| 8:00 a.m. | Registration opens • Narthex, United Church on the Green, at the corner of Temple and Elm streets, on the north end of the New Haven Green. All Friday sessions of the conference will take place in the sanctuary of United Church. |
| 8:30 | Coffee • Lower level, United Church on the Green. Book exhibits open in the same location. |
| 9:00–9:30 | Welcome Jon Butler, Yale University School of Graduate Studies Christopher Grasso, Editor, William and Mary Quarterly Susan Juster, University of Michigan |
| 9:30–11:30 | Session I • Sacralizing the Flesh Chair: Harry S. Stout, Yale University Adoring the Bloody Savior: Imaginative Violence and Moravian Pacifism Craig Atwood, Wake Forest University Wounds and Bruises: Enduring the Sacred Scars of Slavery Yolanda Pierce, Princeton Theological Seminary “Not One of his Bones Should be Buried”: Corpses and Cross-Cultural Religious Violence Erik R. Seeman, State University of New York, Buffalo Caresses and the Cross: The Jesuit Response to Amerindian Torture in Seventeenth-Century New France Adam John Stueck, Marquette University Comment: Jon Butler, Yale University School of Graduate Studies |
| 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:00–3:00 | Session II • Biblical Hermeneutics of Violence Chair: Kenneth Minkema, Yale University Biblical Violence as Sacred: The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) in Eighteenth-Century War Sermons James P. Byrd, Vanderbilt University Forget You: Religious Violence in Early America John Corrigan, Florida State University Translating Christianity: Violent Upheavals, the Gospel of John, and the Establishment of the Seneca Indian Mission Church Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Yale University, and Serene Jones, Yale University Comment: Teresa Toulouse, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 3:00–3:30 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30–5:30 | Session III • Discourses of Violence in the Early Republic Chair: Douglas Winiarski, University of Richmond The Furnace of Affliction: The Quest for Suffering without Violence in Early American Prisons Jennifer Graber, College of Wooster “Delight in Murder, Misery, and Eternal Fire”: Critics of Biblical Violence and Christian Doctrine in the Early American Republic Kirsten Fischer, University of Minnesota Celebrating and Sacralizing Violence: Testimonies Concerning Ann Lee and the Early Shakers Stephen J. Stein, Indiana University Comment: John Brooke, Ohio State University |
| 6:00–7:30 | Reception, hosted by the Yale University School of Graduate Studies. Yale Visitor’s Center, 149 Elm Street, across the street from United Church on the Green. |