tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21489963271087250782024-03-08T04:57:09.239-08:00Imagining the Ancients. Republics and the Classical Past, 1500-1800Interdisciplinary Conference, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, 14-15 November 2013Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2148996327108725078.post-24158138801423029802013-09-11T03:23:00.001-07:002013-10-17T02:48:01.764-07:00Program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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has become an indispensable term of analysis in scholarship on the
history of early modern political thought. The importance of the
classical world to republican theorists from the Renaissance to the
Enlightenment, from Machiavelli to Madison, has been firmly established.
Yet all too often the role of the ancient world in early modern
republican thought is described in rather abstract and general terms.
Much work therefore remains to be done on the specific ways in which
particular classical models were used in early modern republican
contexts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This conference studies <b>the role of concrete and</b> <b>specific ancient republican models in the political thought of early modern republics</b>.
It focuses on the ways in which ancient republics such as the
Hebrew Commonwealth, Athens, Sparta, Carthage and Rome helped shape the
republican political imagination in the Italian city-state republics,
the Swiss <i>Eidgenossenschaft</i>, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Republic of the United
Provinces, the English Republic under Cromwell, and the revolutionary
republics of the late eighteenth century, including the USA. Bringing
together scholars from different backgrounds, the conference <b>crosses disciplinary boundaries</b> and integrates the approaches of historians, art historians and literary historians.</span></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thursday 14 November</b></span></span></u><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />10h Welcome and Introduction<br /><br />10.15-12.45</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Benjamin Straumann</b> (NYU) – <i>The Roman Republican Constitution from the Principate to the Renaissance</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Jacques Bos</b> (Amsterdam) – <i>The Model of Rome in Florentine Historiography and the Problem of Renaissance Historicism</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>William Stenhouse</b> (Yeshiva University) – <i>Republican Models in Late Renaissance Histories of Ancient Greece </i><br /><br />13.45-15.15<br /><b>Guido Bartolucci</b> (University of Calabria) – <i>The Hebrew Republic in the Political Debate of Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Struggle for Jurisdiction</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arthur Weststeijn</b> (Rome) – <i>Commonwealths for Preservation, Commonwealths for Increase: Debating Ancient Rome in Venice and the Dutch Republic</i><br /><br />15.30-17h<br /><b>Jaap Nieuwstraten</b> (Rotterdam) – <i>A League of Cities, a League of Nations: The Use of the Classical Example of the Achaean League in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thomas Maissen</b> (Heidelberg/Paris) – <i>The Classical Past in the Swiss Confederation </i><br /><br /><u><b>Friday 15 November</b></u><br /><br />10-12.30h<br /><b>Tomasz Gromelski </b>(Oxford) – <i>‘Classical Republicanism’ and Early Modern Poland-Lithuania</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Freyja Cox Jensen</b> (Exeter) – <i>Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Christine Zabel</b> (Heidelberg/Essen) – <i>From a Failed Republic to a Polite Polis: Ancient Athens and the English Commonwealth</i><br /><br />13.30-15h<br /><b>Eran Shalev</b> (Jerusalem) – <i>The Ancient Pasts in the American Revolution </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wyger Velema</b> (Amsterdam) – <i>Ancient Republics as Anti-Model in the Revolutionary Dutch Republic</i><br /><br />15.15-16.45h<br /><b>Daniele di Bartolomeo</b> (Teramo) – <i>Fatal Attraction. The Classical Past at the Beginning of the French Revolutionary Republic (1792-1793)</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wessel Krul </b>(Groningen) – <i>Images of Sparta in the French Revolution</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For further information, please contact the conveners:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Prof. Wyger Velema (University of Amsterdam) <a href="mailto:w.r.e.velema@uva.nl">w.r.e.velema@uva.nl</a><br />Dr. Arthur Weststeijn (Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome) <a href="mailto:a.weststeijn@knir.it">a.weststeijn@knir.it</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">See also the website of the Royal <span style="font-size: large;">Netherlands Institute in Rome<span style="font-size: large;">:</span> </span><a href="http://www.knir.it/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">www.knir.it </span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">More on Classical Reception Studies:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.uva.nl/binaries/content/assets/faculteiten/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/onderzoek/new-research-organisation/velema-wyger---classical-receptions.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Classical Receptions </span></span></span>Interdisciplinary Research Group</a> (University of Amsterdam)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/crsn/" target="_blank">Classical Reception Studies Network</a> (The Open University) </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/research/class-LegGPT.aspx" target="_blank">The Legacy of Greek Political Thought</a> (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">University of </span></span></span>Reading)</span></span></span><br />
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