Schedule of Events 










Thursday Evening
March 6, 1997


The Spanish Institute
	
684 Park Avenue (btwn 68th and 69th St)
	
New York City


Cultural Appropriations: Europeans and Indigenous Peoples




Friday Afternoon
March 7, 1997


Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium
	
CUNY Graduate School and University Center
	
33 W 42nd Street
	
New York City


The New World and the Problem of Universals


Friday Evening
March 7, 1997


The New York Historical Society
	2 West 77th Street
	
at Central Park West
	New York City



The Rhetoric of New World Encounters


















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"


	

	

	





























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 and	
Joanne Rappaport
 	
	(University of Chicago) and (Georgetown University)
	
	"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
	
	(John Hopkins University)
	
	"'Shadows of an Unquiet Sleep': America and the Conflicting Discourses 	
	of European Universalism"


			
	

	



























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: 
William Kelly
 	
	(CUNY Graduate School and Queens College)


Sacvan Bercovitch
 	
	(Harvard University)
	
	"A Model of Cultural Transvaluation: Puritanism, Modernity, 	
	and New World Rhetoric"


Reception

We would like to thank the following organizations for their generous sponsorship
of this reception. 




The Brown-Forman Beverages Worldwide Wine Group,

CIV USA, 

and

Solera Restaurant, 

216 E 53 St (212-644-1166) 



			
	

	














For further information, contact:
 
Martin Elsky, Coordinator

Renaissance Studies Program,

CUNY Graduate School. 
Phone: 212-642-2243; 


e-mail: melsky@email.gc.cuny.edu