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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...

Storytelling and Trauma Special Focus: Abuse 2nd Global Interdisciplinary Conference Friday 12th March 2021 - Saturday 13th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal The experience of trauma is central to the human condition, but how we understand our experiences and explain them to others remains a subject of...

Supernatural Connections An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Friday 12th march 2021 - Saturday 13th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal As a constant and chilling presence in individual lives and the popular imagination, the supernatural, as a cultural phenomenon, is prone to repeated revivals and...

Storytelling and the Body 2nd Global Inclusive Conference Friday 12th March 2021 - Saturday 13th March 2021 Lisbon, Portugal Bodies of all kinds surround us. Glamorous bodies, modified bodies, healthy or unhealthy bodies, engineered bodies, trafficked bodies, in/visible bodies, dismembered bodies,...

Sport and the Power to Inspire Change: A Global Virtual Symposium with Danny Crates, Phil Davies, Derek Peaple and Karl Spracklen Tuesday 21st July 2020 - Wednesday 22nd July 2020 ‘Sport’, as Mandela famously observed, ‘has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the...

We live in an age of global change, the culmination of a process that has been going on for more than two hundred and fifty years. Impressive technological, scientific and cultural achievements seem to have been accompanied by a deep erosion of the sense of meaning and the possibility of meaning...

Global Horror : Local Perspectives An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Saturday 4th April 2020 - Sunday 5th April 2020 Lisbon, Portugal Horror pervades human experience. It affects us both as individuals and as members of social communities, it is recurrent in pop culture and arguably present...

Saturday 7th March 2020 - Sunday 8th March 2020 Prague, Czech Republic What is it to be human? How can we best live our lives in today’s complex world? What values show humanity at its finest, and how can these be cultivated? As part of our series of events ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Social...

Saturday 7th March 2020 - Sunday 8th March 2020 Prague, Czech Republic Few relationships are as significant as our friendships . The Buddha was once asked by his cousin, Ananda, “Is friendship part of the path?” The Buddha’s response, “No Ananda, friendship is the whole path,” suggesting the...

Saturday 7th March 2020 - Sunday 8th March 2020 Prague, Czech Republic Tantalizing, alluring and dangerous all at once, the erotic is one of the many great mysteries of the human experience. It crosses racial, ethnic, social, socio-economic, political, educational and age-related boundaries. It...