Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Political Violence

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Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Political Violence

Veranstalter
Convenors: Carola Dietze (GHI Washington), Mareika Knig (GHI Paris), Benedikt Stuchtey (GHI London), Claudia Verhoeven (George Mason University)
Veranstaltungsort
Tulane University, New Orleans (LA)
Ort
Louisiana
Land
United States
Vom - Bis
23.10.2008 - 26.10.2008
Website
www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?
Von
Dietze, Carola

Since September 11, 2001, talk of “postmodern terrorism” (that is a terrorism which is transnational, less discriminate, less ideological, more religious, more deadly) has become ubiquitous. And because “postmodern terrorism” presupposes “modern terrorism,” over the past few years sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in contemporary history have often classified specific forms of political violence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and the US as “modern terrorism.” Thus far, however, they have neither convincingly defined the characteristics of “modern terrorism,” nor shown the concrete connections between modernity and terrorism. Moreover, in line with the most common assumptions about modernity, work on the earliest development of terrorism tends to be Eurocentric: irregular political violence in Latin America, South and East Asia, as well as Africa—i.e. regions of the world not considered to be on the forefront of modernity—tends to be excluded from discussions of modern terrorism.

Through this conference we seek to explore the emergence of terrorism in the nineteenth century. Taking seriously the critique of Eurocentric history writing, we want to examine this form of political violence on a global scale without presupposing a reified idea of “modernity.” Instead, taking up recent trends in the writing of global history, we will research the connections between large-scale political and social changes in the world of the nineteenth century and the changes in the use of political violence towards what has come to be understood as “terrorism.” In this way we hope to contribute to the understanding of terrorism and the discussion of modernity, as well as to the new ways of writing world history.

The Conference is also sponsored by:
Department of History at Tulane University
Murphy Institute of Political Economy at Tulane University
Foundation of the German Humanities Institutes Abroad

Programm

Program:

Thursday, October 23

6:00 pm
Welcome: Sam Ramer (Tulane University)

Introduction: Carola Dietze and Claudia Verhoeven:
Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Violence.

6:30 pm
Keynote-Lectures:
Alexander Demandt (Freie Universität Berlin)
Terrorism: A Timeless Topic

David Rapoport (UCLA)
The Distinctive Features of Modern Terrorism from the 1880s to the 2020s(?)

Friday, October 24

9:00 – 10:30 am
Panel I.: PREMODERN
Chair: Barbara B. Diefendorf (Boston University)

Johannes Dillinger (Oxford Brookes University)
Forerunners of Terrorism and Nineteenth-Century Historians

Patrick Bahners (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
The World Church of Terror: The Papacy after Lord Acton

Dan Edelstein (Stanford University)
Law and Terror: Toward a Theory of Totalitarian Justice

11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panel II: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Chair: Oleg Budnitzkii (Academy of Science, Moscow)

Joshua D. Goldstein and Gavin Cameron (University of Calgary)
What is so Terrible about the Terror? Hegel, the French Revolution, and Contemporary Terrorism as Reenactment of Modernity

Klaus Ries (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Philosophy of the Act

Lynn Patyk (University of Florida)
Modern Terrorism and the Sensitive Heart

2:30 – 4:00 pm
Panel III.: WARS & THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE BOMB
Chair: Martin A. Miller (Duke University)

Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University)
Barricade Warfare and the Origins of Revolutionary and Military Modernity

Ann Larabee (Michigan State University)
USA and International Distribution

Niall Whelehan (European University Institute)
End to Insurrection? Fenian Violence in the Late Nineteenth Century

4:30 – 6:30 pm
Panel IV: BIG DEVELOPMENTS
Chair: David Blackbourn (Harvard University)

Christopher Ely (Florida Atlantic University)
Urban Space and Populist Terror in Russia, 1878-1881

Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
Attacking the Empire’s Achilles Heels: Railroads and Terrorism in Czarist Russia

Mareike König (GHI Paris)
Terrorism, Migration and the fear of an International Complot: The Example of Germans in Paris, 1871-1895

Richard Bach Jensen (Louisiana Scholar’s College)
Worldwide Anarchist Terrorism and its Repression, 1881-1914

Saturday, October 25

9:00 – 10:30 am
Panel V: COLONIAL & ANTI-COLONIAL ASSASSINATIONS
Chair: Benedikt Stuchtey (GHI London)

Michal Targowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
Against Colonialism or Social Inequities? Polish Terrorists in the Long Nineteenth Century

Timothy H. Parsons (Washington University)
Pacification or Terrorism? The Assassination of Koitalel arap Samoei

Neeti Nair (University of Virginia)
Gandhian "satyagraha" as terrorism: the limits to non-violence in late colonial India

11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panel VI: COMPARISONS
Chair: Adrian Guelke (Queen’s University of Belfast))

Moshe Zimmermann (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
Palestine/Israel

Gotelind Müller-Saini (Universität Heidelberg)
China and the “Anarchist Wave of Assassinations”: Politics, Violence and Modernity in East Asia Around the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Peter Waldmann (Universität Augsburg)
Lack of Terrorism in Argentina in the late Nineteenth Century

2:30 – 4:30 pm
Panel VII: 19th c. INTERPRETATIONS & REACTIONS
Chair: Isaac Land (Indiana State University)

George Williamson (University of Alabama)
Creating Meaning through the State: Germany

Ulrich Sieg (Universität Marburg)
The Increasing Importance of Values: Reactions in German Philosophy after the Assassination Attempts Against Wilhelm I

Beverly Gage (Yale University)
Terrorism and the American Left, 1877-1920

Melanie Bailey (Centenary College of Louisiana)
Civilization or Barbarism? Violence and Terror in the French Revolutionary Tradition

Sunday, October 26

9:00 – 10:30 am
Panel VIII: LEGACIES
Chair: Hugh Roberts (LSE London/Intern. Crisis Group, Cairo

Mark Driscoll (University of North Carolina)
Tokyo, 1923: Terror, Spectacle and the Origins of Modern Japan

Paul Miller (McDaniel College)
Compromising Memory: The Site of the Sarajevo Assassination

James L. Gelvin (UCLA)
Nationalism, Anarchism, Reform: Understanding Political Islam from the Inside-Out

11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panel IX: Final Discussion
Chair: Roni Dorot (European University Institute)

Friedrich Lenger (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Opening Commentary

Extra:

1:30 pm
Jeffry M. Diefendorf (University of New Hampshire)
Marline Otte (Tulane University)
The Reconstruction of New Orleans in Comparative Perspective

2:30 pm
Bus-tour: New Orleans after Katrina

Kontakt

Dr. Carola Dietze
German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire N.W.
Washington D.C. 20009
Email: dietze@ghi-dc.org

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