Rome, Community, and State Violence, Then and Now
29. July 2008
This seminar will focus on two perhaps antithetical areas where Rome has provided a political model: in offering a way to think about how a community comes together into a workable state and about violence within that community as it is exercised by citizens against each other, citizens toward the state, or by the state toward citizens. Rome can offer a mirror at a historical remove that allows, depending on the viewers' interests, for both justification and critique. In other words, Rome may serve as a tool for the development of ideology.
10-12 July, 2008
Schloss Freudental
Organizers
Michèle Lowrie, Joy Connolly
Research Initiative Cultural Theory and Theory of the Political Imaginary
e-mail kulturtheorie[at]uni-konstanz.de