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Early Modern Terrorism: Atrocity and Political Violence 1500-1700
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2005-06-03 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2005-02-16 |
| Announcement ID: |
144092 |
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5th November 2005 at the Imperial War Museum North
On the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes' attempt to destroy the Houses of Parliament a conference to consider issues of politicised violence, terrorism and atrocity during the early modern period. How useful is a definition of 'terror' or 'terrorism' to our understanding of the period? How are incidents of political violence understood, interpreted or used? How does memory of violence and terror function? How do discourses of 'terror' intersect with the relationship between state and subject?
Papers might consider:
- atrocity
- religious violence
- martyrdom
- fundamentalism
- extremis
- trade and colonialism
- the staging of genocide and massacre
- the performance of state violence
- definitions
- orientalism and crusading
- European war and political violence
- internment
- conspiracy
- the lawy
- Islam, Christianity, Judaism
- heresy
- execution
- regicide
- techonologies of terror
- terror and the formation of the state
- Hobbes, Machiavelli
- Ireland
- Empire
- savagery
- othering
- ethnic cleansing
- sacrifice
- invasion
- revenge
- warfare
- suppression
- treason
- barbarism
- science and terrorism
- trauma and memory
- legal and illegal political acts
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Dr Jerome de Groot
English and American Studies
Humanities Lime Grove
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester UK
Email: jerome.degroot@manchester.ac.uk
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