This session will examine the ways religious and political relationships are imagined, delimited, and controlled in an early modern Europe marked by the division of Christendom into rival confessions and the consolidation of states as unifying centers of power. Baroque forms of expression, whether in piety, art, or representations of personal or political authority, often manifest a tension between ostentation and concealment, and between fusion and fragmentation. Papers will explore the continuing relevance of such categories in the light of new approaches to the cultural history of the period.
Friday, February 23
9:30 a.m. • coffee
10:00 a.m. • session 1
Martha Feldman, University of Chicago
Eggs, Hens, Coops, and Castrati: Sacrifice and Redemption in Eighteenth-Century Opera
Kate van Orden, University of California, Berkeley
Music and Military Virtue in Early Modern France
Paula Rea Radisich, Whittier College
The Candle and the Mirror: Chardin's La Toilette
1:00 p.m. • lunch
2:00 p.m. • session 2
Malina Stefanovska, UCLA
Community and Communion in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz
Ann Delehanty, Reed College
The King and I: Reconciling Divine and Political Authority in Racine's Esther
Daniella J. Kostroun, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Port Royal's Autumn Revisited: State Consolidation and Female Resistance in France, 1669-1689
5:00 p.m. • reception
Saturday, February 24
9:30 a.m. • coffee
10:00 a.m. • session 3
Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, New York University
From Buddhist Garb to Literati Silk: Costume and Identity of the Jesuit Missionary
David Frick, University of California, Berkeley
Neighborhoods and Networks in Seventeenth-Century Vilnius: Poor Relief, Together and Apart
Ernest A. Zitser, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Apostles and Apostates: The Court of Peter the Great as a Chivalrous Religious Order
1:00 p.m. • lunch
2:00 p.m. • session 4
Lowell Gallagher, UCLA
The Baroque Symptom
Victoria Kahn, University of California, Berkeley
Milton, Foucault, and the Baroque
John D. Lyons, University of Virginia
Self-Knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment
Registration Information
Registration deadline: February 9, 2001
Please note that space is limited and registration
closes when capacity is reached.
To register, please fill out the form below and mail it
to the Center address.
Registration fees: UC Faculty & staff: $15; students: free of charge; others: $25
Fees cover advance copies of papers, lunches and refreshments.
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Phone: 310-206-8552
E-mail:
c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu
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Registration Form
Session 2: Together Apart: Communion, Community, and Concealment
Registration deadline: February 9, 2001
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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