Conferences:
Questions of Tradition| Questions
of Tradition: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
13-16 November 1997 New Brunswick, NJ (USA) The Journal of the History of Ideas, along with the International Society for Intellectual History, sponsored this symposium on Questions of Tradition. Organizers: Mark Phillips (Department of History, University of British Columbia) and Gordon Schochet (Department of Political Science, Rutgers University). PanelsPanel 1. Tradition, Nationality, and the Historical Imagination Panel 2. The Theory and Politics of Tradition Panel 3. Precedent, Custom, and Canon Panel 4. Text and Traditions Panel 5. Tradition and Society (ISIH panel) Panel 6. Tradition, Identity, and Community Participants Papers. The following is a tentative list of scheduled papers. [top] Panel I. Tradition,
Nationality, and the Historical Imagination Panel Chair: Daniel T. Rodgers (Department of History, Princeton University) James Muldoon (Department of History, Rutgers University-Camden) paper: "Avoiding the Medieval Experience: John Adams, the American Revolutionary Generation, and the Middle Ages." Yael Zeruvavel, (Department of Jewish Life, Rutgers University-New Brunswick) paper: "Nationalizing the Past, Traditionalizing the Present: The Politics of Remembrance in Modern Israel." Joseph M. Levine (Department of History, Syracuse University) paper: "Tradition and History from Chillingworth to Gibbon." Siep Stuurman (Faculty of History, Erasmus University, The Netherlands) paper: "Cutting Short the Trees of Yore: On the Origins of the Modern Concept of Tradition." [top] Panel II. The Theory and
Politics of Tradition Panel Chair: Gordon Schochet (Department of Political Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick). Georgia Warnke (Department of Philosophy, University of California-Riverside) paper: "Tradition, Ethical Knowledge, and Multicutural Studies." Alkis Kontos (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto) paper: "Rich and Strange Fragments: Hannah Arendt on the Past and Tradition." Patrick H. Hutton (Department of History, University of Vermont) paper: "Ideas about Tradition in the Life and Work of Philippe Ariès." Mary Poovey (Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University) paper: "Beyond Political Correctness: Invention and Interpretation in the Construction of Traditions." Kirsti McClure, (Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University) paper: "Between the castigation of texts and the excess of words: Political Theory in the Margins of Tradition." [top] Panel III. Precedent, Custom,
and Canon Panel Chair: Donald R. Kelley, (Department of History, Rutgers University-New Brunswick) David Lieberman (School of Law, University of California-Berkeley) paper: "Law and Tradition: Some Prespectives from the Common Law." Jacob Meskin (Department of Philosophy, Princeton University) paper: "The Role of Religion in Contemporary Thinking About Tradition." Phyllis Mack (Department of History, Rutgers University-New Brunswick) paper: "Traditional Womanhood and Non-Traditional Religion in Early Modern England." David Harris Sacks (Department of History, Reed College) paper: "Digging, Doing, and Duty in 16th and 17th Century England" [top] Panel IV. Text and Traditions
Panel Chair: WIlliam Connell (Department of History, Rutgers University-New Brunswick) Michael McKeon (Department of English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick) paper: "From Tradition to Ideology and the Aesthetic: the Disclosure of Tacit Knowledge in Early Modern English Culture." Gabrielle M. Spiegel (Department of History, Johns Hopkins University) paper: "Re-writing Antiquity: Thirteenth-Century Old French Translations of Lucan's Pharsalia." Ann E. Moyer (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania) paper: The end of the Boethian tradition: musical scholarship before the invention of musicology." Anthony Grafton (Department of History, Princeton University) paper: "The criticism of traditions and the traditions of criticisms in the Republic of Letters: the case of Jean Hardouin." [top] Panel V. Tradition and
Society (ISIH Panel) Panel Co-chairs: Ulrich J. Schneider (Institut für Philosophie, Leipzig) and Constance Blackwell (Foundation for Intellectual History, London) Vladimir Malachov (Institute for Philosophy, Russian Academy of Science) paper: "Continuity and Discontinuity in Intellectual History: the Russian Case" Susanne Klengel (Institut für Romanistik, Universität Halle-Wittenberg) paper: "Negotiating Western Tradition in Latin American: From Cultural Cannibalism to Metalinguistic Novel Writing" Naoki Sakai, (Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University) paper: "The Location of the West, and the Tradition of Japanese Thought" An organizational meeting of the International Society for Intellectual History will immediately follow this panel. [top] Panel VI. Tradition, Identity,
and Community Panel Chair: Natalie Zemon Davis (Department of History, Emeritus, Princeton University) James Clifford (History of Consciousness Program, University of California-Santa Cruz) paper: "The Invention of Tradition Reconsidered." Chris Steiner (Department of Anthropology, University of East Anglia) paper: "Africanist Notions of Tradition and Innovation as Masks of Political Ideology." Ruth B. Phillips (Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia) paper: "Art History's Tradition and Contemporary Native American Art: An Other Critique of Pure Visuality." Suzanne Blier, (Department of Art History, Harvard University) paper: "Creativity in Crisis: Art Historical Models of Innovation in Africa." Concluding Comments Natalie Zemon Davis (Department of History, Emeritus, Princeton University) [top] |