Dear Pen-lers:
In recent months there has been a good bit of discussion on "Indians",
"Native Americans", etc. Now and again someone would interject that the
terms "Indians" (a product of the European imagination, largely) covered
over a lot of heterogeniety in terms of culture, experiences, modes of
organizing production and distribution, etc.
The following was sent to me today. It suggests some more nuanced analyses
of these issues. It also looks like an interesting and necesary complement
to the discussions of economic development patterns.
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*** NATIONAL CULTURES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MODERN WORLD ***
The Department of History at The Johns Hopkins University is pleased to
announce the continuation of a three-semester seminar on NATIONAL
CULTURES
AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MODERN WORLD. This interdisciplinary seminar
will examine the emergence of European states with national identities,
the transmission of those identities to the overseas territories and
populations associated with those states, and the disintegration of
empires and formation of new nation states. During the spring semester
of
1998, four scholars will offer seminars on an aspect of formation of new
nation states. During the spring semester of 1998, four scholars will
offer seminars on an aspect of the general topic "Negotiations of
Inclusion: Interactions between National and Colonial Identity Formation
in the Early Modern Imperial World." Each of these seminars will be
preceded by a pro-seminar conducted by another scholar on a related
topic.
Negotiations of Inclusion:
Interactions between National and Colonial Identity Formation
in the Early Modern Imperial World
January 27 Pro-Seminar: "Settlers, Regions and Identity in Early
America" James Horn (Omohundro Institute of Early
American
History and Culture)
February 9 Seminar: "Hispanic Doubts: Toleration in Iberia and
America" Stuart Schwartz (Yale University)
February 24 Pro-Seminar: "Native American Assimilation of and
Resistance to Western Culture: A Parallax" Veronica
Salles-Reese (Georgetown University)
March 2 Seminar: "Receptivity and Resistance among Indigenous
American Peoples after European Contact" James Lockhart
(Emeritus, UCLA)
March 10 Pro-Seminar: "Many Atlantics -- One New World?" Joyce
Chaplin (Vanderbilt University)
March 23 Seminar: "Strangers in Their Own Land: Creole Identity
in
Colonial Spanish America" D.A. Brading (Cambridge
University)
April 7 Pro-Seminar: "National Identity in the First and Second
'american' Revolutions: The United States and Haiti"
John
Garrigus (Jacksonville University)
April 20 Seminar: "American Revolution and National Identity"
Peter Onuf (University of Virginia)
All Seminars and Pro-Seminars will convene at 4:00 p.m. in Gilman 315
Sponsors:
Sawyer Seminars of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University
For more information on how to obtain copies of seminar papers, contact:
Department of History
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
Phone: 410-516-5296; Fax: 410-516-7586;
E-mail to Ellen Pearson: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Kruse / Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-42) 48242
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
