Retelling the Renaissance, East and West
This symposium brings together writers and historians representing numerous
specializations to investigate the Renaissance both as a historical period
and an ideology of western origins and progressive rebirth. Speakers will
address the question of how stories of "the Renaissance" have been told and
used for distinguishing East from West, and how these stories might need
retelling in the light of new archival materials, developments in global
studies, and the current international moment. The organizers are inviting
speakers to reflect upon the ways that this nineteenth-century European
concept has been used to tell a variety of stories that have served to
disguise and even occlude the social, religious, and cultural links between
East and West during the previous centuries. Confirmed speakers include
C.E.Bosworth, Jerry Brotton, William Dalrymple, Caroline Finkel, Robert
Irwin, Philip Mansel, Nabil Matar, Barnaby Rogerson.
30 April - 2 May 2004
Contact Dr Mohammed-Salah Omri or Professor Gerald MacLean
Mediterranean Studies, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter
University
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