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CALL for PAPERS<br>
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: January 18, 2008<br>
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Colloquium on Violence and Religion Conference 2008<br>
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CATASTROPHE AND CONVERSION<br>
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POLITICAL THINKING FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM<br>
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University of California, Riverside<br>
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June 18-22, 2008<br>
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SPEAKERS<br>
Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Stanford / Ecole Polytechnique) <br>
René Girard (Académie Française / Stanford) <br>
W. J. T. Mitchell (Chicago / Editor-in-Chief, Critical Inquiry)<br>
Gianni Vattimo (Turin / Member of the European Parliament, 1999-2004)<br>
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This conference will address many issues of current concern in the humanities,
arts, and social sciences. The idea that we live in a world ever more
susceptible to the ravages of man-made catastrophes is linked with the
religious notion of conversion as a metaphor for the changes in attitude and
outlook that will be required in order to survive in increasingly uncertain
times. In a post-9/11 world, the static logic of mutually assured destruction
has been replaced by a dynamic, asymmetrical threat emerging from the shadows.
At any moment a catastrophe could occur, without warning and without redress.
Our ability to prepare for and cope with this new threat is one of the great
political and social challenges of the twenty-first century. This conference
will thus deal with ways of understanding the root causes of violence, with
particular emphasis on the anthropological and sociological dimensions of
conflict, and on the theories of René Girard.<br>
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