‘CULTURES OF VIOLENCE’. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
HUNTINGDON ROOMS. KING’S MANOR YORK (21-23 APRIL 2005).
THURSDAY 21 APRIL 2005
12.00-1.15pm: registration & Coffee
1.15: welcome
1.30-3.30pm SESSION 1
Popular politics and violence
Andy Wood (UEA) : ‘Ritual and anti-ritual under the oak of Reformation: controlling rebel violence in Kett’s rebellion’
David Andress (Portsmouth): ‘Popular violence in the French Revolution: new thoughts’
Jeremy Krikler (Essex): ‘Restraints upon popular racial killing in South Africa’
Pause
3.45-5.45pm SESSION 2
The institutional context of interpersonal violence
Al Soman (CNRS): ‘Torture and the transparency of criminal judgements in early modern France’
Andy Hopper (Birmingham): ‘The high court of chivalry in England and Wales, 1633-41'
Nik Wachsmann (Sheffield): ‘Nazi camps and prisons - a comparative view’
Pause
6-7pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER
William Miller (Michigan): ‘An eye for an eye: violence and value’
7-8.30pm drinks reception courtesy of York department of History
FRIDAY 22 APRIL 2005
9-11.00am SESSION 3 (3)
Perceptions of violence: class, gender and culture
Caroline Dodds (Cambridge): ‘Female dismemberment and decapitation: gendered understandings of power in Aztec ritual’
Steven Hughes (Loyola College): ‘Swords and daggers: class conceptions of interpersonal violence in Liberal Italy’
John Carter Wood (Bayreuth): ‘Conceptualising cultures of violence and cultural change’
Pause
11.15-12.15pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Ed Muir (Northwestern): ‘Trust and the ends of violence in Renaissance Italy’
Lunch 12.15-2pm
2.00-4pm SESSION 4
Renaissance revenge
Trevor Dean (Roehampton): ‘Poisons and potions: domestic violence in late-medieval Bologna’
Michel Nassiet (Angers): ‘Vengeance in sixteenth-century France’
Richard Cust (Birmingham): ‘Violence and gentry honour in early Stuart England’
4.15-5.15pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Martin Blinkhorn (Lancaster) ‘Primitive rebel, military entrepreneur, or bloodthirsty scoundrel? The bandit in modern history’
break
7 pm Conference Dinner
SATURDAY 23 April 2005
9-11.00am SESSION 5
Memory and the representation of violence
Pat Palmer (York) ‘ “A horseloade of heades” and elegies of dismemberment: atrocity and the native response during the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland’
Howard G. Brown (SUNY, Binghamton): ‘Victims of violence after the Terror: Between personal tragedies and collective traumas’
Ian Haywood (Roehampton): ‘Romanticism, riots and cultural mythology, 1780-1832'
pause
11.15-1.15pm SESSION 6
Changing conceptions of violence
Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield): ‘The creation of public knowledge about violence in eighteenth-century London’
Martin Wiener (Rice): ‘Race, Class and Maritime Authority in the Late Victorian Courts: The Surprising Trials of Charles Arthur (1888) and Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891)
Bernd Weisbrod (Gottingen): ‘The religious language of violence and the politics of fundamentalism’
1.15-2pm lunch
2-3pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER
John Keane (Westminster): ‘The democratization of violence?’
3-4pm. Final debate led by Pieter Spierenburg (Rotterdam) and Richard Bessel (York)