[Discussion] CFP: Violence in the Middle East (Lebanon)

[Gonul Pultar]

"Violence in the Middle East"
Lebanese American University - Beirut

26-28 May 2004

Violence has plagued the countries bordering on the Eastern 
Mediterranean for most of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This
interdisciplinary conference aims to study the manifold phenomena of
violence in the region from several scholarly perspectives. The aim is 
to trace the interconnected strands of social life that end in violence. 
Our hope is that by studying this topic across disciplinary boundaries a 
more nuanced vision of the conditions and causes of violence will emerge.

Abstracts are invited from scholars working in area and gender studies,
social science, communications, and literary-cultural studies. Papers
addressing topics such as the following are particularly welcome:

-         Intimate violence: family, sexual, social
-         Social and religious constituents of sectarian violence
-         Occupation and Resistance
-         Human ecologies of violence
-          Culture and geopolitical violence
-          Terrorism and perceptions of it
-         Representations and violence
-         Semantics of violence: "the forbidden," "shame," 
"justice," 			"rights," "terrorism"

Deadline for 250-500 word abstracts: February 28, 2004

Send by email attachement to comparative.literature@lau.edu.lb