Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 1450-1700
keynote lectures and provisional panels
Keynote lectures
Prof. Felipe Fernández-Armesto (University of Notre Dame)
The global Renaissance
Prof. Pamela Smith (Columbia University)
The movement of knowledge in the early modern world
Dr Joan Pau Rubiés (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Ethnographic knowledge and the birth of enlightened universalism
Plenary session: Oceans, Knowledge and Empire
Prof. Ricardo Padrón (University of Virginia)
The Pacific Ocean: The Missing Link in Hispanic Globalization
Prof. Nicolás Wey-Gómez (California Institute of Technology)
Passage to India: Europe’s quest for the tropics in the age of exploration
Dr Michiel van Groesen (University of Amsterdam)
An ocean of rumours: the Atlantic world and the quest for reliable information in early modern Europe
Panel 1: Antidotes, venoms, specifics, and simples:
Pharmacopeias in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1700
Dr Isabel Soler (Universitat de Barcelona) and Dr Juan Pimentel (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
Painting naked truth: The Colóquios by Garcia da Orta (1563)
Iris Montero Sobrevilla (University of Cambridge)
Of fever, syphilis and epilepsy: exploring the medicinal hummingbird
José Ramón Marcaida (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
New World transfers: Francisco Hernández in the works of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
Dr Miruna Achim (Universidad Autómona Metropolitana, Mexico City)
From rustics to savants: the uses of indigenous materia medica in colonial New Spain
Panel 2: Networks of Travel
Dr Anna Winterbottom (University of Sussex)
Monsters and men of the woods: illustration and interpretation in seventeenth and early eighteenth century natural histories
Dr E.C. Spary (University of Cambridge)
Writing about coffee in France before 1700: travelling scholars and the ‘invisible network’ of Philippe Sylvestre Dufour
Prof. James Delbourgo (Rutgers University)
Talk and Global Knowledge: Oral Communication in Hans Sloane’s Voyage to Jamaica
Heidi Hausse (Princeton University)
Cholera, Botany and Authorial Authority in the East Indies
Panel 3: Global Iberia
Prof. Diogo Ramada Curto (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
A composite typology of imperial knowledge
Dr Henrique Leitão (University of Lisbon)
Travelling at sea and changing knowledge: Long-range sea voyages and the shaping of scientific knowledge in the sixteenth century
Prof. Josiah Blackmore (University of Toronto)
Materia Africana: Vehicles of knowledge exchange between Portugal and Africa
Panel 4: Framing Others
Dr Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Locke and Sati
Prof. Neil Safier (University of British Columbia)
Literary Archaeologies: Uncovering Indigenous Technologies in Early Amazonian Narratives (1539-1641)
Limor Mintz-Manor (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Knowledge, Identity and the Jewish Discourse on the New World
Dr Stephen McDowall (University of Warwick)
Two English Visions of Late-Ming China, 1598-1625
Panel 5: Prophecy and Cosmography
Prof. Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland)
Prophecy, Discovery, and the Secrets of the Indies
Prof. Ayesha Ramachandran (Stony Brook University)
Prophecy and Cosmic Translation in Montaigne’s Essais
Prof. Andrea Frisch (University of Maryland, College Park)
Experience and Cosmography in André Thevet
Dr Jennifer Spinks (University of Melbourne)
The Devil in Calicut: The uses of non-European wonders and prodigies in Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires prodigieuses
Panel 6: Dialogues of form, cultures and knowledge
Dr Marjorie Trusted (V&A Museum, London)
Shipwrecked Ivories from a Manila Galleon
Dr Phiroze Vasunia (University of Reading)
History, Empire, and the Novel: Pierre-Daniel Huet and the Origins of the Romance
Dr Lia Markey (University of Pennsylvania)
Non-Naturalistic Nature and Natives in Aldrovandi’s Albums
Dr Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
European Knowledge about Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Manufactures in the Seventeenth Century
Panel 7: Scholars Abroad
Dr Simon Mills (Council for British Research in the Levant)
The Chaplains to the English Levant Company at Aleppo (1625-1695): Mapping the Geography and Antiquities of Syria in Seventeenth-Century England
Dr Ana Carolina Hosne (European University Institute, Florence) and Pablo Ariel Blitstein (Institut National de Langues et Civilisations [INALCO], Paris)
Letterati, letrados or shi (士) : what´s in a name? Reflections on the concept of letterati and its circulation throughout the Early Modern World
Prof. Florence C. Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
‘Never the twain shall meet’: Portuguese and French science in late imperial China
Panel 8: Reading and Knowledge-making
Prof. Thomás A. S. Haddad (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
‘Where the Portingales inhabite and govern’: A reading of Van Linschoten’s Itinerario (1596)
Hugh Glenn Cagle (Rutgers University)
A Science out of Place: Text, Context, and the Translation of Garcia de Orta’s Colóquios
Prof. Dániel Margócsy (Hunter College – City University of New York)
Climates, Race And Migration In the Early Modern World: The Case Of The Horse
Panel 9: Information, Communication and Dutch Expansion
Alexander Bick (Princeton University)
'We Dare Not Stick Our Noses Outside the Fort:
Commercial Intelligence, State Policy, and the 1645 Revolt in Dutch Brazil
Margaret Schotte (Princeton University)
A Sailor’s Delight: Dutch Navigational Textbooks and Information Overload
Ariel Rubin (Columbia University)
Evaluating Risk from Afar: 16th-century Leiden merchants’ knowledge of international trade
Prof. Susanne Friedrich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
Le Maire contra VOC. How a Conflict between Two Trading Companies
Affected the Dissemination of Knowledge
Roundtable session
Led by Prof. Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) and Prof. Pamela H. Smith
(Columbia University)
Provisional panels, Global Knowledge conference.doc 1
24-5 June, 2011