Rice Webcast Archive: Violence in History, Rice University, October 21, 2004

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Martin J. Wiener
Violence in History

Speakers:	Jim Pomerantz, Martin J. Wiener, Richard A. Nisbett, Richard J. Stoll
Location:	Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium, Rice University
Date:	October 26, 2004
Topic:	Violence in History
Format:	Speech
Length:	71 minutes
Abstract:	Martin J. Wiener, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History at Rice, will primarily address the history and prospects of interpersonal violence in this lecture. What does the historical record suggest about whether violence is "natural" or "acquired" to human beings? What does it suggest about the possibilities for reducing its role in human affairs? Have we progressed or retrogressed in recent centuries? This talk, following his own scholarship, will primarily address the history and prospects of interpersonal violence, but will also look at the larger realm of ethnic, national and ideological violent conflict. Panelists: Richard A. Nisbett, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rice University Richard J. Stoll, Associate Dean/Professor, Social Sciences, Political Science Department, Rice University
Links:	Rice News article (October 21, 2004) Martin J. Wiener web site Scientia Lecture Series