The Fourth York Cultural History Conference

Session

Thursday 21st April 2005

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'

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'

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

William Miller (Michigan):
'An eye for an eye: violence and value'

Session

Friday 22nd April 2005

SESSION 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'

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Ed Muir (Northwestern):
'Trust and the ends of violence in Renaissance Italy'

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'

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Martin Blinkhorn (Lancaster):
'Primitive rebel, military entrepreneur, or bloodthirsty scoundrel? The bandit in modern history'

Session

Saturday 23rd April 2005

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'

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'

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

John Keane (Westminster):
'The democratization of violence?'