Events of violence fundamentally reshape landscapes and places. The contributions in this volume show interdisciplinary perspectives on how violence materially transforms its sites and how linked narratives, discourses, events and actors correlate with one another. The case studies range from ancient to modern times and address military battlefields, militarized borders as well as sites of violence and destruction during the Shoah. As understood by the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Conflict Landscapes (Interdisziplinre Arbeitsgruppe Konfliktlandschaften, IAK) of the University of Osnabrck, this involves the integration of approaches from scientific, social and cultural study fields, which makes the interactions between the material and the discursive level comprehensible in a process of continuous transformation in the developing historical landscapes.