[Discussion] 6th Global Conference Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness

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6th Global Conference
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness

Friday 18th - Wednesday 23rd March 2005
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to
examine and explore issues surrounding evil and human wickedness.
Perspectives are sought from those engaged in the fields of
anthropology, criminology, cultural studies, legal studies, literature,
philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology. Perspectives are sought
from those working in the caring professions, the media, prison
services, politics, psychiatry and other work-related and vocational areas.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues
related to any of the following themes;

    * the concept and language of 'evil' and 'wickedness'
    * the nature and sources of evil and human wickedness
    * moral intuitions about dreadful crimes
    * psychopathic behaviour - mad or bad?
    * choice, responsibility, and diminished responsibility
    * social and cultural reactions to evil and human wickedness
    * the portrayal of evil and human wickedness in the media and
      popular culture
    * suffering in literature and film
    * individual acts of evil, group violence, holocaust and genocide;
      obligations of bystanders
    * terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing; the evils of terrorism, fear of
      terrorism, international relations especially with regard to the
      modern nation state, superpower interventionist strategies,
      post-war reorganisation following the evils of war
    * the search for meaning and sense in evil and human wickedness
    * the nature and tasks of theodicy
    * religious understandings of evil and human wickedness
    * postmodern approaches to evil and human wickedness
    * ecocriticism, evil and suffering
    * gender and evil
    * evil and the use/abuse of technology; evil in cyberspace

Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by *Monday 22nd November 2004.* If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by
Friday 11th February 2005.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Joint Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats.

Margaret Breen
Department of English, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, USA
Email: margaret.breen@uconn.edu

Rob Fisher
Wickedness.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
Email: theodicist@wickedness.net

Stephen Morris
Independent Scholar,
New York, USA
Email: smmorris58@yahoo.com

Seven themed volumes have and are in the process of being published. All
papers accepted for and presented at the conference will appear in an
ISBN eBook. In addition, selected papers accepted for and presented at
this conference will also be published in a themed volume.

The conference is part of a larger series of ongoing conferences, run
under the general banner 'At the Interface'. It aims to bring together
people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore
various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

For further information about the project, please visit:
http://www.wickedness.net/index1.htm

For further information about the conference, please visit the web
address given below.

	Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Phone: 01993 882087
Fax: 0870 4601132
Email: rf@inter-disciplinary.net <mailto:rf@inter-disciplinary.net>
Visit the website at http://www.wickedness.net/Evil/Evil%206/e6cfp.htm