[ecrea] CFP: Tutu Centre Conference on "Representing Peace and Conflict"

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies
Annual Conference 2015

13 - 15 July 2016

“Representing Peace and Conflict”

KEYNOTE: TBC


CALL FOR PAPERS

Representing plays a key role in contexts of peace and conflict. 
Representing may determine how peace and conflict are created, 
understood, remembered and encountered. Peace and conflict dynamics can 
be seen as facilitated or mitigated as a consequence of representation. 
Several aspects of representing are important: How peace and conflict is 
represented through the media as well as statements by public officials 
and other social forces is crucial for public opinion formation. How 
peace and conflict is represented through literary texts and other 
artistic forms is equally significant for public understanding and 
remembrance. The potential of representing is indeed manifold, ranging 
from the construction of news media and film representations, statements 
by official spokespersons and public bodies to literary accounts of 
peace and conflict as well as representations in artworks and 
exhibitions. Together, these aspects of representing impact on public 
knowledge, understanding and political participation.

This conference aims to examine the diverse contexts of representing in 
relation to peace and conflict. A key theme will be the examination of 
the role of representing in terms of how conflict and peace are 
discussed, negotiated, formed, understood and remembered.

This will involve experts from a range of fields, and we welcome 
contributions from researchers and practitioners in the areas of 
International Relations, Media and Communication, Film Studies, Drama 
and Theatre, History, Literature, Journalism, Sociology, Anthropology, 
Art History and Peace Studies. Equally we would like to include experts 
whose primary fields might be in other disciplines. The conference is 
open to those from disciplines such as Geography, Economics, Politics, 
Cultural Studies, Public Relations, Theology, Religious Studies and 
Philosophy.

Among the themes that could be considered are:

•	Assessments of representations of peace and conflict in news, online 
media, film, literature and other genres.
•	Representing and public officials, PR and organised persuasive activities.
•	The role of the ‘representative’ of peace and conflict: Who are the 
representatives of conflict, peace and transitions between them? Must 
the representatives of conflict and peace be formally designated as 
such? What role do they play within these processes?
•	The role of representing in peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
•	Theoretical and/or methodological approaches to the role of 
representing in peace and conflict.
•	Analysis of competing representations in specific conflict situations 
past and present as well as in non-fictional or fictional accounts.
•	Analysis of alternative representations which challenge or have 
challenged dominant representations in specific conflict and peace 
situations.
•	Analysis of the news and online media’s role in constructing 
representations about peace and conflict and how this relates to public 
understanding and participation.
•	Analysis of representations in poetry, film, media and the arts which 
have contributed to peace and conflict.
•	Personal narratives of peace and conflict.
•	Analysis of the role that religious representations play in conflict 
situations, on the one hand, and in peacebuilding, on the other.
•	Analysis of literary accounts which depict making use of 
representations to resolve conflicts (especially but not limited to the 
works regarded as ‘classics,’ including the sacred scriptures of 
different religions).
•	Analysis of how representations about the past conflicts are used to 
help communities build a more peaceful future.

The conference is organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for 
War and Peace Studies at Liverpool Hope University. The venue will be 
the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, Shaw 
Street, Liverpool, L6 1HP.

Please submit abstracts for papers (word format) and posters of up to 
300 words or full panel abstracts (4 papers max) to (tutu /at/ hope.ac.uk) 
until 15 February 2016. Successful applicants will be notified by 11 
March 2016. We encourage both formal conference papers and performative 
‘provocations’, exhibitions, demonstrations, workshops, storytelling 
events; or any other suitable format. Poster submissions of analysis of 
the above themes are welcomed. Presentation posters should be no larger 
than A1 paper size.


The organising team:
Dr Florian Zollmann, (zollmaf /at/ hope.ac.uk)
Dr Terry Phillips, (phillim /at/ hope.ac.uk)
Dr Kathrin Wagner, (wagnerk /at/ hope.ac.uk)
Dr Lynn Hilditch, (hilditl /at/ hope.ac.uk)
Dr Guy Cuthbertson, (cuthbeg /at/ hope.ac.uk)
Dr Peter Manning, (manninp /at/ hope.ac.uk)
Dr Michael Holmes, (holmesm /at/ hope.ac.uk)
Susan Forde, (12009897 /at/ hope.ac.uk)
Martha Caceres Lara, (15008659 /at/ hope.ac.uk)



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