Histories of Violence in War
Histórias de Violência na Guerra
II Conferência Anual da Society for the History of War
Published on Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Abstract
Evento promovido pela Society for the History of War (sediada na Universidade de Oxford) que apresenta uma nova abordagem, mais completa e interdisciplinar, à história da guerra. Pretende-se estudar e avaliar o impacto da guerra na sociedade, nas suas mudanças políticas, culturais, económicas e sociais, cruzado o olhar de historiadores de todo o mundo.
Announcement
Apresentação
A história da guerra é a história da violência. Os historiadores da guerra ainda estão a desvendar as muitas camadas, lógicas e dimensões da violência tal como ela é infligida e suportada em contexto de conflito militar.
Em contrapartida, os historiadores da violência têm dado recentemente importantes contributos para o enquadramento teórico e empírico da violência como conceito, como instrumento político, como prática social e como fenómeno cultural.
Ao longo de dois dias, a conferência anual da Society for the History of War reunirá em Lisboa cerca de 100 especialistas em história da guerra e história da violência, vindos de várias partes do mundo, com o objectivo de explorar, discutir e desconstruir diferentes abordagens empíricas, metodológicas e interdisciplinares ao estudo da guerra e da violência.
Programa
Entrada livre
Day 1, 23 November 2023
- 08:30-09:00: Registration (National Library)
- 09:00-09:30: Introduction and Welcome (National Library’s Auditorium)
Panel Slot 1 | 09:30-11:00
National Library’s Auditorium
Panel 1: Making Sense of Violence within the U.S. Military - from the Vietnam War to the War on Terror
Organizer: Shaul Mitelpunkt, University of York Chair/Discussant: David Farber, University of Kansas
- Beth Bailey, University of Kansas: “The War within the War”: The U.S. Army, Racial Violence, and the U.S. War in Vietnam
- David Kieran, Columbus State University: “Smart Guys Are Able To Kill”: Army Recruitment and the Production of Violence After Vietnam
- David Fitzgeral, University College Cork: Reviving the Warrior Spirit: The U.S. Army Warrior Ethos Program and the Culture of Combat
- Shaul Mitelpunkt, University of York: Unseemly Sights: The Violence of Warless Soldiers at the Onset of the War on Terror
Training Room 1
Panel 2: Literary Representations of Violence in War
Chair: Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo, University of Namur
- Joanna Mendyk, University of Zaragoza/ Jagiellonian University Kraków: Violence in the Cantar de moi Cid: Its Portrayal and Meaning
- Sérgio Neto and Clara Isabel Serrano, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies- University of Coimbra: ‘Bitter Tales of War’. Perceptions of violence in Portuguese literature from the First World War
- Maria Tudosescu, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen/Aix-Marseille Université: Echoes of Violence: Past and Present Perspectives of World War One in Literature
Multimedia Room 2
Panel 3: Paramilitaries, Guerrillas and Civil Wars
Chair: Samuël Kruizinga, University of Amsterdam
- Arie Neuhauser, University of Chicago: Inflicting and Averting Large- Scale Violence in the Civil Wars of Eleventh Century Byzantium
- Matilda Greig, National Army Museum: The morality of guerrilla warfare during the Peninsular War (1808- 1814)
- Jenna Byers, University College Dublin: Austrian Paramilitaries and the Illegitimate Use of Violence Efrosyni Panayiotou, University College Dublin: Expressions of Political Violence in Cyprus, 1931-1964
ICS Auditorium
Panel 4: Legitimizing Violence in Colonial and Frontier Warfare
Organizer: Nicolas Gladstone Virtue, King’s University College at Western University
Chair: Gavin Rand, University of Greenwhich
- Tim Compeau, Huron University College: “Monsters in Human Shape”: Colonial Violence, Dishonor, and Armed Loyalism in the American Revolution
- Oli Charbonneau, University of Glasgow: Sanitizing Violence: Military Expertise, Race Management, and Cultures of Colonial Reform
- Nicolas Gladstone Virtue, King’s University College at Western University: Amedeo di Savoia and the Fascist Repudiation of Violence in Italian East Africa
11:00-11:20 Coffee-Break (National Library’s Cafeteria)
Panel Slot 2 | 11:20-12:50
National Library’s Auditorium
Panel 5: Exporting Violence: State Repression and Counterinsurgency Practices During the Cold War
Organizer: Roland Popp, Military Academy at ETH Zurich
Chair/Discussant: Huw Bennett, Cardiff University
- Marcel Berni, Military Academy at ETH Zurich: Globalizing Torture: Transnational Knowledge Networks during the Cold War
- Maria Hadjiathanasiou, Museum of National Struggle/University of Nicosia’: Forms of Repression and a‘Splitting of Sympathy’ during the Cyprus Anti-Colonial Revolt
- Roland Popp, Military Academy at ETH Zurich: Counterinsurgent Violence as Grand Strategy: The Kennedy Administration's Shift from Modernization to Repression
Training Room 1 Panel 6: War and State in the Early Modern World
Chair: Bruno Lopes, CIDEHUS- University of Évora
- Safya Morshed, London School of Economics: Conflict Development and State Response within Mughal South Asia, 1556-1707
- Grégoire Barou, Sorbonne Université: State Reinforcement and Violence in war-torn Normandy (1688-1697)
- Joseph Enguehard, École normale supérieure de Lyon: Useful Violence and the Fiscal-Military State in 17th and 18th-Century France
- Dominika Rychel-Mantur, University of Silesia: Voluntarily or violently? Donations for war purposes in the Dutchy of Warsaw in the years 1809-1812
Multimedia Room 2
Panel 7: Memory and Representations of Violence and War
Chair: William Sheehan, The Open University
- Ivan Gracia-Arnau, Universitat de Barcelona: Memory of Violence: A Connected History on the Remembrance of the 1640 Iberian Crisis
- Inês Pinto, CHSC-University of Coimbra: The instrumentalization of violence through engraving: the Dutch corsair attack on Buarcos in 1629
- Aleksandra Ziober, University of Wroclaw: Emotions of a parent during the struggles of war: Lew Sapieha's relationship with his son Jan Stanisław in 1626
- Fredrika Larsson, Lund University: Conflict in Colours: a comparative study of republican and loyalist murals in Belfast 1979-2019
12:50-13:30: SHoW’s AGM
13:30-15:00: Lunch (National Library’s Cantina)
Panel Slot 3 | 15:00-16:30
National Library’s Auditorium
Panel 8: War Strategies, Propaganda and Doctrines
Chair: Lígia Mateus, TECHN&ART- Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
- Geoffrey Jensen, Virginia Military Institute: Spanish Imperial Violence in North Africa: Cultural and Military Foundations of the Razzia
- Luciano Amaral, NOVA School of Business and Economics: Winning Hearts and Minds: The Economic and Social Dimension of the Portuguese Counterinsurgency Strategy in the Colonial War (1961-1975)
- Bruno Cardoso Reis, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute: Military doctrines of late colonial war: minimum and exemplary force? The cases of Britain, France and Portugal (1945-1975)
- Anna Grillini, University of Trento: The use of violence in war propaganda against the enemy: the Italian case during the First World War
Training Room 1
Panel 9: Guerrilla Wars
Chair: Thijs Brocades Zaalberg, Netherlands Defence Academy/Leiden University
- Miguel Pack Martins, Center for History-University of Lisbon: The French army in the Portuguese anti- Napoleonic pamphlets: dehumanization and demonization of the enemy
- Shane Browne, University College Dublin: Adopting paramilitarism: John Redmond, the National Volunteers, and the arms trade in Ireland, 1914-1920
- William Sheehan, The Open University: The Making of Crossbarry: Myth, Memory, Archives and Resistance
- João Fusco Ribeiro, University of Évora: Instrumentalizing Violence: Rural Communities and Guerrilla Competition during the Angolan Liberation Struggle (1966-1974)
Multimedia Room 2
Panel 10: Visual Representations of Violence in War in Africa (19th-21st centuries)
Chair: Roger Lee de Jesus, History Department-Leibniz University Hannover and CHSC-University of Coimbra
- Rebecca Wolff, Christopher Newport University: Witnessing in Biafra: The Wartime Sketches of Obiora Udechukwu
- Amy Schwartzott, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University: Violent Mechanisms of War as Artistic Media: How Mozambique's Transforming Arms into Plowshares / Transformação de Armas em Enxadas (TAE) Project Promotes Non- Violence
ICS Auditorium
Panel 11: Impacts of War on Soldiers and Civilians I
Chair: Maria Hadjiathanasiou, Museum of National Struggle/University of Nicosia’
- Marina Perez de Arcos, University of Oxford: Journeys of Internment: German Civilians and Military Captives in Cameroon, Guinea, and Neutral Spain during the First World War
- David Messenger, University of South Alabama: Human Rights and Passive Defense in Spain during the Civil War, 1936-1939
- Brian Drohan, U.S. Military Academy: Responding to Wartime Violence: UN Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Action in Cyprus and Lebanon
16:30-16:50: Coffee-Break (National Library’s Cafeteria)
Panel Slot 4 | 16:50-18:20
National Library’s Auditorium
Panel 12: Gender and violence in the wars of Sixteenth-century Europe
Organizer: Catherine Fletcher, Manchester Metropolitan University
Chair: Peter Wilson, University of Oxford
- Catherine Fletcher, Manchester Metropolitan University: Interpersonal violence and sixteenth-century military masculinity
- Sandra Suárez García, University of Granada: Double Standards: Discourses and Practices of Violence against Women in the 16th Century Spanish Army
- Samantha Nelson, Manchester Metropolitan University: ‘Shee rather playeth the parte of a knyght thenne of a Lady’: Tudor women as the agents and facilitators of wartime violence
Training Room 1
Panel 13: Impacts of War on Soldiers
and Civilians II
Chair: Bill Allison, Georgia Southern University
- Joshua Madrid, University College London: Destruction and Renewal: Impacts of the Blitz on Roman Catholic Activity in England, 1940- 1941
- Punyashree Panda, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar: Exploring the Impact of Violence on Everyday Life through The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: a Postmodern Reading
- Jennifer Wellington, University College Dublin: The Violence of Taking: British Looting and Trophy- Taking in the Second World War
Multimedia Room 2
Panel 14: Interrogating the Civil War in the First Portuguese Republic
Organizer: António Paulo Duarte, Academia Militar
- António Paulo Duarte, Academia Militar: Political Violence and Intermittent Civil War in the First Portuguese Republic
- António Horta Fernandes, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities: The Intermittent Civil War in the First Portuguese Republic as a Mirror of the Beligerous (Des)Order
- Teresa Nunes, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon: First Republic and Civil War: conceptual evolution (1910- 1926)
ICS Auditorium
Panel 15: Connecting “Extreme” Violence and Atrocity in European and Colonial Warfare
Organizer: Mark Condos, King’s College London
Chair: Kim Wagner, Queen Mary, University of London
- Mark Condos, King’s College London: À Outrance: French Practices of 'Extreme' Violence in the Vendée, Calabria, and Algeria
- Michelle Gordon, Uppsala University: The “Civilised” Nature of Nineteenth- Century Warfare? Examining German and British Perpetrators of “Exceptional” Violence in Colonial and Intra-European Contexts
- Alex J. Kay, University of Potsdam: Dehumanisation, Racialised Othering and Atrocity: Continuities in Colonial and Intra-European Violence
Roundtable Slot 1 | 18:20-19:20
National Library’s Auditorium
Roundtable 1: Violence and Decolonization: late colonial insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in global perspective
Organizer/Chair: Martin Thomas, University of Exeter
Discussant: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Universidade de Coimbra
Participants:
- Emmanuel Blanchard, University of Versailles/Sciences Po
- Mathilde von Bülow, University of St. Andrews
- Roel Frakking, University of Utrecht
- Beth Rebisz, University of Bristol
Training Room 1
Roundtable 2: A Global, Comparative Approach to Organized Violence in the Nineteenth Century
Organizer/Chair: Andrew Fialka, Middle Tennessee State University
Discussant: Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Louisianna State University
Participants:
- Ian Campbell, University of California-Davis
- Marcus P. Nevius, University of Missouri
- Gavin Rand, University of Greenwich
Day 2, 24 November 2023
Panel Slot 5 | 09:00-10:30
National Library’s Auditorium
Panel 16: Violence, War and Colonization
Chair: André Murteira, CHAM-New University of Lisbon
- Mary Newman, University of Oxford: A Taste for Violence, a Feel for War: Violence and the Senses in the Narratives of the Arauco War
- Paulo M. Dias, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa: The weaponization of terror in Late Medieval Portugal
- Thomas Croisez, European University Institute: Una Conquista Espiritual. The Jesuits and the violent armed conflicts in the province of Paraguay (1609-1641)
- Benita Herreros Cleret de Langavant, Universidad de Cantabria: “Contravening the laws of war and humanity”: a slaughter of indigenous men in late colonial Paraguay and its trial
Training Room 1
Panel 17: Memory and Perceptions of War Crimes
Chair: Matthew Ford, Swedish Defence University
- Christin Pschichholz, University of Potsdam: The reception of the Armenian genocide: German ways of interpretation
- Philip W. Blood, Independent Scholar: Military History, War Crimes and Social Media
- Tamar Karaia, Tbilisi State University: “Before Bucha in Ukraine, there was Abkhazia in Georgia”: The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on the Assessment of War Crimes in Abkhazia
Multimedia Room 2
Panel 18: Emotional Impacts Beyond the War
Chair: Samuël Kruizinga, University of Amesterdam
- Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo, University of Namur: Intimate Partner Violence as a Cultural Taboo in First World War France
- Brian K. Feltman, Georgia Southern University: Fabricating the Image of the Fallen: Official Artistic Depictions of Lethal Violence in Germany, 1915-1918
- Félix Streicher, Maastricht University: Histories of Violence after War: Revenge and Retribution in the Luxembourg Occupation Zone in Germany (1945-46)
- Hélène Solot, CREA-University Paris Nanterre: “Is there a need for aggression?”: The Efforts to Shape American Soldier’s Understandings of Violence in WWII Self-Help Literature
10:30-11:00: Coffee-Break (National Library’s Cafeteria)
Panel Slot 6 | 11:00-12:30
National Library’s Auditorium
Panel 19: Imperial Agents and the Perception, Reportage, and Creation of 'Knowledge' About Violence in Colonised Africa, 1840s-1940s
Organizer/Chair: Maeve Ryan, King’s College London
Discussant: Mark Condos, King’s College London
- Maeve Ryan, King’s College London: Consular Reportage and the Construction of British Perceptions of European Colonial Violence in Africa
- Daniel Steinbach, University of Copenhagen: Distorting Friends and Foes: Lines of Conflict in Wartime East Africa, 1914-1918
- Jasmine K. Gani, University of St. Andrews: Perceptions of Violent Resistance: British Occupation and the Anti-Colonial Movement in Wartime Egypt
Training Room 1
Panel 20: Understanding British military violence in the era of the end of Empire and Cold War
Organizer: Helen Parr, University of Keele
Chair/Discussant: Lucy Noakes, University of Essex
- Matthew Grant, University of Essex: “Britain was always involved where there was trouble”: Military conscripts, oral history, and the framing violence in late imperial ‘trouble spots’
- Grace Huxford, University of Bristol: “British Army on the Rampage”? Violence and Boredom in Cold War Germany
- Helen Parr, University of Keele: British attitudes towards military death in wars of Cold war and end of Empire, 1948-60
Multimedia Room 2
Panel 21: Military Cultures of Violence
Organizer/Chair: Christin Pschichholz, University of Potsdam
Discussant: TBC
- Gundula Gahlen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: Sexualised violence in the French and Austrian armies during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815)
- Sönke Neitzel, University of Potsdam: Military Cultures of Violence and the First World War
- Jan-Martin Zollitsch, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin: The ‘small war’ after Sedan: German soldiers, emotions, and excesses of violence (1870/71)
12:30-13:30: Keynote Conference
- Professor Margaret MacMillan, University of Toronto and University of Oxford: The Uses of Violence in War
13:30-15:00: Lunch (National Library’s Cantina)
Panel Slot 7 | 15:00-16:30
National Library’s Auditorium
Panel 22: Sexual Violence in War
Chair: Catherine Fletcher, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Mathilde Castanié, Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne: Rape victims in History and the Memorial Uses of Bloody Week (May 1871)
- Katerina Acheimastou, European University Institute: Breaking Barriers and Building Resilience: Unveiling the Gender Dynamics of Political Violence in the Greek Civil War (1944-1949)
- Teddy J. Uldricks, University of Nevada: The political and military use of rape in the Second World War: Japanese, German, and Soviet Examples
Training Room 1
Panel 23: Witnesses of War
Chair: Pierre Asselin, San Diego State University
- Anna Elisabeth Gehl, Freie Universität Berlin: The Grotesque Carnival: Female Medical Volunteers as Witnesses to Violence during World War One
- Thijs Brocades Zaalberg, Netherlands Defence Academy, Leiden University: “In worse ways than the Krauts”: extreme violence in Dutch soldiers’ diaries and memoires on the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949
- Konstantinos Xypolytos, Koç University: Violence in the “War Decade”: The Case of Greece
Multimedia Room 2
Panel 24: Media Representations of War Violence
Chair: Sérgio Neto, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Coimbra
- Silvia Gregorio Sainz, University of Oviedo: Representation(s) of violence in Peninsular War Poetry in English: The Siege(s) of Zaragoza (1808)
- Ross Cameron, University of Glasgow: 'Not only excusable, but laudable': Representations of violence during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) in the memoirs of British war correspondents
- Papari Saikia, Indian Institute of Technology (Mandi), School of Humanities and Social Sciences: “Ghost citizens”: Chinese immigrants in post-Sino-Indian War Assam
16:30-16:50: Coffee-Break (National Library’s Cafeteria)
Panel Slot 8 | 16:50-18:20
National Library’s Auditorium
Panel 25: The Structural Dimensions of Wartime Violence: Insights from the Perspective of Japanese Military Justice during the Asia-Pacific War, 1937- 1945
Organizer: Kelly Maddox, Freie Universität Berlin
Chair: TBC
- Tino Schölz, Freie Universität Berlin: Brutality as Structure. Everyday Violence within the Rank and File of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Asia- Pacific War
- Nicolas Stassar, Freie Universität Berlin: Detainment and Discipline - The Revisions to the 1943 POW Penal Law as Systemic Neglect in the Detainment of Allied POWs during the Asia-Pacific War
- Kelly Maddox, Freie Universität Berlin: Power over Life and Death: Japanese Military Justice in Occupied Territories during the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-1945
Training Room 1
Panel 26: Predicting the Enemy: Managing Violence
Chair: Matthew Ford, Swedish Defence University
- Troels Burchall Henningsen, Royal Danish Defence College: The Unpredictability of War: uncertainty and emergence at the strategic and political levels
- Marcel Mangold, Swedish Defence University: Situational Awareness as a theory of war: a genealogy
- Elke Schwarz, Queen Mary University London and Neil C. Renic, Center for Military Studies, Copenhagen University: Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous weapons and the moral challenge of systematic killing
Multimedia Room 2
Panel 27: Logics of violence in insurgency and counterinsurgency
Organizer: Niels Boender, University of Warwick
Chair: David Anderson, University of Warwick
Discussant: Thomas Martin, University of Exeter
- Oliver Dodd, University of Nottingham: The Birth of the FARC and Revolutionary War in Colombia
- Rachel Caroline Kowalski, University of Oxford: Understanding the Dynamics of Provisional Irish Republican Army Violence
- Niels Boender, University of Warwick: Counterinsurgent violence beyond war and independence: the case of Kenya
Roundtable Slot 2 | 18:20-19:20
National Library’s Auditorium
Roundtable 3: Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975
Organizer/Chair: Huw Bennett, Cardiff University
Discussant: David Anderson, U. Warwick
Participants:
- Edward Burke, University College Dublin
- Helen Parr, University of Keele
- Rachel Caroline Kowalski, University of Oxford
Training Room 1
Roundtable 4: Envisioning the Enemy: Anticipating Violence
Organizer/Chair: Bill Allison, Georgia Southern University
Discussant: Brian Linn, Texas A&M University
Participants:
- Sibylle Scheipers, University of St. Andrews
- Thijs Brocades Zaalberg, Netherlands Defence Academy/Leiden University
- Martin Thomas, University of Exeter
- Pierre Asselin, San Diego State University
20:30: Dinner
Comissão Organizadora
- Graça Almeida Borges, DHAH-Autonomous University of Lisbon and CIDEHUS-University of Évora
- Matthew Ford, Swedish Defence University
- Samuël Kruizinga, University of Amsterdam
- Bruno Lopes, CIDEHUS-University of Évora
- Roger Lee de Jesus, History Department-Leibniz University Hannover and CHSC-University of Coimbra
- André Murteira, CHAM-New University of Lisbon
- Sandra Araújo, Institute of Social Sciences-University of Lisbon
Instituições Organizadoras
- Society for the History of War
- CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora
- DHAH-Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
- Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
- CHSC-Universidade de Coimbra
- CHAM-Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Subjects
Places
- Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Campo Grande, 83
Lisbon, Portugal (1749-081)
Event attendance modalities
Full on-site event
Date(s)
- Thursday, November 23, 2023
- Friday, November 24, 2023
Attached files
Keywords
- guerra, violência, guerre, war, violence
Contact(s)
- Maria Carla Araújo
courriel : caraujo [at] bnportugal [dot] gov [dot] pt
Reference Urls
Information source
- Maria Araújo
courriel : caraujo [at] bnportugal [dot] gov [dot] pt
License
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To cite this announcement
« Histories of Violence in War », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, November 22, 2023, https://doi.org/10.58079/1cal