{"id":928,"date":"2026-02-25T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/limites-violencia\/?p=928"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:31:05","slug":"international-seminar-transgression-the-justification-critique-and-negotiation-of-extreme-violence-carmona-5-6-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/limites-violencia\/international-seminar-transgression-the-justification-critique-and-negotiation-of-extreme-violence-carmona-5-6-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"International Seminar  \u00abTransgression: The Justification, Critique and Negotiation of Extreme Violence\u00bb (Carmona, 5\u20136 March 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 5 and 6 March 2026, the International Seminar&nbsp;<strong>\u201cTransgression: The Justification, Critique and Negotiation of Extreme Violence\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;will take place at the Sede Olavide en Carmona (Universidad Pablo de Olavide).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By focusing on the justification, critique, and negotiation of acts perceived as transgressive, the seminar directly engages with one of the central research questions of the project&nbsp;<em>En los l\u00edmites de la violencia<\/em>: how historical actors defined the boundaries of legitimate violence and how those boundaries were contested, reshaped, and institutionalised over time. Rather than treating extreme violence solely as rupture or breakdown, the seminar explores the normative frameworks, discursive strategies, and institutional mechanisms through which acts such as massacre, enslavement, sexual violence, or urban destruction were debated and sometimes legitimised. In doing so, it contributes to the project\u2019s broader aim of understanding violence not only as event, but as a historically situated practice embedded within moral economies, legal cultures, and political rationalities from Antiquity to the modern era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Thursday, 5 March<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>09:00\u201309:15<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome and introduction \u2013 Harald E. Braun \/ Igor P\u00e9rez-Tostado<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel 1: Ancient &amp; Medieval \u2013 Transgression, Norms and Justification<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>09:15\u201311:45<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tristan S. Taylor \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cIniuria humani generis? The Ethics of Mass Violence in Greco-Roman Antiquity\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nathalie Barrandon \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cParabain\u00f4: Violences extr\u00eames et transgression en temps de guerre dans l\u2019Antiquit\u00e9 gr\u00e9co-romaine\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stefanie R\u00fcther \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cJustified? Dealing with Transgressive Violence in Medieval Wars before International Law\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11:45\u201312:15<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coffee Break<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel 2: Early Modernity I \u2013 Failure of Government and Transgressive Violence<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>12:15\u201313:45<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Harald E. Braun \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cReason of State as Reason of Peace? Atrocity, Empathy and Theory of Governance during the Thirty Years\u2019 War\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thomas Pert \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cTerror Tactics or Unauthorized Excesses? Articles of War, Discipline, and Atrocity in the Thirty Years\u2019 War\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>14:00\u201316:00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lunch \u2013 Bar Casta\u00f1o<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel 3: Early Modernity II \u2013 Negotiating Rules of Engagement<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>16:00\u201317:30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Foa \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cThe St. Bartholomew\u2019s Day Massacre (France, 1572): Between Silence and Justification\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marian F\u00fcssel \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201c\u2018Fury and Barbarity which former Wars were unacquainted with\u2019: The Burning and Destruction of Cities as a War Crime in the Age of the Wars of Succession (1688\u20131748)\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>17:30\u201318:30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>End of Day 1 Roundtable Discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conference Dinner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Friday, 6 March<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel 4: Gender and Transgressive Violence<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>09:15\u201311:45<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tamar Herzig \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cGender, Enslavement, and Transgressive Violence in Mediterranean Catholic Europe in the Seventeenth Century\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nil Abend \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cEnslavement and Transgressive Violence in Early Modern Spain\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sandra Su\u00e1rez Garc\u00eda \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201c\u2018I am a young man of good repute, conduct, and conversation\u2019: The Making of Soldiers\u2019 Defences against Accusations of Violence towards Women in the Hispanic Monarchy (16th\u201317th Centuries)\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11:45\u201312:15<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coffee Break<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Panel 5: From Early Modern Normativity to Modern Moral Economies<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>12:15\u201313:45<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Christian Ingrao \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cBeyond Impunity and Anomy: Justification, Moral Economy and Transgression in the Einsatzgruppen of the Soviet Union\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Concluding Roundtable Discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor P\u00e9rez-Tostado \u2013 Concluding Remarks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>14:00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing Lunch \u2013 Hotel Alc\u00e1zar de la Reina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/limites-violencia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cartel-Transgression.pdf\">poster<\/a> is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/limites-violencia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cartel-Transgression.pdf\">https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/limites-violencia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cartel-Transgression.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/limites-violencia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/programa-Transgression-3.pdf\">full program<\/a> is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/limites-violencia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cartel-Transgression.pdf\">https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/limites-violencia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cartel-Transgression.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" 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