Violence and Representations of Violence in Antiquity
Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes
Call For Papers: In 2015, the Violence and Representations of Violence Section is sponsoring three sessions: 1) an invited panel on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the founding of this unit; 2) an open session on the topic “Children, Violence, and Religion,” co-sponsored with the Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence group of AAR; 3) an open session on “The Arts of Violence,” co-sponsored with The Art and Religions of Antiquity unit of SBL.
The CFPs for each of these sessions are as follows:
1) Violence and Representations of Violence Section at 10: Retrospect & Prospect: This invited session will invite 5 past leaders and participants to reflect on the circumstances that lead to the formation of this unit, the concerns that shaped its agenda, the development of the group over the course of its first ten years, and future directions for research.
2) “Children, Violence, and Religion”: This open session, co-sponsored with the AAR unit “Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence,” invites submissions that investigate violence by or toward children in "religious" contexts. Papers may address any form of verbal, psychological, or physical violence, real or imagined. In addition, such violence may represent a normative requirement for a given religious community, as in the case of child soldiers, child suicide missions, child sacrifice, or it may represent a despicable crime imputed to the religious Other, as in accusations of ritual murder of children by Christians in antiquity or Jews in medieval Europe. Papers may address evidence from any historical setting, from ancient to contemporary.
3) “The Arts of Violence”: This open session, co-sponsored with the SBL unit “The Art and Religions of Antiquity,” invites papers that consider the intersection of art and violence in the ancient world, including, but not limited to, visual representations of violence, violence against art, iconoclasm, or violence as art (e.g., fatal charades).
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