Europe and India in the Early Modern Period International Conference,

3-4 June 2010, Newman House UCD & Old Library TCD

Organized by Daniel Carey, Derval Conroy and Jane Conroy

Conference organized with the support of:

The Early Modern Research Strand, University College, Dublin

Texts Contexts and Cultures, NUI, Galway

The Library, Trinity College, Dublin

The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationSociety for Renaissance Studies

Programme

Thursday 3 June, Newman House, 85-86, St Stephen’s Green

13.15 Registration in Newman House

14.15 Joan-Pau Rubi̩s (London School of Economics):

‰Û÷Despotism and superstition: changing views of Indian civilization in Europe, 1550-1750′

14.45 Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway):

‰Û÷John Locke and sati’

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Rui Loureiro, Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Universidade dos A̤ores:

‰Û÷The Indian journeys of a Spanish ambassador: Don GarcÌ_a de Silva y Figuero and his Comentarios

(1614-1624)’

16.30 Dirk van der Cruysse, University of Antwerp:

‰Û÷Barth̩lemy Carr̩’s second itinerary to Persia and India’

17.15 Reception in Newman House

Friday 4 June, Henry Jones Conference Room, Old Library, TCD

9.30 Visit to the exhibition: Nabobs, Soldiers and Imperial Service: the Irish in IndiaThe Old Library, Trinity College with Dr Charles Benson, Keeper of Early Printed Books

10.00 Nandini Das (University of Liverpool):

‰Û÷Elizabeth I and the East India Company’

10.30 Richmond Barbour (Oregon State University):

‰Û÷Corporate praxis and the legacy of privateering: early voyages of the London East India

Company’

11.15 Coffee

11.30 Florence D’Souza (Universit̩ de Lille):

‰Û÷Some European perceptions of Indian trade and multiculturalism in pre-colonial Surat’

12.00 Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick):

‰Û÷Superiority by design? Cotton, technology and aesthetics in Eurasian trade, c. 1600-1800′

12.30 In̬s Zupanov (Ìäcole des Hautes Ìätudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris):

‰Û÷Passage to India: Jesuit spiritual economy between martyrdom and profit’

13.15 Lunch

14.45 Michael Harrigan (Fellow at Marsh’s Library):

‰Û÷Early Modern French Travellers and Histories of India’

15.15 ZoltÌÁn Biedermann (Birkbeck, University of London):

‰Û÷Negotiating India: Portuguese travel and diplomacy in Hindustan, 1498-1550′

15.45 Dejanirah Couto(Ìäcole Pratique des Hautes Ìätudes, Paris):

‰Û÷Informal Portuguese diplomacy of the Estado da India: spies and renegades in Gujarat (1535-

1547)’

16.30 Final discussion