Deadline: 19.10.2007.

Violent Interventions / 7-8 February 2008Call for Papers
Against the backdrop of recent and prospective interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon, and Darfur as well as past interventions in places such as India, Congo, Zimbabwe, and Guatemala, the 15th Annual YCISS Conference seeks to interrogate practices, processes, and perspectives of violent interventions. For the purpose of exploring the logic(s), breadth, and scope of violent interventions, the conference will investigate the methods, sites, and justifications of and for violent interventions on a global, transnational, local, and personal level. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and so we encourage submissions from a wide range of disciplines that approach the following issues from various angles. Potential areas of inquires may include, but are not restricted to, the following:

Militarizing Processes of Interventions
- Humanitarian Interventions
- International Law and Use of Force
- War Economies
- Friend/Enemy
- Regional Development and Interventions

The Creed of ‘Good Intentions’
- Religion and ‘Just Wars’
- Marketing the Military
- Intentions, Legitimacy, and Force

The A/Effects of Violent Interventions
- Postcoloniality
- Trauma and Displacement
- Subjectivity

Images and Imaginings of Violent Interventions
- Spectacles
- Aesthetics
- Bodies

Theorizing Violence
- Violence on Paper
- Everyday/Social Reproduction
- Creativity and Destruction.

Please submit abstracts (max. 200 words) to Chris Hendershot and Mark Ayyash (yciss15conf@gmail.com) no later than Friday, 19 October 2007.