Conference on Parliamentary Culture in Colonial Contexts 1500-1700 at Jesus College, University of Oxford 11th September, 2023 (pasted)

 Monday, September 11

Workshop: Parliamentary Culture in Colonial Contexts, c. 1500 - c.1700

Workshop on early modern parliamentary culture in a colonial context. 11 Sept 2023, Jesus College, Oxford. Free to attend!

By Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS)

Date and time

Monday, September 11 · 9am - 5:30pm BST

Location

Jesus College

Turl Street Oxford OX1 3DW

Parliamentary Culture in Colonial Contexts, c.1500 - c.1700

11 September 2023. 9am-5.15pm. Jesus College, Oxford.

Sponsored by the Royal Historical Society and Jesus College, Oxford.

This workshop is free of charge for attendees.

Programme:

9-9.30: Registration

9.30-9.35: Welcome

Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford) & Paul Seaward (History of Parliament Trust)

9.35-10.35: I: Studying Parliamentary Culture in Colonial Contexts

(Chair & Respondent: Susan Doran (University of Oxford, UK)

Paul Seaward, ‘What is Parliamentary Culture?’

Paulina Kewes, ‘Sources and Methods’

10.35-10.50: Coffee (free of charge to attendees!)

10.50-12.40: II: Imperial Frameworks

(Chair & Respondent: Jim van der Meulen, Ghent University)

Pedro Cardim, (University of Lisbon, Portugal), ‘Representative Institutions and Parliamentary Cultures in the Portuguese and Spanish Empires (c. 1500 - c. 1700)’

Holly Brewer (University of Maryland, USA) ‘Vice-Regal Power versus Little Parliaments in England’s Seventeenth-century Empire’

12.45-14.00: Break for lunch

14.00-16.00: III. Colonial and Indigenous Cultures of Assembly

(Chair & Respondent: Giuseppe Marcocci, Exeter College, Oxford)

Jim van der Meulen (Ghent University), ‘Performing Political Hierarchies at the Seventeenth-century Diets of Guelders, Dutch Formosa, and New Netherland’

Bruno Miranda (University of Pernambuco, Brazil), ‘The Potiguara Assembly in Tapesserica (1645). Indigenous Alliances in the Dutch-Portuguese Wars in Brazil’

Lauren Working (University of York, UK), 'The First General Assembly in Virginia: The View from Tsenocommacah’.

16.00-16.15: Coffee (free of charge to attendees!)

16.15-17.15 Concluding Round Table: Nandini Das (University of Oxford, UK), Paulina Kewes, Giuseppe Marcocci, Eduardo Posada-Carbo (University of Oxford, UK), Paul Seaward.

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