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Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Envisioning Empire in the Old World
A core program conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library —organized by Clark Professor Barbara Fuchs (UCLA)
Friday October 28th	Core Program The program involves humanities scholars whose research interests relate to the representation of empire and imperial rivalry in the early modern Mediterranean. The field of Mediterranean studies has grown tremendously in recent years, with rich investigations both within the national disciplines and in a comparative framework, placing empires side by side. This series will focus on the imbrication and entanglement of the various actors in the early modern Mediterranean (the Ottoman and the Habsburg empires, Portugal, Morocco, France, England, Venice, and so forth). How is imperial competition managed in different genres? How do literary and cultural productions render the alterity and the attraction of the cultures encountered? Rivalry and Rhetoric will feature three symposia that take us from the broadest problems of representation to a case study—early modern England—for which the "Mediterranean turn" has radically changed the field. Session 1— Envisioning Empire in the Old World “Envisioning Empire in the Old World” will consider problems of visual, material, and textual representation of contact zones and encounters among the Mediterranean empires. Topics include: Spain in Italy, Spain on the Ottomans, versions of Lepanto, North African borderlands, travel writing, captive’s tales, merchants and ambassadors, citationality and textual traditions, lingua franca and the problems of communication, and contested spaces on the page and the stage.	–Registration form

	Registration Deadline: October 21, 2011 Please click here for a printable registration form. Registration Fees: $20 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* All students, UC faculty and staff may register via e-mail by sending their name, affiliation and phone number to c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu Students should be prepared to provide their current University ID at the conference. Complimentary lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants. Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. Confirmation will be sent via email.*

Friday, October 28th
9:00 a.m.	Registration/Check-In
9:30 a.m.	Welcoming and Opening Remarks Barbara Fuchs, UCLA Session I: OTTOMAN PLACES AND SPACES Chair: Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA Palmira Brummett, University of Tennessee Mapping Trans-Imperial Ottoman Space: Movement, Genre, Temporality, Ethnography of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Giancarlo Casale, University of Minnesota Rome is Where the Heart Is: Ottoman Humanism and the Politics of Cartography
11:00 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:15 a.m.	Session II: TURKISH LESSONS Chair: Daniela Bleichmar, USC Andrew Devereux, UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Fellow “[T]he ruin and slaughter of … fellow Christians”: Representations of the French as a Threat to Christendom in Spanish Assertions of Sovereignty in Italy, 1479–1516 Elizabeth Wright, University of Georgia Modern War, Ancient Form: Lessons from Lepanto for a Latin Seminar in Post-bellum Granada
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
2:00 p.m.	Session III: REFLECTIONS Chair: Sharon Gerstel, UCLA Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania Europe’s Turkish Nemesis Thomas Dandelet, University of California, Berkeley Imperial Anxiety, the Roman Mirror, and the Neapolitan Academy of the Duke of Medinaceli, 1696–1701
3:15 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:30 p.m.	Session IV: TELLING EMPIRE Chair: Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA Karla Mallette, University of Michigan Dialogo dei massimi sistemi: Imperial Languages at the Edge of Empire Miguel Martínez, Williams College A Soldier's Tale: War, Epic, and Empire in the Habsburg Mediterranean (1550–1560)
5:00 p.m.	Reception