31/08/2022
VIOLENCE AND THE STATE
14:45–15:30 Daniel Schley (University of Bonn): „Killing the Buddha“ – „Praising the Buddha“. Some Preliminary Remarks on the Discourse of Religious Violence in Medieval Japan
14:45–15:30 Hans van Wees (University College London): War and Slavery in Early Greece
16:15–16:45 Coffee Break
16:45–17:30 David Bachrach (University of New Hampshire): Feud, Governmental Authority, and the Balance of Power in the Conduct of War in Ottonian Germany

01/09/2022
NARRATING VIOLENCE
9:15–10:00 Nathalie Barrandon (University of Reims): The Language of Transgression in Latin Sources
10:00–10:45 Werner Riess (University of Hamburg): Caesar´s Distinct Strategies of Violence in his Gallic and Civil War
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:00 Birgit Zacke (University of Bonn): Swaz uns von strîte ist geseit – Narrativisation and Aestheticisation of Violence in Middle High German Literature
12:00–12:45 Stefanie Rüther (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory): Justified? Norms of War and Narratives of Excessive Violence in the Middle Age
12:45–14:00 Lunch Break

GENDER, IDENTITY AND VIOLENCE
14:00–14:45 Hendrik Hess (University of Bonn): Violence, Power, Masculinity – The Representation of the Ruler at the End of the 13th Century
14:45–15:30 Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (Davidson College): They Forced Her to Drink – Violence, Gender, and Enslavement in Attic Oratory
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:45 John Serrati (University of Ottawa): War as Controlled Violence – Masculinity and Female Agency in the Roman Republic
16:45–17:30 Hitomi Tonomura (University of Michigan): Gendered Narrative of Violence The Case of Premodern Japan

02/09/2022
PERFORMING VIOLENCE
9:15–10:00 Isabelle Pimouguet-Pedarros (University of Nantes): War, Extreme Violence and Transgression – Definitions and Case Studies for the Hellenistic Period
10:00–10:45 Stefanie Holders (University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg): The Desecration of the Fallen in the Ilias and in Herodotus
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:00 Martin Clauss (University of Chemnitz): Violence and Heroism in the European Middle Ages
12:00–12:45 Beth Scaffidi (University of California, Merced): Trophy Heads as Agents of Intergroup Warfare in the Pre-Hispanic Andes
12:45–14:00 Lunch Break

VIOLENT ACTORS
14:00–14:45 Beatrice Manz (Tufts University): Why was the Mongol Conquest of Eastern Iran so Violent?
14:45–15:30 Karl Friday (Saitama University): Thugs & Thegns: Appraisals and Appropriations of Violence in Classical Japan
15:30–15:45 Coffee Break
15:45–16:30 Lennart Gilhaus (University of Bonn): The Violence of the Ten Thousand – Dynamics and Practices of a Greek Community of Violence
16:30–17:15 Ali Anooshahr (University of California, Davis): „Lest Your Justice Prove Violence“: Contested Defintions in 16th-Century Mughal India

18:15–19:30 Elizabeth Arkush (University of Pittsburgh): Relationships with Enemies: Cross-Cultural Patterns in War, Violence, and the Politics of Production

03/09/2022
CONQUEST AND THE IMPACT OF VIOLENCE
9:15–10:00 Jürgen Paul (University of Hamburg): Cities and their Hinterland: Scenes of Conquest and Devastation, Late 12th to Early 15th Century
10:00–10:45 Dominik Maschek (University of Oxford): From Fregellae to Actium – The Scale and Socio-Cultural Impact of Organised Violence in Late Republican Italy
10:45–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 R. Alan Covey (University of Texas at Austin): Emerging Expressions of Military Violence in the Inca Empire

11:45–12:30 Concluding discussion