LIBERAS CALLING FOR VIOLENCE SERIES

Other polls underscore crime and personal safety as a top concern among registered voters. In an October 2021 Gallup survey, the number of Americans who believe that crime is up in their local area is the highest itвЂ™s been in 25 years. But perhaps more importantly, this was вЂњjustвЂќ crime-no political motives, no obvious political solution, no broader lesson to be learned, with no wisdom to be gained.Д¬rime is rising nationally, but it is still experienced locally. These stories were primarily of concern to the people living in the cities in question. вЂњPeople were coming off the street with blood splatters on white sneakers and skinned knees and skinned elbows.вЂќД¬oming so soon after the horrific Uvalde school shooting, these other killings were perhaps unlikely to garner much national attention. вЂњIt was chaos,вЂќ one witness told The Philadelphia Inquirer. In Philadelphia, multiple active shooters fired into a crowd in the popular nighttime destination of South Street. On a recent June weekend, 10 people were killed in shootings across cities in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Tennessee, and South Carolina. Interested authors unable to attend the conference can still contact the organisers to propose/discuss a chapter.Updated at 11:50 a.m. Bouwers, Senior Research Fellow, Leibniz Institute of European History, will be precirculated before the conference. To apply, please send a short CV and 500-word summary to the organisers:Дavid Nash, Professor of History, Oxford Brookes University, G. Participants will be notified by August 15th 2019. The deadline for this call for papers is August 1 st 2019. Thirdly, they analyse situations in which believers both internalise and actively describe the hurt stemming from the impact of blasphemy as a species of experiencing violence. Secondly, they examine situations of general societal upheaval in which offences against the sacred are one aspect of a much broader culture of violence.

when believers physically attack (alleged) blasphemers. Firstly, they investigate acts of blasphemy that lead to forms of violence, e.g. Drawing on a variety of chronological and geographical contexts, both conference and volume probe the phenomenon of blasphemy and its potential link to violence from three angles. Interdependencies since 1760 offers a much-needed analysis of a subject that historians have largely discarded, yet holds great relevance for contemporary society.

LIBERAS CALLING FOR VIOLENCE SERIES

Papers delivered at this conference will be expected to be nearing completion with a view to subsequent publication in the second volume of вЂ New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and FreethoughtвЂ™ in early 2021, a new peer-reviewed open access series published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg.Д«lasphemy and Violence. Liberas (Ghent, Belgium) in conjunction with the School of History, Religion and Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University (Oxford, United Kingdom) and the Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz, Germany) announce a Call for Papers for a conference and subsequent edited volume on the subject of blasphemy and violence since 1760.Д¬ontributions are invited for a conference to be held at Liberas in Ghent (Kramersplein 23) on March 5th-6th 2020.

Liberas calling for violence