Tuesday 4th July 2023
(BS/104 (The Treehouse), Berrick Saul Building)
Zoom link: https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95639127688

12.00–13.00
Registration/Lunch

13.00–14.30
First panel: Gender and Spaces of Violence
Panel Chair: Amanda Madden (Mason George University)

Speakers:

Benedetta Chizzolini (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München/Università degli Studi di Padova): Controlling violence in the Bagno de’ Forzati of Livorno (17th–18th centuries)

Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi (University of Deusto): Violence and Women in Early Modern Basque territories

Sanne Muurling (Radboud University): Women, violence and the use of justice in early modern Bologna

14.30–14.45
Coffee break

14.45–16.15
Second panel: Social Groups and Politics
Panel Chair: Stuart Carroll (University of York)

Speakers:

Ugo Muraca (University of Messina): “Faire tyranniser la majorité du peuple par une minorité factieuse”: the suppression ofthe federalist uprisings in Southern France in 1793

Amelie Balayre (University of Arras): Controlling the violence of servants: a pressure way in early modern diplomacy?

Sian Hibbert (University of York): Violence and the Notability: Languedoc 1680–1720

16.15–16.30
Coffee break

16.30–17.30
Keynote Speaker:
Amanda Madden (George Mason University): The history of violence between the micro and macro: notes from the field of earlymodern studies

17.15–18.00
Drink reception

Wednesday 5 July 2023
(BS/104 (The Treehouse), Berrick Saul Building)
Zoom link: https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96596007168

09.00–10.30
Third panel: Cultures of Violence, Peace, and the Law
Panel Chair: Paolo Broggio (Roma Tre University)

Speakers:

Andrea Toffolon (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): “Who is there?”: the Violent Game of chivalì in the Republic of Venice (1576–1645c.)

Povilas Andrius Stepavičius (Vilnius University): Attempts to live peacefully: violence and its control in the 17th century Vilnius

Mattia Corso (Independent researcher): The Problem with Weapons: Arms Control Policies in Sixteenth-Century Verona

10.30–10.45
Coffee break

10.45–12.15
Fourth panel: Looking East: Violence in Central Europe
Panel Chair: Andrew Vidali (University of York)

Speakers:

Žiga Oman (Institute IRRIS): Dimensions of Enmity in Early Modern Inner Austria

Marta Raczyńska-Kruk (University of Warsaw): You dog, Polish deaf German!’. The story about Deaf Germans in early modernPoland and the problem of symbolic violence

Emese Bálint (Independent researcher): Protection from violence: the Anabaptists in Moravia (1525–1621)