budapest, Hungary

This multi- and inter-disciplinary research and publications conference aims to identify and understand violence in contemporary life. The project will pay particular attention to the different contexts and places where violence develops, occurs and where its effects are felt; from the interpersonal to the international, from the empirical to the symbolic. Attention will also focus on uncovering the motives, dynamics and functions that violence has for individuals, groups, populations and societies, as well as for bonds and social relations in the private, institutional and public spheres of life. Exploring and understanding representations of violence in media, art and literature is a key  part of the conference [...].
Website and contacts: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hhv/vcce/vch8/cfp.html
Deadline for abstracts: 9 January 2009

Meetings and lectures on conflict and recovery at the LIPI

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