EARLY MODERN TRANS-ATLANTIC ENCOUNTERS:
ENGLAND, SPAIN, AND THE AMERICAS
Conference Organizer
Martin Elsky (The Graduate School and Brooklyn College,
CUNY)
Organizing
Committee
Raquel Chang-Rodriguez (The Graduate School and The City College,
CUNY)
Richard McCoy (The Graduate School and Queens College, CUNY)
Fred Purnell (The Graduate
School and Queens College, CUNY)
Teofilo Ruiz (The Graduate School and Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Thurs, March 6, 1997
The Spanish Institute
684 Park Avenue
Between 68-69 Streets
New York, NY 10021
CULTURAL APPROPRIATIONS: EUROPEANS AND INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES
4:00-5:20pm
Chair: Eloise Quinones Keber (The Graduate School and Baruch College,
CUNY)
Karen Ordahl Kupperman (New York University)
"Manipulating Perceptions on Both Sides of the Indian-English Encounter"
Dana Leibsohn (Smith College)
"Quipus, Knotted Ropes, and Rosaries: Cultural Entanglement in
Spanish America"
5:30-7:00pm
Chair: Isaias Lerner (The Graduate School, CUNY)
Sabine MacCormack (University of Michigan, and Visiting Mellon Professor at the School of Historical Studies,
Institute for Advanvced Study, Princeton)
"Language and History in the Early Modern Spanish Empire"
Reception
Fri, March 7, 1997
Proschansky Auditorium
The CUNY Graduate School
33 West 42 Street
New York, NY 10036
THE NEW WORLD AND THE PROBLEM OF UNIVERSALS
12:30-1:50pm
Chair: Clare Carroll (The Graduate School and Queens College)
David Armitage (Columbia University)
"Sacred Geography: Protestant Particularism and the Origins of the British Empire"
Thomas Cummins (University of Chicago) and Joanne Rappaport ()
"Between Images and Writing: The Ritual of the King's Quilca"
2:00-3:30pm
Chair: Margaret King (CUNY Graduate School and Brooklyn College)
Anthony Pagden (Cambridge University)
"`Shadows of an Unquiet Sleep': America and the Conflicting Discourses
of European Universalism"
Fri, March 7, 1997
The New-York Historical Society
2 West 77 Street
At Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
THE RHETORIC OF NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS
4:30-5:50pm
Chair:Raquel Chang-Rodriguez (CUNY Graduate School and City College)
Enrique Pupo-Walker (Vanderbilt University)
"Rhetoric, Geography, and Legend in La
Florida by Garcilaso de la Vega, Inca"
Myra Jehlen (Rutgers University)
"Transatlanticism Then and Now: The Case of Amerigo
Vespucci's Mondus Novus
6:00-7:30pm
Chair: Joseph Wittreich (CUNY Graduate School)
Sacvan Bercovitch (Harvard University)
"A Model of Cultural Transvaluation: Puritanism, Modernity, and New World Rhetoric"
Reception
This conference has been coordinated with the following
related events:
Spring 1997
Graduate Colloquium:"Early Modern Trans-Atlantic Encounters", CUNY Graduate School, Tues 4:15-
6:15
March 1-May 30, 1997
Exhibit at
The Hispanic Society of America
613 West 155 Street
New York, NY 10032
"Defining the Americas: Accounts and Images of Latin America from the European Encounter
Through Independence"
March 4, 1997
The John Carter Brown Library
Box 1894
Providence, RI 02912
Lecture by Anthony Pagden on Europe and the Americas
April 3-5, 1995
RSA 1997 ProgramCUNY Renaissance Studies Panel: "Early Modern Trans-Atlantic Encounters II"
Chair: Martin Elsky (CUNY Graduate School and Brooklyn College)
David Quint (Yale University), "The Newness of the New World in Sixteenth-Century
Italian Thought"
Steven Mullaney (University of Michigan), "Imaginary Conquests: European Visual Technologies
and the Colonization of the New World Mind"
Rolena Adorno (Yale University), "The Exemplary tale of Gonzalo Guerrero"
1997-1998
Folger Institute
Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC
Seminar: Trans-Atlantic Connections
Seminar Leader: Karen Ordahl Kupperman (New York University)
For further information, contact Martin Elsky, Coordinator
Renaissance Studies Program, CUNY Graduate School. Phone: 212-642-2243;
e-mail: melsky@email.gc.cuny.edu.