Conference programme
Location: Het Oude Raadhuis, Oude Boteringestraat 19
Day 1 | Thursday, 3 April
1ohoo | Walk-in & registration
10h30 | Introduction
Histories of Transitional Justice in the Early Modern World
David van der Linden, University of Groningen
11h00 | Panel 1: Ideas of Peace
‘The Dull Goddess’: The Evolution of the Oblivion Clause in Early Modern European Peace Treaties
Linda Kinstler, Harvard University
Interconfessional Interactions and Transitional Justice during the Dutch Revolt’s Twelve Years’ Truce
Kyle J. Dieleman, Dordt University
The Angel of Peace: Jan Amos Comenius, Political Prophecy, and the Peace of Breda (1667)
John Exalto, University of Groningen
14h00 | Panel 2: Actors of Peace
Reconciliation, Justice, and Forgetting: The Edict of Folembray and its Challenges
Fanny Giraudier, LAHRA Lyon
Peace Commissioners and the Failure of Transitional Justice in Early Modern France
Marc W.S. Jaffré, University of Groningen
The Worst Persecutors of the Swedish Nation: Transitional Justice in Sweden’s Conquered Province Scania (Skåne) in the 1670s and 1680s
Joanna Vadenbring, Swedish National Heritage Board
16h00 | Keynote Lecture (Old Courtroom, Oude Boteringestraat 38)
Transitional Justice and Historians: Why Early Modernists Should Care about the 1970s
Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University
Please sign up to attend the keynote lecture: 1) attend in person, or 2) join us online.
17h00 | Drinks Reception
Day 2 | Friday, 4 April
9h30 | Panel 3: Communicating Peace
Healing Words? Printed Press, Pamphlets, and Royal Proclamations as Means for Implementing Peace and Transnational Justice
Dorothée Goetze, Mid Sweden University
Peacebuilding Through Spatial Imagination: Abel Jouan and the Royal Tour of France (1564–1566)
Austin Collins, Tübingen University
Transitional Historiography (1593–1595): Writing History to End the War
Lorenzo Comensoli Antonini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
11h30 | Panel 4: Adjudicating Peace
Building Peace by Justice: Transitional Justice and The Settlement of Post-War Disputes in the Parliament of Brittany (1598–c. 161o)
Alexandre Lepesteur, Université de Rennes
Arbitrating Coexistence: Protestant and Catholic Experiences of Transitional Justice with the Chambre de l’Édit of Castres (1595–1679)
Sherilyn Bouyer, University of Groningen
A Failed Transition? Geneva’s Revolutionary Tribunal and the Uncertain Fate of an Independent Republic, 1792–1798
John Condren, University of Nottingham
14h00 | Panel 5: Peace Across Borders
Reconciling Religious Factions in Eastern Europe: King James VI/I and the Reformed Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Hanna Mazheika, University of Turku
Building Peace after the Algerian-Tunisian War of 1735
Sofiane Bouhdiba, Université de Tunis
‘Frenemy’ Communities at the Border of Groningen and East Frisia in the 1600s
Meggy Lennaerts, University of Groningen
16h00 | Panel 6: Transitional Justice and Empire
The Treaty of Madrid of 1670, Piracy, and Transitional Justice in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean World
Tim Soriano, University of Illinois Chicago
The Treaty of Córdoba and Transitional Justice in the Early Independent Period in Mexico
Tania Ixchel Atilano, University of Zürich
The Warren Hastings Trial and the British Transition from Colonies to Empire
Padraig McAuliffe, University of Liverpool
Day 3 | Saturday, 5 April
9h30 | Panel 7: Restoring and Repairing the Past
Trade, Treaties, and Truces: Bi-Lateral Commissions and Admiralty Courts as Reparation Mechanisms in Premodern Europe
Louis Sicking, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Leiden University
Catholic Worship and Protestant Strongholds in the Early Years of the Edict of Nantes
Pierre Jean Souriac, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3
‘A Great Act of Justice in Favour of the Protestants’: Historical Reparations in the Age of the French Revolution
René Koekkoek, Utrecht University
11h30 | Panel 8: Afterlives of Peace
Transitional Justice and Generational Change in Sixteenth-Century Central Europe
Megan Williams, University of Groningen
The East Indies Treaty of 1619
Elizabeth Hines, University of Chicago
‘Enterrer avec les morts … la mémoire de l’injure’: Franco- Indigenous Peace and Reconciliation in Seventeenth-Century North America
Jean François Lozier, Canadian Museum of History
1ohoo | Walk-in & registration
10h30 | Introduction
Histories of Transitional Justice in the Early Modern World
David van der Linden, University of Groningen
11h00 | Panel 1: Ideas of Peace
‘The Dull Goddess’: The Evolution of the Oblivion Clause in Early Modern European Peace Treaties
Linda Kinstler, Harvard University
Interconfessional Interactions and Transitional Justice during the Dutch Revolt’s Twelve Years’ Truce
Kyle J. Dieleman, Dordt University
The Angel of Peace: Jan Amos Comenius, Political Prophecy, and the Peace of Breda (1667)
John Exalto, University of Groningen
14h00 | Panel 2: Actors of Peace
Reconciliation, Justice, and Forgetting: The Edict of Folembray and its Challenges
Fanny Giraudier, LAHRA Lyon
Peace Commissioners and the Failure of Transitional Justice in Early Modern France
Marc W.S. Jaffré, University of Groningen
The Worst Persecutors of the Swedish Nation: Transitional Justice in Sweden’s Conquered Province Scania (Skåne) in the 1670s and 1680s
Joanna Vadenbring, Swedish National Heritage Board
16h00 | Keynote Lecture (Old Courtroom, Oude Boteringestraat 38)
Transitional Justice and Historians: Why Early Modernists Should Care about the 1970s
Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University
Please sign up to attend the keynote lecture: 1) attend in person, or 2) join us online.
17h00 | Drinks Reception
Day 2 | Friday, 4 April
9h30 | Panel 3: Communicating Peace
Healing Words? Printed Press, Pamphlets, and Royal Proclamations as Means for Implementing Peace and Transnational Justice
Dorothée Goetze, Mid Sweden University
Peacebuilding Through Spatial Imagination: Abel Jouan and the Royal Tour of France (1564–1566)
Austin Collins, Tübingen University
Transitional Historiography (1593–1595): Writing History to End the War
Lorenzo Comensoli Antonini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
11h30 | Panel 4: Adjudicating Peace
Building Peace by Justice: Transitional Justice and The Settlement of Post-War Disputes in the Parliament of Brittany (1598–c. 161o)
Alexandre Lepesteur, Université de Rennes
Arbitrating Coexistence: Protestant and Catholic Experiences of Transitional Justice with the Chambre de l’Édit of Castres (1595–1679)
Sherilyn Bouyer, University of Groningen
A Failed Transition? Geneva’s Revolutionary Tribunal and the Uncertain Fate of an Independent Republic, 1792–1798
John Condren, University of Nottingham
14h00 | Panel 5: Peace Across Borders
Reconciling Religious Factions in Eastern Europe: King James VI/I and the Reformed Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Hanna Mazheika, University of Turku
Building Peace after the Algerian-Tunisian War of 1735
Sofiane Bouhdiba, Université de Tunis
‘Frenemy’ Communities at the Border of Groningen and East Frisia in the 1600s
Meggy Lennaerts, University of Groningen
16h00 | Panel 6: Transitional Justice and Empire
The Treaty of Madrid of 1670, Piracy, and Transitional Justice in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean World
Tim Soriano, University of Illinois Chicago
The Treaty of Córdoba and Transitional Justice in the Early Independent Period in Mexico
Tania Ixchel Atilano, University of Zürich
The Warren Hastings Trial and the British Transition from Colonies to Empire
Padraig McAuliffe, University of Liverpool
Day 3 | Saturday, 5 April
9h30 | Panel 7: Restoring and Repairing the Past
Trade, Treaties, and Truces: Bi-Lateral Commissions and Admiralty Courts as Reparation Mechanisms in Premodern Europe
Louis Sicking, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Leiden University
Catholic Worship and Protestant Strongholds in the Early Years of the Edict of Nantes
Pierre Jean Souriac, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3
‘A Great Act of Justice in Favour of the Protestants’: Historical Reparations in the Age of the French Revolution
René Koekkoek, Utrecht University
11h30 | Panel 8: Afterlives of Peace
Transitional Justice and Generational Change in Sixteenth-Century Central Europe
Megan Williams, University of Groningen
The East Indies Treaty of 1619
Elizabeth Hines, University of Chicago
‘Enterrer avec les morts … la mémoire de l’injure’: Franco- Indigenous Peace and Reconciliation in Seventeenth-Century North America
Jean François Lozier, Canadian Museum of History