The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.1.3f)

Friday 7th March 2008
from 09.00
Registration

10:00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and John Parry

10:30
Session 1:  Lead Paper
Chair: John Parry

Paul Finkelman

12.00
Lunch

13:30
Session 2:  Torture
Chair: John Parry

John Janzekovic
Torture: Ticking Bombs and Slippery Slopes

Elizabeth Rapaport
Torture After Nuremberg: U.S. Law and Practice

Jinee Lokaneeta
Torture in Postcolonial India: A Liberal Paradox?

Welat Zeydanlioglu
“The Period of Barbarity”:  Turkification, State Violence and Torture in Modern Turkey

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 3a:  Equality, Punishment, Therapy
Chair: Rachel Waterstradt

Aysel Doğan
Punishment as the Legitimate Use of State Power

Anja Eleveld
The Technology of Individual Responsibility in the Life Cycle Arrangement

Ruth Miller
Therapeutic Death

Session 3b:  Ethnicity, Democracy, and Private Violence
Chair: Florence Boizard

Morten Oxenboell
“Evil Bands” and Violent Narratives in Thirteenth Century Japan

Walters Samah
The Challenges of Ethnicity and Regionalism in the Context of Democratic Transition in Cameroon

Gavin Weston
‘The Satanist’ and the Mistaken Mob: Attributing ‘Evil’ in the Absence of State

17.30
Announcements
Wine Reception (with delegates from the Forgiveness project)


Saturday 8th March 2008
09:00
Session 4:  Immigration, Assimilation and Detention
Chair: Ted Seto

Ana Ila
Minorities and their Contributions to the Development of the Host Country

Francesca Dominello
Protecting us from the Fforces of Evil: Judicial and non-Judicial Detention in Australia

Benny Setianto
In Search of Protection: Facing ‘Janus Faces’ in Protecting Chinese Ethnic in Indonesia

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 5:  Practicing Law, Practicing Evil
Chair: Noel Boulting

Florence Boizard
Evil Clauses and the Play of the Law with Itself

John Parry
Change and Continuity in Criminal Procedure’s War on Terror

Kate Storey-White
The Linguistics of Evil and Crime in the Courts, Media, and Government

12.00
Lunch

13:30
Session 6a:  Defining Citizens
Chair: Elizabeth Rapaport

Anat Gueta
The Image of the Vichy Regime as Reflected in its Anti-Semitic Legislation

Dam Shubhankar
Citizenship, Equality and Aggression: The Construction of ‘Illegality’ and the Supreme Court of India

Gizem Tongo
Rethinking the Stranger in a “World of Strangers” – Power Relations, Tolerance and Cosmopolitanism

Stephanie Wolfe
Citizenship, Law, and Injustice

Session 6b:  International Law, International Violence
Chair: Ruth Miller

Thomas Kane
Lying Down with Dogs . . . The Inadequacy of Machiavellianism as a Basis for U.S. Foreign Policy

Jan F.W. van Angeren
Coercion, The Neglected Quintessence of War

Noel Boulting: 
Hobbes on International Law?

Daniel Šmihula
The Idea of the Legal Regulation of War

15.30
Coffee

16:00
Session 7:  Civil Liberties and Terror
Chair: John Janzekovic

Shawn Marie Boyne
The Criminalization of Speech in the Age of Terror: Casting a Wide net for Evildoers

Francine Baker
Civil Liberty v Collective Security

Susan Herman
Evil, Law, and State Surveillance

Abraham Wagner
State Sponsorship of Evil: The Role of Covert Operations

18:00
Sessions End


Sunday 9th March 2008
09:00
Session 8:  States and Speech
Chair: Thomas Kane

Rachel Waterstradt
“Does the State’s Use of Propaganda Erase Individual Responsibility? Paul Ricoeur and Arguing Ourselves Free of the chains of Idealogy”

David White
“I Hate Everything About You” – The Evil of Hate Speech Laws

Ted Seto
Is Book-Burning Bad?

10.30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 9:  Law, Morality, Cosmopolitanism
Chair: Jan F.W. van Angeren

Mohammad Shahabuddin
A Normative Analysis of International Law Compatibility with Ethnic Conflicts

Stephen Hawkins
Moral Challenges to Laws in Foreign States: A Contextualist Approach

Takeshi Morisato
On Redeeming Moral Philosophy Before God

12:30
Development Meeting
Conference Close