[Discussion] Conference "Re-telling the Renaissance, East and West" [Exeter Univ.]

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The Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies and the Centre for Mediterrane=
an
Studies at the University of Exeter announce an International Symposium,
sponsored by the British Academy

RE-TELLING THE RENAISSANCE, EAST AND WEST
at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies
30 April-2 May 2004.

This symposium brings together writers and historians representing numero=
us
specializations to investigate the Renaissance, both as a historical peri=
od
and an ideology of western origins and progressive rebirth.

This event is designed both to stimulate post-graduate research and to
bridge the gap between academic and more popular approaches to historical
enquiry. Opening up debate between top academic scholars and distinguishe=
d
authors cannot fail to reveal the relevance for today of the stories we=20
tell
about East and West in that pivotal moment known as =B3the Renaissance=B2=
.

Speakers will each give a substantial forty-minute presentation that=20
will be
followed by a formal short response and open discussion.

Speakers

=A8 C.E. Bosworth, Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester,
general editor of The Encyclopedia of Islam, will speak on the Scottish
traveller William Lithgow.

=A8 Dr Jerry Brotton, Queen Mary, London, author of The Renaissance
Bazaar (OUP, 2002), Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World
(Reaktion, 1997), will speak on =B3St George Between East and West=B2.

=A8 William Dalrymple, author of White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in
Eighteenth-Century India (HarperCollins, 2002), From the Holy Mountain:
Travels Among the Christians of the Middle East (HarperCollins, 1997), wi=
ll
speak on =B3White Mughals: A Belated Renaissance?=B2

=A8 Dr Caroline Finkel, Istanbul, author of Osman's Dream: The Story
of the Ottoman Empire (John Murray, forthcoming) will speak on =B3Myths o=
f
Ottoman Decay=B2.

=A8 Professor Deborah Howard, St John's College, Cambridge, author of
Venice and the East (Yale, 2000), will speak on =B3The Status of the Orie=
ntal
Traveller in Renaissance Venice=B2.

=A8 Dr Robert Irwin, author of The Orientalists and Their Enemies
(Penguin, forthcoming), The Alhambra (Profile, 2004), will speak on:
=B3Petrarch and =8Cthat rabid dog Averroes=B9=B2.

=A8 Dr Philip Mansel, author of The Levant (forthcoming),
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire (Murray, 1995; Penguin, 1997)=20
and
Sultans in Splendour (Parkway, 1988), will speak on: =B3Redrawing the
boundaries of Renaissance diplomacy: Western Ambassadors and Ottoman=20
Sultans
in Constantinople=B2.

=A8 Professor Nabil Matar, Florida Institute of Technology, author of
Islam in Britain, 1558-1685 (Cambridge, 1998), Turks, Moors and Englishme=
n
in the Age of Discovery (Columbia UP, 1999), In the Lands of the
Christians (Routledge, 2002), Britain and Barbary, 1589-1689 (forthcoming=
),
will speak on =B3Mulay Ismail and Britain=B2.

=A8 Barnaby Rogerson, author of The Life of Muhammad (Little Brown,
2002), will speak on =B3Ogier de Busbeq and Melchior Lork: The Scholar an=
d=20
the
Artist, Rivals or Colleagues?=B2

=A8 Dr Philip Schwyzer, School of English, Exeter, will speak on
=B3Mummy is Become Merchandise: Literature and the Anglo-Egyptian Mummy T=
rade
in the Seventeenth Century=B2.


This event is sponsored by the British Academy, and by the Centre for
Mediterranean Studies, the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, the
School of English, and the Centre for European Studies, at Exeter
University.


Conference organisers: Dr Mohamed-Salah Omri, Centre for Mediterranean
Studies, University of Exeter, and Professor Gerald MacLean, Wayne State
University, Detroit, currently Visiting Professor, Institute for Arab and
Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.

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contact Lindy Ayubi for details
The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
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University of Exeter
EXETER EX4 4ND

Tel. +44 (0)1392 264 034 / r.m.ayubi@ex.ac.uk

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