Date/Time
Date(s) - 19 Apr 2013
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Location
Columbia University
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Early Modern English Transnationalism(s): Columbia University, Heyman Center, 2nd Floor Conference Room and Butler Library, Room 523. Friday, 19 April 2012, 9:00-5:30. Sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of English & Comparative Literature and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
This one-day conference brings together literary scholars and historians with postcolonial, Atlantic, and comparative interests, and asks how and whether transnationalism—a critical paradigm recently in vogue–can be useful to early modern English studies. What are the critical genealogies of this approach? How does it differ—politically, methodologically—from its forerunners? In what ways does it break down—or create—barriers between and within disciplines? How does it change our perception of the social and political formations of which early modern England was part? Speakers include Professors Pamela Brown (UConn), Karl Wennerlind (Barnard), Christopher Iannini (Rutgers), Valerie Forman (NYU Gallatin), David Baker (UNC), Ania Loomba (UPenn), with keynote by Barbarba Fuchs (UCLA).
Any questions may be directed to the conference organizers, Kathryn Fore ([email protected]) or John Kuhn ([email protected])
Conference Program
Morning Sessions: Heyman Center for the Humanities, 2nd Floor Conference Room
9:00: Coffee and pastries
9:20: Opening remarks
Panel 1:
9:30: Pamela Brown, University of Connecticut, Stamford. “Have Diva Will Travel: The First Italian Actresses and the English All-Male Stage”
10:00: Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College. “From Hartlib to Linnaeus: Science, Spirituality, and Political Economy.”
10:30: Coffee Break
Panel 2:
11:00 : Valerie Forman, NYU Gallatin. “Transatlantic Development(s) and Global Consciousness”
11:30: Christopher P. Iannini, Rutgers University. “Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Hans Sloane’s Voyage to Jamaica”
12:00: Discussion
12:30: Lunch Break
Afternoon sessions: Butler Library, Room 523
Panel 3:
2:00: David J. Baker, University of North Carolina. “Britain Redux”
2:30: Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania. “What Is at Stake in Transnational Analysis?”
3:00: Discussion
3:20: Coffee Break
Keynote:
3:30: Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles. “Transnationalism and the Problem of Empire”
4:30: Conference reception and exhibition, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (6th Floor Butler Library)