Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe
Tues April 11, 2023, 5:00-6:30pm EST
Location: Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library), 35 Quincy St, Cambridge. In-person event.
The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.
Daniel Smail (History, Harvard), chair
Speakers:
Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"
Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre) "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450-1533) and the Social Contract"
Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"
Organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019). Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop of the History Department and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
Historicizing Consent: Consenting to Early Modern Empires
December 12, 2022, 14:30-19:30 WET / GMT
Venue: Aud. Afonso de Barros, ISCTE, Lisbon. Online: via CIES-Iscte Youtube channel.
José Vicente Serrão, Opening remarks
Sonia Tycko, “Introduction: Consenting to Early Modern Empire”
Tamar Herzog, “Imagining Native Consent and Native Resistance in Spain’s Overseas Territories”
Caroline Cunill, “Translating Consent in the Spanish Empire: Maya Words and Deeds in Sixteenth-Century Yucatan”
Paulo Jorge de Sousa Pinto, “‘Whether it pleases the locals or not’: Empire and Consent in Portuguese Asia (16th-17th centuries)”
Ângela Barreto Xavier, “Questioning Everyday Forms of Consent in Early Modern Goan Villages”
Speakers: Caroline Cunill (EHESS), Tamar Herzog (Harvard), Paulo Pinto (NOVA), Sonia Tycko (Edinburgh), Angela Xavier (ICS). Please see the "Biographical Information" page for further details.
Convenors: José Vicente Serrão (Iscte), Tamar Herzog, Sonia Tycko
Sponsored and hosted by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Ler História, CIES-IUL, and CEI-IUL.
Full programme here.
Historicizing Consent:
What did it mean to agree in the late medieval and early modern world?
Exploratory Seminar Program - April 10–12, 2022
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Each listed speaker is invited to speak for 10 minutes first, and then each session will open out into a discussion with the full group for c. 30–45 mins. |
All panels, breakfasts, and lunches will be held at 61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA (2nd floor conference room.). Dinner locations are listed below. |
ARRIVAL DAY: April 10th |
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Group Dinner: 6:30 PM |
NuBar Restaurant Sheraton Commander Hotel 16 Garden Street, Cambridge |
DAY ONE: April 11th |
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| Breakfast 8:30–9:00 AM | |
| Welcome & Introductions: 9:00 AM | Sonia Tycko and Tamar Herzog |
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Morning Session 1: 9:15–10:30 AM |
Were consent and free will required to enter into contracts?
Chair: Sonia Tycko |
| Coffee Break 10:30–11:00 AM | |
| Morning Session 2: 11:00 AM–12:15 PM |
In what ways did consent matter in labor relationships? Chair: Nathanael AschenbrennerDebra Blumenthal – History (UC Santa Barbara) Sonia Tycko – History (Edinburgh) Urvashi Chakravarty – English (Toronto) |
| Lunch 12:15–1:15 PM | |
| Afternoon Session 1: 1:15–3:10 PM |
In what ways did consent matter in sexual relations and in marriage? Chair: Michelle Sanchez Elizabeth Kamali – Law (Harvard) Carissa Harris – English (Temple)John Witte – Law (Emory) [virtual attendee] Krista Kesselring – History (Dalhousie) |
| Coffee Break 3:10–3:30 PM | |
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Afternoon Session 2: 3:30–4:45 PM |
In what ways did consent matter in colonization and empire?
Chair: Elizabeth Kamali Nathanael Aschenbrenner – History (Princeton) |
| Break | |
| Group Dinner: 6:30 PM |
20 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 |
DAY TWO: April 12th |
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| Breakfast 8:30–9:00 AM | |
| Morning Session 1: 9:00–10:15 AM |
In what ways did consent matter in religious conversions? Chair: Daniel Smail David Nirenberg – History (The Institute for Advanced Study)Michelle Sanchez – Theology (Harvard Divinity School) Tamar Herzig – History (Tel Aviv) |
| Coffee Break 10:15–10:45 AM | |
| Morning Session 2: 10:45 AM–12:00 PM |
Chair: Sonia Tycko Breakout session: Participants will meet in shuffled small groups. The virtual attendees will meet as one of these small groups, in a zoom room. For discussion:
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| Lunch 12:00–1:00 PM | |
| Afternoon Session 1:00–2:15 PM |
What next in historicizing consent? Chair: Tamar Herzog Implications of this seminar for connections and contrasts of consent in different realms of late medieval and early modern life: Sonia Tycko Implications of this seminar for how we think of consent today: Roseanna Sommers – Law (Michigan) Concluding group discussion |
