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"