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:369@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T130000 DTSTAMP:20220202T220859Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/wip-johnson/ SUMMARY:Works-in-Progress session: “Early Modern Multiplicities” DESCRIPTION:given by Carina Johnson (Professor of History\, Pitzer College and Extended Faculty\, Claremont Graduate University) and Ayesha Ramachand ran (Associate Professor\, Comparative Literature and Chair of the Program in Renaissance Studies\, Yale University)\nRespondent: Lisa Voigt (Profes sor of Spanish and Portuguese\, The Ohio State University)\n\nPresented on line via Zoom Meeting.\nThis event is free of charge\, but you must regist er to attend in advance. All audience members will receive instructions vi a email after registration. Click the following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdO6uqjspHNKZgNbVvO2-S qFY-ivgdQW8\n\nThis session presents a collaborative experiment in cross-d isciplinary engagement: Johnson\, a historian\, and Ramachandran\, a liter ary scholar\, explore new theoretical futures for studies of the “global early modern.” Drawing on their recent publication of a guest-edited sp ecial issue of Modern Philology\, “Multiplicities: Recasting the Early M odern Global\,” they expand that introduction into a more robust framewo rk for “multiplicities.”\n\nThe global turn in early modern studies is well-established: studies of contact zones\, entanglements\, and connecte d histories have revealed networks and circulations across previously segr egated spatial arenas. Scholarship on racialization\, de-centered empire\, religious conflict\, and cross-cultural engagements has generated convers ations among scholars once isolated in distinct regional and national-lite rary frameworks. And hitherto untapped archives and sources are being depl oyed in new narratives about globalization’s articulations. However\, th is turn has also precipitated methodological and theoretical questions—s pecifically\, those focused on intersectional experience and efforts to mo ve beyond the now-familiar binaries of periphery/center\, colony/metropole \, local/global. For\, as Valerie Traub has observed\, too great an insist ence on spatial epistemology makes it difficult to fully consider and arti culate intersectionality in the early modern world.[1]\n\nMoving beyond sp atial metaphors\, our presentation confronts the politics of thinking in g lobal terms—not as a scalar hierarchy or map of centers and margins\, bu t rather as a more complex imbrication of intentionality and understanding that can hold multiple perspectives in view simultaneously. We focus on a trio of philosophers/theorists—Deleuze &\; Guattari\, Edouard Glissa nt\, and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro—each of whom offers a mode of thinki ng in multiplicities. The rhizome\, the trace\, and the perspectivism of r adical difference become invitations to the futures of our fields.\n\nCari na Johnson is Professor of History at Pitzer College and Extended Faculty at Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans (2011) and co-edito r of Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation\, 1517-201 7 (2017). Her current research projects include Homefront Experiences of t he Habsburg-Ottoman Wars\, 1470-1620\, an exploration of the cultural cons equences of war and violence in the sixteenth-century Habsburg Empire\, an d the early modern European use of identity markers prior to the concept o f biological race.\n\nAyesha Ramachandran is Associate Professor of Compar ative Literature and Chair of the Program in Renaissance Studies at Yale U niversity. Her first prizewinning book\, The Worldmakers (University of Ch icago Press\, 2015) provides a cultural and intellectual history of “the world\,” showing how it emerged as a cultural keyword in early modernit y. Her current projects range from new research on early modern and contem porary South Asia to work in comparative philology\, cartography\, oral hi story\, and lyric studies. Her new book manuscript in progress is tentativ ely entitled\, Lyric Thinking: Towards a Global Poetics.\n\nLisa Voigt is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University\, and was recently a Visiting Professor at Yale University (Autumn 2021). She is th e author of Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations o f Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds (2009 ) and Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns (2016). Her current research projects include a co-authored book\, w ith Elio Brancaforte and Stephanie Leitch\, provisionally entitled “The Epistemology of the Copy in Early Modern Travel Narratives” and supporte d by an ACLS Collaborative Fellowship (2019–2022). She is also a member of the international research team of Public Rituals in the Portuguese Em pire.\n\n[1] Valerie Traub\, “History in the Present Tense: Feminist The ories\, Spatialized Epistemologies\, and Early Modern Embodiment\,” in M apping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World\, ed. Merry Wi esner-Hanks (Farnham\, Ashgate\, 2015)\, 15-53.\n\nImage: From Tommaso Faz ello\, De rebvs sicvlis decades dvae... (Palermo\, 1560). Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library\, Yale University. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11 /works-in-progress-Johnson-Ramachandran-image-_website.jpg CATEGORIES:Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR