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Anthony Pagden
"'Shadows of an unquiet sleep': America and the Conflicting
Discourses of European Universalism"
Sacvan Bercovitch
"A Model of Cultural Transvaluation: Puritanism, Modernity,
and New World Rhetoric"
Sabine MacCormack's paper will soon be on line.
The subject of the conference is the interrelation between European,
colonial, and indigenous cultures in the 16-17 centuries from the
perspectives of history, literature, and art history. Abstracts of papers by
David Armitage, Thomas Cummins & Joanne Rappaport, Myra Jehlen, Karen Ordahl
Kupperman, Dana Liebsohn, and Enrique Pupo-Walker are also on line.
We invite questions and comments, which will be posted and read at the
conference.
The conference itself will take place in New York at the Spanish Institute,
The CUNY Graduate School, and the New-York Historical Society. The
conference is free and open to the public. There is no registration. Times
and locations of the conference are available on our website.
Martin Elsky, Coordinator, Renaissance Studies Program, CUNY Graduate School
and University Center, 33 West 42 Street, NY, NY 10036; 212-642-2346;
212-642-2205 (Fax)