Home and World: 1500-1800

vermeerFebruary 20, 2004
Annual EMC Conference
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

The Early Modern Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara and its affiliates held “Home and World: 1500-1800,” an interdisciplinary conference on the Center’s 2003-2004 theme. This one-day conference explored how these two categories or concepts were experienced and defined throughout the early modern period. The program included nine panelists representing a variety of disciplines as well as the following talks by invited speakers:

“Locating the Early Modern English Home”
Frances Dolan, Professor of English at UC Davis, addressed how we conceptualize the “early modern English home,” considering, for example, whether this phrase can be used to describe the homes of the English in Colonial Virginia.

“Interior Decoration in the Noble Homes of Late Seventeenth-Century Dauphiné”
Donna Bohanan, Professor of History at Auburn University, examined how nobles in a 17th-century French province used conspicuous consumption and a clearly defined style of interior decoration to (re-)establish, demonstrate, and exercise their public power and social rank.

“Home and World in 18th-Century Scotland: John Galt’s Annals of the Parish
Toni Bowers, Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, explored the imperial imperatives informing the ostensibly provincial novel Annals of the Parish (1821).

The following University of California, Santa Barbara departments and programs co-sponsored this event with the Early Modern Center:
College of Letters & Sciences (Division of Humanities and Fine Arts), Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Department of English, Renaissance Studies, Comparative Literature Program,
Department of History, Women’s Studies Program, Spanish & Portuguese Department


Conference Program and Pictures

Opening Remarks: Patricia Fumerton, University of California, Santa Barbara

Featured Speaker: Frances Dolan, Professor of English, University of California, Davis

“Locating the Early Modern English Home”

 

Panel 1: Domestic & Global Economies
Moderator: Lee Bliss, University of California, Santa Barbara

Stephen Deng, University of California, Santa Barbara
“‘So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous’: Counterfeiting and the Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England”

Siraj Ahmed, Mount Holyoke College
“Private Affect & Global History”

Melissa Sodeman, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Family Tour in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker

Featured Speaker: Donna Bohanan, Professor of History, Auburn University

“Interior Decoration in the Noble Homes of Late Seventeenth-Century Dauphiné”

Panel 2: Home and World in Early Modern Visual Culture
Moderator: Ronald W. Tobin, University of California, Santa Barbara

Michelle V. Packer, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Gerrit Dou, Franciscus de la Boe Sylvius, and the City of Leiden: Creating a Public Identity in the Home”

Dale Tomich (presenting) and Charles Burroughs, Binghamton University
“The Great House in the Landscape: The Cuban Ingenio”

Ellen K. Johnson, Arizona State University
“The Taste for Bringing the Outside In: Imperialism, Domesticity, and Landscape Wallpaper (1775-1825)”

Featured Speaker: Toni Bowers, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

“Home and World in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: John Galt’s Annals of the Parish

Panel 3: National & Imperial Identities
Moderator: Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara

Julia Major, University of California, Davis
“Worldbreaking in Ireland: Listening for Echoes in the Symbolic Ground of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book VI”

Kimberly Knight, California State University, Northridge
“Leaving Gender Behind: Cross-dressing in the Culture of Imperialism ”

Jacob Berman, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Captive Identities: Early American Nationalism and the Image of the Arab”


Conference Program

To Contact the Conference Committee: emc_conference_04@yahoo.com

Conference Committee:
Toni C. Mantych, Committee Coordinator
Vanessa Coloura
Jessica C. Murphy
Maggie Sloan
Jeen Yu