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Friday
June 29th |
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Torture, Persecutions,
and Human rights |
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10:00-10:45 |
Keynote speaker: Brian P. Levack:
Torture Yesterday
and Today |
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11:00-11:45 |
Keynote speaker: Amon Burton: |
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The torturous road
from Nuremberg to Guantanamo Bay: human rights and the war
on terror |
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12:00-14:00
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Lunch break |
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Theatre at Brodtkorp
pier: "All these humans..........."
-Teaterfabrikken, Vadsø |
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14:00-15:30
16:00-18:00
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Session
I:
Torture, Persecution and Punishment I |
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Chair: Hans Eyvind Næss |
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Rita Voltmer: |
"... by cruel butchery innocent
blood is shed." Torture and mass prosecutions in the Holy
Roman Empire |
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Per Sörlin: |
A Forgiving System?
Witchcraft in the Swedish Courts in the Early Modern Period |
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Hannele Klemettilä:
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The Executioner and the Witch in Late
Medieval and Early Modern Culture |
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Session II:
Torture, Persecution and Punishment II |
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Chair: Hans Eyvind
Næss |
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Gunnar W. Knutsen: |
Torture in Witchcraft cases in secular courts and the Inquisition
in Catalonia |
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Liv Helene Willumsen: |
Witch-trials in Finnmark and Scotland – Torture and confession
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Marianna Muravyeva: |
Russian witches on trial; law, society
and witchcraft |
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in Eighteenth-century Russia |
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The two sessions will
be followed by a roundtable discussion on torture
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19:30 |
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Movie “Day of Wrath” (Vredens Dag) from
1943 –
followed by a discussion led by Brian Levack |
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21:00 |
Conference Dinner |
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