Friday, November 30
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
9:30–10:00 am: Breakfast
10:00–10:30 am: Welcoming Remarks
Stephen Hinton
Professor of Musicology
Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities
School of Humanities & Sciences
Stanford University
10:30–12:00 pm: The Empire Writes Back
Caroline Sherman: “Families in the Republic of Letters.”
Paola Molino: “Generis quidem Humani illam voco quod neminem ab eius usu arcendum existimo: The Republics of Letters in Hugo Blotius's Project of a Museum Generis Humani and in the Establishment of the Imperial Library in Vienna (c. 1568–1608).”
Liam Brockey: “An Imperial Republic?: The Global Correspondence of Manuel Severim de Faria, 1618–1655.”
Chair: Carol Pal
12:00–2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00–3:30 pm: Revising the Republic of Letters
Peter Miller: “Publisher, Printer, Antiquarian, Spy: Peiresc and the Origines Murensis Monasterii (1618).”
Jean Boutier: “Did a Republic of Letters Ever Exist?”
Jacob Soll: “Jean–Baptiste Colbert's Republic of Letters: Repression, Innovation and Learning under the Sun King.”
Chair: Jean–Marie Apostolidès
3:30–4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00–5:00 pm: Plenary Lecture
Anthony Grafton: “Lost Continent: The Republic of Letters.”
5:00–7:00 pm: Reception at the Stanford Faculty Club
Saturday, December 1
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
10:00–10:30 am: Breakfast
10:30–12:00 pm: The Power of Knowledge
Margaret Jacob: “Was the Republic of Letters Inherently Radical?”
Bianca Chen: “The Republic of Letters at Work: Gisbert Cuper (1644–1716) and the Exchange of Antiquarian Information.”
Gary Marker: “Standing in Petersburg and Looking West, or, Is ‘Backwardness’ All There Is?”
Chair: Victoria Kahn
12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30–2:30 pm: Salons and Erudition
Antoine Lilti: “Do Salons Belong to the Republic of Letters? Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth–Century Paris.”
Paula Findlen: “Founding a Scientific Academy: The ‘Philosophical Family’ of Clelia del Grillo Borromeo in Early Eighteenth–Century Milan.”
Chair: Keith Baker
2:30–3:00 pm: Coffee Break
3:00–4:00 pm: An Enlightened Republic?
Elena Russo: “Slander and Glory in the Republic of Letters.”
Dan Edelstein: “Encyclopedic Humanism and the Esprit Philosophique.”
Chair: Daniel Stolzenberg
4:00–5:30 pm: Roundtable Discussion
