Political Theory Workshop: Andrew Murphy (VCU)
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Sponsor(s): Political Science
Talk title: Theorizing Political Martyrdom: Politics, Religion, Death, and Memory
Political martyrdom, it is argued, provides a fertile ground for theorizing the intersections of politics, violence, collective memory, and meaning-making in a variety of historical contexts, and gives political theorists and historians of political thought conceptual tools to understand these dynamics as they play out across time and place.