#  Event Schedule 

 



## Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe

Tues April 11, 2023, 5:00-6:30pm EST

Location: Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library), 35 Quincy St, Cambridge. In-person event.

The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.

Daniel Smail (History, Harvard), chair

Speakers:

Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"

Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre) "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450-1533) and the Social Contract"

Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"

**O**rganized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019)**.** Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop of the History Department and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.


## Historicizing Consent: Consenting to Early Modern Empires

December 12, 2022, 14:30-19:30 WET / GMT

**Venue**: Aud. Afonso de Barros, ISCTE, Lisbon. **Online**: via [CIES-Iscte Youtube channel](https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtOnu8OdBOv6mHYaGvthRZw/featured&data=05%7C01%7Cler.historia@iscte-iul.pt%7C55296bdceb614ef9444908dad6b77069%7C6230e860bfc54095a6bc104721add6e6%7C0%7C0%7C638058380595535593%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0=%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=d4jvuCsPQQ4+owqxqOm9UKoCYPS9DWbC3zb4sFJ3TtI=&reserved=0).

José Vicente Serrão, Opening remarks

Sonia Tycko, “Introduction: Consenting to Early Modern Empire”

Tamar Herzog, “Imagining Native Consent and Native Resistance in Spain’s Overseas Territories”

Caroline Cunill, “Translating Consent in the Spanish Empire: Maya Words and Deeds in Sixteenth-Century Yucatan”

Paulo Jorge de Sousa Pinto, “‘Whether it pleases the locals or not’: Empire and Consent in Portuguese Asia (16th-17th centuries)”

Ângela Barreto Xavier, “Questioning Everyday Forms of Consent in Early Modern Goan Villages”

**Speakers:** Caroline Cunill (EHESS), Tamar Herzog (Harvard), Paulo Pinto (NOVA), Sonia Tycko (Edinburgh), Angela Xavier (ICS). Please see the "Biographical Information" page for further details.

**Convenors**: José Vicente Serrão (Iscte), Tamar Herzog, Sonia Tycko

Sponsored and hosted by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Ler História, CIES-IUL, and CEI-IUL.

Full programme [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iUwnv56bC2zDqF8_T6El1u3A9U9jt9ia/view).


## Historicizing Consent:

**What did it mean to agree in the late medieval and early modern world?**

Exploratory Seminar Program - April 10–12, 2022

Sort**Each listed speaker is invited to speak for 10 minutes first, and then each session will open out into a discussion with the full group for c. 30–45 mins.**

**All panels, breakfasts, and lunches will be held at** [**61 Kirkland Street**](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Sheraton%20Commander%20Hotel,%2016%20Garden%20St,%20Cambridge,%20MA%2002138/61%20Kirkland%20Street,%20Kirkland%20Street,%20Cambridge,%20MA/@42.3772814,-71.1210607,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e377698f3b496d:0x6c71d928c9feeaee!2m2!1d-71.1233101!2d42.3772651!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e37747cceb1c01:0x3213a764a02dac93!2m2!1d-71.1102257!2d42.3778861!3e2)**, Cambridge, MA (2nd floor conference room.). Dinner locations are listed below.**

### ARRIVAL DAY: April 10th



 

Group Dinner: 6:30 PM

NuBar Restaurant

Sheraton Commander Hotel

16 Garden Street, Cambridge



### DAY ONE: April 11th



 

Breakfast 8:30–9:00 AM

 

Welcome & Introductions: 9:00 AM

Sonia Tycko and Tamar Herzog

**Morning Session 1: 9:15–10:30 AM**

**Were consent and free will required to enter into contracts?**

Chair: Sonia Tycko  
Wim Decock – Roman and canon law (UCLouvain) \[virtual attendee\]  
Timo McGregor – History (Yale)

Paul Cavill – History (Cambridge) \[virtual attendee\]



Coffee Break 10:30–11:00 AM

 

**Morning Session 2: 11:00 AM–12:15 PM**

**In what ways did consent matter in labor relationships?**

Chair: Nathanael Aschenbrenner  
Debra Blumenthal – History (UC Santa Barbara)  
Sonia Tycko – History (Edinburgh)  
Urvashi Chakravarty – English (Toronto)



Lunch 12:15–1:15 PM

 

**Afternoon Session 1: 1:15–3:10 PM**

**In what ways did consent matter in sexual relations and in marriage?**

Chair: Michelle Sanchez

Elizabeth Kamali – Law (Harvard)

Carissa Harris – English (Temple)  
John Witte – Law (Emory) \[virtual attendee\]  
Krista Kesselring – History (Dalhousie)



Coffee Break 3:10–3:30 PM

 

**Afternoon Session 2: 3:30–4:45 PM**

**In what ways did consent matter in colonization and empire?**

Chair: Elizabeth Kamali  
Tamar Herzog – History / Law (Harvard & Weatherhead Center Affiliate Faculty)

Jeffrey Glover – English (Loyola University Chicago)  
Nathanael Aschenbrenner – History (Princeton)



Break

 

Group Dinner: 6:30 PM

[Harvard Faculty Club](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Sheraton%20Commander%20Hotel,%2016%20Garden%20St,%20Cambridge,%20MA%2002138/Harvard%20Faculty%20Club,%20Harvard%20University,%20Quincy%20Street,%20Cambridge,%20MA/@42.3753288,-71.1209333,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e377698f3b496d:0x6c71d928c9feeaee!2m2!1d-71.1233101!2d42.3772651!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e377a7db192837:0xa7254ff63e9ae82e!2m2!1d-71.114563!2d42.3733185!3e2)

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138



### DAY TWO: April 12th



 

Breakfast 8:30–9:00 AM

 

**Morning Session 1: 9:00–10:15 AM**

**In what ways did consent matter in religious conversions?**

Chair: Daniel Smail

David Nirenberg – History (The Institute for Advanced Study)  
Michelle Sanchez – Theology (Harvard Divinity School)  
Tamar Herzig – History (Tel Aviv)



Coffee Break 10:15–10:45 AM

 

**Morning Session 2: 10:45 AM–12:00 PM**

Chair: Sonia Tycko

Breakout session: Participants will meet in shuffled small groups. The virtual attendees will meet as one of these small groups, in a zoom room. For discussion:

- What overarching analytical points stood out in previous sessions?

What questions has the seminar raised for future research?



Lunch 12:00–1:00 PM

 

**Afternoon Session 1:00–2:15 PM**

**What next in historicizing consent?**

Chair: Tamar Herzog

Implications of this seminar for connections and contrasts of consent in different realms of late medieval and early modern life: Sonia Tycko

Implications of this seminar for how we think of consent today: Roseanna Sommers – Law (Michigan)

Concluding group discussion