WUNRN
HONOUR KILLING ACROSS CULTURE AND
TIME
- CALL FOR PAPERS
8-9 December 2011
~ Call for Papers ~
Honour-motivated violence is a trans-historical and cross-cultural phenomenon, yet it has recently become a metonym for Islamic and anti-modern cultures. How can inter-disciplinary conversations unpack this association to produce innovative ways of thinking about and acting against violence justified through claims of honour?
This conference will explore honour killing across periods, places, political contexts, legal regimes and religions. It will bring together scholars, artists and activists addressing such questions as:
- How is honour embodied and performed in ways that lead
to gendered violence?
- How are concepts of honour and shame invoked in acts of
violence, their justification, and adjudication?
- Through what behaviours, relations, and authorities has
honour-related violence been codified and challenged?
- How do status anxieties and social asymmetries
contribute to honour killing?
- How do anti-violence strategies negotiate competing
claims of human rights and cultural relativism?
- What are the implications of addressing honour killing
as a species of domestic violence?
- How are personal and familial honour-related killings
distinguished from collective, public and state violence?
- Under what historical circumstances, and through what
strategies, have honourable masculinity and violence been dissociated?
- Can honour be reconceptualised in ways that challenge
violent practices justified in the name of honour?
Abstract deadline:
1 August 2011
Scholars, artists and activists are welcomed as presenters. Please submit abstracts of 250 words maximum. Artists should include links to images and/or audio files. Please include a one-page curriculum vitae plus your full name, e-mail address, website address (if available), as well as your institutional affiliation.
Participants are encouraged to seek their own funding for travel
and accommodation. Visitors to
Please submit your abstracts online.
Convenor: Dr
Carolyn Strange,
Funding from the