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Mestiza and mulatto of Brazil, oil paintings by Albert Eckhout (Dutch),
c. 1641, Danish National Museum, Copenhagen.		 The Americas
in the
European Imagination

April 12, 2003
Harvard University

A Workshop of the
Atlantic History Seminar

Program

9:00-9:45 a.m.
    Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
        Introduction

9:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
    Beatriz Pastor, Dartmouth College
        “Narrative, Knowledge, and Power: Spanish Accounts of Discovery and Conquest”

    Neil Safier, Johns Hopkins University
        “Ruined Pyramids, Forgotten Maps, and Trunkloads of Silent Plants: The Perils of Imagining South America as an Open Book for European Science”

    Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, State University of New York at Buffalo
        “Knights and Demons: The Chivalric and the Crusading in Early ModernEuropean Symbolic Landscapes of the New World”

Lunch 12:30-2:00 p.m., Great Space, Robinson Hall


2:00-5:30 p.m.
    Peter Mancall, University of Southern California
        “Ethnographic Reports: America’s Native Peoples in Sixteenth-Century Global Context”

    David Buisseret, University of Texas at Arlington
        “What Do Maps Tell Us about the European Presence in the New World?”

    Paul Mapp, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture
        “European Geographic Ignorance and North American Imperial Rivalry: The Role of the Uncharted American West in International Affairs, 1713-1763”

Reception, 5:30-7:30, Great Space, Robinson Hall

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