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:306@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T170000 DTSTAMP:20200318T164209Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/hidden-histories/ SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Hidden Histories of the French Wars of Religion: French Accounts of the New World as a Vector of Religious Polemic DESCRIPTION:Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture\n–Andrea Frisch\, Unive rsity of Maryland\, College Park\n\n\n\nContemporary readers of Jean de L éry’s Histoire d’un voyage en terre de Brésil\, first published in 1 578\, have tended to downplay or outright ignore the context of the work ’s composition and repeated publication in the midst of the French Wars of Religion. Though most scholars acknowledge Léry’s status as a Protes tant missionary\, and some (most notably Frank Lestringant) have brought C alvinist theology to bear on an analysis of Léry’s account\, little has been written about the circumstances in which the book was published and circulated. This is largely due to the fact that virtually all modern edit ions of the work\, both in French and in the 1990 English translation by J anet Whatley\, are based on either the first (1578)\, or more often the se cond (1580) of the five editions overseen by the author before his death i n 1613. This editorial choice obscures the protean nature of Léry’s Bra zilian history\; even Montaigne’s Essais\, famous for its author’s add itions and annotations over three editions at around the same time\, does not offer as dynamic a composition\, publication\, and diffusion story as does the Histoire d’un voyage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries .\n\nThis talk will address the Early Modern contexts of the publication a nd reception of the Histoire d’un voyage\, in order to try to understand the nature of the debates in which Léry sought to intervene\, and in ord er to try and grasp the ways in which his account of Brazil was received a nd diffused in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.\n\nAndrea Frisch r eceived her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley in 1 996. Her research focuses on literary and historiographical works in the s ocial\, cultural\, and political context of the Protestant Reformation\, w ith special attention to Francophone material.\n\nThe Invention of the Eye witness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France (University of No rth Carolina Press\, 2004) is an examination of the links between the witn ess of the French law courts\, the figure of the witness in theological wr itings\, the eyewitness narrator of Francophone travel literature\, and th e witness-as-narrator in French literary and philosophical texts in the fi fteenth and sixteenth centuries. The book’s analyses highlight the tense coexistence between traditional ethical models of witnessing inherited fr om medieval precedents\, on the one hand\, and an epistemic conception of witnessing\, according to which eyewitnessing gained special prestige as a depersonalized\, quasi-objective form of testimony\, on the other.\n\nFor getting Differences: Tragedy\, Historiography and the French Wars of Relig ion (Edinburgh University Press\, 2015) is a study of the rhetoric of reco nciliation in the wake of France’s civil wars (1562–1598). Taking cont emporaneous juridical and theological conceptions of pardon\, amnesty\, an d reconciliation as a point of departure\, the book identifies parallels b etween historiographical method and tragic aesthetics in sixteenth- and se venteenth-century France. The tandem evolution of these discourses was cen trally conditioned by the challenge of representing civil war in a way tha t would be perceived simultaneously as truthful and as non-polemical.\n\nC urrent projects include Dispassionate Truths: The Rise of Unmemorable Hist ory\, which tracks the relationship between the “memorable” and the “true” in the larger body of early modern European historiography\, an d The Library of the Enlightened Ethnographer\, which examines the recepti on of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European travel literature in eight eenth-century anthropology and ethnography.\n\n \;\n\nNo registration is required. There is no charge for this event.\n\nQuestions?\nContact Jea nette LaVere at jlavere@humnet.ucla.edu or 310-206-8552. 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