In honour of Elizabeth and Tom Cohen, an international conference was held on 1-3 November 2019 at York University, Toronto, Canada: “Making Stories in the Early Modern World.”

Conference program:

Microhistory in the 21st Century part 1
Chair: Rachel Koopmans

Filippo de Vivo, Birkbeck, University of London
Archival stories in early modern Italy

Claire Judde de Larivière, Université de Toulouse
Speech and Action in Renaissance Venice: stories from the Avogaria di Comun

Bernard D. Cooperman, University of Maryland
Shylock’s Daughter-In-Law. Telling Jewish Stories about Adultery in Early Modern
Rome

David Rosenthal, University of Edinburgh, Daniel Jamison, University of Toronto and
Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto
When Microhistory Met Public History (In Early Modern Italy)

Microhistory in the 21st Century part 2
Chair: Richard Hoffmann

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, University of Iceland
Freaks and Race in Far-away Places – Global Perspective on Far-reaching Microhistory

Allyson M. Poska, University of Mary Washington
Gendering Public Health: Maria Bustamente, a Prize, and the Transmission of
Smallpox Vaccination to Cuba

Boyd Cothran, York University, and Adrian Shubert, York University
Vessel of Globalization: The Many Worlds of the Edwin Fox, 1853-1905”

Steven Bednarski, University of Waterloo
Reconstruction: The Life and Times of Sir Herbert Paul Lathan, bt.

Stories about the Cohens
colleagues, students, friends
Chair: Maria Joao Dodman

Plenary: Laurie Nussdorfer
Chair: John Christopoulos

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