Second Annual HGSA Graduate Conference
Call for Papers
On the Dark Side: Crime, Punishment, Violence, and Discipline
SIU-Carbondale March 30-31, 2007
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Roger Deal (UM-Missoula)
Violent Crime in Ottoman Istanbul
Historians and social scientists have concluded that the 20th Century was the most violent century in recorded history. Michel Foucault argued that since the Enlightenment and French Revolution, humans are less “free” within the imposed, confined definitions of the state and literary discourse, and that control of the human body and social groups were crucial for modern centralization.
However, how have scholars defined and understood violence, crime, and punishment in historical, cultural, and political senses since the early modern era (ca. 1450)? How have individuals and/or groups justified, explained, promoted, or condemned violence via political and social movements, art, reform campaigns, etc., and what ideas and methods have been employed to curb violent/criminal behavior, or to enforce social-cultural discipline? What are the philosophical origins, and/or the social, moral, and ethical issues involved in these discourses?
We invite historically based, interdisciplinary submissions dealing with these topics. Themes and subjects may include, but are not limited to:
Social and cultural “Panopticons,” surveillance and social controls
Religious or spiritual disciplines of the self and body
Corporal punishments and the human body in pain
Social memory/history of mass murder and/or genocide
Disciplining the mind, body, “self,” children and “Others”
Penal codes, penal colonies, criminology, prisons, and criminal culture
The rise of the “crime novel,” and/or perception of violence and crime in art and literature
Public versus private punishments
“Legitimate” versus “illegitimate” violence
Changing definitions and perceptions of violence and discipline
Nationalist/ethnic violence and organizations
Crowd violence, “public disorders,” riots and “mob actions”
Violence and crime on colonial “frontiers”
Gender, sexuality, punishment and criminality
Please submit a 100-word abstract of the proposed paper presentation and a brief C.V. to tcrogg@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is February 2, 2007.
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