The Official EASC Podcast

The Meanings of Violence with Don Wyatt


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Episode 1 of the Meanings of Violence series, hosted by Dr. Morten Oxenboell with Middlebury College guest Dr. Don Wyatt.

Content warning: includes references to historic slavery practices.

In collaboration with the Hamilton Lugar School’s Area Studies Centers, the East Asian Studies Center has launched into a a multi-faceted exploration of the history of collective violence. In East Asia, as everywhere, violence (or the threat thereof) has determined the fates of nations, driven advancements in technology and administration, and spurred doctrinal developments in philosophy and religion.

This series facilitates dialogue between scholars from different disciplines about how violence can be understood. With both global and historical approaches, our network of experts is ideally situated to explore how different social contexts inform sentiments and appropriate and/or illegitimate violence—an approach that is critical for developing sustainable and effective policies for violence prevention in the future.
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