Programme
6 July, Monday
11.00-11.30 – Opening session
Introduction by the coveners Raisa Toivo and Marianna Muravyeva
11.30-13.00 –Session 1: Motives and Opportunities in Contemporary Parricides
Chair/Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
"Degenerative Parricides: Attitudes to Killing Parents in the 19th-century Russian Criminal Justice System"
Marianna Muravyeva
"Parricide and psychic violence in the family setting"
Florian Houssier
"Exploring the offense trajectory of fatal and non-fatal violence towards parents across the life cycle"
Amanda Holt and Phillip Shon
13.00-14.30 – lunch
14.30-16.00 – Session 2:Exemplary Parricides in the Modern European North
Chair/Discussant: Karen Hassan Jansson
"'His disobedient son': A trial case study from Finnmark, Northern Norway, from the mid-eighteenth century"
Liv Helene Willumsen
"Appropriation and Fictionalisation in Representations of Parricide: The Thorvald Sletten Murder Case 1899-1907"
Silje Warberg
"'So No-One Could Hear Her Scream': A matricide in Northern Denmark that challenged legislators and shook a community
Annette Ekström Larner
16.00-16.30 – Tea
16.30-18.00 – Session 3: Historicising Parricide: Localities and Identities
Chair/Discussant:Manon van den Heijden
"The cases of parricide in the courts of Early Modern Estonia and Livonia"
Ken Ird
"Gender and the Historicity of Parricide: A Case Study from the 19th-Century North American West”
Peter Boag
"Sources of conflict in South Korean parricides, 1948-63"
Phillip Shon
7 July, Tuesday
09.00-10.30 – Session 4: Violence and Ideal Family in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Chair/Discussant: Garthine Walker
"'You would have them lock me up and sell me as slave': Parents and children in eighteenth-century Wallachia"
Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu
"'A Timely Warning to Rash and Disobedient Children': Normative Literature and Violence against Parents in England over the Long Eighteenth Century"
Jim Sharpe
"Non-lethal assaults against parents in early modern Munich: perspectives on fatherhood"
Satu Lidman
10.30-11.00 – Coffee
11.00-12.30 – Session 5: Generational Conflicts and Parental Authority
Chair/Discussant: Raisa Toivo
"Disapproval of parental violence against children through the example of forced monachization in Eighteenth Century France"
Alexandra Roger
"Choosing the bridegroom: Guardianship and conflicts between generations in eighteenth century Sweden and Finland"
Jonas liliequist
"Words and Deeds: Children’s violence towards their Parents in 19th Century Romanian Society"
Nicoleta Roman
12.30-14.00 – Lunch
14.00-15.30 – Session 6: Struggling with Parental Authority in Early Modern Europe
Chair/Discussant: Krista Kesselring
"Violence against parents in eighteenth-century Denmark"
Nina Koefoed
"Bad Parenting and Parent abuse in early modern Finland: Scandal, rumour and emotion"
Raisa Toivo
"Violence against paternal authority figures: The prosecution of catholic priests and protestant ministers during the great witch-hunts"
Rita Voltmer
15.30-16.00 – Tea
16.00-17.30 – Session 7: Methodologies and perspectives on studying parricide and violence against parents
Closing discussion moderated by Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Toivo