Date/Time
Date(s) - 6 Dec 2013
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
Deutsche Haus
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Queen Wilhelmina Workshop, Transmitting Knowledge in the Early Modern Dutch World
December 6-7, 2013
Deutsches Haus, Columbia University
Friday December 6, 2013; 5 pm
Chair: Evan Haefeli (Columbia University)
Lecture: Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto) – Dealing with Strangeness: Language and Information Flow in Colonial Suriname
Followed by reception
Saturday December 7, 2013; 9:30 am – 4 pm
Chair: Pamela Smith (Columbia University)
Session 1:
9:30 – 11:00: Strategic Knowledge
Maartje van Gelder (University of Amsterdam) – Republican Renegades: Converts to Islam in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Diplomacy with North Africa
Carolyn Arena (Columbia University) – The Carib/Anglo-Dutch/Arawak War: Strategic Knowledge and Alliance Formation in the 17th-Century Caribbean
Session 2:
11:00 – 12:30: Private Knowledge
Deborah Hamer (Columbia University) – Investigations of Marital Status in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Atlantic World
Michiel van Groesen (University of Amsterdam) – Information vs. Empire: Dierick Ruiters and the Attempted Unmaking of Habsburg America
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
Session 3:
14:00 – 15:30: Exotic Knowledge
Daniel Margócsy (Hunter College) – Forging Authenticity: Publishing and Ghostwriting Albertus Seba’s Thesaurus
Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington) – Oriental Despots on Ornamental Desks: On Dutch Geography, the “Decorative” Arts, and the Production of the Exotic World
Session 4:
15:30 – 16:00
Pamela Smith (Columbia University) – Concluding Remarks