INSTITUTIONAL CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: HISTORIES AND
ANTHROPOLOGIES
International Conference
King's College London
July 8-10, 1999
Employing new methods of anthropological and cultural history, this
conference seeks to go beyond the boundaries of individual
institutional histories to explore comparatively the rituals, propaganda,
and internal workings of a wide variety of early modern institutions. It
will allow scholars from widely differing fields and interests in
European and British history to compare their insights about institutional
culture in an important period of institutionalization. The exciting
program, detailed below, will culminate in a round table discussion by
John Brewer, Anthony Grafton, Olwen Hufton, and Keith Wrightson.
For more information and registration forms, please contact Robert Frost
and Anne Goldgar, History Department, King's College London, Strand,
London WC2R 2LS, U.K. Phone +44-171-836-5454; fax +44-171-873-2052.E-mail
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A website (including a registration form) will be
posted in the next week as a link on the King's History Department site,
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/history/top.html.
PROGRAM
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 für
europäische 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 Jésus and the
Académie 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
Rites of Inclusion and Exclusion
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
Française, 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
Discipline
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 Kaœkolewski (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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