The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe
October 7-8, 2011, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Levis Faculty Center
October 7 Friday
8:00-9:00 Breakfast and registration (Main Second Floor)
9:00 Welcome Address (Third Floor)
Diane Musumeci, Acting Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Abbas Benmamoun, Director, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
9:30-10:30 Keynote I (Third Floor)
Roberto M. Dainotto (Romance Studies, Duke)
Introduced by Emanuel Rota (UIUC)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break (Main Second Floor)
10:45-12:30
Panel 1A. Orientalism and the Idea of Europe I (Third Floor)
Chair: Carol Symes (UIUC)
Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of Helsinki). “In the Company of Franks: Early modern ‘European’ identities and English travelers in the Ottoman Empire c. 1600”
Raúl Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota). “Law and Orientalism in the Spanish Empire: Relación del origen y suceso de los xarifes y del estado de los reinos de Marruecos, Fez y Tarudante by Diego de Torres (ca.1575)”
Toby Erik Wikström (Tulane University). “Was There a Pan-European Orientalism? Comparing the Representation of Islam in Captivity Narratives from Iceland and the Spanish Netherlands (1628-1656)”
Panel 1B. Orientalizing Humanists (Music Room)
Chair: Eleonora Stoppino (UIUC)
Seth Kimmel (Stanford University). “Reading with Arabic in Early Modern Europe”
Javier Irigoyen-García (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). “Defining Moorish and Classic in the Early Modern Spanish Mediterranean”
12:30-2:30 Lunch for conference participants and registrants (Main Second Floor)
2:30-4:00
Panel 2A. Orientalism and the Idea of Europe II (Third Floor)
Chair: Mara Wade (UIUC)
Aigi Heero and Maris Saagpakk (Tallinn University). “Adam Olearius’ Journey between Occident and Orient”
Craig M. Koslofsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). “Moors, Blacks, and Germans in Otto Friedrich von der Groebeni’s Orientalische Reise-Beschreibung (1694) and Des edlen Bergone (1700)”
Panel 2B. Orientalism’s Genders (Music Room)
Chair: Stephanie M. Hilger (UIUC)
Lori H. Newcomb (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). “Lady Mary Wroth’s Global Romance and the Traffic in Fashion”
David Moberly (University of Minnesota). “Mediterranean Piracy and the Female Captivity Experience in Early Modern Literature”
4:00-4:30 Coffee break (Main Second Floor)
4:30-5:30 Keynote II (Third Floor)
Barbara Fuchs (Spanish and English, UCLA)
Introduced by L. Elena Delgado (UIUC)
5:30 Reception (Main Second Floor)
October 8 Saturday
8:30-9:30 Breakfast and registration (Main Second Floor)
9:30-11:15
Panel 3A. Continent vs. Empire: Europe’s Ottomans (Third Floor)
Chair: Valerie Hoffman (UIUC)
Natalio Ohanna (Western Michigan University). “The Invention of Europe and the Intellectual Struggle for Political Imagination”
Marcus Keller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). “Europe, France, and the Ottoman Empire in the Essais: Montaigne’s Dialectics”
Heather Madar (Humboldt State University). “Victor, Vanquished and Victim: Vienna, Tunis and the Representation of European-Ottoman Conflict”
Panel 3B. Empire and Its Orients (Music Room)
Chair: Mariselle Meléndez (UIUC)
José Luis Gasch Tomás and Natalia Maillard Álvarez (European University Institute, Florence). “Discourses and Images of the Orients in the Hispanic Empire, New Spain and Castile, 1550-1650”
Adam G. Beaver (Princeton University). “Pietro Martire in the Levant: Orientalism in the Age of Spanish Empire”
Ana María Rodríguez-Rodríguez (University of Iowa). “Mapping Islam in the Philippines: Moro Anxieties of the Spanish Empire in the Pacific”
11:15-11:30 Coffee break (Main Second Floor)
11:30-12:30 Keynote III (Third Floor)
Nabil Matar (English and History, U of Minnesota)
“In Their Own Words: Eastern Christians of the Ottoman Empire”
Introduced by Waïl S. Hassan (UIUC)
12:30-2:00 Lunch for conference participants and registrants (Main Second Floor)
2:00-3:45
Panel 4A. Dialectical Visualizations of the Orient (Third Floor)
Chair: David J. O'Brien (UIUC)
Lisa Rosenthal (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). “Amazon Battle and the Construction of the Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Painting Canon”
Opher Mansour (University of Hong Kong). “Popes and Persians in the Sala Regia of the Quirinal Palace”
Lydia M. Soo (University of Michigan). “The Architectural Setting of ‘Empire’: the English experience of Ottoman spectacle in the late 17th century and its consequences”
Panel 4B. Religion and the Shaping of Ethnicity I (Music Room)
Chair: Catharine Gray (UIUC)
Kaya Şahin (Tulane University). “Between Humanist Ideals and Political Pragmatism: Busbecq’s Ottoman Missions (1554-1562)”
José Alberto R. Silva Tavim (Centro de Estudos Africanos e Asiáticos do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon). “The Grão-Turco and the Jews: translation to the West of two Oriental ‘powers’ (XVI-XVII centuries)”
3:45-4:15 Coffee break (First Floor)
4:15-5:30
Panel 5A. Mediterranean Captivities (Third Floor)
Chair: Laurence Mall (UIUC)
María Antonia Garcés (Cornell University). “Captive, Spy, Ethnographer: Antonio de Sosa in Algiers”
Oumelbanine Zhiri (University of California-San Diego). “Bodies and Souls: European Captives in North Africa”
Panel 5B. Religion and the Shaping of Ethnicity II (Music Room)
Chair: Carl Niekerk (UIUC)
Karoline P. Cook (UIUC). “Contesting ‘Morisco’ in the Courtroom: Religious Identity, Lineage, and Honor in an Encomienda Dispute in New Granada”
Robyn Radway (Rutgers University). “Representing the Christians of Ottoman Europe: Self, Other, and the In-between in Costume Books of the Sixteenth Century”
5:30 Closing remarks (Third Floor)