ARCHIVE 2005-2006

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October 8, 2005

"The Body’s Secrets Unlocked: Early Modern Anatomy and Anatomies"

Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University
Anita Guerrini, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cindy Klestinec, Georgia Institute of Technology
Katharine Park, Harvard University
Charlotte Furth, University of Southern California

LOCATION: Seaver Classrooms #1 & #2, Huntington Library, 9:00-5:00

 

October 10, 2005

Early Modern Evidence Series: “Under my hands... a double duty:" Printing and Pressing in Marlowe

Robert Darcy, University of Nebraska-Omaha

 

October 25, 2005

Early Modern Islamic Institutions Series: "Christians in Safavid Iran: Hospitality and Harrassment"

Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware

 

November 21, 2005

Early Modern Evidence Series

Garrett Sullivan, Pennsylvania State University

 

December 1, 2005

Early Modern Islamic Institutions Series: "A Caliph, a Canal, and Twenty Thousand Cannibals: Global Politics and Islam in the 1580s"

Giancarlo Casale, University of Minnesota

 

January 23, 2006

Early Modern Evidence Series

Claire Fontijn, Wellesley College

 

January 26, 2006

Early Modern Islamic Institutions Series

Molly Greene, Princeton University

 

March 8, 2006

Early Modern Islamic Institutions Series: "Tolerance and Mobility: Origins of the European Economic Enlightenment, 1450-1750"

Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University

 

April 4, 2006

Early Modern Islamic Institutions Series: "Institutional Influence of American Missionaries in the Late Ottoman Empire"

Ussama Makdisi, Rice University

 

April 19, 2006

Early Modern Evidence Series: "In Idea, a thousand nameless Joys": Arnauld, Locke, and Haywood's Lasselia

Helen Thompson, Northwestern University

 

April 24, 2006

Early Modern Evidence Series

Sanja Perovic, University of Chicago

LOCATION: Huntington Library

 

April 27-29, 2006

USC-Huntington EMSI Conference: The Sciences of Race in the Long 18th Century

KEYNOTE:  Robert Bernasconi, Philosophy, University of Memphis
"When Mixed Race Was Thought to be Superior to Pure Race:  The Scientific Debate in Northern Europe about Human Hybridity Before 1850"
LOCATION: USC Intellectual Commons, 7:00 PM Thursday
                     Davidson Conference Center, 9:00-5:00 Friday & Saturday

Nicholas Hudson, English, University of British Columbia
'Hottentots' and the Changing Aesthetics of Race, 1600-1850

Miriam Claude Meijer, Montgomery College
The Intersection of Race and Aesthetics in 18th-c. Anthropology

Ilona Katzew, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
White or Black? Eighteenth-Century Portraits of Albinism and the Colonial World

James Delbourgo, McGill University
Slavery in the Cabinet of Curiosities: Hans Sloane and Africans in the Natural History of Jamaica.

Paul Turnbull, Australia National University
Scientific Body-Snatching in the South Seas and its Consequences, 1770-1840.

Karen Halttunen, USC
Ancient Britons and American Savages: Geology, Race, and the Antiquity of Humankind in Britain and the U.S

Ann Fabian, Rutgers
Daniel Wilson’s Discoveries

Martha Few, University of Arizona
‘Egyptians and Other Nations of the East': Race, Sexuality, and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala

Robert Markley, University of Illinois
Climate, Race, and Civility in Southeast Asia: Alexander Hamilton's  A New Account of the East-Indies

Adam Warren, University of Washington, Seattle
A Race out of Place? Colonial Peruvian Medical Debates about Africans, Disease, and the Environment of the New World

Maria Elena Martinez, USC
León y Gama’s Treatise on Skin Color and the Enlightened ‘Science’ of Race in Eighteenth Century New Spain

Andrew Curran, French, Wesleyan
Maupertuis' Vénus physique:  On Race, Races, and the Nègre blanc.

 

May 1, 2006

Early Modern Evidence Series: "Conspicuous Longing"

Bradin Cormack, University of Chicago

 

May 13, 2006

Early Modern Evidence Series: Concepts of Addiction in the Early Modern World

10-11am Rebecca Lemon, Department of English, USC
“Addict Identity in Early Modern England.”

11-12pm Tanya Pollard, Department of English, Montclair State University
“Surrendering the self: Imagining narcotic oblivion in Early Modern England.”

1:30-2:30pm Rudi Matthee, Department of History, University of Delaware
“Between Excess and Abstinence: Alcohol in Early Modern Iran.”

2:30-4pm David T. Courtwright, Department of History, University of North Florida
“Global Habit: Changing Patterns of Drug Use and Conceptions of Addiction in Modern World History.”

LOCATION: Overseers' Room, Huntington Library, 10:00-5:00

 

May 24, 2006

Past Tense Series

Aaron Sachs, Cornell University