The Early Modern Research Workshop presents:

Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University (SUNY)

• 2:00-3:00pm | Park 545: Conversation with Graduate Students
• 3:30-5:00pm | Park 280: “Mass Violence and New Media: Psychological Responses in France, 1550-1880”

Abstract: New visual and textual media, ranging from pamphlets and woodblock prints in the sixteenth century to illustrated newspapers and collodion photography in the nineteenth century, depicted personal suffering caused by various episodes of mass violence in France between the French Wars of Religion and the Paris Commune. These increasingly effective means of representation helped both to provoke repeated collective traumas and to foster the psychological processes of the modern self.

Howard G. Brown, Professor of History at Binghamton University (SUNY), is the author of the prize-winning Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon (2006), and Mass Violence and the Self: From the French Wars of Religion to the Paris Commune (2019).