arco Annual Symposium
Humanism and Its Economies
Thursay, March 5
8:30am – 9:15am Coffee and refreshments in the Faculty Lounge on the third floor of Hodges Library
9:15am Opening Remarks and Welcome by Michael Kulikowski, Riggsby Director of the Marco Institute
9:30am – 11:00am Session 1: Accounting for the State (chaired by Katherine Kong)
Timothy Hampton (University of California, Berkeley): “The Traffic in Information: Humanism, Diplomacy, and the
Genealogy of Interest”
Jacob Soll (Rutgers University, Camden): “The Merchant and the Notebook: Jean-Baptiste Colbert and the Building of a
Secret Sphere in France 1630-1700”
11:00am – 11:30am Coffee Break in the Faculty Lounge (third floor, Hodges Library)
11:30am – 1:00pm Session 2: Transactions of Faith (chaired by Thomas Burman)
Gayle Brunelle (California State University, Fullerton): “Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff: The Inquisition and New
Christians in France”
David Price (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): “Colonizing Jewish Culture?: Johannes Reuchlin and the
Discovery of Hebrew”
1:15pm – 2:30pm Lunch Break
2:30pm – 4:00pm Session 3: Polemical Currencies (chaired by Heather Hirschfeld)
George Hoffman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): “Strangers in a Strange Land: The Culture of Satire and the
Reformation”
Jessica Wolfe (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “Trading Insults: The Humanist Economy of Rebuke”
Friday, March 6
8:30am – 9:30am Coffee and refreshments in the Faculty Lounge on the third floor of Hodges Library
9:30am – 11:00am Session 4: Communities of Exchange (chaired by Robert Bast)
Blair Hoxby (Stanford University): “Commerce and the Republic of Letters”
Craig Muldrew (Queen’s College, Cambridge): “Passions in the Early Modern Economy: From Public Credit to Private
Saving”
11:00am – 11:30am Coffee Break in the Faculty Lounge (third floor, Hodges Library)
11:30am – 1:00pm Session 5: Contesting Economies (chaired by Jeri McIntosh)
Kathy Eden (Columbia University): “Managing the Household in the Reading and Writing Practices of Renaissance
Humanism”
Robert Stillman (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): “Immaterial Matters and Questionable Economies in Early Modern
Poetics”
1:15pm – 2:30pm Lunch Break
2:30pm – 4:00pm Roundtable Discussion led by Jane Bellamy
4:15pm Refreshments in the Faculty Lounge