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Follow on Google News | Stanford to Host Conference on Founding Institution of Modern Education; the Republic of LettersOn Friday, November 30th and Saturday, December 1st an unprecedented, international group of historians and literary scholars will come together at Stanford to explore the formation of the Republic of Letters.
Conference presentations will provide the foundation for a new digital journal, Republics of Letters. The e-journal, hosted by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, will be the first journal to focus on the intersection of literature and political thought. Republics of Letters will provide a unique on-line platform that will allow researchers to comment and build on journal articles. The journal will launch in September 2008. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS The “Republic of Letters, as the autonomous community of scholars in Early modern Europe was known, constitutes the venerable ancestor for a wide range of intellectual societies: the seventeenth- Our knowledge about the Republic of Letters, however, remains remarkably patchy. What was its reach, in terms of territory and social groups? How long did it last? What were its relations with the State? How did gender factor as a significant element? Were there separate “republics," Traditional challenges confronting the study of the Republic of Letters are periodization and a narrow geographical focus. To overcome this first difficulty, we have invited scholars whose research concerns the 17th– and/or 18th–century to consult and debate with specialists of the Renaissance, the period when the Republic of Letters was first formed. We hope to uncover in this manner, possibly for the first time, some of the later avatars of this Republic. In response to the second challenge, we are assembling a diverse group of scholars, whose combined expertise encompasses a vast international breadth (including the Americas, Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain). Contact: Dan Edelstein –French Professor; Stanford University: danedels@stanford.edu or (650) 796-9705 George Bloom - Comparative Literature Ph.D. Candidate; Stanford University bloom@stanford.edu Comment: Dan Edelstein – French Professor; Stanford University: danedels@stanford.edu or (650) 796-9705 Paula Findlen – History Professor; Stanford University: pfindlen@stanford.edu or (650) 723-9570 Jacob Soll – History Professor; Rutgers University: soll@camden.rutgers.edu or (609) 225-2712 CONFERENCE PROGRAM Friday, November 30 Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall 10:00-10:30 am: Welcoming Remarks: Stephen Hinton, Professor of Musicology, Senior Associate Dean for the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University 10:30-12:00 am: The Empire Writes Back Caroline Sherman (Catholic University): "Families in the Republic of Letters." Paola Molino (EUI): "'Nothing more than a librarian:' Hugo Blotius's Projects of the Universal Library and the Museum of Human Beings." Liam Brockey (Princeton University): "An Imperial Republic?: The Global Correspondence of Manuel Severim de Faria, 1618-1655." 2:00-3:30 pm: Revising the Republic of Letters Peter Miller (Bard Graduate Center): "Publisher, Printer, Antiquarian, Spy: Peiresc and the Origines Murensis Monasterii (1618)." Jean Boutier (EHESS): "Did a Republic of Letters Ever Exist?" Jacob Soll (Rutgers University, Camden): "Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Republic of Letters: Repression, Innovation and Learning under the Sun King." 4:00-5:00 pm: Plenary Lecture Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): "Lost Continent: The Republic of Letters." 5:00-7:00 pm: Reception at the Stanford Faculty Club Saturday, December 1 Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall 10:30-12:00 am: The Power of Knowledge Margaret Jacob (UCLA): "Was the Republic of Letters Inherently Radical?" Bianca Chen (EUI): "The Republic of Letters at Work: Gisbert Cuper (1644-1716) and the Exchange of Antiquarian Information." Gary Marker (SUNY, Stonybrook): "Standing in Petersburg and Looking West, or, Is 'Backwardness' All There Is?" 1:30-2:30 pm: Salons and Erudition Antoine Lilti (ENS): "Do Salons Belong to the Republic of Letters? Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris." Paula Findlen (Stanford University): "Founding a Scientific Academy: The 'Philosophical Family' of Clelia del Grillo Borromeo in Early Eighteenth-Century Milan." 3:00-4:00 pm: An Enlightened Republic? Elena Russo (The Johns Hopkins University): "Slander and Glory in the Republic of Letters." Dan Edelstein (Stanford University): "Encyclopedic Humanism and the Esprit Philosophique." 4:00-5:30 pm: Roundtable Discussion # # # Located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University is recognized as one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. Faculty at Stanford are expected to be among the best teachers and researchers in their fields. There are 408 faculty members appointed to endowed chairs. Twenty-seven Stanford faculty have won the Nobel Prize since the university's founding. Website: www.stanford.edu/ End
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