Event overview
with Professor Eamonn Carrabine
Images of punishment have featured prominently in Western art – from Laocoon’s tortured scream, through Piranesi’s carceral fantasies to Warhol’s Electric Chair – the practice has been the subject of numerous artistic treatments. They pose important questions over the meanings of pain, suffering and justice depicted in such a rich variety of cultural material.
Although the attention given to images in criminology is a recent development, it is important to acknowledge that across the humanities and social sciences the visual has become a major feature of quite diverse research practices. Scholarship ranges from the analysis of images made by others to those produced by social researchers, and the problems posed when these are brought into correspondence with the more conventional concerns of social science. The lecture will draw on my ongoing research on the iconography of punishment, which is a study of the dominant ways in which penal landscapes have been represented since the 1500s. Images and texts are embedded in the social worlds that produced them, and while they should not be read as unproblematic sources of historical information they do tell us much about the tensions animating an era.
Professor Eamonn Carrabine is a Professor at the University of Essex and has published broadly in criminology and sociology. He currently serves as an editor on the British Journal of Criminology, and is an international advisory editor on Theoretical Criminology. Eamonn is currently working on the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship funded research project 'The Iconography of Punishment: From Renaissance to Modernity'.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 8 Dec 2015 | 4:00pm - 7:00pm |
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