On 15-16 December The Lithuanian Institute of History and the University of Helsinki kindly invite you to the international conference "Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes and Criminology in 19th-20th Centuries".

The conference will explore how domestic violence was perceived, regulated and portrayed in imperial and post-imperial spaces in the 19th and 20th centuries. Scholars will discuss how practices of gender, discipline and family control were shaped in the empires, how different institutions responded to domestic violence, and how social and political factors influenced the understanding of the problem. Researchers will also look at representations of violence in literature and its links to constructs of race and gender and disciplinary mechanisms in authoritarian states.

The event will bring together scholars from Lithuania, Finland, Israel, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Latvia, Germany and the United States. The two-day conference will take place at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library.

Please click here for a more detailed programme of the conference and please fill the registration form by the 10 December.