[H-verkko] CFP: Violence, Power and Society -seminar, Jyväskylä 7.8.6.2012

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Violence, Power and Society -seminar, Jyväskylä 7.8.6.2012

Call for papers & program

Violence is a social and cultural construct. Therefore, not
everything that we regard as violence in modern Western countries was
necessarily so regarded by people in past ages or in other cultures.
For example, one might imagine that the moderate violence that took
the form of a clip round the ears or a pinch at the beginning of the
modern age was a normal way of settling disputes.

Violence is also linked in many ways to questions concerning the use
of power. Violence, the subjugation of another person, in itself
constitutes one form of the use of power. The historically
significant lines of development in the area of violence have
concerned communal means of controlling it and the transfer of the
machinery of violence into a state monopoly. The use of power was
also involved when the forms of violence that sanctioned intervention
by the authorities were defined and a line was drawn between violence
and permissible chastisement

However, the study of violence and its history is not only concerned
with research on interpersonal conflicts or the social conditions
that gave rise to violence. The history of violence also involves an
examination of the changing definitions of the phenomenon –
definitions that are produced by both the objects of the research and
the researchers themselves. New definitions mean new perspectives and
emphases in the research and in our understanding of the subject. In
addition, they sharpen the image we obtain of the phenomenon and
bring new nuances to it. 

This naturally raises the question: At what stage and for what reason
did a previously accepted activity become proscribed as violence? For
example, the projected toleration of family violence in some states
of the USA shows that the development does not move only in one
direction – and this, too, is a phenomenon that is worthy of
investigation.

The lectures and workshops that make up the Gustav Vasa Seminar will
shed light on subjects connected with violence from various
perspectives. The major themes to be discussed include the
following:

-	the individual as a perpetrator and victim of violence 
-	violence and economico- social conditions
-	the right to define what constitutes violence 
-	the right to use violence
-	gendered violence
-	public and private violence

Intending participants should register for the seminar by 25/3/2012
by sending a one-page (max.) abstract of their proposed presentation
to hela-harjoittelija at campus.jyu.fi. Applicants will be informed
about acceptance of their submitted topic and the programme of the
seminar by the end of March.  The maximum permitted duration of
presentations to workgroups is 20 minutes, but participants may if
they wish also submit longer texts. Depending on who is participating
in them, the working language of the groups will be English or
Finnish.

For further information, please contact Jari Eilola
(Jari.Eilola at campus.jyu.fi), Department of History and Ethnology, PL
35, FIN 40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Program

Thursday

12.00–14.25 Lectures (H306)
12.00–12.15 Opening: Professor Petri Karonen (University of
Jyväskylä)
12.15–13.15 Adjunct Professor Karin Hassan Jansson (University of
Uppsala): Patriarchal Power: Dangers and Possibilities
13.20–14.20 Professor Elizabeth Ewan (University of Guelph): Gender
and the Perpetrators of Violence in Early Modern Scotland

14.25–15.30 Lunch

15.30–18.00 Workshops (H105)

19.30– Evening gathering


Friday

9.00–11.10 Lectures (H306)
9.00–10.00 Professor Peter King (University of Leicester): Patterns
of Interpersonal Violence and the State's Changing Use of Different
Forms of Execution in England and Europe 1750- 1900 
10.05–11.05 Adjunct Professor Olli Matikainen (University of
Jyväskylä): Human nature, Violence and Historical Research

	
11.10–12.30 Lunch

12.30–15.40 Workshops (H105)

15.50–16.10 Closing 


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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Jari Eilola <Jari.Eilola at campus.jyu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 26.03.2012
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