4th International Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences Conference is to be held at the University of Zadar, Croatia, September 5-7, 2013.
\nThis year\u2019s conference focuses on the ways in which violence is conceived and perceived within different contexts, the ways in which literature, film, performance, and other forms of art relate to and incorporate contemporary outbursts of violence, the new ways in which this process can be theorized in the field of humanities and social sciences, and finally the ways in which this type of violence changes cultural politics of diversity in societies.<\/p>\n
Keynote Speakers
\nMark Devenney\u00a0is a Principal Lecturer in politics and philosophy and he leads the Humanities Programme degrees at the University of Brighton. His main research interests lie in contemporary Political Philosophy, with research expertise on Critical Theory (Adorno and Habermas) and contemporary Continental philosophy (notably Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Laclau, Ranciere, Derrida, \u017di\u017eek and Badiou.) He uses this theoretical work to research different ways of valuing life, in a research project that focuses on the uses and abuses of human bodies (torture, patening, suicide bombing, genetic engineering and the ethics of life\/death decisions).<\/p>\n
Fred Botting\u00a0is a Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University, London (UK). He has taught English Literature, Critical Theory, Film and Cultural Studies at the Universities of Lancaster, Keele and Cardiff. He has written extensively on Gothic fictions as well as on theory, film and cultural forms. His current research projects include work on fiction and film dealing with figures of horror and on spectrality, the uncanny and sexuality.<\/p>\n