Schedule with Readings

The readings associated with each guest faculty member can be found below (above the corresponding day in the schedule).

Institute Introduction and Resources (June 26)

Monday 6/26:

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Tea

9;00–9:30 Director’s Welcome, Introductions of GGOK team

9:30–10:00 Participant Introductions

10:00–11:00 Public Safety, Library Introductions (Gregory Pass and Martha Allen)

11:00–12:00 Tour / Card services

12:00–1:00 Lunch Break

1:00–2:00 Tour / Card services

2:30–4:30 Jesuit Archives and Research Center

Unit One: New Theoretical Approaches to Early Modern Sites and Spaces of Knowledge (June 27-29)

Readings: Latour-Science in Action, Ogborn-Indian Ink ch 3, Ogborn-Global Worlds Britain and the World, 1550-1800 ch 4, Raman-Document Raj

Tuesday 6/27:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30 “Imperial Information Systems and Knowledge Brokers” (Professor Miles Ogborn, School of Geography, Queen Mary University London) 

10:30–11:30 Q&A

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Discussion Section 1

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Discussion Section 2

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Collective Debrief 

5:00–6:30 Reception Second Floor of Pius Library, hosted by the Dean of Libraries and Museums

Readings: Breslaw-Tituba’s Confession, Dowd-Groundless Rumors, Legends and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier, Schwartz-Sea of Storms A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean ch 1, Tucker-Purloined Identity The Racial Metamorphosis of Tituba of Salem Village, Velez-Religious, Intellectual, and Cultural History, Velez-Intro & Ch 8 of Miraculous Flying House of Loreto, Velez GOK Biblio.

Wednesday 6/28:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30 “Religious Boundaries and Cross-Cultural Exchanges” (Professor Karin Vélez,  Associate Professor of History, Macalester College)

10:30–11:30 Q&A

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Discussion Section 1

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Discussion Section 2

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Collective Debrief 

Thursday 6/29:

Independent Research

Unit Two: Moving Parts and Agents of Knowledge Circulations (June 30-July 6)

Readings: Adams-The Rule of the Father, Adams-1-800-How-Am-I-Driving, Adams & Shugrue-Bottlenecks and East Indies Companies, Adams & Reed-Coda Crossing Companies, Theories of Agency.

Friday 6/30:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30 “Networks of Exchange: Family, Firm, and State” (Professor Julia Adams,  Sociology Department, Yale University) 

10:30–11:30 Q&A

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Discussion Section 1

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Discussion Section 2

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Collective Debrief 

5:00–6:30 Reception Cupples House, hosted by the Office of the Provost 

Monday 7/3:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30 Distillation of themes and discussion of projects

10:30–11:30 Directors available for one-on-one discussions

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

Afternoon: Independent Research

Tuesday 7/4:

Independence Day

Readings: Benton-A search for sovereignty, Burak-The Second Formation of Islamic Law, Emiralioğlu-Negotiating Space and Imperial Ideology in 16th Ottoman Empire.

Wednesday 7/5:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  “Holding the Knowledge of Empire: Archives and Administration” (Professor  Heather Ferguson, History Department, Claremont McKenna College)

10:30–11:30 Q&A

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Discussion Section 1

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Discussion Section 2

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Collective Debrief 

5:00–6:30 Reception Jesuit Center, hosted by the Office of Mission and Identity 

Thursday 7/6:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  Distillation of themes and discussion of projects

10:30–11:30 Directors available for one-on-one discussions

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

2:00–4:30  Visit to the St. Louis Art Museum (Elizabeth Wyckoff, Curator of Prints, Drawings,  and Photographs at SLAM)

Unit Three: Mapping Knowledge and its Boundaries (July 7-13)

Readings: Padron-Indies of the Setting Sun 1-40, Padrón Biblio + link.

Friday 7/7:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  “Cartographies of Knowledge” (Professor Ricardo Padrón, Department of Spanish,  Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia) 

10:30–11:30 Q&A

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Discussion Section 1

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Discussion Section 2

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Collective Debrief 

5:00–6:30 Reception Adorjan Hall, hosted by the Department of History 

Monday 7/10:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  Distillation of themes and discussion of projects

10:30–11:30 Directors available for one-on-one discussions

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

Afternoon: Independent Research

Readings: Galilei-On Sunspots 91-92, Galilei-On Sunspots 126-128, Galilei-On Sunspots 256-257, Galilei-Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems 170-173, Galileo-Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo-Sidereus Nuncius, Lincoln-Brilliant discourse 210-235, Powell-Art History Squaring the Circle.

Tuesday 7/11:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  “Cosmographies of Knowledge” (Professor Eileen Reeves, Department of  Comparative Literature, Princeton University) 

10:30–11:30 Q&A

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Discussion Section 1

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Discussion Section 2

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Collective Debrief 

5:00–6:30 Reception Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building, hosted by the Office of the Vice President for Research

Wednesday 7/12:

8:30–9:00 Coffee and Tea

9:30–12:00  Visit to the Missouri Botanical Garden and Research Center (Dr. Douglas Holland,  Director of the Peter H. Raven Library, MOBOT and Susan Cobbledick, Book  Conservator, MOBOT Library)

Afternoon: Independent Research

Thursday 7/13:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  Distillation of themes and discussion of projects

10:30–11:30 Directors available for one-on-one discussions

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

Afternoon: Independent Research

Unit Four: The Assimilation and Fragmentation of Knowledge (July 14-18)

Readings: Ramachandran-Intro The Worldmakers Global Imaging, Schmidt-Inventing Exoticism, Schmidt Biblio + links.

Friday 7/14:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  “Displaying Early Modern Exoticism” (Professor Benjamin Schmidt, Department  of History, University of Washington)

10:30–11:30 Q&A

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Discussion Section 1

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Discussion Section 2

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Collective Debrief 

5:00–6:30 Reception Boileau Hall, hosted by the Center for Research on Global Catholicism

Monday 7/17:

9:00–9:30 Coffee and Tea

10:00–12:00  Visit to the Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis (Elisabeth Brander, Rare Book Librarian, BBML)

Afternoon: Independent Research

Readings: Brown-Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery, Lindsay-Extraversion, Creolization, and Dependency in the Atlantic Slave Trade, Sweet-Reimagining the African-Atlantic Archive Method, Concept, Epistemology, Ontology.

Tuesday 7/18:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  “Early Modern Places of Memory” (Professor James Sweet, Department of  History, University of Wisconsin, Madison) 

10:30–11:30 Q&A

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Discussion Section 1

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Discussion Section 2

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Collective Debrief 

5:00–7:30 Dinner Missouri Botanical Gardens, hosted by the Dean of Arts and Sciences

Institute Conclusions and Project Presentations (July 19-21)

Wednesday 7/19:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  Distillation of themes and general synthesis (GGOK Directors)

10:30–11:30 Q&A

11:30–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Presentation of Projects

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Presentation of Projects

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Collective Debrief 

Thursday 7/20:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  Presentation of Projects

10:30–10:45 Break

10:45–11:45 Presentation of Projects

11:45–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Presentation of Projects

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Presentation of Projects

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Collective Debrief

Friday 7/21:

8:30–9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30–10:30  Presentation of Projects

10:30–10:45 Break

10:45–11:45 Presentation of Projects

11:45–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 Presentation of Projects

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–3:45 Presentation of Projects

3:45–4:00 Break

4:00–4:30 Summation and Assessment

5:00–6:30 Closing Reception Pere Marquette Gallery, hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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