A University of Crete/SOLON Partnership Conference |
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Plenary Speakers Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College Clive Emsley, The Open University
This conference explored comparative, historical and transnational perspectives on crime and violence and aimed to map differences, interconnections and movements through space and time. It established a forum for discussion and exchange between researchers working with a variety of methodological, disciplinary and academic approaches to the historical study of crime and violence, and drawing on different traditions and backgrounds. The differentiated social, cultural or political meanings of violent or criminal acts, questions of gender, race and social exclusion, the ways in which particular kinds of violence are legitimised, social and penal definitions of deviance, moral panics and other aspects of representation will be considered. The conference discussed the relationships between criminal justice and penal systems, and the management of crime and violence by the state, particularly juxtaposed to social imaginaries of nation, modernity, or imperialism, paying particular attention to comparative national or regional dimensions, and the extent to which the actions of the modern state may clash with traditional cultural perceptions of deviance and violence in different communities.
Organising Committee Efi
Avdela, Department of History and Archaeology - University of Crete For further information: crimcreteconf@googlemail.com |
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Conference Sponsors | British Council, Cervantes Institute, Costopoulos Foundation, Gender & History Journal, Nianias Foundation, University of Crete: Department of History and Archaeology and the Postgraduate Programme, 'Contemporary European and Greek History,' York University Toronto. | |
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