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Intellectual Exchange and Networks in Europe, 1500-1660:
Approaches from the Humanities and Social Sciences
May 7-8, 2010
A conference hosted by the Early Modern, Renaissance, and Western
Mediterranean Workshops of the University of Chicago.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Denis Crouzet, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Professor Crouzet
studies the violent clash of religious ideas in the sixteenth century. Professor Crouzet’s
recent publications include Dieu
en ses royaumes:
Une histoire des guerres de
religion and Christophe Colomb: Héraut de l'Apocalypse.
Peter N. Miller, Bard College
Professor Miller’s work focuses on Renaissance antiquarianism and
material culture. His publications include Momigliano
and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences, Peiresc’s Europe: Learning and Virtue in the
Seventeenth Century, and Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and
Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
This conference will create a forum for investigating how ideas moved
through Europe in the formative years of 1500 to 1660. We welcome all approaches and interpretations
of this topic, including but not limited to considerations of the social
networks, trade routes, epistolary webs, as well as the multiple forms of
literary transmission, by which ideas traveled in Europe from one place to
another and from one period of time to another.
In order to address the issue of intellectual exchange and networks in
its most capacious sense, the conference will draw together the work of
graduate students and faculty from across the departmental boundaries of art
history, English, history, political science, and the Romance languages. As an interdisciplinary forum about the
movement of ideas in the early modern period, this conference will also raise
serious questions about the movement of ideas in our own period: How has
current work on intellectual exchange divided itself along disciplinary
lines? What might be learned by putting
into dialogue the various methodologies and understandings that are currently developing
in each of these disciplines?
Please return to this site for schedules, room locations, and other
pertinent information as it becomes available.
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send an abstract
proposing a fifteen to twenty-minute paper by Monday, November 30, 2009 to: intellectualexchange@gmail.com. Abstracts should be approximately 250 words
and included in the body of an e-mail.
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