BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:339@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T171500 DTSTAMP:20210210T200444Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/critical-conversation-1/ SUMMARY:Critical Conversation: Exploring Visual Materials in the Early Mode rn World—Opportunities and Challenges for Global History DESCRIPTION:Presented by Chase Caldwell Smith\, UCLA and Jeffery C. J. Chen \, Stanford University\n\nZoom Meeting\nThis event is free of charge\, but you must register to attend in advance. All audience members will receive instructions via email after registration. Click the following link to re gister directly with Zoom:  https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsfuG pqD0uHdE7hCNvCtUMxGfIz8Ft5lMw\n\nHost – Zirwat Chowdhury\, Assistant Pro fessor of Art History\, UCLA\nRespondent - Bronwen Wilson\, Director and P rofessor of Art History\, UCLA\n\nAs part of our ongoing effort to sustain intellectual community and enable scholarly exchange\, and in order to su pport and encourage the work many of us are doing in a range of public for ums during this unprecedented time\, the UCLA Center for 17th- &\; 18th -Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library are hosting wo rks-in-progress sessions and critical conversations online via Zoom during the 2020–21 academic year. Academic programs supported by the Center/Cl ark explore the latest research in the early modern period (including the long eighteenth century\, which extends through the Romantic period) and i n special areas represented in the Clark’s collections.\n\nWhat are the opportunities and challenges of using images to write global histories? In this critical conversation\, Chase Caldwell Smith and Jeffery C. J. Chen each draw on case studies from their research to think about larger questi ons concerning the place of the image in global history\, and the place of the global in visual history. Focusing on images of men produced by a Lus o-Malay mestiço cosmographer in the early seventeenth-century Estado da Índia and paintings of the Chinese coast made in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries\, the speakers will reflect on historiographical deb ates concerning hybridity\, flows\, and exchange in global and visual hist ories. Center/Clark Director and Professor Bronwen Wilson\, one of the two co-organizers of the research project\, ‘Making Worlds: Art\, Materiali ty\, and Early Modern Globalization’\, will act as respondent to their c onversation\, and facilitate a discussion with the audience.\n\nChase Cald well Smith is a first-year Ph.D. student in the UCLA History Department\, in the South &\; Southeast Asia field. He is also working towards the G raduate Certificate in Early Modern Studies\, administered by the UCLA Cen ter for 17th- &\; 18th-Century Studies and the UCLA Department of Spani sh &\; Portuguese. Chase's research interests center thematically on hi stories of cultural encounter\, race and identity\, religious conversion\, and knowledge production\, and geographically on the early modern Iberian empires in maritime Southeast Asia. He is the co-founder of the Global Hi story Podcast\, a digital history project which features interviews with s cholars on research in early modern global history.\n\nJeffery C. J. Chen is a third-year Ph.D. student in Modern British history at Stanford Univer sity. He is currently working on revising our understanding of the First A nglo-Chinese War (1839–1842)\, by situating the conflict within the long history of China’s ‘South Sea’ frontier. As part of this project\, Jeffery draws on visual materials—China coast paintings\, engravings\, c ommemorative objects\, and ship designs—to reconstruct the cultural foun dations and legacy of China’s violent introduction to modern European im perialism.\n\n\n\nImage: William Daniell\, A View of the European Factorie s at Canton\, c. late 18th to early 19th century. Oil on canvas. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Maritime Museum\, Greenwich\, London\, 1999. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01 /critical-convo-1-_web.jpg CATEGORIES:Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR