SLSAeu Conference 2017
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The conference will be structured around the following subthemes:
  1. Empathy, Ethics, Morality (Convenors: Markus Wild)
    Possible themes:
    - Empathy as the foundation of ethics and morality
    - The “Against Empathy” movement
    - Cruelty and pleasure in being anti-empathetic
    - Political dimensions of empathy
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  2. Empathy, Narrative, Imagination (Convenors: Franziska Gygax and Susanne Schmetkamp)
    - Empathy as the precondition of fiction and imagination
    - Strategies of prompting and/or preventing empathy
    - Structures of empathy in sound and image
    - Evolution of empathy and historical perspectives on empathy

  3. Empathy and the Nonhuman (Convenors: Manuela Rossini and Jakob Zinsstag)
    - Future developments in robotics and AI, including humanoid robots and robot assistants
    - Responsibility and legal and moral aspects of new technologies
    - Cyber wars
    - Animals and plants

  4. Collective Empathy (Convenors: Chris Mueller)
    - Cultural differences and cultural politics of empathy
    - Empathy as a phenomenon of mediation
    - Communication and quantum physics
    - Collective feelings and affects
    - Empathy, populism and political activism

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