UCLA Center for 17th-&18th- Century Studies

Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Imagining the Mediterranean in Early Modern England
A core program conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library —organized by Clark Professor Barbara Fuchs (UCLA)
Friday, May 4th	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 3—Imagining the Mediterranean in Early Modern England This conference explores how England engages the Mediterranean as conceptual space, and how this engagement intersects with those of other European nations. What role does the representation of Mediterranean empire serve in thinking through England's own expansion? How is the threat of the Mediterranean negotiated in various genres? How has the canon of early modern English writing changed in response to the Mediterranean turn of recent years? Topics will include the geography of revenge tragedy, Iberian tragedies, Shakespeare's Mediterranean, Machiavellianism on stage, Spanish plots and plotting-Spaniards, translation and appropriation.	–Registration form

	Registration Deadline: May 1, 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, May 4th
8:45 a.m.	Registration/Check-In
9:15 a.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles Session I: Genealogies of Modernity Chair: Rebecca Lemon, University of Southern California Jacques Lezra, New York University Dramatic and Civil Logic in the Formation of the European State-Form or, A very short treatise of Piratology Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania The Mediterranean and Maritime Modernity
10:45 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.	Session II: Engaging Others Chair: Jonathan Burton, Whittier College Brian Lockey, St. John's University The Pope's Scholars: Papal Supremacy and the 1579 Student Revolt at the English College in Rome Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota The World through Arab Eyes in the Early Modern Period Daniel Vitkus, Florida State University English Writing, Ottoman Empire: Sex, Commerce, and Religion in the Early Modern Period
12:45 p.m.	Lunch
1:45 p.m.	Session III: Mediterranean Genres I Chair: Debora Shuger, University of California, Los Angeles Emily C. Bartels, Rutgers University The Mediterranean and/as the World Jane Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts Meta-theater and the Mediterranean
3:00 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:15 p.m.	Session IV: Mediterranean Genres II Chair: Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles Walter Cohen, Cornell University Genre and Geography: Shakespeare and Others Emily Weissbourd, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow The Spanish Empire in Webster's Italianate Drama Concluding discussion
5:15 p.m.	Reception