Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lectures, 2014–
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12 Mar
Benjamin Franklin’s War on Piracies
- Wednesday, March 12, 2014
- 4:00 pm
- Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
- 245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Mark G. Hanna (UC, San Diego)
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30 Apr
Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: Shakespeare and Cosmopolitanism
- Wednesday, April 30, 2014
- 4:00 pm
- Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
- 245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Valerie Traub (University of Michigan)
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3 Dec
The Richard H. Popkin Papers at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: Modernity and the Discourse on the Origin of Mediterranean Peoples
- Wednesday, December 3, 2014
- 4:00 pm
- Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
- 245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | a lecture by Carlos Cañete (CSIC, Spain)
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18 Feb
The Printer, the Translator, the Scribe, and the Slave Girl: Acculturating the Mukhtar al-Hikam, ca. 1200–ca. 1700
- Wednesday, February 18, 2015
- 4:00 pm
- Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
- 245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Professor A. E. B. Coldiron (Florida State University)
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11 Mar
The Worlds of Spanish Inquisitors
- Wednesday, March 11, 2015
- 4:00 pm
- Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
- 245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Kimberly Lynn (Western Washington University)
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8 Apr
Nature, Culture, and Faith in Translation: Capuchin Missionary Images and Cross-Cultural Knowledge in Kongo and Angola, 1650–1750
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015
- 4:00 pm
- Public Affairs
- 337 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Cécile Fromont (University of Chicago)
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18 Oct
Blackness, Value, and the Shape of Silver “from China to Peru”
- Tuesday, October 18, 2016
- 4:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Chi-ming Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
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11 Jan
The Mobile Artist and the Early Modern Mediterranean Prospect: Guillaume-Joseph Grélot’s Drawings for Ambrosio Bembo (1664–65)
- Wednesday, January 11, 2017
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA)
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8 Mar
Beautiful Blackness: Representing Black Sanctity in the Early Modern Catholic Atlantic
- Wednesday, March 8, 2017
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Erin Kathleen Rowe (Johns Hopkins University)
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13 Apr
Apostasy and Orthodoxy in Ireland, England, and the Hispanic New World: Imperial Circulations of Religious Masculinities
- Thursday, April 13, 2017
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Stephanie Kirk (Washington University in St. Louis)
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25 Oct
Physiognomy, Cosmography, and Other Itchy Pictures: Vexed Viewing in the Early Modern Print
- Wednesday, October 25, 2017
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Stephanie Leitch, Florida State University
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25 Jan
The Invention of Colonial America: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies (1781–1844)
- Thursday, January 25, 2018
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Byron Hamann, The Ohio State University.
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27 Feb
Minority Communities Making Theatre and Performance in Early Modern Italy
- Tuesday, February 27, 2018
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture | given by Erith Jaffe-Berg, UC Riverside.
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22 Oct
“All is well except the women”: Violence, Gender, and Native Women in the La Florida
- Tuesday, October 22, 2019
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside In 1695 a Native woman shocked a Spanish officer with her deeply personal story of loss. She claimed that a Spanish woman had murdered her baby. Soon other women came forward with tales of abuse. These underexplored testimonies provide important insights into the lives and experiences of Native women in the...
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5 Feb
A West African Imam in 18th-Century London: How the Radical Enlightenment Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Wednesday, February 5, 2020
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Catherine Molineux, Vanderbilt University In the early 1730s, a Senegambian named Ayuba Suleiman Diallo came to London after being redeemed from slavery in colonial Maryland by the Georgia colony leader, James Oglethorpe. This lecture will explore the circumstances by which he emancipated himself from bondage, which included raising funds from various elite Britons who were interested...
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20 Apr
CANCELLED: Knowledge Networks and Narratives of Escape: Contesting Slavery on a Caribbean Borderland
- Monday, April 20, 2020
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Elena Schneider, University of California, Berkeley This lecture explores the phenomenon of maritime marronage in the Caribbean, or enslaved fugitives who stole boats and escaped slavery by sea. Across the long eighteenth century hundreds of men, women, and children fled enslavement in the colony of one imperial power by fleeing across a border to find refuge...
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19 May
CANCELLED: Hidden Histories of the French Wars of Religion: French Accounts of the New World as a Vector of Religious Polemic
- Tuesday, May 19, 2020
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Royce Hall, Room 306
- 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Andrea Frisch, University of Maryland, College Park Contemporary readers of Jean de Léry’s Histoire d’un voyage en terre de Brésil, first published in 1578, have tended to downplay or outright ignore the context of the work’s composition and repeated publication in the midst of the French Wars of Religion. Though most scholars acknowledge Léry’s status as...
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2 Dec
Between Fait-divers and Grand récit: The French Wars of Religion and the Genres of Historiography in the Sixteenth Century
- Wednesday, December 2, 2020
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –Andrea Frisch (University of Maryland) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJl9LS1Q4MU Online event via Zoom. This event is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All registrants will receive instructions via email after registering. Click he following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XNsdI9SWS8eJtgvDZWHufQ As was the case with many events of the European sixteenth century, the...
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14 Apr
Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: A Comparison of Morisco and Indigenous Strategies
- Wednesday, April 14, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –by Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway University of London) Online event via Zoom Webinar This event is free of charge, but you must register in advance to attend. All audience members will receive instructions via email after registration. Click the following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cdtg3WaHSkGhC_NTWSb3UA By the early seventeenth century, petitioners at the royal...
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26 May
A Catholic Cosmopolis? Interpreting Diversity in a Coercive Empire
- Wednesday, May 26, 2021
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture –by Zoltán Biedermann (University College London) Online event via Zoom Webinar This event is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All registrants will receive instructions via email after registering. Click the following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rgsWfB5WTKuEsdVpXkWyrg This paper proposes a conceptual intervention for the history of Spanish and...