Welcome to the first Princeton-Yale Graduate Student Annual Workshop in the History of the Early Modern World held with the generous support of the European Studies Council. The Council on Middle East Studies and the History Department also contributed to the workshop. The 2019 workshop will take place at Yale University, New Haven, October 11-12.
Linsly-Chittenden Hall Room 105, 63 High Street, New Haven
Pre-circulated papers will be made available via Dropbox from September 20 and everyone is expected to read them. Each speaker presents her/his paper for no more than 10 minutes, then the session’s chair moderates the discussion.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
2:30-2:45 pm Introductions
2:45-4:15 pm Session I
Chair: Francesca Trivellato (IAS)
Richard Calis (Princeton), The Quest for Christian Orthodoxy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Tyler Kynn (Yale), The Seasonal Empire: The Imperial Surre Registers and the Seasonality of Ottoman Power in Early Modern Mecca and Medina
Break
4:30-6:00 pm Session II
Chair: Paola Bertucci (Yale)
Ana Sekulic (Princeton), Environment and Faith in the Mountains of Ottoman Bosnia
Tommaso Stefini (Yale), Identifying the Venetians in early-seventeenth century Istanbul
6:30 pm Dinner for invited guests
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
8:15 am Breakfast
9-10:30 am Session III
Chair: Alan Mikhail (Yale)
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore (Yale), An Antidote and a Health Ritual for the Prince and for the City (1544 – 1590)
Constantine Theodorides (Princeton), Abraham Casteleyn and the Market for Mediterranean News in the Dutch Golden Age
Break
10:45 am-12:30 pm Session IV
Chair: Molly Greene (Princeton)
Matthew Dudley (Yale), Navigating a Sea of Distinctions: Sephardi Sociolinguistic Development in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Aaron Stamper (Princeton), Melodies of Doves, Clamor from the Towers: Granada’s Sonic Conversion, 1492-1526
Lunch and Goodbye until next year!
Contact: barbara.digennaro@yal.edu, jennifer.strtak@yale.edu