Workshop "Discourses of Mass Violence in Comparative Perspective"

organized by
Juliane Prade-Weiss (LMU Munich)
Dominik Markl (Pontifical Biblical Institute Rome)
Vladimir Petrović (Institute for Contemporary History Belgrade)

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Program

• Jonathan Leader Maynard (International Politics, King’s College London), Ideology and Mass Killing: How Groups Justify Genocides and Other Atrocities Against Civilians
• Christian Schneider (Social Psychology, Frankfurt am Main), Erbschaft der Gewalt – Erbschaft der Schuld? Transgenerationelle Prozesse der Gewaltverarbeitung
• Juliane Prade-Weiss (Comparative Literature, LMU Munich), Critique and Complacency: The Problem of Complicity in Documentary Fiction
• Talin Suciyan (Turkish Studies, LMU Munich), The Annihilating Privilege: Camouflaging Genocide within the Discourse of “Reform”
• Joachim Schiedermair (Nordic Philology, LMU Munich), War over Peripeties. Ole Bornedal’s TV-Drama “1864”
• Vladimir Petrovic (Contemporary History, Institute for Contemporary History Belgrade), Vocabulary of Extreme Mass Violence: Normalization of Cleansing
• Dominik Markl (Hebrew Bible, Pontifical Biblical Institute Rome), Do Biblical Texts Incite Mass Violence? Textual Pragmatics Versus Reception History
• Nicolai Sinai (Islamic Studies, University of Oxford), Qur’anic Militancy and the Arab-Islamic Conquests
• Uğur Üngör (Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies), Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Motifs in Contemporary Middle Eastern Violence
• Discussion, respondent: Martin von Koppenfels (Comparative Literature, LMU Munich)