Harvard-Princeton Early Modern Workshop 2013
January 10 & 11, 2013
211 Dickinson Hall
Thursday, January 10
2:30-4:00 PM Looking Backwards
Frederic Clark, Princeton
The Discovery of Postclassical Time and the Transformation of Antiquity
Paul Davis, Princeton
Cloaking Clio: Historical Costumes in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Valeria A. Lopez Fadul, Princeton
Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of Spain
4:00-4:30 PM Coffee 210 Dickinson
4:30-6:00 PM Thinking Across Borders
Alex Bevilacqua, Princeton
The Bibliothèque Orientale: Sources, Organization, Readers
Elizabeth Cross, Harvard
The Compagnie des Indes and the Fate of Commercial Empire in the French Revolution
Hansun Hsiung, Harvard
Household Enlightenment: Barbarian Books and European Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
6:30— Dinner Masala Grill, Princeton
Friday, January 11
8:30-9:00 A.M. Breakfast 210 Dickinson
9:00-11:00 A.M. Expressive Traditions: Institutions and Performances
Poor Cicero's Almanack
Andrei Pesic , Princeton
The "Dangerous" Concert: Rigorist critiques of religious music in early European concert series
Helen Pfeifer, Princeton
The Social Life of Ottoman Texts
Michael Tworek , Harvard
The Ciceronian Commonwealth: Cicero, Study Abroad, and the Revival of Antiquity in Renaissance Poland
11:30-1:00 Local Changes, Global Movements
Hanna Callaway, Harvard
Democratizing Property: The Confiscation of Émigré Wealth in the French Revolution
News In the Making of Early Modern China
Faking Japanese: The Case of the Fake Kakiemon vases from Meissen, and What They Tell Us About European Knowledge of East Asia in the Eighteenth-Century
1:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch for participants in 210 Dickinson
2:00 - 3:30 PM Science and Medicine Across Frontiers
Oksana Mykhed, Harvard
Russian Doctors, Polish Patients: Bubonic Plague and the Building of a New Imperial Province (1770-1782)
Flori Pierri, Princeton
"A beast whose scales are as Armor:" Describing the Armadillo in Early Modern Europe
Margaret Schotte, Princeton
Astronomy Lessons on the Prince de Conti, c. 1756