The 4th International Conference on Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences is to be held at the University of Zadar, Croatia, from September 5-7, 2013 (http://rhss-conference.com). Ever since 2010, the conference has been an invaluable opportunity for meeting, exchanging and debating current topics in humanities and social sciences. This year's conference will focus on (1)ways in which violence is conceived and perceived in different contexts, (2)how literature, film, performance, and other arts relate to and incorporate contemporary outbursts of violence, (3) new ways in which this process can be theorized in the field of humanities and social sciences, and finally (4) does this type of violence change cultural politics of diversity in societies.
Keynote speakers for this year's Conference are:
Mark Devenney leads the Humanities Programme degrees in Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton (U.K). His main research interests are in contemporary Political Philosophy, with research expertise on Critical Theory (Adorno and Habermas), contemporary Continental philosophy (notably Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Laclau, Ranciere, Derrida, Zizek and Badiou.) He use this theoretical work to research different ways of valuing life, in a research project that focuses on the uses and abuses of human bodies (torture, patening, suicide bombing, genetic engineering and the ethics of life/death decisions).
Fred Botting, English Literature and Creative Writing, Kingston University, London. Professor Botting has taught English Literature, Critical Theory, Film and Cultural Studies at the Universities of Lancaster, Keele and Cardiff. He has written extensively on Gothic fictions, and on theory, film and cultural forms. His current research projects include work on fiction and film dealing with figures of horror and on spectrality, the uncanny and sexuality.
Possible topics include(but not limited to):
Violence in literature, film and art
Life after violence
Experience of structural violence
Historical approach to violence - its same morphology but different mechanisms
New conceptualization of violence in the humanities
Gender specific violence and its cultural background, race, disability
Agents of structural violence and their opponents (including humanities and social sciences)
Social construction of memories of violence
Violence in/and popular culture
Proposals are invited from scholars from different fields and disciplines of humanities and social sciences for individual papers (15-20 minutes including discussion time). Please send proposals (no more than 300 words in length) to rhss.conference@gmail.com by June 1st 2013. Selected conference papers will be published.
