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 CONFERENCES
October 3-4, 2008 PERMANENCE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ATLANTIC WORLD LOCATION: Friends' Hall, Huntington Library, 8:30am - 5:00pm both days Click here for conference program
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October 24, 2008
Suggested reading for the first workshop: Mary Elizabeth Berry, Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (U. California Pr., 2007); Cynthia Brokaw, “Book History in Premodern China: The State of the Discipline I,” Book History, 10 (2007), 253-290. 9:30am – 12noon: Comparing Japan, China, and Europe Kai Wing Chow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Publicity, Publics, and Print: Steles and Law in Qing China” Lynn Struve, University of Indiana, “Print, Manuscript, and News of Disaster” Sean Roberts, USC, “Map, Image, Manuscript, Print in the Early Modern Mediterranean” Kyung Moon Hwang, USC, “Print in Korea: An Introduction” Jack Wills, USC, “Print and Polycentrism: Chinese Perspectives on Early Modern Europe and Japan” Peter Mancall, USC, “How Hakluyt Knew” 1:30-4:30: Reflections and Departures Mary Elizabeth Berry, UC Berkeley, “Japan in Print in Global Contexts” David Zaret, University of Indiana, “Print and the Creation of an Active Public” Charlotte Furth, USC, “Print Before Print Culture: Reflections on the Early History of Texts and Their Duplication” Nile Green, UCLA, “Islam and South Asia” (introduction to later seminars) Future Print Seminars: Spring 2009: Alternatives and Contexts of Printed Text. Much attention will be paid to South Asia and the Islamic world, as we try to de-center the “early modern print” question and show how print did and did not become important for great textual cultures. Fall 2009: Steam Presses and Reading Citizens. Here we will focus on various forms of the world-wide burst of printing after 1800. Spring 2010: Relativizing the European Exception. Summing up what has gone before, and comparing earlier media revolutions with those of the late 1900s. Past Events:
May 22-23, 2008 "William and Mary Quarterly Collaboration" Workshop: "Writing Early American History" 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 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. LOCATION: Overseers' Room, Huntington Library, 8:30am-5:00pm both days
February 1, 2008 "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)
John Wills, Jr. (USC), "Some Earlier Divergences: China-Europe Differences That Mattered, Han to Ming" WILLS_summary.pdf 2. Consciousness and Culture (11:00am-12:10pm) Samuel Yamashita (Pomona), "Reimagining the Intellectual Landscape of 'Early Modern Japan'" YAMASHITA_Summary.pdf 3. Interactions (1:30-2:40pm) John Duncan (UCLA) “From External Stimulus to Internal Integration in Late Koryo and Early Choson Korea” DUNCAN_Summary.pdf 4. Authority Structures (3:00-4:40pm) R. Bin Wong (UCLA), "The Eighteenth-century Qing State: Fantasies and Fallacies of the 'Early Modern'" WONG_Summary.pdf 5. Closing Discussion (4:40-5:00pm) Sponsored by the East Asia Seminar of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, and the Department of History, East Asian Studies Center, and Korean Studies Institute at USC
May 11-12, 2007 Collecting Across Cultures in the Early Modern WorldA conference organized by Malcolm Baker and Daniela Bleichmar, Art History Department, USC Keynote Lecture: CONFERENCE PROGRAM 9.30-11am: Session 1 Janice Katz, Art Institute of Chicago 11.30am-1pm: Session 2 Michael North, University of Greifswald, Germany 1-2.30pm: Lunch 2.30-4pm: Session 3 Anne Goldgar, King's College London 4.30-6pm: Session 4 Alden R. Gordon, Trinity College, Hartford Saturday, May 12th 9.30-11am: Session 5 Sarah Benson, Cornell University 11.30am-1pm: Session 6 Pascal Riviale, Musée d'Orsay and CNRS, Paris 1-2.30pm: Lunch 2.30-4.00pm: Session 7 Natasha Eaton, University College, London 4:30-5:30pm: Roundtable discussion The conference is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided to all those who rsvp to emsi@usc.edu by May 5th, 2007
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