Imperial Models in the Early Modern World Part 2 – Managing Difference in Early Modern Empires

Friday, February 9th

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Opening Remarks – Anthony Pagden and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University
Religious Unity and Imperial Integrity in the Iberian Empires: The Threat of Tolerance in the Age of Atlantic Revolution

Cornell H. Fleischer, University of Chicago
Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in the Sixteenth Century: Is Translation Needed?

12:00 P.M.

1:30 P.M.

Fernando Cervantes, University of Bristol
Unity in Diversity: The Bonds of Religious Culture in the Hispanic World

Zoltán Biedermann, Ahmanson-Getty fellow, UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies
Of Kings and Captains: Portuguese and Habsburg Strategies for the Management of the Sri Lankan Elite (1506-1656)

Valerie A. Kivelson, University of Michigan
Mapping Diversity: Russian Imperial Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Siberia

4:30 P.M.

Saturday, February 10th

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University
Empires and Vampires: Management of Difference by the Ottoman State and Society

Ângela Barreto Xavier, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Dissolving Difference: Conversion and the Push to Conformity in the Portuguese Empire

12:00 P.M.

1:00 P.M.

Serge Gruzinski, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Managing Differences in the Catholic Monarchy (1580-1640): Plasticity and Rigidity of the Iberian Model

Corinne Lefèvre-Agrati, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Mughal sulh-i kull (‘universal peace’) after Akbar: The Religious Policy of Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) and its Reception by Contemporary Ulama and Sufis

Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington
Effacing Imperial Difference, Inventing European Exoticism: Geography circa 1700

4:00 P.M.

Roundtable Discussion