‘Moveable Types’ is a three-day conference,\u00a0held at the University of Kent, \u00a0which aims to re-examine the processes of cultural exchange in early modern Europe. Traditional historiography has tended to focus on a bilateral transfer of cultures, which, however meaningful, also lift out individual moments of cultural exchange from the environment which made such encounters not only possible, but also significant. By considering cultural exchange in discrete, isolated moments, one runs the risk of oversimplifying the complex networks of cultural exchange in Europe, and thereby skewing European history into a nation-centred perspective.<\/p>\n
Recent scholarship such as histoire crois\u00e9e, entangled histories, cultural translation
\nand actor network theory (ANT) are, meanwhile, looking at such processes in their entirety,
\nas a noisy hubbub rather than a dialogue between binaries (writer and reader, buyer and seller,
\none nation and another). These approaches explore a network of different elements and
\ncharacters, all of which are given equal agency in shaping each others’ views of the world.
\nThis conference will explore the implications of these recent developments in
\nscholarship by inviting papers with an interdisciplinary approach to cultural exchange in the
\nearly modern period. The objective is thus to question the binaries of traditional scholarship,
\nand to suggest new ways of considering the cultural connections that were being formed,
\nbroken and reformed in this period.<\/p>\n
Confirmed keynote speakers<\/strong>: We invite papers on the following topics<\/strong>:<\/p>\n literary translation and adaptation; Abstracts should be sent to moveabletypesconference@gmail.com<\/a> before 1st of August<\/strong> Conference Sponsors:<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘Moveable Types’ is supported by The Royal Historical Society<\/a>, The University of Kent’s School of History<\/a>, The Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities <\/a>(KIASH), and Text and Event in Early Modern Europe<\/a> (TEEME).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘Moveable Types’ is a three-day conference,\u00a0held at the University of Kent, \u00a0which aims to re-examine the processes of cultural exchange in early modern Europe. Traditional … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews);
\n– Tiffany Stern (University of Oxford);
\n– Gilles Bertrand (Universit\u00e9 Pierre Mend\u00e8s France, Grenoble);
\n– Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary, University of London).<\/p>\n
\n\u2015 exchange of ideas (scientific, humanist, technological, artistic);
\n\u2015 epistolary networks;
\n\u2015 theory of cultural exchange or cultural networks;
\n\u2015 paths of ambassadors, sailors, traders, book pedlars and other travellers;
\n\u2015 news, gossip and news books;
\n\u2015 spaces of cultural exchange: cities, fairs, universities, theatres;
\n\u2015 the making, trading, and consumption of consumer items;
\n\u2015 any other paper relating to early modern cultural exchange.<\/p>\n
\n2014 and should not be longer than 300 words. Please include affiliation and contact
\ninformation, as well as a short biographical note, on a separate document.
\nFor more information please visit http:\/\/moveabletypes.wordpress.com\/<\/a> or e-mail
\nmoveabletypesconference@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n