Donald Myers and Erika Holmquist-Wall, November 2012
Donald Myers teaches art history courses and is the Director and Senior Curator of the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College. He has taught at Gustavus Adolphus College since 2000, and prior to that was a curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (he was in the sculpture and decorative [...]
Pendulum in the Tropics: The Académie des Sciences and Globalization, 1670-1740
In the last half of the seventeenth century, scientific practice became “globalized” on an unprecedented scale. One key part of that story was the work of the French Académie des Sciences, which organized a series of expeditions to locations around the Atlantic basin. These sites–Gorée in Senegambia, Cayenne in Guyana, Guadeloupe and Martinique in the [...]
Performing the Enlightenment in the Twenty First Century Collaborative, 2011-2012
This collaborative seeks to organize a conference in December or 2012 that would re-open a discussion on the Enlightenment in times of today’s economic crisis when the basic driver of the academe is the distribution of resources. The propensity to avoid moral considerations and to restrict ourselves to issues of profit and loss—economic questions in [...]
The Mediterranean through Arab Eyes: the Early Modern Period
A talk by Nabil Matar Nabil Matar is Presidential Professor in the President’s Interdisciplinary Initiative on Arts and Humanities and teaches in the departments of English and History, and in the Religious Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Matar’s research in the past two decades has focused on relations between early modern Britain, [...]
Learning How to be Ill in Early Modern England – A talk by Olivia Weisser
Olivia Weisser is a postdoctoral lecturer in the Writing Studies Program at Princeton University. She studies the history of medicine in early modern England. In particular, her work focuses on illness and the body from the patient’s point of view. Her current research examines how gender, religion, and writing practices shaped men’s and women’s perceptions [...]
“Mapping the ‘Palaos Islands’: Geographical Imagination and Knowledge…”
Please join the Center for Early Modern History for a lecture by Ulrike Strasser of University of California-Irvine entitled, “Mapping the ‘Palaos Islands’: Geographical Imagination and Knowledge Transfer Between German Jesuits and Oceanic Islanders Around 1700.’” This talk probes the history of the first European map of the Caroline Islands for what it reveals about [...]
“The Illusion of Empire: Missionaries, Maps, and the Spatial Logic…”
Please join the Center for Early Modern History for a lecture by Michael Witgen of the University of Michigan and a fellow at Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan entitled, “The Illusion of Empire: Missionaries, Maps, and the Spatial Logic of European Discovery and the Colonization in the Great Lakes.’” The French empire [...]
Identity and Linguistic Conflicts in Maghrebian Literature: Talk by Hedia Khadar
Hedia Khadar is a professor at the University of Tunis. Sponsored by: Institute for Advanced Study, Global Studies, Early Modern History, French & Italian, English
“Trans-Pacific: From China to Mexico in Early Modernity”
Please join the Center for Early Modern History for a lecture by Dana Leibsohn of Smith College entitled, “Trans-Pacific: From China to Mexico in Early Modernity.” In what ways was “China” meaningful to people living in Spanish America? In the16th-18th centuries, in places like Manila and Puebla, Acapulco and Mexico City, how did the geography [...]
Ricci’s World: The 1602 Map – A talk by Ann Waltner
The University of Minnesota’s Ann Waltner, professor of Ming History and director of the Institute for Advanced Study, will speak about Matteo Ricci and his map at a special event to launch the Bell Library’s new exhibit, “Matteo Ricci and the Jesuits in China.” A dessert reception will follow her talk and attendees will have [...]