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Intellectual Exchange and Networks, 1500-1660:
Approaches from the Humanities and Social Sciences May 7-8 2010 A conference hosted by the Early Modern, Renaissance, and Western Mediterranean Workshops of the University of Chicago. |
Description:We are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary graduate conference, "Intellectual Exchange and Networks in Europe, 1500-1660: Approaches from the Humanities and Social Sciences," to be held May 7-8, 2010 at the University of Chicago. This conference will create a forum for investigating how ideas moved through Europe in the formative years of 1500 to 1660. In order to address the issue of intellectual exchange and networks in its most capacious sense, the conference will draw together the work of graduate students and faculty from across the departmental boundaries of art history, English, history, music and the Romance Languages.. As an interdisciplinary forum about the movement of ideas in the early modern period, this conference will also raise serious questions about the movement of ideas in our own period: How has current work on intellectual exchange divided itself along disciplinary lines? What might be learned by putting into dialogue the various methodologies and understandings that are currently developing in each of these disciplines?Click here to dowload a pdf of the conference promotional flier. Keynote Speakers:Denis Crouzet, Université de Paris IV-SorbonneProfessor Crouzet studies the violent clash of religious ideas in the sixteenth century. Professor Crouzet's recent publications include Dieu en ses royaumes: Une histoire des guerres de religion and Christophe Colomb: Héraut de l'Apocalypse. Peter N. Miller, Bard College Professor Miller's work focuses on Renaissance antiquarianism and material culture. His publications include Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences, Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century, and Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Schedule: All events will take place in Rosenwald 405 on the University of Chicago campus. Click here to download a pdf of the conference program. Friday, May 7th3:30-4:50 Panel I: Intellectual Exchange and the Use of Knowledge These papers focus on learned societies or groups and consider the ways intellectual exchange within such groups transformed the use of knowledge. Jenny Meyer Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Fear and Loving in the Renaissance: from Politics to Literature" Richard Oosterhoff History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame "Quadrivial Personae: Pythagoras in the Republic of Letters of French Renaissance Mathematics" Kate Wulfson Department of History, University of Chicago "'Science studies' for the seventeenth century: controversy and correspondence between Mersenne and Peiresc" Panel Moderator: Paul Cheney Assistant Professor of Modern European History in the Department of History, University of Chicago 5:00-6:20 Opening Keynote Address: Peter N. Miller Dean and Chair of Academic Programs, Bard Graduate Center Dinner at Piccolo Mondo for presenters and moderators will follow the keynote. Saturday, May 8th9:30-10:30 Continental Breakfast10:30-12:10 Panel II: Translations of Texts, Objects, and Ideas These papers consider the translation of texts and objects across cultural lines. Laura Aydelotte Department of English, University of Chicago "Wrought by Worldlings: The Social and Intellectual Networks behind Jan van der Noot's Book" Greg Baum Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago "The Absence of England in James Mabbe's "The Spanish Ladie" Chriscinda Henry Department of Art History, University of Chicago "Mores Italiae: Cultural Stereotyping in Northern European Friendship Albums, 1545-1630" Ingrid Greenfield Department of Art History, University of Chicago "From Prester John to Tupinambá: The Shifting Identities of African Objects" Panel Moderator: Richard Strier Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College, University of Chicago 12:10-1:00 Catered Lunch 1:00-2:20 Panel III: Religion and the Transmission of Knowledge This group of papers explores the way text, music, and performance were formed and reformed in relation to the period's religious orthodoxies and upheavals. Erika Honisch Department of Music, University of Chicago "Sacred Music in Rudolfine Prague and its Dissemination in Central Europe" Christine Scippa Bhasin Department of Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University "Unexpected Sites of Theatrical Exchange in Counter-Reformation Venice" Kelli Wood Department of Art History, University of Chicago "Censorship as Exchange: Expurgating Boccaccio's Decameron" Panel Moderator: Constantin Fasolt Karl J. Weintraub Professor in the Department of History and the College, University of Chicago 2:20-2:30 Break 2:30-3:50 Final Keynote Address: Denis Crouzet Professeur d'Histoire Moderne, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne "Nostradamus and the res mirabilia: Between the Understanding of Nature and the Word of God" 3:50-4:10 Break 4:10-5:10 Concluding Roundtable Richard Strier, Department of English Language and Literature Paul Cheney, Department of History Constantin Fasolt, Department of History Moderator: Philippe Desan Howard L. Willett Professor of French and History of Culture in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago 5:10 Wine and Cheese Reception |