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Up next in Session 2.2 is Michele Piscitelli @1Michele0 presenting on Italian language learning in early modern England! #OnBelonging
Two books are pillars for researchers of Italian language learning in EM England: William Thomas’s Principal Rules of Italian Grammar (1550) and Thomas Hoby’s translation of Castiglione’s il Cortegiano. #OnBelonging
Thanks to cultural capital acquired in Italy, both Thomas and Hoby became pioneers in the development of English language. #OnBelonging
Jasmin Bieber is up first for Session 2.2, discussing borderscapes in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko! #OnBelonging
JB proposes a shift in our study of the text, away from the question ‘Where does the narrator draw a line between herself and the encountered ‘Other’?’… #OnBelonging
…to ‘Where does the text cast its pivotal characters into liminal spaces – and thus transitional experiences – and to what effect?’ This offers a new way of thinking about identity formation in EM travel accounts as unfixed and shifting. #OnBelonging
Good morning and welcome to #OnBelonging session 2.1, ‘Geographies of Devotion’ with @ThomasCliftonA5, Charlie Beirouti, & @CatRoseEvans. Expect pearls and beads, discourses of purity, and the gestures of ‘practical godliness’.
First up, @ThomasCliftonA5 discusses the spiritual in-betweenness of sailors who were regarded as ‘a third sort of person, to be numbered neither with the living nor the dead, their lives hanging continually in suspense’. #OnBelonging
Thomas deftly weaves fear of impurity & concern with moral goodness with state’s reliance on mariners to advance colonial project & benefit from colonial exploitation. #OnBelonging
Stellar cast for our roundtable discussion w/ @MEMOrients: @HassanaMoosa @Lubaabanama @endeeeka & Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu #OnBelonging
To start: what do we mean by ‘early modern orients’? What/who are we talking about when we refer to Anglo-Islamic encounters in the pre-modern period? How do we approach the multifaceted layers of identity? #OnBelonging
One distinction: theatre-goers who ‘encounter’ Islamic world when they pay a penny to hear a play in London, vs. the knowledge gained by those who actually travelled – galley slaves, merchants, sailors, pilgrims, ambassadors. #OnBelonging
Our final speaker for 1.3 is Anna Frieda Kuhn, with ‘Canine Imaginaries and the Construction of the Other in Early Modern Southern Africa’. #OnBelonging
The idea for this project was sparked by a recent South African production of Antigone that made the figure of the ‘dog’ central to its unravelling of racial concepts both during the colonial, apartheid and post-apartheid periods. #OnBelonging
Ideas of race conceptualised off these caninie imaginaries. Contemporarily, a 'miscellany of animals travelling under sobriquet dog' — hierarchy created and utilised through this figure. #OnBelonging
Next up in session 1.3 we have Madhubrata Bhattacharyya on ‘Representing English Catholicism In Early Modern Goa: The Many Identities of Fr. Thomas Stephens’. #OnBelonging
Majoritarian regimes bringing up difficult questions in terms of identity. Example from William Foster’s preface to ‘Early Travels in India’ — the ‘sturdy Protestantism’ of the Englishman #OnBelonging
Now to Father Thomas Stephens: his work shows that ‘English’ and ‘Jesuit’ are not necessarily exclusive identities. Shown with from a letter by Ralph Fitch, an Englishman writing about Stephens ensuring their release from prison... #OnBelonging
At #OnBelonging we’re kicking off our session 1.3, our first lightning talk session, with @MiraAssafK, Madhubrata Bhattacharyya, and Anna Frieda Kuhn!
@MiraAssafK Our first speaker for 1.3 is @MiraAssafK with ‘Borders and Freedom of Movement: The Case of Royal Women’. Her paper will focus on the mobility of two royal women, Una and Duessa in The Faerie Queene. #OnBelonging
Paper accompanied by visuals addressing geography, displacement and belonging - first an image of graffiti which reads ‘pro border, pro nation, stop immigration’. #OnBelonging
The final speaker for session 1.2 is Chris Higgins @BirkbeckHCA speaking on women’s mobility! #OnBelonging
Counter to contemporary condemnations of women travellers & works of later historians, CH argues that international travel far more extensive than previously assumed. #OnBelonging
Argues that licenses to travel beyond the seas give only part of story. Women especially adept at avoiding protocols, using fake documents, disguises, etc. #OnBelonging
Up now in 1.2 is @dr_pangallo speaking on Italian players in England in the 1570s! #OnBelonging
@dr_pangallo 1570s was a period of particularly condensed Italian theatrical activity in England. However, actors and nature of performance is often neglected in scholarship, in part due to limited documentary evidence. #OnBelonging
A hitherto unidentified passport helps to fill this gap by identifying names of Italians performing in England in 1574. #OnBelonging
Up next in Session 1.2 is @GuidovMe speaking on ‘Diplomatic belonging’ in EM India! #OnBelonging
@GuidovMe GvM uses William Norris’s embassy (1699-1702) as a lens for looking at the performance of English identity in India, arguing that it existed between the diplomatic worlds of England and India. #OnBelonging
Norris represented “New” East India Company est. 1698 to replace "Old" EIC and assert authority over all Englishmen in India. #OnBelonging
Session 1.2 now and up first is Professor Jane Grogan @UCD_English looking at the Italian travels/translations of Englishmen c1540s/1550s! #OnBelonging
@UCD_English JG suggests connections more meaningful that study of their individual activities reveals. The common denigration ‘inglese italianato’ obscures a more empowering transcultural identity for these men – an identity of opportunity and authority. #OnBelonging
JG gives example of William Barker, known for translating Xenophon’s Cyropaedia but also a traveller to Italy, translator of Italian works, and part of John Cheke’s culturally influential circle. #OnBelonging
