Violence in the Early Modern Period
The 2013 Conference of the
University of Michigan
Early Modern Colloquium
February
15-16, 2013
FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 15
3222 Angell Hall
2:30 - 3:00 p.m. - Registration & Welcome
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. - Panel 1: Spectacles of Violence
Lauren Eriks
English, University of Michigan
"The Conditions of Performance: Problem Plays and Jewish Violence in the Post-Auschwitz Merchant of Venice"
Seth Williams
English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
"The Dance of Death in A Larum for London"
Alice Tsay
English, University of Michigan
"Suffering and Spectatorship in Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller"
4:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Tea
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. - Keynote 1
Mitchell Merback
History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
"From Sacrilege to Beautiful Violence: The Massacre of the Innocents in Art-Historical Perspective"
SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 16
3222 Angell Hall
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. - Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. - Panel 2: 'Other' Geographies
Michael Lutz
English, Indiana University-Bloomington
"Homewreckers: Two Lamentable Tragedies and the Anti-Geography of Domestic Violence"
Kathryn Johnson
English, Swathmore College
"'Afraid to Speak?': Language and Systems of Oppression in Fletcher's The Island Princess"
Molly Tun
Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota
"Conceptualizing Colonial Violence: The Expression and Perpetuation of Violence in De Bry's America"
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. - Tea
11:00 - 1:00 p.m. - Panel 3: Spectacle and Voyeurism
Steven Swarbrick
English, Brown University
"Wood Wounds: Trauma and the Inhuman in Spenser, Tasso, and Freud"
Kara Elizabeth Barfett
English, University of Western Ontario
"Dissection and Consumption in the Early Modern Blazon and Wynkyn De Worde"
Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey
English, University of Montana
"Asserting Individuality at the Scaffold"
Jessica Tabak
English, Brown University
"From Sacred to Secular: Spectacular Wounds in The Faerie Queene, Book III"
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. - Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. - Panel 4: Citizenship and Civil Identities
Yanay Israeli
History, University of Michigan
"Narrative Models and the Meanings of Violence: Historians and Conversos in Castile, 1460-1480"
Erin Lichtenstein
History, Stanford University
"'The Honor of the World': A Widow before the Court of Verona, 1575"
Elizabeth Mathie
English, University of Michigan
"Abandoning the Merchant: The Violence of Protecting in The Merchant of Venice"
3:30 - 4:00 p.m. - Tea
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Keynote 2
Melissa Sanchez
English, University of Pennsylvania
" 'Sacred Vehemence': Biopolitics in Comus"