NERC 2008

Travel, Trade, and Translation in Early Modern Europe

October 10th & 11th
Location: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Contact Information:
Prof. Laurie Nussdorfer
Dept. of History
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06459

Phone: 860-685-2382
E-mail: lnussdorfer@wesleyan.edu

Schedule of Events

Friday, 10 October 2008

3:00 - Welcome: President Michael Roth, Wesleyan University & Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University

3:30 - Francesca Trivellato (History, Yale)
"Renaissance Italy and the Muslim Mediterranean in Recent Historical Work"

4:15 - Sean Gallagher (Music, Harvard)
"Traveling Tastes: Collecting Northern Music and Painting in Quattrocento Italy"

5:00 - Break

5:15 - Susanne Wofford (Dean, Gallatin School, NYU)
"Translating Festivity: Ovid, Bellini, and Shakespeare Feast with the Gods"

6:15 - Cocktails

7:00 - Dinner and Concert

Saturday, 11 October 2008

8:30 - Coffee

9:00 - Sarah McHam (Art History, Rutgers)
"The Armchair Traveler's Guide to the Ancient World: Renaissance Readers and Pliny's Natural History"

9:45 - Henry Turner (English, Rutgers)
"Travel, Trade, and 'Translation' in the work of Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616)"

10:30 - Break

10:45 - Jacques Lezra (Comparative Literature, NYU)
"Trade in Exile: The Fetishism of Translation(s) and the Secret Thereof."

11:30 - General Discussion, Moderator: Judith Brown, Wesleyan University

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