Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean:
Black Legends and Domestic Dissent

A core program conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
—organized by Clark Professor Barbara Fuchs (UCLA)

Friday
February
10th

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 2—Black Legends and Domestic Dissent

This conference explores the intersections between the discourses that discredit Spain or the Ottomans as imperial actors, and the contestation of orthodoxy in the domestic sphere. How is anti-Spanish sentiment used across Europe, and how does it enable local or national forms of resistance? How do conceptions of the Ottomans intersect with or influence conceptions of Spain? What is the role of race in the black legends? Conference sessions will focus on different iterations of black legends across Europe and the Americas, as well as on their interpenetration.

–Registration form   

Registration Deadline: February 3, 2012

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,
February 10th

9:00 a.m.

Registration/Check-In

9:30 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles

Session I: Mediterranean Empires, Universal Ambitions
Chair: Massimo Ciavolella, University of California, Los Angeles

Carina Johnson, Pitzer College
The Houses of Habsburg and Osman: Rivals, Mirrors, Internecine Families

Stefania Tutino, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Spanish Canonist in Post-Reformation Rome: Francisco Peña between National Interests and Universal Authority

11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:15 a.m.

Session II: The View from England, I
Chair: Debora Shuger, University of California, Los Angeles

Alexander Samson, University College London
Marian Origins of the Black Legend

Roland Greene, Stanford University
The Habsburg and Tudor Poetic Machines

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:45 p.m.

Session III: The View from England, II
Chair: Anthony Pagden, University of California, Los Angeles

Eric Griffin, Millsaps College
Copying “the Anti-Spaniard”: Post-Armada Hispanophobia and English Renaissance Drama

William Goldman, Ahmanson Getty Fellow
Seeing Spain through Darkened Eyes: The Black Legend and Cornwallis’ Mission to Spain, 1605-1609

3:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

3:15 p.m.

Session IV: Black Legends across the Atlantic
Chair: Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles

Peter Arnade, California State University, San Marcos
Spanish Furies in the Dutch Republican and Imperial Imagination

Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania
Catholic Cruelty and Indian Savagery Compared: Images of War and Terror from the Eighty Years War to the Seven Years War

Robert Maniquis, University of California, Los Angeles
The Poetics of Extermination : Caesar, the Black Legend, and the French Revolution

5:00 p.m.

Reception