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| Fall 2009 Calendar of Events |
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| Thursday, October 8, 2009 |
4:30 - 6:30 pm |
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Murray Hall
Plangere Writing Center
510 George Street
College Avenue Campus
Free and open to the university community
and the public
Directions
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| Working Group: |
| The Program in Early Modern Studies |
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Jorge Canizares-Esguerra (University of Texas)
Henry Turner (Rutgers University), Discussant
Camilla Townsend (Rutgers University), Discussant
James Delbourgo (Rutgers University), Moderator
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This event is based around Cañizares-Esguerra’s Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford, 2006), which attendees are strongly encouraged to read beforehand. The book explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the grounds for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolution. Patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.
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Center for Cultural Analysis | Program in Early Modern Studies | Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis | Program in the History of Science, Technology, Environment and Health |
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