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Course date
June 30–July 11, 2003
Location
Budapest
Application deadline
Course delivery
In-person

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, a new international political geography has emerged, with certain areas - such as the Balkans, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and Israel and the occupied territories - framed as zones of ethnic, religious, or nationalist conflict. "Culture" is often invoked as a contributing cause of these conflicts, but it is only recently that the cultural aspects of these conflicts have become central to a range of disciplines, old and new: anthropology, cultural history, studies of visual and material culture, and studies of trauma and memory. Based on these new conceptualizations of the culture, this course will examine political violence not as an adjunct to or a result of cultural activity, but as a fully cultural materialization and performance. The course will thus consider the centrality of cultural issues in ethnic, religious, and nationalist conflict, attempting to ascertain the place of political conflict and violence within the field of culture and the status of the experience, representation, and interpretation of conflict and violence as cultural phenomena.

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