Location
All Souls College
This conference brings global approaches to the history of violence, reassessing the nature of violence during the early modern period. Using violence and the restraint of violence as a unifying theme, participants are encouraged to make trans-national comparisons and connections across the early modern world.
By examining large-scale, organized violence alongside broader social and cultural patterns, this conference will explore the boundaries between ‘war’ and ‘violence’, as well as how they relate to ideas of morality, social order, law, and political legitimacy in the early modern world. We encourage scholars to address contemporary perceptions of violence and its restraint, framing analysis through thematic, rather than geographic, approaches.
Speakers include:
- Wayne Lee
- Anthony McFarlane
- Stuart Carroll
- Pratyay Nath
- Brian Sandberg
- Cecile Vidal
- Lauren Benton
- Adam Clulow
- Richard Reid
- James Belich.
For further information and programme see: http://global.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=2395
To register, visit the University’s online store:http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/short-courses/history-faculty/history-faculty-events/a-violent-world-changes-and-limits-to-largescale-violence-in-early-modernity
The registration fee is £36. This covers entry to conference sessions, tea/coffee each day, lunch on 30 June and 1 July, and a drinks reception on 29 June.
Organizers:
- Peter H. Wilson, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford
- Marie Houllemare, Institut Universitaire de France, Université d’Amiens (CHSSC)
- Erica Charters, Global History Centre, University of Oxford