Conflict, Peace, and Transnational Culture in Early Modern Europe
- Event type
- Conference / Symposium
- Address
- Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
- Event dates
- Contact
- warburg@sas.ac.uk 020 7862 8910
Conflict, Peace, and Transnational Culture in Early Modern Europe invites speakers to consider the relationship between texts, culture and the arts, and the specific historical moment in which they were produced, collected, understood. What were the problems and possibilities posed by new forms of peace, as well as cross-cultural and cross-confessional communication, in a larger context of persisting religious war and imperial conflict? How did various kinds of literary, cultural and diplomatic actors use culture and the arts to confront the circumstances of their time?
This event is a collaboration between the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research network, ‘Europe’s Short Peace, 1595-1620’ (Birmingham; PI, Noah Millstone), and the ‘Colloquium on Textuality and Diversity’ that is part of the ERC-funded project ‘Textuality and Diversity: A Literary History of Europe in the World, 1529-1683’ (Queen Mary University of London; PI, Warren Boutcher), and hosted by the Warburg Institute. The former network aims to build a transnational political, religious and cultural history of Europe between the peace of Vervins (1598) and the outbreak of the Bohemian revolt (1618). The latter project aims to build a transnational literary history of Europe in the world across the larger period surrounding the short peace: from the first (1529) to the second (1683) sieges of Vienna.
Thursday 19 September
8.30am - Arrivals, coffee and pastries
9.15am - Welcome and introduction
9.30-11.15am - Panel 1 ['Thinking Peace']
Zahit Atçil (Boğaziçi University), 'The Rise of "Peace Consciousness" in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Foreign Policy'
Will White (Hertfordshire), 'Peace Projectors and Print Culture during the English Revolution'
11.15-11.30am - short break
11.30am-1.15pm - Panel 2 ['War and Rumours of War']
Nathaniel Hess (Warburg), ‘Itaque πάξ! Philology and politics in the translations of Florent Chrestien’
Helmer Helmers (KNAW Humanities Cluster), 'Raising the Alarm. Print, Diplomacy and the Creation of Political Anxiety during the Short Peace'
1.15-2.15pm - Lunch break
2.15-4.00pm: Panel 3 ['Performance and Poetry']
David Hasberg Zirak-Schmidt, ‘Staging dynastic union: theatrical responses to James VI and Anna of Denmark’s marriage’
Lotte Jensen, ‘Peace is the Continuation of War by Other Means: Hope, Conflict and Violence in Dutch Peace Poetry, 1648-1815’
4.00-4:15pm - short break
4:15-6.00pm - Panel 4 ['Exchange']
Anastasia Stylianou, ‘Greek Textual Responses to the Ottoman-Venetian Wars, and their Northern European Reception, c.1540-1700’
Katharina N. Piechocki (British Columbia), ‘Evangelization and Multilingualism in Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera’
Friday 20 September
9.30-11.15am - Panel 5 ['Visualising Conflict and Peace']
Nils Buettner (ABK Stuttgart), 'Peace and War in Rubens's Medici Cycle'
Nadine Akkerman (Leiden), ‘Elizabeth Stuart’s Pictorial Propaganda to Counter the Peace of Prague’
11.15-11.30am - break
11.30am-12.30pm - Closing Discussion
ATTENDANCE FREE WITH ADVANCE BOOKING
image: Willem de Haen, Allegorie op het Bestand en de vereniging der partijen, 1609 (Rijksmuseum)
This event is a collaboration between the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research network, ‘Europe’s Short Peace, 1595-1620’ (Birmingham; PI, Noah Millstone), and the ‘Colloquium on Textuality and Diversity’ that is part of the ERC-funded project ‘Textuality and Diversity: A Literary History of Europe in the World, 1529-1683’ (Queen Mary University of London; PI, Warren Boutcher), and hosted by the Warburg Institute. The former network aims to build a transnational political, religious and cultural history of Europe between the peace of Vervins (1598) and the outbreak of the Bohemian revolt (1618). The latter project aims to build a transnational literary history of Europe in the world across the larger period surrounding the short peace: from the first (1529) to the second (1683) sieges of Vienna.
Thursday 19 September
8.30am - Arrivals, coffee and pastries
9.15am - Welcome and introduction
9.30-11.15am - Panel 1 ['Thinking Peace']
Zahit Atçil (Boğaziçi University), 'The Rise of "Peace Consciousness" in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Foreign Policy'
Will White (Hertfordshire), 'Peace Projectors and Print Culture during the English Revolution'
11.15-11.30am - short break
11.30am-1.15pm - Panel 2 ['War and Rumours of War']
Nathaniel Hess (Warburg), ‘Itaque πάξ! Philology and politics in the translations of Florent Chrestien’
Helmer Helmers (KNAW Humanities Cluster), 'Raising the Alarm. Print, Diplomacy and the Creation of Political Anxiety during the Short Peace'
1.15-2.15pm - Lunch break
2.15-4.00pm: Panel 3 ['Performance and Poetry']
David Hasberg Zirak-Schmidt, ‘Staging dynastic union: theatrical responses to James VI and Anna of Denmark’s marriage’
Lotte Jensen, ‘Peace is the Continuation of War by Other Means: Hope, Conflict and Violence in Dutch Peace Poetry, 1648-1815’
4.00-4:15pm - short break
4:15-6.00pm - Panel 4 ['Exchange']
Anastasia Stylianou, ‘Greek Textual Responses to the Ottoman-Venetian Wars, and their Northern European Reception, c.1540-1700’
Katharina N. Piechocki (British Columbia), ‘Evangelization and Multilingualism in Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera’
Friday 20 September
9.30-11.15am - Panel 5 ['Visualising Conflict and Peace']
Nils Buettner (ABK Stuttgart), 'Peace and War in Rubens's Medici Cycle'
Nadine Akkerman (Leiden), ‘Elizabeth Stuart’s Pictorial Propaganda to Counter the Peace of Prague’
11.15-11.30am - break
11.30am-12.30pm - Closing Discussion
ATTENDANCE FREE WITH ADVANCE BOOKING
image: Willem de Haen, Allegorie op het Bestand en de vereniging der partijen, 1609 (Rijksmuseum)
