This video on the history of violence where I provide a very different interpretation to Pinker is now available on youtube:
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Sinisa Malesevic
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Full Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology, University College, Dublin and Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris. New books: 'Nationalism as a Way of Life', 'Why Humans Fight', 'Contemporary Sociological Theory, 'Grounded Nationalisms' and 'The Rise of Organised Brutality'.
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I am glad to see that this special issue on the war frames in Eastern Europe and East Asia has just been published in the Sociological Review. It was a pleasure to be a part of this comparative project:
Looking forward to this symposium at the University of Ljubljana + giving another lecture on 24/3:
Aleš Debeljak Symposium
On the anniversary of the death of a university colleague and engaged public intellectual, who marked and charged us with his passionate analyses of contemporary cultural, intellectual, (geo)political and spiritual currents and ruptures, we will reflect with domestic and foreign guests on the dimensions, reasons and consequences of the changes in our world in the last decade. The symposium will take place on March 23, 2026 in the Aleš Debeljak Academic Reading Room at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Here is the English version of ARTE documentary on the transformation of violence where Pinker and I offer very different interpretations:
Is It True That... - ...The Past Was Less Violent? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
Destruction, terror, war: It seems that there has never been more violence than in the world today. But what can we learn from history? Was there really less violence in the past?
It was a pleasure to give an interview for the German TV ARTE documentary on violence:
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/123428-018-A/gab-es-frueher-mehr-gewalt-als-heute/
Gab es früher mehr Gewalt als heute? - Stimmt es, dass ...? - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Unsere Welt scheint heute so gewalttätig wie nie. Doch ist sie wirklich brutaler als früher? Von prähistorischen Konflikten bis zu den Weltkriegen - Gewalt folgt keinem linearen Trend. Doch womöglich verrät sie viel über die Gesellschaft, in der sie entsteht.
It was a pleasure to give an interview for the German TV ARTE documentary on violence:
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/123428-018-A/gab-es-frueher-mehr-gewalt-als-heute/
Gab es früher mehr Gewalt als heute? - Stimmt es, dass ...? - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Unsere Welt scheint heute so gewalttätig wie nie. Doch ist sie wirklich brutaler als früher? Von prähistorischen Konflikten bis zu den Weltkriegen - Gewalt folgt keinem linearen Trend. Doch womöglich verrät sie viel über die Gesellschaft, in der sie entsteht.
Just published in Theory and Society:
Do civil wars make or break states? Towards a historical sociology of intra-state conflicts
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-025-09677-5
Looking forward to speaking at this conference in Belgrade:
ASN European Conference: Reconfiguring National Identities amid Multiple Crises, 18–20 September 2026
As an interdisciplinary event, the conference welcomes contributions from anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, law, literature, political science, gender studies, psychology, sociology, and related fields, as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies employing diverse methodologies.
1 postdoc position on ERC Advanced Grant project IDEO-YEMEN. Focus on Yemen under Ansar Allah (Houthis). The position starts September 1, 2025 and runs for 56 months.
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=ul2vchzotpqsbw7khmbxjxjvga0po8c
I gave an interview on nationalism to the Iraqi Kurdish Gulan Media: