CONF: Exploring cultural history (Cambridge, 10-12 may 07)

EXPLORING CULTURAL HISTORY
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF PETER BURKE
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 10-12 May 2007

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars_events/conferences/programme.pdf

THURSDAY 10 MAY

2-2.25 REGISTRATION
2.20 INTRODUCTION

2.30-4 RECONSIDERING POPULAR CULTURE
• Peter Stallybrass (Pennsylvania), ‘Printing, Crowds, and Petitioning in
Seventeenth-Century England’
• Clare O’Halloran (University College, Cork), ‘From Antiquarian to
Popular Culture: the Irish Historical Imagination in Fiction, Poetry and
Political Discourse, 1806-1848’
• David Hopkins (Hertford College, Oxford), ‘Ecotypes: a Concept Between
Folklore and History’
Chair: Malcolm Gaskill (Churchill College, Cambridge)

4-4.30 TEA

4.30-6 THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF IMAGES
• Nicole Hochner (Jerusalem), ‘Fabrication or Bricolage? King Louis XII's
Images’
• Helen Hills (York), ‘How To Look Like a Counter-Reformation Saint’
• Herman Roodenburg (Meertens, Amsterdam), ‘The burgher as art or, how
bourgeois was the
seventeenth-century Dutch elite?’
Chair: Ivan Gaskell (Harvard)

6-6.30 Discussion

FRIDAY 11 MAY

9-10.30 CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 1
• Alessandro Arcangeli (Verona), ‘Dancing Savages: Stereotypes and
Cultural Encounters in the Age of Discoveries’
• Johan Verberckmoes (Leuven), ‘There Once Was in Brazil... Jests and
Intercultural Contacts in the Early Modern World’
• Angel Gurria-Quintana, ‘Peter Burke and Brazil: A Mutual Discovery’
Chair: Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College, London)

10.30-11 TEA

11-12.30 CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 2
• David Gentilcore (Leicester), ‘Strange and Horrible Things': the Tomato
>from Curiosity to Condiment in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italy’
• Maria Fusaro (Exeter), ‘Empires and Trade in the Early Modern
Mediterranean: A Cultural Approach’
• Nicholas Dew (McGill), ‘Travel, Knowledge, and the Sun King’
Chair: Joan Pau Rubiés (London School of Economics)

12.30-1 Discussion

1-2 LUNCH

2-3.30 EXCEPTIONAL IDENTITIES? CRIMINALS, WITCHES, SAINTS
• Carmel Cassar (Malta), ‘Monks of Honour: The Knights of Malta and
Criminal Behaviour in Early Modern Rome’
• Gábor Klaniczay (Collegium Budapest), ‘The Cultural History of Witchcraft’
• Thomas Worcester (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA), ‘Saints as
Cultural History’
Chair: Mary Laven (Jesus College, Cambridge)

4-5.30 BETWEEN COURT AND CITY
• Rudolf Dekker (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) and Lotte van de Pol
(Utrecht and Freie
Universität, Berlin), ‘Court Diaries Written in a Republic: the
Netherlands 17th-18th centuries’
• Maria José Del Rio (Universidad Autónoma, Madrid), ‘Political and
religious ritual in 17th century Madrid’
• Gabriel Guarino (Haifa), ‘The Reception of Spanishness in Habsburg
Naples: A Reassessment’
Chair: Melissa Calaresu (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

5.30-6 Discussion

SATURDAY 12 MAY

9-10 COMMUNICATION AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF POLITICS 1
• Partel Piirimae (Cambridge), ‘War and polemics in early modern Europe’
• Joanna Kostylo (Cambridge), ‘The Saints Go East: Italian Exile and
Propaganda on the Eastern Brinks of Western Christendom’
Chair: Ulinka Rublack (Saint John’s College, Cambridge)

10.30-11 TEA

11-12.30 COMMUNICATION AND THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF POLITICS 2
• Jacob Soll (Rutgers Camden), ‘Peter Burke and the Study of Learned
Practice: From
Tacitism and Reason of State to Colbert and the History of Information’
• Daniela Hacke (Zürich), ‘Communication and Conflict: Religious
Co-Existence and Political
Negotiations in the 17th c. County of Baden (Switzerland)’
• Silje Normand (Cambridge), ‘Venomous Words and Political Poisons:
Language(s) of Exclusion
in Early Modern France’
Chair: Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck College, London)
12-12.30 Discussion

12.30-1 PETER BURKE’S RESPONSE

1-2 LUNCH

The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Academy
and of the Trevelyan Fund of the History Faculty of the University of
Cambridge for their generous support, and of Gonville and Caius College
for kindly hosting the conference.
To register in advance for the conference (particularly if you want lunch
on Friday/Saturday), please contact Alex Bamji (aeb34cam.ac.uk). A charge
will apply for participants other than speakers, chairs, and Caius
students: £3.50 for tea/coffee and £12 for lunch.

For more information, please contact the organisers:
Melissa Calaresu, mtc12cam.ac.uk
Filippo de Vivo, f.de-vivobbk.ac.uk
Joan-Pau Rubiés, j.p.rubieslse.ac.uk