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Early Modern Europe and India: Politics, Philosophy, and Representation

March 15, 2012 @ 9:00 am

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Date:
March 15, 2012
Time:
9:00 am

Early Modern Europe and India: Politics, Philosophy, and Representation

Newman House, UCD & Chester Beatty Library, 15-16 March 2012

Thursday : Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen‰۪s Green

10.45 Welcome and opening remarks

11.00 Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA)

‰Û÷Orientalism, Realpolitik, and the Foundation of the Compagnie des Indes‰۪

11.45 Joan-Pau Rubi̩s (London School of Economics)

‰Û÷Libertine readings of Hinduism‰۪

12.30 Lunch

2.00 Fr̩d̩ric Tinguely (Universit̩ de Gen̬ve)

‰Û÷Difference and Dissimulation: French Representations of Fakirs in the XVIIth Century‰۪

2.45 Faith Beasley (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)

‰Û÷ ‰Û÷Le joli philosophe‰۪: Fran̤ois Bernier and 17th-century French salon culture‰۪

3.30 Coffee

4.00 Kapil Raj (EHESS, Paris)

‰Û÷The Stranger and the Wanderer: Two Standpoints for Representing South Asia in John Marshall (c.1640-1677) and Edward Ives (d.1786)‰۪

4.45 Antje FlÌ_chter (University of Heidelberg)

‰Û÷JÌ_rgen Andersen and Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo in Mughal India: German travelogues published by Adam Olearius and their Perception in German Discourse‰۪

5.30 pm Reception

Friday : Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle

10.00 Timothy Walker (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)

‰Û÷Hybridized Indo-Portuguese Medical Culture (1560-1830)‰۪

10.45 Michiel van Groesen (University of Amsterdam)

‰Û÷Americans in Agra: Robert Coverte, Johan Theodore de Bry, and the European Iconography of Mughal India‰۪

11.30 Dan Carey (NUI Galway)

Closing remarks : Edward Terry‰۪s India

12.00 Tour of Chester Beatty Library collections

12.45 Lunch, Silk Road Caf̩, Chester Beatty Library

Organised by Prof Dan Carey (NUI Galway); Prof Jane Conroy (NUI Galway); Dr Derval Conroy (UCD); Dr Jane Grogan (UCD)

Supported by the Moore Institute, NUI Galway; the Andrew Mellon Foundation; UCD seed-funding; the French Embassy.