Sacrifice and Sacred Violence
History, Comparisons, and the Early Modern World
14-15 December, 2023 Department of History and Cultures, Bologna
14-15 December, 2023 Department of History and Cultures, Bologna
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Aula Prodi
Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2 Bologna
14.00-14.15
Institutional Greetings
14.15-14.30
Vincenzo Lavenia, University of Bologna
Opening Remarks
14.30-16.00
Session 1. Comparisons and theoretical perspectives
Jan Bremmer, University of Groningen
The Beginning and End of Greek Animal Sacrifice, and Something in Between
Federico Dal Bo, University of Heidelberg
Sacrifice Blood, and Intention in Early Rabbinic Literature: from the Mishnah to the Babylonian Talmud
Caterina Bori, University of Bologna
“Every little boy is taken as a pledge against his sacrifice at birth”. ’Aqīqa and its Functioning in Late Medieval Muslim Tradition.
Chair: Guido Bartolucci, University of Bologna
16.00-16.30 - Coffee Break
16.30-18.30
Maria Berbara, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Sacrifice and Anthropophagy in Early Modern Brazil
Chiara Ghidini, University of Naples-L’Orientale
Not Only to Heaven and Earth: Logics of Sacrifice in Japanese Cultural History
Cristiana Facchini, University of Bologna
Comparing Sacrifice, XVII-XIX centuries
Chair: Davide Scotto, University of Pavia
Friday, 15 December 2023
Aula Specola
Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2 Bologna
09.00-11.00
Session 2. Sacrifice in Early Modern Christianity: Religion and Politics
Daniel Barbu, CNRS
Sacrifice and Idolatry
Robert Yelle, University of Munich
Thomas Hobbes’s Views on Sacrifice: Reading Between the Lines
Francesco Quatrini, University of Naples-L’Orientale
Sacrifice, Magistracy, and Just War: A Controversy Between Hugo Grotius and the Polish Brethren
Freya Sierhuis, University of York
Sacrifice and Tragic Form in Vondel’s Jephthah (1659)
Chair: Girolamo Imbruglia, University of Naples-L’Orientale
11.00-11.15 - Coffee Break
11.15-13.15
Session 3. Sacrifice through the Lens of Missionaries and Travelers
Pierre-Antonie Fabre, EHESS Paris
Sacrifice, Sanctity, and Martyrdom
Sabina Pavone, University of Naples-L’Orientale
Interpreting the Satī: Missionary Sources in the Early Modern Era
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Penn State University
Sacrifice and Martyrdom in 17th and 18th Century China
Joan-Pau Rubiés, ICREA / Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Discourses of Religion and Sacrifice in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chair: Franco Motta, University of Turin
13.15-14.30 - Lunch
14.30-16.30
Session 4. Sacrifice, Sacred Violence, and Crusade
Irene Bueno, University of Bologna
Reframing Holy War and Sacrifice at the Close of the Middle Ages
Olivier Christin, University of Neuchâtel
Religious Wars and Figures of Self-Sacrifice (Empire, France, England, 16th Century)
Marisa Linton, Kingston University
Sacrifice, Violence, and Revolution
Lucia Ceci, University of Rome2
Mystique of Sacrifice, Violence, and Hunger Strike in 20th Century Ireland: From the Easter Rising to Bobby Sands
Chair: Chiara Petrolini, University of Bologna
16.30-17.00 - Coffee Break
17.00-18.15
Round Table:
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, University of Zurich
Emanuele Colombo, DePaul University Chicago
Fabio Dei, University of Pisa
Silvia Romani, University of Milan-Statale
Roberto Tottoli, University of Naples-L’Orientale
Roberta Denaro, University of Naples-L’Orientale
Chair: Fernanda Alfieri, University of Bologna
18.15-18.30
Conclusions