Discourses of Mass Violence in Comparative Perspective

Combining Contemporary History, Comparative Literature, Political Science, and Hebrew Bible/ancient Near Eastern studies the project seeks to understand the discursive justification of mass violence.

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Lecture Series: "Resistance and Persecution of Young People in Totalitarian Systems"

organized by Dominik Markl, featuring (among others) Timothy Williams & Juliane Prade-Weiss

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"The Persistence of Evil: Analyzing Long-Term Transmissions of Justifications for Mass Violence"

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Feeling Responsible: Affective Polarization and the Sense of Implication in Academic Debates on Israel/Palestine

Workshop @LMU Munich, co-orgainzed by Dominik Markl, Juliane Prade-Weiss, and Timothy Williams

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Research Network "The Persistence of Evil"

sponsored by the German Foundation for Peace Research; project start fall/winter 2024

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