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612 W. 116th St.
New York, NY 10027
Seth Kimmel
Columbia University, Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Faculty Member
- Medieval & Early Modern Iberia, Comparative Literature, Early modern Spain, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, Secularisms and Secularities, Comparative Religion, and 17 moreMaterial Culture Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, French Renaissance Literature, Arabic Literature, Spanish Scholasticism, Mediterranean Studies, Asociacion Internacional De Hispanistas, Early Modern Intellectual History, Religious Conversion, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, Moriscos, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Medieval Spain, Muslim and Jewish History, and Early Modern Spanish literatureedit
Research Interests: Philology, Comparative Religion, History, Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, and 27 moreSemitic languages, Early Modern History, History of Religion, Renaissance Studies, Romance philology, Legal History, Inquisition, Jewish History, Medieval Iberian History, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Europe, Religious Conversion, Islamic Studies, Al-Andalus, Moriscos, Islamic History, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Tolerance, Heresy and Inquisition, Medieval Spain, Historia, Historia Medieval, Conversos, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, Catholic Church History, Filología Hispánica, and Historia Moderna
Essay in: After Conversion: Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity, 336-57. Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016.
Research Interests: Spanish Literature, Medieval History, Early Modern History, History of Religion, History of Medicine, and 10 moreHistory of Science, Iberian Studies, Jewish History, Medieval Iberian History, Early Modern Europe, Science and Religion, Religious Conversion, Early Modern Literature, Early modern Spain, and Conversos
Research Interests: Medieval History, Early Modern History, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Medieval Historiography, and 11 moreCritical Pedagogy, Historiography, Medieval Iberian History, Early Modern Literature, Moriscos, Muslims in Europe, Renaissance literature, Teaching, Early modern Spain, Conversos, and Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
Research Interests: Philology, Early Modern History, Medieval Iberian Literature, Romance philology, Iberian Studies, and 11 moreMedieval Iberian History, Architectural History, Al-Andalus, Tolerance, Early modern Spain, Islamic Spain, Spanish Golden Age, Cordoba, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, María Rosa Menocal, and Intellectual History of Al andalus
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Early Modern History, History of Religion, Moriscos, Early Modern Intellectual History, and 7 moreSecularisms and Secularities, Early Modern Spanish literature, Early modern Spain, Secularism, Islam and Secularism, Expulsion Moriscos, and Moriscos and Conversos In Medieval and Early Modern Castilian Literature; Images of Granada In European Art and Literature
Research Interests: Baroque Art and Literature, Intellectual History of the Baroque Period, Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and 15 moreDon Quijote, Literatura, Pedro Calderon De La Barca, The Early Jesuits and Catholic Reform, Spanish Golden Age Theatre, Theatre in General, Quijote, Probabilism, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, Siglo de Oro, Latín, Tradición Clásica, Jesuits Conversos, Jesuit Theater, Ciceronian Rhetoric, and Early Modern Catholicim
Research Interests: Print Culture, Early Modern History, Material Culture Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Early Modern Literature, and 10 moreMoriscos, Religious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, 17th Century Mediterranean, Early modern Spain, Early Modern print culture, Jews, Muslim and Jewish History, Literature and Culture In Medieval Spain, Representations of Muslims, and Moriscos and Conversos In Medieval and Early Modern Castilian Literature; Images of Granada In European Art and Literature
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Research Interests: Comparative Religion, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Middle East Studies, Medieval Studies, and 10 moreInquisition, Religious Conversion, Islamic Studies, Moriscos, Medieval Spanish Literature, Early Modern Spanish literature, Medieval Spain, The Spanish Inquisition, Early modern Spanish history, and Moriscos and Conversos In Medieval and Early Modern Castilian Literature; Images of Granada In European Art and Literature
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The dream of knowing all that there is to know is a powerful one, even or perhaps especially for those of us finely attuned to the limits of our own knowledge. Technologies of manuscript culture, print media, and electronic cataloging... more
The dream of knowing all that there is to know is a powerful one, even or perhaps especially for those of us finely attuned to the limits of our own knowledge. Technologies of manuscript culture, print media, and electronic cataloging have each in their respective moment helped both to keep alive the cyclical lure of comprehensiveness and to render it impossible ever to attain. More specifically, the universal dictionaries, bibliographies, histories, and libraries of the late medieval and early modern period were pragmatic attempts to organize and protect a body of knowledge that pretended to be total, yet the processes of selection and summarizing that characterized these genres contributed to the loss as well as the conservation of information. That the intellectual aspiration of total knowledge sometimes overlaps with the imperial objective of domination is a feature of the rhetoric of universality that was not lost on early modern scholars and monarchs. These early modern tensions remain with us in our late modern period too, as a universalizing rhetoric characterizes bibliographic practice in the digital environment, and disciplines like world literature and global history seek to find their institutional and intellectual footing.
What are the histories of projects that seek to attain and retain universal knowledge? What is the relationship between the “bibliotheca” as an architecture space and a genre of early modern bibliography? How do the early and late modern globalizations of knowledge relate to each other? Why do we continue to dream of universal libraries, automated archives, and similar fictions of exhaustiveness? We welcome papers for what we hope will be a series of panels at the 2017 RSA in Chicago that respond to these and related questions about the material qualities of the lure and limitations of universal knowledge.
Please send a one-page CV and an abstract of no more than 150 words to Seth Kimmel ([email protected]) and Miguel Martínez ([email protected]) by May 31, 2016.
What are the histories of projects that seek to attain and retain universal knowledge? What is the relationship between the “bibliotheca” as an architecture space and a genre of early modern bibliography? How do the early and late modern globalizations of knowledge relate to each other? Why do we continue to dream of universal libraries, automated archives, and similar fictions of exhaustiveness? We welcome papers for what we hope will be a series of panels at the 2017 RSA in Chicago that respond to these and related questions about the material qualities of the lure and limitations of universal knowledge.
Please send a one-page CV and an abstract of no more than 150 words to Seth Kimmel ([email protected]) and Miguel Martínez ([email protected]) by May 31, 2016.
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The exploratory workshop was convened by Paola Molino, at that time Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität (LMU) in Munich, in collaboration with Martina Siebert, Guy Burak, and Dagmar Riedel.... more
The exploratory workshop was convened by Paola Molino, at that time Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität (LMU) in Munich, in collaboration with Martina Siebert, Guy Burak, and Dagmar Riedel. The project's Final Report was written by Paola Molino, in collaboration with Martina Siebert, Guy Burak, and Dagmar Riedel and with contributions by Anne MacKinney, and submitted to the Forum Transregionale Studien in February 2017.
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Please join students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at NYU for a humanistic response to the US presidential election and the vandalism and hate crimes that have occurred... more
Please join students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at NYU for a humanistic response to the US presidential election and the vandalism and hate crimes that have occurred throughout New York City, including on our own campus, in its wake.
“Protest and Dissimulation: Muslims and Other Minorities in the Spanish-Speaking World” will explore the challenges faced by religious and ethnic minority communities in the Spanish-speaking world from the Middle Ages through the present day and examine the strategies that those communities used to resist, circumvent, survive, and even flourish under the pressure of those challenges. Through discussion and conversation, the evening will yield questions and modes of thinking that are grounded in the unique histories, literatures, and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world and that participants, attendees, and discussants can carry with them out into the wider contemporary world that is presenting its own evolving set of challenges to many modern communities.
This round-table and teach-in will take place on Thursday, December 1, from 6-8pm in the Great Room of 13-19 University Pl. A light supper will be served and attendees are encouraged to continue the discussion over the meal. The event will be live-streamed and archived online.
Speakers will include:
Farah Dih, NYU: "A Caste Society in the First Spanish Modernity"
Erica Field, NYU: “Dissimulation, Piety, and Fear”
Sibylle Fischer, NYU: "Stop Whining: On Politics of Racelessness and Executive Violence in Spanish America"
Nicholas Jones, Bucknell University: “Do Black Lives Matter in Spanish Early Modernity? Blackness, Cognitive Dissonance, Dissimulation”
Seth Kimmel, Columbia University: “The Ends of Multiculturalism”
S.J. Pearce, NYU: “Medieval Jews and Muslims in the Modern Nation”
“Protest and Dissimulation: Muslims and Other Minorities in the Spanish-Speaking World” will explore the challenges faced by religious and ethnic minority communities in the Spanish-speaking world from the Middle Ages through the present day and examine the strategies that those communities used to resist, circumvent, survive, and even flourish under the pressure of those challenges. Through discussion and conversation, the evening will yield questions and modes of thinking that are grounded in the unique histories, literatures, and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world and that participants, attendees, and discussants can carry with them out into the wider contemporary world that is presenting its own evolving set of challenges to many modern communities.
This round-table and teach-in will take place on Thursday, December 1, from 6-8pm in the Great Room of 13-19 University Pl. A light supper will be served and attendees are encouraged to continue the discussion over the meal. The event will be live-streamed and archived online.
Speakers will include:
Farah Dih, NYU: "A Caste Society in the First Spanish Modernity"
Erica Field, NYU: “Dissimulation, Piety, and Fear”
Sibylle Fischer, NYU: "Stop Whining: On Politics of Racelessness and Executive Violence in Spanish America"
Nicholas Jones, Bucknell University: “Do Black Lives Matter in Spanish Early Modernity? Blackness, Cognitive Dissonance, Dissimulation”
Seth Kimmel, Columbia University: “The Ends of Multiculturalism”
S.J. Pearce, NYU: “Medieval Jews and Muslims in the Modern Nation”