Date: November 6, 2009 Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Location: Intellectual Commons, Doheny Memorial Library, USC
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Integrative and Contemporary Perspectives
April 30, 2010 (Tentative date) Intellectual Commons, Doheny Memorial Library, USC
This will be the fourth and final workshop in a series of international seminars examining the Global Rise of Print
Recommended core reading:
Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979)
More details to come soon.
Representing Politics on the Shakespearean Stage
September 25 and 26, 2009
Location: Huntington Library
For more information and detailed conference program, please click here Conference_Program.pdf
May 7-8, 2009 Location: Friends Hall, Huntington Library
A conference sponsored by the University of Southern California-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute,
A William and Mary Quarterly & USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Workshop Territorial Crossings: Histories and Historiographies of the Early Americas
May 21 and 22, 2009 Location: Overseers Room, Huntington Library
The WMQ-EMSI Workshop Series is designed to identify and encourage new trends in our understanding of the history and culture of early North America. It will foster intellectual exchange among scholars working on thematically related topics that may be chronologically, geographically, or methodologically diverse. The participants are primarily mature scholars working on second or subsequent book projects; they will share their work in progress with the aim of deepening and enriching their perspectives, their approaches, and ultimately the final products of their research. The conveners of each workshop will craft an essay on emerging work for publication in the William and Mary Quarterly.
The geographic and conceptual boundaries of the field once known as “colonial America” have shifted dramatically in the last decade as scholars have explored new borderlands, pressed into non-English-controlled territories, and made connections with rich scholarship in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Native American contexts. This workshop considers the consequences of this change, particularly the opportunities to make comparisons or identify continuities among different imperial settings. Workshop papers take up such challenges as traversing traditional historiographical boundaries (from “Colonial America” to “Colonial Latin America,” for example). They ask what theoretical and conceptual tools best frame this enlarged sphere of imperial competition and colonial development. What kinds of questions are made possible only by thinking across territories, and what subjects of analysis best suit comparative or more broadly contextualized scholarship? How can scholars generalize the insights of comparative studies?
Presenters’ papers are precirculated among the workshop participants. In each hour-long portion of the session devoted to a particular paper, brief respondents’ comments will be followed by thirty minutes of discussion among the participants. Audience members will then be invited to join the conversation. Registration is limited; requests for registration and access to the workshop papers should be sent to Kelly Crawford (kscraw@wm.edu).
The WMQ-EMSI Workshops are sponsored by the University of Southern California-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (with financial support from the Salvatori Forum at USC and the Mellon Foundation) and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and are hosted by the Huntington Library and the University of Southern California.
Permanence and the Built Environment in the Pacific Basin 1700-1820
April 17 and 18, 2009
A conference sponsored by the University of Southern California-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute, the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Mellon Foundation, and the USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Salvatori Forum.
Please click the tab on the left 'Permanence Conference' for more details and online registration or here
Location: The Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
Venue: Overseer's Room 9:30am until 5pm
Held at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California, this symposium revisits the intense exchange between the natural sciences and the human sciences in the early modern period, in order to ask what role plants played in constituting theories of the human and of the disciplines we today call “the humanities.”
Speakers:
Dominique Brancher (University of Geneva),
Tom Conley (Harvard)
François Delaporte (Université de Picardie)
Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA)
Pierre Saint-Amand (Brown).
Free Parking
Lunch will be served
RSVP to Dr. Szabari szabari@usc.edu or Dr. Meeker nmeeker@usc.edu
Making Science: Inspiration and Reputation, 1400–1800 February 6–7, 2009
organized by Mary Terrall, UCLA and Deborah Harkness, USC
Co-sponsored by the Dibner History of Science Program at the Huntington Library and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
In 2007, the Huntington Library acquired the Burndy Library, a significant collection of books and manuscripts in the history of science. This acquisition adds to a wealth of resources for the history of science in the Los Angeles area. To celebrate the history of science—past, present, and future—in Los Angeles, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library of UCLA and the Henry E. Huntington Library (with the support of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute) will be convening two conferences in 2009. This is the first of these conferences; the second will take place at the Huntington Library on May 8–9, 2009. The broad theme of the conferences, Making Science: Inspiration and Reputation, 1400–1800, has been deliberately designed to be as inclusive and wide-ranging as possible. Speakers will address such questions as: What inspired scientific ideas and practices in the early modern period? How did texts, communities, practices, and experiences inspire creative and innovative thinking about the natural world? How did images work to make knowledge and reputations? How was scientific reputation established? What role did the reputation of various kinds of practitioners play in constructing the image of “science”? How did early modern scientific biographies and autobiographies, systems of credit and patronage, and university and court affiliations help to shape attitudes towards both science and scientists?
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday, February 6
9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee
10:00 a.m. Session 1 — Making Images and Image-Making
Welcoming Remarks Peter H. Reill, UCLA
Opening Remarks Mary Terrall, UCLA
Sachiko Kusukawa, Trinity College, Cambridge Picture Perfect? Pictorial Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Natural History
Adelheid Voskuhl, Harvard University Android Automata between Artisanal and Philosophical-Theological Cultures in the European Enlightenment, 1720–1780
Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California Image, Word, Thing: Transporting Imperial Nature in the Spanish Enlightenment
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. Session 2 — Experience and the Construction of Expertise
Ken Alder, Northwestern University Reading Characters: Expert and Self in Early Modern France
Pamela Smith, Columbia University Making Objects, Knowing Nature: The Circulation of Practices and the Construction of Early Modern Knowledge of Nature
4:30 p.m. Reception
Saturday, February 7
9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee
10:00 a.m. Session 3 — The Complications of Gender
Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University Wives, Daughters, Sons-in-law: Modes of Self-Fashioning among Sixteenth-Century Scholars
Mary Fissell, The Johns Hopkins University Gendering Enlightenment: Sarah Stone, William Cadogan, and the Politics of Maternity Tara Nummedal, Brown University The Authority of the Body: Anna Zieglerin's Holy Alchemy 1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. Session 4 — Reputations Over Time
Alix Cooper, SUNY Stony Brook Naming Names: Bibliography as History in the Early Modern Study of Nature
Robert Goulding, University of Notre Dame Peter Ramus’s Posthumous Influence on the Teaching of Mathematics
For a copy of the conference brochure, please click hereMaking_Science.pdf
The Reign of Charles I, 1625-1649 January 23, 2009
8:30 Registration & Coffee
9:30 Welcome Robert C. Ritchie (The Huntington)
Remarks David Cressy (Ohio State University)
Session One
Moderator: Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University)
Richard Cust (University of Birmingham): “Charles I and the Defence of Honour”
Daniel Beaver (Pennsylvania State University): “Ancient Liberties, Royal Honor, and the Politics of Commonweal in Windsor and Waltham Forests, 1603-1642”
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Session Two
Moderator: Sears McGee (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Thomas Cogswell (University of California, Riverside): “The Return of ‘Deade Alive’: Earl of Bristol, Dr. Eglisham,
and the Destabilization of Caroline Political Culture”
Sarah Poynting (Independent scholar): “‘Corrected by his owne hand’: Charles I as Editor”
Session Three
Moderator: Mary Robertson (The Huntington)
Clive Holmes (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford): “Charles I and the Common Law”
Michelle White (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga): “‘Governed and overswayed at home under a feminine usurpation’: The Royal Marriage under Scrutiny during the English Civil Wars”
Saturday, January 24, 2009
9:00 Registration & Coffee
9:30 Session Four
Moderator: Cynthia Herrup (University of Southern California)
David Cressy: “Charles I and the People’s Tears: An Accessible Monarch?”
Timothy Harris (Brown University): “Charles I and Scotland”
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Session Five
Moderator: Barbara Donagan (The Huntington)
Jason Peacey (University College London): “From Accession to Abolition: The Public Fall of Charles I”
Jason McElligott (Trinity College Dublin): “Atlantic Royalism? Polemic, Censorship, and the 1649 Declaration of Virginia”
Michael Braddick (University of Sheffield): “‘We will make every man a Roundhead that hath anything to lose’: Civil War Partisanship and the History of Social Relations”
This conference is funded by The William French Smith Endowment and The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Saturday, December 13th, 2008, 9am-1pm, USC SOS 250
Five emerging scholars of Japanese history challenge conventional periodization schemes by considering the years from the outbreak of the Onin War (1467) to the rule of the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu (r. 1623-1651) as a coherent era of state building, cultural transformation, and new forms of socialization. Presenters will discuss gender and politics, piracy and trade, the juridical field, material culture, and warriors' sense of place among other topics.
*David Eason (SUNY, University at Albany), "Motonari's Lament: Law and Legitimacy in the Long Sixteenth Century" *Tomoko Kitagawa (Princeton University), "The Vogue in the 1580s: Pledge and Gift-Giving Practices of the Women of the Toyotomi Court" *Morgan Pitelka (Occidental College), "Culture and Contingency in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu" *Peter Shapinsky (University of Illinois at Springfield), "Reflections on Japan's Long Maritime Sixteenth Century" *David Spafford (University of Washington), "Life on the Land: Absentee Landlords and Resident Warlords"
Sponsored by the Early Modern Studies Institute and the Project for Premodern Japanese Studies, USC
Please contact Morgan Pitelka (Associate Professor and Chair of Asian Studies, Occidental College; Associate-in-Research at the East Asian Studies Center, USC) at mpitelka@oxy.edu with questions.
PERMANENCE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ATLANTIC WORLD October 3-4, 2008
This interdisciplinary conference brings together those studying the survival and the demise of structures, infrastructures, and cityscapes with those interested in the impact of buildings on historical memory. The long eighteenth-century in the Atlantic world is a critical time and place for a conference on permanence and the built environment because of the period’s transatlantic obsession with the subject—the mania for brick construction in town and countryside, the emergence of fire insurance, the proliferation of imperial building projects in the ports of western Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and creole efforts to meet metropolitan architectural standards. These developments came into conflict with the need for shelter on the part of a growing eighteenth-century population on both sides of the Atlantic and American Indian anxieties over the preservation of landscape. They also were challenged by a series of punishing natural disasters and devastating wars for empire. As the study of both historical memory and vernacular architecture have exploded over the past decade, we anticipate lively discussions around these papers, which will be pre-circulated.
LOCATION: Friends' Hall, Huntington Library, 8:30am - 5:00pm both days
"William and Mary Quarterly Collaboration" Workshop: "Writing Early American History"
May 22-23, 2008 LOCATION: Overseers' Room, Huntington Library, 8:30am-5:00pm both days
The Omohundro Institute and the University of Southern California-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute are pleased to announce the third in a series of William and Mary Quarterly-EMSI workshops designed to identify and encourage new trends in understanding the history and culture of early North America.
Participants will attend a two day meeting at the Huntington Library and USC (May 22-23, 2008) to discuss both their work and that of other participants, as well as directions that might be taken in writing the history of early North America. Subsequently, the conveners will write an essay elaborating on the issues raised in the workshop for publication in the William and Mary Quarterly. The conveners of this year’s workshop are Andrew Cayton and Fred Anderson.
Concentrating on the kinds of questions creative artists, such as novelists or filmmakers, might ask about the relationship between form and content, the workshop will take stock of the literary dimensions of history. We will consider the range of genres, conventions, and experimental forms that might convey a sense of early modern North America. We will contemplate the significance of the choices we make about the structure of books and articles, including matters of plot, character development, narrative arcs, tone, conflict, and the degree to which dramatic resolutions can, or should, be achieved. Other questions participants might address include: To what extent does content govern form? How do the forms we choose influence the ways we think about chronological periods, configure space, and understand power? Do the concerns and demands of social and cultural history connect with those of political and military history? Can narrative plots adequately embody complex arguments? To the extent that stories imply moral judgments, does writing narrative history carry risks of partiality and subjectivity not present when writing in a purely argumentative mode?
"The Early Modern in East Asia: The Challenges of Periodization"
A Symposium, Friday, February 1, 2008 9:00am-5:00pm University of Southern California, SOS 250
Recently the concept of the "early modern" has undergone a reevaluation, not necessarily to dismiss its suitability but rather to expand its utility in thinking about the larger narratives of modernity (and hence also "premodernity"), universality, and world history. While the early modern concept has found a niche roughly corresponding to the mid-15th to mid-19th centuries in the West, for East Asian historians there has been a halting response to this notion, for the East Asian historical trajectory (even for Japan, which seems most similar) resists easy divisions according to established periodization.
This one-day symposium seeks to gather the thoughts of East Asian historians whose research inspires thinking about the early modern, and to use this gathering as a forum for extended discussions about periodization in East Asian history-- indeed to wonder whether it is possible to apply a standard periodization scheme for East Asia as a whole.
Please click on the participants' names to be directed to their personal web listing. Please also click on the link following the presentation titles for summaries.
SCHEDULE:
Opening Remarks (9:00-9:10am)
1. East Asia and the Early Modern World (9:10-10:50am)
R. Bin Wong(UCLA), "The Eighteenth-century Qing State: Fantasies and Fallacies of the 'Early Modern'" <a title="WONG_Summar" target="_blank" href="/cms/sites/uschuntington_early/final/emsi/private/WONG_Summary. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The WMQ-EMSI Workshop Series is designed to identify and encourage new trends in our understanding of the history and culture of early North America. It will foster intellectual exchange among scholars working on thematically related topics that may be chronologically, geographically, or methodologically diverse. The participants are primarily mature scholars working on second or subsequent book projects; they will share their work in progress with the aim of deepening and enriching their perspectives, their approaches, and ultimately the final products of their research. The conveners of each workshop will craft an essay on emerging work for publication in the William and Mary Quarterly.