Wolfson College, Cambridge, July 1-2, 2010

Programme

This workshop aims to investigate cultural and intellectual networks and exchanges of ideas since the Early Modern period. Following the methodological redefinition of “exchanges” and of “networks” which has occurred in the past three decades, this workshop aims to explore the notions of exchanges and networks when examining sources, historical factors, geography, images and ideologies and their role in the creation and preservation of intellectual networks, and in fostering and accomplishing exchanges of ideas.

July 1st

Introduction to the Workshop

Keynote Address
 Anthony Milton (Sheffield) - ‘Intellectual exchange in history: influence and analysis’ July 2nd Imagining Intellectual Differences in Networks of Ideas  Mina Ishizu and Simona Valeriani (LSE) – ‘Diffusion of useful and reliable knowledge in global histories; a case study of intellectual intercourse between Holland and Japan in late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries’  Andrés Jiménez-Ángel (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), ‘Transatlantic correspondence and “mobile knowledge” in Alexander Von Humboldt’s exploration travel to Hispanic America’  Isabel DiVanna (Cambridge) – ‘Reading Comte across the Atlantic: intellectual exchanges between France and Brazil and the question of slavery’  Vladimir Bokyo (Center for Regional Studies, Barnaul, Russia) – ‘British and Russian concepts of fragile state. Afghanistan, 1919 – 1947: networked, opposed and exchanged’ Transfer of Ideas in Exchange Processes  Vera Keller (McGill) – ‘International Learned Friendship and the Reason of State in early modern Europe: the case of Gottfried Hegenitius’  Dean Kostantaras (Northwestern) – ‘Social Networks and the Re-transmission of 'Improving Works' in the Ottoman Balkans’  Brooke N. Newman (Yale) - ‘Against the Restrictions of the Mother Country’: Property, Racial Classifications and the Manipulation of British Policy in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica’  Nicholas Dew (McGill) - ‘Networks and knowledge exchange in the French Atlantic World (c. 1670-c.1740)’ Identity and Intellectual Exchanges  Lauri Tahtinen (Cambridge) – ‘Jesuit networks and global political thought’  Roberto Dagnino (Groningen), ‘One Region, Many Regionalisms. The multiple identities of a Neo-Gothic circle in the Low Lands (1864-1900)’  Dmitry Shlapentokh (Indiana), ‘Asia in Russia’s Historical Imagination: The Case of the Huns’  Marta de Magalhães (CLAS, Cambridge) – ‘Exchanging Dilemmas: Race, Ideology and the Ethnographic Imagination in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil’ Concluding remarks With the kind support of the Royal Historical Society The Call for Papers is now closed. Please address any queries to Dr Isabel DiVanna, Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, CB3 9BB, id239@cam.ac.uk.