Wednesday, 8 June 2016

Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

Optional Hands-On Workshops. The timing of these workshops may be subject to change.

 

19.00-21.00    Strokes on the Paper: Early Modern Calligraphy Workshop (room A2)

                          Diego Navarro Bonilla (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)

 

19.00-21.00    Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered: Workshop on Early Modern

                          Letter-Folding  (room A3)                                                                    

                       David van der Linden (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

 

 

Thursday 9 June 2016

Van Swinderen Huys, Oude Boteringestraat 19, Groningen

 

8.30-9.00           Coffee & Registration (Brasserie/Patio)

 

9.00-9.30           Welcome (Glazen Zaal)

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                           1) Gerry Wakker, Dean of the Faculty of Arts (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

                           2) Megan K. Williams, Conference Organizer (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

 

9.30-10.30        Plenary I: Paper as Circulating Material Artifact (Glazen Zaal)

                           The Transfer of Paper and Papermaking from China to Europe

                           Jonathan Bloom, Prof. of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College and                                                            Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

 

10.30-11.00      Coffee (Brasserie/Patio)

                      

 

11.00-12.30      Panels I

 

                           I.-A. The Politics of the Paper Trade (Glazen Zaal)

                               Chair: Prof. dr. Raingard Esser (University of Groningen)

 

• Maria Stieglecker (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria), Paper, scribes and books at the Council of Basel

 

• Caroline Fowler (A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, USA), Albrecht Dürer and carta turchina

 

• Dario Michele Zorza (Victoria and Albert Museum / Royal College of Art, UK), 'Si servino etiamdio di buona e bella Carta'': Material and human qualities in the early modern Venetian printing industry

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                          I.-B. Paper Letters: Materiality and Epistolarity (Bestuurskamer)

                               Chair: Prof. dr. Sabrina Corbellini (University of Groningen)

 

• Henk Porck (independent scholar, The Netherlands), A Study into the value of letter folds

 

• Hwisang Cho (Xavier University, USA), Spiral letters: Paper, gender, and languages in early modern Korean epistolary culture

 

• Johanna Feenstra (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Mrs. Delany's Correspondence:  A Paper Network

 

                          I.-C. Company Paper (Club Lounge)

                               Chair: Dr. Ya-Pei Kuo (University of Groningen)

 

• Anjana Singh (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Lost between priest and paper: Political power and useful knowledge in early modern India

 

• Asheesh Kapur Siddique (Columbia University, USA), Mobilizing paperwork in an age of imperial war: John Bruce, the East India Company, and the imperial archive in the era of the French Wars

 

• Frank Birkenholz (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Paper, pepper and merchant-princes: the Dutch East India Company’s paper politics in the seventeenth century

 

12.30-14.00      Lunch (Brasserie/Patio)

 

14.00-15.00      Plenary II: Paper in the Rise of the News, Post & Epistolary Cultures (Glazen Zaal)

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                           The Taming of White Space

                           Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

 

15.00-15.30      Coffee (Brasserie/Patio)

                          

 

15.30-17.00      Panels II

 

                           II.-A. Plotting on Paper? Deploying Political Information in Placards, Pamphlets, and Histories                                        (Bestuurskamer)

                               Chair: Dr. John Flood (University of Groningen)

                          

• Arthur der Weduwen (University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK), "To all who may read or hear this, greetings". The politics of placards in the Dutch Revolt

 

• Brooke Palmieri (University College London, UK), Pestilence, pamphleteering and the archive

 

• Lisa Kattenberg (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), The paper mosaic. Organizing information and the making of Virgilio Malvezzi's Sucesos principales de la monarchia de España (1640)

 

                          II.-B.  Princely Power on Paper (Glazen Zaal)

                               Chair: Prof. dr. Luis Lobo-Guerrero (University of Groningen)

                          

• Yanay Israeli (University of Michigan, USA), From orders to artifacts: A processual view of royal records and its contribution to the study of the Castilian state

 

• Giacomo Giudici (Birkbeck, University of London, UK), Deploying paper as a performance of power: The strategies of Francesco II Sforza (1522-1535) as a case-study to rethink early modern political-administrative correspondence

 

• Tracey Sowerby (Keble College, University of Oxford, UK), English royal letters and diplomatic ceremony

 

   II-C. 'State' Papers and Archival Origins (Club Lounge)

        Chair: Prof. dr. Goffe Jensma (University of Groningen)

 

• Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University, USA), The Manchu origins of China's last imperial archives

 

• Ron Makleff (University of California-Berkeley, USA), The Taxis post and the Habsburg mobile archive in the sixteenth century

 

• Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske (Columbia University, USA), "The king's library of manuscripts": Philip II, his secret papers of state, and his library as archive

 

17.00-17.45      General Plenary I (Glazen Zaal)

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                           "Burn after reading": Paper and the rise of resident diplomacy in early modern Europe    

                           Megan K. Williams (University of Groningen)

 

18.15-19.15     Cocktails at the Grafisch Museum Groningen (GRID)     Sint Jansstraat 2

                                    This reception is generously sponsored by the University of Groningen, the                                       Municipality of Groningen and the Province of Groningen.

                          

 

Friday, 10 June 2016

Van Swinderen Huys, Oude Boteringestraat 19, Groningen

 

8.30-9.00         Coffee and Registration (Brasserie/Patio)

 

9.00-10.00       Plenary III: Paper in Governance, Political Information Management and Diplomacy (Glazen Zaal)

                         

                           How Colbert Kept the Books: Paperwork and the Mechanics of the French Absolutist State

                          Jacob Soll (University of Southern California, USA)

 

10.00-10.30     Coffee (Brasserie/Patio)

                         

 

10.30-12.00     Panels III

 

                          III-A. Consuming Paper in the City (Bestuurskamer)

                               Chair: Prof. dr. Catrien Santing (University of Groningen)

 

• Jeroen Benders (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Voir i boeck pappyrs. Uses and using up of paper in late medieval towns: Deventer and Zutphen (eastern Netherlands) in the 14th-15th centuries

 

• Sundar Henny (University of Cambridge, UK/Swiss National Science Foundation), Powerful even if unread and undecipherable: Papers in early modern Zurich

 

• Daniel Bellingradt (University of Erlangen, Germany), Amsterdam's paper networks and the book industry of the eighteenth century. A case-study on the business activities of an Amsterdam paper dealer (Paper presented by Sandra Zawrel, Erlangen)

 

                          III.-B. Information Management on the Paper Page (Club Lounge)

                                Chair: Mark Thompson (University of Groningen)

                          

• Diego Navarro Bonilla (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain), Writing beauty, finding contents: Calligraphic displays as visual orientations in Spanish documents and registers (15th-18th centuries)

 

• Jeroen Claassens (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Divergent Diplomatic Diaries: Paper Use and Information Management in the Diary of Daniël-Jan de Hochepied, ca. 1677-1680

 

• Joop Koopmans (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), The Paper Politics of Early Modern Dutch Newspapers

 

                          III.-C. Governance and Paper(work) (Glazen Zaal)

                          

• Paul Dover (Kennesaw State University, USA), Politics of Paper and Paper of Politics. Inscribing Statecraft

 

• Quinten Somsen (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Government by Paper: Disciplining State Officials in 17th-Century Bavaria

 

• Edward Adamo (University of Toronto, Canada), The Ottoman way: Information and governance in the 17th century

 

12.00-13.30      Lunch (Brasserie/Patio)

 

13.30-15.00      Plenary IV: Paper in the Archives and in Archival Practices (Glazen Zaal)

                           Roundtable

• Eric Ketelaar (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

• Diego Navarro Bonilla (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)

• Hilde de Weerdt (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

 

15.00-15.30      Coffee (Brasserie/Patio)

                          

 

15.30-17.00      Panels IV

 

                           IV-A. Disposable Memories?: Keeping & Destroying Paper (Glazen Zaal)

                               Chair: Drs. Gerda Huisman (University of Groningen)

 

• Alberto Cevolini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy), "Uti saepius è charta sapere, ita etiam saepissime è charta meminisse ac recordari cogimur". Paper as Forgetting Device in Early Modern Europe

 

• John Gagnè (University of Sydney, Australia), The paper sensibility: ways to think about the interrelated histories of time and paper

 

• Tom Toelle (University of Cambridge, UK/Princeton University, USA),  Futures on paper: How Charles VI claimed a new future by destroying the old (1715-8)

 

                           IV-B. Paper Propaganda: Managing Memory in Political Books (Bestuurskamer)

                              

                                                    This session has been cancelled.

 

                           IV-C. War & Peace... and Paper (Club Lounge)

                               Chair: A.D.M. van de Haar (University of Groningen)

 

• Erik Thomson (University of Manitoba, Canada), Arms dealers, information, and diplomacy in the Thirty Years War

 

• Markus Laufs (University of Bonn, Germany), The art of translating. Papers and their conveyance as instrument of early modern peace mediation

 

• Carolina Esteves Soares (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Information as the ex libris of diplomatic missions. The importance of diplomats in gathering intelligence and their influence on political decisions (1668-1683)

 

17.00-18.00      Concluding Keynote

            

                           Lothar Müller (Humboldt-Universität/Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany)

 

18.00-18.15      Concluding Remarks & Discussion of Publication Plans

                           Megan K. Williams (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

 

18.30-                Conference Dinner

                           Restaurant 't Feithhuis, Martinikerkhof 10, Groningen

 

Saturday, 11 June 2016

Optional excursion to 17th-century paper-mill De Schoolmeester. Forty-five places are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

7.30                     Bus departure from Groningen, Grote Markt (By VVV Tourist Bureau)

                            Division into two groups of up to 25 persons

 

10.00                  Arrival at De Schoolmeester, Westzaan

 

10.00-11.00      Tour of De Schoolmeester -- Group 1

10.15-10.45      Coffee and Cake at De Prins restaurant, Westzaan -- Group 2

 

11.00-12.00      Tour of De Schoolmeester -- Group 2

11.15-11.45      Coffee and Cake at De Prins restaurant, Westzaan -- Group 1

 

11.45                  Bus collects both groups and departs for Schiphol Airport

                          

 

12.15/12.30      Arrival Schiphol Airport & Train Station

                            (connections to flights, national/international trains)

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                            Sack lunch provided in bus for those returning to Groningen

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ca. 15.30            Arrival back in Groningen, Grote Markt.

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Please be on time for the bus' departure!
Note that all thimes except the departure are approximate.