Date/Time
Friday, April 13, 2018
10:00 am – 4:45 pm
Location
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
—a conference organized by Sebouh D. Aslanian, University of California, Los Angeles; Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; and Naomi Taback, Temple University
In Honor of Margaret Jacob
The conference brings together scholars working on novel forms of knowledge and identity forged during the early modern age at the confluence of increasing mobility both in Europe and the larger world beyond. The speakers have worked with some of these insights presaged in Jacob’s scholarship but developed them in their own distinctive fashion to help shape religious, cultural, commercial, and transnational history in the twenty-first century. Rather than looking to celebrate past accomplishments, the conference aims to take stock of present trends in scholarship and suggest new paths for the future.
Job Adriaensz. Berckheijde
The Old Exchange of Amsterdam
Haarlem, circa 1670
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Speakers
Sebouh D. Aslanian, University of California, Los Angeles
Guillaume Calafat, Institute for Advanced Study
Vincenzo Ferrone, University of Turin
Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles
Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Jesse Sadler, Independent Scholar
Catherine Secretan, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Jacob Soll, University of Southern California
Naomi Taback, Temple University
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
9:30 a.m.
Morning Coffee and Registration
10:00 a.m.
Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles
Welcome
Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Opening Remarks
10:30 a.m.
Mobilities and Across Water and Land
Moderator: Deborah Elizabeth Harkness, University of Southern California
Sebouh D. Aslanian, University of California, Los Angeles
“Reverendissimi in Christo Patris: Letters of Recommendation, Networks, and Mobility in the Life of Thomas Vanandets‘i, an Armenian Printer in Amsterdam, 1677–1707″
11:15 a.m.
Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
“Mobility and the Path to the Enlightenment”
12:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
12:15 p.m.
Guillaume Calafat, Institute for Advanced Study
“A Mediterranean Radical Experience? Henry Robinson (1604–1664) and Early Modern Mediterranean Toleration”
1:00 p.m.
Lunch
2:15 p.m.
Cosmopolitans and Urban Spaces
Moderator: David Brafman, Getty Research Institute
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
“‘The Cosmopolitan as a Lived Category’: Reading Margaret Jacob as an Economic Historian”
3:00 p.m.
Jesse Sadler, Independent Scholar
“The Economics and Emotions of Mobility among Early Modern Netherlandish Merchants”
3:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:00 p.m.
Catherine Secretan, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
“Utrecht as a 17th-Century European Intellectual Carrefour: Back and Forth Exchanges between Arminianism and Puritanism”
4:45 p.m.
Reception
After booking Day 1 below please remember to also book your spot for Day 2.