CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE
HISTORY DEPARTMENT, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
The History Department at King's College London invites proposals for papers for a conference on the culture of early modern institutions. The conference's goal is to escape the narrow way in which early modern institutions have traditionally been studied. Although anthropological and cultural approaches to the study of early modern society have been much in evidence in the past two decades, institutions have often been viewed from the outside, as agents of control or repression, and studies of institutional history have largely been left untouched by the new understanding of informal mechanisms of power.
This conference will therefore seek to apply new approaches of cultural historians to the traditional field of institutional history, looking at the ways institutions in the early modern period actually worked, and the cultural assumptions of the people involved in the system, which directly affected their operation. We are particularly eager to encourage the comparison of ideologies, strategies, and working arrangements among a broad variety of institutions, including commercial companies, academies and scientific societies, guilds, law courts, parliaments and diets, charities, universities, city councils, armies, and museums. In order to bring out these comparisons, sessions will be planned not around types of institutions, but rather around cultural and anthropological themes. The themes we envisage at present are: rites of inclusion and exclusion; statements of communal definition; methods of internal communication; external propaganda; communal myths and the invention of tradition; custom; clientage and the articulation of hierarchy; discipline, shaming, and punishment; cooperation and rivalry with other bodies; corruption and subversion of communal procedures; identification of "the other."
We would be pleased to receive by 15 September 1998 proposals of 300
words detailing plans for papers (ultimately to be 30 minutes in length),
including both an identification of
a) the institution or institutions concerned, and
b) the particular theme of those listed above with which the paper is most
closely associated.
Please make sure to confine yourself to one of these themes, as we cannot entertain proposals which cover the whole of an institution's operations or history. Abstracts can be sent to:
Robert Frost and Anne Goldgar,
robert.frost@kcl.ac.uk or
anne.goldgar@kcl.ac.uk.
Submissions by e-mail will be accepted.
Thursday 8 July
9.00-10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00-10.30
Introduction:
Robert Frost & Anne Goldgar, (King's College London)
Institutional Issues:
10.30-11.00
Victor Morgan (University of East Anglia):
A "ceremonious" society: civic ritual in Norwich 16th-18th centuries
11.00-11.30
Julian Swann (Birkbeck College, London):
The one and indivisible Parlement? The Parlement of Paris and the perils
of ideological opposition
11.30-12.00
Achim Landwehr (Max-Planck-Institut fuer europaeische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt a.M.): Commissions of Inquiry as Forms of Power and Knowledge: The Venetian Sindaci in Terraferma in the 17th century
12.00-12.30 Discussion
12.30-1.30 Lunch
Statements of Communal Definition
1.30-2.00
Raoul Antonelli (Librarian of the President of Italy): The Accademia Delia of Padua & the Myth of Chivalry in the 16th & 17th centuries
2.00-2.30
Florence Hsia (University of Chicago): The Compagnie de Jesus and the Academie des Sciences: A Problem of Institutional Transformation
2.30-3.00
Ian Gadd (Pembroke College, Oxford): Were Books Different? Locating the Stationers' Company in Civil War London
3.00-3.30
Discussion
3.30-4.00
Tea
Cooperation and Rivalry among Institutions
4.00-4.30
Gayle Brunelle (Cal State-Fullerton): To Beggar thy Neighbour or Not:Mediation versus Vendetta in Commercial Disputes in Early Modern Rouen
4.30-5.00
Christopher Carlsmith (University of Virginia):
In Support of Schools: Cooperation and Conflict in Early Modern Bergamo
5.00-5.15
Break
5.15-5.45
Silvia de Renzi (University of Cambridge): Nature Brought to Trial: Judges, Physicians and the Tribunal of the Sacra Rota in 17th Century Rome
5.45-6.15
Susan Brown (University of Prince Edward Island): Policing and Privilege: The Resistance to Penal Reform in 18th-century London
6.15-6.45
Discussion
6.45
Reception
Friday 9 July
9.00-9.30
David Dean (Carleton University): Rituals of Rule: Processions & Proceedings in Early Modern Assemblies
9.30-10.00
Simon Werrett (Cambridge University): Assaying Russia: The St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences & the Definition of 18th-century Russian Society
10.00-10.30
Steven Hindle (Warwick University): A Hierarchy of Belonging? The Parish Vestry in Rural England, c. 1550-1700
10.30-11.00
Discussion
11.00-11.30
Coffee
Clientage
11.30-12.00
Antonella Alimento (Università degli Studi di Pisa): Friendship and Innovation in Eighteenth-Century France
12.00-12.30
Gregory Brown (University of Nevada-Las Vegas): Playwriting for the Comédie Francaise, 1757-1780: Règlements & Rules of the Game
12.30-1.00
Discussion
1.00-2.00
Lunch
External Propaganda
2.00-2.30
Janelle Jenstad (Queen's University, Ontario): Public Glory, Private Gilt=
The Goldsmiths' Company and Strategies of Theatrical Containment
2.30-3.00
Sarah Lloyd (Australian National University): Convivial Charity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
3.00-3.30
Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool): Secrecy and Publicity in the Emergence of Modern Business Culture: Pension Funds in Hamburg, 1760-1780
3.30-4.00
Discussion
4.00-4.30
Tea
Internal Communication
4.30-5.00
Eric Ash (Princeton University): 'Playne dealing ... in mynerall affaires': Agents of Communication in Early English Mining Companies
5.00-5.30
Randolph Head (University of California-Riverside): Representing Dominion: Archives & the Representation of Political Order in the Swiss Confederation during the 17th Century
5.30-6.00
Adrian Johns (University of California-San Diego): Reading and experience at the Royal Society
6.00-6.30
Discussion
7.00
Conference Dinner
Saturday 10 July
9.00-9.30
Campbell Lloyd (University of Glasgow): How to Control Students: The Glasgow Experience
9.30-10.00
Natalie Rothman (University of Tel Aviv): The Use of Military Music in Shaping Early Modern Soldierly Models of Conduct
10.00-10.30
coffee
10.30-11.00
Brent Whitted (University of British Columbia): The Bench Press: Parliamentary Records at the Inns of Court, 1560-1634
11.00-11.30
Reed Benhamou (Indiana University): Seeking an Amicable Solution: Discipline in the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
11.30-12.15
Discussion
12.15-1.15
Lunch
Corruption and Subversion of Communal Procedures
1.15-1.45
Brian Davies (University of Texas-San Antonio): Custom, Corruption, and the Bureaucratic Rationalization of the Russian State, 16th-18th Centuries
1.45-2.15
Igor Kakolewski (University of Warsaw/King's College London): Corruption and Bureaucracy in sixteenth-century Ducal Prussia
2.15-2.30
Break
2.30-3.00
James Shaw (European University Institute, Florence): Corruption in the Giustizia Vecchia in Venice, 1550-1700
3.00-3.30
Kristine Haugen (Princeton University): On the Generation and Corruption of the Terrae Filius; or, The Sheldonian as a Theatre of the Absurd
3.30-4.15
Discussion
4.15-4.45
Tea
4.45-6.00 Round Table Discussion
John Brewer (European University Institute, Florence)
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Olwen Hufton (Merton College, Oxford)
Keith Wrightson (Jesus College, Cambridge)
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