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The Paris attacks: how does extreme violence challenge our categories of thinking?

07 December 2015, 12:00 am

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7 December 2015 +++ This event is fully booked. A video will be made available after the event.+++
During the past fortnight acts of extreme violence in public places in Paris and Bamako have joined recent attacks in cities from  Ankara to Beirut and Baghdad. How are we to make sense of the violent events targeting civilians in the cities we inhabit and travel to?What are their effects, on societies, individuals, victims and perpetrators? How do they threaten, not only our lives, but also our habits of thought? How do our respective academic disciplines equip or fail us in the understanding of these events? How can/must  we think them anew?


When:
7 December 2015
5:30-7pm

Where:
Institute of Advanced Studies
Common Ground
South Wing, Wilkins Building
Gower Street WC1E 6BT

Image by Maya-Anaïs Yataghène

Join the Institute of Advanced Studies and the European Institute for a roundtable exploring these questions from a number of disciplinary perspectives. We will discuss how history, anthropology, political theory and political science, psychoanalysis, literature etc. can help us to understand, and to what extent extreme violence is challenging our very categories of comprehension. 

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Chaired by Tamar Garb, Director of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and Professor in the History of Art, UCL


Co-hosted by UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies and the European Institute

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