Theme:
Crime as a Construction
8.-9. October 2015
Organisers: Tyge Krogh, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
Place: Kursusstation Knudshoved, Nyborg
Thursday
Introduction: Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm, Aarhus University: Criminalization of Homicide in Early Modern Denmark (16th – 17th Centuries)
Garthine Walker, Cardiff University: Sexual violence 1500-1800
Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, University of Southern Denmark: Reformation, religious writing and royal ships. A witch hunt in the making in post-reformation Denmark (16th century)
Tyge Krogh, Danish National Archives: The rise and fall of religious crimes and punishments (17th – 18th Centuries)
Manon van der Heijden, Leiden University: Women and Crime in early modern Holland (17th – 18th centuries)
Nina Kofoed, Aarhus University: Legitimate and illegitimate violence within the 18th century household
Friday
Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen: Danish National Archives: The Peasant, the Local Society and the Law 1775-1850. 75 Years of Conflicts in a Rural Society (18th – 19th Centuries)
Gunvor Simonsen, University of Copenhagen: Konstruktionen af afrikansk magi som kriminalitet (18th – 19th Centuries)
Peter Scharff Smith, The Danish Institute for Human Rights: The construction of crime as immoral thought processes – from religious conversion to cognitive treatment programs in prisons (19th – 20th Centuries)
Sace Elder, Eastern Illinois University: The construction of crimes against children in Germany (20th century)
Peter Edelberg, University of Copenhagen: Traces of a Panic: The Making and Unmaking of a Pedophile Minority in Denmark (20th century)