At the Interface of Religion and Cosmopolitanism: Bernard Picart’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743) and the European Enlightenment

A conference at the Getty Research Institute and the Clark Library organized by Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht

 

 

Thursday, December 6
at the Getty Center

Where available, papers may be downloaded by conference participants as encrypted, password protected, Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf). Click on the paper’s title below to download the relevant file. Papers are provided as security restricted files that you will be able to read on your computer screen but will not be able to print out. You will need a password to open these files. The password can be obtained by registered conference participants by calling the Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies on 310-206-8552.

 

9:00 A.M.

Graduate Student Session:
New Research on Bernard Picart
Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall

Guillaume Calafat, École Normale Supérieure
The Jansenist Roots of the Bernard-Picart Vision

Verónica A. Gutiérrez, UCLA
Quetzalcoatl's Enlightened City: A Close Reading of Bernard Picart's Engraving of Cholollan/Cholula

Catherine Clark, USC
Chinese Idols and Religious Art: Questioning Difference in Cérémonies et coutumes

Jesse Sadler, UCLA
The Collegiants, a Small Presence in the Republic, a Large Metaphor for the Book

11:30 A.M.

Lunch Break

1:00 P.M.

Digital Picart: Presentation & Discussion
Museum Lecture Hall
Tom Moritz, Getty Research Institute, Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Lynn Hunt, UCLA

2:00 P.M.

Viewing of Picart materials/documents, Getty Research Institute special collections

3:00 P.M.

Free Time: visit Museum and GRI exhibition China on Paper

4:00 P.M.

Keynote address by Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht
Religion, Capitalism and the Revolution in Science: the Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde
Museum Lecture Hall

5:00 P.M.

Invitational Reception at the Getty Center Restaurant

7:00 P.M.

CONCERT, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Performed by New Dutch Acadamy, Chamber Soloist Ensemble
Early 18th Century Music Making in the Amsterdam Canal Houses
Elizabeth Dobbin, soprano, Georgia Browne, baroque flute, Karl Nyhlin, baroque lute, Simon Murphy, cello piccolo/viola pomposa, and Rebecca Rosen, cello

Friday, December 7
at the Clark Library

  

9:30 A.M.

Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Bernard Picart in French and Dutch Art
Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA

Ann Jensen Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara
Originality and Authenticity in the Graphic Work of Bernard Picart

Louis Marchesano, Getty Research Institute
Impostures innocentes: Bernard Picart and Reproductive Printmaking

Inger Leemans, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Picart’s Dutch Connections: Family Trouble, the Amsterdam Theatre and the Business of Engraving

1:00 P.M.

 Lunch

2:00 P.M.

Inventing Comparative Religion
Chair: Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Jacques Revel, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The Uses of Comparison: Religions in the Early Eighteenth Century

Samantha Baskind, Cleveland State University
Bernard Picart's Etchings of Amsterdam's Jews

Marcia Reed, Getty Research Institute
Picart on China: “Curious” Discourses and Images Taken Principally from the Jesuits

5:00 P.M.

 Reception
   

Saturday, December 8

 

  

9:30 A.M

Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M.

The Sources for the Cérémonies
Chair: Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht

David Brafman, Getty Research Institute
Picart, Bernard, Hermes, and Muhammad (Not Necessarily in that Order)

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität Saarbrücken
(Re)Inventing Encyclopedias in the Early European Enlightenment. The Work of Bruzen de la Martinière and its Relations with the Cérémonies et coutumes

Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California
Illness and Death among Americans in Bernard Picart’s Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World

1:00 P.M.

Lunch

2:00 P.M.

Translation: Linguistic and Historical
Chair: Lynn Hunt, UCLA

Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University
Persian Pictures: Artiface and Authenticity in the Representations of Islam in Bernard Picart’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde

Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan
The Fate of Ceremonies in the Nineteenth Century

4:15 P.M.

Concluding Discussion: What we now know, what needs to be known
Moderators: Lynn Hunt, UCLA, Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht

 


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