Welcome to the Centre for the History of Violence
The Centre for the History of Violence is a new research centre with an annual programme of lectures, seminars and conferences on every aspect of the History of Violence - from debates surrounding concepts of violence, to representations of violence in art, literature, and film, questions of interpersonal violence, to issues of political violence and terrorism.
We bring together internationally renowned scholars, post-doctoral fellows, graduates and undergraduates from across the Humanities and Social Sciences - Anthropology, Art, Criminology, Film, History, International Relations, Law, Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science and Sociology.
The Centre for the History of Violence is an adjunct of the Humanities Research Institute.
Currently on research leave, Assoc. Prof. Roger Markwick spent February 2012 in the depths of the Russian winter in the city of Yaroslavl', four hours by train northeast of Moscow. He was conducting archival research for his new ARC supported Discovery Project, in collaboration with Prof. Beate Fieseler of Heinrich-Heine University, Dorf, on the role women played on the Soviet home front during the Second World War. An industrial city on the Volga River, with a current population of 600,000, during the war Yaroslavl' was close to the frontline. Women played a vital role in every aspect of daily life: anti-aircraft defence, working in factories, on collective farms, schools and hospitals, caring for refugees from besieged Leningrad, and more. Roger's preliminary archival research suggests that Yaroslavl' provides a an excellent case study of the multi-facetted but little researched contribution Soviet women made to the Red Army's defeat of Nazism.
21-23 August 2012
The Humanities Research Institute and the Centre for the History of Violence is holding its inaugural Violence Studies Conference at the Crowne Plaza, Newcastle, Australia. The conference will address a range of critically important ideas relating to the history of violence
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Roger Markwick in Russia
Currently on research leave,
Assoc. Prof. Roger Markwick
spent February 2012 in the
depths of the Russian winter
in the city of Yaroslavl'