| 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.” |