Lecture Series: "Empire and Violence"

organized by
Dominik Markl (Innsbruck University)
Juliane Prade-Weiss (LMU Munich)

Video Recordings at LMUCast

12 October 2023 19:00–20:30 CET, Sowi HS1
PIETER JUDSON (Contemporary History, EUI Florence)
Austria-Hungary: Violence and the Liberal Empire
Response: TAMARA SCHEER (Eastern European History, Vienna U)
07 November 2023 19:00–20:30 CET, Sowi HS 1
ROBERT ROLLINGER (Ancient Near East, Innsbruck U)
Empire and Violence from the Achaemenid-Persian Perspective
Response: SILVIA BALATTI (Classical Studies, Kiel U)
08 November 2023 19:00–20:30 CET, Sowi HS 1
GERHARD MANGOTT (Political Science, Innsbruck U)
Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine: Motives, Interests and Geopolitical Implications
Response: FRANZISKA DAVIES (Eastern European History, LMU Munich)
14 November 2023 19:00–20:30 CET, Theologie HS 1
KATELL BERTHELOT (History of Judaism, CNRS Aix-en-Provence)
Jewish Responses to Roman Imperial Violence
Response: JOHANNES HEIL (History of Judaism, Heidelberg)
28 November 2023 19:00–20:30 CET, Geiwi HS 7
DIRK RUPNOW (Contemporary History, Innsbruck U)
Post-Nazism – Postcolonialism – Post-Migration: The Current Debate of Memory Culture, Politics of History and Holocaust Memory
Response: HELGA EMBACHER (Contemporary History, Salzburg U)

02 June 2023 16:15–19:45 CET, Geschw.-Scholl-Pl. 1 A 120
JOSÉ CASANOVA (Religious Studies, Georgetown U)
The Sacralization of Canonicity and the Legitimization of Violence
Response: WOLFGANG PALAVER (Theology, Innsbruck U)
ALEXANDER ETKIND (International Relations, CEU Vienna)
The Letter Z and the Problem of Genocide
Response: RICCARDO NICOLOSI (Slavic Literatures, LMU Munich)
24 October 2023 18:15–19:45 CET, Geschw.-Scholl-Pl. 1 A 120
HERFRIED MÜNKLER (Political Science, HU Berlin)
Die Wiederkehr der Imperien? Großräume und Einflusszonen in der Weltordnung des 21. Jahrhunderts
Response: EVA HAUSTEINER (Political Theory, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
10 January 2024 16:15–17:45 CET, Historicum Altbau 2. OG K201
KAREN RADNER (Ancient History of the Near and Middle East, LMU Munich)
Lessons from the Pathfinder Empire: Framing Conquest as Salvation in 9th-century-BC Assyria
Response: ECKART FRAHM (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale U)
15 February 2024 18:15–19:45 CET, Philologicum Veranstaltungsraum EG
ALISON FRANK JOHNSON (Central and Eastern European History, Harvard U)
Capital Punishment in Galicia: From Imperial Mercy to Mass Violence
Response: JANA OSTERKAMP (History, Augsburg U)
19 February 2024 15:15–17:45 CET, Geschw.-Scholl-Pl. 1 A 017
Roundtable with MARTIN SCHULZE WESSEL (East and Southeast European History, LMU) & respondents
The Curse of Empire: Two Years after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

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