[ecrea] on violence - conference

Conference deadline extended - June 15

RE-THINKING HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2013 (ON VIOLENCE), September 
5-7, Zadar
Call for Papers
On Violence
The financial crisis, the terrorist threat, natural disasters (such as 
the earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy) or immigration policies are just some 
of global issues where some of the new practices of social regulation 
can be detected. One of the important elements of the new ways in which 
societies experience this new regulation is ambivalent relation to 
violence. Although violence is often conceptualized as a non-human 
condition, coming from the collapse of the symbolic order, it is, 
however, precisely the symbolic order that organizes and structures 
violence. On the other hand, it is often allocated to the other thus 
promoting a new geopolitical map that now, in the post Cold War world, 
draws borders between us and them (violent Islamists, tribal Balkans, 
threatening Chinese). The case of Breivik showed that detecting the 
object of violence and performing a violent act can never be outside of 
symbolic but precisely in its core.
This raises questions such as: What is violence today? Who is the agent 
of violence? How is violence performed? In what way is violence 
(dis)approved? Can violence be outsourced? Are the military and the 
police as traditional agents of social regulation of violence regulated 
in a new way? Who are the victims of violence? Can victims reflect their 
condition? Are societies and individuals dealing with the new kind of 
traumas? Are there new social interpretations of the violent events in 
their past? What is a new relationship between different religions and 
violence? Are the new social movements appearing throughout the world 
(Occupy, Pirate Parties International, the Invisible Committee, Arab 
Spring Movement) offering a new way of resistance to new regulation?
At this conference we would like to focus on (1) the ways in which 
violence is conceived and perceived within different contexts, (2) the 
ways in which literature, film, performance, and other forms of art 
relate to and incorporate contemporary outbursts of violence, (3) the 
new ways in which this process can be theorized in the field of 
humanities and social sciences, and finally (4) the ways in which this 
type of violence changes cultural politics of diversity in societies.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
• Violence in literature, film and art
• Life after violence
• Experience of structural violence
• Historical approach to violence – its same morphology but different 
mechanisms
• New conceptualization of violence in the humanities
• Gender specific violence and its cultural background, race, disability
• Agents of structural violence and their opponents (including 
humanities and social sciences)
• Social construction of memories of violence
• Violence in/and popular culture

Keynote Speakers
Mark Devenney leads the Humanities Programme degrees at the University 
of Brighton. His main research interests lie in contemporary Political 
Philosophy, with research expertise on Critical Theory (Adorno and 
Habermas) and contemporary Continental philosophy (notably Agamben, 
Hardt and Negri, Laclau, Ranciere, Derrida, Zizek and Badiou.) He uses 
this theoretical work to research different ways of valuing life, in a 
research project that focuses on the uses and abuses of human bodies 
(torture, patening, suicide bombing, genetic engineering and the ethics 
of life/death decisions).
Fred Botting is a Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing 
at Kingston University, London (UK). He has taught English Literature, 
Critical Theory, Film and Cultural Studies at the Universities of 
Lancaster, Keele and Cardiff. He has written extensively on Gothic 
fictions as well as on theory, film and cultural forms. His current 
research projects include work on fiction and film dealing with figures 
of horror and on spectrality, the uncanny and sexuality.

Abstracts
Abstracts are invited from scholars from different fields and 
disciplines of humanities and social sciences for individual papers 
(15-20 minutes including discussion time).
Please submit your abstracts (no more than 300 words in length) 
electronically using Abstract Submission Form available at 
www.rhss-conference.com by June 15 2013. Selected conference papers will 
be published.
Abstracts should be in Word or RTF formats and include the following:
a) name of author(s),
b) affiliation,
c) e-mail address,
d) title of abstract,
e) keywords + body of abstract
Please use the plain text (Times New Roman 12, single spacing, 
justified) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or 
emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt 
and reply to all proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from 
us within a week from your submission, you should assume we did not 
receive your proposal; in that case we suggest trying an alternative 
electronic route or resending.
The conference language is English.
Conference Fees
Early Bird (by June 30): 90 Euros
Registration (by July 31): 120 Euros
Late Registration (upon arrival or during August and September): 140 Euros
Registration
Registration will be completed upon your arrival at the University of 
Zadar. Upon registration the participants will receive a welcome package 
as well as their credentials and certificate for presenting the paper.

Dates
Proposal submission deadline is June 15, 2013.
Final conference announcement and program will be published on August 
15, 2013 on the conference website (http://www.rhss-conference.com).
Duration of conference: September 5-7, 2013
Additional Information
The conference will take place at the University of Zadar, Croatia 
(www.unizd.hr).
Additional information about travel arrangements, accommodation and 
other practical details will be posted soon on the conference website 
(http://www.rhss-conference.com) or you can contact the organizers 
directly at (rhss.conference /at/ gmail.com)
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