[1] From: exempla@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (31)
Subject: New College Conference (USF - Sarasota), Complete
Program (X-posted)
[2] From: Germaine Warkentin <warkent@epas.utoronto.ca> (158)
Subject: De-Centring Renaissance
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:42:07 -0500
From: exempla@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
Subject: New College Conference (USF - Sarasota), Complete Program (X-posted)
<i>Exemplaria</i> is pleased to announce that the complete program
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Renaissance Studies (Sarasota - March 14-16, 1996) is now available
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:14:37 -0500
From: Germaine Warkentin <warkent@epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: De-Centring Renaissance
Attached herewith is the full programme for the forthcoming conference
on Early Modern Canada, sponsored by the Centre for Reformation and
Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto.
For a registration form, please send an e-mail message to Germaine
Warkentin, warkent@epas.utoronto.ca
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DE-CENTRING THE RENAISSANCE:
Canada and Europe in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective 1350-1700
Victoria University in the University of Toronto, March 7-10, 1996
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NOTE: Papers will be circulated in advance (mid-February) to those who have
already registered. During the actual sessions, participants will each have 5-7
minutes to speak to, outline, or perhaps add to, their draft papers; the floor
will then be opened to extended discussion.
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Thursday, March 7:
5.00 pm: Registration opens, foyer of Victoria College main building
("Old Vic")
7.00 pm: Conference Welcome: Elders of the Mississauga Nation.
7.15-9.15 pm: PUBLIC SESSION: The Frobisher Expeditions to the Eastern Arctic,
1576-78 (Organizer: Donald D. Hogarth, Department of Geology, University of
Ottawa)
Donald D. Hogarth: "Martin Frobisher's Northwest Voyages, 1576, 1577, 1578:
Exploration and Mines"
Re'ginald Auger (Laval University), "An Elizabethan Mining Enterprise in the
Eastern Arctic"
William W. Fitzhugh (Smithsonian Institution), "Archaeology of the Frobisher
Voyages: The New World Order and the Arctic"
Lynda Gullason (Archaeological Survey of Canada, Canadian Museum of
Civilization), "Thule Epi-Metallurgy and the Consequences of Elizabethan
Contact"
Anne Henshaw (Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University), "Inuit Economy and Ecology
During the Frobisher Voyages"
Dosia Laeyendecker (Smithsonian Institution), "Wood Remains from Frobisher
Bay"
9.15-10.30 pm: Welcoming Reception
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Friday, March 8:
9.00-9.40 am: Plenary Session: OLIVE DICKASON (History, University of Alberta),
"The Sixteenth-Century French Vision of Empire: the Other Side of Self-
Determination"
9.40-10.00 am: Coffee
10.00-12.00 noon: Special Session: NATIVE/EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS (Organizer:
Jennifer S. H. Brown, History, University of Winnipeg/Rupert's Land Record
Society)
Wallace Chafe (Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara) "The
Earliest Encounters of Europeans with Iroquoian Languages"
John Steckley (Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humber College, Toronto),
"Dialects and the Formation of the Huron-Wendat Alliance"
David Pentland (Linguistics, University of Manitoba), "Naming the Nations in
Seventeenth-Century New France"
Roger Roulette (Manitoba Association for Native Languages), Commentator.
12.00-1.00: Buffet Lunch
1.00-1.40: Plenary Session: LUCA CODIGNOLA (Istituto di storia del Medioevo e
dell' Espansione Europea, Universita` di Genova, Italy), "The Creation
of a North Atlantic Network, 1350-1700: Roman Catholicism as an
Overall Context"
1.40-3.15: Early Modern Canada: The East Coast
Peter Bakker (Institute for General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam),
"Basque-Amerindian Contacts (1530s-1560s) and their Consequences"
David McNab (Independent Scholar, Toronto), "The Mi'kmaq of Ktaqamkuk and La
Grande Barbe: Whose Renaissance?"
Rina Palumbo (Ph.D. Candidate, History, The Johns Hopkins University), "The
Challenge of George Calvert: Avalon and the Shaping of Absolute Rule"
John G. Reid (History, St. Mary's University, Halifax) and Emerson W. Baker III
(History, Salem State College), "As good or better Englishman than the
Collector is: Allegiance, Espionage, and Rebellion in North Eastern North
America 1690-1694"
3.15-3.30: Coffee
3.30-5.30: Special Session: ORIGINS AND BEGINNINGS IN NEWFOUNDLAND (Organizer:
Shannon Miller, English, Temple University)
Shannon Miller (English, Temple University), "Producing the New World, or
Reproducing the Old?"
Anne Lake Prescott (English, Barnard College), "Old Wine in New World Bottles"
Mary Fuller (Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Newfoundland
and Roanoke: Narratives of Origin"
5.45-7.15: Dinner hour reception
7.30: PUBLIC SESSION: Keynote Speaker: NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS.
Department of History, Princeton University.
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Saturday, March 9:
9.00-9.40: Plenary Session: SELMA BARKHAM (London, England), "The Mentality of
the Spanish Merchants who Financed Sixteenth-Century Voyages
to North America"
9.40-10.00: coffee
10.00-12.00: Special Session: "COLONISATION FRANCAIS ET AME'RINDIENS AUX XVIe-
XVIIe SIE`CLES: DE'COUVERTE, APPROPRIATION, ET TRANSFORMATION DU TERRITOIRE"
(Organizer: Re'al Ouellet, Universite' Laval)
Alain Beaulieu (Universite' Laval), "Ne faire qu'un seul peuple? La
diplomatie franco-iroquoise (1650-1660)"
Denys Dela^ge (Universite' Laval), "La tradition contemporaine des
Wampums chez les Algonquins du Que'bec"
Re'al Ouellet (Universite' Laval), "Re'presentation de l'ame'rindien
dans les textes de la Nouvelle-France"
Laurier Turgeon (Universite' Laval), "Pecheurs Basques et Ame'rindiens
au Canada du XVI sie`cle"
12.00-1.00: Buffet Lunch
1.00-1.40: Plenary Session: GILLES THE'RIEN (Se'miotiqie, Universite'
du Que'bec a` Montre'al), "La memoria comme lieu de
fabrication du nouveau monde"
1.40-3.40: Concurrent Sessions
A: EARLY REPRESENTATIONS
William Barker (Memorial University of Newfoundland), "The `Colchos' of William
Vaughan"
Jack Warwick (French, Atkinson College of York University),
"Discovery: Reference and Fable"
Patricia O'Grady (Fine Art History, University of Toronto),
"Trans-Atlantic Views of Inhabited Space ca. 1564-1700"
Guy Poirier (Department of French, Simon Fraser University), "Le pays des
Ennasins"
B: JESUITS AND MISSIONARIES
Giovanni Pizzorusso (Independent Scholar affiliated with the Centre Acade'mique
Canadien en Italie), "Les aspectatives des aspirants missionaires au
Canada"
Peter Goddard (History, University of Guelph), "Canada in Early Modern Jesuit
Thought: Backwater or Opportunity?"
Pierre Berthiaume (Lettres franc,aises, Universite' d'Ottawa), "Le Missionaire
De'posse'de'"
Andre' Sanfac,on (De'partment d'histoire, Universite' Laval),
"Christianisation et relations canado-europe'ennes au XVIIe sie`cle:
la Vierge, le Je'suit et l'Ame'rindien dans les conse'crations
mariales des Hurons et des Abe'nakis de la Nouvelle-France"
3.40-4.00: Coffee
4.00-6.00: Special Session: OTHER CONSTRUCTIONS OF HISTORY: OPPORTUNITIES AND
PROBLEMS IN REPRESENTING FIRST NATIONS VIEWS OF THE PAST (Organizer:
Trudy Nicks, Curator of Department Ethnology, Royal Ontario Museum)
Trudy Nicks (ROM) and Ruth Phillips (Art History, Carleton University),
"Decolonizing the Wampums: Living Histories from Dead Letters"
Olive Dickason (History, University of Alberta), "Some Early
Amerindian Reactions to Europeans"
Richard Preston (Anthropology, McMaster University), "The Cree Frontier"
Elizabeth Lightning (Wetaskawin, Alberta; Ph.D Candidate, Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education), "The Civilization/Savagism Dichotomy
and the Roots of Racist Ideology in North America"
Toby Morantz (Anthropology, McGill University), "Discovery and Exploration in
Interpreting Native Views of Early Contact"
Deborah Doxtator (Humanities, York University), Commentator
6.00-7.00: Reception
7.00-9.00: Banquet
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Sunday, March 10:
9.30-11.00: Concurrent Sessions
C: SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN EARLY CANADA
Delno C. West (History, Northern Arizona University), "Inventio fortunata and
Polar Cartography 1360-1700"
Lynn Berry (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto), "Natives and
`Amateurs': the Pursuit of Natural Science in New France"
Joyce E. Chaplin (History, Vanderbilt University), "English Artifice in a Cold
Climate: the Arctic and Newfoundland Encounters, 1576-1612"
D: EARLY MODERN CANADA: THE INTERIOR
Joseph Branda~o (recent Ph.D in History, York University; Independent Scholar),
"The Statistics of War: the Iroquois in the Seventeenth Century"
Conrad Heidenreich (Geography, York University), "How the French Invented the
Inland Exploration of Canada"
11.00-11.20: coffee
11.20-12.45: CONCLUDING PANEL: "Can the Renaissance be De-Centred?"
Chair: Germaine Warkentin
Participants: TBA
12.45: Closing Ceremonies: Elders of the Mississauga Nation