2018
THE REMARQUE INSTITUTE’S KANDERSTEG SEMINAR
EUROPE ENCOUNTERS WITH EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WORLD CULTURES
Wednesday, April 18th – Sunday, April 22nd, 2018
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, April 18th
Arrival of participants by train in Kandersteg
Check in: Waldhotel Doldenhorn
CG-3718 Kandersteg
Tel. +41.33.675.81.81
Fax +41.33.675.81.85
19:30 Welcome reception followed by dinner at hotel
Thursday, April 19th
10:00 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOMING REMARKS
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (New York University)
Session I
10:30 – 12:30
RELIGION AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
Nicola Di Cosmo, Princeton Institute, “Ethnography and History of Inner Asia in 18th-Century Europe”
Alexander Bevilacqua, Williams College, “The Enlightenment and Islam”
Huiyi Wu, Cambridge University, “Jesuits and Translation in China”
Jared Warren, New York University, “Religion and Romanticism between Poland and France”
12:45 Lunch at hotel
Free afternoon until:
Session II
17:30 – 19:30
FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE WIDER WORLD
Erika Naginski, Harvard University, “Aesthetics and Ruins”
Pierre Saint-Amand, Yale University, “Drama in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue”
Meredith Martin, NYU, “Turks in French Art”
Liron Mor, UC Irvine, “Reading Voltaire in the Middle East”
19:30 Drinks followed by dinner at hotel
Friday, April 20th
Session III
10:00 – 12:00
COLLECTING AND MATERIAL OBJECTS
Kristel Smentek, MIT, “Chinese Objects in 18th-Century Europe,”
Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University, “Collecting in 18th-Century India”
Michele Matteini, NYU, “Antiquarianism in 18th-Century China”
David Brewer, Ohio State University, “Books and Other Moving Objects”
12:15 Lunch at hotel
Free afternoon until:
19:00 Drinks at hotel
19:30 Dinner at the Landgasthof Ruedihaus
Saturday, April 21st
Session IV
9:30 – 10:45
EMPIRE AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS (PART I)
Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago, “Perspectives on Globalism and Empire”
Padraic Scanlan, London School of Economics, “Perspectives on Slavery and Emancipation”
Elizabeth Cross, Florida State University, “Visions of Empire in the French East India Company”
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:45
EMPIRE AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS (PART II)
Ruth de Llobet, University Pompeu Fabra, “The Age of Revolutions and the Philippines”
Hannah Weiss Muller, Brandeis University, “Imperial Subjects and the British Crown”
Ali Yaycioglu, Stanford University, “Rethinking the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions”
13:00 Lunch at hotel
Free afternoon until:
17:30 WRAP-UP SESSION
Larry Wolff (New York University)
19:00 Drinks and Gala dinner at hotel
Sunday, April 22nd
Departure of participants
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