THURSDAY, JANUARY 15
(Abstracts can be found on a separate page)
2:30 - 4:30 Session I: The Lives of Others
Chair: Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Nicholas Bomba (Princeton)
'A Monster in the New World: Revisiting the Ordinances of 1542'
Eleanor Hubbard (Harvard)
'Patriarchy and Opportunity in Early Modern London'
Rupa Mishra (Princeton)
'The fall of Hormuz, the East India Company, and the English state'
4:45-6:45 Session ll: The Politics of Texts
Chair: Nigel Smith, Princeton University
Freddy Dominguez (Princeton)
"Historical Polemic: The Political Uses of Nicholas Sander's History of the English Schism"
Adina M. Yoffie (Harvard)
"Johannes Cocceius, the Bible’s ‘literal sense,’ and Sabbatarianism in the Dutch Republic, 1658-1669"
Suzanne Podhurst (Princeton)
"Forging Authority: Textual Exchange in Swift's Literary Coterie"7:00 Dinner at Masala Grill, 15 Chambers Street, Princeton
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16
10:00-12:00 Session III: Community and Authority in Natural Philosophy
Chair: Eileen Reeves, Princeton University
Erik Heinrichs (Harvard)
"Curing and Preventing Plague in early modern Bavaria"
Renee Raphael (Princeton)
"Tables in Late Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical Texts"
Aviva T Rothman (Princeton)
"Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum and the Scope of Religious Community"
1:30-3:30 Session IV: Humanists Cross Borders
Chair: Ann Blair, Harvard University
Chair: Ann Blair, Harvard University
Michael Tworek (Harvard)
"Study Abroad: The Intellectual Foundations of the Polish Nation, 1409-1795'
Alexander Bick (Princeton)
"History Counts: the Rhetoric of Numbers in Johannes de Laet's History of the Dutch West India Company"
Jan Machielsen (Oxford)
"Between the Jaws of Barking Dogs and the Bellowing of Lions'; Martin Delrio and
Justus Lipsius's return to Catholicism"
Justus Lipsius's return to Catholicism"