April 20th (Thurs), Lecture Theatre, History Faculty Building, University of Oxford
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9:30–9:50 Registration (Joan Thirsk Common Room)
9:50–10:00 Opening Remarks (Lecture Theatre)
10:00-11:30 Panel 1 | The intellectual challenge of non-Western authorities
Chair and discussant: Professor Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford)
▪ ‘Contradicting Aristotle? José de Acosta, the Classical tradition, and the nature of the New World’
Virginia Ghelarducci (Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, ILCS)
▪ ‘Montesquieu and the Manchus: The influence of Arcadio Huang on the presentation of Chinese despotism in The Spirit of the Laws’
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
▪ ‘Beyond Galen: Non-Western medical experts in early modern Italian recipe collections, 16th–18th c.’
Lavinia Gambini (Jesus College, Cambridge)
11:30–11:45 Break
11:45–12:45 Panel 2 | Beyond the metropole: global projections of authority
Chair and discussant: Professor Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
▪ ‘Moving beyond the metropole: The Restoration Crown and its representation in English colonial contexts’
Joanna Smith (Lincoln College, Oxford)
▪ ‘“In this way they go”: Intellectual authority, race-making, and costume in early modern Venice’
Holly K. M. Johnstone (Oriel College, Oxford)
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Keynote | The Voice of the People? Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modern China and Europe
Professor Leigh Jenco (LSE)
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:45 Panel 3 | Constructing political authority in an age of global encounters
Chair and discussant: Professor Erica Charters (Wolfson College, Oxford)
▪ ‘“Your government alone could teach the Greeks what liberty is”: intellectual exchanges between Europe and America and the consolidation of the early Greek State’
Thomas R. Bull (Pennsylvania)
▪ ‘Speaking the language of friendship: Partnerships in the political construction of the southern borders of late sixteenth century Charcas’
Mario Graña Taborelli (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
▪ ‘The (re)construction of authority in early modern East Asia: The Qing-Ryukyu seals and their afterlives’
Kuldip K. Singh (Pembroke College, Oxford)
17:00 Closing remarks
18:00 Conference dinner (location TBC)