Conference Announcement
Comparative Early Modernities: 1100-1800
Hussey Room
Michigan League
University of Michigan
April 17-18, 2009
Featuring conversations among twelve leading scholars of early modern
Asia, Europe, and South America, this interdisciplinary conference will
showcase novel comparative perspectives in the fields of literary, social,
art, and economic history and re-examine the theoretical and
methodological premises of comparative historical studies.
Program:
April 17th - Day 1
9:15 - 11:30 am Session I: Globalizing Early Modernity
Walter Cohen (Cornell University), "Out of India: Global Early Modernity"
Ayesha Ramachandran (SUNY Stony Brook), "A War of Worlds: Becoming 'Early
Modern' and the Challenge of Comparison"
1:00 - 3:15 pm Session II: Writing Across Worlds
Luke Clossey (Simon Fraser University), "Did Aurangzeb Write Tom Jones?
Eurocentrism and Writing the Early Modern World"
Su Fang Ng (University of Oklahoma), "Dutch Wars, Global Trade, and the
Heroic Poem: Dryden's 'Annus Mirabilis' (1666) and Amin's 'Syair Perang
Mengkasar' (1670)"
3:30 - 5:45 pm Session III: Comparative Cultural History
Claudia Brosseder (University of Heidelberg), "Magic in Comparative
Perspective: Early Modern Europe and Colonial Latin America"
Richard Vinograd (Stanford University), "Accommodating Incompatibilities
in Early Visual Modernity"
April 18th - Day 2
9:15 - 11:30 am Session I: Region and Tradition
Jack Goldstone (George Mason University), "Cultural Trajectories: The
Power of the Traditional within the Early Modern"
Kenneth Pomeranz (UC Irvine), "Areas, Networks, and the Search for 'Early
Modern' East Asia"
1:00 - 3:15 pm Session V: Family and Sexuality
Katherine Carlitz (University of Pittsburgh), "Pornography, Chastity, and
'Early Modernity' in China, England, and France"
Ann Waltner (University of Minnesota), "Comparing Family Histories in the
Early Modern Period: The View from China"
3:30 - 5:45 pm Session VI: Comparative Historiography
Gregory Blue (University of Victoria), "The Rise and Fall of Enlightenment
Sinophilia: Did Political Economy Lead the Way?"
R. Bin Wong (UC Los Angeles), "Did China's Late Empire have an Early
Modern Era?"
REGISTRATION:
Seating at this event will be limited and pre-registration is strongly
recommended.
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