The University of Pennsylvania Law School, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and the Georgetown Institute for Global History
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
34th & Sansom Street
Thursday June 23 |
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| 1:00 pm | Welcome and opening remarks Sarah Barringer Gordon, Department of History and Law School, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Panel 1: Remembering and ForgettingMark Meuwese, Department of History, University of Winnipeg A Tale of Two Massacres in Colonial Brazil Ann Emmons, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder "The Word of God Writ Large in Rock": The Mythopoetics of the Almo Massacre Christine M. DeLucia, Department of American Studies, Yale University "How Could we Not Remember?" Recalling and Forgetting Massacres of King Philip's War at Great Swamp and Peskeomskut Commentator: Richard Turley, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Assistant Church Historian |
| 3:15 - 4:45 | Panel 2: Violence, Laws, States, and EmpiresMatthew A. Cook, Departments of History and English, North Carolina Central University We Have Sindh: Violence and British Imperial Authority in the Indus Region John Smolenski, Department of History, University of California, Davis The Paxton Uprising and the Problematic Status of 'Friendly' Indians in Colonial Pennsylvania John Savage, Department of History, Lehigh Rumor, Violence, Memory, Legality: The Massacre of the Fete-Dieu in Martinique (1790) Commentator: Thomas J. Humphrey, Department of History, Cleveland State University |
| Break | |
| 5:00 - 6:15 | Keynote Address Karl Jacoby, History Department, Brown University 'Wondering Horror': A History of Violence and the Violence of History |
| 6:15 - 7:15 | Reception |
| Friday June 24 | |
| 9:15 - 10:45 am | Panel 3: Meanings and Memories of Violence, IChristian Ayne Crouch, Department of History, Bard College "It Cost us No Person": The Problem of Writing about Routine Acts of violence in the Borderland Michelle LeMaster, Department of History, Lehigh University "[B]utchered after the most barbarous manner": Massacre and Gendered Violence in the Tuscarora War Jeffrey Ostler, Department of History, University of Oregon. Toward an Indigenous History of Massacres (and Annihilation in General) Examples from Eastern North America, 1750s-early 1800s Commentator: David J. Silverman, Department of History, George Washington University |
| 11:00 - 12:15 pm | Panel 4: Meanings and Memories of Violence, IIAnn Marie Plane, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara "God hath left our Nation to destroy": Visionaries, Revenge, and Traumatic Reenactment on the Maine Frontier in King Philip’s War, 1675-1677 Jean-Francois Lozier, Department of History, University of Toronto Revisiting the 'Lachine Massacre' of 1689 Commentator: Alison Games, History Department, Georgetown University |
| 12:15 - 1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45 - 3:00 | Panel 5: ReligionSarah Barringer Gordon, Department of History and Law School, University of Pennsylvania Jan Shipps, Departments of History and Religion, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis The Sins of the Fathers: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Religious History Jennifer Graber, Department of Religious Studies, The College of Wooster "You Shall Live, You Shall Live": Religious Transformation and the Massacre at Wounded Knee Commentator: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, History Department, Harvard University |
| 3:15 - 4:30 | Panel 6: Rhetoric and RepresentationEamon Darcy, Trinity College, Dublin Massacres in the early-modern British imagination Joanne Van der Woude, Department of English, Harvard University Imperial Carnage and Epic Suffering in early Latin American Literature Commentator: Paul Saint-Amour, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania |
| 4:30 | Closing remarks Alison Games, History Department, Georgetown University |