Legitimation of Violence
International conference organized by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Pardubice
Date: 14 – 15 September 2023
Venue: The historical building of University of Pardubice, nám. Čs. legií 565, 530 03 Pardubice, Czech Republic, Room 03004
Keynote speaker:
Jonathan Havercroft (University of Southampton)
Attendance is free of charge. Registration is not necessary, but if you know in advance that you are coming, please let us know (matej.cibik@upce.cz)
For further information please email Matej Cíbik (matej.cibik@upce.cz)
Conference description
The conference will discuss historical and current traditions and strategies of legitimizing violence on both physical and symbolical level. It will focus on topics such as legitimation of organized violence in different types of state regimes, violence as a part of political insurgence and civil disobedience, and connections between the violence in rhetoric and performance. Although the main perspectives of the conference will be these of philosophy and religious studies, and therefore most of the papers will deal with the questions of conceptualizing violence in thought, language, and social systems, the conference will pay due focus to the analysis of sources and the papers will be mostly discussing specific historical and current events, not only theoretical concepts surrounding the key term violence. We hope to connect various approaches to the categories and phenomena of violence in a fruitful discussion.
