9.15 am Session 3: Overseas violence
James Belich (Oxford): Plague, the Military Revolution, and European Expansion
Adam Clulow (Monash): Drawing Lines in the Sea: The Dutch East India Company, the Zheng Maritime Network and the Uses of Early Modern Law
Chair: Erica Charters (Oxford)

10.45 Tea and Coffee, Dining Hall

11.15 Session 4: Representations of Violence
Pratyay Nath (Ashoka University): ‘The Wrath of God’: Justification of Military Violence in Mughal Imperial Discourse
Michel van Duijnen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): ‘Sacrificed to the madness of the bloodthirsty sabre’: The Great Turkish War and the visualization of violence in the Low Countries
Chair: Brian Sandberg (Northern Illinois University)

12.45 Lunch, Dining Hall

2 pm Session 5: Banditry, Raids and Non-state Warfare
Brian Sandberg (Northern Illinois University): Raiding war and globalization in the Early Modern World
Alexandr Osipian (National University of Kyiv): Dealing with bandits and authorities: legal and customary restrains of violence in the caravan trade between the Ottoman Empire, Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Russia
Chair: Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt)

3.30 Tea and Coffee, Dining Hall

4 pm Session 6: Collective Violence, Riots and Massacres
Mark Meuwese (Winnipeg): The outburst and restraint of racial massacres in European colonies in the mid-eighteenth century
Gulay Yilmaz (Akdeniz University, Antalya): Violence taking over the Ottoman capital, urban protests of 17th century Istanbul
Chair: Adam Clulow (Monash)

7 pm Formal Dinner, Dining Hall (dress code smart casual)