THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES - Terror 2008
Call for Papers
THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES
2nd Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference
Laurentian University @ Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario
Conference Theme: TERROR
May 2nd & 3rd, 2008
Deadline for abstract submissions: January 30th,
Extended to February 15th, 2008.
Accepted submissions notified: February 25th.
Draft papers and full registration due: March 30th
Please submit abstracts to: humanconditionseries@gmail.com
Contact Person: Marianne Vardalos, Director
Human Condition Series Organizing Committee, 2008
This conference is part of a larger series of ongoing conferences, run under the general banner of The Human Condition Series. The series is an international, multidisciplinary conference that seeks to address the current state of the human condition. It aims to bring together people from a variety of disciplines to assess a singular topic from artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social, political, philosophical, psychological and religious perspectives. We encourage you to share innovative ideas and new theorization. Submissions will be considered on any related theme and we especially welcome papers, reports, works-in-progress, workshops and sessions.
This year’s theme is Terror.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- The Laws of State-Terror
- Non-sovereign peoples subjected to the authority of the privileged.
- Structures that organize, control, punish, and reward subjects.
- Denial to total self-governance
- Communications of Terror
- Propaganda, public relations and other communication management in the opinion industry.
- Overt and covert representations of Terror
- The centrality of spin and lobbying in communicating Terror
- The role of the PR industry in creating Terror
- Think tanks and policy communications
- Global media management and Terror
- The Manufacture and Management of Terror
- The marketing of terror
- Falsified news coverage and the intelligence industry.
- Techniques of generating and maintaining terror through the medical industry’s management of ‘outbreaks’.
- The relationship of Terror to the modern malaise: anxiety, disorders, disease
- Terror as pleasure
- Designating Terror
- The Construction of the Transnational Terrorist
- Deconstructing and reconstructing designations: “terrorism”, “Freedom fighter”, “peacekeeper”, “organized crime”, “legality”, and “human security”
- Delegitimation of claims of origin in land-ownership.
- Terror and the Transformation of States and Nations
- Legitimacy of landownership.
- Public and private responses to political violence.
- Peacekeeping, peacebuilding and conflicting agendas in counter-terrorism and counter-crime policies
- Forces in society which resist Terror via fighting, politics, activism or critical journalism.
- Spaces of Terror
- The international political economy of corporate power as Terror
- Hospitals, clinics and the medical industry as Terror
- Education and Terror
- Recreational Terror
- Terror pornography
- Horror genres
- The commodification of fear
- Ritualistic terror
- Terror as Text
- Artistic expressions of Terror
- Imagining Terror
- Literature and Terror
- Discourses and Counter-discourses of Terror
- Historic Perspectives on Terror
- Linguistic Evolutions of Terror
- The Doxas of Terror
- The Terror of morality
- Market terror
- Techno-scientific Terror
- The Terror of Fundamentalisms
- Military logic as Terror
- The Culture Industry as Terror
- The Terror of Reason
- The Metaphysics of Terror
- Faith and Terror
- Gender, Sexuality and Terror
- Racial Knowledge as Terror
The Organizing Committee welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by January 30th, 2008. Accepted presenters will be notified by February 25th. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, full registration and an 8-10 page draft paper are required by March 30th 2008.
All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be considered for inclusion in the THCS e-journal. In addition, some papers will also be considered for publication in a themed volume on Terror.
