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SUMMARY:A Catholic Cosmopolis? Interpreting Diversity in a Coercive Empire
DESCRIPTION:Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture\n\n–by Zoltán Biederma
 nn (University College London)\n\nOnline event via Zoom Webinar\n\nThis ev
 ent is free of charge\, but you must register to attend in advance. All re
 gistrants will receive instructions via email after registering. Click the
  following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/webin
 ar/register/WN_rgsWfB5WTKuEsdVpXkWyrg\n\n\n\nThis paper proposes a concept
 ual intervention for the history of Spanish and Portuguese expansion inspi
 red by scholarship on cosmopolitan practices in Asia\, including Sheldon P
 ollock’s The Language of Gods in the World of Men and recent work by Ric
 hard Eaton on the Persianate cosmopolis. It asks the audience to consider 
 whether the Catholic Monarchy\, especially during its global heyday c.1580
 –1640\, may be described as a cosmopolis of sorts. The arguments against
  such a reading are evident: intolerance\, coercion\, and violent repressi
 on of religious minorities are all defining characteristics of the Iberian
  Habsburg realm. But what if we revisit the concept of cosmopolitanism its
 elf\, and make it work harder than we normally do as an explanatory and in
 terpretive tool\, rather than a normative foil?\n\nZoltán Biedermann (Ph.
 D. École Pratique des Hautes Études\, Paris / Universidade Nova de Lisbo
 a) is Professor of Early Modern History at University College London. He h
 as previously taught at Birkbeck College\, the EHESS in Paris\, Brown Univ
 ersity\, and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa\, and was an Ahmanson-Getty p
 ost-doctoral fellow at UCLA in 2006–07. He is the author of several book
 s including (Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal\, Sri Lankan Diploma
 cy\, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia (Oxford University Pres
 s\, 2018)\, and a co-editor of Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History (wit
 h Alan Strathern\, UCL Press\, 2017\, full Open Access) and Global Gifts: 
 the Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia (with Giorgio Ri
 ello and Anne Gerritsen\, Cambridge University Press\, 2017).\n\nProfessor
  Biedermann has been involved in several collaborative research projects\,
  including "Global History and Microhistory" (AHRC - Oxford\, Florence and
  Warwick)\, "Trópicos letrados: textos y prácticas eruditas del clero en
  los espacios del imperio portugués de la edad moderna (1580-1750)" and" 
 Letras de Frailes: escritas franciscanas en el imperio portugués" (both a
 t the Universidad Complutense de Madrid)\, "O Governo dos Outros" (ICS\, U
 niversidade de Lisboa)\, "Comentarios de Don García de Silva y Figueroa" 
 (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and "MEDIAN" (Agence Nationale de la Recherc
 he\, Paris). He was on the Scientific Committees of the 4th\, 5th and 6th 
 Ibero-American Conference on the History of Cartography (Lisbon\, 2012\; B
 ogotá\, 2014\; Santiago de Chile\, 2016). He is also a co-editor of the 
 Maritime Asia book series at the German publisher Harrassowitz and a Boar
 d Member of Tamesis Books.\n\nHe is attached to the Portuguese Centre for 
 Global History (CHAM - now Centre for the Humanities) and the Centre for E
 arly Modern Exchanges at UCL. He is the recipient of the Ronald Tress Priz
 e for Research Excellence (2012) and has been elected a corresponding memb
 er of the Academy of the Portuguese Marine. He became a Fellow of the Roya
 l Historical Society in May 2019.\n\n\n\nThis lecture is presented as part
  of Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms\, a lecture series hosted by Barbara Fu
 chs (University of California\, Los Angeles) and Andrew Devereux (Universi
 ty of California\, San Diego) and sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- &
 amp\; 18th-Century Studies.\n\nImage: World Map by Abraham Ortelius\, Antw
 erp\, 1570 (wikimedia.org)
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