Event

Speakers:

Herman Bennett, CUNY

Ravit Reichman, Brown

Dorothy Roberts, Penn

Caleb Smith, Yale

We lack consensus on what it means to limit, control, reduce, or redress violence. "Combating crime" or "protesting the state's use of force" introduces violence by other means. An end to violence is thus difficult to conceptualize as well as to practice. 

Please join us as four distinguished scholars - Herman Bennett, Ravit Reichman, Dorothy Roberts, and Caleb Smith - discuss ways in which violence is institutionalized, legitimized, and rendered permissible, including in attempts to manage harm. At the same time, we ask what it looks like to alter a violent form, habit, or system.

The Graduate Humanities Forum gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Symposium organized by the Mellon Graduate Fellows of the Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania. For more information, please visit us online. 

If you have questions, please email Kate Aid, Chair, Graduate Humanities Forum.

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