Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization | Conference 1: In Between Spaces

Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization

Conference 1: In Between Spaces

Organized by Professors Bronwen Wilson (University of California, Los Angeles)

and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University)

October 12–13, 2018

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Friday, October 12, 2018

9:30 a.m.         Morning Coffee and Registration

10:00 a.m.       Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles

                          Welcome

    Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles

    Angela Vanhaelen, McGill University

    Opening Remarks

10:15 a.m.       Session 1

    Chair: Anthony Meyer, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles

    Lyle Massey, University of California, Irvine

    “Neither Empty nor Full: Landscape and the Desert Saints”

10:45 a.m.       Sara Ryu, Washington University in St. Louis

                         “Between Spaces, Between Times in Colonial Mexico City”

11:15 a.m.        Discussion

11:45 a.m.       Coffee Break

12:00 p.m.       Session 2

                          Chair: Kristoffer Neville, University of California, Riverside

    Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia

    “Mirrors upon Mirrors: Presencing Indigenous History in Early Modern London”

12:30 p.m.       Angela Vanhaelen, McGill University

                          “Strangers and Strange Things in Amsterdam’s Inns”

1:00 p.m.         Discussion

1:30 p.m.         Lunch

3:00 p.m.         Session 3

    Chair: Elisa Daniele, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow

    Dawn Odell, Lewis & Clark College

    “China's Retreat: Bodies in Motion Between Eighteenth-Century Guangzhou, the Cape, and Philadelphia”

3:30 p.m.         Ting Chang, University of Nottingham

    “Playing Empire: Games, Spectacles and Colonial Subjects”

4:00 p.m.         Discussion

4:30 p.m.         Reception

Saturday, October 13, 2018

9:30 a.m.         Morning Coffee and Registration

10:00 a.m.       Session 4

    Chair: Payton Phillips-García Quintanilla, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow

    Jane Hwang Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Henry S. Turner, Rutgers University (co-presenters)

    “Worlds Between Worlds in the Works of Shakespeare”

10:45 a.m.       Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.       Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia

                         “Shakespearean Eco-temps: Trainlines, Pipelines, and the Premodern Past”

11:30 a.m.       Discussion

12:00 p.m.       Questions and Discussion

    Charlene Villaseñor Black, University of California, Los Angeles

12:30 p.m.       Program ends