[Hum_Calendar_Events] Conference Announcement: "Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture, Part 2: Sites of Exteriority , " Fri, Nov 30 - Sat, Dec 1

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Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture, Part 2: Sites of Exteriority 

Friday, November 30 - Saturday, December 1

 

In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

 

A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08

 

Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values. 

 

In part 2 of this year-long series, we examine Sites of Exteriority such as gardens, mountains, landscape painting, travels or maps participate in the construction of the self by articulating its relationship to otherness (the sublime, the infinite, imaginary or exotic lands, cosmological representations), as well as a novel way of situating oneself in the world (personal perspective, point of view, exploration, limits). 

 

Forthcoming Programs in the Core Program:

Part 3 - The "Inner Self" - February 22-23, 2008

Part 4 - Spaces of Sacrality - March 14-15, 2008

Part 5 - Family and Work Space - April 25-26, 2008

 

Registration Deadline:  November 21, 2007

 

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form.

Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

To register, please visit:

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#nov30

 

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.

 

Lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.  


 


Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.


 

 

Program Schedule:


 


Friday, November 30

9:30 A.M.         Morning Coffee

 

10:00 A.M.       Peter H. Reill, UCLA

                        Welcome 

 

                        David Sabean, UCLA

                        Opening Remarks

 

Session 1: The Self in the Sovereign's Palace 

 

Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Swarthmore College

Louis XIV's Royal Houses, Wondrous Epics, and the Somatics of Sovereignty

 

Tom Conley, Harvard University

« Ingénieurs du roy, ingénieurs du moi »: Spatial Design of the "Self" after the Age of Henry IV

 

Michel Jeanneret, Johns Hopkins University and Université de Genève

The Grotesque in Versailles: The Return of the Repressed

 

1:00 P.M.          Lunch

 

2:30 P.M.          Session 2: A Natural Self? 

 

William T. Hendel, University of Memphis

The Theatrical Garden in Watelet's Essai sur les jardins (1774): The Natural Self as Actor and Spectator

 

Michael Taormina, Hunter College, CUNY

Saint-Amant's Nature Poetry and the Extravagant Self

 

4:30 P.M.          Reception

 

 

Saturday, December 1

9:30 A.M.         Morning Coffee

 

10:00 A.M.       Session 3: Broader Reaches 

 

Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University

Fashions for the Interstitial: Garden Stories from Beijing and Nagasaki in 1720's London

 

Susan Johnson-Roehr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis: The Mapping of Imperial Subjectivity at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1675-1729

 

Stacey Sloboda, Southern Illinois University

Fashioning Bluestocking Conversation: Elizabeth Montagu's Chinese Room

 

1:00 P.M.          Lunch

 

2:00 P.M.          Session 4: Limits Within and Without

 

Christopher Wild, UCLA

Melancholy and the Cartographic Self

 

Hans Medick, Formerly Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen and Universität Erfurt

The Home Town as Torture Chamber: Spatializations of Self and Perceptions of Violence in Volckmar Happe's Chronicle of the Thirty Years War

 

Michael J. Sauter, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C.

Germans in Space: Astronomy and 'Anthropologie' in the Eighteenth Century

 

Malina Stefanovska, UCLA

Closing Remarks

 

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