Final Programme
Cannibalism in the Early Modern Atlantic
Monday, 15 June
Avenue Campus, Building 65, Room 1095
4:00 Tea and coffee
4:30 Conference keynote
William Kelso, Preservation Virginia
“Survival Cannibalism at Jamestown, Virginia: The Story of ‘Jane’”
6:00 Drinks reception
Generously funded by the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute
7:00 Conference dinner
Kohinoor of Kerala
Tuesday, 16 June
Avenue Campus, Building 65, Room 1095
9:00-10:20 Session 1: Familiar Narratives
Chair: Amy Mitchell-Cook
Rodney Mader, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
“Anthropophagy and Pedagogy in the American Literature Classroom”
Matt Williamson, Queen’s University Belfast
“Imperial Appetites: Hunger and Cannibalism in the Early Modern Theatre”
Robert Appelbaum, Uppsala University
“Reconsidering Frank Lestringant’s Le Cannibale”
10:20-10:45 Tea and coffee
10:45-12:15 Session 2: Religion and Sex
Chair: Robert Appelbaum
Kelly Watson, Avila University
“Sex and Cannibalism: The Politics of Carnal Relations between Europeans and American ‘Anthropophagites.’”
Carla Cevasco, Harvard University
“This is My Body: Communion and Cannibalism in Colonial New England and New France.”
Daniel de Paula Valentim Hutchins, North Dakota State University
“‘Eating the Flesh of Jesus Christ Raw’: Catholics, Calvinists, and the Song of the Captured Cannibal.”
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session 3: Challenging the ‘British’ Atlantic
Chair: Kelly Watson
Jessica S. Hower, Southwestern University
“‘… And greedily devoured them’: The Cannibalism Discourse and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1536- 1612”
Amy Mitchell-Cook, University of West Florida
“‘The Most Delicious Thing She Had Ever Tasted’: Shipwreck Narratives and the Act of Cannibalism”
Julie Gammon, University of Southampton
“Retelling the ‘legend’ of Sawney Bean”
3:00-3:15 Tea and coffee
3:15-5:00 Session 4: The Iberian Atlantic (and Beyond!)
Chair: Rachel Herrmann
Jared Staller, Rice University
“‘Among the cannibal people I determined to live’: Andrew Battell, Imbangala Cannibalism, and Fear in Atlantic History”
Elena Daniele, Tulane University
“First Reports of New World Cannibalism, 1493-1497”
Angelica Aurora Montanari, Research Associate, Studiorum Bologna University
“Ancient demons in the New World: devouring the enemy on each side of the Atlantic”
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A conference hosted by the History Department at the University of Southampton, and funded by the Wellcome Trust