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