This collection of papers was produced following the first Knowledge Frontiers Symposium, which the British Academy hosted in partnership with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, on the broad theme of ‘violence’.
Articles
Memories of violence: introduction
Charles Tripp
Journal of the British Academy, volume 8, supplementary issue 3, pp. 1-6, posted 15 June 2020.
The 19th-century origins of nuclear deterrence
Gordon Fraser
Journal of the British Academy, volume 8, supplementary issue 3, pp. 7-24, posted 15 June 2020.
A biography of memory: layered memorialisation of military death at an urban cenotaph
Yvonne Inall
Journal of the British Academy, volume 8, supplementary issue 3, pp. 25-49, posted 15 June 2020.
Repertoires of remembrance: violence, commemoration, and the performing arts
Ariana Phillips-Hutton
Journal of the British Academy, volume 8, supplementary issue 3, pp. 51-71, posted 15 June 2020.
The politics of locating violence: on the Japanese nationalist critique of American racism after the First World War
Steffen Rimner
Journal of the British Academy, volume 8, supplementary issue 3, pp. 73-90, posted 15 June 2020.
‘Piteous massacre’: violence, language, and the off-stage in Richard III
Georgina Lucas
Journal of the British Academy, volume 8, supplementary issue 3, pp. 91-109, posted 15 June 2020.
Texts and tactics: an indirect approach to violence
Stephen Carter
Journal of the British Academy, volume 8, supplementary issue 3, pp. 111-132, posted 15 June 2020.
Medieval violence, the making of law and the historical present
Philippa Byrne
Journal of the British Academy, volume 8, supplementary issue 3, pp. 133-154, posted 15 June 2020.
Violence and narrative: structural and interpersonal violence in contemporary French literature
Marieke Mueller
Journal of the British Academy, volume 8, supplementary issue 3, pp. 155-169, posted 15 June 2020.