CALL FOR PAPERS:
THE NETHERLANDISH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND ITS AFTERLIVES
DUKE UNIVERSITY
MARCH 3, 2007
Keynote Speaker: Nigel Smith
Plenary Speakers: Kenneth Surin, Manuel Herrero Sánchez, Hans J Van Miegroet
Please submit abstracts (500 words) via email to rlp4@duke.edu (place "Netherlands Conference Abstract" in the subject line) by November 30, 2006.
Recent work in the history of early modernity omits the greater Netherlandish context of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (histories and literatures in Dutch). Following the Revolt of the Netherlands against Spanish control, Spanish imperial might was notably eclipsed by British and French powers. In the Atlantic world, a dense history of conflicting Reformations and Counter-Reformations, confessional practices and disputed national characters ensued, from Huguenot poetry and praxis to Spanish Reformation movements (such as Valdesian thought). The economic and political power shift further determined subsequent development in the Americas as much as in Europe. A renewed attention to the import of Netherlandish contexts ought to reshape our understanding of the period and its controversies.
This one-day symposium aims to recuperate the Netherlandish context in order to strengthen and complicate our understanding of philosophy, religion, language, literature, art, history, and political economy—the geopolitical shape of early modernity—with specific reference to the transformations of the United Provinces and attendant territories, in Europe and beyond. The symposium will examine the import of the Netherlands in a moment of greatly significant circum-Atlantic change--a moment which indeed set many of the parameters for culture and politics still with us today.
We welcome submissions from a number of disciplines on related topics, which may, but need not, discuss related themes such as:
The emergence of a modern market economy
The Dutch Revolt and its iterations in other situations (for instance, in English Republican thought)
The identification of a "Dutch" cycle of capital accumulation
Remembering the Netherlandish context across a variety of disciplines (New Amsterdam in American Studies; the Dutch in the East Asian Studies; The Dutch roots of Arminianism, etc.)
The post-Republic identification of the Dutch with (proto-national) liberation movements against dynastic rule
The disparities between emergent French Absolutism and Dutch sovereignty
Publishing and circulation of texts in the Netherlands, or Dutch cultural production and its impact in other European situations
Netherlandish visual culture and the production and consumption of art; art as cultural identity, or explorations of notions of taste through imagery and economics
The Revolt of the Netherlands in Spanish literature: (e.g. Lope de Vega's Los Españoles en Flandes; El Assalto de Mastrique por el Principe de Parma; Pobreza no es Vileza, etc. )
The history of philosophy, including Spinozism, in the Netherlands and beyond
The Dutch slave trade in light of the Spanish, French and British trades
The place of the Netherlands in British perpetuations of the Black Legend
Anglo-Dutch; Spanish-Dutch; Franco-Dutch rivalry in the New World
Netherlandish humanism
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