Imperial Models in the Early Modern World
Directed by
Directed by Anthony Pagden, History and Political Science, UCLA,
and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, History, UCLA

Empires have been the focus of ever-increasing intellectual interest in the past few years, and the reasons for this are not far to seek. Our own participation in a number of discussions on this theme, most of which have centered on quite recent experiences, have usually led to the inevitable question of a future American imperial destiny or its absence. The purpose of our core program is to turn our attention away from the crystal ball and instead focus centrally on the empires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while looking both to their antecedents and their legacies. Three issues seem to be central for our purposes, and we shall address each of them over the course of the year, in the hope of allowing a conversation to emerge between scholars of different parts of the world (and more particularly Europe, America and Asia) who work on the period between the 1600 and 1800. The three issues that we shall consider are as follows:

1. The ‘synchronic’ problem, namely how to reconcile the very different trajectories followed by societies in Asia and America, in the face of empire-building projects. Here our interest is not merely in comparisons but in complex connections. We understand the early modern period to be an epoch of inter-imperial political struggles on a global scale, but also of imitation and symbolic competition.

2. The ‘diachronic’ problem, namely the conceptual relationship between the empires of the early modern period, and those of both the earlier and the later periods. The first part of this concerns the classical legacy, as it was read and understood by the empires of the early modern period. The Spaniards looked to Rome, the Portuguese episodically to the Phoenicians, the Mughals and the Safavids to the Sassanians, and the Ming and Ching to the great Chinese empires of the classical era.

3. The second part of our diachronic reflection will include the relationship between the Iberian and other early modern empires and those of France and Great Britain, as also the problem of the complex passage from empires to nation-states, and the consequent reflection on the ‘modernity’ or ‘archaism’ of empires themselves as a political form.

Our own interests range broadly, from the Habsburgs and the Mughals, to the Ottomans, the Safavids, the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the British. However, we welcome reflections on other cases – whether in China or Africa – where we have no direct expertise. Our hope is to be able to produce at least one substantial volume of reflections from the papers that will be presented in the workshops and other meetings held this year.

Academic and Public Programs,

2006-2007

Unless otherwise noted, all programs will be held at the
Clark Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. 

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October 15, 2006 2.00pm

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Alan Gampel

October 27-28, 2006

Musical Theater and Identity in Eighteenth-Century
Spain and America

November 3-4, 2006

Imperial Models in the Early Modern World - Part 1
Imperial Models and "Translatio imperii":
Rethinking the Early Modern World

November 19, 2006 2.00pm

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Vogler Quartet

Saturday, December 2, 2006
2:00pm

“Poetry Afternoons at the Clark”
presents

2 x 2 = Poetry

January 19-20, 2007

The Self-Perception of Early Modern “Capitalists”

January 28, 2007 2.00pm

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The Boston Trio

Natalia Prischepenko, violin
Heime Müller, violin
Volker Jacobsen, viola
Eckart Runge, cello

Berlin-based Artemis Quartet formed in 1989 at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany, and has grown to become one of the most renowned ensembles of its kind in all of Europe. Among their many awards are the 1996 Munich Competition, the 1997 Borciani Competition, and the 2006 ECHO Klassik Prize from the German Phonographic Academy. Artemis was also the first quartet ever to be awarded the prestigious Music Prize of the Association of German Critics, which they received in 2001.

From its inception, the Quartet has valued collaboration with other musicians. Regular partners include Sabine Meyer, Elisabeth Leonskaja, David Geringas, Juliane Banse, and Leif Ove Andsnes. The Quartet's development has also been influenced by its interest in new music and its alliance with contemporary composers. During the 2004-2005 season, for example, Artemis performed two world premieres of compositions commissioned from Mauricio Sotelos and Jorg Widmanns.

In 2005 the Artemis Quartet signed an exclusive recording contract with Virgin Classics/EMI, which will create at least ten new releases by 2010. The first of these, in October 2005, was a re-release of the Ligeti String Quartets and a new recording of the Beethoven Quartets Opus 59, Number 1 and Opus 95. March 2006 saw the release of the String Sextets of Schoenberg, Berg, and Strauss, featuring the performances by Valentin Erben and the late Thomas Kakuska.

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Anton Webern
Langsamer Satz

Ludwig van Beethoven
Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2

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Arnold Schoenberg
Quartet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 7

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Reservation forms must be postmarked or hand delivered to the Center no later than January 22, 2007. Admission: $75 per person, $50 of which is tax-deductible

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a conference at the Clark Library directed by
Anthony Pagden and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Center and Clark Professors, 2006-07

All empires, in both Europe in Asia, have seen themselves as a long series of “translations” in which power and legitimacy were conveyed from one generation to the next and from one people to another. Every imperial power has attempted to model itself on one or another, real or imagined predecessors. The empire of the Spanish Habsburgs was the successor state to the (western) Roman Empire; the Ottomans described themselves as the successors of both the Byzantine emperors and later the Caliphs. The political, cultural and ideological conception of empire from antiquity until the nineteenth century was always, in this way, deeply mimetic.

Empires differ from “normal” states in terms of their scale, but also their degree of diversity. This diversity could be ethnic, religious, racial, or defined in a number of other ways. Above all, this conference will focus on the ethnic and religious dimensions and ask what forms of solutions, both institutional and ideological, were found by empires in the early modern period to deal with the problem of managing difference. These solutions could at times be radical, as with the expulsion of the Jews and Muslims from Iberia, though even that process involved some degree of assimilation of populations. We are also aware that early modern empires sometimes prided themselves on their high degree of tolerance, as was the case with the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire, and contrasted themselves self-consciously with their neighbors who they imagined were less so. To this extent, the comparative dimensions of the question of “management of difference” already have a history that takes us back to the period of the empires themselves.

The purpose of this conference will be to reflect on the diversity of experiences, ranging potentially from the Qing (who consciously adopted a policy with respect to the preservation of Manchu identity), to the Ottomans (who used the devshirme system to create an acculturated elite), to a variety of other cases, from the Americas to the range of Eurasian experiences. Ideological questions will be as much the focus as concrete institutional arrangements, and the grids of categories that were used to define difference in relation to the process of managing it, will be one of the central themes.

Registration deadline— February 2, 2007
Registration fees—UC faculty, staff & students with ID: no charge;* others: $25.

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance. Lunch and other refreshments are provided.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

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This lecture will propose a reappraisal of the memoir Diderot wrote in the fall of 1763 on behalf of the Parisian Communauté des Libraires worried about the possible elimination of the traditional privilèges de librairie which they believed should grant them an exclusive and renewable right to publish works acquired from their authors. Diderot made profit of this commission for investing with new content the existing institutions he was supposed to defend: the privilège was transformed into literary property, and the system of permissions granted by the monarchical authorities into freedom of the press. The lecture will focus on Diderot's argumentation for subsuming the royal privilège under the logic of private contract and for founding the author's ownership of his or her work on the recognition of the perpetual property of its publisher. What is at stake in such a perspective is both the definition of the book (as material object and as discourse), the nature of literary property (which protects the work in its immaterial existence), and the conception of literature, understood as an irreducibly singular expression of the author's thoughts and feelings. Diderot's memoir affords us an opportunity to look back on the fundamental tension between the materiality of texts and the immateriality of works. It also allows us to measure more adequately the challenge launched by the electronic textuality to the notions framed in the eighteenth century for affirming the sovereignty of the authors over their works and the copyright of their publishers.

Roger Chartier, born in Lyon in 1945, is Professor at the Collège de France and Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Since 2001 he has been the Annenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His field of research is the history of the book and written culture in Early Modern Europe. His main publications in English are: The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France (Princeton University Press, 1987), Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1988), The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (Duke University Press, 1991), The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 1994), Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language, and Practices (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), The Panizzi Lectures 1998: Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe, (The British Library, 1999), and I/nscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

Established by Kenneth Karmiole, a Santa Monica antiquarian bookseller, the annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade will focus on the book trade in England and Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Clark’s growing collection of materials relating to the collecting, publishing, and dissemination of books in the early modern period make this series particularly appropriate. Ken Karmiole has run his own rare book business in Los Angeles since 1976, and is a highly respected member of the book trade. The Center and the Clark are deeply grateful to Ken for this gift, and for the expression of faith in our programs and collections that it represents.

Admission is complimentary, but limited space at the Clark makes advance registration necessary.

Please return a completed registration form by Monday, February 19, to the

UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
310 Royce Hall
Box 951404
Los Angeles, California 90095-1404

Registration deadline— February 19, 2007

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Andrea Vio, violin
Alberto Battiston, violin
Luca Morassutti, viola
Angelo Zanin, cello

The Quartetto di Venezia was founded more than twenty years ago by four musicians with a common musical vision, and throughout its history these same artists have concentrated on the qualities of sonority, balance, and technique that give this ensemble its distinctively Italian charm and flair.

Their artistic training was influenced by two important schools of quartet interpretation: the famous Quartetto Italiano, under the guidance of Piero Farulli at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena, where the Quartet was awarded the prestigious Diploma d'Onore; and the central European school of the renowned Vegh Quartet through their work with Sandor Vegh and Paul Szabo.

In addition to annual appearances throughout Italy, the Quartet has toured extensively in Europe and the United States, and performed in Canada, Latin America, Japan and Korea. The ensemble has had the honor of playing for the late Pope John Paul II, the President of the Italian Republic, and most recently in a private concert for the president of the European Union.

The Quartetto di Venezia has been broadcast on Italian State Television and on WQXR in New York. Its extensive discography includes recordings for Dynamic, Koch, Ermitage, Hommage, Aura, Musical Heritage Society, Fonit Cetra, CD Classic and UNICEF. The Quartetto’s collaborations include Lukas Foss, Claus-Christian Schuster, Michele Campanella, Pietro de Maria, Paul Szabo, Alirio Diaz, Oscar Ghiglia, Emanuele Segre, Karl Leister, Leyla Gencer, Martin Hornstein, Danilo Rossi, and Alessandro Specchi.

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Große Fuge in B-flat Major, Op. 133

Geoffredo Petrassi
Quattro Odi (1973-75)

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Edvard Grieg
Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27

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Reservation lottery submission deadline: February 5th, 2007.
Admission: $25 per person

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Jan Talich, Jr., violin
Petr Macecek, violin
Vladimir Bukac, viola
Petr Prause, cello

The Talich Quartet was founded in 1964 by Jan Talich during his studies at the Prague Conservatory, and named for his uncle Vaclav Talich, the renowned chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic. Beginning in the early 1990s, the Quartet began a gradual and complete change in personnel, ultimately rejuvenating the Quartet while continuing its tradition of involvement in a wide spectrum of musical engagements and recording activities. Jan Talich Jr., the current first violinist, is the son of the Quartet’s founder.

For several decades, the Talich Quartet has been recognized internationally as one of Europe’s finest chamber ensembles. They are regularly invited to prestigious chamber music festivals including the Prague Spring Music Festival, the Printemps des Arts in Monte Carlo, and the International String Quartet Festival in Ottawa. They have made frequent visits to such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall, le Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, and London’s Wigmore Hall. Highlights of the 2005-2006 concert season included appearances in Rome, Boogna, Paris, Prague, Dresden and Rotterdam; extensive tours of the United Kingdom, Spain, and Japan; and the Quartet’s 13th tour of North America.

The Talich’s recordings of the complete string quartets by Felix Mendelssohn, released on the Calliope label between 2001and 2004, have been widely praised. Other recent recordings include, also for Calliope, Dvorak’s “American” quartet and viola quintet (2003), Smetana’s two string quartets (2003), and the soon-to-be-released Janáček quartets in celebration of the “Year of Czech Music.”

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 458

Dmitri Shostakovich
Quartet No. 14 in F Major, Op. 142

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Johannes Brahms
Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2

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Reservation lottery submission deadline: February 20th, 2007.
Admission: $25 per person

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Daniel Chong, violin
Karen Kim, violin
Jessica Bodner, viola
Kee-Hyun Kim, cello

Founded in 2002 while its members were students at the New England Conservatory, the Parker String Quartet has already established itself as a dynamic young chamber ensemble having won numerous prizes, including the 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York, and the Mozart Prize at the 2005 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France.

Beginning with the 2005-06 season, the Quartet has embarked on extensive and critically acclaimed tours of North America and Europe, including widely praised debuts at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. Last summer they participated in the prestigious ProQuartet program in France, and were invited to work with the Arditti Quartet at the Blonay Music Institute in Switzerland.

The Quartet recorded its first CD in June 2006 for the Zig Zag label, featuring Bartok’s String Quartets Nos. 2 and 5. Later this year they will record the string quartets of György Ligeti for NAXOS.

This concert is made possible by the generous support of The Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles.

The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

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Joseph Haydn
Quartet in G minor, Op. 74, No. 3 “Reiter”

György Ligeti
Quartet No. 1 “Métamorphoses Nocturnes”

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Anton Webern
Five Movements Op. 5

Ludwig van Beethoven
Quartet in F Major, Op. 135

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Reservation lottery submission deadline: March 5th, 2007.
Admission: $25 per person

Reservation by lottery form.

For an explanation of the reservations lottery system, to access printable reservation-by-lottery forms for upcoming concerts, and for direct links to the ensembles' home pages, please see Music Programs, 2006–07.

a conference at the Clark Library directed by
Anthony Pagden and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Center and Clark Professors, 2006-07

Our first conference in part looked back to see how the early modern empires of Europe and Asia borrowed from the empires of the past. Our second examined the ways in which empires managed the sometimes stark differences between their various subject peoples. This final conference will look forward to see how the empires of the nineteenth, twentieth, and even twenty-first centuries, represent continuity, or a discontinuity with the empires of the early-modern world. By the end of the eighteenth century, two of the major imperial European powers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spain and Portugal were in eclipse. France had lost nearly all its possessions in America and India. The Ottomans were in retreat. The Mughal Empire had become in effect a dependency of the East India Company. New imperial and would-be imperial powers now began to appear: Russia which now had the largest land empire in the world, Germany, Japan, post-Napoleonic France, and, of course, the United States. And by the early nineteenth century, Britain, after the loss of much of North America embarked on an aggressive new imperial phase; so, too, did France. It has often been claimed that these new empires were wholly unlike their predecessors. But were they, and if they were, in what ways were they different? Was, for instance, the rise of nationalism after the Congress of Vienna responsible for the creation of entirely new imperial practices, and quite distinct imperial cultures? How, indeed, was the concept of the ‘nation-state” shaped by the evolution or collapse of the older imperial states? Or was there in fact considerably continuity between the first and second phases of European empire-building? Did international commerce, for so long believed to be a possible alternative to expansion, now become merely another form of imperial belligerency? How much did the process of what the British called “indirect rule” and the French “politique des races” really differ from previous understandings of imperial sovereignty?

These are just some of the questions which this conference will attempt to answer. If the current debate over the role of “empire” and “imperialism” in the modern world is to have any meaning, we have to look beyond easy slogans and the simplistic analogies between past and present. Empires, however we define them, have, in one form or another, been with us far longer than any other kind of political society. They are now, almost certainly things of the past. But if we are to understand the ways in which they have, shaped the post-colonial, post-imperial world, we have also to understand their very long varied and complex histories.

Registration deadline— April 20, 2007
Registration fees—UC faculty, staff & students with ID: no charge;* others: $25.

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance. Lunch and other refreshments are provided.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

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Pascal Rogé, Piano
Antonio Lysy, Cello

Pianist Pascal Rogé became an exclusive Decca artist at the age of seventeen. Since then, he has received numerous prestigious honors including two Gramophone Awards, a Grand Prix du Disque and an Edison Award for his interpretations of the concerti of Ravel and Saint-Saëns.

In 1974, Mr. Rogé made his United States debut and since then has returned almost every season, appearing in both recital and concert, most notably with the orchestras of Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Seattle and St. Louis. In 2006, he joined the Pacific Symphony and Maestro St. Clair in their first European tour. He has also made extended recital and chamber music tours of New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. In 2005 he became Artistic Director of the chamber music festival, La Foce, in Tuscany.

Cellist Antonio Lysy has performed as a soloist worldwide, in major concert halls including the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Berlin Philharmonie and has appeared as a soloist with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic of London, Camerata Academica of Salzburg, and in Canada with the Montreal and Toronto, Symphony Orchestras. He has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yuri Temirkanov, Charles Dutoit, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Sandor Vegh and Kees Bakels.

In addition to his concert career, Antonio Lysy was, for a number of years, professor at McGill University in Montreal, and visiting professor at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland. In 2003 he accepted a professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles.

This concert is made possible by the generous support of the Edmund D. Edelman Foundation for Music and the Performing Arts.

The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. s.

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Franz Schubert
“Arpeggione” Sonata in A Minor for Cello and Piano

Ástor Piazzolla
Le Grand Tango for Cello and Piano

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Frederic Chopin
Sonata for Cello and Piano Op.65 in G Minor

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Reservation lottery submission deadline: April 2nd
Admission: $25 per person

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For an explanation of the reservations lottery system, to access printable reservation-by-lottery forms for upcoming concerts, and for direct links to the ensembles' home pages, please see Music Programs, 2006–07.

a conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

in Los Angeles, California.

directed by
Robert Maniquis, UCLA and Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University

Because of the ground-breaking studies of the 1980s, William Godwin’s Enquiry concerning Political Justice has become of one the most important texts for charting transitions and continuities between the British Enlightenment and the Romantic era. Recent scholars have taken the Enquiry beyond the task of delineating Godwin’s political-philosophical system—beyond proving that he indeed had a rational system—and have begun to show how his later texts rethought an Enlightenment project that the Enquiry had already reconfigured. Current work has begun more detailed analysis of Godwin’s entire fictional oeuvre, as well as more careful interpretation and evaluation of his educational tracts, histories, dramas, and writings for children. Now the object of scholars equipped with a variety of theoretical, critical, and textual practices, Godwin is emerging a different and even richer index to the intellectual changes rung upon the British Enlightenment.

The current publishing environment has been hospitable to this extension of Godwin studies. Besides bringing Godwin’s various works back into print, scholars (including participants in the conference) are now editing both his diaries and his letters. This effort has continued to show how central Godwin is to understanding the transformations of Enlightenment through eighteenth-century Dissent and to picturing the various elements in London publishing and coterie culture; it also promises to penetrate below the stereotyped Godwinian surface, bringing into play details of his private community on the one hand and his active outreach beyond England on the other hand, thus enriching our sense of eighteenth-century family and cosmopolis. This conference emphasizes transitions from eighteenth-century styles of thought to new categories and configurations triggered by the challenge of revolution and reaction. Participants will uncover various connections between Godwin’s work and concerns about marriage, family, and childhood; Rosseauvian vs. Dissenting theories of education; the advent of the historical novel; economic tropes and realities; and transformations of rhetoric and oratory.

Registration deadline— April 27, 2007
Registration fees—UC faculty, staff & students with ID: no charge;* others: $25.

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance. Lunch and other refreshments are provided.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

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a conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

in Los Angeles, California.

directed by
Lowell Gallagher, UCLA

This conference will investigate the imaginative, social and literary resources of English Catholic diaspora populations in the early modern period. The forum will also take stock of recent efforts to reevaluate the place of English Catholic authors in the literary canon of the English Renaissance. More broadly, the forum will address the critical legacy of problems associated with early modern cultures of English Catholicism, problems that are being voiced with new accents in contemporary concerns of political and ethical theory: Who counts, finally, as my neighbor? How can the ethical being of cultural “others” be recognized and valued outside the normative dyad of sameness and difference?

By addressing the nexus of social, political, religious, theological, and literary discourses through which early modern Catholic identities were negotiated, the symposium aims to enhance scholarly purchase on lost or forgotten aspects of the rich texture of the experience of scattered Catholic communities within English literary tradition and political cultures; and it will promote channels of communication between early modern cultural studies of religion, current debates over the effects of secularization, and changing notions of the sacred vis-à-vis religious identity and practice in an era of globalization.

Registration deadline— May 11, 2007
Registration fees—UC faculty, staff & students with ID: no charge;* others: $25.

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance. Lunch and other refreshments are provided.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

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