This seminar will bring together scholars who have worked with conflicts in medieval and modern societies. Our goal is to illuminate and discuss the role of conflicts in a variety of settings, and to ask whether medieval and modern conflicts – and societies – share some common characteristics.
Preliminary program:
Session one: Conflict and (dis)order
1215-1230: Introduction by professor Jon Vidar Sigurdsson (chair)
1230-1300: Professor John Comaroff, Harvard: Conflict and (dis)order among the Tswana, past and present
1300-1330: Professor Gerd Althoff, Münster: Conflict and (dis)order in medieval Germany
1330-1340: Short break
1340-1410: Discussion
1410-1445: Coffee break
Session two: What is war? What is peace? (chair professor Hans Jacob Orning)
1445-1515: Professor Øyvind Østerud, Oslo: What is war?
1515-1545: Ass. Professor Jenny Benham, Cardiff: What is peace?
1545-1555: Short break
1555-1630: Discussion and summing up
Participants will have to register in advance, information about registration will be sent out later.
The Lecture Series: Civil Wars in a Comparative Perspective
This series of lectures are part of the project Civil Wars in a Comparative Perspective, funded by Research Council of Norway and Centre for Advanced Studies. The project is led by Jon Vidar Sigurdsson og Hans Jacob Orning, professors of history at Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo.
