“Exoticism, Globalism, and the (European) World at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century”
What: University of Washington history professor, Benjamin Schmidt, will give this year’s History Mead Lecture at Trinity College. The lecture is titled: “Exoticism, Globalism, and the (European) World at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century” and is open to the public. There will be a reception in McCook Auditorium hallway immediately following lecture.
When: Thursday, November 15, 2007 ~ 4:30 p.m
McCook Auditorium on the Trinity College campus
Background: Benjamin Schmidt (Ph.D., Harvard University) is a professor of history at the University of Washington. He has published widely on early modern cultural history, including Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670 (2001), which received the Gordan Prize for best book in Renaissance studies and Hendricks Prize for best book in colonial Dutch studies. He has recently finished two edited volumes, Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800 (2007) and Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America 1609-2009 (2008), and is completing a book on European exoticism and globalism around 1700. A former member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), he has also received fellowships from the NEH, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and Getty Research Institute
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