SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF DIANE OWEN HUGHES

SOCIAL RELATIONS &

CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

IN THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WORLD

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SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF

DIANE OWEN HUGHES

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

MARCH 16-17, 2012

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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FRIDAY, MARCH 16

(Wolverine Room, Michigan Union)

9.30 am

COFFEE

9.50 – 10.00 am

WELCOME NOTE

Paolo Squatriti (The University of Michigan)

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10.00 – 12.00 pm

HUMAN EXPERIENCES ON A GLOBAL SCALE

Chair: Thomas R. Trautmann (The University of Michigan)

Javier Pescador (Michigan State University)

Detroit Tenochtitlan: Empire and Utopia in Diego Rivera’s DIA murals

Danna Agmon (The University of Michigan. Virginia Tech from Fall 2012)

Striking Pondichéry: Religious Disputes and Labor Struggles in a French Colony of the Ancien Régime

Eric C. Rath (University of Kansas)

The Tastiest Dish in Edo: Print, Performance, and Culinary Culture in Early Modern Japan

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12.00 – 1.00 pm

LUNCH BREAK

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1.00 – 2.15 pm

THE LONG SHADOW OF ROME

Chair: Robert Berkhofer (Western Michigan University)

Jonathan Arnold (University of Tulsa)

Views from the Edge: Imagining Gaul in the Early Middle Ages

Dimitri Krallis (Simon Fraser University)

Some Thoughts on Republican Readings of Byzantine History

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2.15 – 2.45 pm

COFFEE BREAK

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2.45 – 4.45 pm

RENAISSANCE SOCIETY

Chair: Patricia Simons (The University of Michigan)

Diana Bullen Presciutti (College of Wooster)

Save the Children: Imaging a ‘New’ Charity in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Emily Price (The University of Michigan)

At Home in Mary’s House: Two Medieval Annunciation Shrines

Sean E. Roberts (University of Southern California)

Resurrection and Necromancy: Reading the Printed Humanist Book

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4.45 – 5.00 pm

BREAK

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5.00 – 6.00 pm

DIANE OWEN HUGHES

CHARTING A PRE-MODERN WORLD

(KEYNOTE LECTURE)

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SATURDAY, MARCH 17

(1014 Tisch Hall, Department of History)

8.30 am

COFFEE

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9.00 am – 10.45 am

THE CONVERTED AND THE DEAD

Chair: Raymond Grew (The University of Michigan)

Nancy Caciola (University of California San Diego)

The Very Ordinary Dead

Alexander Angelov (College of William and Mary)

Mass Conversion in Byzantium

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10.45 am – 11.00 am

BREAK

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11.00 am – 1.00 pm

CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN

Chair: Megan Holmes (The University of Michigan)

Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto)

“To remove the occasion for scandal:” Same-Sex Love, Homosocial Domesticity, and Patriarchal Authority in the Venetian Bailo’s House (Istanbul, 1588)

Joshua White (The Univ. of Michigan. Univ. of Virginia from Fall 2012)

Piracy, Slavery, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean

Daniel Hershenzon (University of Connecticut)

Ransom Outsourcing: the Politics and Economy of Ransom in the Western Mediterranean, 1575-1630

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1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

LUNCH BREAK

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2.00 – 3.15 pm

LAW AND SOCIAL RELATIONS 1

Chair: Thomas A. Green (The University of Michigan)

Aleksandra Pfau (Hendrix College)

Youth, Confusion, and Fear: Constructing Acceptable Narratives of Infanticide in Late Medieval France

Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University)

Goods and Investments in the Mediterranean Household (Marseille and Lucca, ca 1330-1430)

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3.15 pm – 3.45 pm

COFFEE BREAK

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3.45 pm – 5.00 pm

LAW AND SOCIAL RELATIONS 2

Chair: Thomas A. Green (The University of Michigan)

Susanne Pohl-Zucker (Mainz, Germany)

Criminal Procedure and the Punishment of Homicide in 17^th Century Württemberg

Stefan Stantchev (Arizona State University)

“Apply to Muslims All That Was Said of the Jews:” Papal Policies between a Taxonomy of Otherness and the Logic of Pastoral Power

DIANE OWEN HUGHES selected publications:

“Toward Historical Ethnography: Notarial Records and Family History in the Middle Ages.” Historical Methods 7 (1974): 61-71.

“On Voluntary Associations in History: Medieval Europe.” American Anthropologist 76 (1974): 333-34.

“Urban Growth and Family Structure in Medieval Genoa.” Past & Present 66 (1975): 2-28. Reprinted in P. Abrams and E.A. Wrigley, eds. Towns and Societies, pp. 105-130. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

“Domestic Ideals and Social Behavior: Evidence from Medieval Genoa.” In C. E. Rosenberg, ed. The Family in History, pp. 115-143. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975. Italian translation: “Ideali domestici e comportamento sociale: testimonianze dalla Genova medievale.” In Comportamenti sociali e ideali domestici a successione ereditaria, pp. 147-183. Turin, 1975. Reprinted in Italian: La famiglia nella storia, pp. 174-184. Turin, 1979. Reprinted in English in Carol Neel, ed. Medieval Families: Perspectives on Marriage, Household and Children, pp. 125-156. Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching 40. University of Toronto Press, 2004.

“Struttura familiare e sistemi di successione ereditaria nei testamenti dell’Europa medievale.” Quaderni storici 33 (1976): 929-952.

“Kinsmen and Neighbors in Medieval Genoa.” In H.A. Miskimin, D. Herlihy, and A.L. Udovitch, eds. The Medieval City, pp. 95-111. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

“Sumptuary Law and Social Relations in Renaissance Italy.” In John Bossy, ed. Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, pp. 69-99. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Reprinted in B. Kohl and A. Smith, eds. Renaissance Italy: a Reader. New York, 1995 and in Paula Findlen, ed. Renaissance Italy: Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. Italian translation in Memoria 11-12 (1984): 82-105.

“From Brideprice to Dowry in Mediterranean Europe.” Journal of Family History 3 (1978): 262-296. Reprinted in M.A. Kaplan, ed. The Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History, pp. 13-58. New York, 1985.

“Earrings for Circumcision: Distinction and Purification in the Italian Renaissance City.” In Richard Trexler, ed. Persons in Groups, pp. 155-182. Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1985.

“Representing the Family: Portraits and Purposes in Early Modern Italy.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 17 (1986): 7-38. Reprinted in Robert Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb, eds. Art and History: Images and Their Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

“Distinguishing Signs: Ear-rings, Jews, and Franciscan Rhetoric in the Italian Renaissance City.” Past & Present 112 (1986): 3-59.

“Invisible Madonnas? The Italian Historiographical Tradition and the Women of Medieval Italy.” In S.M. Stuard, ed. Women in the Medieval Historiographical Tradition, pp. 25-57, 143-159. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

“Le mode femminili e il loro controllo.” In Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, eds. Storia delle donne, Vol. 2, pp. 166-193. Bari: Laterza, 1990-92. Translated into numerous languages.

“Regulating Women's Fashion.” In Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, and Pauline Schmitt Pantel, eds. A History of Women in the West, pp. 136-158. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.

“Mourning Rites, Memory, and Civilization in Premodern Italy.” In J. Chiffoleau et al., eds. Riti e rituali nelle società medievali, pp. 23–38. Spoleto, 1994.

Diane Owen Hughes and Thomas Trautmann, eds. Time: Histories and Ethnologies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.

“Il matrimonio nell’Italia medievale.” In Michela De Giorgio and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, eds. Storia del matrimonio, pp. 5-61. Bari: Laterza, 1996.

“Bodies, Disease, and Society.” In John Najemy, ed. The History of Renaissance Italy, pp. 103-123. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF DIANE OWEN HUGHES

SOCIAL RELATIONS &

CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

IN THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WORLD

***

SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF

DIANE OWEN HUGHES

***

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

MARCH 16-17, 2012

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

***

FRIDAY, MARCH 16

(Wolverine Room, Michigan Union)

COFFEE

WELCOME NOTE

HUMAN EXPERIENCES ON A GLOBAL SCALE

LUNCH BREAK

THE LONG SHADOW OF ROME

COFFEE BREAK

RENAISSANCE SOCIETY

BREAK

DIANE OWEN HUGHES

CHARTING A PRE-MODERN WORLD

SATURDAY, MARCH 17

(1014 Tisch Hall, Department of History)

COFFEE

THE CONVERTED AND THE DEAD

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BREAK

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CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN

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LAW AND SOCIAL RELATIONS 1

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LAW AND SOCIAL RELATIONS 2

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THE FOLLOWING PRESENTERS HAVE WORKED WITH DIANE HUGHES AS EITHER DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR

THE FOLLOWING PRESENTERS HAVE WORKED WITH DIANE HUGHES AS A DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER AND/OR IN OTHER CAPACITIES (dissertation chair)

DIANE OWEN HUGHES selected publications:

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