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Take care,
John
A Conference at the Folger Shakespeare Library
(Washington, DC), Saturday, 26 September 2009:
"Contact and Exchange: China and the West"
Provisional Schedule
9.00-10.30 a.m. Ethnography, Travel Writing, and Cartography
Welcome: Owen Williams, Assistant Director, Folger Institute
Chair: Josiah Blackmore (Professor of Portuguese
and Spanish Studies, University of Toronto)
"The First China Hands: Europeans in China
during the Late Ming and Early Qing Period"
Liam M. Brockey (Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University)
"Cartography and Ethnography: Early Modern
Practices of Representation in Qing China"
Laura Hostetler (Associate Professor of History,
University of Illinois at Chicago)
10.30-11.00 a.m. Morning Break
11.00-12.30 Science, Technology, and Instrumentality
Chair: Pamela O. Long (Independent Historian, Washington, DC)
"Who is Responsible for the Limits of Jesuit
Scientific and Technical Transmission from
Europe to China in the Eighteenth Century?"
Benjamin A. Elman (Professor of East Asian
Studies and History, Princeton University)
"Why Blame the Jesuits? Some Revisionist
Reflections on the Transmission and Reception of
Western Learning in Late Imperial China"
Mordechai Feingold (Professor of History, California Institute of Technology)
12.30-2.00 p.m. Lunch (provided)
2.00-3.30 Literary Traditions
Chair: Timothy Billings (Associate Professor of English, Middlebury College)
"Strangers and the Strange People Who Befriended Them in Ming China"
Haun Saussy (Bird White Housum Professor of
Comparative Literature, Yale University)
"Eurasian Literature and Cultural Explanation"
Walter Cohen (Professor of Comparative
Literature and Senior Associate Dean, Arts and
Sciences, Cornell University)
3.30-4.00 p.m. Tea Break
4.00-5.30 The Social Life of Decorative Arts
Chair: Adriana Proser (John H. Foster Curator of
Traditional Asian Art, Asia Society, New York)
"A Ewer in the Shape of a Crayfish from Southern China and Globalisation"
Eva Ströber (Curator, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, The Netherlands)
"'All the Goods of the Eastern and Western
Oceans': Contact, Exchange and Luxury in Ming
China"
Craig Clunas (Professor of Art History, Oxford University)
5.30-7.00 Closing Reception
For the summaries of the papers and registration:
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=3275
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