BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML WPForms//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Feeds v3.11.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Negotiating Limits Between Early Modern Sovereignties: Vene tian Dalmatia and Ottoman Bosnia\, 15th-Early 18th Centuries X-WR-CALDESC:Italian Art Society X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20160313T080000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20160313T080000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Negotiating Limits Between Early Modern Sovereignties: Venetian Dalmatia and Ottoman Bosnia\, 15th-Early 18th Centuries DESCRIPTION:“In the modern conception [of political life]\, state sove reignty is fully\, flatly\, \;and evenly operative over each square centimetre of a legally demarcated \;territory. But in the older ima gining\, where states were defined by centres\, \;borders were porou s and indistinct\, and sovereignties faded imperceptibly into \;one another. Hence\, paradoxically enough\, the ease with which pre-modern&n bsp\;empires (…) were able to sustain their rule over immensely hetero geneous\, \;and often not even contiguous\, populations for long per iods of time.”--Benedict Anderson\, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and \;Spread of Nationalism.\n\n\n\nIn his landmark bo ok Benedict Anderson described the proprietary relationship to land on t he part of the bounded state\, a geo-body belonging to the order of mode rnity\, for which the national survey map may stand as an index. He then alluded to the paradoxical ease with which earlier and often geographic ally disjointed states managed the permeable edges of their territories. \n\n\n\nThis three-day conference offers a different set of assumptions when it comes to “the older imagining” of empire\, before the rise o f nationalisms in the nineteenth century. It focuses on the operations e mployed by early modern states in ongoing efforts to establish or mainta in peaceful relations as neighbors while managing the heterogeneous and often mobile populations in the interstices of their rule.\n\n\n\nThe co nference is part of a larger collaborative project examining the geopoli tics of borderlands in early modernity (https://binghamton.academia.edu/ KarenedisBarzman). Given the current configuration of the scientific com mittee\, our initial focus is on the historically dense contact zone bet ween Venetian Dalmatia and Ottoman Bosnia–provinces in states of vastl y different political and religious orders\, with footprints in present- day Croatia. The timeline runs from the fifteenth century\, when the Ven etians and Ottomans formally acquired territory in the region\, to the T reaties of Carlowitz (1699) and Passerowitz (1718)\, which for the first time established seamless borders between the states via printed maps d istributed as public affirmations of binding peace accords. (While these treaties also involved the Austrian Hapsburgs\, the conference is limit ed to Ottoman-Venetian relations due to the rich nature of the archival material and practical matters concerning the fieldwork.) The instrument al use of cartography in detante is taken as a watershed and establishes the temporal end point for the conference.\n\n\n\nSuggested paper topic s include the composition of negotiating teams and protocols of diplomac y in determining borders (from elaborate gift exchange to the authentica tion of earlier treaties as points of departure or comparison)\; the pra ctical aspects of work in the field (travel by foot or mule\, provisions and lodging\, interviews with local populations\, communication via tra nslators\, land survey and production of sketches and drawings)\; the ma terial practices used in marking sovereign limits on the ground (buildin g earthen mounds or piles of stone\, carving signs on trees\, drilling i ron rings into live rock)\; the spatial practices of borderland populati ons that hindered the maintenance of detante and\, from the perspective of the states\, the ability to “live well as neighbors” (a rhetorica l trope found in both Venetian and Ottoman political discourse).\n\n\n\n The conference will combine formal presentations\, round-tables\, and a one-day field trip using GPS to map the borders that can be reconstructe d with archival material and ground markers\, featuring the borders nego tiated after the Third and Fifth Ottoman-Venetian Wars (the “War of Cy prus\,” 1570-73\, and “Long War of Candia\,” 1645-69) both of whic h had significant theatres of operation in the borderlands between Dalma tia and Bosnia. The conference findings and relevant archival material w ill be made available digitally on the web\, followed by publication of the conference proceedings.\n\n\n\nSponsors: University of Zadar\; Harpu r College\, Binghamton University\; the Fernand Braudel Center\, Bingham ton University\; the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation\; the Lila Acheson Wallace Special Project Grant\, Villa I Tatti\, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.\n\n\n\nScientific Committee: Kar en-edis Barzman (Art History\, Binghamton University)\, Palmira Brummett (History\, Brown University)\, Josip Faričić (Geography\, University of Zadar)\, Egidio Ivetic (History\, University of Padua)\, Kristijan Ju ran (History\, University of Zadar)\, Richard Lee (The Fernand Braudel C enter\, Binghamton University)\, Lena Mirošević (Geography\, Universit y of Zadar)\, Nenad Moačanin (History\, University of Zagreb)\, Maria P ia Pedani (History\, University of Venice\, Ca’ Foscari)\, Walter Panc iera (History\, University of Padua)\,Tea Perinčić (The Maritime and H istory Museum of the Croatian Littoral\, Rijeka)\, Natalie Rothman (Hist ory\, University of Toronto)\, Kornelija Jurin Starčević (History\, Un iversity of Zagreb)\, Josip Vrandečić (History\, University of Split).  \;For questions please contact the conference organizers at kbarzma n@binghamton.edu or jfarici@unizd.hr. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.italianartsociety.org/events/negotiating-limit s-between-early-modern-sovereignties-venetian-dalmatia-and-ottoman-bosni a-15th-early-18th-centuries/ UID:urn:uuid:3e407f11-b618-4745-a813-d2167c6d31ee STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260504T202230Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160528 LOCATION:Zadar\, Croatia END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR