Seminar on the History of Domestic Violence, 1 October 2021!

The 5th Seminar in History of Domestic Violence and Abuse series, organized by Juliana Dresvina & Anu Lahtinen, University of Oxford & University of Helsinki.

October 1, 2021 at 10.00 LONDON TIME [Suomen aikaa klo 12!]

Elena Chepel, ‘How to complain about violence if you are a woman: language and gender in Ptolemaic papyrus petitions

Despina Iosif, ‘Populus Exasperatus: The violent Graeco-Roman crowd

Annette Volfing, ‘Beating the bride into Shape: Domestic violence within bridal mysticism

Juliana Dresvina ‘The Uncomfortable Liber Confortatorius: Grooming in a monastery?’

Since January 2021, Lahtinen & Dresvina have been organizing online seminars on the long history of domestic violence and abuse. For more information about the following events, please follow the updates via https://tinyurl.com/histviolence

Register in advance for this meeting: https://helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Mlc-CqqjMqGdPNvsw1b_wOS84lyG6YlkgI

 

History of Domestic Violence and Abuse seminar series, 14 June 2021

Welcome to the History of Domestic Violence and Abuse Seminar on Zoom, 14 June 2021, organized by Juliana Dresvina & Anu Lahtinen, University of Oxford & University of Helsinki.

Since January 2021, Lahtinen & Dresvina have been organizing online seminars on the long history of domestic violence and abuse. For more information about the following events, please follow the updates via https://tinyurl.com/histviolence

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History of Domestic Violence and Abuse Seminar on Zoom, 14 June 2021, 10am (BST / London) (11am CET, 12 EET / Helsinki)

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, “Violence Against Women in Ancient Greece”

Maria Dell’Isola, “Violence Against Women in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles”

Olivia Milburn, “Violent Women in Early Imperial China: The State of the Law”

Pehr Granqvist, Mårten Hammarlund and Tommie Forslund, “Experiences of Abuse, Trauma, and Maltreatment Among Mothers with Mild Intellectual Disabilities”

Register in advance for this meeting: https://tinyurl.com/yx55zf9t

History of Domestic Violence and Abuse seminar series, 13 May 2021

Welcome to the History of Domestic Violence and Abuse Seminar on Zoom, 13 May 2021, organized by Juliana Dresvina & Anu Lahtinen, University of Oxford & University of Helsinki. We study and discuss the long history of domestic violence and abuse.
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History of Domestic Violence and Abuse Seminar on Zoom, 13 May 2021, 10am (BST / London) (11am CET, 12 EET / Helsinki)
Jane Gilbert ‘Sexual Violence and Sex Workers: Lorelei Lee’s ”Cash/Consent” and Villon’s Belle Hëaulmière’
Trevor Dean ‘Domestic abuse from the perspective of husband-murder in late medieval Italy’
Emma Whipday ‘Tom Tyler and His Wife: Domestic Violence and Comedy in Early Modern Wife-Taming Narratives’
Lewis Webb ‘Regulation of violence against citizen women in Republican Rome’
Julia Bolton Holloway ‘Widows and Orphans’

Domestic Violence Workshop

Welcome to follow the second seminar on the history of domestic violence, coordinated by Anu Lahtinen, University of Helsinki, & Juliana Dresvina, University of Oxford.

History of Domestic Violence on Zoom Seminar
Feb 22, 2021 02:00pm GMT [04:00 pm EET]

Melek Karatas “Representations of Gendered Violence in Manuscript Illustrations of the Roman de la Rose”
Sara Butler “Who owns a wife’s body? Excusing Domestic Violence in Later Medieval England”
Chanelle Delameillieure “Family affairs: Age, authority and intergenerational relations in late-medieval Flanders”
Raisa Toivo, ”Why is violence against parents a useful topic of research? Insights from 17th century Finland”
Mona Rautelin ”Comparing intimate partner homicides in seventeenth-century and twenty-first-century heartland and hinterland Finland”
Anu Lahtinen ”Some early modern key texts to domestic violence”

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Eqf-6urzIjGtLBon7G3Lvy8s8geU-caiIs

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Domestic Violence Workshop, 14 Jan 2021

History of Violence Seminar on Zoom

Meeting on 14 January 2021 at 2pm GMT for short presentations and quick QAA

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Hannah Skoda Domestic violence in late medieval France: What kind of a taboo?

Kristi DiClemente ‘Ultra modum conjugalem’: Domestic Violence in a 14th Century Parisian Court

Lucia Akard Methods for investigating spousal rape in French letters of remission

Kirsi Kanerva Preliminary thoughts concerning domestic violence in medieval Icelandic Family sagas and Chivalric sagas

Ilya Sverdlov A case of ramifications of (unconsummated?) incest in an Icelandic family saga

Satu Lidman Gender, Violence and Attitudes: Lessons from Early Modern Europe 

Rebecca Crites English judiciary’s complicity and resistance to intimate partner violence