CONF CFP: Terror and the Challenges to Nation-State, October 2009, Lisbon

Call for Papers: Terror and the challenges to nation-state
Lisbon 29-30th, October 2009
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Convenor:
Prof. Diogo Pires Aurélio (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, UNL Lisbon)

Keynote speakers:

Ken Booth (University of Wales, British Academy)
Andrew Silk (University of East London)

Call for Papers
(30 minutes)

The conference aims to assess the state of current research on terrorism and its challenges to nation state. The conference will be held at the Faculty of human and social sciences – New University of Lisbon, Portugal, on the 29 and 30th of October, 2009.

International terrorism is a historical phenomenon without precedent. To think its relation to States intertwined in an international community is the aim of the conference, relating such phenomena to philosophical and religious concepts determinant in western thought and to assess the changes that actual historical experience implies to such concepts. Political philosophy is thus the privileged field to such an approach:

(1) Retrieving sacrificial violence theories as a negative way of communication with the concept of totality and time transcendence and social differentiation – from ideological terrorism with no territorial claims to eco-terrorism.

(2) Developing an analysis of the changes brought about at the level of state sovereignty, understood as the last juridical resort and as the monopoly of violence, together with a reflection on trans-national security measures and their legitimacy at intra-state level.

Selected papers will be published in hard copy.

Abstracts of max. 500 words in length should be submitted to terror_nationstate@yahoo.co.uk by 30th June.

Panels will be arranged on the basis of the papers received according to homogeneity of content.

No funding provided.

Enquiries relating to any subject should be sent to the e-mail address indicated above.