Benjamin Seebröker MA
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Benjamin Seebröker M.A.
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PhD project
Homicide and Change. Interpersonal Violence and Socioeconomical Transformation in Lancashire During the Long Eighteenth Century
Curriculum Vitae
- Oct 2019–Mar 2020 Visiting Research Student, University of Warwick, UK
- since Mar 2018: scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and Associated Member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1285 “Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement”, TU Dresden
- 2017–2018 Research Associate and IT-Administrator, Collaborative Research Centre 1285 “Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement”, TU Dresden
- 2016–2017 Research Associate, project: "Civilisation of Violence? A Critical Reanalysis of Premodern Sources", TU Dresden, funded by the German Research Foundation
- 2014–2016 Research Assistant, project: "Political Culture of Mining Towns in the Ore Mountains (1470–1648)", TU Dresden, funded by the German Research Foundation
- 2011–2013 Research Assistant, Collaborative Research Centre 804 “Transcendence and Common Sense“, project F (early modern history), TU Dresden
- 2013–2016 MA in history, TU Dresden; Lohrmann Medal for best MA graduate of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2016; MA thesis: "Mining-Town-Identity? The Relationship Between Town and Mining in Early Modern Chronicles from the Ore Mountains"
- 2009–2013 BA in history, political science and sociology, TU Dresden; award for best BA thesis of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2013
Research Interests
- History of Violence
- History of Crime and Criminal Justice
- Urban History/ Town Chronicles
- Digital History
Publications
Lethal Violence in Decline? A Critical Review of Historical Homicide Rates in England, in: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés. [forthcoming]
Hard Numbers? The Long-Term Decline in Violence Reassessed. Empirical Objections and Fresh Perspectives, in: Continuity and Change 36, 1 (2021) [with Gerd Schwerhoff, Alexander Kästner, Wiebke Voigt]. [forthcoming]
“Alles kommt vom Bergwerk her“? Städtische Identität und Bergbau in Chroniken erzgebirgischer Städte in der Frühen Neuzeit, [Identities of Mining Towns in the Ore Mountains and their Representation in Early Modern Chronicles], in: Neues Archiv für sächsische Geschichte 90 (2019), p. 109-128.
Beschaffen, verwalten, begraben. Die Dresdner Anatomie und ihre Leichen, 1748-1817 [Procure, Manage, Bury. The Dresden Anatomy and Its Corpses, 1748-1817], in: Bleker, Johanna/Lenning, Petra/Schnalke, Thomas (Eds.), Tiefe Einblicke. Das Anatomische Theater im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, Berlin 2018, p. 205-221 [with Alexander Kästner].
Talks (Selection)
Wandel von interpersoneller Gewalt unter dem Einfluss sozioökonomischer Transformationsprozesse in Lancashire (1690-1830) [Impact of Socioeconomic Change on Interpersonal Violence in Lancashire (1690-1830)], 6th Colloquium on Crime and Criminal Justice in the Modern Era. Crime, Justice and Elites, Heppenheim, September 2019.
Töten im Wandel. Interpersonelle Gewalt in Lancashire (1690-1830) [Homicide and Change. Interpersonal Violence in Lancashire (1690-1830)], Forschungskolloquium zur Europäischen Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 2019.
Töten im Wandel. Gewalt und sozioökonomische Transformationsprozesse in Lancashire (1690-1830) [Homicide and Change. Violence and Socioecoomical Transformation in Lancashire (1690-1830)], Kolloquium des Lehrverbunds Frühe Neuzeit am Historischen Seminar der Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, May 2019.
[with Gerd Schwerhoff and Wiebke Voigt] Zivilisierung der Gewalt? Kritische Betrachtung der Quellengrundlage der These vom Rückgang der Tötungsraten seit dem späten Mittelalter [Civilisation of Violence? A Critical Review of the Empirical Foundation of the Thesis of Declining Homicide Rates Since the Late Middle Ages], 5th Colloquium on Crime and Criminal Justice in Early Modern and Modern Times. Cultural and Ethnic Diversity in the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, München (Gauting), September 2017.