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Dear Colleagues and Friends,  
 
The Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the 
University of Pennsylvania invites you to attend its upcoming conference, 
entitled "The Culture of Exchange:  Real and Imagined Markets in the Low 
Countries, 1500-1800."  Below you will find the final program for the 
event.  Please note that the keynote speech will be given by Lisa 
Jardine. Also, the conference features several lectures by Penn 
colleagues from Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, History of 
Art, and Sociology.  
 
Please contact JoAnne Dubil at [log in to unmask] or 898-6836 for 
further information. 
 
 
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The Culture of Exchange: Real and Imagined Markets in the Low Countries, 
1500-1800 
An International Conference at the University of Pennsylvania 
 
 
Today, we would call them a global power.  The Low Countries were the 
dominant economic force in the world during the period from the rise of 
the Dutch Republic in the sixteenth century to its eventual eclipse by 
Britain during the eighteenth century.  Dutch painting and music stood at 
the heart of European cultural achievement.  In science, philosophy, and 
literature, the contribution of Dutch intellectuals were recognized in 
other leading centers, particularly London and Paris.  Even Dutch mapping 
and atlas publication played a role, serving as the concrete embodiment of 
Dutch global economic and cultural ambitions.  The foundation for 
dominance was a lively export market where the exchange of both goods and 
ideas were valued. 
 
The Culture of Exchange is an interdisciplinary conference that will 
explore these Dutch innovations.  American and European scholars from a 
wide variety of fields but with a common interest in the region, will 
provide their own forum of exchange about the Netherlands as a cultural 
and economic crossroads.   
 
 
Conference registration fee is $30, students and senior citizens $10.  
The University of Pennsylvania is situated in the city of Philadelphia, a 
short distance from the train station. Amtrak trains to and from New 
York, Boston, or Washington leave every about every half hour;  a regional 
SEPTA/New Jersey transit line connects Philadelphia and New York. For more 
information about the conference, please contact us at 
[log in to unmask] or (215) 898-6836. 
 
Program 
 
Thursday, March 4 
 
Pre-Conference Concert 
 
8 pm, Cathedral Church of the Savior, 3723 Chestnut Street 
Renaissance Music from the Low Countries  
Ancient Voices 
William Parberry, Conductor 
 
 
 
Friday, March 5 
 
2pm;  Van Pelt Library, First Floor, 3420 Walnut Street 
Exhibition, "Leuven in Books--Books in Leuven: The Oldest University of  
the 
Low Countries and Its Library" (March 5-May 23, 1999) 
 
The exhibition is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania/ K.U. Leuven 
Exchange and the Belgian Embassy. 
 
Opening Remarks 
Michael Ryan, Director of Special Collections, Van Pelt Library,  
University 
of Pennsylvania 
Paul Mosher, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, University of 
Pennsylvania 
Raf Dekeyser, Department of Physics and Head Librarian, Central Library, 
K.U. Leuven 
 
Jan Roegiers, Department of History and Head of the University Archives, 
K.U. Leuven 
"Leuven in Books--Books in Leuven" 
 
a reception, sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the Office of 
International Programs, will follow. 
 
A bilingual catalogue, published by the K.U. Leuven Press, will be issued 
to accompany the exhibition 
 
 
 
5pm, Meyerson Hall B-1, 210 South 34th Street 
 
Opening remarks 
 
Rebecca Bushnell, Associate Dean of Arts and Letters, University of 
Pennsylvania 
Liliane Weissberg, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory 
 
I. Mapping the Domain 
Moderator: John Dixon Hunt, Department of Landscape Architecture, Graduate 
School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania 
 
1. Randall  Collins, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania 
" The Dutch Nexus of European Intellectual Exchange: Networks in the 
Seventeenth Century" 
2. Giovanni Arrighi,  Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins  
University 
"Dutch Hegemony and the World Market" 
3. Reindert Falkenburg, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Dokumentatie,  
The 
Hague 
"Art for the Market: Inertia and Innovation in Paintings of the Low 
Countries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" 
 
Saturday, 9am-noon 
 
Room 1206, Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
II. Selling Art 
Moderator: Suzanne Verderber, Program in Comparative Literature and 
Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania 
 
1. Larry Silver, History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania 
"Second Bosch: Family Resemblance and the Marketing of Art in the 
Sixteenth-Century Low Countries" 
2. Kees Zandvliet, Department of History, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 
"Mapping for Money: Joannes Blaeu, Joannes Vingboons, and Dutch Trading 
Companies" 
 
coffee break 
 
3. John Michael Montias, Department of Economics, Yale University 
"Religion as a Factor in the Demand for Art at Auction in Amsterdam" 
4. Carl van de Velde, Department of Art History, Vrije Universiteit  
Brussel 
"Private Patrons of Painting in Antwerp 1550-1600" 
 
Room 1201, Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
III. Language, Politics 
Moderator: Liliane Weissberg, Program in Comparative Literature and 
Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania 
 
1. Lieve Jooken, Department of German, K.U. Leuven 
"Netherlandish Linguists and European Scholars, Seventeenth-Eighteenth 
Centuries" 
2. Margaret Jacob, Department of History, University of California at Los 
Angeles 
"Pierre Marteau, Dutch Clandestine Literature, and the Origins of the 
European Enlightenment" 
 
coffee break 
 
3. Wayne te Brake, Department of History, SUNY Purchase 
"The Political Culture of Exchange" 
4.  Peter Stabel, Department of History, Universiteit Ghent 
"Rituals of Trade:  the Culture of Markets in Low Country Cities  
(15th-16th 
Centuries)" 
 
12am - 1:30pm, lunch break 
 
1:30-3:30pm, Room 1206, Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
IV. Scientific Inventions 
Moderator: Paul de Weer, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, 
University of Pennsylvania 
 
1. Harold Cook, Department of the History of Medicine, University of 
Wisconsin, Madison 
"Philosophical and Medical Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Holland" 
2. Pamela Smith, Department of History, Pomona College 
"Science, Commerce, and the Passions in Seventeenth-Century Leiden" 
3. Lissa Roberts, Department of History, San Diego State University 
"Trade Offs: Understanding the Boundaries between Science and Technology  
as 
a Function of the Market in Eighteenth-Century Holland" 
 
 
1:30-3:30pm, Room 1201, Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
V. Export Trades 
Moderator: Randall Collins, Department of Sociology, University of 
Pennsylvania 
 
1. Terry Boswell, Department of Sociology, Emory University 
"The Rise and Fall of Dutch Hegemony over Maritime Markets: Tracing 
Patterns of Exchange" 
2. Pierre Swiggers (with Leo van Buyten), Department of Linguistics 
(Department of Economic History), K.U. Leuven 
"Nicolaas Witsen's Treatise on Shipbuilding and Its Influence" 
3. Chandra Mukerji, Department of Communication, University of California 
at San Diego 
"Dutch Heated Greenhouses and the Export Plant Trade" 
 
coffee break 
 
4 - 6 pm, Room 1206, Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
VI. Luxuries and Daily Needs 
Moderator: Gary Tomlinson, Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania 
 
1. Jan de Vries, Department of History, University of California at  
Berkeley 
"Luxury Consumption in the Dutch Golden Age in Theory and Practice" 
2. Jerry Brotton, Department of English, Royal Holloway and Bedford New 
College, University of London 
"Gutting the Map: Fear and Loathing at the Cape of Good Hope, 1497-1652" 
3. Elizabeth Honig, Department of Art History, University of California at 
Berkeley 
"Desire and Domestic Economy" 
 
4-6 pm, Room 1201, Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
VII. Circulating Texts 
Moderator: Michael Ryan, Special Collections, Van Pelt Library 
 
1. Wim Blockmans, Department of History, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 
"Netherlandish Book Production Around 1500" 
2. Eileen Reeves, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton  
University 
"Early Modern English News `Coined at the Mint in Amsterdam'" 
3. Juliette Cherbuliez, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary 
Theory, University of Pennsylvania 
"The Novel in Exile:  The Market for Huguenot Literature in Late 
Seventeenth-Century Holland" 
 
6-8pm, dinner break 
 
8 pm, Meyerson Hall B-1, 210 South 34th Street 
Moderator: Margreta de Grazia, Department of English, University of 
Pennsylvania 
Lisa Jardine, Department of English, Queen Mary and Westbrook College, 
University of London 
"'Your Daughter Cover'd with a Barbary Horse':  Horse-trading and  
Cross-breeding around 1600" 
 
 
 
Sunday, March 7 
 
9am-noon, 1206, Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
VIII. Literary Connections 
Moderator: Ann Moyer, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania 
 
1. Kevin Brownlee, Department of Romance Languages, University of  
Pennsylvania 
"Flanders as the Locus of Culture: Hybridity, Patronage, and the  
Production 
of Writing" 
2. Herman Pleij, Department of Netherlandic Studies, Universiteit van 
Amsterdam 
"The Great Popularity of the `Wise' (i.e. Cunning) Individual in Early 
Modern Dutch Literature" 
 
coffee break 
 
3. Suzanne Verderber, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary 
Theory, University of Pennsylvania 
"Negotiating New Relationships to Space and Commerce in Late 
Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Literature 
 
9am-noon,  1201 Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
IX. Picturing Markets 
Moderator:  Simon Richter, Department of Germanic Languages and 
Literatures, University of Pennsylvania 
 
1. Erik Buyst, Department of Economics, K.U. Leuven 
"Economic Development and Market Integration in the Southern Low Countries 
during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century" 
2. Miriam Bodian, Department of History, Penn State University 
"Representing the Stock Market: Joseph Penso de la Vega's Confusion de 
confusiones (Amsterdam, 1688)" 
 
coffee break 
 
3. Mark Valeri, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia 
"The Market and International Calvinism: A Comparative Perspective on the 
Seventeenth Century" 
4. Hans J. Van Miegroet, Department of Art and Art History, Duke  
University 
"Assessing Risk, Taste-Circuit, and Negotiating Local, Differentiated  
Markets" 
 
 
 12am-1:30pm lunch break 
 
1:30-3:30pm, room 1206, Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
X. Music, Architecture,  and the Formation of Artistic Culture 
Moderator: Catherine Boon, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary 
Theory, University of Pennsylvania 
 
1. Rudolf Rasch, Department of Music, Universiteit Utrecht 
"The European Character of the Musical Culture of the Dutch Republic" 
2. Ignace Bossuyt, Department of Music, K.U. Leuven 
"Musical Exchange between the Low Countries and Italy in the Sixteenth 
Century" 
3. Krista de Jonge, Department of Architecture, K.U. Leuven 
"Building at the Crossroads: Renaissance Architecture in the Low Countries 
between Genua, Fontainebleau and Madrid (1530-1550)" 
 
 
 
1:30-3:30pm, room 1201, Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
XI. Literary Margins 
Moderator: Simon Richter, Department of Germanic Languages and  
Literatures, 
University of Pennsylvania 
 
1. Marijke Spies, Department of Literature, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 
"A Market for Dreams and Shudders" 
2. Armando Maggi, Department of Romance Languages, University of  
Pennsylvania 
"Erasmus's Treatises in Italy and their Reception" 
3. Christine van Boheemen-Saaf, Department of Literature, Universiteit van 
Amsterdam 
"Property and Propriety: Dissenters and Publishing in the 
Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic" 
 
 
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Saturday, March 6- Sunday, March 7 
Steinberg Hall/Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk 
 
Early Modern Studies: A Book Exhibition and Sale, 
House of Our Own Bookstore 
 
 
The conference has been organized by the Program in Comparative 
Literature and Literary Theory, in conjunction with the Departments of 
Germanic Languages and Literatures, Sociology, History, History of Art, 
the Graduate School of Fine Arts and the Wharton School at the University 
of Pennsylvania. We would like to thank Rector Andre Oosterlinck and Dean 
Hendrik van Gorp from the K.U. Leuven, and Dr. Joyce Randolph, Director 
of the Office for International Programs, University of Pennsylvania, for 
their sponsorship of this conference via the University of 
Pennsylvania/K.U. Leuven Exchange Program, and individual Departments and 
Programs of the School of Arts and Sciences, the Wharton School, the 
Research Foundation, and the Friends of the Library for their financial 
support.  Crucial support has also been offered by the Chemical Heritage 
Foundation, the Netherlands-America Association, the Netherlands Society 
of Philadelphia, AVEBE America, Inc., Princeton, and the Honorary Consul 
of the Netherlands, Yvonne J.G. Orova. 
 
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