“Violence + Art: Reflections on the Premodern”
April 28, 2017
10AM-4:30PM
Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Speakers
Heather Badamo (UC Santa Barbara, Art History)
Susanna Throop (Ursinus College, History)
Matthew Sergi (University of Toronto, English)
Schedule
10:00 a.m. Susanna Throop, Associate Professor of History, Ursinus College
Narratives of Crucifixion, Narratives of Crusade: The Construction of Christian Violence in First Crusade Accounts
+ response by Heather Blurton, Associate Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara
11:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:00 p.m. Matthew Sergi, Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto
The Chester Goldsmiths' Innocents Play: Comedy and Infanticide
+ response by Christine Chism, Professor of English, UCLA
2:30 p.m. Afternoon Break
3:00 p.m. Heather Badamo, Assistant Professor of Art History, UC Santa Barbara
Reframing Violence as Sacred Duty: Warrior Saints and the Art of Religious Contest in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
+ response by Glenn Peers, Professor of Art History, UT Austin