Earlymod: (Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800, A One-Day Conference
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Date and Time
March 24, 2017
08:45AM - 05:00PM EDT
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Location
Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Speakers:
Greg Afinogenov David Armitage Alexander Bevlilacqua Ann blair Jorge Canizares-Esguerra Ananya Chakravarti Roger Chartier Devin Fitzgerald Tamar Herzog Eugenio Menegon Laura Mitchell Darrin McMahon Studart McManus Holly Shaffer Nir Shafir Carolien Stolte Michael Tworek Kristen Windmuller-Luna Anand Venkatkrishnan Xin Wen
Image: Dora Wheeler “Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night” (1886)
Organizers: Michael Tworek (Harvard), Stuart McManus (UChicago), Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard), Anja Goeing (Harvard)
This conference proposes a new concept—“(dis)entanglement”—in order to provide alternative narratives of the early modern world, 1300-1800. Recent scholarship has emphasized the integrative nature of economic, material, and religious developments. In contrast, we will examine what the “global” could mean in intellectual and cultural interactions in terms of both integration and disintegration across multiple continents and oceans. Our conference participants will explore how the notion of “(dis)entanglement” allows us to evoke a polycentric early modern world that is simultaneously connecting and disconnecting.
The conference includes panels on Ideas (speakers: Xin Wen, Anand Venkatkrishnan, Michael Tworek, Carolien Stolte), Books (speakers: Holly Shaffer, Nir Shafir, Devin Fitzgerald, Alexander Bevilacqua), and Scholarly Practices (speakers: Ananya Chakravarti, Kirsten Windmuller-Luna, Stuart McManus, Gregory Afinogenov). Our closing roundtable features panelists David Armitage, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Roger Chartier, Eugenio Menegon, and Laura Mitchell.
Sponsored Generously By: Harvard Asia Center, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard Center for African Studies, Harvard History Department, Harvard Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard Medieval Studies Committee, Harvard Center for History and Economics, Mellon Rare Book School, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
