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01/15/2004
Martin Luther King-dagen i USA.
Martin Luther King fødselsdag i 1928 fejres som national
helligdag i USA efter 1982.
01/15/2004
Announcing the Library of Social Science Symposium on the
Psychological Interpretation of War
January 15-17, 2004, New York City
The phenomenon of warfare is under-theorized to the extent that it
is a virtual blank spot in social theory, despite that fact that
war has shaped the course of history. Rather than interpreting the
causes and meanings of extreme violence in war, social scientists
have accepted the conventional idea that war is a fact of life.
This symposium is undertaken in response to the inadequacy of
contemporary theorization proclaiming that social phenomena can be
explained merely by identifying their “narratives” or
“discursive practices.” With regard to the massive
destructiveness of warfare it is necessary to pose the question:
What precisely are the motives—the desires, fantasies and
anxieties—underlying the human propensity to die and kill in
the name of sociopolitical ideologies?
With the goal of analyzing the psychological and cultural
mechanisms underlying collective violence in war, militarism, and
the related phenomena of genocide and terrorism, the Library of
Social Science put forth a call for papers that generated 200
proposals from scholars and professionals around the world.
A select group of scholars from the fields of psychology,
psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy,
literature, law, military science, and religious studies have been
invited for intensive high-level dialogue in a seminar workshop
format to develop ideas and hypotheses on the dynamics of
warfare.
Featured speakers include:
• Ana Carden-Coyne, Ph.D., Professor, Centre for the Cultural
History of War, University of Manchester, “American Guts and
Military Manhood”
•Gillian Gillison, Ph.D., Professor of Religious Studies,
University of Toronto: “There Are None So Blind”
•Richard Koenigsberg, Ph.D., Director, Library of Social
Science, “Dying and Killing for Nations: The Psychology of
War and Genocide”
•Ron Leifer, M.D., Psychiatrist in private practice:
“The Roots of War”
· Olek Netzer, Ph.D., Research Psychologist, Kibbutz Barkai,
Israel: “The Virus of Dehumanization: Deciphering the Code of
Destructive Behavior in Inter-Group Conflict”
•Eelco Runia, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Groningen University:
“Vertigo”
•Juha Siltala, Ph.D., Professor of Finnish History, Helsinki
University: “A Nation Reborn out of Young Blood: Sacrificial
Fantasies in the Finnish Civil War, 1917-1918”
•James E. Waller, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Whitworth
College: “Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide
and Mass Killing”
The Library of Social Science is a center devoted to the creation
and dissemination on scholarship that has the potential to impact
on the real world. Please visit our website at
http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/
For information on this symposium or other upcoming Library of
Social Science events, please contact Jay Bernstein, Ph.D.,
Symposium Director at 718-393-1104,
by FAX at 413-832-8145, or by e-mail at
libraryofsocialscience@earthlink.net.
Library of Social Science
92-30 56th Avenue, Suite 3-E
Elmhurst, NY 11373
Richard A. Koenigsberg, Ph. D., Director
718-393-1081
Jay H. Bernstein, Ph. D., Executive Director
718-393-1104
Mei Ha Chan, Associate Director
718-393-1075
Fax: 413-832-8145
Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/
01/15/2004
Hærens Operative Kommando oplyser, at der sandsynligvis ikke
var kemiske kampstoffer i de granater, danske soldater fandt fredag
i det sydlige Irak, skriver Information.
01/15/2004
MIndst 21 af de amerikanske dødsfald i Irak skyldes
selvmord, noterer Information.
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