Joachim Eibach (University of Bern)
Richard Mc Mahon (NUI, Maynooth)
Making Sense of Violence?
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence: Past and Present
University of Bern
September 7-10 2011
Haus der Universität
Schlösslistrasse 5, 3008 Bern
Wednesday, September 7
Arrival in Bern
19.00
Opening Lecture
Steven Pinker (Harvard University), The Decline of Violence and its Psychological Roots
Thursday, September 8
9.00
Welcome and Introduction to the Conference
Joachim Eibach (University of Bern)
Richard Mc Mahon (IRCHSS Postdoctoral fellow, NUI, Maynooth)
9.30-11.00
Session 1: Family Violence and Gender
Cecilia Cristellon (DHI Rome / University of Bern), The (Dis)order of Family Violence: Spaces, Limits, Strategies
Sonja Matter (University of Bern), Conjugal Violence in Switzerland in the early 1940s
Coffee break with Swiss Gipfeli
11.30-13.00
Session 2: Local and Collective Violence
Manon van der Heijden (Leiden University), Violence and Gender in Early Modern Neighbourhoods
Christoph Mauntel (University of Heidelberg), Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Violence in Late Medieval Revolts
Lunch
14.00-15.30
Session 3: Elite Violence
John Cronin (EUI, Florence alumnus), Violence and Duelling between Exiled Courtiers: the Case of the Caroline Court in Exile, c.1649-c.1660
Barbara Krug-Richter (University of Münster), Early Modern Student Fights and Duels at German Universities
Coffee Break
16.00-17.30
Session 4: Violence, Discourse and Discipline
Maren Lorenz (University of Hamburg), Brawl, Duel or Scuffle? The Law and Conflict between the Military and Civilians, 1650-1700
Falk Bretschneider (EHESS Paris), Discipline and Violence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Correction Houses
Break for Sandwiches
18.00-19.00
Evening lecture
Randolph Roth (Ohio State University), Quantitative Analysis of the History of Crime and Violence: Achievements and Prospects
19.30: Guided tour through town
Friday, September 9
9.15-10.45
Session 5a: Sources for the History of Interpersonal Violence
James Sharpe (University of York), The Coroner and Violent Death in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century England
Olli Matikainen, (University of Jyväskylä), Violence and Moral Statistics Revisited: The Case of Finland in the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Session 5b: Approaches to the History of Interpersonal Violence
John Carter Wood (University of Mainz / Open University), A Part of Us or Apart from Us? The Cultural, Social and Psychological Sense of Violence
Gerd Schwerhoff (University of Dresden), The History of Interpersonal Violence in a Cultural Perspective: From Phenomenology to Historical Change
Coffee Break with Swiss Gipfeli
11.15-12.45
Session 6a: Weapons and Words in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Dagmar Ellerbrock (Bielefeld University), “Slashing and Stabbing” – Weaponry and the Meaning of Violence, 1830–1900
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI, Florence), Menace Letters in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Session 6b: Interpersonal Violence and Modernity: Patterns and Practices
Peter King (University of Leicester), The Geography of Homicide in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Exploring and Explaining Spatial Patterns of Lethal Violence
Silvio Raciti / Maurice Cottier (University of Bern), Shifts in Interpersonal Violence in Swiss Cities, 1750-1930
Lunch
14.00-15.30
Session 7a: Changing Faces of Youth Violence?
Joachim Eibach (University of Bern), Archaic Rituals in Modern Times? Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Youth Violence
Christof Dejung (University of Constance), Violent Youth Protest in Zurich during the 1980s
Session 7b: Terrorist and Fascist Movements in Modern Europe
Lutz Häfner (University of Göttingen), Terrorist Assaults in Autocratic Russia as a Means to Influence Public Opinion in “Civilized” Europe at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Sven Reichardt (University of Constance), Masculinity and Violence in Fascist Movements
Coffee Break
16.00-18.15
Session 8: Violence, Honour and Legal Cultures in North America
Matthew Ward (University of Dundee), A New Man? The Rise of Interpersonal Violence in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1732-1815
Joshua Stein (Yale University), The Masculinization of the Law: Selectivity in Antebellum Assault Prosecution and Gender
Richard Mc Mahon (NUI, Maynooth), Violence, Law and Migration: The Irish Experience in Late Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Break
19.30: Conference Dinner
Saturday, September 10
9.00-10.30
Session 9a: Land, Politics and Violence
Donnacha Sean Lucey, (IRCHSS Postdoctoral fellow, Trinity College Dublin), The Dynamics of Agrarian Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland
John Regan (University of Dundee), 'The Bandon Valley Massacre’ (Cork, Ireland, 1922) Revisited
Session 9b: Violence and Policing
Anja Johansen (University of Dundee), Police Violence and the “Civilising Process”: Systemic Challenges and Police Violence in Berlin, Paris and London from the Late Nineteenth Century
Jan Beek / Mirco Göpfert (University of Mainz), Violence as Normal Exception in West African Police Organizations
Coffee break with Swiss Gipfeli
11.00
Final Discussion
Joachim Eibach (University of Bern)
Richard Mc Mahon (NUI, Maynooth)
End of conference