‘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)