Physical Violence

Jan C. Behrends has published an article on Afghanistan as a `Gewaltraum´ in the web portal “Zeitgeschichte online”.

The Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, ZZF) is pleased to invite applications for two Visiting Fellowships during the academic year 2013‐2014 to work within research group “Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism”. Both fellowships cover a period of two months. They will provide an opportunity to pursue individual research as well as to participate in the scholarly community at the ZZF and in the Berlin metropolitan area.

First Annual Conference of the International Joint Research Project “Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism”

19-21 April 2012, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg, in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (ZZF)

Authors: Ondřej Cinkajzl, Esther Wahlen, Jakub Jareš and Jan Kolář

Please find the conference report (in german language)

of the First Annual Conference “Physical Violence in Late Socialism: (Dis‐)Entangling Statehood, Labour, and the Nation“

of the International Joint Research Project “Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism”

Jan C. Behrends has published an article on modern dictatorship in the online encyclopedia “Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte”.

See his contribution „Jan C. Behrends, Diktatur: Moderne Gewaltherrschaft zwischen Leviathan und Behemoth, Version: 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, 6. 6.2012“ at https://docupedia.de/zg/Diktatur?oldid=82277

Jens Gieseke, Michal Pullmann and Jan Behrends have published essays on the role of violence in 1989 in the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and the USSR. See their contributions in Martin Sabrow (ed.): 1989 und die Rolle der Gewalt, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2012. <further information>

Dr. Jan C. Behrends presented the Project “Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism” at a roundtable talk at the 43 Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Washington, D.C.   

While in the United States Dr. Jan C. Behrends together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Lindenberger introduced the Violence project at a lunch time workshop (brown bag seminar) at Columbia University, New York on 16^th November.