Atlantic Knowledges

Atlantic Knowledges:
The Sciences and the Early Modern Atlantic World

Arranged by Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, James Delbourgo, McGill University and Nicholas Dew, McGill University

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

February 25 –26, 2005– at the Clark Library

Conference papers will be accessible from this page as they are received, and will remain on line for two weeks after the conference. They will be mailed to registrants by request.

Friday, February 25_______________________

9:30 A.M.	Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Introduction Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA James Delbourgo, McGill University Nicholas Dew, McGill University Session I Networks and Circulations Mary Terrall, UCLA Chair Alison Sandman, University of Southern California and the Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute Controlling Knowledge: Propaganda, Piracy, and Protectionism in the Iberian Atlantic Nicholas Dew, McGill University The Geography of Precision in the French Atlantic World, c. 1670-1740 Joyce E. Chaplin, Harvard University Circulations: The Anglophone Atlantic as Medium and Message
12:30 P.M.	Lunch
2:30 P.M.	Session II Powers and Identities Pamela Smith, Pomona College Chair Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland The Magus Abroad: Occult Knowledges in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic World James Delbourgo, McGill University Electrifying the Atlantic World François Regourd, Université Paris X - Nanterre Caribbean Mesmerism: Animal Magnetism on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution
4:30 P.M.	Reception

Saturday, February 26_______________________

9:30 A.M.	Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Session III Terrains and Resources Maria-Elena Martinez, University of Southern California Chair Antonio Barrera, Colgate University Atlantic Natural Histories: Collecting Nature, Translating Books Júnia Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil Tropical Medicine and Universal Knowledge: Brazilian Doctors and their Books Neil Safier, University of Michigan Insanity in El Dorado? The Folious Itinerancy of Joseph de Jussieu’s Botanizing
12:00 P.M.	Lunch
1:30 P.M.	Session IV Geographies and Representations Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California Chair Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, SUNY-Buffalo and the University of Texas Harrington Faculty Fellow Colonization as Spiritual Gardening: Toward a Pan-American Atlantic Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington Neutralizing Nature in America: Dutch Exotic Natural History Circa 1700 Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire Enlightenment Climatology and the Problem of America
3:30 P.M.	Break
3:30 P.M.	Roundtable Discussion Anthony Pagden, UCLA

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