Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600-1900
Session 2:Urban Discontent in the Long Eighteenth Century across Eurasia
A core program conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg,(UCLA)
Friday, February 8, 2013 9:30 AM William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Core Program
The Clark and Center core program for 2012–2013 explores responses to crises and upheavals in early modern landed empires, with special focus on the Ottoman and Qing empires. In particular, we will investigate the perceptions of temporary collapses of state power in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Detecting tendencies toward moralism and perceived decline in elite discourses and state policies, we will look at the ways such concerns were expressed in the domains of institutional and educational reforms, sexual mores, and cultural representation. We will also examine how social boundaries were both rigidified and contested at such moments of transition. We hope to discern shared patterns across Eurasia as well as trajectories specific to each political entity.
Session 2—Urban Discontent in the Long Eighteenth Century across Eurasia
This conference will examine various social and literary expressions of discontent in the main urban centers across these landed empires. Topics may include urban violence, sexual mores, literary lampoons, as well as states’ responses to such challenges to their authority.
Conference website:For More Information, Please Click Here
Registration Deadline:February 1st, 2013
Please click here for a printable registration form.
Registration Fees:$20 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID:no charge*
All students, UC faculty and staff may register via e-mail by sending their name, affiliation and phone number to c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu
*Students should be prepared to provide their current University ID at the conference.
Complimentary lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. Confirmation will be sent via email.
Friday, February 8th |
SCHEDULE CHANGED TO 1 DAY ONLY
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9:30 a.m. |
Morning Coffee and Registration |
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10:00 a.m. |
Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles Welcome
Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, University of California, Los Angeles Opening Remarks
Session 1:Violence and Scandal in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia Chair:Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles
Abhishek Kaicker, Graduate Student, Columbia University Popular Violence and the State in Eighteenth-Century Shahjahanabad
Fariba Zarinebaf, University of California, Riverside Urban Rebellions and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
Janet Theiss, University of Utah Lessons from a Scandal:Sex, Corruption and Social Ferment in China’s "Flourishing Age" |
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12:45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:45 p.m. |
Session 2:Cities, Texts, and Social Decline across the Eighteenth-Century Eurasian Continent Chair:James Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles
Spencer Jackson, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles Pope, Swift, and the Ambivalent Exoticism of Feminine Commerce
Keith McMahon, University of Kansas Social Decline and Sexual Disorder in Fiction of the Qing Dynasty |
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3:15 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
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3:30 p.m. |
Session 3:Critiques of State Power in Visual and Literary Representations across Eurasia Chair:Gabriel Piterberg, University of California, Los Angeles
Zirwat Chowdhury, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles An Architectural “Profileˮ of the City of London in 1788
Andrea S. Goldman, University of California, Los Angeles Historical Plays and Urban Discontent in Beijing during the Long Eighteenth Century |
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5:00 p.m. |
Reception |
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