The Fourth Dartmouth History Institute
The Global and the Local: New Histories from Across the Seventeenth-Century World
Dartmouth College, June 21-23, 2023
Program
| June 21 | |
| 8:30-9:30 | Breakfast and Welcome Session - Rockefeller Center |
| 9:30-11:30 | Session 1: Reforming the State Gabriel Groz: "'To Open the Avenue of Speech': Taxation, Politics, and the Origins of the Late Ming Partisan Movement, 1580-1626" Comments: Pamela Crossley, Alexa McCall Alexa McCall: "Religious transformation and state finance in Interregnum Ireland" Comments: Carl Estabrook, Gabriel Groz |
| 11:30-12:45 | Lunch - Rockefeller Center |
| 12:45-14:45 | Session 2: Finance, Bureaucracy, and Visions of Empire Ellen Nye: "Money on Trial: The Localization of Global Coinage in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" Comments: Carina Johnson, Suzanne Litrel Suzanne Litrel: "'All Men have Death in Common': Restoration and Conflict Across and Beyond the Portuguese Atlantic World" Comments: Paul Musselwhite, Ellen Nye |
| 14:45-15:00 | Break |
| 15:00-17:00 | Session 3: Transcultural Dialogues Phillip Emanuel: "'Doe it by some Good alliances made with ye most powerfull of them': Non-European allies of the English Empire" Comments: Lauren Benton, Man Zheng Man Zheng: "Transformation of Knowledge and Plurality of Authorship in the Re-narration and Circulation of Matteo Ricci’s Chinese World Map in Late Ming China" Comments: Miya Xie, Phillip Emanuel |
| 18:00 | Reception followed by Dinner - Hanover Inn |
| June 22 | |
| Breakfast | At Six South Street |
| 8:45-10:45 | Session 4: Indigenous Adaptations Chechesh Kudachinova: "The Sea of Siberian Slavery: Human Commodification and Empire in Seventeenth-Century Northeast Eurasia" Comments: Stuart Finkel, Camden Elliott Camden Elliott: "Towards a New History of Smallpox in Northeastern North America, 1616-1727" Comments: Colin Calloway, Chechesh Kudachinova |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-13:00 | Session 5: Race, Community, and Political Economy Diana Heredia-López: "Debating Alternative Roads to Plantation Economies: The Expansion and Contraction of Cochineal Cultivation in Seventeenth-Century New Spain" Comments: Allan Greer, Eduardo Dawson Eduardo Dawson: "African Catechumens in the Early Americas: Seventeenth-Century Encounters with Catholic Religious Teachings" Comments: Stephanie Hassell, Diana Heredia-López |
| 13:00-14:15 | Lunch - Rockefeller Center |
| 14:15-16:15 | Session 6: Ecologies and Empire Marlis Hinckley: "The Spanish Proto-Botanical Gardens of the Seventeenth Century" Comments: Ernesto Mercado-Montero, Brandon Burger Brandon Burger: "The Castorcene World of the Seneca Homeland" Comments: Joshua Piker, Marlis Hinckley |
| 17:30 | Bus to Lake Morey Resort - drinks and dinner |
| June 23 | |
| Breakfast | At Six South Street |
| 9:00-11:00 | Session 7: Sainthood, Martyrdom, and Politics Eduardo Angel Cruz: "The Cost of Holiness: Alms, Mediation, and Political Imagination in the Canonization of Counter-Reformation Saints in the Spanish Empire" Comments: Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Bonnie Soper Bonnie Soper: "The Politics of Suffering: Seventeenth-Century Scottish Covenanter and Jacobite Martyrologies and their Influence on the Union of 1707" Comments: Tiraana Bains, Eduardo Angel Cruz |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break |
| 11:15-12:15 | Wrap Up Discussion: Still A Century in Crisis? |
| 12:15 | Lunch - Rockefeller Center (pick up options available) |
This event is sponsored by the Department of History, the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, the Office of the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.