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In April, 2002, the UCSB Medieval Studies Program held its first annual graduate student conference, on the subject of "violence." Students presented papers at two different panels at this day-long event, meant to give the opportunity to graduate students to be involved in a conference. Listed below is the program for the first conference.

The First Annual UCSB Medieval Studies
Spring Graduate Student Conference
Interpretations of Violence

Saturday, 20 April 2002
Centennial House
Plenary Speaker: David Nirenberg

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Panel One:
Comic or Strange? Deployments of Violent Measures: Presider: Carol Pasternack, Department of English
Andrew Miller: Torturous Tonsuring: Violence, Communication & Anticlericalism? in the Reign of King Edward I
Nancy McLoughlin: Frightened Theologians are Dangerous: John Gerson’s Persecutions of Bridget of Sweden, John Hus, and John Petit as Responses to Internal Divisions Within the University of Paris.
Mark O’Tool: Beatings, Songs, and a “Stick in the Ass”: the Performance of Begging in the Farce du Goguelu
Plenary:
Introduction: Giorgio Perissinotto: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
David Nirenberg: Massacre, Mass Conversion, and the Reconstruction of Religious Identities in Medieval Spain
Panel Two:
Expressions of Violence On and Across Boundaries: Presider: Richard Hecht, Department of Religious Studies
Linda Jones: Violence Re-imagined: Discourses of Force in the Sermons of Ibn Marzuq and St. Vincent Ferrer
Tom Sizgorich: ‘No Blood Sweeter Than That of the Romans’: Monsters, Hybrids and the Imperial Gaze in Arab Conquest Narratives
Jeanne Provost: Laughing at the Borders: Violence, Comedy, and the Creation of Difference in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale

This event was generously co-sponsored by
Graduate Division and the Departments of History and Spanish and Portuguese.

This Year's Conference

The First Annual UCSB Medieval Studies Spring Graduate Student Conference Interpretations of Violence

This event was generously co-sponsored by Graduate Division and the Departments of History and Spanish and Portuguese.

The First Annual UCSB Medieval Studies
Spring Graduate Student Conference
Interpretations of Violence

This event was generously co-sponsored by
Graduate Division and the Departments of History and Spanish and Portuguese.