Can I remind any interested postgraduates of the final deadline this month
of the call for papers for the following conference (originally advertised
as 'State Violence and Humanitarian Response'). The conference is being
organised by History postgraduate students at Manchester. They are keen to
have some more papers from postgraduate students in Classics and Ancient
History.
Stephen Hodkinson (on behalf of the Editorial Board, European Review of
History)
WAR, CULTURE AND HUMANITY FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES
An interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Manchester
Hulme Hall, Oxford Place, Manchester, M14 5RR, 15-17 APRIL 2004
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline 31 Dec 2003)
The new Research Centre for the Cultural History of War at the University
of Manchester in conjunction with the European Review of History/Revue
européenne d'histoire invite proposals for an international conference on
the history of state violence, the cultural responses it has evoked, and
humanity's response to cultures of violence. Our objective is a genuine
historicisation of state violence that counters the tendency to treat
twentieth-century practices as a prism through which to interpret organised
violence in previous centuries. We are seeking to open a series of
dialogues: between established and younger scholars, between historians
from North America and their counterparts in Europe, between historians of
the ancient, mediaeval and modern world, and between history and other
disciplines.
Confirmed Speakers: Jay Winter (Yale), Jacques Semelin (Directeur de
recherches au CADIS/EHESS), Hans van Wees (UCL), Ido de Haan (Amsterdam)
We would particularly welcome papers that develop the following themes:
State violence: the practices, techniques and representations associated
with genocide and 'ethnic cleansing', forced migration, incarceration,
enslavement and cultural devastation (and the significance of race,
religion, ethnicity and historical precedent in these contexts).
Perpetrators & Victims: the attribution of individual responsibility,
criminality and guilt; the contested ascription and appropriation
of 'victim' status and problems of powerlessness, 'voicelessness' and
justice; and experiences of exclusion, statelessness or refugeedom
engendered by state violence.
Humanitarian Responses: the legitimacies of inter-state intervention, from
notions of international 'religious brotherhoods' to universal Human
Rights; the construction and representation of 'humanitarian crises'; the
theoretical and practical dilemmas associated with international policing
and armed humanitarian intervention.
Aftermaths: the possibilities of redress, restitution and reconstruction,
either at state level (e.g. in modern times through international war
crimes tribunals) or personally (e.g. through testimony, or oral or written
histories); the process of historicising, memorialising, and commemorating
state violence and humanitarian intervention, and the significance of these
practices for both agent and subject in terms of citizenship, community or
national identity.
Please submit 500 word proposals for panels or individual papers with a CV
by the end of December 2003 to the addresses below. Individual papers
should last 20 minutes.
Papers will be published on the Centre for the Cultural History of War's
website, and may be selected for a 'special edition' of the European Review
of History/ Revue européenne d'histoire.
Contact: Rebecca Gill and Jo Laycock, History Department, University of
Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
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