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Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Modern World – MEMSA Graduate Student Conference
Friday, Jun 2, 2023 @ 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Royce 306,
10745 Dickson Ct
Los Angeles CA, 90095 United States + Google Map
Los Angeles CA, 90095 United States + Google Map
| 08:00–08:15 PST | Introduction & Welcome Patrick Morgan, Hannah Thomson, and Chase Caldwell Smith |
| PANEL 1: CULTURAL CIRCULATION IN PRE-MODERN ASIA | |
| 08:15–08:30 PST | “Nonnational Affinities and Shared Scape of Romances: Persianate World in Circulation” Yoonus Kozhisseri, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| 08.30–08:45 PST | “Monsters, Deities, and Humanity in the Early Modern Philippines” Zhiyu Chen, University of Cambridge |
| 08:45–09:00 PST | “Rethinking the Yuan ‘Chinese’ Imperial City: Building Ordo Spatial Logic into the Mongol Great Capital” Andrea Valedón Trapote, University of Michigan |
| 09:00–09:15 PST | Discussion & Questions Yoonus Kozhisseri, Zhiyu Chen, & Andrea Valedón Trapote |
| 09:15–09:30 PST | Break |
| PANEL 2: COMMUNICATING ACROSS DIVIDES | |
| 09:30–09:45 PST | “Speaking Beyond the Divide: A Lusophone Interpreter in the Gulf of Benin, 1516” Joseph Jackson-Eade, University of Bologna |
| 09:45–10:00 PST | “The People’s Diplomacy: Reinier Nooms’ Dutch Landscaping of Barbary Ports” Annie Correll, New York University |
| 10:00–10.15 am PST | “Portable Paleography: Commodifying Latin Script across Premodern Borders” Jessica Cochran, University of New Mexico |
| 10:15–10.30 PST | Discussion & Questions Joseph Jackson-Eade, Annie Correll, & Jessica Cochran |
| 10:30–10:45 PST | Break |
| PANEL 3: FRONTIERS & BORDERLANDS IN THE AMERICAS, PART I | |
| 10:45–11:00 PST | “By the Cross and Sword: Inconvenient Alliances on the French-Spanish Frontiers in North America (18th Century)” Thomas Croisez, European University Institute |
| 11:00–11:15 PST | “The Multilateral Borderlands of Colonial Competition: Dividing the Circum-Caribbean between Spanish, French, Indigenous, and Maroon Spheres, ca. 1560–1700” Florian Wieser, University of Edinburgh |
| 11:15–11.30 PST | “Iberian Global Empires and the Insights of Outsiders: Accounts of Borderlands, Governance and Lawlessness along the First American Frontiers” Daniel O’Driscoll, University of Oxford |
| 11:30–11:45 PST | Discussion & Questions Thomas Croisez, Florian Wieser, & Daniel O’Drischoll |
| 11:45–12.45 PST | Lunch Break |
| 12:45–13:30 PST | Keynote Lecture & Discussion: “Conceptualizing the ‘Fringe’ in the History of Early Modern Southeast Asia” Professor Oona Paredes, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 13:30–13:45 PST | Break |
| PANEL 4: MARITIME BORDERS, FRONTIERS, & BORDERLANDS | |
| 13:45–14:00 PST | “A New Political Landscape: The Florentine-Lebanese Mediterranean of the Early Seventeenth Century” Georgina Watson, The University of Manchester |
| 14:00–14:15 PST | “The Arabian Tribal Frontier of the Portuguese Thalassocracy in the Pre-Ottoman Persian Gulf (1515-1550)” Gabriel Soares, University of São Paulo |
| 14:15–14:30 PST | “St. Malo and Maritime Borderlands” Caroline Foster, Columbia University |
| 14:30–14:45 PST | Discussion & Questions Georgina Watson, Gabriel Soares, & Caroline Foster |
| 14:45–15:00 PST | Break |
| PANEL 5: FRONTIERS & BORDERLANDS IN THE AMERICAS, PART II | |
| 15:00–15:15 PST | “Illicit Commerce and Eastern Cuban Society in the 17th-Century Spanish Caribbean Borderlands” Keith Richards, Tulane University |
| 15:15–15:30 PST | “The Archive as Portrait: Constructing a Documentary Likeness in Spanish California” Louisa Raitt, New York University |
| 15:30-15:45 PST | “Weather and the Jesuits in the Spanish Borderlands” Piper Milton, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 15:45–16:00 PST | Discussion & Questions Keith Richards, Louisa Raitt, & Piper Milton |
| 16:00–16:30 PST | “Chinoiserie: Musical Selections from Chinese and European Cultural Exchange” Benjamin Fleischacker and Friends |
| 16:30 PST | Closing Remarks Patrick Morgan, Hannah Thomson, and Chase Caldwell Smith |
