Reading Space

Culture and Authority in the Baroque

Session 1 : Reading Space Direction & Discovery in an Expanding World

directed by

Massimo Ciavolella and Patrick Coleman

Center & Clark Professors, 2000-2001

October 6-7, 2000

at the Clark Library

This session focuses on fields of vision in science, travel, and the space of the book. Its aim is to locate the subject within various fields of vision, as defined by developments in astronomy and other sciences, in architecture, and the theatrical arts; by travel; and by the display of knowledge in print form. The title is meant to indicate an important tension that we may associate with the idea of the baroque. This is the relationship between the reading of space, in which discovery is directed by rules of measurement, and the creation of a space for reading, which allows individuals to move in unanticipated directions as they explore their place in an expanding world.

Conference Program

Friday, October 6

9:30 a.m. • coffee

10:00 a.m. • session 1

Mario Biagioli, Harvard University

Picturing and Convincing: The Discovery and Illustration of Sunspots

Claudio Pellegrini, UCLA

Measuring an Ever Larger Universe: From Aristarchus to Cassini

Bernard Heise, Independent Scholar

Visions of Power: Cartography and the Absolutist Gaze in Baroque Saxony

1:00 p.m. • lunch

2:00 p.m. • session 2

Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA

New Architecture for a New King: Filippo Juvarra at Turin, 1714-1733

Luigi Monga, Vanderbilt University

Sebastiano Locatelli's Travel Account of His Trip to Paris: Discovering the Other and Himself

Craig Koslofsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Reading Time / Time for Reading: The Night, Street Lighting, and Coffeehouses, 1650-1750

5:00 p.m. • reception

Saturday, October 7

9:00 a.m. • coffee

9:30 a.m. • session 3

Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley

National Space and Diplomatic Authority in Baroque Culture

Sara E. Melzer, UCLA

The Paradoxes of Cultural Authority in Colonizing "New France"

Georges van den Abbeele, University of California, Davis

On French Concepts of the Colony: From Laudonnière to D'Iberville

Roland Greene, University of Oregon

The Worlding of Early Modern Culture

1:00 p.m. • lunch

2:00 p.m. • session 4

Lorna Clymer, California State University, Bakersfield

Views of Space: A Poetics of Limitation

Julie Candler Hayes, University of Richmond

The Space of Translation

Andrew H. Wallis, Whittier College

Moving in Baroque Space: Reading the Frontispiece as Map

Registration Information

Registration deadline: September 22, 2000

Please note that space is limited and registration closes when capacity is reached.

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Registration fees: UC Faculty & staff: $15; students: free of charge; others: $25 Fees cover advance copies of papers, lunches and refreshments. Address all inquiries to the Center: Phone: 310-206-8552
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Culture and Authority in the Baroque

Session 1: Reading Space Direction & Discovery in an Expanding World Registration deadline: September 22, 2000

Please note that space at the Clark is limited and registration closes when capacity is reached.

Fees: UC Faculty & staff: $15; students: free of charge; others: $25

Fees cover advance copies of papers, lunches and refreshments.

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