[Englecturers] Call for Papers: Catastrophe and Conversion: Political Thinking for the New Millenium

[John Ganim]

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>CALL for PAPERS
>Deadline for submission of paper proposals: January 18, 2008
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>Colloquium on Violence and Religion Conference 2008
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>CATASTROPHE AND CONVERSION
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>POLITICAL THINKING FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM
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>University of California, Riverside
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>June 18-22, 2008
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>SPEAKERS
>Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Stanford / Ecole Polytechnique)
>René Girard (Académie Française / Stanford)
>W. J. T. Mitchell (Chicago / Editor-in-Chief, Critical Inquiry)
>Gianni Vattimo (Turin / Member of the European Parliament, 1999-2004)
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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been replaced by a dynamic, asymmetrical threat 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.
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