Date: Tuesday 20 August 2013
Time:12:00-13:30
Location: Humanities Building 7-14
RSVP: [email protected] by 19 August

Civil wars proceed in unsurveyable ways, often more so for those involved than for those outside them. Hence the importance of the question of who narrates the events in what way and thereby secures the sovereignty of definition, not only over the causes of the conflict (“Who started it? Who's guilty?”), but also over the prevailing fronts (“Who is friend? Who is enemy?”).  Such narratives thereby shape the acts of violence. This lecture analyzes the cultural mechanisms of this feedback.