Utopias of Nonviolence. Ideas, Regulations, and Blindspots in Europe since 1945

Utopias of Nonviolence. Ideas, Regulations, and Blindspots in Europe since 1945

Veranstalter
Svenja Goltermann, Jakob Odenwald, Annelie Ramsbrock, Franziska Rueedi
PLZ
8001
Ort
Zürich
Land
Switzerland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
01.12.2022 - 02.12.2022
Deadline
15.11.2022
Von
Jakob Odenwald, Forschungsstelle für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Universität Zürich

This international workshop aims to engage with the history of nonviolence in Europe in the second half of the 20th century. In diverse social and political spheres, different forms of violence have been delegitimised, and nonviolence has become a guiding principle. Has there been a paradigm shift regarding ideals of nonviolence in politics, social relations, and public discourse in Europe?

Utopias of Nonviolence. Ideas, Regulations, and Blindspots in Europe since 1945

Ideals of nonviolence have been central in shaping European societies after World War 2. Nonviolence has become a guiding principle in social and political spheres as diverse as conflict resolution or education.

Are we witnessing signs of a paradigm shift regarding ideals of nonviolence in politics, social relations, and public discourse in Europe? Numerous examples highlight apparent tensions between these ideals and lived experiences of violence in different spheres. However, what does it mean to advocate for nonviolence in a world that continues to experience high levels of violence? We will explore these questions and the fields of inquiry they open up: what are the genealogies of concepts of nonviolence in different European societies? Which authors and texts were influential? What roles did various scientific disciplines, organisations, and actors play in popularising and entrenching concepts of nonviolence? Whose experiences, voices, and interests were centred or marginalised in different fields and debates? When, how, and why were ideals of nonviolence invoked, embraced, or contested – and by whom? Which forms of violence have been delegitimised, and which ones have been entrenched, normalised, and rendered invisible in discourse? In which spheres and to what effect have expectations of nonviolence become institutionalised? How do ideals of nonviolence relate to ideology, power, political interests, and forms of exclusion? Moreover, has the discourse on nonviolence impacted how violence is framed and spoken about, or vice versa?

Please register by November 15 (nonviolence@hist.uzh.ch) as spaces are limited.

Programm

Thursday, 01 December 2022

13:00−13:15
Svenja Goltermann (Universität Zürich): Introductory remarks/ Einführende Bemerkungen

13:15−15:00
Corinna Bittner (Universität zu Köln): “Never again...” − Interpretations of violence by survivors of the Emsland camps between 1945 and 1960

Holger Nehring (University of Stirling): Counter(-)Violence: The “Stigma of Violence” and the Utopia of Security in the West German Peace Movements from the 1950s into the 1980s

Christiane Reinecke (Europa-Universität Flensburg): “Race Riots” and the (De)Legitimization of Violence in Public Debates and Activist Circles in late 20th-Century Britain and France

Moderation: Annelie Ramsbrock

15:30−16:45
Jakub Střelec (Charles University, Prague): Violent crime as a threat to the post-war order. A Comparison of Forensic Psychiatric Knowledge in Czechoslovakia and West Germany (1945–1970)

Hubertus Büschel (Universität Kassel): Racializing Violence - Colonial Psychiatry and Western Ideologies of “the African Mind”

Moderation: Svenja Goltermann

Friday, 02 December 2022

09:00−10:15
Aline Müller (Universität Genf): Women’s Peace Movement (1979–1983): Transnational Feminist Concepts and Practices of Nonviolence

Juliane Röleke (Leibnitz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam): The Northern Irish “Peace Women” and their Reception in West Germany throughout the 1970s

Moderation: Franziska Rueedi

10:45−12:00
Jennifer Crane (University of Oxford): ‘We Just Want Our Children to be Safe’: Experiential Expertise and Nonviolence in British Child Protection, 1960–2000

Jakob Odenwald (Universität Zürich): Detached children? “Aggression” and West German family policy during the 1970s and 1980s

Moderation: Svenja Goltermann

13:30−14:45
Sarah Jacobson (Leibnitz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz): (Non)Violence and the Marginalization of Migrant Participation in 1970s Housing Occupation Movements in Italy and West Germany

Annalisa Martin (Universität Greifswald): Feminism and the German “Whore’s Movement” in the 1970s and 1980s

Moderation: Catherine Davies

15:15−16:30
Annelie Ramsbrock (Universität Greifswald): The “Significant Other” in the West German Penal System. On the Relationship of Inmates and Guards

Janosch Steuwer (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Adolescents - Perpetrators of Violence - Right-Wing Extremists. On the Emergence of Anti-Violence Training in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1980s and 1990s

Moderation: Jakob Odenwald

16:30−17:00
Franziska Rueedi (Universität Zürich): Final remarks/ Abschließende Bemerkungen

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E-Mail: nonviolence@hist.uzh.ch

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