Conferences

Histories of Violence in Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Perspective

This conference will be held in Warsaw, Poland from 15 to 17 September 2025. It is devoted to the history of violence in East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Work is particularly welcomed on physical, symbolic, psychological, and military violence and explorations of its relations with gender, class, race and ethnicity. Discussion of stories of individual but also collective violence, from the perspective of social history, legal history, cultural and military history, is encouraged.

The conference is organized by the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw, Museum of Polish History in Warsaw, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Commission on Slavonic and East European Studies of the Committee of Historical Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences and the German Historical Institute, Warsaw.

Conference Board: Philip Dwyer, Christhardt Henschel, Jeffrey Kopstein, Aneta Pieniądz, Natalia Starchenko, Michał Trębacz

History of Violence Stream at Australian Historical Association Conference

EP Philip Dwyer is coordinating the second History of Violence strand at the Australian Historical Association’s 2025 conference in Townsville. The conference is cohosted by James Cook University and Central Queensland University and from 30 June to 4 July in Townsville.

Global Patterns of Violence in Post-Imperial Societies, 1914 - 1949

To mark the end of his DECRA project, Dr Umit Kurt has organised this conference, to be held at the University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete from 9 to 11 May 2025 in association with the University College Dublin Centre for War Studies, the Armenian Studies Centre at the University of California, Fresno and Binghamton University's Centre for Middle East and North Africa Studies. The keynote address "Global Patterns of Mass Violence" will be delivered by Emeritus Professor Philip Dwyer.

Agency and Perception: The Roma in East Central Europe

Central European University’s Romani Studies Program and the Centre for the Study of Violence, University of Newcastle (Australia) are pleased to invite scholars to submit abstract proposals for the Agency and Perception: The Roma in East Central Europe conference dedicated to the topic of prejudice and anti-Roma racism in Europe and beyond. The conference will be held on 19 April hosted by Central European University on Zoom.

History of Violence Stream at Australian Historical Association Conference

The Centre for the Study of Violence is coordinating the inaugural History of Violence strand at the Australian Historical Association’s annual conference which will be held at Flinders University, Adelaide in July 2024. The overall conference theme is “Home Truths”. https://www.flinders.edu.au/engage/culture/whats-on/aha-conference There will be six History of Violence sessions over three days, including two co-hosted with the Australian Women’s History Network.

Mass Violence in the (Post-)Ottoman Lands

From the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire came under the increasing strains of both internal upheavals and external pressure from great power rivals, culminating in the Empire’s disintegration following defeat in the First World War. Increasing acts of mass violence accompanied this political instability, most notably the Armenian Genocide. Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle (Australia), this online Symposium interrogates the causes, processes and consequences of mass violence in the (Post-)Ottoman lands.

Redress, Response and Restoration Conference

This conference on 7- 8 October 2021 will examine the principal responses by government, researchers, advocates, stakeholders and relevant service providers to the key recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Sexual Violence, Medicine, and Psychiatry

The International, Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Relationship Between Medicine, Psychiatry, and Sexual Violence will be held 16-17 April 2020 at the University of Newcastle. Registration is now open.

Australian Association for the Study of Religion

The Australian Association for the Study of Religion 2019 conference on Religion and Violence was held in December at the city campus of the University of Newcastle, co-hosted by the AASR, the Centre for the Study of Violence and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Conference explored the complex and diverse relations between religion and violence, incorporating counter discourses of peace and social justice.

CFP: Visual Culture and Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe

The symposium aims to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to examine how these conflicts in their various forms (such as social, economic, religious, ethnonational, imperial, and ideological) have been represented in diverse visual media (including, but not restricted to, painting, photography, film, cartoons, caricatures, museum displays, maps and graphs)

Global War, Global Connections, Global Moments

A century after the end of the First World War, this conference is an occasion to reflect on international relations and entanglements during the global conflict. The conference aims to challenge Eurocentric views of the war and focus instead on its transnational and global face.

Historicising Violence: the Contested Histories of Present Day Conflict

A multidisciplinary conference convened by the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia, to be held at the Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame, Rome, 22-24 November 2017.

The History of Violence, from Prehistory to the Present

This three-day international symposium, to be held at the University of Notre Dame in Rome, will bring together contributors to the four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence to explore innovative ways of critically engaging with the question of violence from pre-history through to the present day

Ottoman Cataclysm: Total War, Genocide and Distant Futures in the Middle East

28 to 31 October 2015 The Centre for the History of Violence sponsored the international Ottoman Cataclysm: Total War, Genocide and Distant Futures in the Middle East (1915-1917) conference at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Download the conference program (PDF, 308KB) and report (PDF, 87KB).

The Australasian Association for European History(AAEH) XXIV Biennial Conference

14 to 17 July 2015 UON's School of Humanities and Social Science hosted the 2015 Australasian Association for European History (AAEH) XXIV Biennial Conference, 'War, Violence, Aftermaths: Europe and the Wider World,' to be held in Newcastle, Australia.

Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern and Contemporary World

29 June to 1 July 2015 The Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern and Contemporary World conference at the British Academy, UK, was funded by the Centre for the Study of Violence from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2015

First World War: Local, Global and Imperial Perspectives

25 to 27 March 2015 The First World War: Local, Global and Imperial Perspectives conference will mark the centenary of the First World War, and more specifically the 100th anniversary of the allied landings at Gallipoli

2012 Violence Studies Conference

The Humanities Research Institute and the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle held its inaugural Violence Studies Conference at the Crowne Plaza, from 21 to 24 August 2012

War Stories

This conference, held at the University of Newcastle in conjunction with the Writing Cultures Group, was an inter-disciplinary approach looking at the war memoir from ancient times to the present.

Dangar Park Massacre

Organised by Dr Victoria Haskins in conjunction with the Newcastle City Council Guraki Committee, the speakers for this conference were Prof Lyndall Ryan, Dr Tony Birch and Cynthia Hunter.

Revisiting the Massacre in History

In 1995, a conference was organised at the University of Warwick by Mark Levene and Penny Roberts in which the groundwork for a study of massacre was laid. Ten years later, the Conflict Research Group at the University of Newcastle, Australia, invited scholars from all disciplines to reassess the research that had been done since that time.