De-Centring the Renaissance

DE-CENTRING THE RENAISSANCE:

Canada and Europe in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective 1350-1700
Victoria University in the University of Toronto, March 7-10, 1996

NOTE: Papers will be circulated in advance (mid-February) to those who have already registered. During the actual sessions, participants will each have 5-7 minutes to speak to, outline, or perhaps add to, their draft papers; the floor will then be opened to extended discussion.

Thursday, March 7:

5.00 pm: Registration opens, foyer of Victoria College main building ("Old Vic")
7.00 pm: Conference Welcome:
Elders of the Mississauga Nation.
7.15-9.15 pm: PUBLIC SESSION:
The Frobisher Expeditions to the Eastern Arctic,1576-78 (Organizer: Donald D. Hogarth, Department of Geology, University of Ottawa)
- Donald D. Hogarth: "Martin Frobisher's Northwest Voyages, 1576, 1577, 1578: Exploration and Mines"
- Re'ginald Auger (Laval University), "An Elizabethan Mining Enterprise in the Eastern Arctic"
- William W. Fitzhugh (Smithsonian Institution), "Archaeology of the Frobisher Voyages: The New World Order and the Arctic"
- Lynda Gullason (Archaeological Survey of Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization), "Thule Epi-Metallurgy and the Consequences of Elizabethan Contact"
- Anne Henshaw (Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University), "Inuit Economy and Ecology During the Frobisher Voyages"
- Dosia Laeyendecker (Smithsonian Institution), "Wood Remains from Frobisher Bay"
9.15-10.30 pm: Welcoming Reception

Friday, March 8:

9.00-9.40 am: Plenary Session:
OLIVE DICKASON (History, University of Alberta), "The Sixteenth-Century French Vision of Empire: the Other Side of Self- Determination"
9.40-10.00 am: Coffee
10.00-12.00 noon: Special Session:
NATIVE/EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS (Organizer: Jennifer S. H. Brown, History, University of Winnipeg/Rupert's Land Record Society)
- Wallace Chafe (Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara) "The Earliest Encounters of Europeans with Iroquoian Languages"
- John Steckley (Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humber College, Toronto), "Dialects and the Formation of the Huron-Wendat Alliance"
- David Pentland (Linguistics, University of Manitoba), "Naming the Nations in Seventeenth-Century New France"
- Roger Roulette (Manitoba Association for Native Languages), Commentator.
12.00-1.00: Buffet Lunch
1.00-1.40: Plenary Session:
LUCA CODIGNOLA (Istituto di storia del Medioevo e dell' Espansione Europea, Universita` di Genova, Italy), "The Creation of a North Atlantic Network, 1350-1700: Roman Catholicism as an Overall Context"
1.40-3.15: Early Modern Canada: The East Coast
- Peter Bakker (Institute for General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam), "Basque-Amerindian Contacts (1530s-1560s) and their Consequences"
- David McNab (Independent Scholar, Toronto), "The Mi'kmaq of Ktaqamkuk and La Grande Barbe: Whose Renaissance?"
- Rina Palumbo (Ph.D. Candidate, History, The Johns Hopkins University), "The Challenge of George Calvert: Avalon and the Shaping of Absolute Rule"
- John G. Reid (History, St. Mary's University, Halifax) and Emerson W. Baker III (History, Salem State College), "As good or better Englishman than the Collector is: Allegiance, Espionage, and Rebellion in North Eastern North America 1690-1694"
3.15-3.30: Coffee
3.30-5.30: Special Session:
ORIGINS AND BEGINNINGS IN NEWFOUNDLAND (Organizer: Shannon Miller, English, Temple University)
- Shannon Miller (English, Temple University), "Producing the New World, or Reproducing the Old?"
- Anne Lake Prescott (English, Barnard College), "Old Wine in New World Bottles"
- Mary Fuller (Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Newfoundland and Roanoke: Narratives of Origin"
5.45-7.15: Dinner hour reception
7.30: PUBLIC SESSION:
Keynote Speaker: NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS. Department of History, Princeton University.

Saturday, March 9:

9.00-9.40: Plenary Session:
SELMA BARKHAM (London, England), "The Mentality of the Spanish Merchants who Financed Sixteenth-Century Voyages to North America"
9.40-10.00: coffee
10.00-12.00: Special Session:
"COLONISATION FRANCAIS ET AME'RINDIENS AUX XVIe- XVIIe SIE`CLES: DE'COUVERTE, APPROPRIATION, ET TRANSFORMATION DU TERRITOIRE" (Organizer: Re'al Ouellet, Universite' Laval)
- Alain Beaulieu (Universite' Laval), "Ne faire qu'un seul peuple? La diplomatie franco-iroquoise (1650-1660)"
- Denys Dela^ge (Universite' Laval), "La tradition contemporaine des Wampums chez les Algonquins du Que'bec"
- Re'al Ouellet (Universite' Laval), "Re'presentation de l'ame'rindien dans les textes de la Nouvelle-France"
- Laurier Turgeon (Universite' Laval), "Pecheurs Basques et Ame'rindiens au Canada du XVI sie`cle"
12.00-1.00: Buffet Lunch
1.00-1.40: Plenary Session:
GILLES THE'RIEN (Se'miotiqie, Universite' du Que'bec a` Montre'al), "La memoria comme lieu de fabrication du nouveau monde"
1.40-3.40: Concurrent Sessions
A: EARLY REPRESENTATIONS
- William Barker (Memorial University of Newfoundland), "The `Colchos' of William Vaughan"
- Jack Warwick (French, Atkinson College of York University), "Discovery: Reference and Fable"
- Patricia O'Grady (Fine Art History, University of Toronto), "Trans-Atlantic Views of Inhabited Space ca. 1564-1700"
- Guy Poirier (Department of French, Simon Fraser University), "Le pays des Ennasins"
B: JESUITS AND MISSIONARIES
- Giovanni Pizzorusso (Independent Scholar affiliated with the Centre Acade'mique Canadien en Italie), "Les aspectatives des aspirants missionaires au Canada"
- Peter Goddard (History, University of Guelph), "Canada in Early Modern Jesuit Thought: Backwater or Opportunity?"
- Pierre Berthiaume (Lettres franc,aises, Universite' d'Ottawa), "Le Missionaire De'posse'de'"
- Andre' Sanfac,on (De'partment d'histoire, Universite' Laval), "Christianisation et relations canado-europe'ennes au XVIIe sie`cle: la Vierge, le Je'suit et l'Ame'rindien dans les conse'crations mariales des Hurons et des Abe'nakis de la Nouvelle-France"
3.40-4.00: Coffee
4.00-6.00: Special Session:
OTHER CONSTRUCTIONS OF HISTORY: OPPORTUNITIES AND PROBLEMS IN REPRESENTING FIRST NATIONS VIEWS OF THE PAST (Organizer: Trudy Nicks, Curator of Department Ethnology, Royal Ontario Museum)
- Trudy Nicks (ROM) and Ruth Phillips (Art History, Carleton University), "Decolonizing the Wampums: Living Histories from Dead Letters"
- Olive Dickason (History, University of Alberta), "Some Early Amerindian Reactions to Europeans"
- Richard Preston (Anthropology, McMaster University), "The Cree Frontier"
- Elizabeth Lightning (Wetaskawin, Alberta; Ph.D Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), "The Civilization/Savagism Dichotomy and the Roots of Racist Ideology in North America"
- Toby Morantz (Anthropology, McGill University), "Discovery and Exploration in Interpreting Native Views of Early Contact"
- Deborah Doxtator (Humanities, York University), Commentator
6.00-7.00: Reception
7.00-9.00: Banquet

Sunday, March 10:

9.30-11.00: Concurrent Sessions
C: SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN EARLY CANADA
- Delno C. West (History, Northern Arizona University), "Inventio fortunata and Polar Cartography 1360-1700"
- Lynn Berry (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto), "Natives and `Amateurs': the Pursuit of Natural Science in New France"
- Joyce E. Chaplin (History, Vanderbilt University), "English Artifice in a Cold Climate: the Arctic and Newfoundland Encounters, 1576-1612"
D: EARLY MODERN CANADA: THE INTERIOR
- Joseph Branda~o (recent Ph.D in History, York University; Independent Scholar), "The Statistics of War: the Iroquois in the Seventeenth Century"
- Conrad Heidenreich (Geography, York University), "How the French Invented the Inland Exploration of Canada"
11.00-11.20: coffee
11.20-12.45: CONCLUDING PANEL:
"Can the Renaissance be De-Centred?"
12.45: Closing Ceremonies:
Elders of the Mississauga Nation

[JM 14 February 1996]