{"id":2858,"date":"2015-09-25T20:16:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T20:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2018-06-01T20:17:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T20:17:16","slug":"agents-of-contact-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=2858","title":{"rendered":"Agents of Contact Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1885 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AgentsOfContact.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AgentsOfContact.png 216w, http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AgentsOfContact-154x200.png 154w, http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AgentsOfContact-150x194.png 150w\" alt=\"agentsofcontact\" width=\"216\" height=\"280\" \/>Friday, 25 September 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Our one-day symposium will present research on the impact of books and print on intellectual contact (broadly construed) within Europe as well as between European and non-European cultures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The symposium is intended to encourage cross-disciplinary conversation, and is therefore defined by a conceptual framework rather than a strict thematic focus. Its title is an hommage\u00a0to Elizabeth Eisenstein\u2019s seminal\u00a0book,\u00a0The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, which helped to establish the study of print culture as an area of study in its own right, one that has contributed to \u2013 and helped to transform \u2013 research in intellectual history,\u00a0literary studies, the history of science and of visual culture, among others. While Eisenstein\u2019s interest was in uncovering the \u201cimpact of print on western society and thought\u201d (as she put it in the title of an early article), this\u00a0symposium will explore the impact of forms of paper-based media on how western society and culture understood other cultures and societies, how western societies and cultures understood each other, and how non-western cultures and societies understood the west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Participants will present work on how books and print mediated contact across ethnic, cultural and linguistic boundaries in the early modern period. They will explore how such boundaries were produced and reworked by\u00a0the formal, material features of print and manuscript, by the structures of the production and circulation of books, texts and images \u2013 in other words, on how the materiality of textual and visual artifacts articulated\u00a0connections, distance and difference between cultures, countries and communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In order to allow for a stimulating conversation across disciplines as well as for focussed scholarly exchanges, the event will consist of a series of panels of 2-3 participants giving short (10-15 min) presentations based on\u00a0their pre-circulated work, followed by extended discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The event is organized by\u00a0Andr\u00e1s Kis\u00e9ry\u00a0(CCNY English), in cooperation with\u00a0Yael Rice (Amherst College). It follows a week after a\u00a0similar symposium at Amherst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, 25 September 2015 Our one-day symposium will present research on the impact of books and print on intellectual contact (broadly construed) within Europe as well as between European and non-European cultures. The symposium is intended to encourage cross-disciplinary conversation, and is therefore defined by a conceptual framework rather than a strict thematic focus. 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