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.”
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