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litsci-l-digest Monday, May 1 2006 Volume 01 : Number
175
In this issue:
conference in Malta / evolution
Special Issue: Psychological Anthropology of War
FWD: SLSA election results
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:44:00 +0200
From: "Martin Potschka"
Subject: conference in Malta / evolution
This is not a submission to the nyc slsa conference. By coincidence I
also
organize a workshop on evolution at the ISSEI Malta conference in August
2006. For details please read below or the attachment. Conctributions
welcome!
CALL FOR PAPERS
workshop: The science and history of evolutionary theory
In the United States, high (secondary) school education is virtually
compulsory. Teenage students are forced to learn and submit to
examination
on a doctrine deemed sacrilegious by many Christian fundamentalists.
Consequently, teaching evolution is widely resented and frequently
resisted
through efforts of democratically elected officials. Recently, efforts
to
remove evolution from high school curricula or delineate its scope have
been
rebuffed by the courts without recognizing the legitimate concern of
parents
to supervise the moral education of their children. Intelligent design
remains an academic research agenda. While it may be premature to expose
Secondary school students with unexplored ideas, it remains worthwhile
to
academically examine such ideas. Rather than furthering the scientific
study
of evolution, controversy has been an impediment. We propose, therefore,
to
promote evolutionary studies by launching a range of useful new debates:
1) Trial and error are minimalistic requirements to bootstrap
complexity,
and hence should also be the initial stages in the development of
intelligence. Hence regardless of whether we have understood speciation
in
full, the structuralistic principle of Darwinism remains applicable even
if
we engage intelligence.
2) cultural evolution operates with higher complexities and possibly
different mechanisms that remain to be specified.
3) By scientific standards Intelligent design postulates a
deus-ex-machina
without thusfar providing mechanisms of interference with the genetic
apparatus and without explaining intelligence itself.
4) How have art, intelligence, rituals and fetishism evolved: what are
their
sources and what are the conditions for their development?
5) Are science and religion complementary descriptions of the world, and
are
their epistemologies compatible?
The organizers invite papers in any of the above categories. Please
contact:
martin.potschka@univie.ac.at or sshostak@pitt.edu
Deadline for submissions is: 15th April 2006. deadline extended to 15th
May
2006
Your contributions will be published in the conference proceedings;
manuscripts should not exceed 3000 words (approx. 10 pages).
For information about the conference, registration, travel directions
etc.
see: http://issei2006.haifa.ac.il
For background information on the subject see:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Martin.Potschka/Evolution.htm
~~~~~~~~~~~
Martin Potschka
martin.potschka@univie.ac.at
+43-1-3175713 (fon+fax+voice recorder)
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/martin.potschka/
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:08:38 -0400
From: "Orion Anderson"
Subject: Special Issue: Psychological Anthropology of War
NOW AVAILABLE: Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW on the=20
PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAR=20
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The Special Issue of the PEACE REVIEW (published by Taylor and Francis)
=
is
now available. Based on over 150 proposals received, eleven articles =
were
accepted for publication. These essays represent the cutting edge of
contemporary thought on the psychology of warfare. A LIMITED NUMBER OF
COPIES OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE NOW ARE AVAILABLE.=20
For information on how to
obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION =
OF
WAR, please CLICK HERE.=20
Articles included in this special issue are listed below. We also have
provided below brief excerpts that convey the excitement of this special
issue.=20
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ARTICLES INCLUDE:
* SACRIFICE, TRANSCENDENCE AND THE SOLDIER, Babak Rahimi, Assistant
Professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies at the University of California
=
at
San Diego.=20
* GROUP PSYCHOLOGY, SACRIFICE AND WAR, Norman Steinhart, M.D.,
Research Fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the
University of Toronto, Canada=20
* WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS WILL TO SACRIFICE, Patrick Porter, Tutor in
Modern History at the University of Oxford=20
* MEMORIALIZATION AND THE SELLING OF WAR, Deborah D. Buffton,
Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse=20
* THE MYTHOLOGY OF WAR, Dr. Andrew Robinson, Political theorist,
University of Nottingham=20
* THE MANIC ECSTASY OF WAR, Wendy C. Hamblet, Professor of Philosophy,
Adelphi University, New York=20
* HUMILIATION AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, Paul Saurette, Assistant
Professor School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, =
Canada=20
* DOMINANCE AND SUBMISSION IN POSTMODERN WAR IMAGERY, Myra Mendible,
Associate Professor of American Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University
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* GUILT AND SACRIFICE IN U.S. WARFARE, Carl Mirra, American Studies at
SUNY College, Old Westbury=20
* MALE GENDER INSTABILITY AND WAR, Jeannette Marie Mageo, Professor of
Anthropology, Washington State University=20
* COMBAT MOTIVATION, Johan M.G. van der Dennen, senior researcher on
war and peace at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands=20
For information on how to
obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION =
OF
WAR, please CLICK HERE.=20
For further information please contact Orion Anderson at (718) 393-1104
=
or
send an email to
oanderson@ideologiesofwar.com=20
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EXCERPTS FROM THE ARTICLES:
Buffton: We see the message of war resurrecting society in war =
memorials.
One of the most influential sculptors of war memorials in post World War
=
I
France created monuments in which we see a peasant woman at the grave of
=
a
soldier marked by a cross and a helmet, but sprouting from the grave =
come
abundant sheaves of wheat. The message is that the blood of the dead
soldiers brings forth new life to reinvigorate the country.
Saurette: Once we understand 9/11 as fundamentally humiliating - and not
just threatening - the United States, we can make better sense of the
elements of the global war on terror. A legal approach would never have
=
been
accepted by the administration, even if international laws were reliable
=
and
effective enough to pursue al-Qaeda. Why? Although courts promise to =
provide
justice, they rarely explicitly deliver vengeance and =
counter-humiliation.
Criminal prosecution may provide restitution, but it could not deliver =
the
larger goal of counter-humiliating al-Qaeda and thus publicly
re-establishing global respect for America.
For information on how to
obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION =
OF
WAR, please CLICK HERE.=20
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Mendible: Humiliation is one of the techniques through which =
institutions
and nations construct docile and disciplined bodies. Military =
institutions
inscribe the value of discipline and control on the soldier's body and
psyche. In forging a marine corps-a military body defined by strength =
and
hardness, the soldier extirpates any trace of the feminine. Discipline
begins with self-abnegation; absolute surrender to the authority of the
stern father figure who punishes and rewards.
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Rahimi: The soldier's experience in believing that he is dying for =
something
greater than himself, for something that will outlast his individual,
perishable life in place of a greater, eternal vitality (embodied in the
national or a religious identity) is crucial for the ideological
justification of war.
=20
For information on how to
obtain a copy of the Special Issue on the PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION =
OF
WAR, please CLICK HERE.=20
=20
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 15:03:11 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller"
Subject: FWD: SLSA election results
From: "Carol Colatrella"
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 18:26:15 +0000 GMT
This year's Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts ballots gave
been counted.
Richard Nash has been elected as incoming 2nd vice president. Victoria
Alexander has been elected as incoming member at large. Their two-year
terms will begin at the fall SLSA conference in New York.
The results were very close, and I thank Ursula Heise and Manuela
Rossini for their willingness to run.
The ballot measure asking for approval of the updated bylaws also
passed.
Thanks,
Carol Colatrella
Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless
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