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Evil Women; Women and Evil
The Evil Project: The 8th Global Meeting
Call for Presentations 2016
Friday 23rd September - Sunday 25th September 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Evil Women: Women and Evil seeks to engage fruitful discourse over the core
theme of evil and monstrous women, and the variations thereof. We are
welcoming papers, workshops, performances, talks, film demonstrations and
photo exhibitions. Let us see. Let us feel. Let us touch. Let us hear.
From Medea and Lady Macbeth, to Mary Tudor and Eva Peron, to Myra Hindley
and Dorothea Puente, to human rights activists working to prevent violence
targeted at women, the human imagination has been captured by the complex
relationship between women and evil. We are fascinated by stories of real
and fictional women who perpetrate evil deeds, experience evil as victims,
fight against evil and take the blame as scapegoats for evil that exists in
the world. These accounts raise a host of questions about the nature of
evil itself and why cultural cues encourage us to see the relationship
between women and evil in very different terms from the way we understand
the relationship between men and evil. What distinguishes evil from
something that is simply at odds with gender roles, laws and other means of
regulating behaviour? Why are women vilified as monsters, temptresses,
bitches and evil incarnate when they break the rules? Is the emotionally-
and ideologically-loaded language of evil is even useful in this context,
or is an entirely different framework needed?
The Evil Women: Women and Evil research stream of The Evil Project offers a
space for inter-, cross- and multi-disciplinary explorations of these and
other questions concerning the dynamics of the relationship between women
and evil. We invite proposals for presentations that take the form of
talks, workshops, performances, readings, film screenings, art
installations with commentary and other interactive content. Activists,
anthropologists, archaeologies, archivists, artists and other creative
professionals, civil servants, members of the clergy, clinicians,
correctional authorities, historians, journalists, jurists and other legal
professionals, military personnel, researchers, writers and others with an
interest in the project are encouraged to submit proposals on themes that
include but are not limited to: We welcome submissions from within specific
disciplinary boundaries, but we are also particularly interested in
interdisciplinary contributions that balance the scope of insight that
disciplines bring with the limitations that disciplinary boundaries create
in failing to recognise cross-disciplinary connections, which neglect
important historical and cultural perspectives on the development of the
'erotic' as a locus of attention. Consequently, we are particularly keen
to encourage submissions that are not subsumed within disciplines, but cut
across and between disciplinary vocabularies to provide new synergies,
domains and inter-disciplinary possibilities. We warmly welcome proposals
which go beyond traditional paper presentations and encompass also panels,
performances and workshops.
Themes to be explored range across a wide number of areas, including:
Theology, Theodicy and Religion:
- Women who theorise about evil
- Theological considerations of case studies involving women
- Alternative religious perspectives on the relationship between women and
evil
- Female deities and spirits
- Considerations of whether evil committed by women inherently different
from evil committed by men
- Explorations of the relevance and usefulness of the language of evil to
discuss unlawful or immoral behaviour
Big Evils/Lesser Evils?
- Women and genocide, genital mutilation, murder, sexual abuse, torture,
human trafficking, drug smuggling, etc.
- Women who experience or perpetuate social evils: racism, sexism,
homophobia, economic deprivation, corporate exploitation, environment
devastation, etc.
Multi-cultural and Historical Perspectives:
- Indigenous/tribal traditions concerning women, femininity and evil
- Folk lore dealing with women, femininity and evil
- Assessments of changing attitudes toward the relationship between women
and evil (and the sources of those changes)
Women and the Law:
- Case studies of women whose crimes are considered evil
- Accounts of experiences with women who have either perpetrated or
suffered from acts considered evil
- Legal trends in cases that involve women whose conduct has been coded as
evil
- Activism on behalf of female perpetrators and victims
- Deviant sexuality
Women and Medicine:
- Clinical perspectives on female perpetrators and victims
- The medical establishment as locus of evil - and the women who must
engage with it
Women and Power:
- Considerations of the relationship between power and evil, and whether
women can gain and maintain power without doing things that others perceive
as evil or monstrous
- Revenge plots
- Personnel management strategies for regulating the workplace
- Self-help and professional development models for
gaining/maintaining/managing power in the workplace
-
Women and Evil in the News Media
- Journalistic case studies, including first-hand accounts of how
particular stories were presented for public consumption
- Contemporary, historical, or comparative assessments of language and
imagery used in reports about female perpetrators
Representations of any aspect of monstrous femininity, women who perpetrate
evil, women who fight against evil, women who suffer from evil perpetrated
by others and women who are scape-goated as the source of evil in:
- literature
- cinema
- television
- film
- visual arts
- music
Women and War
- Women as warriors and efforts to protect the 'fairer sex' from combat
- Women and war crimes
- Holocaust narratives: women as oppressors and victims
- Female jihadists, freedom fighters, terrorists
Further details and information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/call-for-papers/
Details of our review policy can be found here:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/call-for-papers/venue-and-accommodation/
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be
submitted by Friday 22nd April 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 6th May 2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your
contribution should be submitted by Friday 5th August 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: Evil Women Abstract Submission
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs with
listed emails:
Organising Chairs:
Natalia Kaloh Vid: nkv@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:nkv@inter-disciplinary.net>
Rob Fisher: ew8@inter-disciplinary.net <mailto:ew8@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.
A significant number of eBooks and paperback volumes have already emerged
from the work of the Evil project. 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: "ew8@inter-disciplinary.net" <ew8@inter-disciplinary.net>
Date: Mar 14, 2016 2:47 PM
Subject: CFP: Evil Women; Women and Evil
To: <honey.honour@gmail.com>
Cc:
Evil Women; Women and Evil
The Evil Project: The 8th Global Meeting
Call for Presentations 2016
Friday 23rd September - Sunday 25th September 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Evil Women: Women and Evil seeks to engage fruitful discourse over the core
theme of evil and monstrous women, and the variations thereof. We are
welcoming papers, workshops, performances, talks, film demonstrations and
photo exhibitions. Let us see. Let us feel. Let us touch. Let us hear.
From Medea and Lady Macbeth, to Mary Tudor and Eva Peron, to Myra Hindley
and Dorothea Puente, to human rights activists working to prevent violence
targeted at women, the human imagination has been captured by the complex
relationship between women and evil. We are fascinated by stories of real
and fictional women who perpetrate evil deeds, experience evil as victims,
fight against evil and take the blame as scapegoats for evil that exists in
the world. These accounts raise a host of questions about the nature of
evil itself and why cultural cues encourage us to see the relationship
between women and evil in very different terms from the way we understand
the relationship between men and evil. What distinguishes evil from
something that is simply at odds with gender roles, laws and other means of
regulating behaviour? Why are women vilified as monsters, temptresses,
bitches and evil incarnate when they break the rules? Is the emotionally-
and ideologically-loaded language of evil is even useful in this context,
or is an entirely different framework needed?
The Evil Women: Women and Evil research stream of The Evil Project offers a
space for inter-, cross- and multi-disciplinary explorations of these and
other questions concerning the dynamics of the relationship between women
and evil. We invite proposals for presentations that take the form of
talks, workshops, performances, readings, film screenings, art
installations with commentary and other interactive content. Activists,
anthropologists, archaeologies, archivists, artists and other creative
professionals, civil servants, members of the clergy, clinicians,
correctional authorities, historians, journalists, jurists and other legal
professionals, military personnel, researchers, writers and others with an
interest in the project are encouraged to submit proposals on themes that
include but are not limited to: We welcome submissions from within specific
disciplinary boundaries, but we are also particularly interested in
interdisciplinary contributions that balance the scope of insight that
disciplines bring with the limitations that disciplinary boundaries create
in failing to recognise cross-disciplinary connections, which neglect
important historical and cultural perspectives on the development of the
'erotic' as a locus of attention. Consequently, we are particularly keen
to encourage submissions that are not subsumed within disciplines, but cut
across and between disciplinary vocabularies to provide new synergies,
domains and inter-disciplinary possibilities. We warmly welcome proposals
which go beyond traditional paper presentations and encompass also panels,
performances and workshops.
Themes to be explored range across a wide number of areas, including:
Theology, Theodicy and Religion:
- Women who theorise about evil
- Theological considerations of case studies involving women
- Alternative religious perspectives on the relationship between women and
evil
- Female deities and spirits
- Considerations of whether evil committed by women inherently different
from evil committed by men
- Explorations of the relevance and usefulness of the language of evil to
discuss unlawful or immoral behaviour
Big Evils/Lesser Evils?
- Women and genocide, genital mutilation, murder, sexual abuse, torture,
human trafficking, drug smuggling, etc.
- Women who experience or perpetuate social evils: racism, sexism,
homophobia, economic deprivation, corporate exploitation, environment
devastation, etc.
Multi-cultural and Historical Perspectives:
- Indigenous/tribal traditions concerning women, femininity and evil
- Folk lore dealing with women, femininity and evil
- Assessments of changing attitudes toward the relationship between women
and evil (and the sources of those changes)
Women and the Law:
- Case studies of women whose crimes are considered evil
- Accounts of experiences with women who have either perpetrated or
suffered from acts considered evil
- Legal trends in cases that involve women whose conduct has been coded as
evil
- Activism on behalf of female perpetrators and victims
- Deviant sexuality
Women and Medicine:
- Clinical perspectives on female perpetrators and victims
- The medical establishment as locus of evil - and the women who must
engage with it
Women and Power:
- Considerations of the relationship between power and evil, and whether
women can gain and maintain power without doing things that others perceive
as evil or monstrous
- Revenge plots
- Personnel management strategies for regulating the workplace
- Self-help and professional development models for
gaining/maintaining/managing power in the workplace
-
Women and Evil in the News Media
- Journalistic case studies, including first-hand accounts of how
particular stories were presented for public consumption
- Contemporary, historical, or comparative assessments of language and
imagery used in reports about female perpetrators
Representations of any aspect of monstrous femininity, women who perpetrate
evil, women who fight against evil, women who suffer from evil perpetrated
by others and women who are scape-goated as the source of evil in:
- literature
- cinema
- television
- film
- visual arts
- music
Women and War
- Women as warriors and efforts to protect the 'fairer sex' from combat
- Women and war crimes
- Holocaust narratives: women as oppressors and victims
- Female jihadists, freedom fighters, terrorists
Further details and information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/call-for-papers/
Details of our review policy can be found here:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine/call-for-papers/venue-and-accommodation/
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be
submitted by Friday 22nd April 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 6th May 2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your
contribution should be submitted by Friday 5th August 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: Evil Women Abstract Submission
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs with
listed emails:
Organising Chairs:
Natalia Kaloh Vid: nkv@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:nkv@inter-disciplinary.net>
Rob Fisher: ew8@inter-disciplinary.net <mailto:ew8@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.
A significant number of eBooks and paperback volumes have already emerged
from the work of the Evil project. 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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Dr Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
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
1.30pm Monday to Friday. We check our email once per day at 10.00am UK time
- and we will endeavour to reply to you in a timely fashion.
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