29 June, Thursday
1.30 pm Registration
2 pm Introduction: Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare, Peter Wilson
2.15 pm Session 1: Multi-scale Violence
Richard Reid (SOAS): ‘None could stand before him in the battle, none ever reigned so wisely as he’: Violence and its uses in early modern Africa
Cécile Vidal (EHESS, Paris): Chattel Slavery, War, and Multi-Scale Violence in Early English and French America
Chair: Trevor Burnard (Melbourne)
4.15 pm Session 2: Interpersonal and State Violence
Stuart Carroll (York): Violence and the state in early modern Europe Speaker TBC
Chair: Peter Wilson (Oxford)
30 June, Friday
9.15 am Session 3: Overseas violence
James Belich (Oxford): Plague, the Military Revolution, and European Expansion
Adam Clulow (Monash): Drawing Lines in the Sea: The Dutch East India Company, the Zheng Maritime Network and the Uses of Early Modern Law
Chair: Erica Charters (Oxford)
11.15 Session 4: Representations of Violence
Pratyay Nath (Ashoka University): ‘The Wrath of God’: Justification of Military Violence in Mughal Imperial Discourse
Michel van Duijnen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): ‘Sacrificed to the madness of the bloodthirsty sabre’: The Great Turkish War and the visualization of violence in the Low Countries
Chair: Brian Sandberg (Northern Illinois University)
2 pm Session 5: Banditry, Raids and Non-state Warfare
Brian Sandberg (Northern Illinois University): Raiding war and globalization in the Early Modern World
Alexandr Osipian (National University of Kyiv): Dealing with bandits and authorities: legal and customary restrains of violence in the caravan trade between the Ottoman Empire, Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Russia
Chair: Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt)
4 pm Session 6: Collective Violence, Riots and Massacres
Mark Meuwese (Winnipeg): The outburst and restraint of racial massacres in European colonies in the mid-eighteenth century
Gulay Yilmaz (Akdeniz University, Antalya): Violence taking over the Ottoman capital, urban protests of 17th century Istanbul
Chair: Adam Clulow (Monash)
1 July, Saturday
9 am Session 7: Revolutionary Violence
Joseph Clarke (Trinity College, Dublin): ‘Preaching Philosophy at Bayonet Point’: Violence and the French Revolutionary Wars
Anthony McFarlane (University of Warwick), Counter-Revolutionary Violence in Spanish America, 1810-1825.
Chair: Stuart Carroll (York)
11 am Session 8: Patterns of Violent Conquests
Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt): The Law of Small Wars: Rethinking Conquest in the Atlantic World Wayne Lee (UNC): Conquer, Extract, and Perhaps Govern: Comparative Landscapes, Logistics, and Violence in the Early Modern World
Chair: Marie Houllemare (Amiens / Institute Universitaire de France)
12.30 Lunch and concluding discussion