{"id":176442597,"date":"2014-09-07T02:38:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176442597"},"modified":"2014-09-07T02:38:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T07:38:10","slug":"pub-violence-colonialism-and-empire-in-the-modern-and-contemporary-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2014\/09\/07\/pub-violence-colonialism-and-empire-in-the-modern-and-contemporary-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PUB: Violence, Colonialism, and Empire in the Modern and Contemporary World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Violence, Colonialism, and Empire <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Contemporary World<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n
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Conference to be held at the\u00a0British Academy, London<\/span>
\n29 June-1 July 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

CFP deadline<\/strong>: Proposals due\u00a01 December 2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sponsored by The Centre for the History of Violence,\u00a0and the University of Newcastle, Australia<\/span><\/p>\n

Guest speakers:<\/span>
\nPartha Chatterjee, Columbia University<\/span>
\nElizabeth Kolsky, Villanova University<\/span>
\nThis conference will bring together scholars from across the world to explore innovative ways of critically engaging with the question of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. The conference will explore the wide variety of means by which empire was maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the structures inherent in empire. We want to explore broader trends in the direction and intent of imperial violence and state repression, including extra-legal sanctions, and how patterns of violence, embedded within other forms of colonialism and culture, created cultural, legal, social, or imperial \u2018spaces\u2019. The conference organizers encourage scholars to interpret the conference themes broadly in crafting their proposals and are not limited to European colonial empires made up of settler societies, but also empires of occupation.<\/span>
\nThe organizers have three interrelated aims.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first is to rethink assumptions about the imperial experience and to underline the types of violence that were used to initially impose power, and then to maintain it over vast stretches of land. By underlining this aspect of the imperial enterprise, this conference may help scholars begin to see more clearly the relationship of violence as a cultural norm, and the extent to which it was part and parcel of imperial social and cultural life.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second aim is to interrogate the relationship between various forms of violence and the construction of imperial spaces. In essence, this conference will explore the ways in which empires were and are constructed through violence, whether legal, political, cultural or religious. We aim to move beyond Western notions of violence and to see the ways in which attempts to create colonial empires were inextricably linked to violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Third, the organizers hope to explore these questions in a way that connects national historiographies \u00be including the British, French, American, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Ottoman empires \u00be to each other, as well as to world history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Topics may include (but are not limited to):<\/span><\/p>\n