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We would like to remind you of our up-coming conference, which will take place at theMahindra Humanities Center,Barker Centre, R. 133, Harvard Universityfrom April 25 to April 27, 2014.Our conference will feature interdisciplinary talks covering an impressive geographical extension of early modern visual media.The event is funded by Volkswagenstiftung, Germany, and is aimed at scholars as well as students.Conference-Program:Fri. 2512:00Malte Griesse&#160;Welcome and Introduction&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Byzantium and Muscovy&#160;12:30Galina TirnanicOakland UniversityVisualizing Punishment in Byzantium: Disseminating Memories of Quelled Revolts Before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction&#160;13:15Valerie KivelsonUniversity of MichiganVisualizing Violence in Muscovite Imperial Expansion in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries&#160;14:00Discussion&#160;&#160;&#160;15:00Coffee Break&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;East and West&#160;15:30Gleb KazakovBielefeld UniversityPortraying Russian Rebels and Tsars in Western Media&#160;16:15Nancy KollmannStanford UniversityTruth and Legitimacy in Adam Olearius’ “Punishments.”&#160;17:00Femenias, Blenda B.CUA, WashingtonViolence against the Body in the Drawings of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala&#160;17:45Discussion&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Sat. 26&#160;&#160;&#160;England and France&#160;09:00Stefania GargioniBerlin/KentPunishment and Regicide: Iconographical Accounts of Ravaillac’s Public Execution in early Seventeenth-century England&#160;09:45Monika BargetUniversity of Konstanz"The agreeable contrast": British caricatures of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion&#160;10:30Julius RuffMarquette University, MilwaukeeMyth-Making in Eighteenth-Century France: Visual Representations of Banditry&#160;11:15Discussion&#160;&#160;&#160;12:15Lunch Break&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Turks in European Theater&#160;13:30Daniel VitkusSan DiegoTurkish Torture: Staging Atrocity and Fortitude in English Renaissance Drama&#160;14:15Christiane AckermannHarvard/ TübingenRevolt on stage: The role of 'the Turk' in pre-modern German drama&#160;15:00Discussion&#160;&#160;&#160;16:00Coffee Break&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Central Europe&#160;16:30Malte GriesseHarvard/KonstanzImage and Text in Propaganda during the Upper Austrian Peasant War 1626&#160;17:15Daniel JuetteHarvardDefenestration: A ritual punishment and its visual representations in early modern Europe&#160;18:00Discussion&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Sun. 27&#160;&#160;&#160;The Low Countries&#160;09:00David FreedbergColumbiaVisualizing Revolt and Punishment in the 16th century Netherlands&#160;09:45Angela VanhaelenMcGill, MontréalThe Aftermath of Revolt: Painters as Peaceful Soldiers&#160;10:30David de BoerUniversity of KonstanzDepicting Death True to Life: Violence in Dutch Print and Painting&#160;11:15Coffee Break&#160;&#160;&#160;11:30Discussion&#160;&#160;&#160;12:30Final Discussion&#160;&#160;&#160;[caption id="attachment_437" align="aligncenter" width="312"] © Het Geheugen van Nederland/Koninklijke Bibliotheek – Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland, 2003[/caption]In most of early modern Europe visual representations of punishment played an important part in governments’ strategies to reinvigorate social hierarchies and to reestablish public order after the traumatizing experience of socio-political upheaval and revolt. Scenarios of punishment and executions of ringleaders were not only staged publicly, they were also disseminated in print, both through text and image. Thereby the authorities hoped to reach a much broader public, including the illiterate majority of the population, and to enforce a policy of damnatio memoriae with regard to the very events of revolt. These events were often depicted and painted abroad, beyond the range of the concerned authorities. Representations of both revolts and punishment often showed extremely violent acts, sometimes in an affirmative and sometimes in a denunciatory way.But visual cultures varied considerably across more or less clear-cut or floating confessional, political, social and other boundaries. On the workshop we want to explore different visual cultures from the perspective of such boundaries. In an interdisciplinary endeavor we try to retrace zones of encounter between differing visual codes in representing revolts and related acts of violence. Only when it came to dissonances in the basic evaluations of images and a subsequent feeling of estrangement were early modern people pushed to articulate and make explicit what was otherwise taken for granted and cannot be traced in sources. In this way the confrontation of divergent modes of visual representation and the voiced experiences of irritation can shed light on both the literary “syntaxes” and the visual “codes” of representation.[caption id="attachment_432" align="aligncenter" width="220"] © Het Geheugen van Nederland/Koninklijke Bibliotheek - Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland, 2003[/caption]You are welcome to download&#160;an extended rationale and the&#160;full schedule as PDF documents.For further information, please write to Dr. Malte Griesse at maltegriesse@fas.harvard.edu.[caption id="attachment_438" align="aligncenter" width="150"] © Het Geheugen van Nederland/Koninklijke Bibliotheek – Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland, 2003[/caption]