Early Modern Globalization Symposium
Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
Friday, February 8, 2008
Hybridity, mimickry, negotiation, Orientalism, alterity, and the "middleground," are only a handful of concepts that have redefined the terrain of cultural studies. Building upon this theoretical legacy, the Globalization Symposium will challenge participants to reassess familiar concepts such as the nation state and to question existing interpretive models. Ultimately, the workshop's papers will seek to ask new questions inspired, in part, by shifting the focus from colonialization to globalization.
Image courtesy of the Newberry Library, Novacco MS 2F 6, "Cordiform World Map in Fool's Cap."
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8:30-8:45
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Breakfast
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8:45-9:00
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Welcome and Introduction Chair:
Bronwen Wilson, University of British Columbia
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9:00-10:45
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Session 1: Progress and failure
Chair: Sonia Del Re, McGill University
“The Three Greatest Inventions of Modern Times: an Idea and its International Public”
David Boruchoff, McGill University
“A New World Wrought by Fire and Water: The Theory and Practice of Landscape Transformation in the Early Modern Iberian World"
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University
“Prints, Partisans and Peripheries: Global Politics and Visual Culture in Revolutionary France"
Richard Taws, McGill University
“Failure”
Christopher Heuer, Princeton University
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10:45-11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00-12:45
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Session 2: Boundaries and Crossings
Chair: Ivana Horacek, University of British Columbia
“Globalization through Localization? Trans-Imperial Subjects and Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough
“Globalization and the Gift in the Pre-modern Mediterranean: Byzantine Silk and Sumptuary Laws”
Cecily J. Hilsdale, Northwestern University
“Globalization and "Confessionalization" in the Early Modern Mediterranean World”
Tijana Krstic, Penn State University
"Turks in the Church: Calvinist and Muslim Ways of Seeing"
Angela Vanhaelen, McGill University
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12:45-1:45
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Lunch
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1:45-3:30
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Session 3: Historiography
Chair: Krystel Chehab, University of British Columbia
“Early Modern Journeys: Mapping, Inscription and the Horizon”
Bronwen Wilson, University of British Columbia
“On Baroque Orientalism”
Nicholas Dew, McGill University
“Remapping Early Modern Art History: Globalizing Our Methodologies”
Julie Hochstrasser, University of Iowa
“Art History and Disenchantment: Riegl, Warburg, and a Tupinamba Dance”
Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota
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3:30-3:45
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Coffee break
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3:45-5:00
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Workshop Discussion
Chair: Angela Vanhaelen, McGill University
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Co-sponsored by the Dean of Arts Development Fund at McGill University
Funds may be available for graduate students and faculty of
Consortium institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend the Symposium on Globalization. If you have any questions, please contact the
Center for Renaissance Studies.