Renaissance Conferences at Princeton

2009 Princeton University Graduate Conference

Expertise in the Early Modern World

Friday, May 8th, and Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Travel Information | Lodging



Contacts: Liz Melly (emelly@princeton.edu) and Johanna Heinrichs (jheinric@princeton.edu)

This graduate conference was made possible in part due to grants from our co-sponsors: The departments of Art and Archaeology, English, French and Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, History, and Music, the Council of the Humanities, and the Davis Center for Historical Studies.

Conference Schedule

Friday, May 8th

4:30-5:30 pm: Keynote Address, 106 McCormick Hall

"Beyond Expertise: Artistic Culture in Early Modern Venice"

Prof. Tracy Cooper
Department of Art History, Tyler School of Art at Temple University

5:30-7:00pm: Opening reception

Saturday, May 9th

All sessions will take place in 106 McCormick Hall.

8:00-9:00 am: Registration and continental breakfast.

9:00 am: Opening remarks

Session One

9:15-10:45 am: Panel 1

David Boffa
Department of Art History, Rutgers University
"'Mastery greater than any seen before': Artistic Authority and Identity in the Early Italian Renaissance"

Morgan Ng
Department of Comparative History, Central European University
"'The Royaltie of Sight': Property and Scientific Expertise in Seventeenth-Century England"

Anupam Basu
Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"'Expertus in Truffis, that is, a fellow right expert in roguery': Mastering the Performance of Social Position in Early Modern Cony-Catching Pamphlets"

10:45-11:00 am: Break

11:00-12:30 pm: Panel 2

Elizabeth Nogrady
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
"Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651), Artistic Collaboration, and the Pastor Fido Commission for the Prince of Orange"

Oded Rabinovitch
Department of History, Brown University
"Chameleons between Science and Literature, or How to Establish Scientific Expertise in Seventeenth-Century Paris"

Sean Parrish
Department of History, Duke University
"Gross Geographies: Cartographic Culture and Medical Authority in Sixteenth-Century Venice"

12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch break

Session Two

1:30-3:00 pm: Panel 3

Silvia Tita
Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan
"Vignola's Le due regole della prospettiva practica edited by E. Danti"

Erin K. Kelly
Department of English, Rutgers University
"Commonplacing in Jonson's Sejanus after the Lipsian Tradition"

Scott Francis
Department of French and Italian, Princeton University
"The Smell of Their Own Dung: Inescapable Philautia in Erasmus, Marguerite de Navarre and Montaigne"

3:00-3:15 pm: Break

3:15-4:45 pm: Panel 4

Francesca Marzullo
Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
"Bernardo Rossellino and Architectural Ornament"

Stan Mirvis
Department of History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
"Knowing the World: Geography and Jewish Expertise in Renaissance Italy"

Eli Cohen
Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
"A Discourse of Craft or the Craft of Discourse: Novelistic Know-How in Thomas Deloney's The Gentle Craft"

4:45 pm: Closing remarks

5:00-7:00 pm: Closing reception