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Saturday, April 12, 2008
8:30 a.m. Registration opens in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street (at the corner of Church Street). All Saturday sessions of the conference will convene in the Main Auditorium, on the first floor of the Whitney Humanities Center.
9:00 Coffee • Room 108, Whitney Humanities Center. Book exhibits open in the same location.
9:30–11:30 Session IV • Transatlantic Heresies: Quakerism and Witchcraft

Chair: John Demos, Yale University
Politics, Religion, and Witchcraft in Bermuda, 1651–1655
Virginia Bernhard, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Bermuda, Witchcraft, and the Quaker Threat

Elaine Forman Crane, Fordham University

Combating the “abominable heresy, called Quakers” in New Amsterdam

Joyce D. Goodfriend, University of Denver

“The Original of Errour”: History, Intertextuality, and Violence in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Persecutions

Anne G. Myles, University of Northern Iowa

Comment: Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
1:00–3:00 Session V • Violence and Cross-Cultural Translations of the Sacred

Chair: Steven Hackel, University of California, Riverside

La Dama Azul (The Lady in Blue): Spanish Saint or Indian Demon?

Juliana Barr, University of Florida

Martyrs, Healers, Peacemakers, Statesmen: Violence and Religious Leadership in Early America

Richard W. Pointer, Westmont College

En Odium Fidei: Missionary Death and the Extirpation of Native Religion in the Jesuit Missions of Northwestern New Spain

Brandon Bayne, Harvard University

Comment: Allan Greer, University of Toronto
3:00–3:30 Coffee Break
3:30–5:30 Session VI • Holy Wars

Chair: Charles Cohen, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sixteen Stations of the Cross: Reassessing the Destruction of the Florida Missions
Jon Sensbach, University of Florida

Bread and Burning: The Pequot War as Sacred Violence

Joanne van der Woude, Columbia University

Cromwell at Drogheda, Mather in Boston: The Rhetoric of Puritan Violence

Andrew Murphy, Christ College, Valparaiso University

Comment: James Axtell, College of William and Mary
6:00–7:30 Reception, hosted by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. The Graduate Club, 155 Elm Street, a two-block walk from the Whitney Humanities Center. The dress code for the Graduate Club is business casual; ties are not required, but “tasteful attire is encouraged.”