Convenors:
Yonatan Glazer-Eytan (University of Cambridge) & Giuseppe Marcocci (University of Oxford)
Programme:
9am Welcome
9.15am Session 1 | Introduction
Yonatan Glazer-Eytan (University of Cambridge) & Giuseppe Marcocci (University of Oxford)
9.30am Session 2 | Registering Religious Identity
Chair & discussant | Theodor W. Dunkelgrün (University of Cambridge)
Suzanna Ivanič (University of Kent) Archives of Belief
Richard Calis (University of Cambridge) Unraveling Greek Scribal Culture: Martin Crusius (1526-1607) and the Materiality of Manuscripts
11am Coffee break
11.30am Session 3 | Inquisitors and the Artefacts of Heterodoxy
Chair & discussant | Mary Laven (University of Cambridge)
Ana Struillou (European University Institute, Florence) Islam as Magic: Making Sense of Objects from Islamic Lands in Early Modern Spanish Inquisition Records
Yonatan Glazer-Eytan (University of Cambridge) Traces of a Crime: The Spanish Inquisition and the Forensic Evidence of Image Desecration
1pm Lunch
2pm Session 4 | Familiar and Foreign in the Archive
Chair & discussant | John-Paul Ghobrial (University of Oxford)
Katherine Hill (Birkbeck, University of London) Landscapes as Archive and Archives of Landscape amongst Vistula Delta Mennonites
Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick) Shopping for Goods from Overseas: Huizhou Merchants and the Canton Trade Route
3.30pm Coffee break
4pm Session 5 | Dangerous Objects and the Power of the Archive
Chair & discussant | Melissa Calaresu (University of Cambridge)
Giuseppe Marcocci (University of Oxford) Taming Defamatory Objects: The Mexican Inquisition, Forged Sambenitos, and the Archive of Material Popular Culture
Cécile Fromont (University of Yale) Of Archives and Fetishes
5.30pm Session 6 | Final round table
Chair and discussant | Filippo de Vivo (University of Oxford)
Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge) Concluding Remarks
The conference is sponsored by the past & Present Society, the Royal Historical Society, the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund at the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge, the Research Committee at the Faculty of History of the University of Oxford, and Exeter College, Oxford.
To register please contact yg382@cam.ac.uk and giuseppe.marcocci@history.ox.ac.uk (limited places available).
