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Society for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Social
Imagery
Seventeenth Annual Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE
IMAGE OF VIOLENCE
in Literature, Media,
and Society
Keynote
Speaker
Dr.
Henry Lee
Forensic
Scientist - University of New Haven
March
8-10, 2007
Colorado Springs, Colorado
An interdisciplinary
conference exploring the image of violence - in culture,
literature, history,
theory, politics, business. All
portrayals, metaphors, and ideas of violence will be
subject to
analysis, including violence as war, terror,
defense, freedom, power, control, religion,
race, sex,
entertainment. All disciplinary perspectives are
welcome, including humanities,
social science, criminal
justice, business, law, natural science. Possible
topics include:
* Violence
in literature, art,
popular culture (novels, film, TV, music, games,
advertising, etc.)
* The image of violence in
theories of power, politics, society, control, crime,
religion, history
* Violence as
entertainment: news, advertising, sports, social
impacts, cartoons, etc.
* Violence as sexy and
heroic: action movies, superheroes, �real men,�
Rambo, John Wayne
* War - Iraq, Vietnam,
WWII, WWI; Terror - 9/11, Oklahoma City, Northern
Ireland
* Violence as genocide:
the Final Solution, ethnic cleansing, tribal slaughters
* Technology and violence:
guns, the Bomb, arms race, WMDs, chemical, biological
* History and
institutions: war, conquest, assassination, colonialism,
imperialism, globalization
* Corporate violence -
explicit and implicit: Bhopal, the Pinto, Enron, Love
Canal, etc.
* Theoretical images of
violence: competition, revolution, natural selection,
class struggle, etc.
* Religion and tradition:
crusades, jihad, the Middle East, honor, sacrifice,
cults, terror
* Families and sex: wife
abuse, child abuse, pornography, sex trade, issues of
abortion
* Violence in production:
class structure, labor wars, strikes, organizing, picket
lines
* Race and the Other:
slavery, lynching, �white supremacy, anti-Semitism,
gay bashing
* Crime and violence:
illegal drugs, prisons, police corruption, illegal
immigration, serial killers
* Violence and the
frontier: the cowboy, conquering the wilderness
(removing the Indians)
* Environmental violence:
pollution, global warming, the rain forest, species
depletion
* Other variations -
eclectic and innovative approaches are encouraged
An annual conference on
imagery in society with a different thematic focus each
year.
Past topics have included the Image of War, Class,
the Frontier, the Hero
(visit
<chass.colostate-pueblo.edu/sissi>).
A conference
Proceedings will be published from selected papers.
Please submit (email, fax,
mail) a one-page abstract or a panel proposal with
abstracts by
Dec. 4, 2006. Graduate students are welcome
and organized panels are encouraged.
Fax:
719-549-2705
Email:
violence@colostate-pueblo.edu.
Mail: Will Wright, Colorado State University - Pueblo,
Pueblo, CO 8l00l-4901.
Organizers: Will Wright,
Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University-Pueblo
and Steven Kaplan, President, University of New Haven.
For further information contact Will Wright:
719-549-2538,
will.wright@colostate-pueblo.edu.
Sponsored by Colorado
State University-Pueblo
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