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*8th Global Conference Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness*
*Location:* 	Austria

8th Global Conference
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness

Monday 19th March - Friday 23rd March 2007
Salzburg, Austria

Call for Papers

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

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed
panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by *Friday 24th November 2006*.
If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should
be submitted by Friday 2nd March 2007.

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

Organising Committee
Margaret Breen
Department of English, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, USA
E-Mail: margaret.breen at uconn.edu

Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
E-Mail: evil8 at wickedness.net

Stephen Morris
Independent Scholar,
New York, USA
E-Mail: smmorris58 at yahoo.com

Eight themed volumes have and are in the process of being published. All
papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for
inclusion in an ISBN eBook. In addition, selected papers accepted for
and presented at this conference will also be published in a themed
volume. In addition, selected papers and conference sessions will be
recorded for the purpose of being made available as podcasts.

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 details about the project please visit:
http://www.wickedness.net/pehw.htm

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.wickedness.net/Evil/Evil%208/cfp.html


Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxfordshire
U.K.

Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: rf at inter-disciplinary.net <mailto:rf at inter-disciplinary.net>

Visit the website at http://www.wickedness.net/Evil/Evil%208/cfp.html