Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Presents
Making Stories An International Conference in honour of elizabeth and Tom Cohen
November 1 – 3, 2019 crrs.ca/makingstories
Land Acknowledgements York University We recognize that many Indigenous nations have longstanding relationships with the territories upon which York University campuses are located that preceded the establishment of York University. York University acknowledges its presensce on the traditional territory of many Indigenous nations. The area known as the Tkaronto has been taken care of by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenasaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat, and the MĂŠtis. It is now home to many Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Missassaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, and agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes Region.
University of Toronto We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca and most recently, the Missassaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home of many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island, and we are grateful to have the opporunity to work on this land. Land acknowledgements should inspire us to engage intellectually with the process of reconciliation and with the issues facing the Indigenous communities on whose traditional lands we gather. They should also inspire us toward meaningful action. Today, nearly half of the 133 First Nations communities across Ontario do not have access to clean and safe drinking water. A portion of funds raised for this conference will be donated to Water First, a charitable organization whose mission is to help address the water challenges in First Nations communities through education, training, and meaningful collaboration. waterfirst.ngo
friday, November 1st, 2019 york university schulich school of business 9:00 - 9:45am Breakfast and Registration 9:45-10:00am Opening Remarks
Classroom X106
Thabit Abdullah York University, History Department Chair
10:00-11:45am Microhistory in the 21st century Part 1 Classroom X106 Chair: Rachel Koopmans, York University Filippo de Vivo, Birbeck, University of London Archival Stories in Early Modern Italy Claire Judde de Larivière, Université de Toulouse Speech and Action in Renaissance Venice: Stories from the Avogaria di Comune Bernard D. Cooperman, University of Maryland Shylock’s Daughter-in-Law: Telling Jewish Stories about Adultery in Early Modern Rome David Rosenthal, University of Edinburgh, Daniel Jamison, University of Toronto, and Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto When Microhistory Met Public History (in Early Modern Italy) 11:45am - 1:00pm Lunch break
Schulich Private dining room
1:00 - 2:30pm Microhistory in the 21st century Part 2 Classroom X106 Chair: Richard Hoffman, York University Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, University of Iceland Freaks and Race in Far-Away Pleaces—Global Perspectives on Far- Reaching Michrohistory Allyson M. Poska, University of Mary Washington Gendering Public Health: Maria Bustamente, a Prize, and the Transmission of Smallpox Vaccination to Cuba (continued...)
friday, November 1st, 2019 york university schulich school of business (1:00 - 2:30pm continued...)
Boyd Cothran, York University, and Adrian Shubert, York University Vessel of Globalization: The Many Worlds of the Edwin Fox, 1853– 1905 Steven Bednarski, University of Waterloo Reconstruction: The Life and Times of Sir Herbert Paul Lathan 2:30 - 2:45pm Break 2:45 - 4:15pm Stories about the cohens Classroom X106 Chair: Maria Joao Dodman, York University Colleagues, students, and friends 4:15 - 4:45pm Break 4:45 - 5:15pm Plenary Classroom X106 Chair: John Christopoulos, University of British Columbia Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University Urbi et Orbi: Making History in Early Modern Rome 5:30 - 7:00pm Reception
Schulich Executive Dining Lounge
Conference Wifi Information York University See handout at registration.
University of Toronto Network ID: UofT User ID: crrs2019 Password: makingstories
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 university of Toronto Emmanuel college 8:15 - 8:50am Breakfast and Registration Emmanuel College Foyer 8:50 - 9:00am Opening Remarks
Ethan Matt Kavaler University of Toronto, CRRS Director
9:00 - 10:45am Panel A: Vox Populi
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Chair: David Rosenthal, University of Edinburgh David Gentilcore, University of Leicester Ambivalent Occupations: Fountaineers, Well Attendants and House Sprites in Early Modern Naples Scott K. Taylor, University of Kentucky Women’s Social Networks and the Eighteenth-Century Gin Craze John Hunt, Utah Valley University The Conspiracy of the Ensorcelled Host: Magic and Gambling Among Patricians and Popolani in Seventeenth-Century Venice Panel B: Holy Stories
EM108
Chair: Allyson M. Poska, University of Mary Washington Renee Baernstein, Miami University Making Convent Stories: The Chronicle of San Paolo Converso and Church History in Borromeo’s Milan, 1584 Virginia Reinburg, Boston College Pilgrims Tell Tales Emese Balint Writing, telling and visualizing the faith. Hutterite ceramics after the Reformation 10:45 - 11:00am Coffee Break
Emmanuel College Foyer
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 university of Toronto Emmanuel college 11:00am - 12:30pm Panel A: Irrevent Stories
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Chair: Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto Michele di Sivo, Archivio di Stato di Roma Belleza Orsini. Witchcraft as Knowledge: The Trial of 1528 Katrina Olds, University of San Francisco A Charlatan and His Secrets in the Eighteenth Century Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University “Worse than a Public Brothel”: Sex & Diplomacy in Early Modern Istanbul Panel B: Women Build Stories EM108 Chair: Renee Baernstein, Miami University Julia L. Hairston, University of California, Rome Tullia d’Aragona and the Courts Elena Brizio, Georgetown University-Friesole The Tale of the Cinquecento Woman who Accompanied her Family into the Future Konrad Eisenbichler, University of Toronto A Good Story Gets Even Better (With a Bit of Imagination) 12:30 - 1:30pm Lunch
Emmanuel College Foyer & EM 119
1:30 - 3:00pm Panel A: Transgressors’ Tales
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Chair: Konrad Eisenbichler, University of Toronto Julia Rombough, Cape Breton University Youths, Sex Workers, and Women’s Institutions in Early Modern Florence Vanessa McCarthy, CRRS, University of Toronto Masculinity and Prostitution at the Tribunal of Bologna’s Ufficio delle Bollette Celeste McNamara, SUNY Cortland Telling Tales of Seduction in Early Modern Venice Marlee Couling, York University Strength in Numbers: Women, Crime, and the Courts in Seventeenth Century England
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 university of Toronto Emmanuel college Panel B: Family Stories Chair: John Hunt, Utah Valley University
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Luka Špoljarić, University of Zagreb The Fancies of a Second Generation Immigrant in Renaissance Italy: Francesco Negri on his Family History Jane Couchman, York University Creating a Usable Story: The French Abbess who Climbed over the Convent Wall, Married William of Orange, and Persuaded her Catholic Father to Support the Marriage Susanne Roberts, Independent Scholar Finding Stories in the Spinelli Family Archive, 1550–1650 Margaret Reeves, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Gendering the Puritan Child in Early Modern Literature 3:00 - 3:15pm Coffee Break
Emmanuel College Foyer
3:15 - 4:45pm Panel A: Slave Stories Chair: Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
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Angela Zhang, York University Hidden in Plain Sight: Reconstructing Slave Stories Through Ricordanze, Letters, and Notaries Lucia Dacome, University of Toronto Healing Slaves: Reappraising Early Modern Stories of Science and Medi cine Jessica Hanser, University of British Columbia Searching for Slave Stories in the South China Sea Panel B: Things Tell Stories Chair: Evonne Levy, University of Toronto
EM108
Victoria Addona, Harvard University “Figures of Every Proportion”: Depicting Bodies on Early Modern Buildings (continued...)
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 university of Toronto Emmanuel college Panel B: Things Tell Stories (...continued) Ryan Whibbs, Assiniboine Community College Jeanne de Bourbon Through her Kitchen: The Compte de Bouche of September 1508 Evelyn Lincoln, Brown University Peopling the Books 4:45 - 5:00pm Coffee Break
Emmanuel College Foyer
5:00-6:30pm Plenary Session: Insiders and Outsiders Chair: Megan Armstrong, McMaster University
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Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto Sex Stories that Can’t Be Told: Suriname, 1731 Edward Muir, Northwestern University The Distrusted: Outsiders Within Leslie Peirce, New York University Tales of Sultans and Saints in Sixteenth-Century Anatolia E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto Orientalizing Dragomans: Enlightenment Genealogy and Stories of Repatriation 6:30-8:30pm Reception
Ned’s Café Goldring Student Centre, Lower Level 150 Charles St. West Daylight Savings Time Ends
Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 university of Toronto Victoria college 8:30 - 9:00am Breakfast Victoria College Foyer 9:00 - 10: 45am Panel A: Tales from the Archive Alumni Hall Chair: Filippo de Vivo, Birkbeck, University of London Nelson Marques, University of Miami Bureaucracy as Story-Telling Space: The Case of Antonio Dias Marques (1654) Colin Rose, Brock University The Quality of Certain French Laces: Affront, Honour, and Violence in Seventeenth-Century Bologna Cristian Berco, Bishops University Narrative and Judicial Performance in the Spanish Inquisition Sara Beam - University of Victoria A Seventeenth-Century Infanticide Trial Panel B: Stories from the Eternal City
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Chair: Mark Jurdjevic, Glendon College, York University Ken Gouwens, University of Connecticut The Meanings of Monkeys in Renaissance Emblems Jennifer Mara DeSilva, Ball State University Entering the Office of Ceremonies: Telling Stories about Advancement and Patronage Barry Torch, York University Giving Humanists their Humanity: Social Friendships and Intellectual Culture in Renaissance Rome Aaron Miedema, York University Variations on a Severed Finger: Legal Ambiguity as Evidence 10:45 - 11:00am Coffee Break
Victoria College Foyer
Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 university of Toronto Victoria college 11:00am - 12:30pm Panel A: Conversion Stories and their Afterlives Alumni Hall Chair: Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland Alexandra Guerson, University of Toronto, and Dana Wessell Lightfoot, University of Northern British Columbia Collaboration and Archival Research: Uncovering Stories of Gender and Conversion Through Notarial Records Hana Suckstorff, University of Toronto “I never reneged in my heart”: Apostates and Inquisitors in Early Modern Italy Emily Michelson, University of St. Andrews Who is the Hero of a Religious Conversion? Stories that Seek Credit Panel B: Print, Orality and Memory VC115 Chair: Margaret Reeves, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University Making Plots out of Wonder Stories in Early Modern England Kathleen Loysen, Montclair State University Prises de parole, prises d’autorité: Women, Storytelling, and Auctoritas in Early Modern France Noa Yaari, York University Making Stories in the Working Memory: There’s No “History” Without a Brain 12:30 - 1:00pm Closing roundtable discussion 1:00 - 2:00pm Lunch
Alumni Hall
Victoria College Foyer
2:00 - 4:00pm Workshop
Alumni Hall
Fighting with Archival Voices Laurie Nussdorfer, Aaron Miedema, and Scola della Scherma Storica In this workshop students of early modern Italian martial arts will attempt to reconstruct street brawls of early seventeenth-century Rome based on contemporary manuals and illuminated by some trial testimony from the Roman criminal processi. conference concludes
our Sponsors Making Stories in the Early Modern World has been sponsored by: The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies; Istituto Italiano di Cultura; Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium; University of British Columbia—Department of History; University of British Columbia—Faculty of Arts; University of Toronto—Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies; Utah Valley University—Department of History and Political Science; York University—Department of History; York University—Department of Humanities; York University – Italian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics; York University—Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies; York University—Division of the Vice-President Research & Innovation (VPRI); York University Faculty of Graduate Studies; York University—Vanier College. This conference was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
our organizers This conference was organized by John Christopoulos (University of British Columbia), John Hunt (Utah Valley University), and Margaret Schotte (York University). Many thanks to the CRRS staff for their tireless coordination and production of promotional materials: Dr. Natalie Oeltjen, Rachel F. Stapleton, Adam Rendall, Joel Faber, Éric Pecile, Sofiya Romashchenko and, Dr. Noam Lior.
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Victoria College – 91 Charles Street West Emmanuel College – 75 Queen’s Park East Ned’s Café (Lower level Goldring Student Centre) 150 Charles Street West E.J. Pratt Library – 71 Queen’s Park Crescent East Centre for Reformation & Renaissance Studies
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