EmbattlEd and ConquErEd:

thE history of thE night-timE in thE Early

modErn World

florEnCE, 19 - 20 may 2016

An Exploratory Seminar in Honor of

Carlo Ginzburg

Location:

Florence Gould HallVilla I Tatti

Via di Vincigliata 26Firenze, 50135

Organizer:

Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University, Cambridge)

Participants:

Carlo Ginzburg (University of California, Los Angeles)

Andrea Goldman (University of California, Los Angeles)

Elliott Horowitz (Jewish Quarterly Review)

Elizabeth Hunter (Queen MaryUniversity of London)

Craig M. Koslofsky (University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign)

Laura Nenzi (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Jean-Claude Schmitt (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)

Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles)

Jeremy Zallen (Lafayette College, Easton)

Cover image: Giorgio Vasari. The storming of the fortress near Porta Camollia in Siena (detail), 1570. Palazzo Vecchio Museum.

Wednesday, 18 May

8.30: Group Dinner (Ristorante Cafaggi, Via Guelfa, 35/rosso)

Thursday, 19 May

9:45 ALINA PAYNE: Director’s Welcome & Introductions 10:00 CEMAL KAFADAR: Introduction to the Seminar, followed by discussion

10:45 Coffee Break in Gould Hall

11:00 JEAN-CLAUDE SCHMITT, “The Nightmares of a Cistercian Monk,” followed by discussion

12:00 SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, “Wait until Dark: Court Culture and Nocturnal Meetings in Early Modern South Asia,” followed by discussion 1:00 Buffet Lunch with the I Tatti Fellows

2:30 ELIZABETH HUNTER, “Subversion and Magic: Interpreting Sleepwalking in Early Modern Texts,” followed by discussion

3:30 ELLIOTT HOROWITZ, “Nocturnal Vigils in Jewish Culture, 16-18th Centuries,” followed by discussion

4:30 Tea with the I Tatti Fellows

5:00 CRAIG M. KOSLOFSKY, “Darkness and Blackness in the Early Enlightenment,” followed by discussion

6:00 Reception

7:30 Group Dinner (Trattoria Osvaldo, Via Gabriele D’Annunzio, 51 rosso)

Friday, 20 May

9:45 ANDREA GOLDMAN, “Lighting, Theater, and the End of Early Modernity in China,” followed by discussion

10:45 Coffee Break in Gould Hall

11:00 JEREMY ZALLEN, “‘Dragged up Hither from the Bottom of the Sea’: Rethinking the Political History of Atlantic Nights through the Worlds and Work of Whale Light,” followed by discussion

12:00 LAURA NENZI, “The Night and Its Aggregates in Nineteenth-Century Japan,” followed by discussion

1:00 Buffet Lunch with the I Tatti Fellows

2:30 Discussion

3.00 CARLO GINZBURG, Closing Remarks

N.B. Presentations are informal, circa 30 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of discussion.

image: Hans Baldung, Witches, 1508.