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International Conferences on Violence
and Genocide
Organizers: Eric A. Johnson,
Central Michigan University, and Pieter Spierenburg, Erasmus University
Rotterdam
The Center for Transnational
and Comparative History is hosting four annual conferences on the history of violence, focusing
on homicide and genocide. The first will be the Conference on
Violence and Genocide in Latin American History, which took place August 23-25, 2007. Subsequent conferences will
explore issues dealing with other areas of the world -- Africa, Asia, and Europe/North
America.
This series of conferences
hopes to create a major change in the way in which scholars understand both
homicidal and genocidal violence in world historical perspective. A major book
on the subject of homicide and mass murder over all times and all places will be
the ultimate result, however, individual volumes of essays by the conference
participants on the four different areas of the world are planned as well. The investigators will try to determine if there have been
any meaningful trends in the trajectories of these phenomena over time and if
these trends are explainable by any major social science theories. They will
also attempt to determine if there are any common factors that apply
consistently across time and space which have powerful explanatory value such as
the impact of warfare on the homicide and mass murder of civilians.
2007 Conference
Schedule and Participants:
Thursday, August 23, 2007
"Long-term Trends in Violence"
10am to noon -- Bovee University Center, President's Room
Speakers:
Eric A. Johnson (Central Michigan University) and
Pieter Spierenburg (Erasmus University Rotterdam
Wolfgang Gabbert (Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin)
"The Longue Duree of Colonial Violence in Latin America"
Alan Knight (University of Oxford) "Violence and Mass Murder in
Twentieth-Century Mexico"
Chairs:
Johnson and Spierenburg
"Pre- and Colonial Violence"
2pm to 4pm -- Bovee University Center, President's Room
Speakers:
Caroline Dodds (Sidney
Sussex College, Cambridge) "Mass Murder or Religious Homicide?: Rethinking Human
Sacrifice and Interpersonal Violence in Aztec Society"
Martha Few (University of New Arizona) "'Saving the Indians:' Race, Gender, and
Discourses of Humanitarian Aid in the Anti-Smallpox Campaigns in Colonial
Guatemala, 1780-1810"
Javier Villa Flores (University of Chicago)
"Indians with Superior Lights: Contagion, Conspiracy, and Rebellion in New
Spain's Northern Frontier"
Chair:
Ricardo Salvatore (Universidad Torcuato di
Tella)
Friday, August 24, 2007
"Criminal Violence"
10am to noon -- Bovee University Center, Isabella Room
Speakers:
Ricardo Salvatore (Universidad Torcuato di
Tella) "Violent Crimes and the Courts in Argentina, 1880-1930"
Pablo Piccato (Columbia University) "Crime and Civil Society: A Perspective on
Twentieth-Century Mexico"
Orlando Perez (Central Michigan University) "Youth Gang Violence and Democracy
in Central America"
Chair:
Catherine LeGrand (McGill University)
"Political and State-Sponsored Violence"
2pm to 4pm -- Bovee University Center, Isabella Room
Speakers:
Carlos Aguirre (University of Oregon) "Punishment and Extermination: Prison
Riots and Massacres in Latin America since 1980"
Carlos Figeuroa Ibarra (Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla)
"Genocide and State Terrorism in Guatemala, 1954-1996"
Emilio Crenzel (University of Buenos Aires) "Political Violence in Argentina"
Chairs:
Thomas Benjamin (Central Michigan University) and
Pieter Spierenburg (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Concluding Discussion and Summation Comments
10am to noon -- Bovee University Center, President's Room
Speakers:
Eric A. Johnson (Central Michigan University), Pieter
Spierenburg
(Erasmus University Rotterdam), other participants
Chairs:
Alan Knight (University of Oxford) and Ricardo Salvatore (Universidad Torcuato di
Tella)
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