KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Margaret MacMillan
Professor Macmillan is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Toronto and an Emeritus Professor of International History at Oxford University. Professor MacMillan will discuss the uses of violence in war. The keynote lecture is a public event open to all.
The history of war is the history of violence. But historians of war have yet to unravel the many layers, logics, and dimensions of violence as it is inflicted and endured in the context of military conflict. By contrast, historians of violence have recently made important contributions to the theoretical and empirical framing of violence as a concept, as a political tool, as a social practice, and as a cultural phenomenon. In this conference, we aim to broaden discussions between historians of violence and historians of war. This will make it possible to explore, discuss and deconstruct different empirical, methodological and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of war and violence.
Organizing Committee:
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
Organization:
Society for the History of War
Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Cultures, and Societies (CIDEHUS) of the University of Évora
Department of History, Arts, and the Humanities of Autonomous University of Lisbon
Centre of the History of Society (CHSC) and Culture, of University of Coimbra
CHAM — Center for the Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon and University of the Azores
