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Torture
Call for Participation 2016
Thursday 14th July – Saturday 16th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
From early accounts of witch-burning to more recent media coverage of
punishments carried out by ISIS, we are confronted by constant
reminders of the tendency of human beings to be cruel to one another.
While it is easy to condemn beheadings, systematic rape of prisoners
and other acts of torture as barbaric, the existence of tacit or
explicit support among some members of the public for capital
punishment, lynchings and the use of torture to extract information
from suspected terrorists reveals the complexities and inconsistencies
that shape debates on this topic. What counts as torture? Why do human
beings torture one another? Can acts of torture ever be justified? Why
do some acts of torture trigger condemnation, while others fail to
generate the same level of outrage? Do fictional portrayals of torture
in videogames, films and television series affect the way we consider
real life torture? How can torture be prevented?
In an attempt to provide answers to these and other relevant
questions, the Torture research and publishing stream offers a
platform for inter-, cross- and multi-disciplinary dialogue involving
participants from across the disciplinary spectrum. The event provides
valuable opportunities for knowledge exchange between individuals with
an interest and expertise in the topic, including policy and legal
experts, representatives from NGOs and philanthropic organisations,
activists, medical and clinical professionals, social workers and
caregivers, educators, artists, business people, journalists, victims
and perpetrators of torture, historians, and researchers. It is
intended that the deep inter-disciplinary engagement facilitated by
the event will foster greater understanding of torture, awareness of
its effects on victims, perpetrators and society and action in the
areas of prevention and caregiving.
Proposals are invited for presentations, workshops, panels,
interactive round tables, performances, readings, screenings, or
installation on any aspect of torture, and its use and effects
throughout history and in contemporary societies, from liberal
democracies to totalitarian states. The use of torture has grown in
recent times, alongside the growth in attempts worldwide to reduce, or
abolish torture, and the attempts at reduction, limitation and
abolition will form a key part of conference study. Submissions may
deal with any aspect of torture, including but not limited to:
Defining Torture
Definitions, such as that contained in the UN Convention Against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment and
Punishment, and the debate around the usefulness and accuracy of
definitions as a basis for formulating treaties and improving
practice. Issues around torture and:
• Sex
• Race
• Sexual orientation
• Asylum seekers
• Children
• Persons with disabilities
• Animals
• War
• Genocide/ethnic cleansing
Causation
Norms and expectations within police, prison and army personnel;
international relations, manifestations of political power within
national states and ideological groups struggling to achieve
statehood.
Issues of Practice
Interrogation and its legitimacy, setting boundaries in state
practice, exposure of the way that torturers are psychologically
prepared and trained, the sites of torture such as prisoner of war
camps, state-run detention centres, prisons, within civilian
communities against persecuted minorities and in areas of the world
where genocide is being systematically practiced.
History of Ideas
Influence of the Enlightenment, humanitarian ideals, varying political
ideologies, the rule of law; torture and cultural relativism,
histories of torture's use and effects.
Torture and the State
Powerful institutions within states; institutions such as the CIA and
their reach, values and power within a society; debates over
extraordinary rendition, accountability across borders, information
sharing between bodies within states.
Prevention, Reduction and Accountability
Treaties such as OPCAT and problems with implementation and
accountability; aspects of implementation of appropriate legal
frameworks across borders; information sharing; the usefulness of
independent inspection regimes in places of detention; installing
penalties in places of detention and/or instilling cultures of
prevention through training and support; linking progress to overseas
aid; domestic and international criminal prosecutions and civil suits
seeking remedies against torturers and/or governments; work by NGOs,
charities and philanthropic organisations.
Survivors
Effects on survivors, both medical, psychological, social; the
documentation of effects such as by The Istanbul Protocol in 1999,
work by organisations such as Amnesty International, The Red Cross and
very many human rights organisations; discussion and documentation of
psychological consequences such as the loss and regaining of trust,
the hard task of forgiveness.
Perpetrators
Medical, social and psychological effects of torture on perpetrators
Societies that condone or tolerate torture
Punishment, retribution and rehabilitation of perpetrators
Torture and Medicine
Medical experimentation and torture
Ethical applications of knowledge gained through torture
Participation by medical professionals in acts of torture (e.g.
capital punishment)
Torture and mental health: psychological profiles on victims and
perpetrators
Torture and Religion
Torture narratives in religious/spiritual traditions
Torture carried out in the name of religion
Religion and spirituality as path to rehabilitation
The Business of Torture
Technologies and producers that support torture
Companies that do business with perpetrators of torture
Companies that engage in torture
Technologies and producers that assist in preventing torture
Designing and administering spaces of torture
Boycotts and ethical responses to corporate support for torture
Torture and Tourism
Dark tourism and the commodification of torture sites
Pilgrimages to sites of torture
The appeal of torture museums and sites associated with torture
Torture and the Arts
The literature and memoirs of survivors, both historical and
contemporaneous
Creative practice as means of coping with effects of torture
Depictions of/engagements with torture in art, music, television,
film, literature, drama, poetry, video games, graphic novels, etc.
Torture and Pedagogy
Strategies for teaching age-appropriate lessons
Challenges and strategies for researchers
Using the right language to talk about the issues
Further details and information can be found at the conference
website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/torture/call-for-participation/
Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Torture project will be meeting at the same time as a project on
Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners. We welcome submissions which cross
the divide between both project areas. If you would like to be
considered for a cross project session, please mark your submission
"Crossover Submission".
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should
be submitted by Friday 29th January 2016.
All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind)
conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team
and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that
by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and
quadruple reviewed.
You will be notified of the panel's decision by Friday 12th February
2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of
your contribution should be submitted by Friday 3rd June 2016.
Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad formats with the following
information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in
programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of
proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Torture Abstract Submission
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs
with listed emails:
Organising Chairs:
Diana Medlicott: diana@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:diana@inter-disciplinary.net>
John Parry: Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law
Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, USA
Rob Fisher: torture@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:torture@inter-disciplinary.net>
This event is an inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing
project. It aims to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in
English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.
Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy
volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors,
to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.
Ethos
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and
professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should
attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make
this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we
are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or
subsistence.
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-- From: <torture@inter-disciplinary.net>
Date: Dec 3, 2015 8:48 AM
Subject: CFP Torture
To: <honey.honour@gmail.com>
Cc:
Torture
Call for Participation 2016
Thursday 14th July – Saturday 16th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
From early accounts of witch-burning to more recent media coverage of
punishments carried out by ISIS, we are confronted by constant
reminders of the tendency of human beings to be cruel to one another.
While it is easy to condemn beheadings, systematic rape of prisoners
and other acts of torture as barbaric, the existence of tacit or
explicit support among some members of the public for capital
punishment, lynchings and the use of torture to extract information
from suspected terrorists reveals the complexities and inconsistencies
that shape debates on this topic. What counts as torture? Why do human
beings torture one another? Can acts of torture ever be justified? Why
do some acts of torture trigger condemnation, while others fail to
generate the same level of outrage? Do fictional portrayals of torture
in videogames, films and television series affect the way we consider
real life torture? How can torture be prevented?
In an attempt to provide answers to these and other relevant
questions, the Torture research and publishing stream offers a
platform for inter-, cross- and multi-disciplinary dialogue involving
participants from across the disciplinary spectrum. The event provides
valuable opportunities for knowledge exchange between individuals with
an interest and expertise in the topic, including policy and legal
experts, representatives from NGOs and philanthropic organisations,
activists, medical and clinical professionals, social workers and
caregivers, educators, artists, business people, journalists, victims
and perpetrators of torture, historians, and researchers. It is
intended that the deep inter-disciplinary engagement facilitated by
the event will foster greater understanding of torture, awareness of
its effects on victims, perpetrators and society and action in the
areas of prevention and caregiving.
Proposals are invited for presentations, workshops, panels,
interactive round tables, performances, readings, screenings, or
installation on any aspect of torture, and its use and effects
throughout history and in contemporary societies, from liberal
democracies to totalitarian states. The use of torture has grown in
recent times, alongside the growth in attempts worldwide to reduce, or
abolish torture, and the attempts at reduction, limitation and
abolition will form a key part of conference study. Submissions may
deal with any aspect of torture, including but not limited to:
Defining Torture
Definitions, such as that contained in the UN Convention Against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment and
Punishment, and the debate around the usefulness and accuracy of
definitions as a basis for formulating treaties and improving
practice. Issues around torture and:
• Sex
• Race
• Sexual orientation
• Asylum seekers
• Children
• Persons with disabilities
• Animals
• War
• Genocide/ethnic cleansing
Causation
Norms and expectations within police, prison and army personnel;
international relations, manifestations of political power within
national states and ideological groups struggling to achieve
statehood.
Issues of Practice
Interrogation and its legitimacy, setting boundaries in state
practice, exposure of the way that torturers are psychologically
prepared and trained, the sites of torture such as prisoner of war
camps, state-run detention centres, prisons, within civilian
communities against persecuted minorities and in areas of the world
where genocide is being systematically practiced.
History of Ideas
Influence of the Enlightenment, humanitarian ideals, varying political
ideologies, the rule of law; torture and cultural relativism,
histories of torture's use and effects.
Torture and the State
Powerful institutions within states; institutions such as the CIA and
their reach, values and power within a society; debates over
extraordinary rendition, accountability across borders, information
sharing between bodies within states.
Prevention, Reduction and Accountability
Treaties such as OPCAT and problems with implementation and
accountability; aspects of implementation of appropriate legal
frameworks across borders; information sharing; the usefulness of
independent inspection regimes in places of detention; installing
penalties in places of detention and/or instilling cultures of
prevention through training and support; linking progress to overseas
aid; domestic and international criminal prosecutions and civil suits
seeking remedies against torturers and/or governments; work by NGOs,
charities and philanthropic organisations.
Survivors
Effects on survivors, both medical, psychological, social; the
documentation of effects such as by The Istanbul Protocol in 1999,
work by organisations such as Amnesty International, The Red Cross and
very many human rights organisations; discussion and documentation of
psychological consequences such as the loss and regaining of trust,
the hard task of forgiveness.
Perpetrators
Medical, social and psychological effects of torture on perpetrators
Societies that condone or tolerate torture
Punishment, retribution and rehabilitation of perpetrators
Torture and Medicine
Medical experimentation and torture
Ethical applications of knowledge gained through torture
Participation by medical professionals in acts of torture (e.g.
capital punishment)
Torture and mental health: psychological profiles on victims and
perpetrators
Torture and Religion
Torture narratives in religious/spiritual traditions
Torture carried out in the name of religion
Religion and spirituality as path to rehabilitation
The Business of Torture
Technologies and producers that support torture
Companies that do business with perpetrators of torture
Companies that engage in torture
Technologies and producers that assist in preventing torture
Designing and administering spaces of torture
Boycotts and ethical responses to corporate support for torture
Torture and Tourism
Dark tourism and the commodification of torture sites
Pilgrimages to sites of torture
The appeal of torture museums and sites associated with torture
Torture and the Arts
The literature and memoirs of survivors, both historical and
contemporaneous
Creative practice as means of coping with effects of torture
Depictions of/engagements with torture in art, music, television,
film, literature, drama, poetry, video games, graphic novels, etc.
Torture and Pedagogy
Strategies for teaching age-appropriate lessons
Challenges and strategies for researchers
Using the right language to talk about the issues
Further details and information can be found at the conference
website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/torture/call-for-participation/
Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Torture project will be meeting at the same time as a project on
Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners. We welcome submissions which cross
the divide between both project areas. If you would like to be
considered for a cross project session, please mark your submission
"Crossover Submission".
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should
be submitted by Friday 29th January 2016.
All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind)
conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team
and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that
by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and
quadruple reviewed.
You will be notified of the panel's decision by Friday 12th February
2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of
your contribution should be submitted by Friday 3rd June 2016.
Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad formats with the following
information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in
programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of
proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Torture Abstract Submission
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs
with listed emails:
Organising Chairs:
Diana Medlicott: diana@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:diana@inter-disciplinary.net>
John Parry: Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law
Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, USA
Rob Fisher: torture@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:torture@inter-disciplinary.net>
This event is an inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing
project. It aims to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in
English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.
Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy
volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors,
to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.
Ethos
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and
professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should
attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make
this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we
are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or
subsistence.
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inter-disciplinary.net
Inter-Disciplinary.Net is accredited by the British Accreditation Council
for Independent Further and Higher Education as a Short Course Provider
Registered in England No: 05494488
Harvestway House, 28 High Street
Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6RA
Tel: 01993 882087
Please note: The inter-disciplinary.net office is open from 9.30am to
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