Workshop: “Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother”: Violence Against Parents in Past and Present
Workshop Announcement:
“Honour Thy Father and Thy
Mother”: Violence Against Parents in Past and Present
St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, 6-7
July 2015
Convened by:
Dr. Raisa Maria Toivo (University of Tampere, Finland)
Prof. Marianna Muravyeva (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Prof. Marianna Muravyeva (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Programme
6 July, Monday
11.00-11.30 – Opening session
Introduction by the coveners Raisa Toivo
and Marianna Muravyeva
11.30-13.00 –Session 1: Motives and Opportunities
in Contemporary Parricides
Chair/Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
"Degenerative Parricides:
Attitudes to Killing Parents in the 19th-century Russian Criminal
Justice System"
Marianna Muravyeva
"Parricide and psychic violence
in the family setting"
Florian Houssier
"Exploring the offense
trajectory of fatal and non-fatal violence towards parents across the life
cycle"
Amanda Holt and Phillip Shon
13.00-14.30 – lunch
14.30-16.00 – Session 2:Exemplary Parricides in
the Modern European North
Chair/Discussant: Karen Hassan Jansson
"'His disobedient son': A trial
case study from Finnmark, Northern Norway, from the mid-eighteenth
century"
Liv Helene Willumsen
"Appropriation and
Fictionalisation in Representations of Parricide: The Thorvald
Sletten Murder Case 1899-1907"
Silje Warberg
"'So No-One Could Hear Her
Scream': A matricide in Northern Denmark that challenged legislators and shook
a community
Annette Ekström Larner
16.00-16.30 – Tea
16.30-18.00 – Session 3: Historicising Parricide:
Localities and Identities
Chair/Discussant:Manon van den Heijden
"The cases of parricide in the
courts of Early Modern Estonia and Livonia"
Ken Ird
"Gender and the Historicity of
Parricide: A Case Study from the 19th-Century North American West”
Peter Boag
"Sources of conflict in South
Korean parricides, 1948-63"
Phillip Shon
7 July, Tuesday
09.00-10.30 – Session 4: Violence and Ideal Family
in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Chair/Discussant: Garthine Walker
"'You would have them lock me
up and sell me as slave': Parents and children in eighteenth-century
Wallachia"
Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu
"'A Timely Warning to Rash and
Disobedient Children': Normative Literature and Violence against Parents in
England over the Long Eighteenth Century"
Jim Sharpe
"Non-lethal assaults against
parents in early modern Munich: perspectives on fatherhood"
Satu Lidman
10.30-11.00 – Coffee
11.00-12.30 – Session 5: Generational Conflicts
and Parental Authority
Chair/Discussant: Raisa Toivo
"Disapproval of parental
violence against children through the example of forced monachization in
Eighteenth Century France"
Alexandra Roger
"Choosing the bridegroom:
Guardianship and conflicts between generations in eighteenth century Sweden and
Finland"
Jonas liliequist
"Words and Deeds: Children’s
violence towards their Parents in 19th Century Romanian Society"
Nicoleta Roman
12.30-14.00 – Lunch
14.00-15.30 – Session 6: Struggling with Parental
Authority in Early Modern Europe
Chair/Discussant: Krista Kesselring
"Violence against parents in
eighteenth-century Denmark"
Nina Koefoed
"Bad Parenting and Parent abuse
in early modern Finland: Scandal, rumour and emotion"
Raisa Toivo
"Violence against paternal
authority figures: The prosecution of catholic priests and protestant ministers
during the great witch-hunts"
Rita Voltmer
15.30-16.00 – Tea
16.00-17.30 – Session 7: Methodologies and
perspectives on studying parricide and violence against parents
Closing discussion moderated by Marianna
Muravyeva and Raisa Toivo
Summary
Incidents and patterns of violence against parents, understood as any act
by children that intimidates or harms the parents, have gained an increasingly
high profile in recent years. But while it is commonly portrayed as a modern
phenomenon rooted in a perceived crisis of family policies, parenting styles or
communication problems, recent research into the history of domestic violence
has documented the nature, extent, and contexts within which parent abuse and
parricide occurred in the early modern period in Northern Europe and beyond.
This workshop studies the forms and methods of intra-family violence from the
origins of modern states' formation unto the present day. It aims to map out
the state of the art of the research on family violence and especially on
violence by children against their parents, to bring together the current
specialists, to compare early modern and current ideas and to suggest further
points of research. The main research themes include attitudes to family power
relations and hierarchies, permissibility of the usage of violence in the
family, forms and types of violence against parents, gender-based analysis of
violence against parents, patricides and matricides.
This is the second, concluding workshop organised by the Joint Committee
for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences as part
of a wider Marie Curie funded project on parricide held by Prof. Marianna
Muravyeva. The first workshop, on the "Nordic Family, Violence and
Modernity" met in Tampere 22-24 Mary 2014 and focused on the concepts and
challenges of family and family violence in early modern and modern Northern
Europe (project webpage).
If you would like to attend the workshop in part or whole, please follow
the below link but keep in mind that the 25 available spaces will be awarded on
a first-come basis and that we cannot fund travel or accommodation: Registration Form
For further information, please contact Tudor Georgescu (Tgeorgescu@brookes.ac.uk)