[URBANTH-L]CFP: Humanitarianism :: Humanitarian Responses to Narratives of Inflicted Suffering

[Angela Jancius]

FOUNDATIONS OF HUMANITARIANISM PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH & TEACHING 2005-2008
CALL FOR PAPERS "HUMANITARIAN RESPONSES TO INFLICTED SUFFERING"
International conference: October 13-15, 2006

We invite scholars from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law to submit
papers that analyze humanitarian responses to narratives of suffering
inflicted by states, political groups and/or social, economic, or cultural
forces. Panels will address apartheid, genocide, colonialism, slavery and
abolition, the media, and the law. The Foundations of Humanitarianism
program will pay panelists' expenses. Please submit a one-page abstract and
current c.v. (up to 3 pages) by March 1, 2006 to richard.d.brown at uconn.edu
or richard.wilson at uconn.edu

Organizers:
Richard D. Brown, Humanities Institute
and Richard A. Wilson, Human Rights Institute