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Between the Living and the Dead: A Halloween Conference Saturday 30th October - Sunday 31st October 2021 Online Across cultures and time, humans have demonstrated a primal need to maintain a connection with the dead. The idea that the veil separating the living and the dead becomes porous at...

The idea of the child as innocent, as pure, the ‘little angel’ in need of protection from the harsh realities of life and the corrupting influences of the world around us has come to dominate our thinking, language, values, social policies and educational philosophies. Children are seen as ‘little...

Both essentialist and contextual notions of Evil – the things we do as well as the things that happen to us – continue to be a stubborn and destructive presence in our lives. But what is “Evil”? What are the moral, political, philosophical, pragmatic, individual and global implications of calling...

Margaret Atwood is credited with observing that men fear that women will laugh at them, while women fear that men will kill them. Despite noteworthy advances for women across societies and cultures, the power dynamics Atwood so eloquently describes continue to inform the construction of barriers...

Bad Mothers A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Sunday 14th March 2021 - Monday 15th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal As givers of life, mothers occupy an essential role in ensuring the ongoing survival of the human race. The bond between mother and child is commonly revered in societies as...

The second meeting of the global inclusive interdisciplinary Evil Women: Women and Evil project will explore and examine all aspects of the conjunctions between women, the feminine and evil with a view to forming a selective publication to engender further collaboration, research and discussion. On...

Monsters An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Saturday 31st August 2019 - Sunday 1st September 2019 Lisbon, Portugal This inclusive interdisciplinary conference seeks to investigate and explore the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human culture throughout history...

Evil Children: Children and Evil Monday 15th July 2019 - Tuesday 16th July 2019 Verona, Italy The idea of the child as innocent, as pure, the ‘little angel’ in need of protection from the harsh realities of life and the corrupting influences of the world around us has come to dominate our thinking...

2nd Global Conference: The Changing Faces of Evil An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Saturday 9th March - Sunday 10th March 2019 Prague, Czech Republic Evil – the things we do as well as the things that happen to us – continues to be a stubborn and destructive presence in our lives. Despite...

Evil Women: Women and Evil An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Saturday 1st December 2018 – Sunday 2nd December 2018 Vienna, Austria Few things capture the human imagination as much as evil, a notoriously slippery concept that enjoys universal recognition yet defies easy definition. As a term...